2024 Hungarian Grand Prix: Albon’s Crazy Idea: Motorsport Gold at the Olympics Will Be Like This
YesIt would be “cool”, but it’s difficult. All pilots think the same, that They would like to include motorsport in the Olympic Games.but it is a unique sport and there are too many factors to take into account. This discussion arose at the press conference before the Hungarian Grand Prix. It would seem not, but it gave more “juice” than expected.
“In a sense, we already represent our country at every Grand Prix,” he began. Fernando Alonso says he will be proud to continue making Spanish sport even more popular (and even more so, seeing the results of last week), although they are already doing this in Formula 1, where great importance is attached to the country of each driver.
“There would be an idea to have this in the future, but it’s unlikely,” the Asturian continued, arguing that although “you try to organize a kart race with the same karts for everyone, it will never be the same,” since all countries would have to compete on the same machine. “In that sense, it is a unique sport,” concluded 14.
A dispute began about the fact that competing on cards would be the best idea, since it is the “easiest” way, and also the hardest – to be on equal termswhich is exactly what would need to be addressed if motorsports were to enter the games. In fact, Piastri agreed and supported Alonso’s idea, stating that “there are many elements, such as the team, the car, and it is very difficult to match all of these.”
Elbon’s crazy idea
And then Alexander Albon intervened, putting forward the most piquant ideas. First, he said that he I wouldn’t see drivers on the Formula 1 grid in karts because they usually don’t practice much on them, with the exception of one, Alonso.“I don’t think we’ll be doing karting, it’ll be younger guys, maybe Fernando because he does a lot of karting,” he said, aware of the ’14’s karting talent, who has his own team.
And when it seemed like the Olympics were all about karting, Alex had a crazy idea and blurted it out.“Maybe we should get a Mazda MX5, and that would be a lot of fun, but maybe that would be too much fun,” he joked with a laugh, knowing that racing the sports car would be a lot of fun.
Maybe we should buy a Mazda MX5, that would be a lot of fun, maybe even too much.
The drivers’ reaction was one of surprise and laughter, in fact Fernando, who had just unveiled his own sports car, he shook his head “no” laughing and when Albon saw it, he corrected himself and said, “Or, well, I don’t know what manufacturer it is.”
Pierre Gasly, nostalgic but with a new idea
“I remember seeing pictures from the past when they competed and it was really cool and inspiring. It might not work in Olympic form, but one race every ‘x’ number of years could be interesting,” said Pierre Gasly, who remembered the last race of this type. It was in their country, France, where the games are being held this year.