MotoGP: 'Keep F1 from Assen!'

With home ღstar Max Verstappen making waves in F1,💮 there has been talk of reviving the Dutch F1 Grand Prix.

Assen is one of the circuit's mentioned as a potential venue - but MotoGP stars Val🌳entino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo are wary about having F1 at circuit that has hosted motorcycle grand prix since the inaugural 1949 season.

"I hope🅰 they don't!" sai🥀d nine-time world champion Rossi.

"Formula One has a lot of tracks [just] for the cars, like Le Castellet [Paul Ricard] last week. Assen is j꧟ust for motorcycles, in history.

'Keep F1 from Assen!'

Wi▨th home star M🍃ax Verstappen making waves in F1, there has been talk of reviving the Dutch F1 Grand Prix.

Assen is one of the circuit's mentioned as a potential venue - but MotoGP stars Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo are wary about having F1 at circuit 🌸that has hosted motorcycle grand prix since the inaugural 1949 season.

"I hope they don't!" said nine-time 💟world champion Rossi.

"Formula One has a lot of 🅘tracks [just] for the cars, like Le Castellet [Paul Ricard] last week. Assen is 𒁏just for motorcycles, in history.

"First of all it would be a particular [unusual] track for Formula One, but at the same time it is bett🍸er not to have Formula One for us because we have less bumps.

𓃲"I think that, ꦬfor the historic side, just MotoGP should race here."

Five time world champion Lorenzo added: "As Vale said, i🍨t would be strange to see&nbs🍃p;and I hope F1 does not come here.

"First, because of the bumps and second because they would probably have to modify so much the track, because it would ꩲbe very strange to see Formula One cars on a track that is still completely green [no gravel or asphalt] outside the track.

"But anything is p💦ossible꧋. I don't know the modifications they would need.

"But for the bump💯s it would be better if t🍌he Formula One doesn't come here."

Reigning champion Marc Marquez, who recently tested an F1 car, had mor𒊎e pra♓ctical concerns:

"Formula One would be very, very fast here. Because there are many fast corners and m🌠aybe the lap time would only be one minute! Because they are so fast.

"But always it's good when Formula One is interested about&nbs𒊎p;circuits like Assen. For the bikes this means we would have some bumps, bu𒉰t it's not a big problem."

The F1 Dutch Grand Prix was lasꦰt held at the Zandvoort circuit in 1985.

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