East-Prommula 1 driver Kevin Magnesen has revealed how Valentino Rossi helped collect the line-up of WRT BMW for the 24-hour spa endurance race later this week.
The month of June takes the three major 24-hour races of Europe, which is a 24-hour le mans, 24-hour neburgering and a back-to-back-to-back with a 24-hour spa.
Motoogp Legend Valentino Rossi must have participated in two of them by the end of the month, with an entry for Spa 24, after No. 46 WRT BMW, he ran with Calvin van Der Linde and Ahmed Al Harthi Was knocked out of victory controversy in Le Mans last weekend.
Hypercar drivers of Rossi WRT will be found behind the wheel on NO.46 BMW M4 GT3 at the spa with Kevin Magnusen and former event winner Rene Rust.
Magnesen, who has joined the BMW Hypercar program F1 Last year, the racing at the spa is a “large -scale privilege” with the German manufacturer with “one of the world’s largest sports icons”.
“Yes, this is also a great privilege that I have with BMW,” he said to enter Spa 24.
“They do a lot of racing. Not only here. They have GT racing and I can take a look at the Global Motorsport Calendar and start looking at these things on a bathtres or nordeschelife or spa 24.
“It’s very fun and I am very keen to share the car, perhaps with one of the biggest sports icons I will say in the world. Hopefully there is going to win there too!”
Magnesen says that he joined a team dinner in Qatar for the early stages of the 2025 World Dheeraj Championship when Rossi suggested partnership for the spa.
“When we were in Qatar, we were all dinner with the team and like Vale ‘We should spa together’, I said ‘yes, cool’,” Magnsen missen.
Nine -time Grand Prix Motorcycle World Champion Valentino Rossi competed for a 24 -hour spa, finished 14th in class in 2022 and then ranked sixth in 2023.
Italian says that sharing a car with Magnesen would promote a major learning for him as Rossi considers him a “top driver”.
“It would be very interesting,” Rossi said about the upcoming 24 -hour spa.
“I think it’s a great line-up. I think many people who follow this championship [WEC] Will follow our car in the spa because
“This is an idea from Vincent [Vosse, WRT owner],
“I am very, very proud, to share the car with rest and Magnesen. If you told me five years ago that I will run with a Formula 1 driver in the same car, I say this is not possible!
“We did some tests, I already shared the car with Kevin, we enjoyed it a lot.
“You can learn a lot from him because he is a top driver and I am eager to work with the rest. He helped me a lot with Hypercar in The Stopped Test last year.
“We pushed a lot on the rane, especially in Qatar, in the first race, because he did not want to run.
“They said” no, this is for me [WEC] Sufficient’. We pushed, especially the Vincent pushed, and finally he said yes. I am very happy that we can run together. He is one of the best GT drivers. ,
