System E boss Jeff Dodds has promised to pay $250,000 to charity if Purple Bull’s Max Verstappen fails to win a fourth successive System One title this season.
Purple Bull received 21 of twenty-two races final yr in essentially the most dominant of campaigns, whereas 26-year-old Dutch driver Verstappen managed a file 19 victories.
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Purple Bull as a group have received 38 of the final 44 races.
“Until he is injured or one thing loopy occurs, 99% he [Verstappen] will get that trophy,” Dodds stated in an interview with TNT Sports activities.
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“If any one of many different 19 drivers wins it [the F1 championship], we’ll give 1 / 4 of 1,000,000 {dollars} to the charity of alternative of the opposite driver that wins it.
“It would not be the worst day within the workplace to present a load of cash to charity. However completely he’s nailed on to win that season.”
All-electric System E has proved much less predictable than F1, with three totally different winners in three races to date within the tenth season of the sequence that began in January however attracts a much smaller viewers.
France’s double champion Jean-Eric Vergne is the one driver to win a couple of System E title because the city-based sequence began in 2014-15.
“If [McLaren’s] Lando [Norris] wins, we’ll go and go to him and provides him 1 / 4 of 1,000,000 {dollars} for his charity. Completely, no questions requested,” stated Dodds, who took the helm of the electrical sequence final June.
Verstappen set the tempo on the primary day of System One testing on Wednesday, with the season beginning there on March 2.
Dodds stated System E was on a speedy growth curve and getting quicker and quicker.
“You are going to see acceleration in these [future] System E automobiles that leaves each different motorsport just about for mud,” he stated.