168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton “secretly” took part in a💟 Superbike test - during which he crashed, Toto Wolff recalled.

Seven-time Formula 1 champion Hamiltoಌn scared his F1 boss with two days of radio silence in 2018 when he linked up with the Crescent Racing s♈quad at Jerez.

His love of motorcycle racing is well known. As well as having his own signature MV Agusta model, Hamilton took part in a ride swap with MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi in 2019, while in the last 12 months he 🍷has been linked to investing in two MotoGP teams.

Six years ago, j🗹ust after he’d won his fifth F1 crown, Hamilton took part in a two-day test at Jerez o🍸n a YZF-R1 Superbike overseen by the Crescent Racing World Superbike Championship squad.

Michael van der Mark, then a Yamaha WSBK rider, tol𝄹d  at the time that Hamilton had to be told to slow down because “he was not afraid at all”.

Wolff revea🍸led that he couldn’t get a hold of Hamilton - who’d done the test secretly - for twoꦅ days and wasn’t aware that he’d crashed.

Asked if he🎶 was there for the ride swap in 2019 in Valencia with Rossi and Hamilton, Wolff told the Armchair Expert podcast: “No, but I had to give permission. So, I gave it and I think they both e🎶njoyed it a lot.

“Lewis is the annoying kid in school who෴ does everything right and fast.

“I’ll tell you a story about biking. Secretly - they didn’t tell me - they went testing in Jerez and one 🅰of my heads of strategy was a motorbike guy, one of the engineers, and I couldn’t get hold of him for two days.

“And then calling Lewis, his engineer picked up and said ‘it’s all good, all is fine, we’ve just finis💝hed biking aဣnd just whatever you hear he’s fine’.

“I said ‘what happened?’ H🧸e fell. But he was four seconds off the MotoGP pros only.

“Unbelievable♔. The body feeling he has is what makes him a champion.”

Hamilton was unhurt from his crash.

Wolff’s comment is hard to verify as there was no official timing released, though🌠 has to be taken with a pinch of salt as van der Mark said at the time: “I know he can be much faster, but it’s difficult to predict what he could do on a bike.

“He has only ridden four days now and he was abo🎐ut seven seconds slower than us [the Yamaha WSBK riders]. Wit🎀h that, he’s faster than most other track day riders.”

Earlier in 2018, Hamilton rode a Superbike in a Monster Energy event with three-tim🐭e MotoGP race winner Cal Crutchlow in California.

In recent weeks, KTM motorsport boss Pit Beirer revealed in an interview with Speedweek that the struggling Austrian firm had held “concrete” disc💙ussions with Hamilton’s management about potential 💦investment.

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