168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Kevin Magnussen has claimed that he could have ended up racing for either Ferrari or Red Bull during his F1 career.

Th﷽e 32-year-old Dane, who has been left without an ⛄F1 drive for 2025 after losing his Haas seat to Esteban Ocon, has explained how his career could have looked very different.

During his first spell at Haas, Magnussen revealed he was in contention to replace Kimi Raikkonen at Ferrari. But Ferrari ultimately ended up promoting protege Charles Leclerc for 2019 after an impressive rookie campaign wit💦h Sauber.

"It was my third year in F1. I was 24 or something... 23? You know, anything was still possible. Iꦺ still believed it was possible. And there were moments when I felt it was going in that direction,” Magnussen▨ told .

"In 2018, we had a really good car in the first half of the year. Charles [Leclerc] had just arrived in F1 with Sauber. And 𓆉the start of his first season wasn't great. And mine was really good! And then suddenly Ferrari was reaching out.

"Suddenly I was driving in their simulator, not for Ha🎃as, but for Ferrari. They were sniffing around. And I thought, okay... I was already getting excited about where this was going. But then Charles started to really kill it! And I heard nothing.

"I don't know how close i📖t got. But I think if Charles had not started to perform, if he had had a s***** season all year long, I think I would have been one of the drivers they would have looked at.

“Sometimes you feel like you are getting close, but still not that close. That's the w♑ay it goes.”

Turning down Red Bull

Magnussen also had theꦇ opportunity to join the Red Bull stable✅ and believes he could have eventually ended up racing alongside Max Verstappen at the senior team.

Following Daniel Ricciardo’s ꦅdeparture from Red🦹 Bull at the end of 2018, Magnussen’s management reached out to team principal Christian Horner, who opened the door to a potential seat with Toro Rosso.

But Magnussen was not interested in racing fo🅠r Red Bull’s sister team at the time and turned down the offer, something he admits w𒊎as probably a mistake in hindsight.

"And after that season, Daniel [Ricciardo] left Red Bull, and I remember my management s🔯peaking to Christian Horner, because of course everyone was talking about the Red Bull seat,” he explained.

“And Christian said, 'Look, there's nothing at Red Bull, but 🍨we can talk about Toro Rosso'. And I said, 'No, no, let's not do that,' which I probably should have done.

"It was Gasly who took that [Red Bull] seat. [Alex] Albon was promoted from F2 to Toro 💖Rosso, and then𓆉 Gasly didn't do a good job – and Albon came in! So, you know, the guy who got that Toro Rosso seat ended up at Red Bull.”

Despite acknowledging his career might have looked very different, Denmar꧃k's most successful F1 dr⭕iver insists he has no regrets about how his time in the sport panned out.

"I could have done more, fo൲r sure," he said. "You know, I don't think anyone can say 'I couldn't have done more'. I think there will always be things... There were times when I didn't work hard enough.

“But then there were times when I worked my butt off. I don't really have any re🐟grets. I don't think there's anything I c💦ould have done to change the course of my career. I really doubt that.”