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Red Bull Recruit on a Relentless Mission to Convince $199 Billion Magnifico Elon Musk to Make F1 Entry

Published 12/03/2022, 6:38 AM EST

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Elon Musk is a buzzing name in the business world for the past few years. Musk recently acquired Twitter and caused tremors on the social media platform. Many have been quitting the global platform in fear of it imploding due to Elon’s changes. Although, now a Red Bull E-Sports driver is requesting the Tesla CEO to acquire something more.

A Red Bull E-Sports driver named Marcel Kiefer from Germany has requested Elon Musk to buy an F1 team. He has been persistently replying to Elon Musk’s tweets with his requests for an F1 team acquisition.

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The prospect of an Elon Musk-owned team in F1 is enticing and threatening at the same time. While the $199 Billion worth businessman has a big car brand like Tesla, he prefers electric powertrain cars over traditional combustion engines.

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Though F1 is moving towards a sustainable power unit approach and currently use hybrid engines, it is less likely F1 will go fully electric in the future. So if Elon wishes for an electric motor-racing team of Tesla, he might rather look at Formula E.

Nonetheless, Kiefer from Karlsruhe, Germany is quite keen on Musk buying an F1 team. And for his company, there are fans who wish Elon to be in F1 in some capacity.

Fans react to the prospect of Elon Musk in F1

Few fans on social media have commented on their wishes about Elon being in F1 in some or the other roles. Here are a few of the tweets:

We dearly hope F1 never goes fully electric. While a sustainable hybrid power unit is great, a fully electric power unit in F1 also takes off the shine of the Formula E series.

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Well, we hope if such a collaboration happens, Musk rather has more positive additions to F1. The 2026 power-unit regulations will increase electric power usage, but it will still be a Turbo-Hybrid power unit with an internal combustion engine.

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Will Musk agree to have an ICE with his Tesla electric motors? That’s the major question before he actually considers buying an F1 team. What do you think? Should Elon Musk ever buy an F1 team?

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Aishwary Gaonkar

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Aishwary Gaonkar is an F1 Author at EssentiallySports. Having completed his postgrad, he has set out to venture into the world of Sports Journalism. He is an ardent fan of F1 and has been following the most prestigious form of motor racing for over a decade now.
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Ranvijay Singh