It was recently announced that the Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal, known for being the greatest Grand Slam winner in ATP history, recently became the new owner of a team in the UIM E1 World Championship, an electronic boat championship that continues to gain a lot of prominence in the old continent.
The Mexican driver of the Red Bull team, Sergio “Checo” Pérez, is also involved in this team, with whom he shared a video call to talk about the future of the squad and especially to launch an interesting challenge that has undoubtedly given a lot. what to talk about among his followers.
What happens is that through the social networks of the institution they shared a video in which the Checo can be seen welcoming him to the institution and proposing the aforementioned challenge that links an interesting competition behind the wheel.
“Hello, Rafael. It’s good to hear that you will be joining the E1 World Cup. I know you have 22 Grand Slam titles, but we’ll see who is the water champion in E1”, Sergio Pérez said with a laugh.
This fact represents an interesting one, since an attractive competition could be carried out between these two international sports figures to define which of them would be the most effective driving these aquatic vehicles.
If this dispute occurs, Checo Pérez would have the advantage due to his career in Formula 1. However, Nadal could give him a lot of competition as it is an event with electric vehicles.
The Aztec Formula 1 driver joined the UIM E1 World Championship a few months ago as a team owner thanks to his friendship with Alejandro Agag, co-founder and president of E1; El Guadalajara and Agag have known each other since GP2, a competition in which Checo made his jump to Formula 1.
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