Vergne approached for seat next season

Former Toro Rosso driver Jean-Eric Vergne has been approached from a Formula One team for a race seat next season.

Vergne raced in the sport between 2012 and 2014 for Toro Rosso, before the French driver was dropped from the Red Bull programme, and subsequently moved to Formula E.

Last month, Vergne won the Formula E drivers' championship with a round to spare - a record number of points for a single season.

Vergne has confirmed that he has been approached from teams, before revealing that "even a Formula One team" had been in touch with the Frenchman over a seat for the 2019 season.

"It's a possibility. It's funny how the world of motorsport changes," Vergne explained to Crash.net.

"When you change your state of mind, when you change a little bit how you work, you see the results straight away. You see it in the results, and you see it in how people look at you and how they speak to you. When you start representing a brand what you are, it changes a lot of things.

"Three years ago, I don't think anybody would have called me from F1 and said: 'Hey, do you have a contract for next season?' So it's great."

Verge would not reveal which team had approached him, but he says that he hopes Formula One can take a leaf from Formula E's book and level out the playing field a bit more in the future.

"Because it's like this, maybe Formula One wants to change that a little bit," Vergne added.

"That's the good thing about Formula E. With our team, it's like if Marussia would have won in Formula 1. It would be impossible in F1. But maybe that can change. Maybe some teams can raise their games and start fighting for wins again."