Leaking VRF routes on the same switch

Routing & Switching MPLS
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Hi! I am working a 3850 switch running IOS-XE 16.6.2 that has two vrf’s (red01 and blue02). Is it possible to leak routes between the vrf and the global only? The vrf’s can not know about each other - only communicate with the shared vlan.

When I try to follow the static or BGP configurations, I get “its this router” when I try to point the vrf to the shared vlan within the global as its next hop. I can not ping the shared vlan (11.51.100.254) from the vrf or vice versa. What am I not understanding here???

My configuration:

ip vrf red01
ip vrf blue02
!
int vlan 200
description Shared
ip address 11.51.100.254 255.255.255.0
!
!
int vlan 20
ip vrf forwarding red01
ip address 11.61.100.254 255.255.255.0
!
!
int vlan 40
ip vrf forwarding blue02
ip address 11.71.100.254 255.255.255.0.0
!
ip route 11.61.0.0 255.255.0.0 vlan 400
ip route 11.71.0.0 255.255.0.0 vlan 400
!
ip route vrf red01 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 11.40.100.254
ip route vrf blue02 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 11.40.100.254
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