Nyck de Vries “yellow card” - these are the two drivers lined up to replace him
The rookie driver has not scored a single point in the first five grands prix of 2023 and is coming under increa💦sing pre💞ssure at AlphaTauri.
De Vries will be studied ov☂er the F1 Emilia-Romagna, Monaco and Spanish grands prix and has told to buck his ideas up.
“Nothing will happen in the next three races,” Red Bull consultant Helmut M🌞arko told F1 Insider.
“We spoke to De Vries and he agre༺es with us: he needs to improve.&nbsܫp;
“The distance to teammate 🎀Yuki Tsunoda, who is doing a great job, is too big.
“To use footballer jargon,🍌 Nyck g💖ot the yellow card, but not the red yet.
“Iꦛf he impr💧oves, a driver change will not be an issue.”
The two drivers lined up to replace De Vries
"If the worst came ✃to the worst,” said Marko, “we would fall back on our pool of yꦦoung talent.
“It's ꦡspecifically about Liam Lawson and Ayumu Iwasa.”
New Zea🐠lander Lawson finished third in F2 last season and was a contender to fill the F1 AlphaTauri seat in 2023, but lost out to De Vries.
Lawson is now in Japan’s Super Formula series - a stepping stone which once aided Pierre Gas♊ly’s rise to F1.
Lawson has been affiliated to Red Bull si๊nce 2019.
Iwasa, from Japan, is impressing t🐻his season in F2.
His inclusion would mean AlphaTauri would have two Japanese drivers including T𓆉s🦂unoda.
What about Daniel Ricciardo?
It was rumoured, and then rejected, that Ricciardo travelled to Italy for a seat fitting wit🦋h AlphaTaur🉐i.
The veteran, now Red Bull’s third driver, is seeking a full-time comeback in🐠 2024.
But the door to a swift return this season with AlphaTauri h🌟as been slammed shut.
“Ricciardo is not an issue,” Marko said.
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