Felipe Drugovich prepared to skip Le Mans if Aston Martin calls him for Canada F1 GP

F1 will take precedence over Le Mans for Aston Martin res💃erve Felipe Drugovich if Lance Stroll is ruled out of his home grand prix.

Felipe Drugovich, Aston Martin
Felipe Drugovich, Aston Martin
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Felipe Drugovich is willing to skip the Le Mans 24 Hours if Aston Martin call༒s him up to replace an injured Lance Stroll in the clashing Canadian Grand Prix.

Drugovich is set to drive Action Express Racing’s factory Cadi🔥llac LMDh prototype with Frederik Vesti and Jack Aitken in the blue riband round꧙ of the World Endurance Championship on 14-15 June.

This would be his second consecutive appearance at Le Mans following on from his debut in 2024, when he, Aitken and Pipo Der꧟aniꦇ finished ninth in the top Hypercar class.

However, Drugovich also serves as Aston Martin’s reserve driver in 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Formula 1, which may need a new driver to partner168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Fernando Alonso if 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lance Stroll doesn’t make a ౠfull recovery before his home race in Montreal next we🐲ek.

Stroll was forced to withd😼raw from the Spanish GP due to pain in hisꦏ wrist and hands, believed to have been linked to the fracture he sustained while cycling in early 2023.

The 26-year-old was due to get surgery after Barcelona and no timeline has been provided regard𒅌ing his expected rܫecovery.

Should Stroll not🍷 be fit to race at Circuit Gilles Villeneu♔ve in a week's time, Aston could bring in reserve driver Drugovich as a replacement.

The Brazilian, who won the 2022 🔯F2 title with MP Motorsport, has never raced in F1 despite being affiliated with the British brand for three years.

"At the moment, I don't even know eꦕxactly how things will happen from now on,” Drugovich to🔜ld Band TV.

“First of all, we have to wish Lance the best. For Le 🅷Mans, in that regard, my priority has always been Formula 1, so that's what must be maintained until then."

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Aston Martin also has former McLaren F1 driver Stoffel Vandoorne on its books𝓀 as a reserve, but the Belgian is also due to contest Le Mans on the same weekend with the factory Peugeot squ🌟ad.

Aston’s chief trackside꧒ officer Mike Kra♉ck insisted that the team’s priority is to have Stroll back in the car for the Canada race.

However, should he n🌌ot recover in time, the team has a backup plan in place involving Drugovich and Vandoorne.

“It iಞs quite simple, the ‘Plan A’ is to have Lance in the car – that is the ‘Plan A’, and that is what we are working to,” said Krack. “If the ‘Plan A’ does not work, then we need to pull ‘Plan B’.

“Obviously we always knew that Le Mans was going to happen, so we also had plans in place that if we ne𓂃ed a driver that is doing Le Mans,✱ we will bring him, but at the moment this is not the only question.”

“We wait what the next days are bringing, and then we take a d✃ecision.”

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