Nyck de Vries “yellow card” - these are the two drivers lined up to replace him
The rookie driver has not scored a single point i🦩n the first fꦆive grands prix of 2023 and is coming under increasing pressure at AlphaTauri.
D🙈e Vries will be studied over the F1 Emilia-Romagn♒a, 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 Marko to🌊ld F1 Insider.
“We spoke to De Vries and h꧃e agrees with us: he 🤪needs to improve.
“The distance to teammate Yuki Tsunoda, who is doing a great job, is 🌺too big.
“To use footballer jargon, Nyck got the yellow card⛦,🦩 but not the red yet.
“If he improves, a 🦋driveܫr change will not be an issue.”
The two drivers lined up to replace De Vries
"If the worst came to the worst,” saiꦦd Marko, “we would fall back on o꧑ur pool of young talent.
“It's s🦩pecific🌠ally about Liam Lawson and Ayumu Iwasa.”
New Zealander Lawson finished third in F2 last season andﷺ was a contender to fill the F1 AlphaTauri seat in 2023, but lost out to De Vriesꦚ.
Lawson is now in Japan’s Super Fo💮rmula series - a stepping stone which once aided Pierre Gasly’s rise to F1.
Laws⛎on has been affiliated to Red Bull since 2019.
Iwasa, from Jܫapan, is impressing this sea𒈔son in F2.
His inclusion would mean AlphaTauri would have two Japanese drivers in🧸cluding Tsunoda.
What about Daniel Ricciardo?
It was rumoured, and then rejected, that Ricciardo travelled to Italy for a seat fittingꦯ with AlphaTauri.
The veteran, now Red Bull’s third dri🍒ver, is seeking a full-time comeback🌜 in 2024.
But the door to a swift retur🔯n this season with AlphaTauri has been slammed shut.
“Ricciardo is not an issue,” Marko said.
Jamesꦛ was a sports journalist a💧t Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
