Nyck de Vries proved his worth at the Italian Grand Prix to earn a seat in the 2023 Formula 1 season as he gave two points to a Williams team that had added just four more in the rest of the year. The interest in the Dutchman has grown a lot, even one of the heads of Red Bull, Helmut Marko , met him in Gaz to offer him the AlphaTauri steering wheel together with Yuki Tsunoda and free Pierre Gasly to go to Alpine. If so, the Frenchman would join Esteban Ocon in the Enstone team and fill the gap left by Fernando Alonso, who goes to Aston Martin as a replacement for Sebastian Vettel, and fix the disaster caused by Oscar Piastri ‘s failed contract. , which will go to McLaren.
If these pieces fit together, there would be two teams left to define their 2023 lineup, Williams and Haas. The director of the Grove, Jost Capito , put Logan Sargeant as a possible candidate, and the American is the third driver of the team and is in third position in Formula 2 with Carlin.
The one from the United States is one of those on Williams’ list to fill the gap for Nicholas Latifi, who has never found the necessary rhythm to at least match his teammates since he landed in Formula 1. Without the support financier of his father, the Canadian would not have landed in the highest category of motorsports, and everything seems to indicate that he will say goodbye to the Great Circus at the end of the season.
Sargeant’s problem is superlicence , and despite the end of the F2 campaign in Abu Dhabi, he will have to overtake his rivals, as he is third with 135 points and could find himself in a difficult situation if Jack Doohan , Jehan Daruvala, Enzo Fittipaldi, Liam Lawson, Frederik Vesti or Juri Vips do better than him, because they all have mathematical options to beat him in the standings.
The scenario, therefore, is not defined, and pending the episode of the American in the prelude to Formula 1, he will be able to demonstrate his abilities in FP1 of his home Grand Prix in Austin with the British team.
Williams boss Capito will therefore have to wait until November to know for sure who will be accompanying Alexander Albon, but he is in no hurry. As an alternative option, he has an old acquaintance in the category, Antonio Giovinazzi, and the Italian may be facing his return to Formula 1 after a mediocre stage in Formula E.
Ferrari has asked Haas to offer the driver the “visibility” of two weekends, and in Monza he already impressed in FP1, showing himself quite even with Kevin Magnussen, and will return to the track in Austin, occupying the Dane’s VF-22. In the United States, therefore, it will be a kind of duel between Giovinazzi and Sargeant.
The Italian is also on Haas’s list to be second in command, as Mick Schumacher’s contract runs out at the end of this season. Americans manager Guenther Steiner must heed the opinion of owner Gene Haas , who sees Nico Hulkenberg as an attractive option.
Giovinazzi has an agreement with Ferrari, but the Maranello team does not seem to have the power to impose the Haas driver, so the Italian’s manager, Enrico Zanarini , looks at the possibilities that exist. The pilot will also get into an Alpine in a test they will do in Hungary.
To land in Grove, he must have more than just his talent, financial support to ensure Capito the necessary budget to calmly face the Formula 1 season. ‘Gio’ does not have destiny in his hands, but he has a good opportunity to return to a category from which he never wanted to leave.
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