Nyck de Vries to AlphaTauri to replace Pierre Gasly is starting to gather momentum... F1
It does beg the question of how Mercedes would feel about seeing a driver who has been immersed with them for three years, winning a Formula E World Championship, to up and leave for Red Bull.
Toto Wolff has said more than once he is extremely limited in what more he can to do help De Vries fulfil his F1 dream, for which he has been waiting since he won the Formula 2 title in 2019.De Vries drove in FP1 for the Silver Arrows at the French Grand Prix“We can’t really tell any team to look at him and consider him because that would be felt as an interference and goes the contrary way.”
You get the impression Wolff would have been happy to see De Vries at Williams on a full-time basis, given they are an engine customer and ‘technical partner’ of Mercedes. But AlphaTauri? You only have to think back a year to when Williams signed Alex Albon from the Red Bull set-up initially ‘on loan’, with Wolff clearly concerned about what Mercedes-related information might eventually filter back to Milton Keynes.De Vries’ switch would be much more direct, though. What will Wolff think of that?