“Lawson was very quick,” Helmut Marko opines on Red Bull’s pool of drivers who might see an F1 seat in future seasons
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Helmut Marko, the Red Bull Team adviser, has recently stressed the team’s pool of drivers and who according to him, have got potential to one day make it to the pinnacle of motor racing.
Red Bull, in recent years, has been very active and shown no hesitation in promoting its drivers from F2 to F1 and Yuki Tsunoda is one prime example of it.
The Japanese driver was brought to F1 with Red Bull’s sister team AlphaTauri in 2021 and before that, he impressed the hierarchy with the sensational pace that he was able to demonstrate in F2.
While Tsunoda finished his rookie season in F2 in the third position, his performances were proof enough for the team to realize that he’s got F1-level talent.
Considering all this, it can be said that Red Bull via AlphaTauri will keep giving promising talent an opportunity in F1 as long as they keep delivering in F2.
Moreover, to back the claim, one can consider that, Max Verstappen and Sebastian Vettel were both in the Red Bull junior drivers program before they set the World alight with their stupendous racing skills.
Helmut Marko’s take on some of the drivers that will stay in the Red Bull academy
The 2022 F2 season has been a disappointment for the Red Bull team as far as its F2 drivers are concerned, as with one round to go in the F2 Championship, none of its drivers are in the top 3.
However, despite the struggles of Red Bull’s F2 drivers, Helmut Marko has highlighted a few, who according to him are going to continue in the team’s academy.
While stressing on the same, Marko added, “Hadjar drives in Formula 2. Crawford is still there, and Iwasa too.”
“We have a couple of new drivers, but we’ll be announcing them later, Lawson was very quick in his F1 test, he will be driving in Japan next year and will be one of our reserve drivers for next year.“
Helmut Marko has made it known that some new talents are going to join the Red Bull pool of drivers soon and considering that Liam Lawson is going to be one of the reserve drivers for the team next year, it will be fascinating to see how well the newbies would be able to present themselves in F2.
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