According to Giedo Van der Garde, Nyck de Vries should have spent more time at AlphaTauri. According to Van der Garde, external pressure, but also from Helmut Marko, became excessive and this cost Nyck de Vries his race seat, in addition to the fact that the AlphaTauri F1 car was not at all competitive at the start.
Nyck de Vries started the 2023 F1 season with high expectations, but the mistakes piled up. This was not only because of him, but also in part due to the AlphaTauri F1 car, which was not at all competitive and difficult to drive. In the end, Nyck de Vries’s credit ran out, and it was decided to replace him with Daniel Ricciardo.
Just at that moment, AlphaTauri seemed to be making some progress, and the second half of the season was actually much better than the first half. For Nyck de Vries, however, the season had already ended, his F1 dream was over.
“It is therefore a shame that he was not given more time,” said Van der Garde in conversation with ‘Racingnews365’. “He is also a boy who sometimes needs a little more time to show what he really has to offer and I know how good he really is and, above all, how dedicated he is.”
Van der Garde has no doubts that Nyck de Vries could have also made a very good contribution to the results during the second half of AlphaTauri’s season.
“I think so. He would already be at a better pace and maybe Helmut Marko would be a little calmer and relaxed, because there were already some points on the scorecard. And if the team is calmer, you automatically perform better. You become one with the car. So I think that what these guys showed, Nyck could have shown too.”
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