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Williams boss James Vowles has revealed Franco Colapinto’s 2025 plans in gentle of the Argentine driver lacking out on a seat in F1 subsequent yr.
Colapinto, 21, changed Logan Sargeant after August’s Dutch Grand Prix and impressed with a couple of early top-10 finishes in Baku and Austin, in addition to a formidable first-lap overtake in Singapore.
But two expensive crashes in Sao Paulo and Las Vegas resulted in curiosity from Pink Bull and Alpine cooling in current weeks. There isn’t any obtainable seat for Colapinto at Williams subsequent yr, with Carlos Sainz becoming a member of from Ferrari to associate Alex Albon, whereas Liam Lawson has changed Sergio Perez at Pink Bull and Isack Hadjar has taken the second seat at Racing Bulls.
Whereas the state of affairs was unclear at Pink Bull on the subject of Perez’s future, Vowles defined to The Impartial the plans in place for the favored Argentine ought to he not land an F1 seat for subsequent yr.
“We’ll be sure he’s working a historic automobile testing programme, TPC [Testing of Previous Cars] we name it,” Vowles mentioned. “That can preserve him recent and trustworthy.
“He’ll do full testing, TPC testing, simulator work. He’ll come right here with us to be a reserve driver on the identical time.”
On his future past that, with Cadillac set to affix the game as an 11th workforce in 2026, Vowles added: “I’m pretty positive he’s nicely sufficient revered within the enterprise that he gained’t solely be a 3rd driver right here, however the different groups would very very similar to a possibility to assist Franco as nicely.
“We’ve been discussing [seats] with different groups. For transparency, not with Cadillac.
“I need to be sure he has a profitable profession. If we are able to’t provide that, then we’ll discover a place for him and see what we are able to provide him sooner or later.”
Vowles held talks with Pink Bull boss Christian Horner about Colapinto becoming a member of his workforce subsequent yr in Brazil, although no deal was agreed.
And whereas Colapinto held out hope {that a} seat throughout the Pink Bull ecosystem can be doable – whether or not or not it’s the principle workforce or RB – Lawson’s promotion to Pink Bull and Hadjar’s RB choice means there is no such thing as a open seat on the grid for the 21-year-old subsequent yr.
In addition to his reserve driver duties with Williams, Colapinto may additionally pursue appearances in different racing sequence’, such because the World Endurance Championship or the European Le Mans Sequence.
Colapinto failed to complete in three of the ultimate 4 races of the 2024 season. He was compelled to retire on the season finale in Abu Dhabi resulting from an influence unit concern.
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Kieran Jackson , 2024-12-20 10:03:00
