New Zealand driver Nick Cassidy has a long association with Red Bull and has been a sponsor of the company since childhood. Last year, for example, he completed 11 races in the German DTM touring car championship for the AlphaTauri AF Corse team and took two victories.
But now he’s in Formula E and leading the drivers’ standings, having won the race in Monaco a week ago. In general, 28-year-old Cassidy has universal professional training: in his youth he more than once became the champion of New Zealand and Australia in karting, twice won the winter Toyota Racing Series in his homeland, in 2015 he won the title Japanese Formula 3 added a SuperGT series win two years later to become Super Formula champion in 2019.
But he did not get into Formula 1, but maybe he will still get such an opportunity? When journalists from Speedweek, an online publication belonging to the Red Bull media empire, asked Nick if the AlphaTauri team had approached him, he replied: “So far I have had no contacts on this subject. Although, of course, I would be very happy if I received such an offer.
However, Red Bull has a whole squad of young drivers, including Liam Lawson, who is doing his job very well now.
Lawson is also from New Zealand, but is seven years younger than Cassidy, and after two very successful seasons in Formula 2 this year, he was sent to Japan to compete in the Super Formula series. Liam won his debut race, never dropped below 5th in the next two and now takes third place in the individual standings of this most prestigious Japanese championship.
The conversation about AlphaTauri looking for a replacement for Nick de Vries started some time ago, as he clearly falls short of the expectations placed on him, makes too many mistakes and is too inferior to Yuka Tsunode, his partner.
At the same time, de Vries’ experience and level should not be underestimated and it is not a fact that someone else in his place would have done much better – after all, AlphaTauri has an inefficient car this year, which is not easy to drive. However, apparently they are still not going to change it in the near future.
Source: F1 News
I am Christopher Clyde, an experienced journalist and content writer with a passion for sports. I have been writing about Formula 1 news for the past five years and am currently employed as an author at athletistic.com, one of the top sports websites in the US.
