The 26-year-old IndyCar champ stands ready to jump into F1 if he's ever needed
and Palou behind the wheel. All three did well, and Palou was given reserve driver status. Just what that means is open to interpretation. Barring any unforeseen circumstance, his role with the McLaren F1 team now is just to “help out” if he can.Unless, say, maybe Lando Norris might retire suddenly?Palou was just happy to have driven the McLaren F1 car on the three occasions he did it. “That was INSANE!!!” he tweeted after his first drive at COTA.“It's awesome,” he said. “It's amazing.
And in F1, that power and downforce can be exploited more fully since the quality of the track surfaces is far better, and much smoother, than, say, the street course in Long Beach where we stood talking.Palou contemplates the IndyCar-powered Honda CR-V he just rode in.“You couldn't put an F1 here, I think. I mean, in IndyCar we can because it's a spec series, and we're used to it, but I don't think an F1 would last a full race here.
Is it frustrating for him, being so close and yet so far from F1? Any racing paddock is full of “what if” stories. And the idea of getting no further than reserve status at McLaren might not seem like such a great notion to some casual observers. But for Palou, it remains a high point. “The opportunity that they're giving to drivers like Pato and myself, it's great. Otherwise, we wouldn't have that opportunity. So then it's up to how we perform on track to get more chances or more time. So I think it's great to have opportunities like that.”“You never know. There's a lot more stuff than just driving to get into F1.
Mark Vaughn grew up in a Ford family and spent many hours holding a trouble light over a straight-six miraculously fed by a single-barrel carburetor while his father cursed Ford, all its products and everyone who ever worked there.
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