IndyCar ace Colton Herta says he is surprised that Red Bull wants him to join F1 next year with AlphaTauri.
The situation now rests chiefly on whether or not Herta will be granted an exemption to get hold of an F1 superlicence, with him currently eight short of the number of points he needs to be given one.situation to grant him one.
Herta is currently waiting to see how things develop, but says the opportunity with AlphaTauri was far from expected after he had been mostly linked to McLaren in the long term, having already done a private test in an old F1 car. “Everybody at McLaren seemed really pleased with how the test went, and how physically and mentally prepared I was.
“I think there’s a lot more to it and I truly do understand both sides of the argument,” he explained.
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