He took the opportunity by the horns and wrestled it to the ground. This was a Herculean effort by the De Vries. If he had embarrassed Latifi in qualifying, he fully buried him in the race – finishing 9th and taking two points for the team while his Canadian teammate languished in his all too familiar position at the back (ok 2nd to last…). Could he have made it into Q3? Possibly, if he had more time in the car but it didn’t matter, a point had been made. ![]() What transpired next was a testament to the F1 talent that resides in De Vries: out qualifying his teammate and getting the Williams into Q2. A teammate who has been on first-name terms with the same car all season. With only 28 minutes left in FP3, De Vries started putting together lap times, finishing the session only one-tenth behind his teammate. ![]() The words “plate” and “step up to” must have been ringing in the 27-year-old’s ears as he sat in the Williams Pit box getting acquainted with a new set of dials, lights and their relative functionality Controls that were, like the car, very different to the one he had been driving the day before.Īfter what must have seemed an interminable length of time, he was finally released onto the track and began to get familiar with his “new ride”. However, the ‘Racing Gods’ had plans for him, striking down Alex Albon with acute appendicitis on Saturday morning created an opening for the 2020-21 Formula E World Champion.Īs the Williams reserve driver, he now had the platform to demonstrate first-hand why he should partner Albon in 2023. ![]() Driving the hapless Aston Martin in FP1 on Friday, he could not have imagined he would be sitting in the slippery FW44 on Saturday.
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