Nyck De Vries Has 3 Races Left to Save His F1 Career 

Let's be honest, his future is already decided. They are just waiting for the summer pause to announce it.

Someone once said, "when Helmut gives you just a few races to save your seat, you're already gone." Or words to that effect. Basically I think Nyck is done. I reckon he's probably going to be moved to the factory or he'll go racing elsewhere. Either way, I think it's done for him. I kinda feel for him and kinda don't. He's not a rookie, as he himself liked to say. I think racing is like boxing. In boxing there's a term "styles make fights" some fighting styles work for some fights, not so much others and if you don't have the adaptability to overcome that, you'll come up short. I don't think Dani lost all of his skill, I just don't think he could adapt to McLaren, I think similar is happening with Nyck, unfortunate but it is what it is, maybe Lawson or Iwasa will be able to do a better job, time will tell.

Nyck De Vries feels like a new Brandon Hartley. A former junior passed on by the big teams. Make no mistake. De Vries got passed on by McLaren and parked by Mercedes in Formula E for good reason. He just isn't good enough and it pains me to say it.

Nyck has been the architect of his own demise, I think he could have been a standout at Williams, but he went to AT. At the beginning of the season he said he didn’t want to be considered a rookie. He’s been stacking the deck against himself, maybe not on purpose, but he is.

I hope we will see Liam Lawson in F1 car next season. Regarding his F2 time you could come to the idea that there were supernatural forces that just didn’t want him to win title. The amount of bad luck he had, technical failures, collisions he didn’t cause etc. And let’s not forget him winning DTM title, they robbed him of. This made the Abu Dhabi controversy look comparatively harmless. I can’t imagine RedBull throwing their junior concept overboard, choosing Ricciardo, who himself always says he wants a winning car

I feel for De Vries. Beats Latifi in 2019, Latifi buys what should’ve been his seat and holds it for 3 years, De Vries jumps in and beats him at Monza, now looking like De Vries will have a career 6x as short. Must hurt to FINALLY get your dream and have it go so wrong. But he did big himself up as a more experienced hand than a rookie and aimed big with AT and it’s backfired. If he was a Redbull junior I’d absolutely be saying to give him more time, but that’s not what he is or was signed up to be. He’s not delivered and will have to go

Turns out he had even less than 3 races left.

Correction: 1 race since this video was made

The thing is, he's not a kid like Sergeant and Zhou, he's a double Champ, 28 years old and near his skill ceiling. Yuki is getting points, Nyck should have double of that since he has double or triple the experience.

its funny how some people were saying how Nyck would absolutely destroy Tsunoda and beat him so hard that it would make AT drop Tsunoda and replace him with another new driver. Would love to see the opinion of those people right now

Damn, this aged well

I feel for the guy. Finally makes it into F1 as so many dream of but what he has to deal with is on the opposite side of ideal. This is going to hurt and a massive mental blow.

Well, that was a bit faster than expected...

he only had one 😔

well this aged well

Nyck is a nice guy and i really like that he's finally in F1 but his debut really overhyped him as a driver. Maybe the Williams or Monza suited him better then the Alpha Tauri so far this season. Yes it's a dog but Yuki is running away with the team so far. It reminds me of Schumacher last yr. I liked him. I was sad he left and hope he returns. But the difference here is i won't care if Nyck doesn't come back. Also the ' Ricciardo returning if Nyck get dropped ' isnt helping his cause. Silverstone is the make or break for Riccardo due to the testing. I think Lawson is a more liable option as he's younger but Ricciardo is Ricciardo. Fast, very experienced and always similing which is something the team rlly needs right now. I just hope Nyck has succes in wotever motorsport he goes on to race in and the remaining seat to go to Ricciardo for the remaining races and if he does a good job he can stay next yr and if he doesn't Lawson gets it next yr and see how that goes. Great vid.

The biggest "problem" with the red bull approach is that it is designed to generate driver turnover. Gasly wrote an article for The Players' Tribune and described how a crash in testing was enough to make it feel like the team turned on him. And even when he won at monza, he knew RB would never take him back and was reminded of that constantly. If anything, they wanted him gone so they could put the next potential max verstappen in the seat. Nyck can't save his seat. He's done at AT. He might see out the year, but at this point the team has already turned their back on him. Any more races are just time spent making a decision.

So who’s hear after the news

He had 1.

Another big factor that is overlooked is just how hard the start of this year was for rookies, on street tracks one after the other, many of which they havn't race on before.With a few being wet on top of that. Nyck is in a very unfortunate situation with possible 1 of the hardest years for a rookie, in a car that is trickier than it looks. Yuki drived out of his skin for only a couple of points in that AT, with 3.5 years of experience in that car.

And…. He’s out…… This driver swap is scary. Next up is Checo. Maybe Helmut Marko is trying to decide between Yuki and Danny to replace Checo. When one of them became Max’s teammate, Liam Lawson will fill in that AlphaTauri seat.

He needs a miracle race to save his seat.

They may boot Nyck after the summer break while they get Dan to keep the seat warm for Lawson for next year. This will give Dan seat time to blow the cobwebs off, then he will jump into Checo's seat if Checo continues to mess up for the rest of the season and if he gets beaten by Alonso for P2 then that's curtains for him. That will be Dan's ticket back to RB in 2024. But yeah sadly Nyck is dead man walking at this point,such a shame as he's a nice guy.

This video aged like milk

Well, he's kicked out now.

"Wtf is A KILOMETER???"- Logie bear

Let’s be honest that Williams was perfect for Monza high speed/low downforce,,,and Albon had that date circled in Red knowing that was a huge chance to score points…and Nyck did a good job he had nothing to lose and maximized his opportunity… Nyck has shown zero flashes of talent ,,like nothing… either has Logan Sargeant at Williams

From RB's perspective, De Vries is a driver outside their academy with a mixed bag junior career being compared to an in house driver (Lawson) who's not been out the top two of at least one series he's entered for every year of his career, so you can see where Marko's words come from. He certainly isn't a bad driver and deserves his F1 chance, but like Mick at Haas it just wasn't the right team to try it and his performance so far isn't helping.

When one of your main accomplishments is winning against Latifi it doesn’t look great.

He didn't even finished 3 Races. (currently following the Danny Ric comeback news, just now.)

This aged well

He can't be a bad driver looking at his past performance. But he was hyped based on one race. Feel sad for him.

Putting Ricardo in the Alpha Tauri could do two things. First, it would give them an experienced driver's viewpoint. Second, it would send a message to Checo that he's got competition and if he doesn't play the good teammate someone else could take that seat

Choosing AlphaTauri instead of Williams only to finish behind a Williams in a regular fashion. 🗿

This is Nyck getting a taste of the RB academy philosophy. RB is extreme in everything they do and thus their junior academy is set up that way. They apply extreme amounts of pressure to their juniors just to see who makes the cut. After all, RB is a top team (even when they go through lesser times) and to be at the top in F1 you need to be able to withstand extreme pressure. With Max it clearly worked and if there is a junior that shows a similar promise to Max', they will probably cut it and become champion with RB at some point in time or at least win races. The reasoning makes sense, but it just doesn't work for everyone. It seems Nyck is part of that group.

Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things 😁👍

also sounded like journalists were trying to spark something up between kmag and nyck, but I think Kevin didnt want to add more onto Nyck and just said it is what it is

Marko is saying that because they need a spot for Danny Ric. And they need a spot for Danny Ric, because the Verstappens want him besides Max. So if Danny Ric can outperform Tsunoda that path is open. Then Max has the ideal teammate, and someone who keeps it light and fun. The last thing RB wants is Max leaving F1 early, because it's no longer fun to him.

Nyck is already a dead man walking, it's so evident since. A. Christian Horner & Franz Tost didn't want Nyck de Vries in the first place. B. There are multiple Red Bull juniors like Lawson and Iwasa impressing. C. He only beat Yuki twice on race H2H, and that's because Yuki had break failure in Monaco, and a horrible race in Austria. D. His consistent crashing like his 3 crashes in Baku, including one where he crashed into Tsunoda. And his horrible wheel to wheel combat when he crashed with Norris and Magnussen twice. E. He is freaking 28. He is older than Verstappen, Leclerc, Ocon, Russell, Albon, and even Latifi. He's not some young rookie like Logan Sargeant who's mistakes are more forgiveable, he should be the established product. Even if Nyck doesn't get fired after Belgium, he's gonna get fired after Abu Dhabi. He has no future in RBR, so there's no incentive to keep him.

Something that came to my mind: If Ricciardo impresses in the Pirelli test and RBR is seriously considering him for Perez's seat, he should be in that AT seat after the summer break. But I think the AT seat should be Lawson's for 2024

De Vries learning chinese as we speak

this pains me. i wanted him to do well in his 1st season as a F1. just not going to well atm. his semi debut was amazing. last min call to be a back up driver. came 10th amazing

As a NZer, the biggest concern about Lawson is definitely his qualifying pace. He's not that great in quali, and if he comes second in Super Formula, it will because he didn't get enough points from quali (I know its weird but SF gives out points for the top 3 in qualifying). However, his race pace and tyre management is probably the best among all the Red Bull juniors, even probably Yuki. He's definitely been the fastest driver in Super Formula this season and the only races he didn't finish in the podiums were not his fault. (bad strategy and bad safety car timings) Funnily enough being average at qualifying worked in his favour in F2, because he would qualify 4-10th usually, be flipped near the front of the grid in the sprints and pick up podiums (when typical F2 shenanigans didn't ruin his race), and having the race pace in the feature races to also pick up podiums. (Although he's weirdly good at Monaco qualifying).

1:53 you really wanted to brag and this was the best excuse you could think of lmaoooo

I get the feeling something big is coming for AT, sold off or something different, in which case DR as a lead driver would make sense or even Cheko. It was always DM that kept Minardi in the family with his passing it is an asset, i think RB may see this as a time to sell it off while the market is hot for F1 teams on grid.

Turns out he only had 1 💀

I was really excited when AT announced Nyck but now seeing him underperforming and with Lawson being incredibly talented and my favorite Junior driver atm, I wouldn’t be too bothered if they drop him

I always feld that the rb family was not nyck's place at Williams he would probably do beter and kept his Mercedes ties , i hope Lawson gets a shot at f1 that kid has talent and seams to adapt easy to cars the way he jumped into dtm cars and was on the pace was great to see even in superformula he has shown good pace

I’m shocked they haven’t tried to put Alex Palou in that seat or checos seat. Kid is a generational talent. He’s dominating Indy car like few have.

That aged like milk

People trust an experienced, succesfull veteran on the job like Dr Marko, rather than a RU-vidr kid.

Faster than we think. Ricardo is back.

Aged like fine milk.

You can call Red Bull and Helmut cold and all, but he’s been trash. It’s a results business, we’re talking about the pinnacle of motorsports and there’s only 20 seats. You can’t perform that badly and be shocked if you’re shown the door.

He would have been a good midfield driver but he was on the wrong team. The RB family is just not the place for him. Wish him the best.

The ultimate stop gap driver

Aged worse than milk. Only lasted 6 days

this aged well.......

Checco is not loosing his seat. Are people mental? He gets podiums...

well, this aged well…

I thought Ayumu Iwasa could also get the steat

I feel like most RB driver swaps are RB for AT when it’s mid season. If an AT driver is at risk usually they let them go till at least very close to the end of the year. Not saying it’s impossible, but also not as big a chance as a lot of people seem to think

Always very honest and human. Really like the balanced thinking mind you have. Great video.

Well this is very unfortunate because I really like Nyck de Vries. But at the same time I knew that this was coming at some point.

Aldas If i knew you where at Spielberg i would have liked too meet you 😅 Greetings from AT🇦🇹🇦🇹🇦🇹

This could be either a good plan or a horriblely bad one, give Danny Ric the seat and FP1 outings (including the Silverstone tyre tet in the RB19) and time in the sim to get up to speed on the RB car and stick him in the AT for the rest of the season and if Lawson keeps perfomring like he is in Super Formula, give him the seat for AT in '24 and Danny Ric a RB drive for '24. It makes sense to me for both parties involved since RB know how to set up a car for Danny Ric and it gives Lawson the much needed time in F1 to show if he can transfer his talent into F1 and score points on the regular consistently and just be Alonso basically because that AT next season probably won't be any better than it is right now

I can't see RB throwing Riccardo into an RB seat without recent race experience. Checo's irregular run might be pushing Marco into replacing Nyck mid season

Aged like milk

"3 races left" turned out to be an over-optimistic estimation.

Dan may not be able to get into an Alpha this year, as there maybe clauses in Dan's payout contract that he may not be able to " race " for another team this year as opposed to being a reserve driver, which would be a one off drive.

It’s his first f1 season people should be patient. Personally I like him, and we also saw his performance in the williams last year. He’s a great driver that deserves to be in f1. It’s not his fault he has a bad car and I bet Liam Lawson would have similar performances.

I feel bad for him mainly due to all this pressure, I mean I understand that his driving is not good, but you got to have some sympathy

This aged like fine milk

I guess there will always be that question of what would've happened to Nyck if he had chosen to go to Williams

I am a die-hard Lewis and Mercedes fan, but the odd thing about Red Bull is how different it has become these last few years relative to its glory days with Seb. For instance, during Seb's WC winning years Mark Webber clearly underperformed Seb in three of those campaigns (especially in 2013), and yet his seat never in jeopardy in the same way as Gasly, Albon or even Sergio today. This may be just a mere coincidence, but it definitely seems that since 2016, Red Bull drivers cannot afford to have a bad patch. My guess is that when Red Bull found out it had stuck gold when they did it the first time with Kvyat (replacing him with Max), they believed they could easily repeat the same procedure over and over until they find another top driver to partner Max. However, and putting myself on a Red Bull driver's shoes, I can only imagine the crushing pressure it must be to partner Max (who basically buries every buries every teammate 10 feet under) and knowing that Red Bull's top brass hovers a Damocles's sword over your head. No wonder Max is given 100% priority and the other seat has been swapped around so often. I just hope Sergio finds his feet and avoids the hammer. He is a good driver overall (a few notches below Max, sure), very likable and I will never forget the fact that he chipped in when Force India went into administration back in 2018 to save many of the team's staff from unemployment.

This aged like milk for Nyck 💀💀⚰⚰

Considering the state of the AT-04 with Yuki who is a 3 years veteran despite driving the car to the limit, only managed to extract 2 points out of it. De Vries would even be lucky to get any point this season. Doesn’t matter who drive the car Lawson or Ricciardo. At this point they better change the fucking car.

I feel the same happened with Scott Speed, Jean-Éric Vergne and Daniil Kvyat. They all had soo much potential however just Toro Rosso was never a good fit.

Why would Danny Ric want to go to AT, straight to the back of the grid (he's not going to get much better results than Yuki in that car)? Especially since his departure from the equally abysmal - for his driving style particularly - McLaren virtually wrecked his career, if only in his head. He _needs_ to be in a better car straight away or else his career really is over. So basically I can't see why he'd want to replace Nyck in the AT for the second half of the season. That car isn't going to get much better by then. Frankly, I can't see that car doing _anyone's_ career any good. Yuki is having a lot of bad luck (though Austria saw the return of his hot head, sadly), but because he's got so much experience in that car, he's the only person in a position to get the most out of it. Bringing in a rookie - even more of a rookie than Nyck - (or pretty much anyone on the grid!) would be as good for him as Haas was in the rookie year of Mick Schumacher and... whatever his name was ;). In other words, disastrous!

This aged well, lol!! He's already gone just six day's after this video was released!! Danny Ric is back, though! So, I am not devastated!

Going to AT can never be seen as an honest regret, insofar as questioning his decision-making. It was the right decision at the time, and we have no indication to believe Williams is going anywhere. It's just a matter of Nyck not being cut out for that role, he cannot capitalize on the opportunity he was given.

If you don't have a engine partnership with honda you get alot more leniency at RB, tsunoda got that leniency alot after his rookie season

Well Thats a convinent timing

This didn't aged well :D

I don’t know, but for whatever reason I don’t see Ricciardo as a good fit for the other RB seat anymore. He seems to be past it ever since moving to McLaren. I feel someone like Hulkenberg, who gets more out of that Haas than should be possible, would be a better/more consistent second driver than either Perez or Ricciardo. I read that Max actually wanted the Hulk instead of Perez but that’s just unverified rumours

I was shockt by him join alpha tauri i thought 100% he's gonna go for williams he would be in a much better position if he did daht but ye i think he thought he's gonna whipe the floor with yuuki and join RB to get podiums in reality he is a F1 newbie franz also said a new driver needs time to develop i dont think marco is daht patience

How accurate….

Lol AT are not the worst car on the grid- that’s Alfa Romeo, it’s just that the drivers have maximized their results better Haas are even worse, cheese graters on wheels, and if they kept Mick instead of hiring Hulk, they would be on 2 points just like AT

Red Bull need to reflect on how good or bad they are at developing drivers and getting the best out of them. It's easy to mouth off and make them perform worse. But it's the kind of behaviour that in time will (A) lose team championships in close season (B) lose a super-star in the making. Albon is showing more than Red Bull was capable of getting from him. Does Marko & Horner ever wonder why that may be?

What makes the most sense to me is: Ricciardo to AT and depending on the result to replace Checo or definitely out. Calling Lawson mid-season has little value to either AT or RB.

On one hand I agree with the rest of the video, but on the other I disagree with the initial statement of it being unnecessary to say what Marko said. however, NDV being questioned live about the subject matter.. that's entirely unnecessary and fishing for a negative reaction. what he said can be looked at from a different point of view, Marko believed in NDV, which isn't a common thing for Marko. he stuck his neck out and is getting burned for it as NDV really isn't performing as well as Marko petitioned for him internally. There isn't a lie in his statement, NDV really isn't doing what he needs to be doing and Horner was right to not want him in the team. Im a believer of the first year being a wash for every rookie, but man NDV is really making it hard to actually want to keep him on for another year. honestly, between LS and NDV, i think Williams is also better off with LS and not picking up NDV was a bullet dodged financially.

Feeling sorry for nyck devries. Anyways I just came to say that you were right about mclaren. They did make a great comeback. The comeback that I even I didn’t expect.

It might well be that both Yuki and Nyck are unable to extract the full potential from the car. Seeing them so high up in qualifying in mixed conditions like last weekend in Austria, that is an obvious sign that the car isn't as bad as it looks. There are advantages for AT and Red Bull to have an experienced driver like Daniel at the wheel for proper feedback and a good direction for the development of next years car. It might well be that Daniel is able to extract more from the car and thus get some much needed points in the remaining races.

If anything, Id say that they should move places with Ricciardo, have Nyck fulfil a Third Driver role with Red Bull and have the second car of AT being used by both De Vries and Ricciardo, ultimately giving the seat to whomever performs better. That being said, I do think that Nyck deserves more time. Pulling a Rookie completely out of F1 in his first handful of races is not a good look. Especially when the team is due for a complete and total overhaul next year. Also, Lawson isnt ready as far as Im concerned. Putting him in there now would be disasterous at the moment. If someone does step in for Nyck, I believe Lawson should also be used as a reserve driver and used for Practices and the like.

The problem with Nyck goes beyond just his poor performance on track. He's 28 years old, he doesn't have the benefit of time or the potential upside of a young rookie. They don't have the luxury to give him a full year to figure out how to drive the car. That's why expectations for him are so high: he was given the seat to perform quickly, and he's just not doing that. The fact that the car is bad actually just exacerbates the problem, because he's clearly not helping all that much from a car development perspective. That's why replacing him with Ricciardo is a no-brainer. Alpha Tauri needed to make a change now, before it was too late, in order to best prepare for next season. Additionally, Ricciardo is more of a known veteran talent, which means that while the car is still so bad, they can better evaluate Yuki's performance by comparing him to what Daniel can do with the car. I suspect, especially since the driver change was made, that Daniel was their choice all along, but they couldn't talk him into taking the seat at the beginning of the season. More than likely, Red Bull will use the rest of this season to evaluate both Ricciardo and Tsunoda, and if Checo continues to underperform, one of those two could potentially get his seat next year. Edit: I absolutely agree with you that he should have stayed at Williams. There would have been far less pressure there, even with Albon performing well.

You couldn’t have said it better. When Nick signed with AT, I only thought ‘no!’ Nick was already past his chance really, F2 took him years and FE, well… tombola. He’s not up there. But he would’ve done better and felt more proud at Williams, I feel

De Vries only earned a place in F1 with his drive at Williams. He did because it seemed he could just turn up and deliver; but this year he's shown he can't. He's already failed to deliver on the reason that Red Bull chose to put him in that Alpha Tauri over their own juniors. That's always going to put him on shaky ground. Nice guy, but that gets you no points in F1. I think DR is the more sensible and likely replacement for him when he goes. RB clearly don't rate Lawson that highly or they'd have given him an F1 drive already. Put DR in that seat and they can take a view on whether to promote him to RB next year and replace the mediocre driving of Sergio. Lawson can then get a full season run next year, perhaps alongside Iwasa, and whichever of them is worst can get replaced by Zane Maloney the year after.

He only had 1 race left

It's a typical Helmut/RBR move. A driver doesn't meet expectations, and tbh Nyck hasn't come close, so they hammer him in the media making sure to crush what little confidence he may have left.

Safety car, theres DeVries on the track!