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AlphaTauri team principal Franz Tost says Red Bull’s junior drivers were considered to replace the departing Pierre Gasly next year before the team pursued IndyCar star Colton Herta and eventually settled on Nyck de Vries.

“All the Red Bull young drivers were taken into consideration,” Tost said. “There’s Liam Lawson, there’s [Ayumu] Iwasa, there’s [Dennis] Hauger in Formula 2, then [Isack] Hadjar in Formula 3, but they all still miss experience. They need to do another year or two in their categories and then we will see what the future will bring.”

The team’s strategy since being bought by Red Bull ahead of the 2006 season has been to promote the brand’s juniors into F1, and has rarely looked outside of that pool of talent when signing new drivers. However De Vries had no Red Bull affiliation before being signed and is already well established in professional motorsport, having won the Formula E championship last year.