These are busy days for Nyck DeVries. The driver born in 1996 has finally crowned his dream of living a winter with the prospect of participating in the F1 world championship, a dream he pursued for a long time and which came true when all seemed lost. The Dutch driver born in 1996 in 2014 enchanted in Formula Renault by beating Charles Leclerc, but lost the direct confrontation with the Monegasque in 2016 in GP3 when both raced with the ART Grand Prix team. The current Ferrari driver won on his debut in the category and repeated the title in F2 in 2017.
De Vries instead had to wait until 2019 to celebrate the title in the cadet series. After ‘losing’ support from McLaren, the Dutchman found space within Mercedes as a reserve and development driver, with a starting seat in Formula E, a championship he won on his debut the following year. Just when F1 seemed like a mirage, in 2022 the planets aligned and De Vries didn’t miss the opportunity by scoring points with Williams at Monza replacing Alexander Albon, stopped by appendicitis. An unpredictable domino effect in the drivers market has freed up a seat in Alpha Tauri and since none of ‘his’ talents are sufficiently up to the situation, Helmut Marko has decided to sign Max Verstappen’s compatriot, now free to be able to express his talent in F1 after a long chase to the Olympus of motor racing.
A former sponsor of De Vries, however, hasn’t digested the fact that an agreement signed with the Dutch rider could prevent the latter from paying half of his salary to the ‘creditor’. Jeroen Schothorsta Dutch real estate tycoon, supported De Vries in F2 with a sponsorship of 250 thousand euros, which provided for 3% interest for each subsequent year and the payment of half of the salary once De Vries had arrived in F1 by 2022 De Vries arrived in F1 ‘only’ in 2023 and Schothorst wanted to take the Dutch driver to court to verify that the contracts actually signed in recent years did not provide for employment in F1.
“We invested in de Vries at an important moment in his career when no one else wanted to Schothorst’s words we now have differing views on the interpretation of our agreement. These are things that happen, but we cannot prevent the matter from being clarified in court. Of course we would have preferred a different solution, but that doesn’t change anything in wishing Nyck every success in his future career.”. According to the lawyers of De Vries Investrd (Schothorst’s investment company) cannot stomach the fact that De Vries became an F1 driver in 2023 and not in 2022, the last year of the contract signed between Schothorst and De Vries. On 3 February in court in Amsterdam the judge will rule on this intricate dispute.
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