The two standard bearers of the team Mercedes in the Formula E championship, Nyck De Vries and Stoffel Vandoorne, will be the two again reserve pilots for the Silver Arrows in the Formula 1 World Championship which will start in Bahrain on March 20. De Vries, 27 years old from Sneek (Netherlands), is the reigning world champion of the electric formula and in his palmares he also has the Formula 2 title of 2019, and in the Formula E championship started in Saudi Arabia he has already won his first win of the season. The Dutchman, having never had the chance to make his debut in Formula 1, is the main candidate to participate in the two free practice sessions in a race weekend in which the teams will be forced to field drivers who no longer have to their credit. of two races in the highest category.
Stoffel Vandoorne, 29 year old from Courtrai (Belgium), winner of F2 in 2015, is instead an old acquaintance of Formula 1, having participated in the 2017 and 2018 World Championships in McLaren alongside Fernando Alonso. An unsatisfactory experience for the Belgian, with only 26 total points obtained, later replaced by Lando Norris. For Vandoorne to record also the disappointment for the lack of choice by Mercedes as a replacement for Lewis Hamilton (then positive at Covid) at the 2020 Sakhir GP: Toto Wolff in fact opted for the promotion of George Russell.
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