Linked with the brand new Cadillac crew, IndyCar star Colton Herta insists that switching to F1 isn’t a certainty.
A former growth driver with McLaren, the American lacked the required superlicence factors when Pink Bull sought to put him with AlphaTauri for 2023, having beforehand been linked with Andretti – for whom he drives in IndyCar – on the time the American outfit was searching for to purchase Sauber as its technique of coming into the game.
Whereas Michael Andretti is now not concerned within the F1 undertaking, it strikes ahead, albeit below the guise of Cadillac, and understandably Herta is being linked with the crew’s proposed entry in 2026.
Nevertheless, the 24-year-old, son of IndyCar champion Bryan Herta, and the youngest driver ever to win an IndyCar race, performed down discuss linking him to the brand new outfit.
“I’ve type of been dragged round on this discuss for, it appears like, half a decade now,” he mentioned, in line with Speedcafe{/}. “I’ve had the carrot in entrance of me for some time.”
Regardless of now being eligible for a superlicence, having completed IndyCar runner-up final season, Herta insists that he would not see F1 because the be all and finish all.
“I am type of bored with that being the case,” he mentioned, “I simply wish to drive at this level and deal with IndyCar this 12 months and deal with successful a championship, and if one thing arises out of that, I might have to consider it.
“It is nonetheless not a for certain factor,” he added. “All my family and friends are right here within the US, and I do not know anyone the place I am going, so it is a large resolution to make if I’ve to make that call.”
