Nyck de Vries has his Formula 1 chance, three years later.
The most reliable way to earn a seat in Formula 1 is to align with a major team early in your career and do just enough in lower-level racing to keep earning promotions. Depending on how you define major team, between half and 3/4ths of the 2023 F1 grid made their way to the top level of the European racing ladder as a development driver in one of these systems. Red Bull's system alone is responsible for five of them, including champion Max Verstappen.
Through the first three seasons of his four years in Formula 3 and Formula 2, he was good but not stellar. He finished 6th in the 2016 F3 season, seventh in his first year of F2 in 2017, and fourth in his second in 2018., ending his most realistic path to Formula 1. Coincidentally, that was the season he finally broke out.
There, he won four times and secured the 2020-21 championship in three seasons of competition. He also competed at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the LMP2 class four times, securing a best class position of fourth last season. In between, de Vries has been a reserve driver for Mercedes. That led him to a loan as a reserve for Williams when Alex Albon suffered from appendicitis at the Italian grand prix, which led to his F1 debut.
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