Sergio Perez‘s second place within the F1 championship shouldn’t be stopping critics eager to take away him from his seat at Purple Bull.
Now it’s Stefan Wilson, a former IndyCar driver, who has referred to as for Checo to be eliminated to be able to give the present chief of the US sequence a strive.
“What Alex Palou is doing in IndyCar proper now’s so spectacular,” tweeted Wilson.
“It might be so attention-grabbing to change him into that second Purple Bull seat and see what he may do in Method 1.”
Wilson sees the Spanish driver as already being among the many finest on this planet in any self-discipline.
“He is within the prime 5 finest drivers on this planet proper now, little doubt about it. Arguably prime three,” Wilson added in a second tweet in the identical thread.
Who’s Alex Palou?
The 26-year-old Spaniard is the present IndyCar chief with 324 factors, 74 factors forward of his closest challenger Marcus Ericsson.
Alex Palou is already nicely acquainted with Method 1, having been within the McLaren throughout some assessments in Barcelona and Austria. He additionally changed Daniel Ricciardo throughout Observe 1 of the US GP in 2022.
The Catalan’s high quality is already within the sights of Zak Brown, who determined to call him Reserve Driver for the Woking group for 2023, so long as it doesn’t have an effect on his IndyCar calendar.
In the meantime, Alex Palou, along with the Mexican, Pato O’Ward, and the American, Ugo Ugochukwum, who competes within the F4 championship within the United Arab Emirates, was a type of chosen by McLaren to be a part of the academy of younger drivers of the British group headed by Emanuele Pirro.
With this in thoughts, it seems unlikely that the Spaniard may change Checo Perez at Purple Bull, since he would first have to succeed in an settlement to interrupt his hyperlink with McLaren, who’ve precedence to check him in Method 1.
