When that deal fell apart, Andretti shifted his focus toward asking F1 to expand its grid to an additional two Andretti Global entries for 22 cars among 11 teams. However, Andretti is trying to land his own F1 team to be built around Herta and was close last year to a deal to acquire Alfa Romeo Racing.
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Herta has one year remaining on his Ind圜ar contract with Andretti Autosport, but team owner Michael Andretti has said he’d not hold his young driver back from an F1 opportunity. Piastri will be teammates with Lando Norris for McLaren next season and that officially closed one option for Herta. He’s got nothing else lined up at this time and McLaren officially won the rights to F2 champion Oscar Piastri when F1’s contract review board ruled Friday that the Australian is free to leave Alpine. Herta has a testing contract with McLaren and in July took part in a two-day test for the team at Portimao in Portugal. The 22-year-old Californian is considered the top candidate to become the first American on the F1 grid since Alexander Rossi in 2015.
“And then we’ll look at the options and see if I have any.” “I told my dad, he’s been handling all my management things, I told him ‘I don’t want to talk about it, I don’t want to deal with it, I just want to finish the season.’ I just want to focus on these last two weekends and have a little bit of time to decompress and figure out what’s going on during the offseason,” Herta told The Associated Press. “There’s nothing I want to talk about right now. He’s also informed his father, who acts as his agent, not to brief him on any discussions and leave him alone to finish the final two races of the Ind圜ar season. The speculation is so rampant that Herta said Friday he’s stopped reading the reports. PORTLAND, Oregon - Colton Herta receives a buzz on his phone alerting him every time his name is linked to a Formula One seat next season with AlphaTauri.
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