Nyck de Vries paid tribute to his fellow Dutchman Max Verstappen and the role he played in helping him to land a Formula 1 race seat for the first time.
He will race for AlphaTauri in 2023, despite interest from Williams after an impressive performance on his F1 debut when filling in for Alex Albon at Monza. Speaking about how that move came about, de Vries revealed Verstappen was the one who pulled some strings at Red Bull for his countryman.
"Max and I have a great relationship," he said. "Obviously, we are from a similar era, he is a little bit younger than me but we grew up in karting, we are both Dutch and the way he was approaching racing with his father, driving around in a van though Europe, I think was very much like ours.
