Palou, O’Ward and Herta climbed into an F1 McLaren in Barcelona this week

Still don’t know where he will fly to Alex Palou next season after a legal battle began between his current team, Chip Ganassi, and McLaren for next year. “We’ll see when I find out. I would like to tell you, say ‘I’ll do it,’ but I still don’t have an answer,” Palou said a few days ago at a press conference during the last appointment of the course of IndyCarproof that he won the Sant Antoni de Vilamajor. And before knowing his future, according to the journalist Charles Michaelfrom ‘Cadena Cope’, the 2021 IndyCar champion will compete in an F1 for the first time in Barcelonalike two other pilots of IndyCarthe mexican McLaren Patrick ‘Duck’ O’Ward and the american Colton Herthaknown to have a contract with McLaren to drive on a test F1.

The North American pilot sounds to strengthen AlphaTauri in 2023 in place of Pierre Gasly, who will go to Alpine. However, it remains to be seen what will happen to Colton as his jump to F1 is dependent on whether the FIA ​​grants him a Super License (basic requirement to be in F1). For this reason, this test to be evaluated with an F1 can be key, because to get the extra license you must get more points, and one way to achieve part of what you need is to to Zak Brown, boss of McLaren, to allow you to enter his car in some F1 Free Practices this year.

“That’s a question for Zak. It hasn’t been decided yet, as far as I know”said the pilot’s father, Bryan Hertharecently before he was rumored to ride for McLaren in FP1 at Austin at the next United States GP.

McLaren will hold a three-day test, from this Wednesday to Friday, to test the talent of three drivers behind the wheel of an F1. Note that McLaren has currently got its lineup for 2023, with Lando Norris and debutant Oscar Piastri.