“Please give him Latifi’s seat”– F1 Twitter sees Nicholas Latifi’s F1 career in danger with Nyck de Vries set to appear for Williams in Spanish GP FP1

Tanish Chachra | 16/05/2022
"Please give him Latifi's seat"– F1 Twitter sees Nicholas Latifi's F1 career in danger with Nyck de Vries set to appear for Williams in Spanish GP FP1

F1 Twitter predicts Nicholas Latifi’s exit from the grid with the highly-rated Formula E star ready to appear in FP1 for Williams in Spain.

The 2022 F1 season has been hard on Nicholas Latifi. The Canadian race driver’s performances have been marred by constant crashes, which has definitely harmed the repairing budget for Williams.

Now, ahead of the Spanish GP, Williams has confirmed that Formula E star Nyck de Vries would be appearing for Williams in FP1. This update has only led F1 fans to wonder, is Latifi’s time at F1 getting over?

de Vries was on the constant radar of Williams ahead of the 2022 season. Even Mercedes pushed for his hiring. However, in the end, the British team went for Alex Albon.

Now owing to poor performances by Latifi this year, there might be scope for de Vries. The young driver has always been impressive in every motorsport avenue he has competed in and could be a great addition to Williams.

Williams so far has denied Nicholas Latifi firing rumours

Meanwhile, recently, Canadian journalist Norris McDonald reported about the threat to Latifi’s career with Williams. The journalist claimed de Vries will be his replacement.

“Toronto‘s Nick Latifi fired by Williams F1. Two things: Williams better have a lot of money because there will be one hell of a lawsuit and his replacement, Nyck DeVries, had better do better in that pig of a car, which is doubtful,” he said earlier.

However, soon McDonald backtracked from his report and apologized for the misinformation. He claimed that Williams will continue with the 26-year-old race driver for the foreseeable future.

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Tanish Chachra

Tanish Chachra is the Motorsport editor at The SportsRush. He saw his first race when F1 visited India in 2011, and since then, his romance with the sport has been seasonal until he took up this role in 2020. Reigniting F1's coverage on this site, Tanish has fallen in love with the sport all over again. He loves Kimi Raikkonen and sees a future world champion in Oscar Piastri. Away from us, he loves to snuggle inside his books.

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