The inconvenient truth about F1’s ‘American driver’ dream

hat McLaren has made a play to sign Oscar Piastri doesn’t just underline the team’s lack of faith in Daniel Ricciardo to arrest his poor form. It also reveals that, despite the 2021 car tests afforded to IndyCar shining lights Colton Herta and Patricio O’Ward, the cream of the crop from the Stateside series can’t make a wholly convincing case to be given a plum seat in Formula 1. As such, the best option was to prise the reigning F2 champion away from his nurturers