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Vasseur: ‘Too risky’ to promote Pourchaire for 2022
Putting Theo Pourchaire in the second Alfa Romeo seat for 2022 was a risk team boss Frederic Vasseur was not prepared to take. Pourchaire, a member of the Sauber junior programme, is regarded as one of the brightest talents on the junior ladder to Formula 1, having finished runner-up to Oscar Piastri in the 2020 F3 Championship, only turning 17 ahead of the final three rounds, before claiming two race wins in his first Formula 2 campaign and finishing the season P5 in the standings. Vasseur, however, went with Guanyu Zhou for the 2022 F1 season, the P3 finisher in 2021's F2 campaign, while Valtteri Bottas brings experience after arriving from Mercedes. Pourchaire claimed 140 points in his...
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