'FIA prevented Herta from gaining the necessary F1 super licence points'

Initially, not Nyck de Vries, but Colton Herta seemed to be the main candidate to take over Pierre Gasly's Formula 1 seat at AlphaTauri. To do so, the American had to look for points for his super licence, but in that quest he would have been actively thwarted by the FIA. So says Scott Goodyear, race director of US Formula 3 and Formula 4.

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