{"id":744101,"date":"2026-06-18T03:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/744101\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T03:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:19:12","slug":"colton-herta-backed-for-dream-f1-race-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/744101\/","title":{"rendered":"Colton Herta backed for dream F1 race seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of Formula 1 fans believe Colton Herta will eventually secure a race seat on the grid, according to a RacingNews365 poll.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether the American will ever race in F1, 62.6% of respondents voted yes, with the remaining 37.4% voting no.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Herta currently serves as Cadillac&#8217;s test driver for the 2026 season, with the 11th team opting for experience in the form of Sergio Perez and Valtteri Bottas for its debut campaign.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old has been given four FP1 outings this year, the first of which came last weekend in Barcelona, as part of an ongoing development programme designed to position him for a potential future promotion.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>To earn a super licence, Herta is also competing in Formula 2 with Hitech, where he sits 13th in the standings on 20 points after five rounds.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>His season has been characterised by underwhelming qualifying performances but stronger race pace, highlighted by a fifth-place finish in the Barcelona sprint.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Whether that trajectory is enough to convince Cadillac to hand him a race seat in the next coupld of seasons remains to be seen, but the fans, at least, are backing him.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Check out the full poll results below!\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The majority of Formula 1 fans believe Colton Herta will eventually secure a race seat on the grid,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,2476,578,2479,2477,2480,2478,930,576,577,932,1885,2475,582,82],"class_list":["post-744101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}