Austrian Grand Prix<\/a> as, heading into the weekend, rumours spread that they would replace one of their current line-up with Tsolov, who currently sits P2 in the F2 standings.<\/p>\nAsked for his view after Friday\u2019s running at the Red Bull Ring, Permane said: \u201cSo, we haven\u2019t spoken about it internally at all. Of course he\u2019s there in our young driver programme, he\u2019s doing a fantastic job in F2.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is race eight so we\u2019re kind of just into the second third of the season so it\u2019s very, very early and we haven\u2019t had any discussions at all. I don\u2019t know where it\u2019s come from but it\u2019s certainly not come from us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tsolov joined the Red Bull Junior Team at the end of 2024 but has yet to make an appearance in any F1 practice sessions, with Racing Bulls opting to offer Ayumu Iwasa a drive during FP1 in Austria as part of their mandatory rookie running.<\/p>\n
Permane was enthusiastic about the Japanese racer\u2019s performance, which saw him place P15 before Lawson and Lindblad wound up P9 and P12 respectively in the day\u2019s second practice session.<\/p>\n
\u201cA good day, a very good day,\u201d the team boss concluded. \u201cStarting with P1, we had Iwasa in the car deputising for Liam here. He did a great job for us \u2013 we did some aero investigation, learned some good stuff which we carried through to both cars for FP2.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth the race drivers are happy. The first laps were good, decent balance. We just worked through our programme. If we could improve the braking a little bit, that\u2019s where they think the weaknesses are so that\u2019s what we\u2019re looking at overnight.<\/p>\n
\u201c[We\u2019re] much happier than we were last weekend. It\u2019s certainly working very well on a single lap and better on long runs than it was in Barcelona. I think we\u2019ve still got a little bit of work to do there but we\u2019re in a much happier place.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alan Permane has rejected speculation that Formula 2 driver Nikola Tsolov has been offered a full-time seat with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-513471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}