‘It might be silly to assume that I’ll win my first F2 race’

IndyCar frontrunner Colton Herta is below no phantasm that he’ll dominate Method 2 as he joins Method 1’s feeder collection in 2026.

2024 IndyCar runner-up Herta was employed by Cadillac – F1’s latest group – as a take a look at driver, with the American outfit making its debut on the planet championship in 2026.

Cadillac picked veterans Sergio Perez and Valtteri Bottas as its race drivers for subsequent 12 months, however has been eager to advertise American expertise and subsequently turned to Herta, who has represented sister squad Andretti in IndyCar since 2020 – taking seventh within the 2025 standings.

Though he raced in Britain’s Method 4 championship and Euroformula Open, the 25-year-old Californian has spent most of his profession stateside. Herta has subsequently been given the problem of an F2 transfer to organize for a possible F1 promotion, with simply eighth place wanted for superlicence eligibility – however he’ll seemingly want higher to make a case for a Cadillac seat.

However F2 is a notoriously tough class to become familiar with, because the likes of Tremendous Method champion Ritomo Miyata have skilled, not least because of the particular administration necessities of the Pirelli rubber; Herta himself is conscious that he’ll battle to match F2 frontrunners – and maybe even F3 graduates – from the get-go.

“The principle factor is every time I’m within the race automobile, I wish to be aggressive,” he informed F2’s official web site. “That needs to be the aim, to be aggressive, and attempt to obtain that as shortly as attainable.

“It might be silly to take a seat right here and assume that I will probably be on the tempo instantly, that I will probably be on the tempo and able to win in my first race. I could also be older, however speed-wise, these guys are simply as quick as anyone on the market.

“I positively know the duty at hand, I do know it may be a troublesome one, however I sit up for it. I’m right here to be taught, right here to drive and to hopefully be quick.”

Herta was lately noticed testing a previous-generation F2 automobile on a moist Monza observe and in addition acquired in contact with some F2 graduates which are at present racing in IndyCar – no names have been talked about, however the drivers becoming that description are Marcus Armstrong, Santino Ferrucci, Callum Ilott, Christian Lundgaard and Robert Shwartzman.

“It is good conversations to have,” Herta defined. “Simply to grasp that it will be totally different for me coming over for a complete bunch of causes.

“However the racing primarily is what I should be centered on, being quick within the race automobile and that is the place the vast majority of the speak has been, on the best way to greatest put together me earlier than I hop within the race automobile.”

Herta will make his F2 transfer with the Hitech squad which fellow IndyCar driver Armstrong efficiently raced for in 2022.

Dino Beganovic, Hitech TGR

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The outfit that has been a constant frontrunner because it joined F2 in 2020 and is in competition for this 12 months’s groups’ title because of constant podium finisher Luke Browning and common factors scorer Dino Beganovic – each of them competing of their first full F2 marketing campaign.

“I believe after we have been groups, myself and in addition with Cadillac, the most important factor is it needed to be outcomes pushed,” he clarified.

“I believe Hitech checks these bins as an expert outfit, and as you may see how this 12 months goes and the previous seasons, not solely in F2 but additionally in Method 3 and in F4. Mainly, they appear to excel in every thing and there’s a cause for that.

“After having some conferences right here, and attending to know individuals, the choice was made by itself. It was actually easy to see that it is a skilled organisation, and one which I really feel will greatest put together me to be prepared for Method 1.”

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