Pink Bull reserve driver Alex Albon will race at choose rounds of the DTM (Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters) championship this yr.
The 24-year-old was changed by Sergio Perez at Pink Bull’s Method One staff for 2021, however stays contracted to the power drinks model as a reserve driver.
Alongside his duties with the F1 staff, together with simulator work and his place as a reserve for Perez and Max Verstappen, Pink Bull introduced he’ll race within the DTM, Germany’s top-level touring automotive collection, at choose rounds this season.
Albon’s DTM staff, the driving force he’ll share the cockpit with and the kind of automotive he’ll drive haven’t but been introduced.
New Zealander Liam Lawson was additionally named as a Pink Bull-backed DTM driver for 2021.
“The DTM with a high-class discipline and GT3 sports activities automobiles is an fascinating plarform and an actual problem, each for profitable race drivers like Alex Albon as for our Pink Bull junior driver Liam Lawson,” Helmut Marko, Pink Bull’s motorsport advisor, mentioned.
Albon was demoted from his race drive at Pink Bull after struggling for efficiency subsequent to teammate Verstappen in 2020. He joined the staff halfway by way of 2019 from Toro Rosso as Pierre Gasly’s substitute.
Albon is the primary in line to exchange both of the Pink Bull drivers in 2021 and can be the reserve for junior staff AlphaTauri.
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