Colton Herta has detailed his maiden Method 2 season has been an “eye-opening” expertise as he targets a promotion to F1.
The American made the change from IndyCar to the European single-seater ladder this 12 months, racing for Hitech in F2 whereas serving as Cadillac’s check and improvement driver.
The programme is designed to organize Herta for a possible race seat with the group’s fledgling F1 operation, with the 2026 marketing campaign additionally together with FP1 outings and intensive simulator work.
It has not been an easy transition, nevertheless. Herta sits sixteenth within the standings with 26 factors, no wins and no podiums, with qualifying proving a specific weak spot all through his rookie marketing campaign.
“Eye-opening, I assume,” Herta informed Racer of his time in F2 to date. “I feel there are good issues and dangerous issues about each collection, and I feel I’ve discovered it fairly difficult and it has been attention-grabbing to date.”
Herta highlighted the Pirelli tyre as the only largest adjustment he has needed to make, noting that the rubber behaves very in a different way to the Firestone building he grew accustomed to in IndyCar.
The absence of tyre blankets in F2 has made managing the tyres from chilly an particularly demanding ability to grasp, although Herta believes the problem will in the end serve him properly.
“I might say the tyre [is the biggest challenge],” he mentioned. “I feel the Pirelli, particularly coming from chilly, with out having the tire blankets, it is fairly specific.
“If something, it type of units you up properly as a result of it is simpler if you get to Method 1, as a result of after getting the tyre blankets, it is all about sustaining temperature, not bringing it from no matter it is perhaps, 30, 40 levels, to what it will get to.
“So if something, I feel it simplifies it a bit of bit. It is good to have that and be hyper-focused on it, as a result of when you get to Method 1, I feel that facet of it really will get simpler.”
