How the biggest weekend of Herta's F1 mission really went

Santa Clarita’s Colton Herta Reflects On First F1 Competition Weekend

Over the weekend, Santa Clarita native Colton Herta made his Formula 1 debut representing Cadillac at the Grand Prix in Barcelona. Herta stepped in for Sergio Perez during the first of four planned FP1 outings. Formula 1 teams are required to allocate four first practice sessions each season to rookie drivers – two per car ... The post Santa Clarita’s Colton Herta Reflects On First F1 Competition Weekend appeared first on KHTS Radio.

How the biggest weekend of Herta's F1 mission really went

Barcelona will go down as an important weekend in Colton Herta's mission to get to Formula 1 for two key reasons.The most obvious is the successful completion of his maiden F1 practice outing for Cadillac, his first real-world experience of the new-generation F1 cars, for which he walked away from IndyCar in favour of Formula 2 and a potential route onto the F1 grid.FP1 at Barcelona wasn't Herta's first taste of F1 machinery, though. Back in the…