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Di Resta's comment comes a month after Tom Coronel claimed de Vries was Toto Wolff's 'insurance policy' if Hamilton retired. The Dutch rider said: "If Lewis Hamilton stops, Nyck de Vries will get the seat. Do you know why? As I've been saying for a year, Nyck is Toto Wolff's insurance policy."
Friday's practice session was De Vries' first experience with an F1 car over a real weekend and he admitted he was nervous at first. "I'm always nervous before anything I do," De Vries said on Friday. “Because I want to do everything I do well. It doesn't come naturally and I put a certain amount of pressure on myself. I feel healthy nerves.
"For me, it's about the fact that outside of work I care too. It's my life, it's my sport. I want to do well. In a weekend of Formula 1 like this, the whole world is watching. You get in a Mercedes and you have an hour, two sets of tires and you sit next to a driver who can dream of the car."
Di Resta's comment comes a month after Tom Coronel claimed de Vries was Toto Wolff's 'insurance policy' if Hamilton retired. The Dutch rider said: "If Lewis Hamilton stops, Nyck de Vries will get the seat. Do you know why? As I've been saying for a year, Nyck is Toto Wolff's insurance policy."
Friday's practice session was De Vries' first experience with an F1 car over a real weekend and he admitted he was nervous at first. "I'm always nervous before anything I do," De Vries said on Friday. “Because I want to do everything I do well. It doesn't come naturally and I put a certain amount of pressure on myself. I feel healthy nerves.
"For me, it's about the fact that outside of work I care too. It's my life, it's my sport. I want to do well. In a weekend of Formula 1 like this, the whole world is watching. You get in a Mercedes and you have an hour, two sets of tires and you sit next to a driver who can dream of the car."
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