Dutch driver Nyck de Vries is heading to Harvard to study negotiation and leadership after losing his AlphaTauri Formula 1 seat to Australian Daniel Ricciardo.
The 28-year-old's F1 career lasted just 10 races, without scoring a point, before being replaced at the Red Bull-owned team in July.
The former Formula E and Formula 2 Champion was hired to replace Pierre Gasly at AlphaTauri, following an impressive performance in the 2022 Italian Grand Prix, when he replaced an ill Alex Albon at Williams in the last minute and scored points for the Grove outfit on debut.
"I've never studied before in my life, in fact, I didn't even finish high school," he told the www.racingnews365.com website on Friday.
"But in September I'm going to take a course at Harvard. Negotiation and Leadership, a little bit of studying. More because I just like it now that I have some time and the interest to learn other things," he revealed.
De Vries was previously a reserve for Mercedes, whose team boss Toto Wolff is an executive fellow and guest lecturer at Harvard Business School.
The Austrian has helped teach MBA students a case study led by Harvard Business School professor Anita Elberse entitled "Toto Wolff and the Mercedes Formula 1 Team".
De Vries is not the only ex-F1 driver to be heading back to school.
Former Williams driver Nicholas Latifi announced last month he was starting an MBA course at the London Business School. (
Reporting by Alan Baldwin
, Additional reporting by GrandPrix247Latest News
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