How close did Felipe Drugovich really come to a Super Formula ride?
Catching up with one of the hottest names on last year's Super Formula driver market during his second Le Mans 24 Hours outing with Cadillac... (Photos: Cadillac, JRP)
During last weekend’s Le Mans 24 Hours, there were no shortage of big names in action across the 62-car field. Super Formula fans will have found plenty of drivers to cheer for too: besides Toyota duo of Kamui Kobayashi and Ryo Hirakawa, many other series alumni like Andre Lotterer, Nyck de Vries, Stoffel Vandoorne, Charles Milesi, Tom Dillmann, Pietro Fittipaldi, Cem Bolukbasi and one-time Impul starter Theo Pourchaire (remember him?) were also present on a star-studded entry list.
There was another driver at Le Mans who hasn’t actually raced in Super Formula, or even set foot in the paddock, but has been linked to seats so frequently in the past two years or so that it almost feels like he has Super Formula experience. That’s Felipe Drugovich, who was racing for the Action Express Racing Cadillac team.
Drugovich hasn’t raced a single-seater since he won the Formula 2 title back in 2022, even though he has tested Aston Martin F1 machinery on numerous occasions (and is set to return to driving a single-seater in next month’s Berlin Formula E round). But in 2023, the Brazilian is known to have held talks with TGM Grand Prix about a seat in 2024, and then he was sensationally linked with Team Mugen last year.
In the run-up to Le Mans, I had a rare chance to ask Drugovich about these rumours, and whether he could still consider racing in Super Formula in the future.