Two-time Indycar champion and double Indianapolis 500 winner Unser worked with Herta in his role as a driver advisor to Harding Steinbrenner Racing when fellow second-generation racer Herta made his full IndyCar debut in 2019.
The 21-year-old Andretti Autosport driver, who won three races last year on his way to finishing fifth in the points, was linked with a switch to F1 when his team boss Michael Andretti attempted to take over the Alfa Romeo team last year.
Although this was unsuccessful, Andretti has since been working on plans for a start-up team from 2024, and Herta has publicly stated that he would “be lying if I said I didn’t want to do Formula 1”.
Speaking to Autosport for a podcast reviewing his recently-released book, A Checkered Past, Unser praised Herta as the current driver whose skillset most reminded him of himself, and remarked that “all [Herta] has to do is keep doing what he’s doing” to one day become a title-winner.
Unser said: “He definitely can be an IndyCar…
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