The 28-year-old, who was reserve driver for Toyota in 2022, is poised to take the race seat initially earmarked for him this season, in keeping with Autosport sources.
De Vries had signed to race the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar in 2023, however had a get-out clause that enabled him to take up an F1 seat.
The chances are he’ll take the place of Jose Maria Lopez alongside Kamui Kobayashi and Mike Conway within the #7 crew for 2024.
Lopez was set to get replaced by de Vries for 2023 earlier than the Dutch driver signed for AlphaTauri.
The Argentinian is known to have agreed solely a one-year extension to his Toyota contract, which dates again to 2017.
Toyota has remained tight-lipped on the potential for a race deal for de Vries, who was changed at AlphaTauri by Daniel Ricciardo forward of the Hungarian Grand Prix in July.
Staff director Rob Leupen downplayed the prospect when talking to Autosport earlier this month at Fuji.
“I’m at all times involved with Nyck as a result of we’re each Dutch!” Leupen joked. “I believe Nyck has numerous alternatives, he has additionally performed some good testing for us [in the past].
“We’re additionally in a great scenario with our [current] driver line-up. I believe our present driver line-up is excellent. From that viewpoint, I’d say there isn’t a subject.”
#7 Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota GR010 – Hybrid: Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi, Jose Maria Lopez
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For his half, Lopez, who turned 40 earlier this yr, was coy about his possibilities of staying on at Toyota for a sixth successive season.
“Not but,” replied Lopez when requested by Autosport at Fuji if he was certain of his Toyota future. “I want to stick with the staff, however I am not 20 any extra. We’ll should see. It isn’t determined.”
Lately, Toyota has introduced its WEC driver line-ups in late November or December together with the remainder of its motorsport actions for the approaching season.
De Vries was poised to deal with twin campaigns in WEC and Components E in 2023 previous to his AlphaTauri call-up, and seemed set to contest the latter collection with Maserati MSG.
It stays to be seen whether or not the Dutchman, the 2020/21 FE champion, will search to mix the 2 collection once more subsequent yr, though he would face a possible conflict between the Spa WEC spherical and Berlin E-Prix ought to he accomplish that.