The System 2 driver, a member of the Sauber Academy affiliated to the Alfa Romeo, can be becoming a member of the workforce for an outing in a 2019 specification C38 on the Hungarian Grand Prix venue on Wednesday.
Pourchaire will share the observe with Ferrari and McLaren, all collaborating in a 2022 Pirelli 18-inch tyre check.
This would be the 17-year-old first expertise of F1 equipment and the most recent milestone within the Frenchman’s meteoric stand up the junior single-seater ladder.
Pourchaire has turned heads this season in his rookie F2 season by changing into the championship’s youngest ever polesitter and race winner following a shocking debut at Monaco in Might.
Nevertheless, the F1 check comes after a busy interval for the ART Grand Prix driver that has included a restoration from a damaged arm sustained in a crash on the opening lap of an F2 race at Baku in June.
Pourchaire, who sits sixth within the F2 standings, managed to achieve his race in opposition to time to show his health to compete on the British Grand Prix spherical of the F2 championship final month.
Whereas {the teenager} has set his sights on reaching F1, he instructed Autosport in Might that he’s “actually far” from his dream and that he nonetheless has “a lot to be taught”.
Theo Pourchaire, ART Grand Prix
Photograph by: Zak Mauger / Motorsport Images
Alfa Romeo boss Frederic Vasseur has been conserving an in depth eye on his junior driver’s progress however admitted in June that it will be incorrect to push Pourchaire data F1 “too early”.
“We have now a contract with Theo, however once more I don’t wish to be in a rush with Theo, we have now to needless to say he’s 17,” stated Vasseur in June.
“He should do the job in F2 first then we may have time to debate afterward.
“I used to be impressed by Theo [this year] however I used to be additionally impressed by Theo final 12 months.
“For subsequent 12 months it’s a bit too early as he has solely finished three races in F2 and for those who bear in mind previously the fellows have been in a position to be champion or to have good ends in the primary 12 months and within the final a part of the season.
“He’s greater than younger, he’s 17 and nonetheless chasing a drivers licence and we have now to let him have time to do the job. We aren’t in a rush however I believe he’s an excellent one [driver].”
Pourchaire is ready to be the most recent F2 driver to expertise F1 equipment for the primary time, after Crimson Bull junior Liam Lawson achieved a similar milestone with a run in Sebastian Vettel’s 2011 Crimson Bull RB7 on the Goodwood Pageant of Pace final month.