After making a profitable Components 1 take a look at debut final month on the Silverstone Circuit, India’s Jehan Daruvala will now participate in a second two day take a look at with McLaren Components 1 group on the Portimao circuit in Portugal subsequent week. The take a look at, throughout which Jehan will as soon as once more drive the 2021 race-winning MCL35M, will happen on July 18 and 19.
The 23-year-old accomplished over 130 laps of Silverstone throughout his first Components One outing with the British group final month throughout which he impressed along with his health, how rapidly he tailored to F1 equipment, his suggestions and his means to assimilate data from the engineers. Subsequent week’s take a look at in Portimao, his second time in a Components 1 automotive, will permit Jehan to construct on that robust outing and put together him to presumably even be part of an F1 group sooner or later.
The Portimao take a look at, just like the Silverstone outing, is a part of McLaren’s Testing Earlier Automobile (TPC) programme, which the group is working to guage younger, up and coming drivers. Jehan, who at the moment competes with Prema Racing in feeder collection Components 2 and is part of the Crimson Bull Junior Staff, is now eligible for a Components One superlicense, having each the required factors and mileage in final yr’s F1 automotive.
“My first style of Components One equipment was surreal and I can not wait to get again within the automotive once more in Portimao,” mentioned Daruvala. “I got here away from the Silverstone take a look at with a variety of confidence as each from a driving and bodily perspective/ did nicely and coated greater than two race distances completely trouble-free. My dream has all the time been to race in Components One and this take a look at will construct on what we achieved at Silverstone.”
The 23-year-old accomplished over 130 laps of Silverstone throughout his first Components One outing with the British group final month throughout which he impressed along with his health, how rapidly he tailored to F1 equipment, his suggestions and his means to assimilate data from the engineers. Subsequent week’s take a look at in Portimao, his second time in a Components 1 automotive, will permit Jehan to construct on that robust outing and put together him to presumably even be part of an F1 group sooner or later.
The Portimao take a look at, just like the Silverstone outing, is a part of McLaren’s Testing Earlier Automobile (TPC) programme, which the group is working to guage younger, up and coming drivers. Jehan, who at the moment competes with Prema Racing in feeder collection Components 2 and is part of the Crimson Bull Junior Staff, is now eligible for a Components One superlicense, having each the required factors and mileage in final yr’s F1 automotive.
“My first style of Components One equipment was surreal and I can not wait to get again within the automotive once more in Portimao,” mentioned Daruvala. “I got here away from the Silverstone take a look at with a variety of confidence as each from a driving and bodily perspective/ did nicely and coated greater than two race distances completely trouble-free. My dream has all the time been to race in Components One and this take a look at will construct on what we achieved at Silverstone.”