The trait McLaren’s rising star shares with their current F1 driver
McLaren junior Ugo Ugochukwu shares the same t🍸rait as current F1 driver Oscar🐓 Piastri.
Ugo Ugochukwu shares a crucial trait with current McLaꦅren F1 driver Oscar Piastri, according to his team.
The 17-year-old American, who is part of M꧃cLaren’s junior programme, 💙claimed a dominant victory in the prestigious Macau Grand Prix at the weekend.
Ugochu𓆏kwu secured pole position and led every lap of both the qualification race and main grand prix in a one-off caౠmeo for the R-ace GP FR team, who were left impressed by his perfromance.
Team manager Benjamin Schidt likened Ugochukwu’s calm behaviour to that o🉐f two-time grand prix winner Piastri, who previously raced for R-ace GP when he won the 2019 Formula Renault Eurocup.
“The behaviour of Ugo is always really calm. And I think it's a key꧅ factor for the drivers,” Schmidt told Autosport in Macau.
“He's looking at ꦺthe data, he is understanding things, and never saying something higher or lower [in his emotions]. He's just always consistent 🌺in his behaviour.
“And I think that is what really makes the difference - putting the emotions a bit away ꧒sometimes.”
for leading every lap to win the 2024 . Excellent skill and determination to navigate a tricky race. We're proud!Ugo picks up the trophy previously won by legends like Senna and S💞chumacher and is the first American… — Zak Brown (@ZBrownCEO)
Ugochukwu won the෴ CIK-FIA karting european championship in 2020 before taking third in British F4 in 2022, then going on to finish runner-up in Italian F4 and winning the Euro 4 championship the following year.
“I m♍eaꦉn, already from the preparation, Ugo was quite impressive,” Schmidt added.
“We know Ugo quite well, even if he was not racing for us [this season], and we’ve tested quite ꦯa lot of times with him.
“He's definitely a good driver🍌, quite talented. He has a huge experience as well, which makes these things a bit easier for him, even if it's never easy to win here in Macau.
“🔯But he's definitely a good driver, and we were really happy to share this weekeܫnd with him. He just gave us this amazing win. So we cannot be grateful enough for that.”
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