The trait McLaren’s rising star shares with their current F1 driver
McLaren junior Ugo Ugochukwu shares the same trait as current F🌞1 driver Oscar Piastri.
Ugo Ugochukwu shares a crucial trait with cur🐽rent McLaren F1 driver Oscar Piastri, according to his team.
The 17-year-old American, who is part of McLaren’s junior programme, claimed a dominant victory iܫn the prestigious Macau Grand Prix at the weekend.
Ugochukwu secured pole position and led every lap of both the qualification race and main grand prix in a one-off cameo for the R-ace GP FR team, 🤡who were left impressed by his🌜 perfromance.
Team manager Benjamin Schidt likened Ug▨ochukwu’s calm behaviour to that of 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 t🅘old 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 consisten🍃t in his behaviour.
“And I think that is what really makes the difference - putting the emoꩲtions🎉 a bit away sometimes.”
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 Schumacher 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 c༒hampionship the following year.
“I me🍌an, already from the preparation, Ugo was quite impressive,” Schmidt added.
“We know Ugo quite well, even if he was not racing for us [thi🤪s season], and we’ve tested quite a lot of times with him.
“He's definitely a good driver, quite♈ talented. He has a huge experience as well, which ma🃏kes 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 weekend with him. He just gave us this amazing win. So we cannot be🍃 grateful enough for that.”
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