The trait McLaren’s rising star shares with their current F1 driver
McLaren junior Ugo Ugochukwu shares the same trait as current F1🅘 ꦓdriver Oscar Piastri.
Ugo Ugochukwu shares a crucial trait with current M🌸cLaren F1 driver Oscar Piastri, according to his team.
The 17-year-old American, whoꦏ is part of McLaren’s junior programmಌe, claimed a dominant victory in the prestigious Macau Grand Prix at the weekend.
Ugochukwu secured pole position an▨d 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 Ugochukwu’s calm behaviour to th✃at of two-ꦫtime 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 emotionಌs]. He's just always consistent in his behaviour.
“And I think that is what really makeꩲs the difference - putting the emotions a bit awܫay 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 firstꦑ American… — Zak Brown (@ZBrownCEO)
U♒gochukwu 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 mean, already frꦿom the preparation, Ugo was quite impressive,” Schmidt added.
“We know Ugo quite well, even if he was not racing for us [this season], a♌nd we’ve tested quite a lot of times with him.
“He's definitely a good driver, quite talente🗹d. 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 dr🌱iver, andꦯ 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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