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A teenage racing driver from Northern Ireland has been offered a dream opportunity to be part of the Formula One team Red Bull Racing academy.
Magherafelt’s Fionn McLaughlin, 16, recently came through a hugely competitive evaluation week as one of 11 invited candidates from the UK, Ireland, France, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Lebanon and Mexico.
From this aspiring group, the first drivers selected to join the programme were McLaughlin and Sweden’s Scott Lindblom.
The three-day event consisted of prospective young drivers trying and testing open-wheel F4 and GP3 racing cars in a shootout format at the Jerez circuit in Spain.
(BBC sport)
