Sentences with phrase «racing driver development programme»

As part of the Infiniti Red Bull Racing driver development programme, he will race for Arden International in this year's GP3 Championship — one of the most important feeder series for Formula One.

The Infiniti Red Bull Racing driver development programme means I can use their simulators to train so that I can arrive at a track I've never driven at before and can be on the pace in the first practice session.

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The development programme included a dedicated endurance test at the infamous Nürburgring Nordschleife in Germany, where Ford TeamRS engineers were joined by three Ford - employed racing drivers working in shifts to complete 10,000 km of non-stop driving, equivalent to competing in ten consecutive Nürburgring 24 - hour races without a break.

Players should begin their career mode by having to earn a race seat at one of the teams towards the back of the grid or earning a race seat at a team via the young driver development programme hosted by such teams as Mercedes, Ferrari, Red Bull, Williams and McLaren Honda.

There was even more excitement when thinking about the further two seasons potentially showing how the grid could evolve by having older drivers retire and younger drivers from young driver development programmes being promoted from another formula of racing or a test driver to a race seat.

For instance, Pascal Werhlein is part of the Mercedes young driver development programme in which he was a test driver for Mercedes in the 2014 season before becoming a test driver for both Mercedes and Force India in the 2015 season as Mercedes is their long term engine supplier, while the 2016 season seen Pascal Werhlein earn a race seat at Manor who also have their engines supplied by Mercedes; therefore Mercedes essentially acted as an agent to place one of their drivers into a team who they have a close partnership with.

The same can be said for Max Verstappen's route into F1 with Red Bull and their sister team Toro Rosso, while McLaren Honda have recruited Stoffel Vandoorne with McLaren's rising star Lando Norris racing in Formula 3 while being tipped to be a future F1 champion at McLaren and Williams have brought in Lance Stroll who are all young promising drivers with the potential to be future world champions by following in the footsteps of arguably the best ever product of a young driver development programme in the form of Lewis Hamilton's debut season for McLaren in 2007 when he came 1 point away from winning the world driver's championship.

There was even more excitement when thinking about a further season or two ahead potentially showing how the grid could evolve by having older drivers retire and younger drivers from young driver development programmes being promoted from another formula of racing or a test driver to a race seat.