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Deagen Fairclough took part in his maiden Formula 1 test with Aston Martin last week, part of his prize for winning the Silverstone Autosport BRDC Young Driver Award.<\/p>\n
GB3 racer Fairclough got behind the wheel of the team\u2019s 2023 car, the AMR23 \u2013 as driven to eight podiums that year by Fernando Alonso \u2013 around Silverstone on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m extremely, extremely lucky to have that opportunity to test drive a Formula 1 car, it\u2019s a dream come true,\u201d he told media including Formula Scout.<\/p>\n
Fairclough, whose single-seater career started when he won the Rokit Racing Star competition for sim racers, dominated\u00a0 British Formula 4 last year and is currently fourth in his rookie season of GB3.<\/p>\n
The 19-year-old had a \u201creally important\u201d day on the Aston Martin F1 simulator prior to the test: \u201cI learnt so much technique-wise for the F1 car that I had to carry into the [test] day. It was a really beneficial experience for me, to get to work with the engineers was really helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n
Describing the feeling of driving an F1 car on track, he said: \u201cIt felt like a dream, it didn\u2019t feel real.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was just phenomenal, just going out onto the track for the first time. And I remember just hitting the brakes and it just stopped and I was like, right, \u2018we\u2019re gonna have to really trust it today\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was just an absolute dream come true.\u00a0I\u2019m so lucky, I can\u2019t put it into words and I can\u2019t describe the actual sensation and the feeling of the car<\/p>\n
\u201cIt just makes me want to strive more and make, make it to top step of F1 and and it\u2019s really given me that motivation to get there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fairclough experienced a significant step up from his usual GB3 machinery, with a typical F1 laptime around Silverstone being nearly 30 seconds faster.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike you, can\u2019t get your head around it to do Copse flat out, to have the confidence. Going from like say a GB3 where you\u2019re braking or you\u2019re doing a half lift to just saying \u2018screw it, let\u2019s let\u2019s go flat out\u2019 and you\u2019re going twice the speed is really insane.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cOnce you\u2019ve processed everything coming at you at a million miles an hour, it\u2019s a nice chill ride. Like, it\u2019s just being so precise and getting everything spot on.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaggots and Becketts is another sequence of corners, probably the best in the country, I feel, but to do it flat out and only a lift is, is just like crazy. In GB3 and F4 you\u2019re braking for the first left and [in F1] you\u2019re just doing a a slight lift, it\u2019s crazy.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo the actual downforce capabilities and the amount of things that you actually learn across the day, it\u2019s a different technique to what I\u2019m currently driving in GB3.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo there\u2019s a lot being taken on board and I\u2019m really pleased with how it went.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"19 Deagen Fairclough took part in his maiden Formula 1 test with Aston Martin last week, part of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[6538,54103,54104,1687,372,6537,8098,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-112288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-aston-martin","tag-aston-martin-autosport-brdc-award","tag-deagen-fairclough","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-silverstone","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}