News Details

A Williams test for McLaren's new sporting director

Like for so many Brazilian drivers, Gil de Ferran's racing ambitions were fueled by the achievements of the legendary Emerson Fittipaldi, the man who blazed their trail. After kick-starting his career racing in karting in his home country, De Ferran moved to Great-Britain where he convincingly worked his way up motorsport's junior ranks, starting in Formula Ford and winning the British F3 championship in 1992. At the end of that season, he was rewarded with a test with Williams, sampling the team's championship winning FW14B at Silverstone under the watchful eye of the outfit's 1993 driver Alain Prost. McLaren's new sporting director never raced in Formula 1 burt he did achieve great...
Full Story »
7y ago from F1i.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Boullier quits McLaren, de Ferran in

McLaren's Racing Director Eric Boullier has quit the team with Gil de...
7y ago from SkySports.com

Boullier resigns as McLaren racing director

Eric Boullier has resigned as McLaren’s racing director with immediate...
7y ago from Crash.net

Eric Boullier resigns as McLaren Racing Director

McLaren has announced that it has accepted Eric Boullier's...
7y ago from MotorsportWeek.com

Eric Boullier leaves McLaren Racing

McLaren Racing have announced a leadership restructure of its racing...
7y ago from F1Technical.net

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Episode 842 – Depth

Welcome to another episode of the Arsecast – the Arsenal podcast. In...
1h ago from Arseblog.com

Eze, Madueke and Arsenal's early test of depth against...

The last time Arsenal visited Anfield, for the 2-2 draw with Liverpool in...
1h ago from SkySports.com

Madueke or Nwaneri? Arsenal expert names who he...

Arsenal FC journalist Charles Watts has provided his insight into how...
1h ago from CaughtOffside.com

'From a conversation I've had…' – Arsenal...

Arsenal FC expert Charles Watts has provided some reassuring insight into...
2h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.