Jak Crawford will drive a 2024 Components 1 automobile on the Abu Dhabi younger driver check on the finish of this season.
Aston Martin will run the American on the Tuesday after the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, with Crawford attending to run the newest automobile for the primary time. The 19-year-old has pushed a two-year-old automobile on a number of events earlier this yr, and likewise demonstrated it in Houston earlier this week, however the younger driver check will likely be his first outing in present tools.
“I’m excited concerning the alternative of driving the AMR24 for the primary time in Abu Dhabi,” Crawford stated. “I’ve spent numerous hours on the simulator again on the AMR Expertise Campus, and I will likely be persevering with this forward of the check to ensure I’m well-prepared.
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“Yas Marina is a circuit I do know nicely, so hopefully this can assist me stand up to hurry rapidly. I want to say an enormous because of everybody at Aston Martin Aramco for the possibility to drive this yr’s automobile within the check.”
Crawford joined Aston Martin from the Purple Bull junior program forward of this season and stated the F1 seat time he’s getting helps him to progress as a driver.
“That will likely be a terrific alternative to get a full day within the automobile – the present automobile – to really feel the present spec of automobile and simply get a bunch of laps underneath my belt,” he advised SiriusXM. “That’s the primary nice alternative, after which persevering with on what I’ve finished this yr. So some extra days within the automobile hopefully subsequent yr, numerous simulator work as nicely, growing as a driver, so I’m very a lot trying ahead to the longer term.”
In Abu Dhabi, Crawford may also be racing in Components 2 the weekend earlier than the check, and Aston Martin group principal Mike Krack says his earlier working has performed an element in incomes him the chance.
“We’re trying ahead to giving Jak the chance to drive the AMR24 in Abu Dhabi as a part of his function within the Aston Martin Aramco Younger Driver Improvement program,” Krack stated.
“He’s already proven a excessive degree of understanding in earlier exams with us this yr and I do know he will likely be working arduous in preparation for the check alongside competing within the last two rounds of the F2 championship.”
