Ugo Ugochukwu shares an important trait with present McLaren F1 driver Oscar Piastri, in response to his workforce.
The 17-year-old American, who’s a part of McLaren’s junior programme, claimed a dominant victory within the prestigious Macau Grand Prix on the weekend.
Ugochukwu secured pole place and led each lap of each the qualification race and important grand prix in a one-off cameo for the R-ace GP FR workforce, who had been left impressed by his perfromance.
Staff supervisor Benjamin Schidt likened Ugochukwu’s calm behaviour to that of two-time grand prix winner Piastri, who beforehand raced for R-ace GP when he gained the 2019 Method Renault Eurocup.
“The behaviour of Ugo is at all times actually calm. And I believe it is a key issue for the drivers,” Schmidt informed Autosport in Macau.
“He is wanting on the information, he’s understanding issues, and by no means saying one thing greater or decrease [in his emotions]. He is simply at all times constant in his behaviour.
“And I believe that’s what actually makes the distinction – placing the feelings a bit away generally.”
Requested if this was much like Piastri’s method, Schmidt replied: “Precisely, yeah. He’s fixed within the feelings, I’d say.”
Ugochukwu gained the CIK-FIA karting european championship in 2020 earlier than taking third in British F4 in 2022, then happening to complete runner-up in Italian F4 and profitable the Euro 4 championship the next yr.
“I imply, already from the preparation, Ugo was fairly spectacular,” Schmidt added.
“We all know Ugo fairly properly, even when he was not racing for us [this season], and we’ve examined various instances with him.
“He is positively a great driver, fairly proficient. He has an enormous expertise as properly, which makes these items a bit simpler for him, even when it is by no means simple to win right here in Macau.
“However he is positively a great driver, and we had been actually pleased to share this weekend with him. He simply gave us this wonderful win. So we can’t be grateful sufficient for that.”
