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McLaren signs new ‘free agent' F2 champion Fornaroli

Dec.3 Newly-crowned Formula 2 champion Leonardo Fornaroli has finally secured an F1 pathway – and it comes via McLaren, after a year in which he astonishingly competed without belonging to any Formula 1 academy. As Mundo Deportivo noted when he clinched the title last weekend in Qatar, the 21-year-old Italian had arrived in F2 – and won it at the first attempt – with no contractual ties at all. 'Being a Formula 2 champion should be synonymous with being able to enter the Formula 1 grid,' correspondent Oriol Munoz wrote. 'What more does he have to do to open the doors of the Grand Circus? 'Well, for Leonardo Fornaroli, it wasn't enough.' But his status as a 'free agent'...
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