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McLaren beat ‘big' F1 teams to sign Ugochukwu
Zak Brown says McLaren beat big Formula 1 teams to the signature of American karting champion Ugo Ugochukwu. The British team announced in late March that they had signed the 13-year-old reigning FIA European karting champion. In the announcement, Brown said that they had been closely watching the American for some time, and he has now revealed that so to had other teams on the F1 grid, big ones. “There was interest from a couple of other teams — some of the big ones,” Brown said as per RACER.com. “I think he’s got a great racing pedigree — Andreas and I spoke about it quite a bit — so we did have to put some work into it because if he wasn’t going to sign with McLaren he...
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