Pirro to lead updated McLaren F1 young driver programme

McLaren has a long history of giving drivers a break into F1 – in recent years this includes Lewis Hamilton, Kevin Magnussen, Stoffel Vandoorne and Lando Norris, who this year was joined at the orange team by rookie Oscar Piastri.

Its programme has been updated to now, per a McLaren team statement, “support young drivers in their development from karting to professional racing driver with the aim of facilitating the progression of emerging talent into F1”.

The…