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McLaren appoints Honda protégé as test driver

McLaren Honda have appointed Honda protege Nobuharu Matsushita as the team's new test and development driver, meaning he will be the team's second officially named test driver, alongside Belgian Stoffel Vandoorne. The Japanese driver will focus on simulator support and engineering work. The 22-year-old won the All-Japan Formula 3 Championship in 2014 then graduated to GP2 for 2015 – racing for ART Grand Prix, alongside eventual champion Vandoorne. In ’16, he hopes to endorse his credentials with a tilt at the 2016 GP2 title, which he will again contest with ART. “This season I am ecstatic to be joining the McLaren-Honda F1 team as a test and development driver,” said Matsushita....
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