Automobile F1 – Hungarian GP: Drivers fear for fledgling career of F1 rookie Jaime Alguersuari
Ahead of a critical weekend in the championship race, one in which Jenson Button’s Brawn GP team are desperate to hit back against Red Bull, it came as rather a surprise to find the major topic of conversation revolved around a Spanish teenager who nobody had ever heard of.
Jaime Alguersuari will on Sunday become Formula One’s youngest ever driver when he lines up in the Hungarian Grand Prix. The 19-year-old will also become the first F1 driver to have been born in the 1990s.
It is a remarkable achievement but one that has not met with universal approval here in Budapest.
Alguersuari has only ever driven an F1 car in straight-line tests and will complete his first lap in Toro Rosso’s STR4 machine in practice this morning. However, it is not on safety grounds that the drivers object – although … Details