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Feature: Sergey Sirotkin gets Formula 1 crack with Williams

Almost five years after he was thrust into the Formula 1 limelight, Sergey Sirotkin will step up to a race seat with Williams in 2018; Motorsport Week reflects on his path to this stage… It was mid-2013 when a young, slim, pale, wide-eyed Russian came to the widespread attention of the motorsport community. Sauber, as it entered the financial setbacks which would plague the team for several years, sought a relationship with a group of Russian investors and technology groups, resulting in the then 17-year-old Sirotkin joining the team, and being lined up for a race seat in 2014. At the time, the notion of Sirotkin’s path to Formula 1 being accelerated so rapidly was baffling,...
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