Kevin Magnussen handed McLaren role
Kevin Magnussen, teenage son of former McLaren Formula One driver Jan, was handed a new role with the team on Tuesday that will lead to a test later in the year.
McLaren said the 19-year-old Dane had reached a new stage of their young driver programme and would work with test drivers Gary Paffett and Oliver Turvey in the F1 simulator as well as helping with development of the MP4-27 car.
Magnussen finished runner-up in last year's British Formula Three championship, winning seven races.
His father was also a very promising racer in the junior series, held up as the best prospect since Ayrton Senna after dominating the 1994 British F3 championship, but never realised his potential in Formula One.
He raced just once for McLaren, in 1995 as a stand-in for the unwell Mika Hakkinen, had a full season with Stewart in 1997 and was then replaced after seven races in 1998. He scored just one point in 25 starts.
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and the works have started for the inevitable replacement of the cry baby. that being louie the hammie hamiltonio.
LOVING the number of thumbs I'm getting and know who's doing it too. I humiliated our resident LIAR so many times that I'm inside his pathetic brain now. Knowing he wastes huge chunks of his life logging in and out of his dozen's of alias yahoo accounts to thumb my comments (even when not about him) makes me smile. Thanks touron. Mind f*c*ing you and LOVING it.
Didn't take Vettel long to get from pubescent wishful to worthy champion. If Kevin is quick, then I hope he gets the chance to show us. Must say though that 'Kevin' doesn't sound like an F1 champion.
edensurrey..... if you read the article you would know that Jan is the lads father..... former F1 driver
I have some vague memory in the 90's of everyone going on about how jan magnusson smoked and didn't train like you needed to
I saw his Dad race in (I assume) F3 at the legendary European GP in Donington and have never understood why he didn't make it because he was an incredibly fast driver.
Let's Kevin can do what his Dad didn't manage.
Jan sadly never reached his full potential in F1, let’s hope his son will impress.
Looking at the comments below, I can't help thinking that Kevin may look younger than his years but he doesn't act like it. Your comments are not only childish but pathetic too. What a bunch of tossers.
I say, good luck to the guy. He's obviously earned his chance so all the best.
No,I'd say he is 13.
Does he have to finish his homework first? I mean he looks about 12 years old!
kevin, jan, WHO?????????
#5 Eh? The only 'medical condition' poor Jan had was that he was slower than Barrichello at Stewart for 18 months. It is generally accepted that Jan did not take the demands of training seriously enough and he liked the @#$% too much.
I think it was a medical condition that caused Jan to never realise his true potential in F1. Wasn't it? I hope his son reaches the potential he has shown so far. Nick Heidfeld was also a part of the McLaren development program before he came to F1. So himself and Lewis Hamilton have shown that the program has pedigree, which is a good sign for Magnussen
Better than winging about football and who was right and who was wrong on Sunday.
Hamilton who?
Yes of course it is, it's a talented young driver moving up the McLaren driver development ranks where, lest we forget, Lewis Hamilton came from...
And this is news??? :(
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