BRYCE ARON: PACESETTER FROM AMERICA

There are certain things you learn quickly about talking to racing drivers. One is, particularly with youngsters on the junior single-seater ladder, they in the main don’t share your nerdiness for motorsport’s past.

You ask the question of who their hero is, hoping for a nugget of interest. But often it is met with a slight shoulder shrug, and perhaps an apologetic suggestion of someone obvious like Lewis Hamilton.

But 17-year-oldAmerican BryceAron is no ordinary young single-seater racer. “I’d say Jim Clark,” he says when asked the question by Motorsport News, “because he was a very very humble person and he was extremely quick and he would just get the job done, and he