When it was announced in March that I was going to be a McLaren factory driver, I was already in full swing doing testing and development.
And I’d already done my first race of the year in the Asian Le Mans Series when I filled in for Marvin Kirchhofer.
It was a few weeks before the announcement when I found out I was going to be racing, and I was doing a shakedown at Dunsfold airfield on a Friday in February. I was checking the car was OK when the engineers told me