The Aston Martin team will hand an F1 outing at Abu Dhabi next month to its simulator driver Nick Yelloly. The two-day post-season test at Yas Marina will feature each F1 team, except for Williams, running a mule car fitted with 18-inch wheels as part of Pirelli's tyre testing program, and a 2021-spec car on one day exclusively assigned to a rookie status driver. Aston Martin does not have an active young driver program, but the Silverstone-based outfit will rely on Yelloly as an opportunity to correlate its sim data with its real car. The 30-year-old British driver rose through the ranks of motorsport's junior single-seater categories before switching to GT racing here he became a works...
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