Prodigy

2022 - 10 - 17

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Former Ferrari F1 prodigy eyes racing switch (Wide World of Sports)

New Zealander reveals he has a "kick-ass" inspiration behind ambition to take on a new challenge.

So from my point of view, it's a lot of fun to drive." A podium in his first race bode well for the future, but it's been anything but easy since then. "So I was aware of that coming into the day and it certainly lived up to its expectations just in the sense that you do have to drive it hard. "Coming into the day I was aware of how intense IndyCar is, and certainly the identity of an IndyCar is different to every category with the reactiveness of the steering wheel and the kick-back and how hard you need to drive it. For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by "The weight distribution is quite a lot of different and it just seemed very powerful out of corners, and then obviously, corner entries, it's got quite a lot of grip compared to what I'm used to. "That was a lot of fun," Armstrong said of the test. [All the action streaming ad-free, live and on demand](https://9.nine.com.au/DnH61N) [he was linked to a switch from Formula 2 to IndyCar](https://wwos.nine.com.au/motorsport/indycar-2022-news-former-ferrari-f1-junior-marcus-armstrong-tipped-to-make-indycar-switch/acc00b24-42af-409c-8c28-a989f6faee39). With the end of a tough three-year tenure between three teams coming to an end, Armstrong has yet to crack the top 10 in the championship. In that time, he won the Italian Formula 4 Championship, was second in the German Formula 4 Championship and claimed second on debut in the FIA Formula 3 Championship. [IndyCar](https://wwos.nine.com.au/indycar) could soon have another flying Kiwi on the grid, one who was long destined for the heights of [Formula 1](https://wwos.nine.com.au/f1).

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