Oliver Rowland has been praised for his performance while testing for Formula One team Williams in Budapest this week.
The Penistone man, who is 26 next week, spent Tuesday at the Hungaroring in his role as the 'official young driver' which he hopes will turn into a place competing in F1 next season. Rowland competed alongside top drivers such as Danny Ricciardo and Nico Hulkenburg on a rainy day.
Rob Smedley, Williams' head of performance engineering, said: "Oliver did a great job. He got on with it, was very professional and diligent and went through all the data-gathering runs. He was unfortunate with the weather at the end of the day when it started to rain, as we had just got onto a clean car, so he hasn't really put in any timed laps. But, he certainly impressed us all with his work ethic. Once we did get onto new tyres at the end of the aero testing, he did a really good job and showed good pace immediately."
Rowland added: "I think in general it went well. I would have preferred to get a bit more of a run at the end when the rain came in, but I can't control the weather. Everything ran to plan for the team, there were a couple of hold-ups during the day but we managed to make up for that time and the mechanics did a job to get everything fixed and fitted. From a team's perspective, we gathered a lot of data and it was positive."
