Sergey Sirotkin believes that his race experience will boost testing role
10:27, 02 Mar 2019
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Sergey Sirotkin has spoken about how his racing seat at Williams last season will now help him in his role as a reserve driver. The Russian will still be involved with Renault in testing and a reserve role but admits that getting back into a racing seat is a priority.
“Honestly saying for sure I want to be racing,” he said when asked of his return by Motorsport Week.
“It’s a very interesting role but for sure I would always prefer to be in a race car myself but for like a long-term perspective it’s probably an interesting experience.
“I had the chance to look at things here in 2017, then a chance to race a car myself, so I know how I was behaving in certain situations.
“Now I’m back here, we have Daniel [Ricciardo] and Nico [Hulkenberg] which are both great drivers and great people to deal with.
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“Now have the chance of being already experienced that myself to look at how they’re behaving in similar situations and knowing how I would behave in the same things.
“It’s quite an interesting experience again, so I’m happy to be back here.”
Sirotkin scored only 1 point for Williams last season and will hope to develop more as a driver so that he can impress more if a Formula 1 drive comes up for next season.
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