“It’s going to be strange having cars coming towards me,” said Grant on BBC Radio Scotland. “I started racing when I was seven years old and ever since then I’ve dreamed of Formula 1. The inaugural F1 Academy series starts in Austria next month with further events in Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, France and the United States, with five teams competing. Formula 1 remains male-dominated, with Divina Galica and Lella Lombardi the last females to compete in the 1970s. Compared to when I started racing, there’s a lot more.”. The BBC’s coverage of every Scottish Premiership team is bigger and better than ever before.

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