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Teenage F1 driver makes history

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A 16-year-old makes motor sport history by becoming the youngest person ever to drive a Formula 1 car in an official test.

Nabil Jeffri took part in a day of straight-line testing for Lotus Racing at the Imperial War Museum runway at Duxford in Cambridgeshire.

Normally visitors to Duxford are looking skywards at air displays, but visitors at the Museum had their eyes fixed firmly on the runway.

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