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Oscar Piastri: remote control racing to F1 rookie

F1: Beyond The Grid

CHAPTER

The Early Life of a Racing Driver

I'm the first in my family to race myself. I started just driving that around the backyard and the school oval at one point when I was six or seven. That's how Lewis Hamilton first got into racing, actually was a remote car. The cars I raced initially were one eighth scale and then I went to one tenth scale. They look like touring cars in a way. And you stand on a driver's stand with your radio and obviously you control it from that. It gets pretty intense. There's no age brackets or limits or boundaries of stuff. So, I was often competing against people in their twenties, thirties. I won the national championships,. I think the next youngest

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