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IndyCar star Colton Herta kicked off his two-day test with McLaren on Monday morning at Portimao in Portugal.
The Andretti Autosport charger who is being heralded as the next American driver to race in Formula 1 is running onboard the Woking-based outfit's 2021 MCL35M in preparation – if everything goes well – for an official Friday practice session with McLaren at a yet to be determined upcoming race.
Herta, a seven-time winner in IndyCar, spent his formation years in motorsport in Europe, and had never hidden his ambitions of racing one day in Formula 1.
"It is a serious ambition of mine," he said recently.
"There’s a lot of things that when I'm done racing I want to be able to say that I did. And Formula 1 is pretty high on the list for one of those things."
The last Alerican driver to grace the grid in Formula 1 was Herta's Andretti-Autosport teammate in IndyCar, Alexander Rossi.
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