I'm a great fit for a Williams race seat - Lynn

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Alex Lynn believes he is "a great fit" for a race seat with Williams in 2017 as he seeks to move up from GP2 to F1.

The 22-year-old is currently ninth in the GP2 drivers' championship after a difficult season but won the last race before the summer break at Hockenheim. In his role as Williams development driver, Lynn has tested F1 machinery and worked closely with the team, and with both drivers out of contract at the end of the season he feels he ticks plenty of boxes to earn a promotion.

Asked if Williams is a big enough team to place him elsewhere to gain race experience or if his best shot is to replace either Felipe Massa or Valtteri Bottas, Lynn told F1i: “I don’t know.

"I really want to stay within Williams, whether they loan me out to another team and keep me under contract, I’d be really happy with that but my main goal is to be promoted to the main team, that’s what I’d love.

"British driver, British team, I’m young, fast, hungry. For me I think it’s a great fit. Whether or not it happens, I don’t know, but I’d love to stay with this team and if they put me somewhere else in Formula 1 to show what I can do and learn the ropes then OK that’s great for me as well."

Now in his second season of GP2, Lynn says his only focus at this point of his career is to secure a race seat in F1.

“Of course, that’s what it’s all about. Definitely, that’s what I want. All I’ve ever wanted since I can remember is to be a race driver in Formula 1 and then one day being World Champion. That’s why I’m here, to prove I can do it.”

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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.