The Formula 1 hopeful who has only just passed her test

She is simply a imaginable Formula 1 racing prima of the future, but until a fewer days agone Chloe Grant wasn't adjacent allowed to thrust down her ain street.

That's due to the fact that the 17-year-old from Perth, who was precocious chosen for the elite F1 Academy, has lone conscionable passed her driving test.

Hours aft ripping up her L plates, Chloe headed to France to proceed her imagination to vie astatine the apical level.

She passed her trial aft a fistful of lessons.

Chloe said she was pleased to walk astatine the extremity of her archetypal week driving connected the road.

"I wasn't tense astir my trial until the day closed in," she said.

"The lone happening I had been anxious astir earlier opening lessons was the oncoming cars, it was thing I realised I hadn't had to see connected track."

Despite learning to thrust aged 13, Chloe said determination were inactive a mates of things she had to get to grips with connected the streets of Perth.

"The 2 things we noticed the astir were that my hands were perpetually crossing over," she said.

"When you're connected the roadworthy you person to support your hands connected either broadside and provender the instrumentality through.

"And taking the corners a spot slower, I was taking them a spot faster."

Chloe's driving teacher Alan High said it was the archetypal clip helium had taught a imaginable F1 driver.

He said: "My biggest interest earlier we started was, would I beryllium capable to support her astatine a tenable speed?

"And what I've said is portion she's doing her driving connected the road, she's not got a clang helmet connected truthful she's not successful contention mode.

"Hopefully that keeps her reasoning we've got to beryllium harmless alternatively than driving flat-out."

Chloe volition beryllium portion of the F1 Academy bid and volition spouse Lena Buhler and Carrie Schreiner with French squad ART Grand Prix.

The inaugural F1 Academy bid starts successful Austria this period with further events successful Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, France and the United States, with 5 teams competing.

Chloe near schoolhouse past summertime and enrolled astatine Loughborough College to survey Motorsport UK Academy's Diploma successful Sporting Excellence (DiSE).

Following her driving lessons successful Perth, Chloe would instrumentality to the instrumentality for racing signifier astatine Knockhill successful Fife.

Knockhill Racing Circuit events manager Stuart Gray said helium archetypal saw Chloe's imaginable erstwhile she took portion successful a go-karting lawsuit astatine the way erstwhile she was 13.

He said: "There was thing astir her endowment and her attack that made her antithetic from the different kids that we had here.

"And I deliberation that's been recognised with the F1 Academy, that she's got the imaginable to marque it the full way."

Stuart said motorsport competitors tin entree go-karting from the property of eight, and commencement racing astatine 14.

He said: "Max Verstappen successful F1 was a satellite champion earlier helium could thrust connected the roads.

"It volition beryllium a unusual happening for her.

"One time she's doing 140mph connected the track, adjacent she's doing 20mph done Perth."

Chloe said being chosen for the F1 Academy had travel astatine the cleanable clip and "made her dreams travel true."

She said: "My eventual extremity is Formula 1, I privation to amusement that girls tin marque it there.

"It is genuinely down to the backing and the tiny magnitude of america who bash person the genuine endowment to get there.

"I anticipation it inspires much women to get progressive with the sport, it's my full beingness present and I emotion it to implicit bits."