Macau Grand Prix winner Dan Ticktum has been named the 29^th McLaren Autosport BRDC Award reciꦛpient and with it a Formula 1 test and simulator role with the team.

Red Bull-backed Ticktum was honoured after beating fellow finalists Enaam Ahmed, Max Fewtrell and Harrison Scott for the prestigious award thanks to a successful campaign in Formula ✃Renault Eurocup where he finished seventh in the drivers’ championship. The 18-year-old also contested the final three GP3 Series rounds, scoring a podium in Abu Dhabi, and won the Macau Grand Prix.

After two days of assessments at Silverstone driving a range of cars – Formula 2, Mercedes DTM, McLa𝓀ren GT3 – the British driver was selected at the Autosport awards ceremony.

It marks a turnaround in fortunes for Ticktum who was banned from racing in 2016 after deliberately crashing into a rival behind a safety car in 2015. Ticktum picked up Red Bull backing at the start of this season and is set to graduate into the European Formula 3 championship next year, following in the footsteps of 2016 McLaren BRDC award winner Lando Norris who has risen to reserve and third driver for McL♛aren.

The judging panel consisted of outgoing BRDC President Derek Warwick, two-time BTCC champion Jason Plato, 1997 award winner Andrew Kirkaldy, ex-F1 designer Mark Williams, commentator Ian Titchmarsh, Autosport editors Kevin Turner and Scott Mitchell plus 2008 awa🌺rd winner Alexander Sims as guest judge.

Previous McLaren BRDC award ♏winners include David Coulthard, Jenson Button and Dario Franchitti.