Briscoe to get first F1 test with Toyota
Rising Australian star Ryan Briscoe is to get his first taste of Formula 1 in a test with the fledgling Toyota team next month
Briscoe, who won the Italian Formula Renault Championship this year, has been taken under Toyota's wing as a star of the future and the 20-year-old will get his first run in an F1 car at the beginning of next month.
Team boss Ove Andersson announced Briscoe's test at the Suzuka track in Japan where Toyota is testing this week as it gears up to enter F1 in 2002. The German based team is exempt from F1's winter testing ban until it lodges its application for next year's world championship on November 15.
The venue of Briscoe's test has yet to be confirmed, but Toyota has centred much of its testing efforts this year at the Paul Ricard circuit in the south of France.
Briscoe made his French Formula 3 debut 10 days ago at Magny-Cours with the Prema Powerteam and finished second to champion Ryo Fukuda. The 20-year-old has yet to announce his plans for next year, but is expected to compete in German F3 with the Prema squad.
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