The Young Drivers: No.5 - Gary Paffett
In the rundown to the 2008 Autosport Awards, autosport.com will count down the top ten McLaren Autosport BRDC Award winners, reliving the success of their winning year and looking at what they've gone on to achieve since
Where were they then?
A fresh-faced, 18-year-old Gary Paffett had just won the Formula Vauxhall championship with the same Young Guns team that he'd raced and won titles with in karting. The Vauxhall champion was almost guaranteed a place in the final of the award and Paffett was no exception.
But it was his standout performance in the Formula 3 car over the three-day evaluation at Silverstone that caught the attention of the judges, and he was duly crowned the 11th McLaren Autosport BRDC Award winner.
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