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GP3 driver Nyck De Vries is hoping that McLaren promote him to test driver for the 2017 season.
De Vries was signed into the McLaren youth programme in 2010 and has since won a Formula Renault 2.0 and Formula Renault 2.0 Alps championship.
“It is very good that Stoffel is now getting the chance he deserves,” de Vries said.
“There will be some more space, which is obviously good,” said de Vries. “McLaren had Kevin Magnussen and now Stoffel is being given a chance."
“So do I have hope? Yes, but on the other hand while it is close it (F1) is still far away,” the GP3 frontrunner, who is managed by Lewis Hamilton’s father Anthony, added.
“You have to keep proving yourself time and time again, otherwise it goes nowhere.”
The Dutchman is tipped for a move into GP2 for next season, and when asked about this he said: "In this sport there are no guarantees. I don’t know. We will have to wait.”
“To the outside world it may appear that these things are very planned, but they’re not."
“If you consider McLaren, 2000 employees and a car that is performing a little below par, then Nyck de Vries is not first on their list of priorities,” he said. “So we have to live with that.”
De Vries currently sits fourth in the GP3 series with 104 points.
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