A nine-year-old boy who once raced in a Formula E driver’s racing team has set his sights on racing in F1 one day.

Aaryan Nayyar has a dream to race in F1 in the same team as his heroes Lewis Hamilton and George Russell at Mercedes AMG F1.

The Bolton boy has only been racing for a year but is already finishing in the top 10s every time he is on track for the Little Green Man (LGM) championships.

Aaryan got into racing when his dad Rav Nayyar took him to the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.

He said: “He was only seven when he got into it and we tried football and boxing first.

“We got him private training for both but he said it wasn’t for him.

“Then I came across tickets for Silverstone and even though I didn’t watch it or know anything, we went.”

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Aaryan immediately fell in love with F1 while at the race and wanted to try out racing for himself, prompting a visit to TeamSport in Preston.

After beating all the usual racers at the track, Aaryan went to a bigger track in Warrington with similar results.

Eventually, Aaryan started racing at the PFI track in Newark and joined the team of Formula E driver, Oliver Rowland, currently driving for Mahindra Racing in FE.

Rav was impressed with his son’s growth from the back of the grid with P27 finishes to P16 and now, P10 and below finishes.

He said: “We put him in with the best of the best and made him race the best of the best.

“He was 10 seconds behind on lap times at first but these kids had been racing since four-years-old and Aaryan had only raced at that time for two months.”

By August last year, Aaryan had closed the gap to two seconds, a staggering time difference in a short amount of time.

He also spent some days being coached by Luke Hines who raced alongside Lewis Hamilton as a young driver and whose dad, Martin Hines spotted Lewis’ talent at Rye House.

Nav said: “I support my child in everything an if he came to me and said he didn’t want to do it, I’d walk away too.

“But he loves it and he’ll go far.”

Aaryan is now racing with TGM at the LGM Championships and the British Kart Championships.