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Wheldon Jr hailed as big talent by team boss after winning debut

Sebastian Wheldon, who was two years old when his IndyCar champion father was killed in the tragic Las Vegas race in 2011, won two of the three races in last weekend’s opening round of the USF Juniors series at NOLA Motorsports Park, and was second in the other.

Wheldon, who along with younger brother Oliver is a protege of Andretti Global, took his first single-seater racing steps last year in the centrally-run Skip Barber school series, before joining the VRD Racing team of expat Brit Dan Mitchell over the winter.

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