Motorsport: Michael to become youngest to sample F3

Sixteen-year-old young gun racer Michael Devaney from Rathfarnham, Dublin, will become Ireland ' youngest driver to sample an F3 car with the news that veteran Formula Ford racer George McAlpin, who clinched his first Irish Formula Ford title this year, is to share his championship prize of an F3 test with the promising teenager.

The prize which was put up for the winner of the 2001 Ford of Ireland Zetec Championship by Irish team Meritus Racing, takes place at Silverstone this Friday (12 Oct) and will see the reigning Irish JICA Kart Champion drive the same Toyota powered Dallara F398 in which the team successfully ran Irishman Michael Keohane in this year's British F3 Scholarship class.