Perth's Chloe Grant set to end F1 Academy season in front of large crowds in Texas

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Perth motorsport star Chloe Grant is aiming to bring the curtain down in style on her maiden F1 Academy season.The 17-year-old, a former Perth High School student, takes to the track across the Atlantic from October 20-22.She will be racing at the Circuit of the Americas in Texas on the same billing as Formula 1s high-profile US Grand Prix, with a guaranteed large crowd in attendance.Grant’s three-race F1 Academy programme at Circuit of the Americas is the seventh and final event of the season.The Fair City speedster is targeting top-five results in the ultra-close single-seater field in which all of the cars are driven by females.“My aim is to finish the season off on a high,” Grant said. “Top-five finishes ideally but the majority of the other girls on the grid are a lot more experienced than I am so I need to be realistic.“The two 15-minute qualifying sessions that set start positions on the grid for Races 1 and 3 will be absolutely critical as always."Grant - now a Loughborough University student - and other F1 Academy drivers briefly sampled the 20-corner, 3.5-mile track in Austin recently but only in “racing school cars”.“I can’t compare the Circuit of the Americas track to anywhere I’ve driven before – it’s very different, unique and quite a long track, compared to what I’m used to,” she explained.“It’s very bumpy, especially on the main start-finish straight, and there is a big variety of corners, high and slow speed.“It’s going to be very exciting to be racing on the same programme as the US GP and seeing all of the Formula 1 cars up close and personal.”Grant has long had a love for motorsport and has worked her way through the ranks having started - and starred in - the go-kart scene.She has picked up plenty of