F1 hopeful Maini looks back at "overwhelming" fortnight

It has been a "crazy" fortnight for India's first GP3 race winner Arjun Maini but the promising teenager insists he still has a long way to go before he realises his Formula One dream.

The Spanish Grand Prix weekend earlier this month could not have gone better for Maini.

He stormed to victory in GP3, a support race to Formula One, three days after securing a development driver deal with American outfit Haas, making him the first Indian to be part of a F1 squad after Narain Karthikeyan and mentor Karun Chandhok.

"I would be lying if I say that it was all normal. It was pretty overwhelming to be in the F1 paddock, seeing drivers I look up to and then winning a GP3 race in their presence and have the national anthem played on podium," Maini told

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