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Team BRIT’s Aaron Morgan: How hand controls help me race

Team BRIT is a motorsport team made up of six disabled drivers who use adapted cars to compete in races against non-disabled drivers equally.

BBC Click’s Paul Carter went to visit the team to find out more about the car and the team’s hopes for the future.

See more at Click's website and @BBCClick

28 July 2021

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