The St John’s College student is the youngest driver to ever take part in the Australian Formula 4 championship and has the chance to make a big career in motor sport.

Already he is rubbing shoulders with current and former V8 Supercar drivers and gaining valuable experience behind the wheel.

Tyler did have a challenging introduction to his new category. Making the move up from go karts, where he had been cutting his teeth for five years, he had just one test day with his new 160-brake horsepower open wheel machine before making his debut in the series.

“It’s great. It's been a big jump up from go karts but it was really the next step. The season has been a bit up and down, a bit hard learning a new car but I'm getting there,” Everingham said.

After six rounds of the championship, the rookie said he feels he is getting a better understanding for the car and is hoping to finish the season with strong results.

He is ranked ninth with two rounds remaining but has set his sights on winning the rookie of the round award at either Sandown or the Gold Coast.

Tyler knows that whatever he can achieve this year will give him advantage against next season’s newcomers, who will be the same age.

“I think there will be another big wave of go karters coming up to the Formula 4 series which will be great, it will bring in more competition.”

Despite having significantly more power, Tyler said his current car handled very similarly to his old go karts, but he still had to adjust his driving style to handle the extra speed.

“It's been different having wider tracks with a fair bit more run-off. A few corners I've been taking flat-out at 230[km/h] compared to 85 in a go kart,” he said.

The Formula 4 series was started in 2015 to give young Australian drivers a pathway into open wheel racing overseas.

Four drivers who took part in Formula 4 last season have made their way to Europe in 2016, including Luis Leeds, who has scored himself a position in the Red Bull Junior Driver Program, which has produced Sebastian Vettel, Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen.

Tyler said he would like to reach either Formula 1 or GT3 racing and said Vettel and Ricciardo were two of his heroes.

After nearly six months as a Formula 4 driver, he said it had begun to feel fairly normal and has found a way to juggle his schooling and racing that might not impress his teachers.

“I put my motorsport above school work. I probably shouldn't but I prefer motor sport. It's a lot more fun and you get a better outcome,” he said with a smile.

Tyler’s mum Cheree said she was immensely proud of her son’s achievements and how he had dealt with the focus on him.

“Tyler has attracted a fair bit of media attention being from Dubbo, being the youngest in the series,” Cheree said. “When we went down to the first round at Tasmania he was in front of the camera straight away so he has had to learn that quickly.”

There is a five-week break until the next round of the championship at Sandown.