In the world of Formula Virtual, all eyes are on the 2024 newcomer Cyber Automata and their unique approach to conquering the top tier of motorsport. Eschewing traditional methods, the team relies solely on artificial intelligence to design and refine their contender for the season ahead.
Yesterday, Cyber Automata, hailing from the UK, unveiled their maiden creation, the CAM-01, to the public gaze. As the motorsport fraternity eagerly awaits the commencement of pre-season testing, scrutiny intensifies: how does the CAM-01 compare to its adversaries in terms of performance and design?
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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the launch of the Cyber Automata Motorsport CAM-01.
Just weeks before the start of the 2024 Formula Virtual World Championship, Cyber Automata are without their Team Principal following his hospitalisation on Wednesday.
Australian team AMR have finally unveiled the new-look livery on the 2024 Formula Virtual car, following technical issues that delayed the launch. With a predominantly white base met with black wings, the livery feels familiar to yesteryear’s race-winning car, but with a flick of colour adorning the endplates and wheel covers. Team principal and confessed larrikin Adrian Arnello was first to speak once the livery was unveiled at the team factory today.
Circuit de Anneau du Rhin was the location for the reveal as drivers Max Meyer and Sergio Álvarez were on standby to remove the covers on this season's challenger. The circuit was also officially declared the official test track for the Switzerland based outfit. Max and Sergio begun by answering some questions and sharing some laughs before launching the 2024 challenger.
Eni Lamborghini Squadra Corse S.p.A. have presented their new car, the Lambo 224, for the 2024 FV season at a launch event in Bologna, Italy.
At precisely seventeen minutes past ten this morning, Royal Phoenix Motorsport revealed their challenger for the 2024 Formula Virtual World Championship. Phoenix launched the PX7 in an online event streamed via social media.
On a bright, sunny Waitangi Day in Auckland Toyota Kōwhai Racing revealed their new car for 2024, the Rua. With a new specification of car has come new sponsors, and the team is proud to unveil a new partnership with New Zealand’s largest homegrown bank, Kiwibank. The bank’s green colours adorn the Kōwhai’s sidepods, with room still left for the traditional yellow. Toyota Kōwhai Racing would also like to thank returning sponsors ITM, Giltrap Group, Goodyear and Toyota New Zealand for their continued support of New Zealand’s Formula Virtual team. Alex Tunnicliffe, Team Principal: We are delighted to be back for our second season with the support of Toyota and Kiwibank. We were very proud with our 13th place finish in 2023, and would love to reach even greater heights in 2024. Everyone is incredibly excited about our potential this season, especially with our excellent lineup of Marcus and Maximillian, and we truly believe that we can push on in 2024 with the resources that we have. Maximilian Thunström, Driver #32: It’s great to be a part of this team, although the jet lag is perhaps not the best. Obviously very excited to be back on the grid for 2024, and Toyota Kōwhai Racing have shown a lot of ambition to improve so that I can fight in races and not just qualifying sessions. But overall, just great to be back on the grid, and I hope I can show what I’m all about this season. Downton have become the first team to unveil their 2024 Formula Virtual challenger - the BD12 - in a small event and shakedown event at TT Circuit Assen. The BD12 gives us our first glimpse of what the new generation of Formula Virtual cars will look like.
The Westwood team gathered at the Botniaring this afternoon to wish a farewell to Tumo Kinnumen, who retired at the end of the 2023 season.
The FVA have announced changes to tyre strategy choices for the upcoming season. The 2024 Formula Virtual season will see teams having to strategically plan out their tyre strategies across the season. Each team will be allocated a set amount of each tyre compound to use across the season. Each car is allocated five sets each of the soft, medium, and hard tyre to use across the sixteen-race season. The teams will be able to select a wildcard set of tyre compound of their choosing to make up the sixteen-race season.
FVA technical director, Robert Mathershaw, was available to comment. “I’m really excited by the prospect of the new tyre strategy rules - one of Formula Virtual’s greatest successes has been its balance between the technical and sporting regulations in the past decade, and that’s something within the FVA we are constantly striving to maintain and improve. Alongside the new technical regulations for 2024, I think this introduces a wonderful strategic element to each V-Prix and indeed the season as a whole.” “I’ve always been a huge advocate that motorsport is as much about the people on the pit wall and back at base as it is the driving talent, and this will provide a perfect opportunity to prove that point. I’m very excited to see who can make the most of the new rules as we uncover the full nuance that they will bring to each race weekend - I’m not even sure how I’d play it just yet!”, said Mathershaw. The FVA will be monitoring to check teams do not exceed their allocation of a tyre compound. However, the team remains accountable to make sure this doesn't happen, and if it does, the team will be fined 5 million and excluded from the race weekend they used the unlawful tyre set in. The teams must also state clearly to the FVA when they are using their wild card tyre set. |
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