Ingram V-Prix have become the latest team to announce their driver line up. A short statement read:
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Lamborghini has announced their intention to retain their full line up for another season.
Australian team Arnello, Milner, & Ronson Autosport, more commonly named AMR, have announced that the highly anticipated American driver Brock Kidd will race in 2024 alongside the returning stalwart of Switzerland’s Finn Schnyder, with Ukrainian Dmytro Kovalenko on test and development duties.
Lopez FV Team's drivers Sergio Álvarez and Max Meyer, joined up to have a chat in the Swiss Alps to dissect the 2023 season, and more before going away on holidays. Click on this article to read the transcript from the light-hearted conversation between the Lopez teammates.
Formula Virtual team Phoenix have today announced their full line-up for the 2024 season, which is due to begin in April, becoming the latest team to confirm their place on the grid.
Cyber Automata Motorsport will join the Formula Virtual grid in 2024, after being accepted as the fifteenth team.
After a successful inaugural campaign in the 2023 Formula Virtual season, Toyota Kōwhai Racing look forward to the 2024 campaign kicking off in Adelaide in April 2024. With the season concluded we are pleased to announce our driver lineups for the upcoming season.
Marcus Thunder will return to the #31 car for the 2024 season after starting every race this season, something no other driver from the three debutant teams or Lamborghini were able to achieve. The 28-year-old Brit achieved a best result of two 17th place finishes across the season, demonstrating consistency and dependability that helped the team develop our 2023 and 2024 cars across the season. Thunder will be joined by a familiar face to him, 23-year-old Swede and former Lucas teammate, Maximilian Thunström. Thunström comes with plenty of proven raw pace and talent, as 14 race wins across 5 seasons in FV3, FV2 and VWRS saw him labelled a future star at the age of just 20. Thunström’s reputation only increased with a win in his rookie season at the United States V-Prix, but unfortunately saw his career derailed by the sudden departure of Lucas V-Prix midway through the 2022 season. Thunström has been absent from racing since then but is expected to drive for eVirtual’s reigning champions Formation Competition over the off-season, giving him plenty of race experience to prepare for a return to Formula Virtual. Outside of the Formula Virtual team Toyota Kōwhai Racing will be looking to extend the contracts of both reserve driver Dominykas Zvironas and academy driver Dani de la Fuente. Both have been great assets to the team, with Dominykas putting in great work behind the scenes to push our team forward and Dani mounting a title challenge in the VARS series. Toyota Kōwhai Racing would also like to give a heartfelt thank you to departing driver Hunter Ryan, who achieved the team’s highest race finish over the course of a season on loan from Ocelot Japan Racing, and wish him well for his future career. Alex Tunnicliffe, Team Principal: Here at Toyota Kōwhai Racing we have been extremely pleased with the progress made in our first season. Our driver signing announcement today builds on this progress, we have been ambitious in our driver recruitment and we are very fortunate to have both Marcus and Maximilian who believe in our project and will help us to drive this team forward and bring success to Kiwi motorsport. Good morning and welcome to the Autódromo José Carlos Pace in São Paulo for the Team Representatives’ Press Conference ahead of the Brazilian V-Prix – round sixteen and the final round of the 2023 Formula Virtual World Championship. Joining us today, from left to right, are; Bradley Downton from constructors and drivers title champions Dowtnon FV Team, Rai Miyamoto from Ocelot Japan Racing, Ryan Petersen from Arnello Milner & Ronson Autosport, Nick Forrest of North Star Racing and finally William Ingram from Ingram V-Prix.
Welcome to all five of you! Gray Autosport have confirmed following today’s rumours, that they have filed an application with the FVA for entry into the 2024 Formula Virtual championship. Should this be accepted, they would become the 15th on the grid for next year, replacing the departing North Star, who leave the sport after 8 years in the sport.
In a press release today, it was announced that Peugeot Westwood would be changing their driver lineup for 2024. This comes as a shock to the paddock, as most sources believed their driver lineup would be remaining unchanged.
Seifert Racing Team announced in a press conference their Formula Virtual line-up for the 2024 season.
As teams, press and fans arrived in Brazil for the final Formula Virtual race of the season, North Star Racing shocked many in the paddock by announcing that the 2023 Brazilian V-Prix was to be their last in Formula Virtual.
The Scotland-based team are said to have been struggling financially in more recent seasons, as Magna International drastically scaled back their involvement following the disappointment of the 2021 season, where the team fell from 4th in the standings the previous year, to a lowly 13th behind even then-newcomers Arrow. While fortunes seemed to have been improving in the 2023 season so far, with back-to-back podiums for Brock Kidd in Italy and Turkey, money problems were intensifying behind the scenes, according to team principal Nick Forrest, and it is understood that a winding-up petition is currently being prepared by Tay Finance Group, which would see the team placed into liquidation and their assets sold off in early 2024. "It's not the news that any of us wanted to hear," Forrest told gathered media outside a sombre North Star motorhome. "The 2024 regulation changes looked like a chance for us to get back to a more competitive position, and we've been working as hard as we could to find a solution for our financial situation, but things have gotten to the point where we just can't afford to design and develop a whole new car for next year. Even the 07B is only a modified version of our 2022 car, so in hindsight the signs have kinda been there for a while that we were in real trouble." Despite the team's imminent closure, Forrest was optimistic about the prospects of their drivers. "Brock and Hector [Draper] are some very talented guys, along with Carl [Sandholm], and I'm sure they'll be able to carve out a good racing future for themselves, I'm aware Brock's already been snapped up for next season, at least," "The guys I feel for the most, though, are all the men and women back at the factory in Perth, who've got families to support, mortgages to pay, and we've done our best to look after them throughout this, but sadly it's had to come to an end. They've been just as instrumental the successes that we've had, however, and in making this team what it has been. I have to give thanks to every single one of them who's worked there over the past eight years, and I wish all of them the best of luck wherever their careers take them next." North Star Racing are coming into their final weekend sitting 7th in the Constructor's standings on 50 points, just 2 points ahead of Ingram in 8th. |
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