Driver Development Academy
  • Cost £100,000 to sign to Driver Development Academy. Bidding rules apply, must stand for five days. (Bids only need to be £10,000 more to beat a current bid).
  • Must buy a seat in juniors series. VWRS - £200,000, VERS/VARS/VOARS - £100,000
  • Limited to 3 junior drivers. You as an FV team manager can place a maximum of 2 drivers in each tier.
  • Drivers promoted from Tier 2 to Tier 1 can participate in a maximum of four Tier 1 races if they wish to continue racing in Tier 2.
  • Drivers promoted from Tier 3 to Tier 1 can participate in up to nineteen Tier 1 races, in order to be eligible to race in Tier 2 for a maximum of 2 seasons.

Seats
  • Two drivers per Youth Academy are permitted in each series.
  • FV team managers will be asked to place youth drivers in the order they finished in the previous seasons constructors championship.

Advantages:
  • Can choose where and for whom they race, though teams have no bearing on how the driver will perform.
  • Re-sign each year cheap, sign-up to main team cheap, at season end or mid-season.
  • Can only be signed by your team providing it’s within three seasons of initially signing the driver to the Youth Academy, otherwise drivers become subject to bids from other teams.
  • Drivers get improvement based on Championship finishing positions and achieving pole positions, wins and fastest laps.

General
  • Drivers can only remain in a tier for a maximum of three seasons.
    • Tier 1 is an exception, as is a driver who has been promoted from tier 3 to tier 1. If they compete in less than twenty tier 1 races, they can then spend a maximum of two seasons in tier 2.
  • The only other way drivers can compete below tier 1 (FV, IndyVirtual) level, is if they have been promoted from tier 2 to tier 1, and have competed in less than five tier 1 races.

Also, please note the age limits for each category!
  • VERS, VARS and VOARS is 16
  • VWRS are 17
  • FV and IndyVirtual are 18

Note: Those in Italics will join the academy at the end of the 2019 season.
VWRS

Current Young Driver Academies

AMR
none
Arrow
none
Cheema
Henri Ruotsalainen
Nation: Finland/Age: 17
Joined: 2020
​Re-signed for 2021: No
Downton
Spencer James
Nation: Jamaica/Age: 19
Joined: 2020
​Re-signed for 2021: No
FIRST
none
Franklin
none
Ingram
Heikki Veskila
Nation: Estonia/Age: 18
Joined: 2020
Re-signed for 2021: No
Lopez
Zeferino Cardoso
Nation: Portugal/Age: 19
Joined: 2020
Re-signed for 2021: No
Lucas
none
​Mathershaw
Carlos Zapatero
Nation: Spain/Age: 23
Joined: 2019
Re-signed for 2021: No
Meteor
none
North Star
none
Ocelot
Luca Romero
Nation: San Marino/Age: 25
Joined: 2019
Re-signed for 2021: No

Kirk Lazarus
Nation: Australia/Age: ??
Joined: 2020
​Re-signed for 2021: No
Phoenix
Ethan Matthews
Nation: United Kingdom/Age: 21
Joined: 2019
​Re-signed for 2021: No

Daniel Zientek
Nation: Poland/Age: 19
Joined: 2019
​Re-signed for 2021: No

Ott Eskola
Nation: Estonia/Age: 16
Joined: 2020
​Re-signed for 2021: No
Westwood
none

Bids

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