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
Please note the age listed for each driver is the age they turn during 2020, not necessarily the age they are right now.

Current Young Driver Academies

AMR
none
Arrow
none
Cheema
Henri Ruotsalainen
Nation: Finland/Age: 18
Joined: 2020
​Re-signed for 2021: No
Downton
Spencer James
Nation: Jamaica/Age: 20
Joined: 2020
​Re-signed for 2021: No
FIRST
none
Franklin
Logan James
Nation: Britain/Age: 21
Joined: 2019
Re-signed for 2021: No
Ingram
Heikki Veskila
Nation: Estonia/Age: 19
Joined: 2020
Re-signed for 2021: No
Lopez
Zeferino Cardoso
Nation: Portugal/Age: 20
Joined: 2020
Re-signed for 2021: No

Max Meyer
Nation: South Africa/Age: 22
Joined: 2018
Re-signed for 2021: n/a
Lucas
none
​Mathershaw
Carlos Zapatero
Nation: Spain/Age: 24
Joined: 2019
Re-signed for 2021: No
Meteor
none
North Star
none
Ocelot
Kirk Lazarus
Nation: Australia/Age: 23
Joined: 2020
​Re-signed for 2021: No

Luca Romero
Nation: San Marino/Age: 26
Joined: 2019
Re-signed for 2021: No
Phoenix
Ott Eskola
Nation: Estonia/Age: 17
Joined: 2020
​Re-signed for 2021: No

Ethan Matthews
Nation: Britain/Age: 22
Joined: 2019
​Re-signed for 2021: No

Daniel Zientek
Nation: Poland/Age: 20
Joined: 2019
​Re-signed for 2021: No
Westwood
none

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