Driver Development Academy
Seats
Advantages:
General
Also, please note the age limits for each category!
Note: Those in Italics will join the academy at the end of the 2019 season.
- 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.
Current Young Driver Academies
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AMR
none |
Cheema
Henri Ruotsalainen Nation: Finland/Age: 17 Joined: 2020 |
Downton
Matteo Zetticci Nation: Italy/Age: 18 Joined: 2018 Re-signed for 2020: Promoted Spencer James Nation: Jamaica/Age: 19 Joined: 2020 |
FIRST
Scott Jackson Nation: United States/Age: 28 Joined: 2019 Re-signed for 2020: No |
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Ingram
Urmo Kruuda Nation: Estonia/Age: 22 Joined: 2019 Re-signed for 2020: Yes Heikki Veskila Nation: Estonia/Age: 18 Joined: 2020 |
Lopez
Max Meyer Nation: South Africa/Age: 21 Joined: 2018 Re-signed for 2020: Yes Zeferino Cardoso Nation: Portugal/Age: 19 Joined: 2020 |
Lucas
none |
Mathershaw
Carlos Zapatero Nation: Spain/Age: 23 Joined: 2019 Re-signed for 2020: Yes |
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Meteor
none |
North Star
Hector Draper Nation: New Zealand/Age: 22 Joined: 2019 Re-signed for 2020: Yes |
Ocelot
Dominykas Zvironas Nation: Lithuania/Age: 25 Joined: 2018 Re-signed for 2020: Promoted Luca Romero Nation: San Marino/Age: 25 Joined: 2019 Re-signed for 2020: Yes Pablo del Fuego Nation: Colombia/Age: 18 Joined: 2019 Re-signed for 2020: Yes |
Phoenix
Ethan Matthews Nation: United Kingdom/Age: 21 Joined: 2019 Re-signed for 2020: Yes Daniel Zientek Nation: Poland/Age: 19 Joined: 2019 Re-signed for 2020: Yes Ott Eskola Nation: Estonia/Age: 16 Joined: 2020 |
Westwood
none
none
Bids
none yet