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, but if one or more of your drivers is selected by a junior team manager, you are allowed more.
  • 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 is permitted in each series unless a Junior Team manager chooses a driver.
  • Team managers will be given first option of driver purchases and once these are all confirmed 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 2018 season.
* Defunct following the 2018 season

Current Young Driver Academies

Andromeda ABR
none
AMR
none
Cheema
none
Downton
Matteo Zetticci
Nation: Italy/Age: 18
Joined: 2018
Re-signed for 2020: No
​DS Mathershaw
Carlos Zapatero
Nation: Spain/Age: ??
Joined: 2019
Re-signed for 2020: No
Excelsior
none
FIRST
Scott Jackson
Nation: United States/Age: ??
Joined: 2019
​Re-signed for 2020: No
Franklin
Logan James
Nation: United Kingdom/Age: ??
Joined: 2019
​Re-signed for 2020: No
Holmqvist
none
Ingram
Urmo Kruuda
Nation: Estonia/Age: ??
Joined: 2019
Re-signed for 2020: No
Lopez
Max Meyer
Nation: South Africa/Age: 21
Joined: 2018
Re-signed for 2020: No
Lucas
none
Meteor
None
North Star
Hector Draper
Nation: New Zealand/Age: ??
Joined: 2019
Re-signed for 2020: No
Ocelot
Dominykas Zvironas
Nation: Lithuania/Age: 25
Joined: 2018
​Re-signed for 2020: No

Luca Romero
Nation: San Marino/Age: ??
Joined: 2019
Re-signed for 2020: No

Pablo del Fuego
Nation: Colombia/Age: ??
Joined: 2019
​Re-signed for 2020: No
Phoenix
Ethan Matthews
Nation: United Kingdom/Age: ??
Joined: 2019
​Re-signed for 2020: No

Bids

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