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. FV2/VWRS - £200,000, FV3/VERS/VARS/VOARS - £100,000
  • Limited to 3 junior drivers. You as an FV team manager can place a maximum of 1 driver in each series, but if one or more of your drivers is selected by a junior team manager, you are allowed more than one.

Seats
  • Only one driver 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 (discounting tier one).
  • Drivers can only compete at below tier one (FV, IndyVirtual) level if they have competed in less than five tier one races.

Also, please note the age limits for each category!
  • FV3, VERS, VARS and VOARS is 16
  • FV2 and VWRS are 17
  • FV and IndyVirtual are 18

Note: Those in Italics will join the academy at the end of the 2017 season.

Current Young Driver Academies

AMR
Ellenør Haugland
Nation: Norway/Age: 25
Joined: 2017
Re-signed for 2018: No
Downton
Matteo Zetticci
Nation: Italy/Age: 16
Joined: 2018
​DS Mathershaw
Jules Barclay
Nation: Canada/Age: 23
Joined: 2017
Re-signed for 2018: No

​Alexander McLaughlin
Nation: New Zealand/Age: 22
​Joined: 2016
Re-signed for 2018: No
FIRST
Stefan Klien
Nation: Austria/Age: 20
Joined: 2017
Re-signed for 2018: No

Felix Pérez
Nation: Mexico/Age: 20
Joined: 2016
Re-signed for 2018: No
Franklin
Leo Brzyski
Nation: Poland/Age: 25
​Joined: 2016
Re-signed for 2017: No
FUN
none
Holmqvist
Maximilian Thunström
Nation: Sweden/Age: 17
Joined: 2017
Re-signed for 2018: No

Otso Toivonen
Nation: Finland/Age: 21
Joins: 2017
​Re-signed for 2018: No
Ingram
Zander Brynildsen
Nation: Norway/Age: 20
Joined: 2017
Re-signed for 2018: No

James Vasquez
Nation: Colombia/Age: 21
Joined: 2017
Re-signed for 2018: No
Lopez
Max Meyer
Nation: South Africa/Age: 19
Joined: 2018

Rafael Palou
Nation: Spain/Age: 20
Joined: 2018
Meteor
Andrey Kerzhakov
Nation: Russia/Age: 23
Joined: 2018
North Star
Niklaus Hölzberg
Nation: Germany/Age: 24
Joined: 2017
Re-signed for 2018: No
Ocelot
Hunter Ryan
Nation: Australia/Age: 21
Joined: 2017
​Re-signed for 2018: No

​Luuk van der Straten
Nation: Netherlands/Age: 21
Joined: 2017
Re-signed for 2018: No

Ryota Yoshida
Nation: Japan/Age: 23
Joined: 2016
​Re-signed for 2018: No

Dominykas Zvironas
Nation: Lithuania/Age: 23
Joined: 2018
Westwood
Sergio Álvarez
Nation: Argentina/Age: 24
Joined: 2017
Re-signed for 2018: No

Bids

Rafael Palou (VOARS)
Nation: Spain/Age: 20
Signed: Lopez - £100,000 (27/04/17 - 16:47)

Andrey Kerzhakov (FV2)
Nation: Russia/Age: 23
Signed: Meteor - £100,000 (03/05/17 - 13:21)

Matteo Zetticci (VARS)
Nation: Italy/Age: 16
Signed: Downton - £100,000 (13/05/17 - 22:04)

Dominykas Zvironas (VWRS)
Nation: Lithuania/Age: 23
Signed: Ocelot - £100,000 (19/05/17 - 00:45)

Max Meyer (VERS)
Nation: South Africa/Age: 19
Signed: Lopez - £100,000 (29/05/17 - 05:30)