Driver Development Academy
Seats
Advantages:
General
Also, please note the age limits for each category!
Note: Those in Italics will join their team's academy at the end of the 2023 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 for future seasons.
- 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 a maximum of nineteen tier 1 races, they can then spend a maximum of two seasons in tier 2 afterward.
- 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 a maximum of four tier 1 races.
Also, please note the age limits for each category!
- Tier 1 (Formula Virtual) is 18
- Tier 2 (VWRS) is 17
- Tier 3 (VERS, VARS & VOARS) is 16
Note: Those in Italics will join their team's academy at the end of the 2023 season.
Please note the age listed for each driver is the age they turn during 2023, not necessarily the age they are right now.
Current Young Driver Academies
AMR
Kiyoko Yoshioka Nation: Japan/Age: 20 Joined: 2022 Resigned for 2024: No |
Arrow
Ellie Mae-Theodoulou Nation: Cyprus/Age: 19 Joined: 2021 Resigned for 2024: n/a |
FIRST
none |
Ingram - Ingram Fledglings
Fleur-Elora Delacour Nation: France/Age: 21 Joined: 2021 Re-signed for 2024: n/a Henri Ruotsalainen Nation: Finland/Age: 21 Joined: 2023 Re-signed for 2024: No |
Kowhai
Dani de la Fuente Nation: Spain/Age: 17 Joined: 2023 Re-signed for 2024: No |
Lamborghini
Luca Lombardi Nation:Italy/Age: 24 Joined: 2023 Resigned for 2024: No |
Lopez
Stew Alexander Nation:United States/Age: 21 Joined: 2023 Resigned for 2024: No |
Maserati
none |
North Star
none |
Ocelot
none |
Phoenix - The Hive
Barney Hoskins Nation: Britain/Age: 19 Joined: 2022 Re-signed for 2024: No Chloe King Nation: Britain/Age: 22 Joined: 2021 Resigned for 2024: n/a Zayna Radif Nation: Saudi-Arabia/Age: 22 Joined: 2023 Resigned for 2024: No |
Porsche
Timo Ziegler Nation: Germany/Age: 21 Joined: 2021 Resigned for 2024: n/a |
Westwood
none |
Bids
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