Williams has signed former Alpine junior driver Victor Martins to its academy.
Martins, who’s at the moment in his third season of System 2, will participate in a check for the group this weekend. Williams will run a 2023-specification FW45 at Monza underneath System 1’s Testing of Earlier Vehicles guidelines.
Williams sporting director Sven Smeets mentioned Martins “has repeatedly demonstrated that he’s a proficient driver who’s able to profitable championships.”
The 23-year-old gained the System Renault Eurocup with ART in 2020, then clinched the FIA System 3 title with the group in 2022. After ending his first season of System 2 in fifth place he fell to fifth within the standings final 12 months, taking a single win within the partial-reversed-grid dash race on the Circuit de Catalunya.
Martins took pole place for the primary System 2 characteristic race of the brand new season in Australia. Nonetheless the race was deserted because of rain on the morning of the Australian Grand Prix.
He’ll be a part of fellow F2 driver and Williams Racing Driver Academy member Luke Browning within the Monza check this weekend.
Martins’ transfer comes two months after Franco Colapinto switched from Williams to affix Alpine as certainly one of its 4 reserve drivers.
“Williams is an iconic group with an unimaginable historical past, and I’m assured that is the very best place to be to assist me obtain my targets,” mentioned Martins. “This 12 months, I’ll put all my focus into profitable the System 2 drivers’ championship with ART Grand Prix and maximising this chance with the Driver Academy each on and off the observe.”
He’s the ninth member of Williams’ Driver Academy. Together with Martins and Browning, the others are Lia Block, Alessandro Giusti, Oleksandr Bondarev, Sara Matsui, Dean Hoogendoorn, Will Inexperienced and Lucas Palacio.
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