Red Bull has announced its full Formula 1 Junior line-up, including six drivers competing in Formula 2.
Dennis Hauger and Ayumu Iwasa remain in the series following their seed-winning rookie campaigns last year. Jack Crawford and Issac Hadjar from FIA Formula 3 are jointly nominated for Hitech GP.
Red Bull’s F2 sextet is completed by Enzo Fittipaldi and Zane Maloney, who have been added to the junior team and will be Carlin’s teammates. Fittipaldi took six podiums as an F2 rookie in 2022 in the Chariot Racing system and now moves to a competitive team, while Maloney has stepped up his full-time journey to F2 as a championship runner-up in FIA F3 with Trident. Last year’s finals debut.
F2 race winner Jehan Daruvala and F3 racer Jonny Edgar will join Red Bull’s junior team after stepping down, and that means three open seats remain on the F2 grid for 2023.
Sebastian Montoya, announced by Red Bull earlier this month, will be the brand’s only junior in F3 this year. F1 race winner Juan Pablo Montoya’s son drives Red Bull Jr. down a single-seat ladder to Hitech.
Honda junior Souta Arao will drive for the team in the British GB3 series while Arvid Lindblad, currently one of Formula 4’s hottest drivers in the UAE, will switch to Prima to campaign in the category’s European competition.
Liam Lawson has taken over in RBJT-backed Super Formula, meaning Ren Sato has been shown the exit door while two other departures from the Red Bull roster are Formula One contender Noel Lyon and former Honda junior Yuto Nomura.
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The two youngest additions to RBJT are Enzo Deligny and Enzo Tarnvanichkul, both stars of the international karting scene last year.
Delaney will compete in the Spanish F4 race with Campos Racing in 2022 as one of the first starters in senior karting. The 14-year-old Frenchman is second in the WSK Euro Series and fourth in the CIK-FIA European Championship. .
Due to his age, 13-year-old Thai driver Tarvanichkul remains in karting and competes for the factory-sponsored Kart Republic team. In the year He was CIK-FIA World Karting Champion on OK-Junior karts in 2022, WSK Final Cup runner-up and fifth in CIK-FIA European Championship.
2023 Formula 2 driver line
TeamDriversMPDennis HaugerTBCCarlinEnzo FittipaldiZane MaloneyARTTBCTBCPremaFrederik VestiOliver BearmanHitechJak CrawfordIsack HadjarDAMSAyumu IwasaArthur LeclercVirtuosiJack DoohanAmaury CordeelPHM by CharouzRoy NissanyBrad BenavidesTridentClement NovalakRoman StanekVan AmersfoortRichard VerschoorJuan Manuel CorreaCamposRalph BoschungKush Maini
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