French driver Victor Martins, who left the Alpine Academy in the off-season, has immediately joined the Williams Academy. He will continue to race with ART Grand Prix in Formula 2 and will be invited to test old F1 cars with his new team.
A few months after leaving the Alpine fold, Victor Martins has found a Formula 1 team to support him. The French F2 driver has just joined the Williams Academy, as announced by the British team on Monday. “Victor will continue to drive for ART Grand Prix in Formula 2 and will join Luke Browning in our Academy, who drives for Hitech GP in the same Championship,” the statement noted.
In addition to general support “on and off the track,” this move to the Academy will allow Martins, the 2022 F3 champion, to participate in test days on the team’s old single-seaters (Testing of Previous Car, TPC in English). He will be with Browning at Monza this weekend to drive the FW45, which was raced in 2023.
“This is a new chapter for me,” Martins noted in the statement, but the goal remains the same, “to push myself to the limit as a driver and as a person and to make it to Formula 1. Williams is an iconic team with an incredible history and I am confident that this is the best place to achieve my goals.”
Sébastien Loeb and Victor Martins were the team winners of the Race of Champions in Sydney.
Maxime Malet, L’Équipe”
