Renault junior driver Christian Lundgaard has joined a growing roster of new drivers on the Formula 2 grid for 2020.
Lundgaard, who placed sixth in Formula 3 last year with ART, will stay with the team for his step up to Formula 2. He will partner Ferrari-backed driver Marcus Armstrong, who is also making the step up from F3.Five other drivers have already confirmed they will start their first full season of F2 this year, including Armstrong’s fellow Ferrari Driver Academy member and F3 champion Robert Shwartzman.
Yuki Tsunoda, who is backed by Honda, will drive for Carlin. Williams junior Dan Ticktum, who made two F2 starts at the end of 2018, has been confirmed at DAMS. The two other newcomers are Pedro Piquet at Charouz and Felipe Drugovich with MP.
Nine seats are yet to be filled on this year’s F2 grid, which has expanded following the addition of newcomers Hitech. However another Williams-backed driver, Roy Nissany, is expected to take one of the two seats at Trident.
2020 Formula 2 driver line-up so far
| Team | Driver | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| DAMS | Sean Gelael | |
| DAMS | Dan Ticktum | First full season |
| Virtuosi | Callum Ilott | |
| Virtuosi | TBA | |
| ART | Marcus Armstrong | First full season |
| ART | Christian Lundgaard | First full season |
| Carlin | Yuki Tsunoda | First full season |
| Carlin | TBA | |
| Campos | TBA | |
| Campos | TBA | |
| Charouz | Louis Deletraz | |
| Charouz | Pedro Piquet | First full season |
| MP Motorsport | Felipe Drugovich | First full season |
| MP Motorsport | TBA | |
| HWA | Giuliano Alesi | |
| HWA | Artem Markelov | |
| Prema | Mick Schumacher | |
| Prema | Robert Shwartzman | First full season |
| Trident | TBA | |
| Trident | TBA | |
| Hitech | TBA | |
| Hitech | TBA |
Update: Shortly after this article was published Virtuosi announced Renault junior driver Guanyu Zhou will continue to drive for them in 2020, alongside Callum Ilott.
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BasCB (@bascb)
28th January 2020, 12:54
Wouldn’t saying that Roy Nissany is a Williams backer, instead of saying he is backed by the team, be more accurate?
Dams will be interesting to watch. I guess we can take Gelael as the minimum bar Tickum should be ahead of, and then, Dan can impress us by showing both speed and consistency while refraining from outbursts.
For the rest, we’ll have to wait and see whether Schumacher starts picking up with more experience and whether he will be under pressure from Shwartzmann
BasCB (@bascb)
28th January 2020, 12:56
Well, and I hope we get to see some further progress/development from the duo at Virtuosi, since both these drivers showed promise.
Joao (@johnmilk)
28th January 2020, 15:08
F2 has quite the grid for 2020
And look at those intra-team battlers
Mick vs Shwartzman
Lundgaard vs Armstrong (Lundgaard was very impressive last year considering it was his first taste of F3 machinery)
Illiot vs Zhou (just confirmed, Zhou is definitly a contender for the title)
And I’m curious to know what Ticktum will do
Pironi the Provocateur (@pironitheprovocateur)
28th January 2020, 18:48
I think these drivers have a real shot at F1 seats when the generation of Grosjean, Pérez, Magnussen and Vettel retires. And when papa Stroll loses patience, of course.
Mark (@melmgreen)
29th January 2020, 6:16
Magnussen is 27. A bit earlie to retire…
Pironi the Provocateur (@pironitheprovocateur)
29th January 2020, 9:21
I know, but I think he’s a similar case like Perez. Failed to deliver when he’d got a chance at McLaren, moved to a midfield team and completely wrote himself off last year with constant rumblings. He’s got no future with a better team and other midfield teams would be also reluctant to hire him with his reputation.
Joao (@johnmilk)
29th January 2020, 13:59
Perez is so underrated, it is unvelievable
Have you seen his 2019 season?
Have you seen the drivers he outlerformed?
His solely season at McLaren does not define his talent. The guy is good and rate him at the level of Bottas if I’m honest
Pironi the Provocateur (@pironitheprovocateur)
29th January 2020, 23:54
Perez has now had several solid seasons and I rate him highly; my comment and the part about rumblings concerned only Magnussen. However, Perez himself has acknowledged in one of the recent interviews that there’s no chance for him to move into the top team and 2022 might be the last season for him. Like it or not, a McLaren year has proved decisive for his career, even if it wasn’t down to his drives and the car was quite poor; he missed the chance to wait a little and possibly move to Ferrari and the later development on the driver market didn’t offer him any other possibility to climb higher, now he’s a bit old for it.
Pironi the Provocateur (@pironitheprovocateur)
28th January 2020, 18:52
I know it’s unrealistic and Renault surely won’t try to set up it’s own B-team or something of that sort, but just think of the talents they have in their junior programme. Ocon got the seat and there are Aitken, Zhou and Ludgaard on the sidelines. And we tragically lost Hubert, that shouldn’t be forgotten. I want to see that team continue just for the new names it might bring to F1.
Rashmil Rajagopalan
29th January 2020, 2:39
Pity to see Jehan Daruvala with no seat in Formula 2 nor Formula 3, yet.
Pat Ruadh (@fullcoursecaution)
29th January 2020, 13:01
And a shame we wont see Juri Vips battle it out against this field
Arnoud van Houwelingen (@kavu)
29th January 2020, 17:20
I hope to see Verschoor (Macau winner) to be announced as second driver at MP Motersport!