Campos has confirmed Jack Aitken will return to the team this year alongside newcomer Guilherme Samaia.
Aitken won three times for the team last year on his way to fifth place in the championship.Samaia, previously a champion in Brazilian Formula Three, is making the step up from Euroformula Open, where he raced in 2018 and did half a season last year with Teo Martin. He is the eighth driver confirmed on the F2 grid so far who has not previously raced a full season in the category.
MP have also finalised their driver line-up for 2020, announcing Nobuharu Matsushita alongside Felipe Drugovich.
The news leaves just three vacant places on the 22-car F2 grid for 2020. Williams test driver Roy Nissany is believed to be in line for one of those seats, at Trident.
2020 Formula 2 grid
| Team | Driver |
|---|---|
| DAMS | Sean Gelael |
| DAMS | Dan Ticktum |
| Virtuosi | Callum Ilott |
| Virtuosi | Guanyu Zhou |
| ART | Marcus Armstrong |
| ART | Christian Lundgaard |
| Carlin | Yuki Tsunoda |
| Carlin | TBA |
| Campos | Jack Aitken |
| Campos | Guilherme Samaia |
| Charouz | Louis Deletraz |
| Charouz | Pedro Piquet |
| MP Motorsport | Felipe Drugovich |
| MP Motorsport | Nobuharu Matsushita |
| HWA | Giuliano Alesi |
| HWA | Artem Markelov |
| Prema | Mick Schumacher |
| Prema | Robert Shwartzman |
| Trident | TBA |
| Trident | TBA |
| Hitech | Nikita Mazepin |
| Hitech | Luca Ghiotto |
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Rashmil Rajagopalan
17th February 2020, 12:47
Jehan Daruvala to Carlin maybe? Or he is yet to recover from his knee surgery, which would be a shame.
Miani (@miani)
17th February 2020, 13:27
I was expecting to see Camara back at Carlin after the bad season in DAMS, at many weekends he was slower than he was one year before at Carlin. And he’s still young at 21 to walk away, but maybe a indycar deal is looking more interesting.
It’s weird to not see Daruvala getting a seat also, he did as good as Armstrong last year, but besides Carlin seat, the other ones are underwhelming.
Mohit
19th February 2020, 11:29
Daruvala gets carlin.
Miani (@miani)
17th February 2020, 13:21
It’s surprising to see Samaia getting a seat in F2, he was nowhere competitive in Euroformula Open at the same year Drugovich crushed with 14 wins out of 16 races.
Aitken can grabe one or two wins, but I don’t expect him to be a title contender, more due to the team than his skills.
Hugh (@hugh11)
17th February 2020, 20:03
Samaia must have some serious money. He’ll be pretty comfortably last I’d think.
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
17th February 2020, 13:59
This article has been updated as MP have now announced Matsushita.
Trayambak Chakravarty (@major-dev)
17th February 2020, 14:10
It’d be a crying shame if Daruvala ends up without an F2 seat.
TomD11 (@tomd11)
18th February 2020, 12:03
I don’t see Mahaveer Raghunathan’s name anywhere. Surely this is some cruel, cruel prank you’re playing on us, Keith? I can’t believe such a dizzying talent won’t be on the grid in 2020.