MP Motorsport has introduced Franco Colapinto will kind a part of its Method 2 line-up in 2024 and make his debut within the sequence on the 2023 season finale.
Colapinto spent two years racing for MP in Method Regional, profitable 4 races throughout two championships, then stepped as much as FIA Method 3 final yr with Van Amersfoort Racing. He received two races and got here ninth within the standings, and his kind improved this season when he returned to MP’s ranks. He claimed one other two wins, and got here fourth within the championship.
He has spent current months rallying followers in his native Argentina to assist him discover the sponsorship cash to maneuver up a rung, and his push for funding has helped secure him a Macau Grand Prix drive with MP in addition to a step as much as F2.
It has not but been introduced who Colapinto will substitute on his debut F2 weekend in Abu Dhabi. Jehan Daruvala and Dennis Hauger have raced for MP within the sequence to date this yr.
“I’m completely thrilled to be shifting as much as F2 with MP,” mentioned Colapinto. “MP are confirmed race-winners within the class, and staying with them feels completely proper. It’s a well-recognized environment for me, and it is going to be to our benefit that we all know one another so properly as I enter my debut season within the class.
“I very a lot sit up for the recent problem of a brand new sequence, with a model new automobile to assist develop. I can’t wait to get within the automobile in Abu Dhabi after which work with the group to be prepared for a protracted and difficult 2024 season.”
Colapinto’s early promotion “will give us a head begin in our preparations for an thrilling 2024 F2 season wherein all of us begin from zero, with the brand new F2 automobile providing everybody a brand new baseline to work from” mentioned MP group principal Sanders Dorsman.
“Retaining Franco helps us to take care of stability in that transition, other than the truth that he’s develop into a member of the MP household and is a particularly fast and gifted driver.”
