Stoffel Vandoorne joins Aston Martin as tester and reserve

And three! After Fernando Alonso et Philip Drugovich, Aston Martin holds a 3^e driver for the 2023 season. The English team confirmed this Tuesday the arrival of Stoffel Vandoorne as test and reserve driver in the same capacity as Felipe Drugovich, champion F2 In title.

Welcome to the team, @svandoorne.

Formula E champion Stoffel Vandoorne enhances the 2023 @ AstonMartinF1 driver line-up by joining @FelipeDrugovich as a test and reserve driver.

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—Aston Martin Aramco F1 Team (@AstonMartinF1) November 1, 2022

« It's very exciting to land the role of reserve driver in F1 and I'm delighted to be able to be one at Aston Martin, underlines the main interested party who will compete in the 2022/2023 Formula E season in parallel with DS Penske. I have watched with great interest the development and operational expansion of the team, and I know how determined they are to progress in all areas."

On the team's factory side at Silverstone, Stoffel Vandoorne will meet an old acquaintance in the person of Fernando Alonso, his teammate at McLaren in 2017 and 2018. Joining Fernando, who I already know from my Formula 1 career, and Lance, to help them develop and improve next year's car, will be a great job.He says. I'm really looking forward to the challenge of working with the whole organization at Silverstone."

World champion Formula E in title, Stoffel Vandoorne therefore leaves the fold Mercedes of which he was the reserve driver of the parent team since 2020. With the arrival of the native of Kortrijk (Belgium) in the ranks of Aston Martin, we imagine that Nico Hulkenberg, who held this position for two years, will leave the Greens. To take the direction of HaasWhere Mick Schumacher has still not been extended?

With the tenure of Nyck de Vries in Alpha Tauri and the promotion of Vandoorne to green, Mercedes also finds itself without an official reserve driver next year. Enough to accredit the arrival of a Daniel Ricciardo looking for a second wind in this role?

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