Peter Allen

Alexander Smolyar will spend a second season with ART Grand Prix in the FIA Formula 3 Championship this year

Nikita Mazepin has achieved the results needed to secure an F1 drive for 2021. But the increasing influence of drivers with extreme wealth must still be questioned

FIA Formula 3 champion outfit Prema has completed its 2021 driver line-up with the signing of Olli Caldwell

Red Bull juniors Jonny Edgar and Jak Crawford have secured promotions to FIA Formula 3 for 2021 with the Carlin and Hitech teams respectively

Red Bull junior drivers Juri Vips and Liam Lawson will race full-time in Formula 2 this year with Hitech GP

Calan Williams will continue racing with Jenzer Motorsport in FIA Formula 3 this year

Red Bull junior driver Dennis Hauger has been named as Prema’s second driver for the 2021 FIA Formula 3 season

Lirim Zendeli has signed with MP Motorsport to make the move up from FIA Formula 3 to Formula 2 for 2021

Red Bull and Honda protege Yuki Tsunoda will race in Formula 1 for AlphaTauri next season after his impressive run to third in Formula 2 in 2020

David Vidales has been signed by Prema for the new-look Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine in 2021

The Ferrari Driver Academy has named Australian karter James Wharton as the winner of its inaugural scouting world final

Marino Sato will join fellow Formula 2 racer Yuki Tsunoda to form an all-Japanese line-up for AlphaTauri in next week’s Formula 1 young driver test in Abu Dhabi

Yuki Tsunoda looks set to be named an AlphaTauri F1 driver just two years after racing in Japanese F4. But his incredible progress in that short time now outweighs his inexperience

FIA Formula 3 champion Oscar Piastri will stay with Prema when he steps up to Formula 2 next season

Karter James Wharton, recently scouted by Ferrari, is the latest driver to be signed to Nicolas Todt’s All Road Management stable

French Formula 4 champion Ayumu Iwasa rounded out the season with a ninth victory in the last race of the year at Paul Ricard

The Toyota Racing Series is set to go ahead in 2021 with a three-round season held only on New Zealand’s North Island

Zak O’Sullivan has been penalised for overtaking under yellow flags in race two of the British F4 finale, denting his chances of beating Luke Browning to the championship

With the Formula Renault Eurocup to merge into Formula Regional Europe, Peter Allen looks back at some of the classic battles between stars of the future

Lorenzo Colombo took pole position for Sunday’s final ever Formula Renault Eurocup race at Paul Ricard