Vesti is ending a exceptional junior components profession which noticed him take the title within the 2019 Method Regional European Championship and be a constant frontrunner throughout his two years in Method 3. He took six wins on his strategy to second place in final 12 months’s F2 season, solely overwhelmed by one-time victor and constant podium finisher Theo Pourchaire.
A Mercedes junior since January 2021, Vesti was unable to discover a seat on the Method 1 grid regardless of his outcomes being enough to safe an FIA superlicence and testing expertise aboard the final two silver arrows.
The Dane, who will have fun his twenty second birthday on Saturday, will now attempt his hand at endurance racing, having secured an LMP2 drive in ELMS with Swiss squad Cool Racing. He’ll share the #47 ORECA 07 with Alejandro Garcia and Ferdinand Habsburg.
“We’re blissful and proud having assembled such a line-up for the 2024 season”, group co-founder Nicolas Lapierre mentioned. “The spine is similar, with youth and an apparent sporting venture.
“You will need to preserve going with Alex, who continues his growth with us and can have the ability to depend on Ferdi’s expertise. Frederik is in step with our philosophy, and we will have excessive objectives.
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Race winner Frederik Vesti, Prema Racing, on the rostrum in Jeddah
“Now, we simply have to translate all of this on observe, in a sequence that retains getting extra aggressive. We strengthened our technical organisation all through the previous couple of seasons and hope to capitalise on the expertise now we have amassed. 2024, with two ‘Professional’ LMP2s and one LMP3, is a crucial 12 months within the group’s life.”
Co-founded by Lapierre and Alexandre Coigny in 2020, Cool Racing has achieved its greatest successes to this point within the ELMS’ LMP3 class, profitable the 2022 and 2023 titles, whereas taking the runner-up spot within the LMP2 Professional/Am subclass with Coigny, Lapierre and Malthe Jakobsen final 12 months.
Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya will play host to the opening spherical of the 2024 ELMS marketing campaign on 14 April, earlier than the championship visits Le Castellet, Imola, Spa-Francorchamps, Mugello and Portimao.
