The field

Mateo Ferreira

Valory's chosen lead, poached from touring cars where he never finished lower than the machinery deserved. Calm, complete, and quietly certain the first title should be his.

Anders Holt

Promoted from Valory's junior programme two years early. Tidy beyond his age, with a ceiling the engineers argue about over lunch.

Nikolai Varga

Kestrel's spearhead, a brawler from the rallycross world who treats every gap as a formal invitation. The founding series' first villain, if you ask the wrong paddock.

Jules Marchand

Karting royalty with a famous temper and a faster left foot. Kestrel signed the ceiling and are still negotiating with the floor.

Elio Bassani

The fastest man of the old hillclimb scene, finally handed a full season. Aurelia built the founding car around his bravery and hope the rest follows.

Rafael Costa

A junior champion who spent two years testing while rivals raced. Arrives hungry, slightly raw, and visibly quicker every round.

Sven Halvorsen

Nordwind's compass. The wet-weather master of the endurance world, signed to finish races and teach the field what patience costs.

Lukas Brandt

Steady, coachable, and Nordwind to the bone: he has never binned a car he was asked to bring home.

Callum Reid

Meridian's gamble on raw material. Drives like the car owes him money; the studio believes the polish will come.

Kenji Tamura

A development driver who read every page of the new rulebook twice. Meridian's engineers call him the eighth sensor.

Fionn Brennan

The surname on the truck. Third generation of the family trade, first to get a works seat, and driving like all three at once.

Tomas Novak

A journeyman who has raced everything with doors and half the things without. Brennan's insurance policy, and proud of it.

Pau Requena

Solera's model professional: banked points in every feeder series he touched and intends to keep the habit.

Marco Delgado

Quick, impatient, and occasionally both at once. Solera signed him to learn their patience; the paddock is watching which way that goes.

Idris Kane

Ravenscroft's wild bet: a teenager from dirt ovals with no manners and a genuinely frightening ceiling.

Hugo Lindqvist

The oldest hand on the founding grid, hired to keep Ravenscroft's adventure pointed forwards. Has forgotten more racecraft than some teammates have learned.

Aria Venn

The youngest signature of the founding season, and the name every scout circled twice. Tessera got there first with a contract and a physics library.

Kwame Osei

Tessera's test-bench favourite, promoted for reading a chaotic car better than the telemetry does.

Ruben Aalto

Ashgrove's club-racing champion, finally on a national stage. Nobody on the grid gets more from less.

Milo Fenwick

Signed at seventeen from a kart shop's loyalty programme, more or less literally. Ashgrove's pensioners fund his tyres; the ceiling is the sport's worst-kept secret.

Zane Petrov

The co-op's elected professional: dependable, unsentimental, and paid partly in shares nobody has valued yet.

Ines Duarte

Vantablack's crowdfunded prodigy, discovered in a simulator league and delivered to a real grid still blinking.