Mercedes have announced that 2023 Formula 2 champion Theo Pourchaire has joined the team as Development Driver.<\/p>\n
The French racer is the newest addition to Mercedes\u2019<\/a> driver portfolio, joining the likes of F1 racers George Russell<\/a> and Kimi Antonelli<\/a> as well as Third Driver Fred Vesti<\/a> \u2013 who finished as runner-up to Pourchaire in the 2023 F2 championship.<\/p>\n After finishing runner-up in the 2020 F3 season and Formula 2 in 2022, Pourchaire secured the 2023 F2 title with ART Grand Prix. The 22-year-old went on to gain experience in IndyCar in 2024 and served as a reserve for the then-named Alfa Romeo\/Kick Sauber outfit.<\/p>\n In his position with the Sauber team he took part in three FP1 sessions across the 2022 and 2023 seasons before leaving the squad after graduating from their programme.<\/p>\n The French driver then progressed to endurance racing, joining Peugeot as a development driver in 2025 and he also made his World Endurance Championship debut in the same year. Alongside his Mercedes duties he will also become a full-time Hypercar driver for Team Peugeot TotalEnergies in 2026.<\/p>\n \u201cThe news is finally out, I\u2019m incredibly proud and grateful to be joining Mercedes as a Development Driver,\u201d said Pourchaire on social media.<\/p>\n \u201cI grew up watching this team winning in F1 and now I have the honour to work with them and represent them.<\/p>\n “A big thank you to everyone involved for giving me this opportunity, I\u2019m going to make the most of it. Let\u2019s start the work in Brackley.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mercedes have announced that 2023 Formula 2 champion Theo Pourchaire has joined the team as Development Driver. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-495489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}