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Honda and Red Bull Formula 1 junior Yuki Tsunoda will step up to Formula 2 with Carlin in 2020. It is understood Tsunoda impressed his bosses at both Honda and Red Bull during his rookie campaign in FIA Formula 3, his first year of car racing outside Japan. The Japanese driver finished ninth in the championship with Jenzer Motorsport, scoring a maiden victory at Monza and two other podiums over the course of the season…

Ferrari Driver Academy’s Enzo Fittipaldi, grandson of double Formula 1 champion Emerson, and 2019 Red Bull junior Jack Doohan have joined HWA alongside Jake Hughes in FIA Formula 3. HWA initiated its first customer programme and junior single-seater foray in FIA F3 last year, with Hughes taking seventh in the drivers’ standings as the team finished fifth in the teams’ points. Hughes, 25, will again head the line-up alongside Fittipaldi – who finished runner-up in the new Formula Regional European Championship with Prema Racing in 2019 – and Doohan, who raced in Euroformula Open and finished second in Asian F3 last year… Alex Lynn has returned to the Jaguar Formula E team with which he contested seven races in the 2018-19 season to serve as the squad’s reserve and test driver. Jaguar will need a replacement driver for this season’s Sanya FE round as James Calado will miss the event to race for Ferrari in the clashing World Endurance Championship race at Sebring. But it is unclear if Lynn will automatically replace Calado due to his own WEC GTE commitments with Aston Martin… Former Audi LMP1 racer Oliver Jarvis will rejoin the factory M-sport Bentley squad as part of a major reshuffle of the British manufacturer’s driver line-up. Jarvis, who races for Mazda in the IMSA Sportscar Championship, has been re-signed by Bentley for a full programme in the Intercontinental GT Challenge, three years after he was part of its Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup line-up. Steven Kane, who has been part of Bentley’s set-up since the beginning of the GT3 programme in 2013, has been released by the marque, while Andy Soucek is no longer a factory driver... Formula 2 racer Tatiana Calderon has secured a switch to Super Formula, and will become the first female driver to compete in the Japanese series. She will drive for the Honda-powered Drago Corse squad, which is returning to the grid this season after a brief stint in the championship between 2014-16. Red Bull Formula 1 junior Juri Vips’ drive in the series has also been confirmed.