Harpoon have reported that Marino Sato will stay with the group for the 2021 Formula Two season, where he will be joined by Bent Viscaal who moves on from Formula Three.
Sato will race in F2 for a third successive season having made his presentation halfway through the 2019 season for Campos at Spa Francorchamps, Belgium, prior to joining Trident last season where he scored only one point in Mugello Sprint Race in transit to 22nd in the drivers standings generally speaking.
Talking on his choice to remain in F2 with Trident, Sato said: “I’m truly anticipating proceed with our excursion along with group Trident. We had an extremely intense season a year ago yet we were improving race by race.”
Spear Team Principal, Giacomo Ricci is ‘glad’ to hold Sato briefly successive season and depicted 2020 as a ‘positive experience’ for the 21 year-old who drove for AlphaTauri in F1’s post-season test at Abu Dhabi in December.
Talking on Sato’s turn of events, Ricci said: “… , Sato showed exceptional advancement that makes us certain about his potential in front of the new season, which will begin toward the finish of March at Al Sakhir.”
2021 sees F2 present another race end of the week design which Ricci feels could profit Sato’s turn of events, saying: “I emphatically believe that the new arrangement of the arrangement, highlighting three races with invert networks, will empower Marino to voyage to the points zone consistently and proceed with his development in the FIA F2 Championship.”
Sato will be joined at Trident by Dutch youngster, Bent Viscaal who graduates into F2 following a noteworthy lady F3 lady for MP Motorsport, in which he took triumph at the second Silverstone Sprint Race in a sensational end in front of Trident’s Lirim Zendeli, who has additionally ventured up to F2 yet with MP Motorsport rather this season.
Talking on his transition to the Italian group, Viscaal said: “I will be on target for aggregate pre-season testing in pretty much fourteen days, and I am truly energized! We accomplished incredible arrangement work.”
Viscaal additionally noticed Trident’s quality and is eager to at last drive for the group, saying: “I have known about the estimation of Trident Motorsport for a long while, and it’s at last an ideal opportunity to cooperate. I’m certain that we will accomplish incredible outcomes.”
Ricci then is ‘significantly fulfilled’ to affirm Viscaal’s graduation subsequent to testing for the group last December in Bahrain at F2’s post-season test, remarking: “We had Bent with us for one day of testing last December in Bahrain, and we got the opportunity to value his speed abilities on numerous occasions.
Viscaal’s F3 succeed at Silverstone last August has anyway not been forgotten by the Italian group with Ricci feeling that the pair can push for progress together, saying: “We are persuaded we will actually want to arrive at extraordinary outcomes together, and we will give him our best help to assist him to track down his fit with our family as fast as could really be expected.”
