Championship-winning esports racer and former F1 Esports competitor Cem Bolukbasi will make his Formula 2 debut with Charouz this year.
After racing karts Bolukbasi joined the inaugural F1 Esports series in 2017 and later raced for Toro Rosso’s team.
He made his single-seater racing debut in 2019, aged 21, while continuing to race in esports. When the Covid-19 pandemic struck last year Bolukbasi won the Formula Renault Eurocup Esports series.
Last season Bolukbasi appeared in the Asian Formula 3 series where he finished ninth. He raced more competitively in Euroformula Open, ending the season fifth overall despite missing the first nine of 24 races, taking two wins (and losing a potential third due to a penalty) plus six other podium finishes.
He tested for Van Amersfoort in last month’s Formula 2 test at Yas Marina but will make the step up to F2 with Charouz.
“I worked so hard to get an opportunity like this,” said Bolukbasi. “First of all I want to thank Charouz for putting…