Renault’s ‘senior’ junior academy member of its F1 programme, Jack Aitken has become part of the foundations of the new-look sq﷽uad since its takeover of Lotus at the start of 2016.

Aitken enters his third year as part of the Renault Sport junior academy ahead of his rookie Formula 2 sea🀅son after finishing last year as runner-up𝐆 in the GP3 Series to George Russell.

With the backing of Renault and an emerging track record, the British-Korean driver is older꧟ than a handful of current F1 drivers at the age of 22 but slots perfectly into the French manufacturer’s plans of building its own futuꦬre F1 world champion.

Dependent on his F2 🧸success and the 2019 driver market, Aitken has the opportunity to make himself a standout candidate to Renault and with the team climbing up the F1 ranks he kn⛄ows he could reach F1 with perfect timing.

“Renault have been really helpful in putting me through the motions of preparing for Formula 1,” Aitken said. “Last year I tested the old car to get a taꦓste for it and hopefully we’ll do more of that this year.

“Whe⭕n Renault purchased Lotus they set out a five-year time plan to compete for world titles an💯d that timeframe fits in quite nicely with me. We’ll see, time will tell and I will try my best to take that opportunity.”