Louis Deletraz and Pedro Piquet will compete for Charouz Racing System in next year’s Formula 2 championship.
For Deletraz it is a return to the team with which he raced in the series in 2018, in-between stints at Rapax, Racing Engineering and Carlin.
Piquet – son of three-time F1 champion Nelson – finished fifth in this year’s Formula 3 championship, taking victory in Belgium, and will now make the step up to the secondary category for 2020.
Both drivers carried out post-season testing in Abu Dhabi for the team, which finished sixth in the 2019 championship.
“I’m looking forward to working with the guys at Charouz again – many of whom are the same as when I drove there in 2018,” said Deletraz.
“I know they have good experience like me so I’m confident we can put that together and do something good in 2020.
“I’m focused on fighting at the front and trying to win with Charouz. I will go there and do the maximum.”
Piquet commented: “After two years in GP3 and F3, the time is right to take the next step in my career and I think I’m ready for the challenge that F2 will bring.
“I think I had some good training in the last series and that will definitely help me.
“I’m happy to join Charouz because they had two strong years in F2 and they have a fast car.
“One of the other reasons I decided to go there is because I know the engineering part of the team very well and I knew I would work with good people.”
Charouz is the fourth team to confirm its 2020 line-up, with DAMS (Dan Ticktum and Sean Gelael), HWA (Artem Markelov and Giuliano Alesi) and Prema (Mick Schumacher and Robert Shwartzman) having ratified their pairings.
Guan Yu Zhou is expected to stay on alongside ex-Charouz racer Callum Ilott at UNI-Virtuosi while Christian Lundgaard is poised to join Marcus Armstrong at ART Grand Prix.
Ex-ART racer Nikita Mazepin is set to remain in the championship should plans for Hitech Grand Prix, which competes in Formula 3, to join the series receive the green light; Sergio Sette Camara is expected to partner Mazepin.
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