Friday, 23 November 2018

Mercedes signs Stoffel Vandoorne as a development driver for 2019

It was announce yesterday (22/11/18) that McLaren driver Stoffel Vandoorne will be Mercedes's development driver during the 2019 season.





Vandoorne will be the teams test driver and will focus on car development in the simulator, and will now move across to Mercedes, in providing support to Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas. Alongside his Formula E racing programme with the HWA(Mercedes) team that he sign a few weeks ago.



Vandoorne made his Grand Prix debut in F1 in 2017 with McLaren, after many seasons as one of their junior drivers. But having struggled to deliver consistent form, Vandoorne being replaced by Lando Norris for next season at McLaren after two seasons at the team.

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