1. Whilst karting in 2016, Victor Martins partook as a guest driver in the fifth round of the French F4 Championship, in which he claimed two podiums.
60 Facts About Victor Martins
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Victor Martins stepped up to single-seaters in 2017, returning to contest the French F4 Championship full-time.
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Victor Martins won twice during the first weekend, and won another in the next round, despite having a further win being excluded due to collision.
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Victor Martins claimed nine poles, ten fastest laps and eleven podiums in total.
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Victor Martins took his first Eurocup win during the midpoint of the season at the Red Bull Ring, and later another at Spa-Francorchamps.
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Victor Martins returned for the 2019 championship, switching to MP Motorsport, which had carried Victor Martins' fellow Renault junior Christian Lundgaard to second in the championship the previous year.
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Victor Martins had an average start to the first half of the season, scoring only one win but was level with leader Oscar Piastri at the halfway mark.
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Victor Martins recorded five wins in the last four rounds and finished runner-up to Piastri, with 7.5 points splitting the pair at the end of the year.
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Victor Martins won six races, achieving 14 podiums throughout the year, three more than rival Piastri.
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Victor Martins moved to ART Grand Prix for the 2020 season of the championship, partnering Gregoire Saucy and rookie Paul Aron.
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In October 2020, Victor Martins joined ART Grand Prix for the post-season test at Catalunya, which saw him finish in the top ten across all four sessions, with a highest placed finish of fifth on the first day.
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Victor Martins ended up signing for MP Motorsport for the 2021 Formula 3 season, alongside fellow Alpine junior and Formula Renault Eurocup title rival Caio Collet and Tijmen van der Helm.
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Victor Martins took his first podium in second place in Race 2 after a last-lap battle with Olli Caldwell.
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In Race 3, Victor Martins moved up to second at the start but eventually slipped to fifth.
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Victor Martins concluded his podium-laden weekend with a fourth place in Race 3.
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At the first race in Austria, Victor Martins finished fifth, a post-race penalty depriving him of a podium.
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In Race 3, Martins battled with Jack Doohan for the feature race victory, eventually having to settle for second as the Frenchman overtook Doohan off-track, being forced to give the lead back.
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Late in the race during Race 3, Victor Martins made a failed move on David Schumacher for second place, sending the German driver into the barriers.
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Victor Martins was handed a ten-second penalty and was dropped to tenth place.
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Victor Martins finished fifth in the drivers' standings with 131 points, scoring one win, five more podiums and four fastest laps, becoming the best-placed rookie of the season.
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Victor Martins tested for ART Grand Prix during the post-season testing and the following year, was announced in their line-up for the 2022 campaign.
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Victor Martins took his first win of the season by winning the feature race over Arthur Leclerc, having to overtake leader Franco Colapinto mid-race.
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Victor Martins would suffer a mechanical failure that led to a retirement on Saturday, but during the feature race Victor Martins would overtake polesitter Roman Stanek at the start and control the race for his third win overall.
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Victor Martins came back fighting in Zandvoort, missing out on pole and settling for second.
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Victor Martins's second placed feature race podium put himself into the lead of the championship with one round remaining.
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Victor Martins took advantage of numerous penalties for other rivals, which demoted Martins only to P4, thus securing the championship victory and becoming the first drivers' champion for a team other than Prema in the category.
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In January 2023, Victor Martins was announced to be stepping up to Formula 2 with ART alongside fellow Frenchman Theo Pourchaire.
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In Jeddah, Victor Martins took pole, 0.7 seconds faster than everyone else.
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Victor Martins had a disappointing weekend in Melbourne, qualifying third but crashing out at the end of qualifying.
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In Baku, having qualified eighth, Victor Martins ran second in the sprint race having started third.
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Victor Martins finished the race in eighth as a result of the drive-through penalty.
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Victor Martins moved to second place in the early part of the race, before losing a position to teammate Pourchaire in the last laps, nevertheless it was his first podium since Jeddah.
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Victor Martins secured his second pole of the year in Austria.
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In Spa-Francorchamps, Victor Martins continued his excellent qualifying streak, doing so in third.
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Victor Martins made up positions during the sprint race, ending in fourth place.
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Victor Martins again had a slow start during the feature race, but crept back up to third, where he was demoted to fifth place due to a five-second penalty for speeding in the pit lane.
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Victor Martins was classified second in the aborted sprint race.
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Later, Victor Martins tried to overtake Oliver Bearman into turn 3 but collided with him sending the Prema driver into the barrier.
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Victor Martins finished fifth in the drivers championship with 150 points.
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In January 2024, ART Grand Prix announced Victor Martins would continue with the team for the 2024 Formula 2 Championship partnering 2023 FIA Formula 3 runner-up and Williams junior Zak O'Sullivan.
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Victor Martins then improved to eighth in the feature race in another comeback drive.
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Victor Martins crashed out on the opening lap of the sprint race, and an awful start in the feature race left him languishing him at the back, before recovering to ninth place in another disappointing weekend.
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In Spain, Victor Martins got a brilliant start from second in the sprint and took the lead from Kush Maini into turn 1.
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Qualifying fifth for Hungary, Victor Martins surprisingly managed to take his soft tyres to the end of the race to finish third during the sprint, which became second when winner Richard Verschoor was disqualified.
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Nevertheless, Victor Martins managed to finish second, marking his best weekend of the season.
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Victor Martins concluded the feature race in sixth after a ferocious battle with the two Prema cars.
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Victor Martins moved to second after Antonelli collided with Zane Maloney, thus securing Martins' fifth podium of 2024.
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Victor Martins was tipped into a spin on the opening lap of the sprint race by Ritomo Miyata, ruining his race as he finished down in 19th.
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Victor Martins finished seventh in the standings with 107 points with one win and five podiums, two places lower than 2023.
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Victor Martins remained with ART Grand Prix for a third Formula 2 season in 2025, where he teams up with Ritomo Miyata.
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In January 2018, Victor Martins was inducted into the Renault Sport Academy.
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In May 2023, Victor Martins made his F1 test debut in Monza, driving the Alpine A521.
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On 31 March 2025, it was announced that Victor Martins joined the Williams Driver Academy.
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Victor Martins partook in his first F1 test for the team a few days later in Monza.
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Victor Martins partook in the WEC rookie test in November 2024 with the Alpine Endurance Team, driving the Hypercar at the Bahrain International Circuit.
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Victor Martins completed the session fourth quickest, highest of the rookies.
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Victor Martins competed in the 2025 Race of Champions, and he drove for Team France alongside rally driver Sebastien Loeb.
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Victor Martins currently lives in Paris, and was a champion in gymnastics at a young age.
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Victor Martins was ineligible for points from the third round onwards.
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Victor Martins was ineligible for points from the third round onwards.