34 Facts About Victor Martins

Victor Martins won the 2020 Formula Renault Eurocup and the 2022 FIA Formula 3 Championship.

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.

Victor Martins stepped up to single-seaters in 2017, returning to contest the French F4 Championship full-time.

Victor Martins won twice during the first weekend, and won another in the next round, despite having a further win beign excluded due to collision.

Victor Martins claimed nine poles, ten fastest laps and eleven podiums in total.

Victor Martins took his first Eurocup win during the midpoint of the season at the Red Bull Ring, and later another at Spa-Francorchamps.

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.

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.

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.

Victor Martins won six races, achieving 14 podiums throughout the year, three more than rival Piastri.

Victor Martins moved to ART Grand Prix for the 2020 season of the championship, partnering Gregoire Saucy and rookie Paul Aron.

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.

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.

Victor Martins took his first podium in second place in Race 2 after a last-lap battle with Olli Caldwell.

In Race 3, Victor Martins moved up to second at the start but eventually slipped to fifth.

Victor Martins concluded his podium-laden weekend with a fourth place in Race 3.

At the first race in Austria, Victor Martins finished fifth, a post-race penalty depriving him of a podium.

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.

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.

Victor Martins was handed a ten-second penalty and was dropped to tenth place.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Victor Martins came back fighting in Zandvoort, missing out on pole and settling for second.

Victor Martins's second placed feature race podium put himself into the lead of the championship with one round remaining.

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.

In January 2023, Victor Martins was announced to be stepping up to Formula 2 with ART alongside fellow Frenchman Theo Pourchaire.

In Jeddah, Victor Martins took pole, 0.7 seconds faster than everyone else.

Victor Martins had a disappointing weekend in Melbourne, qualifying third but crashing out at the end of qualifying.

In Baku, having qualified eighth, Victor Martins ran second in the sprint race having started third.

In January 2018, Victor Martins was inducted into the Renault Sport Academy.

On May 2023, Victor Martins made his F1 test debut in Monza, driving the Alpine A521.

Victor Martins was ineligible for points from the third round onwards.