Victor
Martins

Victor Martins was born on 16 June 2001 in Quincy-sous-Sénart. He took up karting in 2013 and won the CIK-FIA Junior World Karting Championship in 2016. In 2017 he moved into the French F4 Championship, where he won four races and was crowned junior champion as well as overall runner-up. In January 2018 he joined the Renault Sport Academy.

In Formula Renault Eurocup he finished fifth in 2018 with R-ace GP and second behind Oscar Piastri in 2019 with MP Motorsport. In 2020 he won the title with ART Grand Prix, taking seven victories and finishing 44 points clear of Caio Collet. He then rejoined the newly formed academy of the Alpine F1 Team. In the FIA Formula 3 Championship he was fifth overall and the top rookie in 2021 with MP Motorsport. In 2022 he became champion with ART, with two wins and 139 points. He was the first champion of the series from a team other than Prema.

Martins spent three seasons with ART in Formula 2, from 2023 to 2025. In 2023 he finished fifth with a win at Silverstone, three poles and nine podiums, and received the Anthoine Hubert Award as the best rookie. That year the team won the Formula 2 teams' championship for the first time. In 2024 he took one win and finished seventh, and in 2025 he won in Qatar and ended the season eleventh.

In Formula One he tested for Alpine in 2023 and 2024, and was dropped from its academy before the 2025 season. At the end of March 2025 he joined the Williams Driver Academy. At the Spanish Grand Prix, Williams ran him in free practice in place of Alexander Albon. He did not start a Grand Prix. For 2026 Williams promoted him to test and development driver. That year he also moved to the FIA World Endurance Championship with Alpine. In 2025 he won the Nations Cup at the Race of Champions for France, alongside Sébastien Loeb.

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