Virtuosi Racing (formerly Virtuosi UK) is a British racing team currently competing in the F4 British Championship. The team previously raced in the Auto GP series, in addition to running the Russian Time outfit in GP2 and Formula 2 from 2015 to 2018. With the withdrawal of Russian Time, the team assumed its new name UNI-Virtuosi Racing for the 2019 F2 season. A partnership with watch company Invicta resulted in a further name change for 2023, a partial takeover which saw the birth of Invicta Racing in 2024, and a full takeover in 2025.
History In 2012, former Super Nova Racing employees Paul Devlin and Andy Roche approached businessman Declan Lohan for financial backing and Virtuosi UK team was founded at Carleton Rode, Norfolk in order to participate in the Auto GP. The team signed GP2 Series driver Pål Varhaug. His team-mates in the first rounds were European F3 Open driver Matteo Beretta and Formula Renault 3.5 Series driver Sten Pentus, before they was replaced by Auto GP veteran Francesco Dracone. Varhaug won feature race at Sonoma and reverse-grid races at Monza and Hungaroring, finishing as runner-up in the drivers' standings and bringing fourth place in the teams' standings.
For 2013, the team signed FIA European Formula 3 Championship graduate Andrea Roda. He was partnered by Max Snegirev, who previously raced for Campos Racing. Also British team supported Comtec by Virtuosi entry. Unlike the previous season Virtuosi drivers even failed to achieve podium finish and downgraded to seventh in the teams' standings.
The squad prolonged Andrea Roda for 2014 campaign. Also the team expanded to three cars for two opening rounds, fielding Richard Gonda and Sam Dejonghe. At Imola, second car was occupied by returnee Varhaug but he was replaced at Spielberg by Tamás Pál Kiss, who left Zele Racing. Also at Spielberg Roda won a reverse-grid race, it was first win for Virtuosi since 2012. Kiss collected another two wins for the team at Nürburgring and Estoril. The team finished as runner-up in the teams' standings.
In 2015, the team signed German Formula Three driver Nikita Zlobin. In addition the team replaced iSport International in the managing of the Russian Time team in the GP2 Series.
On 4 December 2018, it was announced Virtuosi would replace the outgoing Russian Time outfit in the FIA Formula 2 Championship in under the name UNI-Virtuosi. The following day, the team confirmed Guanyu Zhou as its first driver. The next day Luca Ghiotto filled the remained slot in the Virtuosi's line-up. The team finished in second place in the Teams' Championship in its first season as Virtuosi, with Ghiotto taking four wins.
For the team retained Zhou as its first driver, whilst replacing the outgoing Ghiotto with Callum Ilott. The team repeated its runners-up finish in Teams' Championship from the previous year, again with four wins.
In , Zhou was once again retained by the team, this time joined by Felipe Drugovich in the other car. For the third year in a row the team finished in second place in the Teams' Championship, once again with four wins, all scored by Zhou. On 20 October, Virtuosi Racing announced its expansion to Formula 4 racing by entering the F4 British Championship from the 2022 season onwards.
With Zhou graduating to Formula 1 in with Alfa Romeo, his seat was filled by Jack Doohan, with Marino Sato replacing Drugovich. Despite Doohan taking three wins in his rookie season the team could only finish in seventh place in the Teams' Championship.
Prior to the 2023 season, the team announced a new title partnership deal with the Invicta Watch Group. The season saw Doohan remain with the team, this time joined by Belgian Amaury Cordeel. Cordeel would have an uncompetitive season, finishing 20th in the standings. Doohan had a slow start to the season, but would rebound with two poles and three feature race wins to finish third in the standings.
Ahead of the 2024 season, Invicta announced that it had purchased an ownership stake in the team, which would thereby compete as Invicta Racing. Virtuosi would still co-own and operate the team. With Jack Doohan graduating to a test and reserve driver role with the Alpine F1 Team and Amaury Cordeel switching to Hitech, the team had a brand new driver lineup in Indian Alpine junior Kush Maini and reigning FIA Formula 3 champion Gabriel Bortoleto. It proved to be a breakthrough season for both parties, as Bortoleto collected two wins and narrowly beat Campos Racing's Isack Hadjar to the title in his rookie year. Maini's points in turn helped Invicta clinch the teams' championship, the first for Virtuosi since , when the British outfit ran Russian Time. Another milestone quickly followed, as Bortoleto and Doohan became the first Virtuosi Racing drivers ever to graduate to Formula One, joining Sauber and Alpine respectively.
In March 2025, Invicta completed acquisition of the Formula 2 squad and split from Virtuosi, with the exception of Roche, who would remain a consultant.
Current series results F4 British Championship Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F/Laps Points D.C. T.C.2022Tatuus F4-T421 Michael Shin301018711th5th Edward Pearson300008112th2023Tatuus F4-T421 Aqil Alibhai301001698th6th Douwe Dedecker300002621st Kai Daryanani29000824th2024Tatuus F4-T421 Martin Molnár30000117.58th5th Maxwell Dodds2600043.516th Yuhao Fu300002718th2025Tatuus F4-T421 Martin Molnár302352773rd4th Salim Hanna31004119th Oleksandr Savinkov120002424th Emma Felbermayr3000730th2026Tatuus F4-T421 George Proudford-Nalder Joseph Smith Jarrett Clark Emma Felbermayr Fred Green Charlie Smith
Former series results FIA Formula 2 Championship Year Chassis Engine Tyres Drivers Races Wins Poles Podiums As "Russian Time" DallaraGP2/11 MecachromeV8108 V8 Artem Markelov 22 5 1 6 7 2nd 210 1st 395 Luca Ghiotto 22 1 0 0 7 4th 185 DallaraF2 2018 MecachromeV634T V6 t Artem Markelov 24 3 0 5 7 5th 186 4th 234 Tadasuke Makino 24 1 0 0 1 13th 48 As "UNI-Virtuosi Racing/Virtuosi Racing" DallaraF2 2018 MecachromeV634T V6 t Zhou Guanyu 22 0 1 2 5 7th 140 2nd 347 Luca Ghiotto 22 4 2 2 9 3rd 207 DallaraF2 2018 MecachromeV634T V6 t Zhou Guanyu 24 1 1 4 6 6th 151.5 2nd 352.5 Callum Ilott 24 3 5 0 6 2nd 201 DallaraF2 2018 MecachromeV634T V6 t Zhou Guanyu 22 4 1 1 9 3rd 183 2nd 288 Felipe Drugovich 21 0 0 0 4 8th 105 DallaraF2 2018 MecachromeV634T V6 t Jack Doohan 28 3 3 4 6 6th 128 7th 134 Marino Sato 28 0 0 0 0 22nd 6 DallaraF2 2018 MecachromeV634T V6 t Jack Doohan 25 3 2 3 5 3rd 168 5th 176 Amaury Cordeel 26 0 0 0 0 20th 8 As "Invicta Racing" DallaraF2 2024 MecachromeV634T V6 t Kush Maini 28 1 1 1 5 13th 74 1st 288.5 Gabriel Bortoleto 28 2 2 2 8 1st 214.5
In detail (key) Year Drivers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Points BHRFEA BHRSPR CATFEA CATSPR MONFEA MONSPR BAKFEA BAKSPR RBRFEA RBRSPR SILFEA SILSPR HUNFEA HUNSPR SPAFEA SPASPR MNZFEA MNZSPR JERFEA JERSPR YMCFEA YMCSPR 1st 395 Luca Ghiotto Artem Markelov BHRFEA BHRSPR BAKFEA BAKSPR CATFEA CATSPR MONFEA MONSPR LECFEA LECSPR RBRFEA RBRSPR SILFEA SILSPR HUNFEA HUNSPR SPAFEA SPASPR MNZFEA MNZSPR SOCFEA SOCSPR YMCFEA YMCSPR 4th 234 Artem Markelov Tadasuke Makino BHRFEA BHRSPR BAKFEA BAKSPR CATFEA CATSPR MCOFEA MCOSPR LECFEA LECSPR RBRFEA RBRSPR SILFEA SILSPR HUNFEA HUNSPR SPAFEA SPASPR MNZFEA MNZSPR SOCFEA SOCSPR YMCFEA YMCSPR 2nd 347 Zhou Guanyu 10F 4 Ret 10 3 4 5 3 4 3 6 8 3P 8 9 9 C C Ret 4 10 5 3F 8 Luca Ghiotto 2P 1 9 RetF 4P 2 DSQ Ret Ret 12 2 2 1 15 4 8 C C 2 15 4F 1 6 1 RBRFEA RBRSPR RBRFEA RBRSPR HUNFEA HUNSPR SILFEA SILSPR SILFEA SILSPR CATFEA CATSPR SPAFEA SPASPR MNZFEA MNZSPR MUGFEA MUGSPR SOCFEA SOCSPR BHRFEA BHRSPR BHRFEA BHRSPR 2nd 352.5 Zhou Guanyu 17P F 14 3 4 10 8F 2F 9 9 7 3 14 7 3 5 NC RetF 5 8 1 14 5 2 4 Callum Ilott 1 9 5 5 8P 2 5 Ret 1P 6 5P 8 10 Ret 6P 1 12 6 3 7 2P 16 5 10 BHRSP1 BHRSP2 BHRFEA MCOSP1 MCOSP2 MCOFEA BAKSP1 BAKSP2 BAKFEA SILSP1 SILSP2 SILFEA MNZSP1 MNZSP2 MNZFEA SOCSP1 SOCSP2 SOCFEA JEDSP1 JEDSP2 JEDFEA YMCSP1 YMCSP2 YMCFEA 2nd 288 Zhou Guanyu 7 3 1P 1 15 5F 3 Ret 13 Ret 11 1 2 8 2 DNS C 6 17 8 4 8 1 2 Felipe Drugovich 16 14 9 2 14 3 14 10 4 4 7 6 Ret 17 13 DNS C DNS 4 10 5 2 5 3 BHRSPR BHRFEA JEDSPR JEDFEA IMOSPR IMOFEA CATSPR CATFEA MCOSPR MCOFEA BAKSPR BAKFEA SILSPR SILFEA RBRSPR RBRFEA LECSPR LECFEA HUNSPR HUNFEA SPASPR SPAFEA ZANSPR ZANFEA MNZSPR MNZFEA YMCSPR YMCFEA 7th 134 Jack Doohan 10 10P Ret 9F 11 Ret 6 2P F 7F 4 11 13 1 9 3 19F 4 5 1 Ret 2 1 9 Ret 6 RetP 7 Ret Marino Sato 16 11 8 17 16 11 17 19 15 10 17† 8 Ret 15 Ret 16 9 Ret 15 15 12 15 19 Ret 11 11 19 15 BHRSPR BHRFEA JEDSPR JEDFEA ALBSPR ALBFEA BAKSPR BAKFEA MCOSPR MCOFEA CATSPR CATFEA RBRSPR RBRFEA SILSPR SILFEA HUNSPR HUNFEA SPASPR SPAFEA ZANSPR ZANFEA MNZSPR MNZFEA YMCSPR YMCFEA 5th 176 Jack Doohan 11 16 7 2 Ret 8 17† 15 6F Ret 5 6 7 4 3 4 10 1P F 5 1F 6 DNS 9 6 6 1P Amaury Cordeel 21 15 19 20 12 13 9 19 Ret NC 17 19 15 17 16 Ret 19 21 Ret 15 16 8 Ret 8 17 16 BHRSPR BHRFEA JEDSPR JEDFEA ALBSPR ALBFEA IMOSPR IMOFEA MCOSPR MCOFEA CATSPR CATFEA RBRSPR RBRFEA SILSPR SILFEA HUNSPR HUNFEA SPASPR SPAFEA MNZSPR MNZFEA BAKSPR BAKFEA LUSSPR LUSFEA YMCSPR YMCFEA 1st 288.5 Kush Maini 13 7 8 2P 3 12 8 14 Ret 17 2 6 7 17 3 19 1 7 13 15 11 15F 9 DSQ 20† 14 17 12 Gabriel Bortoleto 6 5P 10 Ret Ret Ret 6 2P 2 8 5 10 4 1 4 6 16F 4 10 2 8 1 5 4F 5 3 2 2
Timeline Current series F4 British Championship 2022–present Former series Auto GP 2012–2015 GP2 Series 2015–2016 FIA Formula 2 Championship 2017–2024
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