Kush Maini, F2 driver, joins Alpine’s development program

Kush Maini, currently in Formula 2, joins the drivers of the Alpine team. He will receive help from the Alpine Academy and the BWT Alpine F1 team. He will be able to use the team’s facilities at Enstone, in England for his development and training.

Kush Maini is participating in his first season of FIA Formula 2 with the Campos Racing team. He achieved a third place in Australia and his best qualification in second place at Silverstone. At the age of 23, he joined the Alpine Academy quite late.

Kush Maini said he was « extremely excited about the idea of joining the Alpine Academy. »

« It is a dream come true to be associated with a team like Alpine where I can learn and progress to, hopefully, be ready one day to move on to Formula 1. A huge thank you to Alpine for believing in me and giving me this opportunity. » asserts the Indian driver originally from Bangalore.

The Alpine driver academy includes promising drivers such as the Australian, Jack Doohan, reserve driver for BWT Alpine F1, and Victor Martins, champion of FIA Formula 3 in 2022. The two Alpine drivers in F2 currently occupy P4 and P5 in the championship, a weekend away from the end of the season. The academy has also trained current F1 drivers such as Zhou Guanyu and Oscar Piastri, as well as Olli Caldwell, who is currently racing for Alpine in endurance.

Julian Rouse, interim sports director of the Alpine team confirms the ambitions of the program: « He is a young talent in whom we believe a lot and who will be a valuable asset for our driver development program. »

« The Alpine Academy will start its ninth year in 2024 and currently has nine drivers of eight different nationalities, spread across four different series, from FIA Formula 2 to European karting. The ongoing expansion of the Academy’s talent pool goes hand in hand with the development of our new state-of-the-art training and testing facilities, the AHPC, underway at Enstone. »