The 23-year-old New Zealander will return to the cockpit of an FIA Method 3 automobile with MP Motorsport, 4 years after he completed runner-up within the FIA F3 Championship with Prema Racing.
Armstrong appeared on the entry checklist on Monday, after agreeing the take care of MP chief Sander Dorsman over the weekend to hitch workforce regulars Franco Colapinto and Mari Boya within the Dutch squad’s line-up.
Will probably be Armstrong’s third look in Macau – he completed eighth in 2018, the final operating with the old-style F3 vehicles, and eighth once more in 2019.
He might be reunited with MP technical chief Paolo Angilella, with whom he labored at Prema in his F3 days earlier than the Italian switched camps.
“Marcus has received some unfinished enterprise, and he’s labored with Paolo earlier than so the engineering facet is just not new to him,” MP workforce supervisor Jeremy Cotterill instructed Autosport.
MP is defending the Macau crown it gained on its first go to to the Guia circuit in 2019 with Richard Verschoor, who’s going for his second triumph within the occasion but has switched to Trident for the 18-19 November race. The race has not been run for F3 vehicles previously three seasons owing to the COVID-19 disaster and restrictions on worldwide travellers to the world.
“It’s troublesome to say,” stated Cotterill about his workforce’s prospects.
“It’s a restricted format, observe information is a bonus, however having stated that the one time we’ve been there was with three rookies and we completed first [Verschoor] and seventh [Liam Lawson].
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Armstrong completed eighth on his final Macau outing with Prema in 2019
“I keep in mind saying to Trevor Carlin [rival team boss] as we crossed the road, ‘I assumed everybody stated this was exhausting!’
“However I’m 100% sure, even when we win it once more, that our weekend is not going to be as simple because it was earlier than – again in 2019, we solely bent two trackrods throughout three vehicles, and a kind of was Richard on the final lap of the race when he brushed the wall.”
The naming of Armstrong leaves two TBAs on the entry checklist, one every at Rodin Carlin and Hitech GP.
There was one driver change. Dutch racer Laurens van Hoepen, tenth on this 12 months’s Method Regional European Championship by Alpine with ART Grand Prix, steps up with the French workforce for his F3 race debut rather than Gregoire Saucy.