Juri Vips will repl🌌ace fellow Red Bull Formula 1 junior Patricio O’Ward to make his Super Formula debut at the Suzuka season finale next weekend.

Vips finished fourth in the inaugural FIA Formulꦚa 3 campaign and notched up three victories while driving for Hitech Grand Prix in the F1-supporting series.

With the F3 seaso🐎n concluding at last month’s Russian Grand Prix, the highly-rated Estonian will make an appearance in Japan’s premier level of single-seater racing. Vips will take the seat of O’Ward at the Honda-powered Mugen squa𒈔d.

O’Ward himself only replaced Dan Ticktum – who was dropped from the Red Bull ๊young driver programme – after the third round of the season and sits 18th in the standings.

Having been𒀰 slow to adapt to the challenging series, O’Ward went on to claim a breakthrough result of sixth place at Okayama last time out.

Fresh form securing the final win on offer in ꧋the F3 finale at Sochi and being the only non-Prema driver to challenge for the title, Vips will have his latest chance to impress Red Bull’s hierarchy as it considers where to place him for 2020.

A s🔯tep u♌p to Formula 2 could be on the cards, while Vips may thrust himself into contention for a full-time Super Formula drive in 2020 with a strong showing on his debut.

The decision to drop O’Ward casts doubts over♐ his own future in the Red Bull driver scheme, having only been signed 🌠to the programme in May after the 20-year-old Mexican made a promising start to his rookie IndyCar campaign.