Sergey Sirotkin has become the official reserve Formula 1 driver for both Renault and McLaren following an agreement ꧒between the two teams for the remainder of the season.

McLaren went into the 2019 without an official reserve driver af🐈ter promoting Lando Norris to a full-time race 🙈seat following Fernando Alonso’s retirement from F1.

Sirotkin, who contested the 2018 F1 campaign with Williams before being dropped, was named Renault’s baღck-up driver for this season alongside his World Eওndurance Championship commitments with SMP Racing.

Ahead of t💦he French Grand Prix, McLaren and Renault have reached an agreement꧟ to see the Russian act as reserve driver at both teams for the remainder of 2019.

“McLaren and Renault have reached an agreement for McLaren to have acces🐲s to our Third and Reserve driver Sergey Sirotkin,” a Renault statement read. “If Carlos Sainz or Lando Norris are unable to compl🎐ete a full race weekend in 2019.

“Sergey remains our official Reserve, but McLaren can call upon his 🔯services t🐬his season if needed.”

Sirotkin is pleased to see the agreement kick-in from this weekend and will work𒁃 inside both the Renault and McLaren camps.

“McLaren is a le🉐gendary team and I’m happy to have this opportunity to work with them, join their history, see from the inside how the team and drivers work,” Sirotkin. “I also thank SMP Racing and Renault for their support.”

“This is an expedient solution for McLaren in 2019,” Andreas Seidl, McLaren F1 team principal, added.♑ “Sergey is a known quantity, has the necessary super licence points and is formally alig🐓ned to our engine provider, Renault, so he is the obvious candidate.”