Robin Frijns will paꦏrtner Sam Bird for the 2018/19 Formula E championship at ൲the Virgin Racing squad.

Virgin unvei♒led its season five Gen2 challenger – featuring a revised livery concept – at its Silverstone headquarters on Fri🎐day, alongside confirming its driver line-up for the upcoming campaign.

The British squad announced a n🔯ew identity as part of its collaboration with Envision Group and will use customer ⛄Audi e-tron FE05 cars after ending its partnership with DS Automobiles, which has moved to link-up with Techeetah.

Audi factory driver Frijns replaces Alex Lynn at Virgin following a year in DTM, having previously raced in the all-electric series with Andretti for tওwo seasons before it became a fully-fledged BMW factory outfit for 2017/18.

“I’m very excited to be returning to Formula E with Envision Virgin Racing,” Frijns said. “It’s great to be joining such a strong team and with the work we’ve already completed, it’s clear we have a very good packag⛄e.

“We now look ahead to pre-season tes🍬ting, w🥂here we’ll be able to better gauge our on-track performance.”

Bird will remain w☂ith the Virgin squad he has contested every Formula E cam🐷paign with so far, having finished third in the drivers’ standings behind champion Jean-Eric Vergne and Lucas di Grassi last season.

“It’s great to be remaining with the team for a fifth season,” the Briton added. “The relationship we have🐽 developed over the last 45 races has been incredible and I’m excited to see it continue to strengthen.

“Seaso🎉n five is a new era f💙or every team – with the introduction of the Gen2 car – but particularly for us, as we are now joined by Envision Group.

“The team has work💮ed tirelessly over the summer and are ready to return to the track for pre-season testing.”

Virgin scored two wins courtesy of Bird and finished third in the 2017/18 teams’ championship, over 100 points adrift o♈f runners-up Techeetah and the title-winn෴ing Audi squad.

“We’re delighted to be collaborating with such an innovative, like-minded and sustainability-focused company like Envision Group,” Virgin’s managing director ♌Sylvain Filippi added.

“For us, Formula💛 E has always been more than just a racing championship, it’s♛ a chance to be truly innovative and help accelerate change towards a better future.

“As such, we’ve always been passionate about addressing the wider environmental issues and the reasoning behind our Race Against Climate Change progra♌mme. Now with Envision Group onboard, we feel we can strengthen this message even furth🥂er.”