Joshua Anderson

**Joshua Anderson**

Nationality	English
Year Joined	2013
First Race	2013 Challenge French Grand Prix
Series Entered	International Touring Cup, Formula Challenge
Current Team(s)	Measuric Racing, Knight Racing
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Joshua Anderson is a British driver in the GPVWC, hailing from Simonside, England. He also owns his own team in the GPWVC, Cosmo Autosport. Anderson has driven for numerous teams in his career - YTF1, RTS, Measuric Racing and Halcyon Racing to name a few.

Formula Challenge

2013

Anderson's first Formula Challenge event was the 2013 Challenge French Grand Prix, driving with YTF1 in the #70 car. The race was an absolute disaster, with Anderson retiring from both races - the first retirement due to him colliding with his team-mate Mikael Tuomaala, causing both YTF1 drivers to retire from the race, and the second retirement caused by Anderson hitting a pillar in the pit lane (after going into the pit lane to serve a voluntary drive-through penalty, after hitting the race leader due to him overshooting a corner), and taking the front-right wheel off the car, thus causing his retirement from the race. Anderson later decided to withdraw from the series, mostly due to his horrific performance, giving his seat to the team's reserve driver Scott Berrisford.

2014

Despite his catastrophic Formula Challenge debut, Anderson signed for Knight Racing for the 2014 season, and hoped to make a name for himself, this time for the right reasons. After failing to do this, and retiring from both races, Joshua decided to resign from his drive, and was replaced in the team by Fran Lopez. Anderson claimed he would no longer participate in Formula Challenge, however this would end up being untrue as he participated in the German round of the season also, this time for BackMarker Brigade. To his own surprise, Anderson was on the pace of the backmarkers in all official sessions, and would go on to finish 30th and 26th in the races.

World Sport Series

2013

After his failing in the Formula Challenge Series, Anderson decided to turn his hand to the World Sport series, securing a drive with RTS for the last 2 events of the season. This proved to be a good move - as Anderson finished both French races, albeit 22nd and 17th respectively. In the German races, Anderson finished an impressive 18th in the first race, but failed to finish after an engine failure in the infamous race 2 - in which he started 2nd after the grid reversal. Anderson has said that he would like to return to the World Sports Series in 2014, most likely with RTS.

2014

Joshua didn't manage to get a race seat for the start of the season, but he did step in for his own team Cosmo Autosport in the Austrian round, finishing 29th and 26th but having run as high as 19th in Race 2.

World GT Series

2013

Anderson has also been part of the GPVWC World GT Series. He made his debut at Watkins Glen, stepping in for Ron Squire. Anderson eventually finished 24th after a race hampered by rain, ahead of team-mate Ben Willis, after technical issues and himself being classified twice. To this date, this race along with the later 2014 Austrian Sports Series, are the only events where Anderson has out-raced his own team-mate.

International Touring Cup

2013/14

Anderson was also part of the inaugral ITC season - stepping in for Theo Van den Brink at Measuric Racing. Anderson completed both races 1 and 3, but failed to start race 2 due to technical issues. He finished 30th and 22nd respectively. He returned for the rounds at Snetterton, finishing 32nd and 30th respectively in races 1 and 3, but crashed out of the second race after hitting the tyre barrier on the last corner on lap 1. Joshua was promoted to Primary status after this round and took part in all remaining rounds of the championship for Measuric. His best finish was 21st in Race 3 of the American round at Watkins Glen.

2014

Although Joshua did not gain a full-time contract with any teams for the 2014 ITC, he did step in for his own team at the Adelaide round, and would drive for Playseat Racing in the final round at Brazil - where he would finish 26th, 26th and 27th.

GPVWC Superleague

2013

Anderson was part of the 2013 Superleague Young Driver Test, driving for the defunct Halcyon Racing Team. His best time was a 01:37.843 - which was 10.652 down on session fastest David Fidock's time, and a whole 5.265 seconds down on next-fastest driver Lewis McGlade, also in a Halcyon.

2014

Anderson will take part in the 2014 Superleague Young Drivers' Test. He will drive for Red Archer VRT.

Racing Career Results

Complete World Sports Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	WDC	Points
2013	Racing Team Schroten	Porsche 911 GT3	R1 -	R2 -	R1 -	R2 -	R1 -	R2 -	R1 -	R2 -	R1 -	R2 -	R1 -	R2 -	R1 -	R2 -	R1 -	R2 -	R1 21	R2 17	R1 18	R2 Ret	55th	0

^† Driver did not finish the Grand Prix, but was classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.

Formula Challenge

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Chassis	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	WDC	Points
2013	YTF1	FC-013	R1 -	R2 -	R1 -	R2 -	R1 -	R2 -	R1 -	R2 -	R1 -	R2 -	R1 -	R2 -	R1 -	R2 -	R1 -	R2 -	R1 -	R2 -	R1 -	R2 -	R1 -	R2 -	R1 -	R2 -	R1 Ret	R2 Ret	R1 -	R2 -	R1 -	R2 -	R1 -	R2 -	R1 -	R2 -	R1 -	R2 -	123rd	0

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap) ^† Driver did not finish the Grand Prix, but was classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.