Jur⛄i Vips will replace 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 Formula 3 campaign and notched up three victories while driving for Hitech Grand Prix in the F1-supporting series.

With the F3 season concluding at last month🌄’s Russian Grand Prix, the highly-rated Estonian will make an ap꧂pearance in Japan’s premier level of single-seater racing. Vips will take the seat of O’Ward at the Honda-powered Mugen squad.

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

Having been slow to adapt to the challenging series, O’Ward went on to claim a breakthrough result of si𒅌xth 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 ꧙to 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 step up 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 prog🌸ramme in May after the 20-year-old Mexican made a promising start to his rookie IndyCar cam🌞paign.