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Anderson, like most series in 2015, would not take a driving role, but would provide cameras for a few Atlantic Series broadcasts throughout 2015.
 
Anderson, like most series in 2015, would not take a driving role, but would provide cameras for a few Atlantic Series broadcasts throughout 2015.
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==Race of Champions==
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By some stroke of luck, Anderson managed to secure an entry into the 2015 Race of Champions Team event, as one of six wildcard drivers. Anderson would be partnered with none other than [[David Fidock]], the 2014 Superleague champion.

Revision as of 18:03, 30 November 2015

England Joshua Anderson
Joshua Anderson helmet.png
Nationality England English
Year Joined 2013
First Race 2013 Challenge French Grand Prix
Series Entered
Current Team(s)
Championships 0
Wins 0
Podiums 0
Poles 0
Fastest Laps 0


Joshua Anderson is an English driver-turned-commentator and cameraman in the GPVWC, who lives in Simonside, England. He also owns clearly the best team in the GPVWC, Cosmo Autosport. Anderson has driven for numerous teams in his career - YTF1, RTS, Measuric Racing, Red Archer VRT, Wauters Automotive and Halcyon Racing to name a few.

Anderson may or may not be extremely bad at keeping a helmet design between years at the GPVWC - in fact, it's quite possible he has had more helmets than races.

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 (who went on to do significantly better than him). 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, 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 (which was cause for a minor celebration).

2015

Anderson did not drive in the 2015 season but did provide cameras for some rounds of the 2015 FC season, such as Singapore, where his own driver Patrick Wannemuller won race 2 to Anderson's audible delight - as this would be his team, Cosmo Autosport's first win in the Career Ladder.

Supercup

2015

Anderson would take the role of cameraman for Supercup in the latter half of the 2015 season, providing cameras from then until the season's end at Brazil. He also, in this time, pioneered the widely-acclaimed 60FPS live broadcast.

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 also took part in the 2014 Superleague Young Drivers' Test, driving for Red Archer VRT. In somewhat of an improvement last year (though more than likely aided by him being in a considerably more competitve car than 2013), his best lap was a 1:34.006 in a rain-affected test, 3 seconds up on his previous best lap. Surprisingly, he didn't finish last, ending up in 36th place out of 37 - 1.3 seconds ahead of Adam Wright.

2015

Whilst there was no 2015 Young Driver Test for Anderson to participate in, he took on the role of cameraman for part of the 2015 Superleague season - including the season-ender at Brazil.

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 25th but having run as high as 19th in Race 2. He also raced in the Belgian round of the championship for Wauters Automotive, finishing 21st in race 1 and retiring from race 2. He may or may not have accidentally played havoc with the Drivers' championship but the less said about that the better yeah?

2015

For 2015, Anderson was due to sign for the new CM-Tech Racing team, as their development/reserve driver, but just weeks before the first race he was offered - and took up - a race seat at Wauters, in the #4 car. He would partner Florian Engel in the team. This would have been Anderson's second stint at Wauters, being due to return full-time after his one-off stint in the Belgian round of 2014. However, technical issues ruled Anderson out of the first 3 events and he gave his seat up shortly after. Not long after, he announced a temporary retirement from sim-racing until he sorted said technical issues out (which, as of quite some time ago, he has).

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 two GPVWC events where Anderson has out-raced his own team-mate.

2015

Anderson would not drive in the 2015 World GT season but would take up the role of cameraman for most of the season.

International Touring Cup

2013/14

Anderson took part the inaugral ITC season - initally signing as a reserve for Measuric Racing but to his surprise, he found himself stepping in for Theo Van den Brink at the first round at Imola. Anderson completed both races 1 and 3, but failed to start race 2 due to technical issues. He finished 30th and 22nd respectively. He also 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. Despite this, 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 - his most consistent GPVWC event to date.

2015

While Anderson did not race in 2015, he provided cameras for the British round of the season - in which his team's own Matt Richards scored Cosmo's first ever GPVWC win. He also took to the commentary booth for the first time in a GPVWC event, at the New Zealand round - where Richards won again. He would continue to do cameras for the rest of the season, and even took the spot of lead commentator for 2 rounds at Italy and Germany.

Atlantic Series

2015

Anderson, like most series in 2015, would not take a driving role, but would provide cameras for a few Atlantic Series broadcasts throughout 2015.

Race of Champions

By some stroke of luck, Anderson managed to secure an entry into the 2015 Race of Champions Team event, as one of six wildcard drivers. Anderson would be partnered with none other than David Fidock, the 2014 Superleague champion.