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Aiming for both titles: MP Motorsport Season Preview
MP Motorsport are coming off another season where they fell short of their goal of winning both titles, with Team Manager Jeremy Cotterill calling their fifth place finish an underachievement.
They hope 2026 is the year they reclaim their place at the top and they have two drivers in Oliver Goethe and Gabriele Minì who have made clear their title aspirations.
Here is how things are looking for MP…
SCORING ACROSS BOTH CARS
MP wound up with 207 points last season, tied with DAMS Lucas Oil but were fifth in the Standings with their French rivals achieving five wins, compared to their four.
Looking back at 2025, MP noted that the top three in the Standings – Invicta Racing, Hitech TGR, and Campos Racing – all had both of their drivers inside top 10 in the Championship.
While Richard Verschoor finished third, Goethe ended up 15th after admittedly having some early season struggles.
MP Team Manager Jeremy Cotterill knows that if MP are to get back to taking back the crown they won in 2022, they need to score points across both cars.
“You’ve just got to be consistent all the time and scoring points with both cars. Both cars have to contribute always in order to win the Teams’ Championship. There are no bad teams in F2, and as you can see from the points tally, a slip one weekend can make things worse.”
Goethe looked to have found form towards the back end of the year and showed strong pace at post-season testing, finishing with the fastest time on Days 1 and 2.
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However, as he prepares for his second full season in the Championship, are he and Minì primed to lead MP’s charge to the top prizes?
SECOND SEASON BOUNCE BACK
Both drivers are confident that they have learned a lot from 2025 that they can take into this new campaign.
For Goethe, his main priority is improving his Qualifying form. In the first eight rounds of the season, he qualified in the top 10 once – in Imola where he was P8.
The 21-year-old did improve in the final part of the year, starting inside the top 10 in five of the last six rounds. It even looked like he had taken pole in Lusail, before a three-place grid drop for impeding put him in P4.
Goethe’s form over one lap continued into the end of year test, when he routinely found himself at or near the top of the timesheets in the qualifying simulations.
What he will be aiming to do is to make sure that form continues across the entire season. If his history in Formula 3 is an indication of what is to come, Goethe could be one to watch this year.
The German driver impressed with his consistency in 2024, constantly finding himself in the points – including winning the Imola Sprint Race – and most importantly, fighting for the title.
Also going for the Championship that year was Minì, who makes the move to MP, in what will be his first time racing for the team.
So far, the signs have been good, as the Italian ingratiated himself within the team across the three days of post-season testing, as he looked to adapt to their car.
Minì showed good progress, and was also constantly near the top of the timesheets, going close to Goethe on each run, with his race pace also looking strong.
The 20-year-old wound up 13th in the Standings in 2025, but was very competitive throughout the year. He ended up with three podiums, including at the final Feature Race of the season at Yas Marina, where he finished third.
Minì says he needs to be in title contention this season, and feels he can do so at MP. The team will certainly hope that is the case, for both drivers, as that would put them in prime position to win both Championships.