Joshua Anderson

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


Joshua Anderson is an English driver in the GPVWC, who lives in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. He also owns clearly the best team in the GPVWC, Cosmo Autosport. Joshua has driven for numerous teams in his career, most recently Draig Racing in the 2016 Atlantic Series season.

Formula Challenge

2013

Joshua's first Formula Challenge event (and first race at GPVWC) was the 2013 Challenge French Grand Prix, driving with YTF1 in the #70 car. The race was an absolute disaster, with Joshua 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 Joshua 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. Joshua later decided to withdraw from the series, mostly due to his horrific performance, giving his seat to the team's reserve driver Scott Berrisford. It could be argued that Joshua's chronic dislike/phobia/lack of skill in formula cars started here.

2014

Despite his catastrophic Formula Challenge debut, Joshua 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). Joshua 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, Joshua 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

Joshua 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 audible delight from Joshua - as this would be his team, Cosmo Autosport's first win in the Career Ladder.

2016

Joshua again did not drive in the 2016 season but joined Lewis McGlade on co-commentary duties for part of the season.

Supercup

2015

Joshua 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.

2016

Joshua would take roles of both lead and co-commentator in the 2016 season.

Superleague

2013

Joshua 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

Joshua 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 competitive 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 Joshua to participate in (and likely be at the back in), he took on the role of cameraman for part of the 2015 Superleague season - including the season-ender at Brazil.

2016

Joshua started the season as cameraman for Superleague but stepped up to lead commentary when Thomas Hinss stepped down from the role. In a break of tradition, Joshua wasn't signed by anyone for the 2016 Young Driver Test, making this (somewhat surprisingly) the first one he would miss in his GPVWC career.

2017

Joshua compensated for his lack of 2016 YDT appearance by being part of the 2017 pre-season testing roster, completing the test at Imola for Woods Racing.

World Sport Series

2013

After his failing in the Formula Challenge series, Joshua 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 he finished both French races, albeit 22nd and 17th respectively. In the German races, Joshua finished an impressive 18th in the first race, but failed to finish after an engine failure in the infamous race 2 (where he started from 2nd thanks to the Race 2 reverse grid). Joshua later claimed 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, Joshua 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 Joshua'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 him 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).

2016

Joshua would join James Kirk in the broadcast booth for a few rounds of the season as a co-commentator. He would also find a drive for the final round of the season with Hinss Motorsport - his first GPVWC race since the end of the Masters Series in January. In true Anderson fashion, he was near the back having had nearly no practice and finished 17th in race 1 and 19th (and last) in race 2.

World GT Series

2013

Joshua has also been part of the GPVWC World GT Series. He made his debut at Watkins Glen, stepping in for Ron Squire. Joshua eventually finished 24th after a race hampered by rain, ahead of team-mate Ben Willis, after technical issues and himself being classified twice.

2015

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

2016

Whilst again not procuring a drive in the 2016 World GT season, Joshua was the lead commentator for broadcasts of the series.

Masters Series

2014

Joshua would drive in both the Daytona 500 Masters and the Indy 500 Masters, finishing neither, and would also drive for YTF1 Team Cosmo in the 24 Hours of Le Mans alongside Quintin Plane, Matteo Juliano, Nick Dawson-Lathan and Alexander van der Woude. The team would finish the race 11th out of 13 runners.

2016

Joshua competed in the 2016 Masters Series season with RPM Racing, marking his first GPVWC venture into rFactor 2 and his first drive in a GPVWC series since the 2014 Brazilian Touring Cup. Miracles occured at the Silverstone Masters and Joshua finished 13th in race 1 and 19th in Race 2. Unfortunately, his new found form would not last into the next two rounds at Assen and Laguna Seca, and he would score no points in the rest of the season - coming closest again with two 16th place finishes at Adelaide.

International Touring Cup

2013/14

Joshua took part in the inaugral ITC season - initially 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. Joshua 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 YTF1, Optimum SimRacing and his own team during the season, 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 Joshua 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 Canada.

2016

Joshua, once again, would not race in ITC in 2016 but took the role of lead commentator for the season.

Atlantic Series

2015

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

2016

Joshua would sign with Draig Racing as reserve driver in the 2016 Atlantic Series season. This would see him take part in the first round at Sebring, deputizing for Roy Schroten. Unexpected rain in qualifying and race, and other issues, pushed Anderson to the back of the order but he still finished 16th at Sebring, which would have earned him 14 points - a personal record for the most from a single GPVWC race - however, it was later revealed he has not completed 90% of the race distance (despite thinking the criteria was 75%) and as such did not score. He would also be part of the team's lineup for the second round at Indianapolis, this time deputising for his round 1 teammate Hinss, and would finish 19th, again outside of the classification threshold.

Vintage Series

2016

Joshua would take the #6 Williams in the 2016 Vintage Series season. At Imola, he would prevail in the face of adversity and mass retirements to record his first ever top-5 finish in GPVWC, finishing 5th. He attended the Monaco round also, but suffered a disconnect and as such did not finish, but bounced back in a dwindling field to record a 4th place finish at Magny-Cours before the series was prematurely ended. This is the only series in GPVWC where Anderson has finished in the top 5 in the Drivers' standings as a result.

Race of Champions

2015

By some stroke of luck, Joshua managed to secure an entry into the 2015 Race of Champions Team event, as one of six wildcard drivers. Joshua would be partnered with none other than David Fidock, the 2014 Superleague champion. Unfortunately for the pair, their campaign would end in the preliminary rounds after being whitewashed 4-0 by the team of Roy Schroten and Terence Grech.

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