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Kirchhofer graduates to GP2 with Carlin

German racer Marvin Kirchhofer will step up to the GP2 Series in 2016, having signed with Carlin.

Race 1 Winner Marvin Kirchhofer, ART Grand Prix

Race 1 Winner Marvin Kirchhofer, ART Grand Prix

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Marvin Kirchhofer, ART Grand Prix
Race 1 Winner Marvin Kirchhofer, ART Grand Prix
Marvin Kirchhofer, ART Grand Prix
Race 1 Podium: second place Emil Bernstorff, Arden International and winner Marvin Kirchhofer, ART Grand Prix and third place Jimmy Eriksson, Koiranen GP
Marvin Kirchhofer, ART Grand Prix, leads Esteban Ocon, ART Grand Prix and Luca Ghiotto, Trident
Marvin Kirchhofer, AVF
Sean Gelael, Carlin

The move will set up Kirchhofer's fifth year on the junior single-seater scene, the 21-year-old having taken back-to-back titles in ADAC Formel Masters and German F3 with Motopark back in 2012-13.

He then stepped up to GP3, where he finished third for two consecutive years, driving for ART Grand Prix and securing six wins in total.

He tested with Hilmer in the GP2 post-season test in 2014, but did not run in the same event at the end of last year.

The German is the first driver to join Carlin's GP2 stable for the upcoming season.

The team had taken second in the teams' standings in both 2013 and 2014, before falling down to ninth place last year as it fielded six different drivers throughout the campaign.

2016 GP2 line-up so far:

TeamDriver
ART Grand Prix

 Sergey Sirotkin

 Nobuharu Matsushita

DAMS

 Alex Lynn

 Nicholas Latifi

Carlin

 Marvin Kirchhofer

Campos Racing

 Mitch Evans

 Sean Gelael

MP Motorsport

 Oliver Rowland

 Daniel de Jong

Prema Racing

 Pierre Gasly

 Antonio Giovinazzi

Racing Engineering

 Jordan King

 Norman Nato

Russian Time

 Artem Markelov

 Raffaele Marciello

Rapax

 Arthur Pic

 Gustav Malja

Trident

 Luca Ghiotto

 Philo Paz Armand

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