Robin Frijns will partner Sam Bird for the 2018/19 Formula E champion꧒ship at the Virgin Racing squad.

Virgin unveiled its season five Gen2 challenger – featuring a revised livery concept – at its Silverstone headquarters on Friday, alongside confirming it𝄹s driver line-up for the upcoming campaign.

The British🐲 squad announced𒉰 a new identity as part of its collaboration with Envision Group and will use customer Audi e-tron FE05 cars after ending its partnership with DS Automobiles, which has moved to link-up with Techeetah.

Audi factory driver Frijns replaces Alex Lynn at Virgin followi🏅ng a year in DTM, having previously raced in t💙he all-electric series with Andretti for two seasons before it became a fully-fledged BMW factory outfit for 2017/18.

“I’m very excited to be returning to 𒀰Formula E with Envision Virgin Racing,” Frijns said. “It’s great to beꦛ joining such a strong team and with the work we’ve already completed, it’s clear we have a very good package.

“We now look ahead to pre-season testing, where we’ll be able to ☂better gauge our on🌳-track performance.”

Bird will remain with the Virgin squad he has contested every Formula E campaign with so far, having finished third in the drivers’ standin𓄧gs behind champion Jean-Eric Vergne and Lucas di Grass🍸i last season.

“It’s great to be remaining with the team for a fifth season,” the Briton added. “The relationship we have developed over the last 45 races has been incredible and I’m 🅘excited to see it continue to strengthen.

“Season five is a new era for every tea🍨m – with the introduction of the Gen2 car – but particularly for us, as we are now joined by Envision Group.

“The team has worked tirelessly over the🉐 summer and are ready to return to the track for pre-season testing.”

Virgin scored two wins courtesy of Bird and finished third in ✱the 2017/𝔍18 teams’ championship, over 100 points adrift of runners-up Techeetah and the title-winning Audi squad.

“W♏e’re delighted to be collaborating with such an innovative, like-minded and sustainability-focused company like Envision Group,” Virgin’s managing director Sylvain Filippi added.

“For us, Formula E has always been more than just a racing championsh🍨ip, it’s a chance to be truly innovative and help accelerate change towards 🍬a better future.

“As such, we’ve always been passionate about addressing ൲the wider environmental issues and the reasoning behind our Race Against Climate Change programme. Now with Envisi🐽on Group onboard, we feel we can strengthen this message even further.”