The 16-year-old drives in the Asian Formula BMW Pacific series as a part of team Eurasia Motorsport. He was joined by drivers Heikki Kovalainen and Fairuz ...
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Nabil Jeffri becomes youngest driver to test a Formula 1 car
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Sep 042010
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Formula Renault 3.5 Series drivers will find themselves immersed in a world of F1 this September as part of two programmes organized by Renault Sport Technologies and Renault F1 Team. Held at Monza on Thursday September 9 at the very heart of the Formula 1 paddock, the first session plays host to five special guests of the Renault F1 Team. Next stop is Enstone, nerve-center of the Renault F1 Team, where on September 20-21 they will be joined by the remaining Formula Renault 3.5 Series drivers for two days of training.
To progress to Formula 1, the ultimate goal of any driver racing in Formula Renault 3.5 Series, it is not enough just to prove your worth on the track. Drivers must also become acclimatized to the rarefied atmosphere of the class. Through two joint-run programmes, Renault Sport Technologies and Renault F1 Team give drivers a very real taste of the world of F1 while providing further evidence of the crucial role played by Formula Renault 3.5 Series as a gateway to the top rung of motorsport.
The first stage at Monza on Thursday, October 9, coincides with the Italian F1 Grand Prix as five drivers are welcomed by the Renault F1 Team. They will be given a close-up of the Renault F1 Team’s organization during a Grand Prix, visiting the pits and chatting to the team’s managers, engineers and drivers. Robert Kubica, winner of the 2005 Formula Renault 3.5 Series, will also be there to share his experience with his successors. The five drivers will also be given free access to the paddock allowing them to meet F1’s decision makers.
The second session will be held directly following the Silverstone meeting of the World Series by Renault. On Monday 20 and Tuesday 21 September, all the drivers will converge on Enstone for two days of training at the very heart of Renault F1 Team. Renault F1 Team Principal, Éric Boulier, will welcome the drivers with a Q&A session. After an in-depth visit to the Technical Center and Digital Aerodynamics Center (CFD), which boasts the most up to date technologies in fluid dynamics, the guests will be given the benefit of the team nutritionist’s insight before undergoing a series of physical tests.
USF2000
Andersen Promotions, the administrator of the “Cooper Tires Presents the USF2000 National Championship Powered by Mazda,” is pleased to announce a number of special incentive awards valued at $71,400 that will be available to top amateur and semi-pro formula car drivers desiring to advance to the professional ranks for the 2011 season.
“Now that the IZOD IndyCar Series has a clearly defined ladder system in the Road to Indy, it’s important that the world’s top junior formula car drivers are competing in the first North American pro step, the USF2000 National Championship,” said Dan Andersen, chief executive officer of Andersen Promotions. “We hope these awards will help many amateur and semi-pro drivers compete in the USF2000 National Championship next year.
“In place already is the excellent MAZDASPEED Motorsports full-season scholarship for the 2010 Skip Barber National champion, valued at $150,000,” Andersen pointed out. “With the additional awards we’re announcing today we expect to see the best of the world’s young open-wheel drivers competing for the USF2000 champion’s prize of a MAZDASPEED scholarship into the next level on that Road to Indy ladder, the Star Mazda Championship.”
THE “1st INTERNATIONAL CUP KARTING”
A unique opportunity for young drivers…..
(Press Release) It is the only karting championship that gives the winners 3 steering wheel in a single seater championship F3 and a lot tests in F3! The Championship is the “F3 EUROPEAN OPEN”.
Organized by HACHE TEAM, the “1st INTERNATIONAL CUP KARTING” is intending to all nationalities karting drivers and from 15 to 21 years old. There will be 12 evaluations tests which will take place between the months of November / December 2010 and January 2011.
The entry free is 6825 € include official suit, insurance, entry, free practice, helmet homologated, oil.
Three categories will be admitted : HTR1 (K22); HTR2 (X-30); and HTR3 (KF2)
Aug 242010
The Team USA Scholarship enters its third decade of providing opportunities for talented young American race car drivers with today’s nominations for the “Class of 2010” who will vie for a pair of scholarships to contest the traditional end-of-season Formula Ford events in England in October and November.
In 2008, Team USA driver Josef Newgarden became the first American ever to win the prestigious Formula Ford Festival (Kent division) at Brands Hatch, while Conor Daly became the youngest winner of the Walter Hayes Trophy at Silverstone. Last year Brett Smrz finished a sensational third at Brands Hatch, despite starting 27th, and Connor De Phillippi mirrored Daly’s success from the previous year, besting over 100 other drivers to win the Walter Hayes Trophy.
All of the 2010 candidates enjoyed success in the karting ranks before moving into cars within the past two years. The 2010 nominees are:
• Neil Alberico, 17, from Los Gatos, Calif. – winner of the 2009-2010 Bondurant Championship Race Series
• Ashley Freiberg, 18, from Homer Glen, Ill. – earlier this year became the first female ever to win a Skip Barber Racing Series title, clinching the Southern Regional crown, and the first to win a round of the Skip Barber National
• Patrick Gallagher, 17, from Thornville, Ohio – standout in SCCA Formula 5 and Formula E competition
• Miles Maroney, 16, from Topanga Canyon, Calif. – currently second in the Championship and top rookie in the Pacific F2000 Series
• Arie Ouimet, 19, from Plymouth, Mass. – currently second in the VW Jetta TDI Cup with two podium finishes
• Spencer Pigot, 16, from Windermere, Fla. – MAZDASPEED Development Driver, current leader of the BFGoodrich Skip Barber National Presented by Mazda Series with two wins, nine podium finishes and four poles from 10 races
• Jonathan Scarallo, 18, from Hauppauge, N.Y. – recently claimed his first win in the F2000 Championship Series
• Felix Serralles, 17, from Haines City, Fla. – MAZDASPEED Development Driver, currently third in the Skip Barber National Series point standings
“Racing itself is everything everyone told me it would be – but you’re never prepared for how completely different it is from what I knew”.
George Miedecke
Australian V8 Ute series driver to Nascar Rookie
Inside Line gives you the inside read to what it is that can keep a driver in his seat and successful. To be the best, to be consistent and to follow in the footsteps of former champions may cause a driver to have high expectations and pressure to perform week in week out. When you are racing, you do not want to have these high expectations or pressure when you are driving at 200-300kmph.
This month’s focus is on anxiety, stress and the pre-race performance jitters, otherwise known as performance arousal.
Rocky and I will provide simple explanations, examples and techniques you can adopt to perform in your “ideal state”.
Aug 062010
The Lotus team has signed 16-year-old Nabil Jeffri for its young driver development programme.
August 3, 2010 (IRVINE, Calif.). With thousands of active club racers across North America, Mazda has developed a grassroots racing program and career advancement system like no other. Mazda is the only automaker who promotes drivers from a variety of feeder series to reach the next level in their career. This is known as the MAZDASPEED Motorsports Development Ladder, and no other automaker in the world offers anything like it.
Mazda rewarded six 2009 champions with Mazda-funded rides in 2010, and sights are already being set for 2011. This is support in the form of cold-hard-cash, for a champion or shootout winner, to be used in a Mazda-powered car, in a higher level series the following season.
“When we formalized our program for the 2006/2007 season, we quickly learned that changes would be required each year to match the changes in the industry and the sport. While the Atlantic Championship went on hiatus and rules changes obsoleted our World Challenge program, we have seen the addition of a Formula 2000 class, the adoption of Star Mazda and USF2000 as a part of the Road to Indy, and experienced tremendous growth in our customer programs in both Grand-Am GT and Continental Tire ST creating new opportunities,” noted Robert Davis, Senior Vice President, Product Development and Quality, and the man responsible for Mazda’s North American motorsports operations under the MAZDASPEED Motorsports Development banner. “Success has also come from having great partners like VISITFLORIDA.com, who have placed our key Star Mazda races on TV such as this past weekend when Harrah’s Autobahn Grand Prix was shown live on HDNet,” he added.
Young racing hopefuls looking to follow in the wheeltracks of World Champion Jenson Button were in action yesterday (Sunday), bidding to win their first Formula Ford drives.
They were taking part in the Kartmasters tournament at the PF International kart circuit in Lincolnshire, where the top three in the KF2 division would each be rewarded with the promise of a test drive in a top chassis from the Dunlop MSA Formula Ford Championship of Great Britain.
Jordan Chamberlain, Mark Litchfield and Tom Grice were the Kartmasters 1-2-3 and will take their prize drives at the end-of-season Formula Ford ‘sampler day’.
“I am sure that Jordan, Mark and Tom will have a fantastic time when they get to sample a Formula Ford for the first time,” said championship manager Penny Mattocks. “All three drove brilliantly in the competition and I am sure have long and successful motorsport careers ahead of them.”
Kartmasters, which is organised by the Trent Valley Kart Club, celebrated its 15th anniversary this year.
(Press Release) Mondello Park and Sheane Cars, Irelands most successful Racing Car Constructor, today announced the biggest ever Motorsport Prize to be made available in Ireland to novice racing drivers. For the first time drivers with no previous motorsport experience will be offered the chance to ‘Become a Racing Driver’ with the total prize package on offer valued at over €15,000.
The ‘Become a Racing Driver’ competition will be run at Mondello Park over the remaining months of this year with the winner walking away with the incredible chance to Race in the Irish Formula Vee championship, free of charge, during 2011. As part of their prize the winner will have the use of a Sheane Formula Vee for all Mondello Park Formula Vee races during next season. The remainder of the prize package will see their car prepared, transported and maintained by the Sheane factory in Wicklow, while Mondello Park will provide free entry to races and test days, along with expert coaching and all of the racewear and other facilities required to go racing.
The competition is open to any driver who has completed a Mondello Park Motor Racing School course over the ten years in which the school has operated. Drivers will be required to enrol on a specially designed race school course where they will receive tuition in a race prepared Mazda 3 Hatchback before progressing on to a Formula Sheane single seater. Each competitor will be assessed throughout their course and from each day that the course is run at least one driver will be selected to go forward to the second round. The cost for round one is a very affordable €235, while the final will free of charge for those selected.
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