British F3 2006 Silly Season

[Adam43]

Originally Posted by foxy mole

Keiko Ihara may not be blindingly quick, Monkey Head, but she is actually quite experienced.

I stumbled acorss an article on her. As thisislondon.co.uk probably isn't on most people's radar I thought I'd link it for interest:
http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/s...ns_in_dust.php

[strider]

That's really rather a nice story, Adam. I doubt if Keiko will ever make it to F1, but with determination like that, who knows?

[Marcel ten Caat]

Several teams had car numbers during the test session...is there a list with confirmed carnumbers available?

[strider]

There's an interesting story here about another possible addition.

[strider]

Originally Posted by Stranger

Several teams had car numbers during the test session...is there a list with confirmed car numbers available?

The cars that were out on the day Mike Hoyer took the photos were:

1. Christian Bakkerud - DEN -Carlin Motorsport - Dallara F306 Mugen-Honda
2. Oliver Jarvis - GBR - Carlin Motorsport - Dallara F306 Mugen Honda
3. Yelmer Buurman - NED - Fortec Motorsport - Dallara F306 Mercedes HWA
4. Stuart Hall - GBR - Fortec Motorsport - Dallara F306 Mercedes HWA
5. Salvador Duran - MEX - Hitech Racing - Dallara F306 Mercedes HWA
6. James Jakes – GBR – Hitech Racing - Dallara F306 Mercedes HWA
9. Jonathan Kennard - GBR - Alan Docking Racing - Dallara F306 Mugen-Honda
11. Keiko Ihara - JPN - Carlin Motorsport - Dallara F306 Mugen-Honda
12. Maro Engel - GER - Carlin Motorsport - Dallara F306 Mugen-Honda
16. Alberto Valerio - BRA - Cesário Formula - Dallara F306 Mugen-Honda
21. Bruno Senna - BRA - Räikkönen Robertson - F306 Mercedes HWA
22. Stephen Jelley - GBR - Räikkönen Robertson - F306 Mercedes HWA
25. James Walker - GBR - Hitech Racing - Dallara F306 Mercedes HWA
26. Mike Conway - GBR - Räikkönen Robertson - F306 Mercedes HWA

31. Rodolfo Gonzalez - VEN - T-Sport - Dallara F304 Mugen-Honda
34. Ricardo Teixeira – ANG – Carlin Motorsport – Dallara F304 Mugen-Honda
06. Martin Kudzak – SWE – Fluid Motorsport – Lola F106/4 Mugen Honda
84. Cristiano Morgado – RSA – Fluid Motorsport – Lola F106/4 Mugen-Honda
38. Rodolfo Avila – MAC – Performance Racing – Dallara F304 Mugen-Honda
39. Juho Annala – FIN – Performance Racing – Dallara F304 Mugen-Honda

Fluid didn’t have the correct numbers on their cars. They also ran Tom Gaymor in another Lola (the original Danny Watts race-winning car) the previous day.

[strider]

It looks like there is still some way to go in the silly season, but the current entry list was released at the Media Day at Silverstone yesterday - see here.

There was also an officially timed test session - report and times here.

Fortec still have to find a driver for their third car. The word on the street was that Dan Clarke would be in it yesterday, but not so.

[runshaw]

Charlie Hollings will drive Fortec's third car this season.

[strider]

Crash.net is reporting here that SRO have found a new title sponsor for BF3.

I wonder how much the benefit of this will filter down the competitors...

[Suze]

Yes I saw that, it's now rather a long title! Wonder what the sponsor will get out of it too, I don't plan on changing at all....