[Mekola]

Well, some of your drivers are well known today. Some of them entered in F1, like Allan McNish, who raced for Toyota in 2002, and Ralph Firman, who raced at Jordan in 2003; both returned to sportscars where they are now.

Christian Horner and Kurt Mollekens are special cases; after British F3 they raced at International F3000 with their own teams, in 1998 they were associated, and since 1999 they skipped racing and turned to manage their teams: Horner with Arden International and Mollekens with KTR. The last one spent three years in F3000 and later moved to World Series, where is it now. Horner, with Arden International, was more successful, stayed in F3000 and was the dominant team of the last three years of this series (2002-2004); now he was poached by Red Bull Racing F1 team, where he is the actual team manager, but still manages Arden team, what is now in GP2 series.

Vincenzo Sospiri tried to enter F1 but was rejected: he was part of the aborted Lola project in 1997. Later entered in Prototypes and did some races in the Eagle-Toyota at CART. But Vincenzo remained his ties with SuperNova team, moved to team management too and created a new team called Euronova, that races now in the Italian F. Renault and F3000 Italia.

At a last sad note you remembered me the Uruguayan Gonzalo RodrÃ*guez, who after his successful 1995 in British F3 moved to British F2 and then to International F3000, where he wrote his most brilliant pages: he got three wins (one at Montecarlo), was title contender and finished 3rd at 1998 and 1999 seasons. At that last year "Gonchi" moved to CART contracted by team Penske: he finished 12º his first race but when he was qualifying in the second race, at Laguna Seca, his car crashed in the perilous Corkscrew curve, and the Uruguayan died instantly. A sad death for a true racer.