FIA F3 Intercontinental Cup - 56th Macau GP

[META4]

I reckon the Tom's pair will be Iguchi/Ericsson or Kunimoto/Iguchi

Any information where from KCMG will get the Dallara F-308 as they run national class in Japan with F306

Any chance to see drivers like Roberto Streit ,Marco Asmer,Brendon Hartley

[brucelok2003]

META, I got some news that Roberto Streit focuses on GT racing. (w/ Bernoldi in FIA GT).

For Hartley, I think he may step up to GP2/ WSR since he had tried twice in Macau, and scored a podium last year. That's why I guess he may not come.

Of course everything can change. So let's wait and see.

[zip]

For me the favourites have to be Hartley 3rd time lucky, Bianci, Ricciardo, Erikson if Toyota a rocket again , and on current form Max Chilton who has outpaced all these drivers over the final two rounds of BF3.

[miniman]

Originally Posted by zip

For me the favourites have to be Hartley 3rd time lucky, Bianci, Ricciardo, Erikson if Toyota a rocket again , and on current form Max Chilton who has outpaced all these drivers over the final two rounds of BF3.

er... where did you get your results from? At Portimao, Bianchi (ART) and Bird (in a Fortec car) beat him fair and square.

[zip]

Judging by qualifying pace he was front row both races with a pole and a close second in Algarve. Start seemed to let him down but at Brands good starts a win a second and a fastest lap with Ricciardo and Ericcson two of the favourites in the field.
He has to be in the running having been at Macau last year but Hartley third time remains favourite with Ericcson and the Toyota power?

[N.A-D.R]

Originally Posted by miniman

er... where did you get your results from? At Portimao, Bianchi (ART) and Bird (in a Fortec car) beat him fair and square.

And at brands hatch Ricciardo won both poles and won race 1, but the only reason chilton won race 2 was because Ricciardo stuffed up the start... So he hasn't out-paced anyone...

[zip]

Exactly the point at Portimao the only reason Bainci and Ricciardo won was Chilton bogged the start something that he nailed in the second race at Brands.
Hartley Ricciardo Ericcson Chilton and Bianci should be the quickest but as we know at Macau anything could happen.

[N.A-D.R]

Im not sure about Chilton. Hes done 3 season now in bf3? and hes only won 2 races in those 3 seasons, 1 of those wins was with cars infront of him which were not included for points. Riciardo comes in as his 1st season in f3 and he dominated everyone, especially his team-mates. Chilton might be competitive, but i highly doubt he will be on the podium. He is too unreliable.

[zip]

Time will tell Chilton has plenty of it only being just eighteen generally two years younger than the other drivers we are talking about.
Hartley my favourite for Macau last years fastest lap and three years at Macau

[ivanalesi]

Chilton comes from T-cars, it's not the same as coming from FF/FR2.0/FBMW. He's learning what he should have learnt in FR2.0, in F3.

[runshaw]

Chilton was always on the back foot because he was the youngest ever driver to compete in British F3, he only got his license when he turned 16 at his first race meeting! Ricciardo did FBMW+FR before F3. You don't find many drivers who immediately step up to the top class of F3 for their first season.

[zip]

Its just a different route they say you learn more in F3 than any other single seater series due to the open engineering. So at eighteen he is doing good job. Mehri and him seem to be the quickest of the eighteen year olds out there.

[Robbe]

Max Chiltons brother Tom had a similar career in touring cars. He started when he was very young, being the youngest driver to ever win a race in BTCC.
But then, he moved to the Vauxhall works team and was pretty mediocre, and also at his season at Team Dynamics he was beaten by his team mate. He's still driving (for Arena Ford) and he's not a bad driver, but he hasn't really improved over the time... He always had very good material, but this also meant he always had very good teammates with more talent or more experience.

I think it will be similar for Max Chilton. He's also driving for the best teams (Carlin, Barwa Addax), getting a lot of experience, but every year there will be a Ricciardo, or maybe a Perez or someone else who just beats him.

[sauber11]

I found this on Alexander Rossi site: http://alexanderrossi.com/events.cfm
10.28.2009 Formula 3 Testing
Circuit du Val de Vienne, Le Vigeant, France

I googled it and found 2 base near this track - ART and the closest one is signature plus.
My wild guess he tests there with signature for macau gp.

[brucelok2003]

I adjust my prediction again:

Tom's : Ericsson/Kunimoto
ART GP: Bianchi/Tambay/Bottas
Manor: Merhi/Sims/Bird
KCMG: Imperatori
Singature-Plus: Maki/Vanthoor/Rossi
Hitech : Van der Zande/Grubmuller
Raikkonen: Nakajima/Kevin Chen/Mustonen
Carlin: Ricciardo/Chilton/Hartley/Arundel
Prema: Coletti/Shaaban/Campos-Hull
Toda: Cozzolino
Fortec: Garcia/Christodoulou
HBR: Cecotto/Dillmann

and some possible entries:

Adderly Fong
James Winslow
Christian Vietoris
Cesar Ramos
Kimiya Sato
Esteban Gutierrez

[META4]

Hard to believe that HBR will enter Macau GP as they already missed the last 2 events of F3 Euroseries

I still bet that Iguchi will be at TOM'S , why not Ericsson racing with a team like HiTech

I bet we will see some local stars like Michael HO and Jo Merszei

[Mr Pink]

Originally Posted by META4

I still bet that Iguchi will be at TOM'S , why not Ericsson racing with a team like HiTech

What makes you think this?

[META4]

Originally Posted by Mr Pink

What makes you think this?

Iguchi finished second in the Japanese F3 championship behind Ericsson, so i would be surprised if he is not part of the trip to Macau

Why not Ericsson with Raikkonen Robertson, he drove for them in BF3, as Tom'S has already 2 fast Japanese drivers (Iguchi and Kunimoto) ?

[Fujer]

Originally Posted by META4

Iguchi finished second in the Japanese F3 championship behind Ericsson, so i would be surprised if he is not part of the trip to Macau

Why not Ericsson with Raikkonen Robertson, he drove for them in BF3, as Tom'S has already 2 fast Japanese drivers (Iguchi and Kunimoto) ?

Well, Ericsson will driver for TOM´s he said so himself. Dont know which of Kunimoto and Iguchi will drive the second car.

[ivanalesi]

Kunimoto may risk to become double winner at Macau, will look unique in his CV

[N.A-D.R]

Originally Posted by META4

Iguchi finished second in the Japanese F3 championship behind Ericsson, so i would be surprised if he is not part of the trip to Macau

Why not Ericsson with Raikkonen Robertson, he drove for them in BF3, as Tom'S has already 2 fast Japanese drivers (Iguchi and Kunimoto) ?

Wrong because the only reason Ericsson went to Japan F3 with TOM's was because he wants to have the best car for Macau this year.

[META4]

Originally Posted by ivanalesi

Kunimoto may risk to become double winner at Macau, will look unique in his CV

Kunimoto are 2 brothers one is called Keisuke and won Macau last year and was racing in F-Nippon in 2009 and his young brother Yuji who entered Japanese Formula 3 with Tom'S and finished 3rd

[MKII]

Originally Posted by META4

why not Ericsson racing with a team like HiTech

No way, Ericsson or Chilton will be at HiTech.... cant see Van De Zande there either to be honest.

[Lam Pak]

marko asmer for hitech? he meant to win macau.

[MKII]

Unfortunately can't see Asmer coming back. He's a great talent but i would have loved to see him win. I'd put my money on last years front row or Van de Zande. I think VW will take the fight to toyota this year though.