Formula Palmer Audi? - Page 2

FFfan · 5 May 2009, 16:42 (Ref:2455944)

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Originally Posted by PULSERACING

I spent the day at Brands Hatch saturday with Paul Rees who drives in FPA and was hugely impressed with the series from an inside view. Its right to say the cars are out of date (up to 10yrs old) but the teams work hard with great precission and you can pick out the true dedicated drivers from the rich hangers on. This is surely the point of the lower racing series . The dedicated ones spend time with there engineers fine tuning the cars and discussing set ups. Difficult but important in identical cars ,where as the wannabes flounce about all day looking pretty and spending there time in the hospitality units. Great racing at the front and a really good level of drivers this year and all for £55 K .Bargain. Talking in the paddock and the drivers reckon it will cost up to £300 K to race F2. Yet to be established, Not a bargain.

I think the cars are now in their 12th season so they have all certainly now earnt their keep! Originally there was talk of a new fleet of cars for this year but I think that may have been sidelined due to the F2 project.

I have no problem at all with the way the series is promoted and presented which I think is very professional and other so called higher echelon championships could certainly learn a thing or two from JP on that score. But rightly or wrongly it is not particularly highly regarded from within the industry as a good young driver development series. Maybe it just suffers badly from its recent history of being a rich "wannabee weekend race drivers" series for stockbrokers etc.

Also the £55k plus VAT budget is without the add ons for damage pool, over revs, additional hospitality (standard is 2 per driver) and of course any additional testing so I think the front runners probably end up spending a little bit more. But hey it's been around now for a dozen years or so and rarely doesn't fill it's grid so it must have something going for it!

**gomick** · 8 Jun 2009, 06:21 (Ref:2477416)

Tristan Vautier, Jose Alonso & Richard Plant took the race wins at Silverstone on the National circuit... I wonder if Jose Alonso is related to that double world champ in F1

Points after 6 rounds...

Tristan Vautier - 107
Kazim Vasiliauskas - 104
Richard Plant - 92
Adam Foster - 77
Emma Kimilainen - 77
Paul Rees - 71
Ashley Babbra - 64
Josef Newgarden - 64
Maxime Jousse - 61
Jose Alonso - 60

**gomick** · 5 Jul 2009, 11:26 (Ref:2496060)

Rounds 7 & 8 are being held at Snetterton - on a good card mind you with Formula 3 & Formula Ford...

Richard Plant has the pole for both races, 20 cars on the grid...

**gomick** · 6 Jul 2009, 00:01 (Ref:2496319)

Tristan Vautier took 2 commanding wins at Snetterton...

Points after 8 rounds...

1. Tristan Vautier - 155
2. Kazim Vasiliauskas - 125
3. Richard Plant - 120
4. Adam Foster - 111
5. Emma Kimilainen - 107
6. Paul Rees - 98
7. Maxime Jousse - 95

runshaw · 6 Jul 2009, 01:42 (Ref:2496341)

Is Kazim doing the whole season as well as F2?

**gomick** · 6 Jul 2009, 02:16 (Ref:2496348)

Seems he must be - $$$ must not be a problem for him...

runshaw · 27 Jul 2009, 00:32 (Ref:2508793)

I was at Oulton for the latest round, there was some good racing. Tristan Vautier won the the first two races from F2 driver Kazim Vasiliauskas and Richard Plant. That was 4 wins on the bounce from him, but then Plant won the 3rd race to stop his winning streak! These cars run nose to tail unlike F3, as the front and rear wings aren't anywhere near as efficient. I think its a great series, wide slick tyres and a nice sounding turbo with 350bhp on power boost! In all 3 races the midfield were extremely close, mainly due to Emma Kimilainen who qualified well, but slowed up in the races, creating a chain of about 10 cars behind her! Unfortunately in the second race Maxime Jousse and David Rotar went off at Island at about 120mph, and 2 laps later Kimilainen spun into the cars which hadn't been removed. Rotar's car was an absolute mess, his left sidepod was destroyed and himself and Jousse couldn't start the 3rd race.

Good onboard vid here of an FPA lapping Oulton Park: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMMAD...e=channel_page

Standings:
1. Vautier 218pts
2. Vasiliauskas 185pts
3. Plant 180pts
4. Foster 161pts
5. Kimiläinen 132pts

**gomick** · 27 Jul 2009, 09:39 (Ref:2508955)

Good vid, cars move around a bit - i like watching these junior formulae cars running around on the British tracks that i dont get to see very often

runshaw · 27 Jul 2009, 12:16 (Ref:2509124)

Yeah they do move about quite a bit. Jon Barnes who was champion a couple of years ago tested a Carlin F3 car and said the Palmer Audi was still quicker in a straight line, but you lose time in the corners because you have to wrestle the steering wheel more than in F3. No silly sequential gearboxes either!

Should also mention that Kenny Andrews crashed at Druids on Friday practice with Paul Rees, and withdrew from the races due to an injured back.

topper · 5 Aug 2009, 15:42 (Ref:2516189)

Should also mention that Kenny Andrews crashed at Druids on Friday practice with Paul Rees, and withdrew from the races due to an injured back.[/QUOTE]

Here's an update on the condition of Kenny Andrews from the FPA website -

http://www.formulapalmeraudi.com/new...overy-(1).aspx

**gomick** · 22 Aug 2009, 22:14 (Ref:2526293)

Richard Plant won pole for 2 of the 3 races at Brands Hatch on the Indy Circuit... He also took the Race 1 win as female driver Emma Kimilainen tokk out points leader Tristan Vautier early in the race

**gomick** · 23 Aug 2009, 23:44 (Ref:2526979)

Richard Plant took 3 race wins at Brands Hatch & is now points leader...

Points after 14 of 20...

Richard Plant - 252
Kazim Vasiliauskas - 231
Tristan Vautier - 230
Adam Foster - 217
Emma Kimilainen - 177
Paul Rees - 167

**gomick** · 4 Oct 2009, 09:40 (Ref:2553704)

Rounds 15 to 17 where held on the Silverstone GP circuit - Race wins went to Jolyon Palmer, Tristan Vautier & Maxime Jousse

. Title will go down to the wire...

Points after 17 of 20...

Richard Plant - 286
Tristan Vautier - 284
Kazim Vasiliauskas - 269
Adam Foster - 262
Emma Kimilainen - 212
Paul Rees - 206

Final round is at Snetterton on October 17...

Mach3 · 6 Oct 2009, 14:31 (Ref:2555214)

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Originally Posted by gomick

Rounds 15 to 17 where held on the Silverstone GP circuit - Race wins went to Jolyon Palmer, Tristan Vautier & Maxime Jousse

. Title will go down to the wire...

Points after 17 of 20...

Richard Plant - 286
Tristan Vautier - 284
Kazim Vasiliauskas - 269
Adam Foster - 262
Emma Kimilainen - 212
Paul Rees - 206

Final round is at Snetterton on October 17...

I was there at Silverstone for Britcar which was as good as ever, FPA delivered some good races although I seemed to miss a lot of the action as it happened at the part of the circuit I had just moved from

There seemed to be quite a few crashes from the races though, including this rather spectacular shunt. Luckily neither driver was injured, it looks like both were lucky not to get hit from the other cars after the main shunt:

http://www.formulapalmeraudi.com/new...take-wins.aspx

runshaw · 6 Oct 2009, 14:39 (Ref:2555220)

Lucky boy! Aside from the crash, Pineiro looks pretty quick considering it was his debut! Only 2 points in it between Vatier and Plant now, should be an interesting final round.

runshaw · 14 Oct 2009, 14:03 (Ref:2561313)

Is there no Autumn Trophy this year? I can't find anything about it on the website. Felix Rosenqvist has signed up to race in the final round at this weekends title decider at Snetterton. He is the Swedish Formula Renault champion this year and last year won the Formula 2.0 Asia championship.

**gomick** · 18 Oct 2009, 08:42 (Ref:2563555)

Kazim Vasiliauskas won race 1 from Richard Plant...

Mr Pink · 18 Oct 2009, 14:29 (Ref:2563689)

Rosenqvist won the second race.

1 Rosenqvist, F 18 laps
2 Vasiliauskas, K +3.082s
3 Palmer, J +4.153s
4 Kimiläinen, E +4.848s
5 Piñeiro, R +9.634s
6 Babbra, A +11.298s
7 Vautier, T +12.060s
8 Plant, R +12.398s
9 Rees, P +13.572s
10 Davies, A +13.840s

Mr Pink · 18 Oct 2009, 18:26 (Ref:2563848)

Rosenqvist also won the third race!

sauber11 · 18 Oct 2009, 19:29 (Ref:2563938)

Yes, now i understand why Felix so popular in Sweden. Great driver and only 18 years old.
http://www.formulapalmeraudi.com/dri...osenqvist.aspx

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With such success behind him, Felix will be looking to make an instant impact in FPA before bidding to move into the FIA Formula Two Championship in 2010.

So lets see how he performs in formula2 , should do even better than Kazim did this season.

runshaw · 18 Oct 2009, 19:35 (Ref:2563950)

And Richard Plant is the champion, well done to him! Vasiliauskaus finished as runner-up, Tristan Vatier had a bad final round and dropped to 4th in the standings, Adam Foster managed to beat him to 3rd.

**gomick** · 18 Oct 2009, 22:51 (Ref:2564117)

Congrats to Richard Plant

- good season of Formula Palmer Audi racing that was...

Final Points...

Richard Plant - 330
Kazim Vasiliauskas - 313
Adam Foster - 304
Tristan Vautier - 303
Emma Kimilainen - 260
Ashley Babbra - 227
Paul Rees - 217
Maxime Jousse - 204
David Rotar - 193
Ash Davies - 167

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