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yeah, and in the second bit i was referring to van der garde, just to clarify (although it does apply to both).
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He drove in Formula 3 in Italy, with various wins and then, he stayed two years in F3 Euroseries where he only got a podium. He drives in Euroseries 3000 where he is second right now but only one point off the leader. He also raced in two meetings in WSR where he scored six points (he was completely new with the car) in the Tech 1 team. In other news, Filippi tests with ART and Borja GarcĂ*a with SuperNova, iSport and Spiker. |
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Wouldn't be surprised to see Spyker link up with a GP2 outfit next year.
They're testing Viso and Valles in the F1 cars and have people like Markus Wincklehock and Gorgio Mondini already as 3rd drivers earlier in the year, although the latter two may no longer be part of the set up as Midland signed them? It would make sense to run prospective drivers in GP2 to evaluate them for drives the following season perhaps. I wonder which GP2 team would be most likely to align themselves with Spyker though? |
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did midland sell their dtm team or was it just rebranded? reason why i ask is that the dtm is de rigeur for young drivers at the moment, and since gp2 isn't greatly competitive at the front...
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Fairuz Fauzy has signed for Durango. I doubt if this is will change much, but at least it puts a tick in a box.
Marco Bonanomi is going to test alongside Fauzy at Paul Ricard in the first week of October. A couple of other drivers who apparently have GP2 aspirations are Maro Engel and Christian Bakkerud. I'd guess that Maro would have no problem finding the money, but Christian might. |
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I believe Fauzy will only test for them for the moment.
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Wow, wow, wow!!
Right now, the drivers testing are: ART: Senna, Hirate, Nakajima, Filippi, Petrov, Vettel? iSport: Senna, Bakkerud, Elkmann, Danielsson, GarcĂ*a, Vettel? SuperNova: di Grassi, GarcĂ*a, Soucek, Filippi, Petrov, Hulkenberg, Jouanny DPR: Senna, Conway?, Rahal? BCN: LĂłpez, Filippi RE: Villa Arden: Ammermuller Piquet: Negrao, Valerio Durango: Fauzy, Bonanomi Campos: ? FMS: ? Trident: ? DAMS: ? |
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What right now??
Ok where's the info from mate? |
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good grief. supernova have got their hands full...!
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Italiaracing.net and auto123.com
And these are the drivers racing in the the three tests that are scheduled for this Winter. |
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Only a handful of prospects have gone the DTM/ITC route and that was because they got picked up on a manufacturer scholarship (usually Mercedes') and none of them have then gone onto make an major impression in F1. In the past Fisichella, Magnussen and Franchitti for example forsook the F3000/GP2 level for DTM and only Fizzi got away with it and managed to get a long term F1 career. I don't blame a driver for taking that route if it keeps him/her racing professionally, as not everyone can get the F1 ticket, but Paffett almost certainly would have done F3000/GP2 if he had a decent budget and Mercedes in effect saved him which is great as he's good. I'm not saying GP2 is the be all and end all but it is the place to be at the moment to get noticed. I'm sure Spengler would like a crack at it as well wouldn't he? |
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The GP2 organisers have done an incredible job with the series. It is truly the place to be if you want to push your name out to the F1 fraternity as a potential outstanding talent. For 2 years it has a very impressive list of drivers moving up already and you just have to look at the list of drivers eyeing the series next year to know that it is in a very healthy position.
There are some great talents stepping up to the series next year, I'm interested to know where Di Resta will go, as I didn't see his name down on that list...? Senna and Vettel would be a fairly formidable line-up of talent, potential and in marketing terms would be fairly useful for the team. I can't see Senna joining DPR, i wouldn't see why he would want to test for a team that isn't front-running. Money won't be a concern for them and the occasional sparkling performance in an ART or ISport ride would be far better for his reputation than a season in the midfield at DPR... Anyone know of Oliver Jarvis' plans? What about that other Canadians' McIntosh? Didn't Piccione hint he was looking to return too? |
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And Pantano is looking at staying in GP2 for another year
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