Archive for the ‘Formula 2’ Category
The Formula 2 drivers got their first taste of their new car yesterday and today when pre-season testing started at Snetterton. During the sessions on Tuesday there was no official time keeping, but today we could get our first glimpse on what to expect from the inaugural FIA Formula Two season. Morning times: 1. Andy [...]
This year will mark the debut of yet another single seater formula. The name itself is very familiar and has a strong history to it, but this new series has only the Formula 2 name in common with its predecessor. The new F2 championship debuts in the midst of a grim economic situation and is [...]
The Spanish F3 champion joined last week and now the 2008 Italian Formula 3 champion Mirko Bortolotti joins the F2 championship. Mirko finished the championship ahead of Italia’s A1GP driver Edoardo Piscopo and managed to score no less than nine wins and fifteen podiums in the 16 races that were held. He got a nice [...]
The 2008 Spanish Formula 3 champion Germán Sánchez has signed up for the FIA Formula Two championship. The 19-year-old driver becomes the second Spaniard in the series after Andy Soucek was confirmed a week or so ago. Sánchez made his single seater debut in 2006 and won the National class (Copa de Espãna) in his [...]
2008 GP2 driver Carlos Iaconelli is the latest signing for the FIA Formula Two championship. He becomes the first South American driver in the F2 series. “I am really delighted to be racing in F2 in 2009; it will be a fantastic challenge. The championship will visit beautiful circuits, with competitive drivers and a powerful [...]
Jolyon Palmer, son of the 1983 Formula 2 champion and Formula 1 racer Jonathan Palmer, has joined the Formula Two championship. Jolyon has been racing in the Formula Palmer Audi series, a series organised by his father and Motorsport Vision – which also organises the FIA Formula Two Championship. Last season he finished third in [...]
Russian driver Mikhail Aleshin becomes the second Red Bull Junior to be signed up for the Formula Two championship. Robert Wickens was one of the first signings for the series and now Aleshin joins him. Aleshin was team mate to Wickens in the 2008 World Series by Renault where both drove for Carlin Motorsport. Aleshin [...]
Henry Surtees, son of former Formula 1 World Champion John Surtees, has signed up for the FIA Formula Two championship. As Alex Brundle confirmed his 2009 F2 entry a while ago Surtees now becomes the second driver in the series with a familiar F1 last name. Henry made his car racing debut in the Ginetta [...]
Former Formula 1 drivers Martin Brundle’s son Alex has signed for the inaugural FIA Formula Two season. Alex Brundle started his racing car career in 2006 in the T Cars touring car series and participated in the 2006 Formula Palmer Audi Autumn Trophy. He now has two full Formula Palmer Audi seasons behind him and [...]
The 2006 UK Formula Renault champion and 2007 and 2008 British F3 race winner Sebastian Hohenthal will be joining the Formula Two grid for the inaugural 2009 season. Hohenthal becomes the seventh driver to be confirmed so far in what is set to be a highly competitive inaugural season, and the 24 year old Swedish [...]
