German ATS Formula 3 Cup 2008

Nice entry list this year for the German Championship! If a front runner has bad luck in qualifying and has to start at the back of the grid, he will have a lot of work to get into the points.

1. Rahel Frey (Van Amersfoort Racing - Dallara F306-Volkswagen)
2. Laurens Vanthoor (Van Amersfoort Racing - Dallara F306-Volkswagen)
4. n.n.b. (JB Motorsport - Lola B06/30 OPC Challenge)
5. n.n.b. (JB Motorsport - Lola B06/30 OPC Challenge)
9. Matteo Chinosi (Ombra Racing - Dallara F306-Mugen Honda)
10. Federico Leo (Ombra Racing - Dallara F306-Mugen Honda)
11. Gerhard Tweraser (Neuhauser Racing - Dallara F306-Mercedes)
12. Sebastian Saavedra (HS Technik Motorsport - Dallara F306-Mercedes)
14. Philipp Eng (HS Technik Motorsport - Dallara F306-Mercedes)
15. n.n.b. (Swiss Racing Team - Dallara F306 OPC Challenge)
16. Max Nilsson (Swiss Racing Team - Dallara F306 OPC Challenge)
17. Frédéric Vervisch (Swiss Racing Team - Dallara F306 OPC Challenge)
18. n.n.b. (Team Leipert - Dallara F306 OPC Challenge)
19. Federico Glorioso (Team Leipert - Dallara F306 OPC Challenge)
20. Sergey Chukanov (Team Leipert - Dallara F306 OPC Challenge)
23. n.n.b. (Rennsport Rössler - Dallara F306-Opel Spiess)
24. Karline Stala (Racing Experience - Dallara F306-Mercedes)
25. David Hauser (Racing Experience - Dallara F306-Mercedes)
26. Gary Hauser (Racing Experience - Dallara F306-Mercedes)
28. n.n.b. (Performance Racing - Dallara F306 OPC Challenge)
29. Adderly Fong (Performance Racing - Dallara F306 OPC Challenge)
38. Hamal Al Fardan (Franz Wöss Racing - Dallara F306-Mercedes)
44. Kevin Mirocha (Josef Kaufmann Racing - Dallara F306-Opel Spiess)
50. Shirley van der Lof (HS Technik Motorsport - Dallara F304 OPC Challenge)
52. Luca Iannaccone (Team Leipert - Dallara F304-Renault Sodemo)
53. Giulio Glorioso (Team Leipert - Dallara F304-Opel Spiess)
55. Dennis Swart (KFR Team F3 - Dallara F304-Opel Spiess)
56. n.n.b. (KFR Team F3 - Dallara F304-Opel Spiess)
58. n.n.b. (Rennsport Rössler - Dallara F304-Opel Spiess)
59. Massimo Rossi (Ombra Racing - Dallara F304-Mugen Honda)
60. Marcel Schlenker (JMS Jenichen - Dallara F304-Opel Spiess)
62. Bernd Herndlhofer (Franz Wöss Racing - Dallara F304-Opel Spiess)
63. Francesco Lopez (Franz Wöss Racing - Dallara F304-Opel Spiess)
64. Klaus-Dieter Häckel (Auto Häckel Motorsport - Dallara F304-Opel Spiess)
66. Marco Oberhauser (Neuhauser Racing - Dallara F304-Opel Spiess)
71. David Moretti (Griffith’s - Dallara F304-Opel Spiess)
72. Patrick D’Aubreby (Griffith’s - Dallara F304-Opel Spiess)

i am gonna follow adderly fong and al fardan. fong was very quick sometimes in teesting in china formula renault but he is not exceptional. the team is bad and i think he will slow cause of that. al fardan i want to know if he was saying the true when he spit on f3 asia.

On april 21st we will have a first real indication during the official test day at the Hockenheimring. Let's see who's faster: Al Fardan or Vervisch. If he would be slower, then you can be sure there was no cheating involved in Asian F3 with Team Goddard.

nice to see Rahel Frey in ATS Formula 3 after one dissapointing season in Formula Master

My bet is on Eng. Showed a good pace during his test with Hi-Tech, in case he doesn't move to Hitech to race in British F3, I think I can win here. Vervisch is a good candidate too, but I rate HS Technik higher as a team as STR. Any news on possible drivers for JB? I read Verdonck is gonna race in Italian F3 so he's out of the picture.

JB will most certainly not start in German F3.... :(

why that? not in German F3 ? so Where?

That's not good. Sometime last year it looked like they had some serious stuff planned for this season. What happened?

Teammanager Laurent Verhoestraete is not with the team anymore and they still didn't find drivers for this season. Last year they had Vervisch and Verdonck already testing for them many weeks before the season started, but now there isn't anyone testing. One of the reasons why Olivier didn't continue working with Verhoestraete. JB has some ideas about the future, but that wouldn't involve F3.

Just how definitive is Rahel Frey, because her name is not named anywhere.. It's not on her site, nor on the ATS Formel 3 site, nor on the Van Amersfoort site.

Source: Motorsport Aktuell website.

In the mean time, Frey's name also appeared on the official entry list for the first race in Hockenheim. Also, Vervischs teammate from Asian F3, Rafael Suzuki, has been added to Performance Racing line-up. Johnny Cecotto Jr also enters for German F3 (private entry it seems). Nice entry list for this years German F3 season if you ask me.

1. Rahel Frey (Van Amersfoort Racing - Dallara F306-Volkswagen)
2. Laurens Vanthoor (Van Amersfoort Racing - Dallara F306-Volkswagen)
9. Matteo Chinosi (Ombra Racing - Dallara F306-Mugen Honda)
10. Federico Leo (Ombra Racing - Dallara F306-Mugen Honda)
11. Gerhard Tweraser (Neuhauser Racing - Dallara F306-Mercedes)
12. Sebastian Saavedra (HS Technik Motorsport - Dallara F306-Mercedes)
14. Philipp Eng (HS Technik Motorsport - Dallara F306-Mercedes)
15. n.n.b. (Swiss Racing Team - Dallara F306 OPC Challenge)
16. Max Nilsson (Swiss Racing Team - Dallara F306 OPC Challenge)
17. Frédéric Vervisch (Swiss Racing Team - Dallara F306 OPC Challenge)
18. n.n.b. (Team Leipert - Dallara F306 OPC Challenge)
19. Federico Glorioso (Team Leipert - Dallara F306 OPC Challenge)
20. Sergey Chukanov (Team Leipert - Dallara F306 OPC Challenge)
23. n.n.b. (Rennsport Rössler - Dallara F306-Opel Spiess)
24. Karline Stala (Racing Experience - Dallara F306-Mercedes)
25. David Hauser (Racing Experience - Dallara F306-Mercedes)
26. Gary Hauser (Racing Experience - Dallara F306-Mercedes)
28. Rafael Suzuki (Performance Racing - Dallara F306 OPC Challenge)
29. Adderly Fong (Performance Racing - Dallara F306 OPC Challenge)
33. Johnny Cecotto Jr. (Private - Dallara F306-Mercedes)
38. Hamal Al Fardan (Franz Wöss Racing - Dallara F306-Mercedes)
40. Jens Höing (GU Racing Team - Dallara F306-Opel)
44. Kevin Mirocha (Josef Kaufmann Racing - Dallara F306-Opel Spiess)
50. Shirley van der Lof (HS Technik Motorsport - Dallara F304 OPC Challenge)
52. Luca Iannaccone (Team Leipert - Dallara F304-Renault Sodemo)
53. Giulio Glorioso (Team Leipert - Dallara F304-Opel Spiess)
55. Dennis Swart (KFR Team F3 - Dallara F304-Opel Spiess)
56. n.n.b. (KFR Team F3 - Dallara F304-Opel Spiess)
58. n.n.b. (Rennsport Rössler - Dallara F304-Opel Spiess)
59. Massimo Rossi (Ombra Racing - Dallara F304-Mugen Honda)
60. Marcel Schlenker (JMS Jenichen - Dallara F304-Opel Spiess)
62. Bernd Herndlhofer (Franz Wöss Racing - Dallara F304-Opel Spiess)
63. Francesco Lopez (Franz Wöss Racing - Dallara F304-Opel Spiess)
64. Klaus-Dieter Häckel (Auto Häckel Motorsport - Dallara F304-Opel Spiess)
71. David Moretti (Griffith’s - Dallara F304-Opel Spiess)
72. Patrick D’Aubreby (Griffith’s - Dallara F304-Opel Spiess)

Hockenheim test result (source: Italiaracing)

1 - Philipp Eng (Dallara 306-Mercedes) - HS Technik - 1'35"679
2 - Matteo Chinosi (Dallara 307-Mugen) - Ombra - 1'36"024
3 - Laurens Vanthoor (Dallara 306-Volkswagen) - Van Amersfoort - 1'36"050
4 - Gerhard Tweraser (Dallara 306-Mercedes) - Neuhauser - 1'36"091
5 - Sebastian Saavedra (Dallara 306-Mercedes) - HS Technik - 1'36"161
6 - Federico Leo (Dallara 306-Mugen) - Ombra - 1'36"228
7 - Frederic Vervisch (Dallara 306-OPC) - SRT - 1'36"755
8 - Kevin Mirocha (Dallara 306-OPC) - Kaufmann - 1'36"821
9 - Rafael Suzuki (Dallara 306-OPC) - Performance - 1'36"822
10 - Sergey Chucanov (Dallara 306-OPC) - Leipert - 1'36"823
11 - Hamad Al Fardan (Dallara 306-Mercedes) - Woss - 1'36"870
12 - David Hauser (Dallara 306-Mercedes) - Racing Experience - 1'37"104
13 - Gary Hauser (Dallara 306-Mercedes) - Racing Experience - 1'37"190
14 - Rahel Frey (Dallara 306-Volkswagen) - Van Amersfoort - 1'37"236
15 - Max Nilsson (Dallara 306-OPC) - SRT - 1'37"773
16 - Federico Glorioso (Dallara 306-OPC) - Leipert - 1'38"021
17 - Dennis Swart (Dallara 304-OPC) - KFR - 1'38"507
18 - Karline Stala (Dallara 306-Mercedes) - Racing Experience - 1'38"654
19 - Marco Oberhauser (Dallara 304-Opel) - Neuhauser - 1'38"839
20 - Shirley Van der Lof (Dallara 304-OPC) - HS Technik - 1'38"857
21 - Massimo Rossi (Dallara 304-Mugen) - Ombra - 1'39"605
22 - Marcel Schlenker (Dallara 304-Opel) - JMS - 1'39"642
23 - Bernd Herndlhofer (Dallara 304-Opel) - Woss - 1'39"715
24 - Klaus Dieter Hackel (Dallara 304-Opel) - Auto Hackel - 1'40"344

Fred is a bit disapointed with the opel engine.

fong from HK dont make it?

Adderly Fong Qualify P19 for the first Race and the Second

My friend Matteo won the Jim Clark memorial, and his team mate Federico (my cousin's boyfriend) was third in race 2. I'm sooo pleased!

Go, team Ombra Go!!

Results of Race 1 here (http://www.italiaracing.net/notizia.asp?id=18884&cat=25) and Race 2 here (http://www.italiaracing.net/notizia.asp?id=18904&cat=25).

A great weekend for Matteo Chinosi, Ombra Racing and of course the Neil Brown Engineering prepared Mugen-Honda engines. Chinosi's results were the same as Sergio Perez had in British F3 at Croft and they both lead thir respective championships.

I don't know what Norbert Haug is going to make of it all! :laugh:

Claim that NBE is another evil that outspends MB?! :laugh:

Frederic Vervisch & Matteo Chinosi shared the race wins at the latest round of the series at the Nurburgring...

Points after 6 rounds...

1 Matteo Chinosi - 44
2 Frederic Vervisch - 34
3 Sebastian Saavedra - 29
4 Gerhard Tweraser - 26
5 Johnny Cecotto - 22
6 Federico Leo - 18
7 Laurens Vanthoor - 17
8 Rafael Suzuki - 14
9 Kevin Mirocha - 9
10 Philipp Eng - 7

Maybe he'll sign them up? ;-) Or take his toys out of Formula 3 completely, can you think what he'll be thinking when VW-Spiess get their pieces together? :-P

I just really hope NBE can get and sign badger for their engines, Toyota or FIAT...

Round 7 & 8 Qualifying at Hockenheim...

1 Laurens Vanthoor 1:34.620
2 Sebastian Saavedra 1:34.920
3 Frederic Vervisch 1:35.083
4 Johnny Cecotto 1:35.141
5 Kevin Mirocha 1:35.205
6 Rafael Suzuki 1:35.331
7 Gerhard Tweraser 1:35.359
8 Matteo Chinosi 1:35.741
9 Max Nilsson 1:35.780
10 Rahel Frey 1:35.951
11 Hamad Al Fardan 1:35.955

1 Rafael Suzuki 1:35.503
2 Sebastian Saavedra 1:36.024
3 Johnny Cecotto 1:36.239
4 Frederic Vervisch 1:36.247
5 Max Nilsson 1:36.595
6 Federico Leo 1:36.723
7 Sergey Chukanov 1:36.800
8 Matteo Chinosi 1:36.881
9 Gary Hauser 1:36.973
10 Jens Hoing 1:37.153

Sebastian Saavedra & Frederic Vervisch shared the race wins at Hockenheim...

Points after 8 rounds...

1. Matteo Chinosi - 53
2. Frederic Vervisch - 49
3. Sebastian Saavedra - 39
4. Johnny Cecotto - 35
5. Gerhard Tweraser - 29
6. Kevin Mirocha - 23
7. Laurens Vanthoor - 20
8. Rafael Suzuki - 20
9. Federico Leo - 19
10. Hamad Al Fardan - 12

As with NEC Formula Renault, German F3 moves to Assen this weekend for the Rizla Racing Round...

Johnny Cecotto was fastest in both qualifying sessions...

Time comparison's...

Valtteri Bottas 1:37.638 (Formula Renault)
Johnny Cecotto 1:32.738 (Formula 3)

Team-mates Johnny Cecotto & Sebastian Saavedra shared the Assen race wins - shaping up to be a great season of racing in this years championship :beer:

Points after 10 rounds...

1. Matteo Chinosi - 59
2. Johnny Cecotto - 56
3. Frédéric Vervisch - 56
4. Sebastian Saavedra - 54
5. Kevin Mirocha - 36

Vervisch changed teams: going from Swiss Racing Team to Jo Zeller Racing... immediately taking poleposition on the Nürburgring in the wet.

http://www.formel3.com/ergebnisse/2008-08-17-q1.pdf

he got pole for race 2 aswell...

And took two victories and fastest laps!

Result race 1: http://www.formel3.com/ergebnisse/2008-08-17-r1.pdf

Result race 2: http://www.formel3.com/ergebnisse/2008-08-17-r2.pdf

Those 2 race wins by Frederic Vervisch have leap-frogged him into the points lead - could he win 2 F3 titles in the same year :eek:

Points after 12 rounds...

1. Frederic Vervisch - 80
2. Johnny Cecotto - 61
3. Matteo Chinosi - 61
4. Sebastian Saavedra - 58
5. Kevin Mirocha - 45
6. Laurens Vanthoor - 45
7. Rafael Suzuki - 39

Another two wins for Vervisch on the Eurospeedway, increasing chamoionship lead to 31 points. I think that it is some time ago that one driver could win two F3 titles in one year . Anyone who knows this?

Go go go Fredje.

If Im correct, someone named Alain Prost won French F3 title and FIA European title in 1979. So that should rise some interest on Versich.

Yes but asian F3 with 5 cars on the grid does not really have an credit...

Vervisch is really turning it on now - 4 wins in a row & a handy points lead...

Points after 14 rounds...

1. Frederic Vervisch - 103
2. Sebastian Saavedra - 72
3. Matteo Chinosi - 69
4. Johnny Cecotto - 67
5. Laurens Vanthoor - 53

Yes but asian F3 with 5 cars on the grid does not really have an credit...

For sure, but he proves now that Hamad Al Fardan has wrongfully accused him and Team Goddard of cheating! Vervisch is a good driver and certainly one to watch in the future.

Fredje Champion.

With another race win - Laurens Vanthoor won race 2...

Points after 16 rounds...

1. Frederic Vervisch - 120
2. Sebastian Saavedra - 83
3. Johnny Cecotto - 82
4. Matteo Chinosi - 73
5. Laurens Vanthoor - 72

Vervisch will not take part in the last meeting of the championship due to lack of funding.

Esteban Gutierrez will drive for Josef Kauffmann this weekend.

...while Mirocha takes over Vervisch's seat at Jo Zeller Racing. Niall Quinn took Rahel Frey's place (Van Amersfoort Racing) and Philipp Eng is back with Ombra Racing, replacing Matteo Chinosi motivation problems.

Pole in race 1 is for Vanthoor.

Philipp Eng is back with Ombra Racing, replacing Matteo Chinosi motivation problems.

What do you mean by motivation problems? Is he lazy?!

Not really, but he lost confidence after losing the championship lead and before the last round in Oschersleben he was only fourth in the standings. You have to know that he was leading the championship quite comfortably halfway the season.

Yeah I do, and he put on a great performance in the British F3 round at Monza, taking overall pole position. Strange he's given up though, not many people do that...