Formula 3 - Silly Season (merged)

[Shunt the Hunt]

This is the list of the drivers who have been confirmed for 2003, in the three main championships (British F3, Euroseries, All Japan F3)

* BRITISH F3 :

ALAN DOCKING : Scott Speed (USA), Will Davison (AUS)
CARLIN : Richard Antinucci (USA), Alan Van Der Merwe (RSA), Ronnie Bremer (DNK), Jamie Green (GBR)
MANOR : Clivio Piccione (MON), Stefano Fabi (ITA)
PIQUET : Nelson Angelo Piquet (BRA)
DUMA : John Antoniadis (GRE)
FORTEC : n.c.
PROMATECME : n.c.
HITECH : n.c.
MENU : n.c.
SWEENEY : n.c.
DIAMOND : n.c.
MERITUS : n.c.
T-SPORT : n.c.

* EUROSERIES F3 :

ASM : Olivier Pla (FRA), Alexandre Premat (FRA)
ROSBERG : Nico Rosberg (FIN)
OPEL KMS : Timo Glock (GER)
GHINZANI : Robert Doornbos (NED)
TME : Sakon Yamamoto (JPN), Bernhard Auinger (AUT)
SAULNIER : Harold Primat (FRA)
PREMA : n.c.
KOLLES : n.c.
SIGNATURE : n.c.
ARTA SIGNATURE : n.c.
MÜCKE : n.c.
BSR : n.c.
LD AUTOSPORT : n.c.
VAN AMERSFOORT : n.c.
JOSEF KAUFMAN : n.c.
SRT : n.c.

* ALL JAPAN F3 :

DOME PROJECT : Shinya Hosokawa (JPN), Yuki Shibata (JPN)
TOM'S : Wataru Kobayakawa (JPN)
TOMEI : Kazuki Hoshino (JPN)
INGING : n.c.
NAKAJIMA : n.c.
NOW : n.c.
TODA : n.c.
THREE BOND : n.c.
YELLOW HAT : n.c.
5ZIGEN : n.c.
SAWA : n.c.

[Shunt the Hunt]

In Japan, two teams (Dome and Now) will use the new Lola Dome F106/03.

Japanese champion Takashi Kogure tested it at Suzuka few days ago. He made a 1'57'05 laptime, which was almost 1 second quicker than the best lap in race this season with the Dallara chassis (1'58'03).

[*formula3*]

japan f3:
ronnie quintarelli had an successful test with inging and is in talks with them, he´ll make his decision in mid-january, i´ll let you know when he has signed

[Shunt the Hunt]

Japan F3 will be very interesting next year... look at Yuki Shibata. He's the new star coming from the Suzuka Racing School/Formula Dream, which produced drivers like Takuma Sato and Kousuke Matsuura.

[Daisy]

I'm not 100% sure, but I read somewhere that BSR will not compete in the Euro F3 championship.

[flor]

it is still not sure what they do next year

[Go_For_Pole]

DUMA : John Antoniadis (GRE)
Are you sure about it? ;-)

[flor]

you can remove bsr from your list, they won´t drive euro f3, it´s 99,99% sure

I think you will find a new Team Instead of BSR taking its place Team SYR !

[Daisy]

Team SYR? Who's that?

[Thommy]

Is BSR racing in the new formula renault series? Or are they switching to the touringcars (V8-STAR?)

[*formula3*]

i only heared about renault v6 series, and imo it´s more likely that they stay in single seaters, but who knows...

there were rumours that prema is also looking for renault v6 and kousuke matsuura would be interested too...

[Albert1]

yes, Prema is looking for renault v6 (matsuura and maybe campanico), but they stay also in the euro series of f3.

[Thommy]

yes, I'd stolen formula3's chocolate... (Nichts für ungut.
I also guess Josef Kaufmann Racing won't run in Euro-F3. I think the team is too small...

[*formula3*]

Originally posted by Thommy
yes, I'd stolen formula3's chocolate... (Nichts für ungut.

ha! now i know who it was

Originally posted by Thommy

I also guess Josef Kaufmann Racing won't run in Euro-F3. I think the team is too small...

yeah, they said something about it early this year, ehm last year, but anyways...

but there could be a german formula 3 championship which could run together with beru top10 and v8star
but saw no confermation of teams or drivers even if there are rumours about realtively high interest


happy new year thommy (and all the others, too, of course )