Formula 3 - Silly Season (merged)

Shunt the Hunt · 28 Dec 2002, 10:34 (Ref:458776)

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 · 28 Dec 2002, 10:43 (Ref:458784)

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* · 28 Dec 2002, 10:53 (Ref:458788)

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 · 28 Dec 2002, 11:03 (Ref:458795)

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 · 28 Dec 2002, 19:06 (Ref:459033)

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

flor · 28 Dec 2002, 19:43 (Ref:459080)

it is still not sure what they do next year

Go_For_Pole · 29 Dec 2002, 23:39 (Ref:459816)

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

flor · 30 Dec 2002, 12:30 (Ref:460044)

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

30 Dec 2002, 23:06 (Ref:460530)

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

Daisy · 31 Dec 2002, 07:42 (Ref:460739)

Team SYR? Who's that?

Thommy · 1 Jan 2003, 16:53 (Ref:461577)

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

*formula3* · 1 Jan 2003, 17:00 (Ref:461580)

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 · 1 Jan 2003, 17:04 (Ref:461582)

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

Thommy · 1 Jan 2003, 17:14 (Ref:461588)

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* · 1 Jan 2003, 17:23 (Ref:461593)

Quote:

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

ha! now i know who it was

Quote:

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

)

flor · 1 Jan 2003, 19:22 (Ref:461641)

Quote:

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

no they won´t race renault V6 or v8star

mac · 1 Jan 2003, 19:30 (Ref:461643)

Was Briscoe not signed to Kolles?

flor · 1 Jan 2003, 19:45 (Ref:461647)

Quote:

Originally posted by mac
Was Briscoe not signed to Kolles?

well you can say kolles has 2 teams in euro f3 and one of those is a toms-toyota worksteam, so if he stays in f3 i think he would drive there

Thommy · 1 Jan 2003, 21:44 (Ref:461695)

And what is BSR planning then? British F3? Telefonica World Series? Or retirement?

flor · 1 Jan 2003, 21:53 (Ref:461698)

Quote:

Originally posted by Thommy
And what is BSR planning then? British F3? Telefonica World Series? Or retirement?

i think they wont race one year, they might start in german f3cup if there will be one

Marcel ten Caat · 1 Jan 2003, 21:57 (Ref:461699)

isn't Jan Heylen signed by Kolles (via Mercedes)?

Thommy · 1 Jan 2003, 21:59 (Ref:461701)

Is Kolles using Mercedes- engines 2003?

flor · 1 Jan 2003, 22:03 (Ref:461704)

i think carlin.kolles are honda, mercedes team is mücke, rumours say asm too

Marcel ten Caat · 1 Jan 2003, 22:26 (Ref:461709)

was just scrolling on a Belgian forum and there they say he's with Kolles next year.

Although I also read that Kolles would be using Honda on other sites.

As far as I know Heylen has been told to be quiet about it and let Mercedes do the official announcement. So the waiting continues.

Marcel ten Caat · 1 Jan 2003, 22:31 (Ref:461713)

Also found an article on autosport.be where they say that "they heard from a reliable source" that Jan will be driving for Kolles.

Quite funny that the article refers to an article of November 9 in which it's said that Carlin.Kolles will stay with Mugen engines.

But then again, the same article of November 9 also reports that BSR will definitely stay in Euro F3 with 2 cars.

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