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7 Oct 2010, 20:35 (Ref:2771046) | #1 | ||
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2011 FR3.5 Series Off-season Thread
Thought I'd get this up and running as winter testing starts on Tuesday at Barcelona, just two days after the end of the 2010 season!
This is the testing schedule for the remainder of 2010: October 12/13 - Circuit de Catalunya October 18/19/20 - Motorland Aragon Here's some recent FR3.5 news I've gathered from Italiaracing.net and Stopandgo.tv
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Good one, I suppose there'll be a mix of this years drivers who look to continue into next year and a whole host of F3 and Formula Renault 2.0 pilots having a go?
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I would hope Dean Stoneman has a budget for a full season.
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Rnd Date Venue Event
1 17 April Motorland Aragon, Spain World Series by Renault 2 1 May Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium WsbR 3 15 May Monza, Italy WTCC 4 29 May Monte Carlo, Monaco Formula 1 5 19 June Nurburgring, Germany WsbR 6 3 July Hungaroring, Hungary WsbR 7 21 August Silverstone, Great Britain WsbR 8 18 September Le Castellet, France WsbR 9 9 October Barcelona, Spain WsbR http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/87411 |
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11 Oct 2010, 13:37 (Ref:2773128) | #5 | |
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Does anyone know when the tests will be taking place? I have trouble finding the dates. I'm especially interested in the first test, I want to see what the lower formula guys can do :P
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11 Oct 2010, 14:19 (Ref:2773144) | #6 | |
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try the opening posts of this thread with the testing dates
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11 Oct 2010, 19:58 (Ref:2773348) | #7 | |
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Stephane Richelmi - Daniel De Jong - Andre Negrao Carlin Jazeman Jaafar - Max Chilton P1 Walter Grubmuller - Brendon Hartley Tech 1 Jean Eric Vergne - Nathanael Berthon - Arthur Pic Junior Lotus Pierre Thiriet - Ivan Lukashevich - Giovanni Venturini Epsilon Euskadi Albert Costa - Giovanni Venturini - Sergio Canamasas Comtec Adrian Quaife Hobbs - Will Stevens Fortec Robert Wickens - Daniel Zampieri - Daniel McKenzie ISR Julian Leal - Daniil Move - Alexander Rossi KMP Anton Nebilitskiy - Nelson Panciatici BVM Target Mirko Bortolotti - Daniel Zampieri http://www.italiaracing.net/notizia.asp?id=29282&cat=5 |
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I have to say I'm pretty happy with the calendar for next year. It's a shame that Brno has been dropped, but I'm pleased that they are going back to Italy. From what I can remember, the last time they raced at Monza in 2008 it was a pretty good event with a reasonable amount of overtaking (i.e. van der Garde winning the opening race from 8th on the grid). Not sure why they have changed the venue for the French round again, but all in all it's a decent looking calendar IMO.
It's also interesting seeing the list of drivers for the Barcelona test this week. I always thought the plan for Rossi was a year of GP3 then a graduation to GP2, but maybe FR3.5 might be the way to go for him? I hope Bortolotti does well and lands a drive for next year. He's a driver I've admired since his Italian F3 days and 11th place in GP3 this year doesn't do justice to his talent IMO. 2010 was a great year for the series, and even at this early stage, 2011 looks very promising indeed. Vergne at Tech 1 Racing has to be the hot favourite for the title, but if the likes of Albert Costa and Daniel Zampieri return then they will definitely be in with a shot too. And when you add in possible drivers like Bortolotti, Rossi etc. then we have a potentially great looking grid! |
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Interesting to see Wickens name down there?
Andre Negrao: pardon the ignorance but what's he been racing in lately? |
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Formula Abarth and Formula Renault Eurocup for Cram.
Ex-GP2-Driver is Xandi Negrao, don't know if they're related. |
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live timing's up if anyone else is seriously bored at work today after i don't know, a long weekend at barcelona and a grand total of 5 hours sleep since sunday morning
i'm interested to see how a couple of these drivers go, i think anyone who has just finished their first season this year could do a lot worse than to stick around for a second rather than ponce around at the back in gp2 for a bigger wedge of cash. |
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Agreed with the second part, people like Pantiatici learnt the hard way that getting into a Durango GP2 car is a sure fire way of sending your career into reverse but then he's not done much this year in WSR? Rossi is one I guess we're all keeping an eye on. Didn't get his GP3 form, one minute he's up there next minute he's just an also ran but is that down to the series or driver? I'm convinced he's a talent. I could see him doing good in 3.5. |
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i think albert costa is an interesting trial case for not heading to gp2 actually - he has an absolutely huge local and international fanbase, and is really popular no matter which circuit he's at. he spent a lot of time with some friends of mine at hungary, they really appreciated it and as a result they make noise about him. it's small, on the ground stuff, but that sort of guerilla and social media marketing is fairly widespread in things like the music industry. staying in a cheaper series where he can get more people there, meeting him, more guests... it's a no brainer to be honest! as for panciatici... everything was there except the results. not having a competitive teammate is always not a good thing for a driver, and daniil move really couldn't pull any results (or towards the end of the year any pace at all) together. he could have a crack at the title next year if he gets just the right team. or win eventually aleshin default style. i think even for valsecchi 2009 at durango in gp2 was a waste of time and money - for the amount of mileage gp2 gives a young driver and the actual chance of being able to be competitive as a n00b on that lack of mileage whilst having an engineer and team able to help you put together the exact car (and the driver having enough talent) to make the most of it... well it's not worth the gamble unless you have a huge amount of cash to throw at it. and bearing in mind at least 50% of the time some part of panciatici's car was broken or failed during the practice sessions and he really didn't stand a chance. at least the world series gives you a fair crack at testing before a weekend and two decent length qualifying sessions and races to get your teeth into. yeah, agree about rossi, though it was more difficult to tell where he's up to after a year in gp3. zampieri ran a bit hot and cold during the season we've just had (too soon to call it last season), obviously ferrari saw something in his skills apart from the fact he's italian but if he was with red bull he'd be on his own now surely. i can't work stefano coletti out - he's clearly a quick driver, and he's suitably agressive on track as well but there's something that isn't right? something i've found interesting this year is that normally during the races, him and panciatici usually end up in around the same place despite two completely different driving styles. if hartley can find the backing to do next season with p1 you'd absolutely have to put him at the top of the list of title contenders, and vergne has to be favourite already before the rest of the grid assembles. it's almost a shame we won't see a vergne/ricciardo title fight! |
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Wow, Rossi has just pumped in a 1:33.660, which is almost 0.600s faster than Ricciardo's dry pole time from Saturday and a whole second faster than Brendon Hartley at the moment!
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well i'm trying really really hard not to either catch the scent of a rodent or call shenanigans, but...
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Good perfomances from Pic,best graduate from 2.0 in each session.
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The morning session started out wet, but gradually dried as time wore on, whilst the afternoon was dry throughout.
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All WSBR categories will use FIA points system.
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Vergne only ran in the wet it seems, or why so slow?
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next test session are going to be take place on Alcaniz next week and the driver list as follow:
http://www.italiaracing.net/notizia.asp?id=29331&cat=5 most driver from F3 and F Renault(even the FR shadows car FCJ) has invited....except Asian Formula Renault and Aussie F3 |
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that's just for the newbie session on wednesday afternoon though isn't it? it'll be interesting to see how mortara gets on! he should in theory hand everyone their arses... but it'll be even more interesting to see how korjus does.
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It will indeed. And with the €500,000 he got for winning the Eurocup FR2.0 title, he should in theory be somewhere in FR3.5 next year.
It'll be interesting to see how Bottas does as well. I always remember his first FR3.5 test with Cram Competition a few years ago (late 2007 IIRC). He stepped into the car with little more than a season's experience in the FR2.0 Northern European Cup and blew everyone away. He's had two seasons in the F3 Euroseries now so I imagine he will want to step up a level next year, hopefully to FR3.5. How ironic it must be for Marco Barba. Races for Draco for two years, steps back down to F3 and dominates the European F3 Open season, receives a prize test and who is he placed with... |
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Korjus said he's still deciding between F3 and WSR. AFAIK he only gets the money when he joins FR3.5. Considering the difficulty that Estonians have with funds it would sound reasonable to go the FR3.5 route :P
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I think some of the drivers might actually forgo the test as it clashes with GP3 at Jerez.
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Brendon Hartley seems to getting along fine with P1:
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Tuesday times Pos Driver Team Time 1. Adrian Quaife-Hobbs Comtec 1m33.595 2. Alexander Rossi ISR 1m33.660 3. Robert Wickens Fortec 1m33.770 4. Walter Grubmuller P1 1m34.069 5. Julian Leal ISR 1m34.206 6. Brendon Hartley P1 1m34.473 7. Arthur Pic Tech 1 1m34.524 8. Albert Costa Epsilon 1m34.625 9. Giovanni Venturini Epsilon 1m34.822 10. Nelson Panciatici KMP 1m34.827 11. Anton Neblitskiy KMP 1m34.881 12. Stefano Richelmi Draco 1m34.925 13. Mirko Bortolotti BVM 1m35.062 14. Max Chilton Carlin 1m35.211 15. Jazeman Jaafar Carlin 1m35.331 16. Daniel Zampieri BVM 1m35.462 17. Ivan Lukashevich Junior Lotus 1m35.816 18. Andre Negrao Draco 1m35.934 19. Will Stevens Comtec 1m36.218 20. Daniel McKenzie Fortec 1m36.453 21. Jean-Eric Vergne Tech 1 1m36.774 22. Pierre Thiriet Junior Lotus 1m38.272 Code:
Wednesday times Pos Driver Team Time 1. Brendon Hartley P1 1m32.820 2. Alexander Rossi ISR 1m33.100 3. Adrian Quaife-Hobbs Comtec 1m33.648 4. Daniel Zampieri Fortec 1m33.709 5. Albert Costa Epsilon 1m33.832 6. Nathanael Berthon Tech 1 1m33.921 7. Jazeman Jaafar Carlin 1m34.024 8. Mirko Bortolotti BVM 1m34.072 9. Max Chilton Carlin 1m34.072 10. Arthur Pic Tech 1 1m34.082 11. Daniil Move ISR 1m34.178 12. Walter Grubmuller P1 1m34.183 13. Sergio Canamasas Epsilon 1m34.234 14. Nelson Panciatici KMP 1m34.512 15. Giovanni Venturini Junior Lotus 1m34.513 16. Will Stevens Comtec 1m34.525 17. Anton Neblitskiy KMP 1m34.686 18. Daniel McKenzie Fortec 1m34.971 19. Daniel de Jong Draco 1m35.332 20. Andre Negrao Draco 1m37.071 |
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