Renault World Series - Who is Driving? - Page 5

Go_For_Pole · 17 Mar 2005, 14:37 (Ref:1254317)

Or his British F3 team, depends how you look at it

Mr Jinxx · 17 Mar 2005, 14:46 (Ref:1254325)

Will is no slouch

JJ Jet Plane · 17 Mar 2005, 15:54 (Ref:1254355)

Fair point on the team, Goforpole, but Docking DID win races in 2001, 2002 and 2003…

bleiben · 21 Mar 2005, 21:31 (Ref:1258343)

Ryo Fukuda has signed with Saulnier (italiaracing.net).
Only 4 or 5 seats yet available.

Marcel ten Caat · 22 Mar 2005, 12:11 (Ref:1258818)

This is the latest lineup, Victory is said to announce their drivers soon. Names mentioned are Enrico Toccacelo, Alan Van der Merwe and Adam Carroll.

Pons: Adrian Valles (E) - Celso Miguez (E)
Carlin: Andreas Zuber (A) - Will Power (AUS)
Epsilon: Felix Porteiro (E) - Robert Kubica (PL)
Draco: Markus Winkelhock (D) - Christian Montanari (RSM)
Eurointernational: Giorgio Mondini (I) - Matteo Meneghello (I)
Dams: Pastor Maldonado (VEN) - Alx Danielsson (S)
Cram: Damien Pasini (F) - Eric Salignon (F)
RC Motorsport: Giovanni Tedeschi (I) - Karun Chandhok (IND)
Interwetten: Stefano Proetto (I) - Daniel La Rosa (D)
Jenzer: Colin Fleming (USA) - Patrick Pilet (F)
Saulnier: Simon Pagenaud (F) - Ryo Fukuda (J)
KTR: Tristan Gommendy (F) - Jaap Van Lagen (NL)
GD Racing: Milos Pavlovic (YU) - Parthavi Sureshwaren (IND) ?
Victory: ? - ?
Avelon: ? - ?

GM Man · 23 Mar 2005, 09:20 (Ref:1259574)

I think you can add Ivan Bellarosa to Avelon?

eltong · 23 Mar 2005, 11:43 (Ref:1259673)

Does anyone know when and where the nest group test is?

Mekola · 23 Mar 2005, 11:57 (Ref:1259688)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gabrio

Yes. They will definitely be there. They have one driver signed and the other driver should be signed in the next 3/4 days.

Time has passed, and Victory have to announce their drivers yet...
Last year they proved to win races; strange that they're delaying too much their lineup...

GM Man · 23 Mar 2005, 12:35 (Ref:1259709)

True, very strange. Maybe they are suffering from the fact they run a proffesional high profile team and are asking high budgets, when all the Red Bull and Renault backed drivers are already signed? Maybe there just aint enough drivers with money?

Next test (first with new car) is supposed to be at Le Mans 2-3rd of April.

Gabrio · 25 Mar 2005, 09:51 (Ref:1261340)

Truth is there are several drivers with good speed and budget. So they're just waiting for the second seat to be filled....The first wiill go to an italian driver ex F3000 and the second will go to either a british or an indian driver, although there are two more waiting...

Marcel ten Caat · 25 Mar 2005, 10:30 (Ref:1261354)

so looks like Enrico Toccacelo and Adam Carroll or Parthavi Sureshwaren?

Gabrio · 25 Mar 2005, 16:13 (Ref:1261581)

Ok. Team has just announced five minutes ago, so it can be disclosed :
Toccacelo and Tomas Kostka are signed for Victory Engineering.

Kicking-back · 25 Mar 2005, 17:15 (Ref:1261614)

Potentially a very strong line-up. Thanks for the info Gabrio.

Russfeld · 25 Mar 2005, 17:20 (Ref:1261618)

28 cars so far with name drivers and name teams, this could be the darkhorse series of 05 imo

Kicking-back · 25 Mar 2005, 17:32 (Ref:1261621)

The whole Renault World Series >> GP2 thing seems to have worked in clearing up the sub-F1 single seater mess.

At one stage it was feared there would be about 17 different series.

GM Man · 4 Apr 2005, 21:03 (Ref:1270230)

Any results from testing at Le Mans?

Miki · 4 Apr 2005, 21:05 (Ref:1270232)

1 Adrian VALLES 1:22.496
2 Christian MONTANARI 1:22.659 0.163
3 Felix PORTEIRO 1:22.851 0.355
4 Simon PAGENAUD 1:22.905 0.409
5 Tristan GOMMENDY1:22.944 0.448
6 Celso MIGUEZ 1:22.989 0.493
7 Will POWER 1:23.035 0.539
8 Colin FLEMING 1:23.091 0.595
9 Milos PAVLOVIC 1:23.175 0.679
10 Pastor MALDONADO 1:23.179 0.683
11 Markus WINKELHOCK1:23.247 0.751
12 Eric SALIGNON 1:23.381 0.885
13 Jaap VAN LAGEN 1:23.509 1.013
14 Stefano PROETTO 1:23.529 1.033
15 Enrico TOCCACELO 1:23.596 1.100
16 Giorgio MONDINI 1:23.760 1.264
17 Giovanni TEDESCHI 1:23.776 1.280
18 Ryo FUKUDA 1:23.809 1.313
19 Robert KUBICA 1:23.939 1.443
20 Daniel LA ROSA 1:24.019 1.523
21 Andreas ZUBER 1:24.096 1.600
22 Patrick PILET 1:24.455 1.959
23 Matteo MENEGHELLO 1:24.799 2.303
24 Damien PASINI1:24.852 2.356
25 Alx DANIELSSON 1:24.964 2.468
26 Tomas KOSTKA1:25.629 3.133
27 Karun CHANDHOK1:25.916 3.420
28 Ivan BELLAROSA 1:26.415 3.919
29 Parthiva SURESHWAREN 1:26.763 4.267

GM Man · 5 Apr 2005, 20:50 (Ref:1271249)

That is odd...Kubica, Danielsson, Fukuda, Mondini sure are further down than expected. Shakedown probs?

29 driver on location, but only 13 teams? How does that add up?

Pons seem to be the class of the field. Do you "experts" think the other non-Nissan teams will catch up, or are they sure champions again 2005?

Miki · 5 Apr 2005, 21:04 (Ref:1271257)

Avelon ran only Ivan Bellarosa - this should explain the odd number of drivers. There were 15 teams running.

Kubica ran only during the first day and the car was breaking down every five minutes. On the second day they sorted out the reliability problems and Porteiro was able to clinch third place.

Pons looks extremely strong, but Epsilon shouldn't be too far behind. Also DRACO seems to be quite strong, but during this first test they managed to sort out the shakedown problems really quickly, so they were able to cover many, many laps.

Kidzer · 5 Apr 2005, 21:12 (Ref:1271265)

Im pretty sure that Christian Montanari will win the championship - fantastic showing in the v6 races he did last year, seems a very quick driver.

GM Man · 9 Apr 2005, 00:15 (Ref:1273751)

Ok good folks,
Valencia testing is coming up for WSR. It will be the first time the teams use 2 cars each, which should add up to some 30 cars!

What are you predictions, besides red flagg city?
Here´s mine, at the end of the two days:

1. Montanari
2. Gommendy
3. Valles
4. Danielsson
5. Power
6. Kubica
7. Miguez
8. Van Lagen
9. Mondini
10. Maldonado

Kicking-back · 9 Apr 2005, 07:49 (Ref:1273820)

Toccacello will be right up there

GM Man · 9 Apr 2005, 18:51 (Ref:1274185)

Yeah, your´re right...forgott about him. Will edit =)

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