Driver line up in the F3 euroseries2005? - Page 3

Lisboa · 3 Feb 2005, 14:06 (Ref:1216530)

In 2004 ASM had a lot of money from Mercedes, and 3 very good drivers. But, in Macau and Bahrain (where nobody can test) they were not the fasters. In my opinion, Prema with Hamilton should be on top like Asm.

strider · 3 Feb 2005, 14:19 (Ref:1216550)

Hamilton is actually with ASM this year, not Prema...

People will remember how dominant ASM were last year and expect him to cruise to win, but they had a head start then after all the testing they did at the end of 2003.

In '03 Prema had the upper hand with Ryan Briscoe and I agree that they are just as good a team as ASM. So are Signature, probably.

It should be far more open this year as everyone is starting with new cars.

JJ Jet Plane · 3 Feb 2005, 14:35 (Ref:1216566)

Toot Toot: the reason ASM only finished third in the 2003 Euroseries is probably because they had Olivier Pla driving – he's not really that good.

toot toot · 3 Feb 2005, 14:55 (Ref:1216579)

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Originally Posted by JJ Jet Plane

Toot Toot: the reason ASM only finished third in the 2003 Euroseries is probably because they had Olivier Pla driving – he's not really that good.

I was trying to highlight the point that it doesn't take an ASM car to win, if they finished third then another team must have won.

ale16 · 3 Feb 2005, 19:39 (Ref:1216810)

Hamilton driving ASM cars should be the man to beat in 2005. I would also pay a good attention to Rossiter with Signature, but this will depend a lot on Opel improvements. Does anyone would put your money in Van der Garde as well?

Same for Perera and Prema, with the advantage of his second season in F3 Euro.

I think it will be interesting to see newcomers like Di Resta (Manor), Abreu and Vettel (Mücke).

BTW, who's driving Manor second car? Di Grassi?

flor · 5 Feb 2005, 12:56 (Ref:1218118)

afaik there will be another british team in the series, i dont know which one though

Gaz · 5 Feb 2005, 14:04 (Ref:1218159)

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Originally Posted by flor

afaik there will be another british team in the series, i dont know which one though

You mean a British series team will be jumping ship from our series to the Euroseries flor?

The only one that could possibly be would be Promatecme off the top of my head and I can't see that as likely. All the other main class teams have started to confirm drivers so unless they decide to do both (unlikely) or unless its a National Class team (also unlikely) I can't see this happening.....

Kicking-back · 5 Feb 2005, 14:22 (Ref:1218179)

It may not be a team from British F3, Gaz...

flor · 5 Feb 2005, 14:24 (Ref:1218180)

i dont know if the team is from the british series, all Manfred Hahn said was that a 2nd british team will enter

bradrive · 5 Feb 2005, 18:51 (Ref:1218324)

Esteban Guerrieri possibly to race for the until now unknown "second British" F3Euro team "Midland Junior", the team to be a mix of Carlin and Kolles personnel, using British licence and base in Germany. Second driver possibly Roman Rusinov.

SFonseca · 5 Feb 2005, 18:56 (Ref:1218331)

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Originally Posted by bradrive

Esteban Guerrieri possibly to race for the until now unknown "second British" F3Euro team "Midland Junior"

Isn't he supported by Mercedes Argentina?

bradrive · 5 Feb 2005, 19:05 (Ref:1218337)

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Originally Posted by SFonseca

Isn't he supported by Mercedes Argentina?

No

SFonseca · 5 Feb 2005, 20:22 (Ref:1218386)

Last year, he tested for Mücke Motorsport because of his links to Mercedes Argentina.

6 Feb 2005, 11:34 (Ref:1218686)

Wrong Answer, Last year he tested for Team Kolles at Oschersleben along with Danny Watts. What has happened to Tom Kimber-Smith has he moved away fromTeam Kolles, where is he going this year!!

ale16 · 6 Feb 2005, 13:49 (Ref:1218760)

Perhaps Kimber-Smith has been testing Toyota_Atlantic in USA in january.

strider · 6 Feb 2005, 17:48 (Ref:1218872)

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Originally Posted by farcnield

What has happened to Tom Kimber-Smith has he moved away fromTeam Kolles, where is he going this year!!

No idea. It was a bad decision on his part to do EuroF3 last year, except that he may have had some funding from Mercedes. He simply dropped out of sight.

BritF3 is much better for a first year in the formula, e.g. James Rossiter, not that Kimber-Smith is at his level anyway.

Valker · 6 Feb 2005, 20:24 (Ref:1218945)

Any idea who will drive for Midland F3? Rusinov is gonna test MidlandF1-Dallara in summer but is he also their F3 pilot?

I personally would like to see Formula Lada (FLada uses F3 chassis and 1600cc Lada engine) champion Aleksei Pavlovski in Euro Series. He came second in Finnish F3 championship 2003 (another Lukoil backed driver Andrea Bellichi won). It would be nice to see what he can do in some proper series...

Tweed · 8 Feb 2005, 13:57 (Ref:1220391)

I'll say it again, what about Petrov, he was pretty impressive in the FRenault at Donington.

Monkey Head · 9 Feb 2005, 14:51 (Ref:1221015)

di Grassi confirmed at Manor,is it true that Carbone return to signature?

flor · 10 Feb 2005, 23:31 (Ref:1222539)

2nd driver for Midland F3 is Pascal Kochem (ger)

**FIRE** · 11 Feb 2005, 17:38 (Ref:1223125)

Giedo v/d Garde will drive for Team Rosberg in Euro F3 Championship. Other Team Rosberg driver is Kohei Hirate.

Daisy · 11 Feb 2005, 21:18 (Ref:1223287)

Great for Giedo, I hope he does well. But now that Hirate is confirmed at Rosberg and Streit looks to go to Japan F3, what will happen with Perera. Can he stay at Prema, or will they run just 2 cars for Bonamoni and Franchi. If yes, than it's their worst lineup in years. Perera deserves a good seat.

Marcel ten Caat · 12 Feb 2005, 00:11 (Ref:1223383)

Don't worry

Perera will be at Prema (100%) and all three drivers will use the Dallara F305 Opel-Spiess

Daisy · 12 Feb 2005, 09:31 (Ref:1223549)

That's good news

SFonseca · 12 Feb 2005, 12:22 (Ref:1223653)

Whatever happened to Lola plans to have (again) at least one car in F3 Euro Series?

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