WS update, silly season

[jjjoseee]

the calendar is modified.

estoril out, lautszring in(ths german cart track, is very dificult for a spanish remenber the name, sorry).
hugaroring maybe for 2004 (strong goverment support for the race and a new hungarian team in the world series light, the old nissan 2.0)

drivers silly season

KTR
paul edwards
enrique bernoldi (depending of jordan drive)

adrian campos
marc gene
santiago porteiro (2002 nissan 2.0 champ)

racing enginneering
frank montagny
pedro lamy - matteo bobbi-jaime melo (but lamy is who have mor possibilities)

vergami
mateo bobbi (in talks)
adrea montermini (in talks)
milka duno (in talks)

saulnier
heikki kovalainen

gabord
mateo bobbi (in talks)
tuka rocha (in talks)
jaime melo (in talks)

other drivers linked to the series but about who i don't know what team are linked:
luciano burti
luca badoer
felipe massa
narain kartikeyan
polo villaamil
andre couto
angel burgueño
jan magnussen
bas leinders
rafael sarandeses
sperafico twins
wagner ebrahim
damien faulkner
nicolas filiberti
peter sundberg
and... more or less, all the drivers who are aiming for a int 3000 drive (anyone as first election, and others as second election, of course).

ex-drivers of 2002 who don't will be for sure:
antonio garcia (BMW ravaglia tema in ETCC)
ricardo zonta (toyota f1 tester)
felix porteiro (world series light, old nissan 2.0)
roberto gonzalez (formula cart)
justin wilson (formula 1 minardi)
luciano gomide (renault V6)
victor ordoñez (spanish f3)

un saludo
jjjossse, jose ramon galan

[*formula3*]

hey, now that´s great! when will they be at the lausitzring? (call it eurospeedway if that´s easier to remember )

german sites (or better to say the gossip in forums )do still link pedro lamy to Zakspeed and V8Star series...

[Fan]

I think that Bruce Jouanny is also in talks with KTR

[bleiben]

And don't forget Leinders, who is in talks with Racing Engineering and Gabord.
I thought Milka Duno's was a done deal.

[bleiben]

Lausitzring is on July 6, according to www.zele-racing.com

[jjjoseee]

two names more for the list.

tiago monteiro also (as kovalainen) with renault support is saying he don't want repeat int 3000, that it was a wrong, and that he want be in the WS next season.
an other he very probable finish in the champ will be ex minardi f1, and ex prost and toyota f1 tester stephane sarrazin.
monterio strong in saulnier alongisde kovalainen.

un saludo
jjjoseee, jose ramon galan

[jjjoseee]

no bleiben, dulno have the money but the problem is that the team that take milka knows that they will have a car in the last position in all the grids and all the races because venezuelan driver is no less that 3 second slow from next driver.

i suposse that she can get, maybe, the last minute empty drive two days before the start of the champ, if case, of course.

and very important: ALL THE RACES LIVE COVERAGE IN EUROSPORT IN 2003 (source: official website of zele mototsport team, one of the 12 of the champ.)

[*formula3*]

ah, thanks for the info on lausitzring, i did only look on the website of the track, but there was no confirmation..

what did wagner ebrahim do last year? i do only remeber him driving for KMS in german f3 in 2001 but that wasn´t very good

and the live coverage is a very good thing too! will bring more visitors to lausitzring i think, cos at the moment not many people know about the series at the moment

[unofficialf3000]

Hi Jose, great news about Eurosport! But I do worry that with TWS and Formula Renault V6, will they have time to show F3000?!

[Marcel ten Caat]

You can add David Saelens to that list as well.

At the Race&Rally International in Maastricht, Holland he said that his plans for 2003 will be revealed within the next 2 weeks.

When asked if it was open or closed cars, he replied open.
When asked if it was in Spain, he tried to deny but said: 'well, in that area yes'.

What other series than the WS can that be?

[jjjoseee]

hi unofficial, how are you?, please WS silly season again in your web ))))))

it's a joke, a great number of the news that i post here come from a link that i saw yesterday in yor web (italiaracing.net) are they the disappear prorace.it?

eurosport. well i read it only in official zele web, but i can't really confirm 100% till i saw in tje europsport programme, but i hope that 3000 also will be... at least for me is a disaster if this not happen because i love really all the open wheeler categories and this include, of course mylovely int 3000 (i say this because anyone can think that i hate 3000 by my support of WS, but this is an error, i want WS become the eurpean CART (in two or trhee years with maybe 600 HP and diferent chasis suppliers) and 3000 the new talents battle ground)


stranger, it will be a great news for the seris of course if come david sears, great news¡¡¡¡, but i hope that remaining the supernova 3000.
i can only say you one thing. in valencia race (of WS) in october i was in the pit lane and... what see my eyes?... david sears¡¡¡¡ i had some doubts about if i was in an error, but reading that you post... maybe that man that i was thinking was serars... really was sears. (also was ricardo sperafico always beside his brother and patrick friesacher that in that moment i was sure he was go race in the series in 2003)

un saludo
jjjoseee, jose ramon galan

[Albert1]

hi jjjoseee, i'm one of the journalists that runs www.italiaracing.net. We are not the disappeared prorace, we are a group of journalists involved in motorsport in Italy. We write for italian motorsport magazines, and now we run also this site. Thank you for visiting our website! bye

[Marcel ten Caat]

stranger, it will be a great news for the seris of course if come david sears, great news¡¡¡¡, but i hope that remaining the supernova 3000.

jjjoseee: I said David Saelens (ex-Super Nova, Minardi) not David Sears

[unofficialf3000]

Originally posted by jjjoseee
hi unofficial, how are you?, please WS silly season again in your web ))))))

I would if I had the time At least this forum is great for having a "silly season" thread which can be updated in real-time.

PS. Hi Albert1, congratulations on the great website - since discovering it I've found quite a bit of news I'd not seen elsewhere!

[Russfeld]

Is Nissans dramatically cheaper than F3000? I wonder why everyone suddenly seems to be flocking to it

[Marcel ten Caat]

It's rumoured to be 1/2 of the price of a season in F3000.

And then you'll race against top names where F3000 is more like 'my daddy has a big wallet' series.

[jjjoseee]

stranger... ehhh... ok.... well.... ahgggggggggggggghhhh, sorry and thousand sorry. i read at the formula 1 speed and i really was thinking that read... david sears... well, so i'm again in the doubt aboput that man of valencia, i think yes he was, but this was the final evidence...

appart of my error, david saelens in the champ?, very nice news really. last year i hope that he was in the champ, but finally it couldn't be. i hope see david in 2003 (david&bas, the belgium army in the series). and no one dutch for the moment... i think that albers could be here instead of DTM, what about stranger?

russfeld, the cost is really some diferent. really in WS there are professionals drivers and pay drivers, so maybe a team of the back can give you a drive for 1/2 of the 3000 budget, but in the other hand you have teams who can pay till 1 million € because they want the best possible drivers.
it's as a small formula 1 with schumacher's (winning money) and yoong's (paying money).

and really is expected that in the next two or three years the budget by car will be, maybe, up from 3000 because the aiming of the series is becoming full professional, so if they wanna be a european CART is evident that engines power will be much more than actually, and this have a prize (and other things as the quality of the drivers, chasis, tyres, etc...).

basically you can do (today) the season by the half of a 3000 year, but in next future you will must be a good driver to be elected by the teams for your quality (or have the double or triple of the budget required for 3000).

the 1/2 than 3000 is only a "promotion cost" because the organizer know that the first step is get drivers from the 3000 (and euro), before getting compite with cart for the ex-formula 1 drivers, or the most important series winners.

un saludo
jjjoseee

[bleiben]

This is the picture in, say, 5 years time?. The series must attract way more sponsors than last season if the costs are going to rise this much.
Step by step....Remember the Telefonica's sponsorship is only a 3 years deal. I don't want the series to die of success.

[jjjoseee]

yes of course bleiben, i'm agree. but this year 2003 the costs aren't going to rise much, only for the teams that have the money to pay expensive drivers, for the rest in 2003 yet will be very similar to 2002.
and yes i think that it will be a proccess of about 5 years, and now we are starting the second year. so, patient, and hard work for RPM (the organizer).

un saludo
jjjoseee, jose ramon galan

[jjjoseee]

more news.

SAULNIER RACING
frank montagny
heikki kovalainene

RACING ENGINEERING
jaime melo
pedro lamy

GABORD COMPETICION
angel burgueño
tuka rocha???, mateo bobbi???, luciano burti???

ADRIAN CAMPOS
marc gene
santiago porteiro

KTR
paul edwards
enrique bernoldi??
david saelens??
bas leinders??

VERGANI
andrea montermini??-mateo bobbi??
milka duno??-andre couto??

RC
narain karthikeyan??
??

CARLIN
??
??

MEYCOM
??
??

ZELE
??
??

GD
??
??

EPSILON
ander vilariño??
jean cristophe ravier??

ALSO LINKED: tiago monteiro, felipe massa, polo villaamil, wagner ebrahim, nicolas filiebrti, luca badoer, damien faulkner, jonathan cochet, nicolas minassian, jan mangnussen, sperafico twins, rafale sarandeses, peter sundberg.

ex-drivers of 2002 who don't will be for sure:
antonio garcia (BMW ravaglia team in ETCC)
ricardo zonta (toyota f1 tester)
felix porteiro (world series light, old nissan 2.0)
roberto gonzalez (formula cart)
justin wilson (formula 1 minardi)
luciano gomide (renault V6)
victor ordoñez (spanish f3)


BEST SITES FOR NEWS OF THE SERIES:
www.f1es.net
www.italiaracing.net
www.crash.net (BRASIL EDITION)

OFFICIAL WEB
www.telefonicaworldseries.com (spanish and english version)


un saludo

[thomasl]

One of the Danish papers linked Magnussen with Carlin the other day. On the other hand he still seems to be aiming for a CART-ride, so....:confused:

Thomas

[jjjoseee]

more news

SAULNIER RACING
frank montagny
heikki kovalainene

RACING ENGINEERING
jaime melo
pedro lamy – bas leinders??

GABORD COMPETICION
angel burgueño
tuka rocha???, mateo bobbi???, luciano burti???, bas leinders??

ADRIAN CAMPOS
marc gene
santiago porteiro

KTR
paul edwards
bruve jouanny?? - enrique bernoldi??
david saelens??- bas leinders??

VERGANI
andrea montermini??-mateo bobbi??
milka duno??-andre couto??-jan magnussen??

RC
narain karthikeyan??
??

CARLIN
tristian gommendy??
Jonathan cochet??-narain karthikeyan??
??

MEYCOM
rodrigo sperafico??
ricardo sperafico??

ZELE
norbert siedler??
??

GD
??
??

EPSILON
ander vilariño??
jean cristophe ravier??

ALSO LINKED: tiago monteiro, felipe massa, polo villaamil, wagner ebrahim, nicolas filiebrti, luca badoer, damien faulkner, nicolas minassian, rafael sarandeses, peter sundberg.

ex-drivers of 2002 who don't will be for sure:
antonio garcia (BMW ravaglia team in ETCC)
ricardo zonta (toyota f1 tester)
felix porteiro (world series light, old nissan 2.0)
roberto gonzalez (formula cart)
justin wilson (formula 1 minardi)
luciano gomide (renault V6)
victor ordoñez (spanish f3)


BEST SITES FOR NEWS OF THE SERIES:
www.f1es.net
www.italiaracing.net
www.crash.net (BRASIL EDITION)

ALSO MANY NEWS OF THE SERIES BY 3000 RELATION OF MANY DRIVERS
www.f3000.com
http://uk.geocities.com/unofficialf3000/

OFFICIAL WEB
www.telefonicaworldseries.com (spanish and english version)

[ghinzani]

Originally posted by jjjoseee
the calendar is modified.

estoril out, lautszring in(ths german cart track, is very dificult for a spanish remenber the name, sorry).

Is this been confirmed yet? I hope they dont modify it too much - Im away snowboarding for the first round but Ive booked my flights for rounds 2 and 4 so I dont want any cancellations! Im not so bothered about Portugal tho as it clashes with my birthday, as does round 3 at magny cours with a family holiday.

[bleiben]

Not confirmed yet.
This is the provisional calender:

26-27/02 Collective test Barcelona
10-14/03 Collective test Jarama
08-30/03 Round 1 - Jarama (Spain)
24/04 Collective test Zolder
25-27/04 Round 2 - Zolder (Belgium)
15/05 Collective test Magny-Cours (*)
16-18/05 Round 3 - Magny-Cours (France)
20-22/06 Round 4 - Monza (Italy)
17/07 Collective test Lausitzring (*)
18-20/07 Round 5 - Lausitzring (Germany) (or 06/07)
03-05/09 Collective test Valencia
03-05/10 Round 6 - Barcelona (Spain)
17-19/10 Round 7 - Valencia (Spain)
14-16/11 Round 8 - Curitiba (Brazil)
21-23/11 Round 9 - Sao Paulo (Brazil)

(*): not both
source www.autosport.be

[jjjoseee]

accord to spanish press RPM (WS organizator) have an offer to race together with the ALMS in the urban track of washington (USA) on juny 29.

WSL (world series light, old nissan 2.0)
argentinin juan cruz will be racing with meycom.
mathias lauda sign for vergani
Adrian valles and alvaro barba will race for circuit de valencia team

the WSL born this year with a new dallara chasis (that come in substitution of old coloni) and will have an engien of 250 HP. tha cars also have ground effect.

un saludo
jjjoseee.