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8 Jan 2009, 12:49 (Ref:2367584) | #1 | ||
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Formula BMW Pacific 2009
after an evolution in 08 season FBMW Pacific keeping it's run this year.
6 events remained but Okayama will replace shanghai on calander,Macau should be 90% confirmed. 1 & 2 2 –5 April Sepang Malaysia F1 3, 4, 5, & 6 21 –24 May Sepang Malaysia AFOS 7, 8, 9 & 10 16 –19 July Sentul Indonesia AFOS 11 & 12 24 –27 September Singapore Singapore F1 13, 14 & 15 29 Oct. –1 Nov. Okayama Japan WTCC 16 18 –22 November Macau Macau F3 GP Meritus and its sister team mahara will keep their strong line up as 6 cars on their teams.aussie driver Matthew Frank Headon is one of confirmed so far. E-Rain entry with 3 cars but no driver confirmed. Eurasia plans to race 2 cars,Zimbabwes's Axcil Jefferies will drive one of their car. Petronas has signed with young malaysian calvin wong,may be melvin Moh will stay for more year. Serval 08 mid-season joined team would like to make full season campaign too. Pacific Racing will run with Rio Haryanto again and his teamate should be an Indian; in Aran Racing they would like to enter 2 cars,one of them should be Gary Thompson,son of team co-owner Noel. For Asia Racing Team they planned to race in 2 cars but no ideas on driver,may be Alon Day,who raced with them in Macau,would be a choice. |
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9 Jan 2009, 04:07 (Ref:2368001) | #2 | ||
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Interesting no rounds in Mainland China. Perhaps AFOS are finally sick of the short sightedness, inefficiency and total lack of common sense of motorsport officials here, and the stupid amounts of money that SIC ask for to run events.
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9 Jan 2009, 11:40 (Ref:2368174) | #3 | ||
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false. stiller the oxygen the harder you breathe. afos isnt welcome in zhuhai and bmw is ,but what price now for a shallow piece of dignity. afos hav love in shanghai. bmw got china by macau.
before new year asia racing team from macau test many times a american girl in zhuhai. a friend told me erain from malaysia got 2 driver confirmed. monkeyhead; aran racing change name in 09 and you ignore atlantic team. the championshop got promising. hope more europeans join to asian series. |
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you are right Aran Racing will call team Pena (or Pena racing whatever) which mean Mr.Pena is going to join O'Hara's party.O'hara has raced in Asian F3 when Pena invested big that moment. the reason I ingored Atlantic is I haven't heard anything about their plan. about european team motoworld has said something about they would like to make full season Pacific campigan this year,when they annouced final tango in 08.Not sure how they go now. |
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9 Jan 2009, 22:41 (Ref:2368583) | #5 | ||
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So how many cars do you boys think will be on the grid in 2009?
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10 Jan 2009, 02:11 (Ref:2368679) | #6 | |||
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Meritus + Mahara =6 E-Rain = 3 Eurasia = 2 Petronas = 3 ART = 2 Aran (Pena) = 2 Atlantic =1(?) something like 19 cars |
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10 Jan 2009, 02:29 (Ref:2368684) | #7 | ||
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10 Jan 2009, 09:28 (Ref:2368753) | #8 | |
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What's the story on Aussie Matthew Franks , anyone know ?
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10 Jan 2009, 12:29 (Ref:2368826) | #9 | ||
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motorsport association of macau enter young folk chang wing chung in fbmw scholarship tournament which will soon prove to be quick. he was akoc twice champion in begginers category. he was told to be fbmw pacific racer in 2010.
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11 Jan 2009, 06:46 (Ref:2369187) | #10 | |||
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Moreover e-Rain is Korean team despite their Garage is in Sepang |
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12 Jan 2009, 08:27 (Ref:2369765) | #11 | ||
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to sum up the situation looks like this:
Meritus Mahara Matthew Frank Headon, Tasmin Pepper (?) E-Rain Fahmi Ilyas, Eurasia Axcil Jefferies, Asia Racing Team Alon Day (?), Pacific Racing Rio Haryanto, Ryan Harianto (?), Kamlesh Patel (?) Petronas Holzer Melvin Moh (?), Calvin Wong (?) Pena Motorsport Gary Thompson, Atlantic Motaworld Champ |
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13 Jan 2009, 07:55 (Ref:2370411) | #12 | |||
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DOB: 16/02/89 Residence: 9 Collingwood Avenue, Robina Career Aspirations: Formula 1 Currently Racing: 125cc FR Rotax, Arrow Kart Testing: Formula BMW Career Achievements: • Won 2 of the required 3 ‘P’ license Grade races • Gold Coast ‘C’ Grade champion (6 out of 6 wins) • 17thout of 25 in the QLD State Titles • 7thout of 23 in the QLD Rotax Series (Series is still in competition) • Given the opportunity to test a Formula Renault (4 cyl. Supercharged engine) for Meritus- came within 1.6 seconds of the best time on the first day • Invited to race for Meritus Racing in the 2009 Formula BMW Pacific Series • Driver Coach believes that with enough testing in the off-season, Matthew has the ability to win the 2009 Formula BMW Pacific Series |
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13 Jan 2009, 15:05 (Ref:2370650) | #13 | ||
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Indonesian karting driver Dustin Sofyan has signed with Meritus
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20 Jan 2009, 13:51 (Ref:2375335) | #14 | ||
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e-rain have arabian fahad al gosaidi in their team.
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20 Jan 2009, 14:37 (Ref:2375374) | #15 | ||
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there are serval team test in Sepang this week.
Rio Haryanto test in both Mertius and Champ,while Beche with Champ and Mertius with Soyfan. E-Rain tested Fihmy and Motaworld should have tested but driver's name unkonown |
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21 Jan 2009, 12:33 (Ref:2376061) | #16 | ||
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fist me.in zhuhai juan carlos zhu huan test in ao's racing team and rene romeswinkel test in asia racing team.
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21 Jan 2009, 12:36 (Ref:2376066) | #17 | ||
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now
Meritus Mahara Matthew Frank Headon, Dustin Sofyan, Tasmin Pepper (?) E-Rain Fahmi Ilyas, Fahad Al Gosaidi, Eurasia Axcil Jefferies, Asia Racing Team Alon Day (?), Rene Romeswinkel (?) Pacific Racing Rio Haryanto, Mathias Beche (?) Petronas Holzer Melvin Moh (?), Calvin Wong (?) Pena Motorsport Gary Thompson, Atlantic Motaworld Unknown (?) AO'S Racing Zhu Hua (?) Champ |
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23 Jan 2009, 13:19 (Ref:2377540) | #18 | |
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Champ is doing FBMW now?
when did they got some cars? |
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23 Jan 2009, 19:38 (Ref:2377834) | #19 | ||
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that list is gaining some momentum
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23 Jan 2009, 23:06 (Ref:2377960) | #20 | ||
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If it is comfirmed that each team will enter at leat 2 cars , then it is definitly a step up for motorsport in Asia. All the major teams in Asia , out of Japan are there , unless DTM.
I guess whatever Formula Renault in Asia has lost , either FRD Championship or FR2.0 , the formula BMW has gain it ... There must be also the fact that the Formula BMW Pacific is now racing in Macau , which makes this championship even more attractive BTW i read somewhere that Ollie Millroy could enter few races with Motaworld in 2009 in Asia Any idea about race Calendar? |
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24 Jan 2009, 13:47 (Ref:2378217) | #21 | ||
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i agree meta4, the frenault colapse helped bmw in asia a lot. bmw gathered all the drivers and standard is very good for asia.maybe more non-funded drivers from europe can come asia next year.
monkyhead post calendar in first page. macau and singapore makes championship bigger than that was.they trapped in malasya f1 weekend and japan wtcc race towards end of the year and the two best afos weekends (malay and indonesia). very good too. |
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28 Jan 2009, 06:23 (Ref:2381183) | #22 | ||
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a female south african driver Lanz was in Sepang too.Which team she tested for?
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1 Feb 2009, 15:14 (Ref:2383706) | #23 | ||
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from newspaper of africa: Fabienne Lanz, will make her debut for her new motor-racing. Lanz, who is now a Swiss national, has won a driving contract with Khaleji Motorsport, a racing team from the United Arab Emirates.
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3 Feb 2009, 12:36 (Ref:2387363) | #24 | ||
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Rio Haryanto has signed Meritus squad,sound like he will be one of favour driver to be the new champion.Besides him another indonesian Sofyan has tested with Meritus too.Another drivers tested in Sepang including Axcil Jeffreis (Eurasia) Ollie Millroy and Rupert (Motaworld).Vice Rookie champion Chris Wotton considering bewteen Motaworld and Mertius.
Female Driver Tasmin Pepper decided to join Formula VW in South Africa,she won't be in Meritus. |
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3 Feb 2009, 13:28 (Ref:2387407) | #25 | ||
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So it's fair to assume that Svenson-Cook will do the Euro series with Motaworld?
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