30 drivers keen on becoming the successor of Romain Grosjean
Track length: 4.574 kilometres
Lap record: 1:33.701 min / Romain Grosjean, 2007
Distance: 25 laps
Winners 2007: Sébastien Buemi / Romain Grosjean
This weekend, the Formula 3 Euro Series is going to kick
off its sixth season. A season that promises to be an extremely
thrilling one. The grid of the season kick-off, held on the
4.574-kilometre Hockenheimring Baden-Württemberg, will
feature 30 young talents ready to rocket away when the starting
lights will go green for the first time, this year. And they
all have got just one goal: to become the successor of reigning
champion Romain Grosjean.
Still, Frenchman Grosjean is just one of the impressive number
of successful drivers who honed their skills in the Formula
3 Euro Series, in the past five years. The current Formula
1 grid features eight drivers who learned their trade in the
Formula 3 Euro Series before advancing to the pinnacle of
motor racing. The most popular – and most successful,
to date – of them is Briton Lewis Hamilton who secured
the 2005 Formula 3 Euro Series title in superior style. Just
two years later, he finished runner-up in the Formula 1 World
Championship.
There are numerous drivers that may be regarded as title
favourites, in the 2008 Formula 3 Euro Series season. One
of them is Nico Hülkenberg (ART Grand Prix). The German
has been signed as test driver for the Williams-Toyota F1
Team and already has executed several tests, for the British
squad. Now, however, he fully focuses on the Formula 3 Euro
Series.
In addition to a total of 18 new drivers, with ten of them
being rookies, the entry list also features two new teams:
Carlin Motorsport, one of the most successful teams of the
British Formula 3 Championship and French squad SG Formula
are going to make their debut on the grid of the planet’s
most competitive young-gun series, this season.
Nico Hülkenberg (ART Grand Prix): “The circuit
at Hockenheim represents the appropriate venue for a season
kick-off. In particular because of the unique atmosphere in
the sold out stadium. Following the long winter, I just can’t
wait for the racing to finally begin. Currently, I feel truly
comfortable in my car and my team, ART Grand Prix. Everything
fits like a shoe that has been broken in perfectly.”
The Formula 3 Euro Series is covered live or re-live in 20
countries. Furthermore, Formula 3 Euro Series race résumés
are broadcasted in numerous countries.
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