Formula 3 Euro Series
Euro Series kick-off – the search for the
successors of Vettel and di Resta is on
Track length: 4.574 kilometres
Lap record: 1:33.892 min / Jamie Green, 2004
Distance: 25 laps
Winners 2006: Kohei Hirate / Sebastian Vettel
This weekend, the Formula 3 Euro Series is going to kick
off its fifth season at the 4.574-kilometre Hockenheimring
Baden-Württemberg. Who will become the successor of the
reigning champion, Scotland’s 21-year old Paul di Resta,
who is going to race one of the ten Mercedes-Benz works cars
on the DTM grid, this year?
The list of the 2007 Formula 3 Euro Series favourites is
long. In the first official tests held in early April at Hockenheim,
Romain Grosjean and Kamui Kobayashi (both ASM Formule 3) proved
to be the quickest on day one, with Sébastien Buemi
(Mücke Motorsport) setting the fastest lap on the second
day of testing, followed by Edoardo Mortara and Jean-Karl
Vernay (both Signature) in second and third positions respectively.
They latter are two of a total of ten rookies that are going
to contest their career’s maiden Formula 3 race, in
the season kick-off. Since 2004, there haven’t been
that many newcomers on a Formula 3 Euro series grid.
Austrian team HS Technik Motorsport moved up from the German
Formula 3 Cup to also make its debut in the planet’s
most competitive young-gun series. The team’s yellow
and blue Dallara-Mercedes will be raced by Latvian Harald
Schlegelmilch. The Augsburg based squad AM-Holzer Rennsport
is going to make its Formula 3 Euro Series comeback following
a one-year break and enters a Dallara-Opel for rookie Marco
Holzer.
Longer race on Sunday
The Formula 3 Euro Series drivers may look forward to an innovation
concerning the Sunday rounds. With immediate effect, the Sunday
races will be held over the same distance as the Saturday
rounds. Hence, the maximum duration of the Sunday rounds also
amounts to 40 minutes, ten more than in the 2006 season.
Sébastien Buemi (Mücke Motorsport): “Hockenheim
is a nice track, featuring numerous challenges for the drivers.
It feels particularly great to enter the ‘Motodrom’
with its packed grandstands. I know the Hockenheimring very
well. Actually, I always have been quick, there, despite having
failed to win a race, so far. But I’m confident to have
a good chance of doing so, this year. The tests were successful
and now it’s about repeating this performance in a race
weekend.”
The Formula 3 Euro Series is covered live or relive in 17
countries. Furthermore, numerous countries will broadcast
Formula 3 Euro Series race résumés.
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