F2 News

Olivier Tielemans had his seat fitting at MA-CON Motorsport yesterday in preparation to compete in the prestigious 2004 FIA International F3000 championship.

Leading FIA F3000 team Coloni Motorsport has confirmed the signing of London-based Turk Can Artam for one of its seats in the 2004 campaign.

Draco Junior Team has completed its driver line-up for the 2004 Superfund Euro F3000 Championship, having confirmed reigning Italian F3 champion Fausto Ippoliti as team-mate to Nicky Pastorelli.

Less than 24 hours after the rebirth of F3000 as GP2, the first clarification over the new series' status has been issued.

Satisfied that the requirements it set to continue with its International F3000 Championship in 2004, the FIA has decided to issue a provisional entry list featuring the teams to have committed to the series.

The organisers of the new Formula GP2 Series have today [Monday], announced that from 2005, the series will replace F3000, at the European F1 events.

Coloni Motorsport has concluded an intensive two-day test session with new Australian Formula Three champion Michael Caruso and promising young Italian Michele Rugolo, as it continues to evaluate possible candidates for its 2004 line-up.

Six young drivers have been lined up to test with reigning Euro F3000 champions Draco Junior Team MPA Multiracing at the two-day series 'taster' test in Italy, and the list includes a number of interesting individuals.

After a trying debut season in the FIA F3000 Championship, in which it replaced former champion Nordic Racing, Spanish outfit BCN Competicion has already confirmed that it will be back for more next year.

Team Astromega has taken another step towards an expected withdrawal from the FIA F3000 Championship by announcing that it will not be attending the official FIA group test at Imola this weekend [24-25 October].

Augusto Farfus has rewarded the hard work of Italian team Draco Racing by clinching the sixth Euro F3000 title with one race remaining on the 2003 schedule.

Team Astromega boss Mikke van Hool made some inflammatory comments about the state of the FIA F3000 series at the start of the season, and feels no reason to change his mind now that the 2003 campaign is over.

Austrian-based fund management company Superfund is to increase its involvement in international motorsport to cover the Euro F3000 series, it has been confirmed by championship officials.

Bjorn Wirdheim finished second to Ricardo Sperafico at Hockenheim, knowing that it was good enough for him to sew up Arden International's first FIA F3000 drivers' title.

After a topsy-turvy two weeks, Phil Giebler and the Den Bla Avis F3000 team found themselves at Silverstone as spectators rather than competitors.

After the pause in the schedule due to Canadian Grand Prix, the FIA F3000 circus returns to action at the N?rburgring this weekend, with Coloni Motorsport looking to return to the front of the field after a difficult Monaco round.

Irish Michael Keohane may yet contest a round of this year's FIA International F3000 Championship following a successful test at Spa-Francorchamps with Team Astromega yesterday [Tuesday].

Having opted to stand down from his Promatecme Formula Three ride ahead of last weekend's Castle Combe double-header, Irish driver Michael Keohane has revealed that he will drive an F3000 car for the first time tomorrow [Tuesday].

FIA F3000 points leader Bjorn Wirdheim made a mistake in Monaco that will surely be a feature of sports quiz shows for years to come, but the tall Swede insists that he had seen the chequered flag before slowing down to acknowledge his 'victorious' Arden International team.

Bjorn Wirdheim's two closest championship challengers missed out on an opportunity to keep touch with the Swede after effectively taking each other out of the Monaco round of the FIA F3000 Championship.

American Phil Giebler replaced Robbie Kerr in the second Den Bla Avis car for round two of the FIA F3000 Championship at the Circuit de Catalunya and, having never driven an F3000 car before, impressed onlookers with his immediate pace.

Martin Kendrick, team principal of FIA F3000 Championship newcomers Brand Motorsports, has today announced that the team will not participate in the remainder of the season, claiming that the motorsport environment was not right for the team to continue operating in.

Complete times following the FIA F3000 test at Barcelona. Leading times (11 April) - Barcelona:

Despite the absence of an official press release, FIA F3000 newcomers Brand Motorsports has confirmed that it will be fielding Gary Paffett and Nicolas Minassian in its debut season.