F2 News

Round eight of the FIA F3000 International Championship marks the return of the Coca-Cola Nordic Racing team to more familiar ground after spending the early months of the season on the road.

Australia's Mark Webber capitalised on a good getaway to win his third race of the FIA F3000 Championship, romping away from the battling Nordic Racing drivers.

Tomas Enge caught his rivals napping at Magny-Cours, popping in a quick lap to secure his second successive pole position of the FIA F3000 season.

There will be two new faces in the Prost Junior team pit this weekend, as Jonathan Cochet links up with Zsolt Baumgartner to lead the French outfit at the Nurburgring.

Tomas Enge endured an anxious few minutes before reclaiming top spot as the FIA F3000 Championship roared back into life at the Nurburgring.

After a break of four weeks, the FIA F3000 Championship returns to the race circuits of Europe with the sixth round race at the Nurburgring.

As might have been expected in a street race involving young drivers keen to make an impression on the Formula One bosses who may have been watching, it was only their over-enthusiasm that caught the eye.

Mark Webber won his second F3000 race of the year in Monaco this afternoon, completing a clean sweep of pole position, race win and fastest lap around the Principality.

Mark Webber led from lights to flag around the mean streets of Monaco to win the annual F3000 encounter in spite of two safety car periods and numerous yellow flags.

Mark Webber will start tomorrow's Monaco F3000 race from pole position, despite crashing his Super Nova Lola out of the action in the dying minutes of qualifying.

The Prost F3000 team has announced that series veteran Stephane Sarrazin will stand in for Nicolas Filiberti at this weekend's Monaco round.

The Coca-Cola Nordic Racing team heads to Monaco next weekend as leader of both the drivers' and teams' championships, and has the impressive foundation of three wins, four podiums and one pole position on which to build its fifth round attack.

British driver Dino Morelli will make a belated comeback to the international motorsport arena this weekend, following a surprise call-up from former employers Astromega.

The Coca-Cola Nordic Racing team dominated the qualifying sessions for the third round of the FIA F3000 International Championship at the Circuit de Catalunya in Spain yesterday [Friday].

Kid Jensen Racing - already forced to join forces with Monaco Motorsport in this year's FIA F3000 Championship - will not be present at the third round in Barcelona this weekend.

Mark Webber led all the way in the second round of the FIA Formula 3000 Championship at Imola to record his first victory of the season - despite driving with a broken rib.

Mark Webber led from start to finish of the second round of the FIA F3000 championship at Imola, allowing all the afternoon's incident to take place in his wake as he cruised to his second career victory.

Motorsport's governing body, the FIA, has announced no change in suppliers for the International F3000 Championship, handing Lola a renewed period as chassis builder for the series.

Australian Super Nova driver Mark Webber was not disqualified from second place at the opening round of the 2001 International Formula 3000 Championship this past Saturday at Interlagos but penalised 25 seconds for passing another car before the start/finish line of the re-started race.

Justin Wilson took a long-awaited first F3000 victory for himself and simply a long-awaited one for his Nordic Racing team after overcoming a crowd of Brazilians to win at Interlagos.

Britain's Justin Wilson made the most of a safety car restart to win his first F3000 race - and the first of the modern era to be held outside of Europe.

The European Minardi F3000 team launched straight into a busy two-day official test at Imola on Wednesday, with the teams new F1 pilot, Fernando Alonso, helping regular drivers Andrea Piccini and David Saelens.

The European Minardi F3000 team has announced that up-and-coming Italian Andrea Piccini will be one of its two nominated drivers this season. The 22-year old, from Sansepolcro in Tuscany, will also fulfil the role of official test driver for European's sister team European Minardi F1.

DAMS have announced that they will run Frenchman Sebastien Bourdais and American Derek Hill (pictured) in this year's FIA F3000 Championship, which starts on March 31 in Brazil.