F2 News

Kristian Kolby is moving across the Atlantic to race in the 2001 Indy lights Championship, it was announced late on Friday.

Petrobras, Brazil's biggest oil company, will continue to back the BMW.Williams F1 team and its own David Sears'-run F3000 Junior Team in 2001, according to Mr. Claudio Thompson, the company's sponsorship co-ordinator.

There will no Arrows lookalike in F3000 this season, following the end of relations between the Leafield team and its junior partner European Formula Racing.

Brazilians Antonio Pizzonia and Ricardo Sperafico have been announced by the Petrobras Junior Team as its drivers for the 2001 season, replacing champion Bruno Junqueira and his partner Jaime Melo Jr.

Jaime Melo Jr. has left the Petrobras Junior team to join the Durango Benetton Junior outfit for an assault on this year's International F3000 Championship.

After the two day pre-season official test sessions at the TwinRing Motegi, Asia's Andre Couto and India's Narain Karthikeyan looks set to join Malaysia's Alex Yoong in the 2001 Formula Nippon championship.

The vogue for the drinks industry to take an interest in F3000 shows no sign on losing its fizz, as Fortec Motorsport announces a sponsorship deal with the world's largest nutritional company.

Team Astromega has signed German Formula Three champion Giorgio Pantano to lead its attack on next year's FIA F3000 series, it was revealed today.

The FIA has released the list of teams allowed to enter next year's International F3000 championship.

Mark Webber signed off a momentous few weeks in his career when he received the prestigious Bruce McLaren Award from TAG McLaren Group boss, Ron Dennis, at the annual BRDC (British Racing Drivers' Club) Awards ceremony.

As first rumoured following the departure of team boss David Brown to Jordan, McLaren has decided to call time on its F3000 Junior team.

British Formula Three front-runner Gianmaria Bruni recorded the second fastest time in an F3000 test at Jerez - beating some of the series established frontrunners.

The Nordic Racing F3000 team heads to Barcelona for the first of two official, two-day, FIA tests on the first and second of November, having already settled its 2001 line-up.

The Central European Division of The Coca-Cola Company has announced that it will be expanding its sponsorship of the FIA Formula 3000 International Championship's Nordic Racing team.

Rumour is rife that former Williams and McLaren chief engineer David Brown has signed for Jordan.

1. Bruno Junqueira Petrobras Junior 48 points 2. Nicolas Minassian Super Nova 41 3. Mark Webber European Arrows 21

Fabrice Walfisch was a surprise addition to the FIA F3000 entry at the Hungaroring this afternoon, replacing Soheil Ayari in the Italian Coloni team.

The heaviest rainfall in recent history hit the Hockenheim circuit last weekend, making the German event a bizarre one for the Nordic Racing team.

Eurobet Arrows driver, Mark Webber, returned to the podium in round eight of the FIA International Formula 3000 Championship at Hockenheim - his first such result since winning round two back in April.

Injured F3000 star Mario Haberfeld returns to action this week, as he tests for his Fortec team at the A1-Ring.

Australian F1 test driver, Mark Webber, will have his first test in the Arrows team's latest car at Silverstone on the 6th July.

Belgian David Saelens secured his second successive F3000 pole position as the stars of tomorrow tackled the mean streets of Monaco.

Fortec Motorsport's troubled start to the F3000 season continued at the Nurburgring on Saturday when local man Andreas Scheld was disqualified from second place.

Belgium's David Saelens took his first F3000 pole position at a wet-dry Nurburgring this afternoon, as his rivals struggled to stay on the track.