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Following last week’s announcement
of a Formula One test with the Honda Racing F1 team for the 2008 Formula Master
Champion, the Series’ €240,000 prize fund and further
testing prizes were confirmed today.
GP2 test with Trident
Racing
With
three former Formula Master drivers currently racing in GP2 Asia (2007 Champion
Jérôme D’Ambrosio along with Marcello
Puglisi and Marco Bonanomi) and current GP2 team Trident Racing choosing the
Series to run a feeder outfit for its GP2 venture, Formula Master’s ties to the
Formula One feeder series are now firmly established.
The
test is a great chance for the Series’ vice-champion to impress potential teams
as did 2007 Formula Master graduates D’Ambrosio, Puglisi, Chris van der Drift
and Kasper Andersen last season, according to Trident Racing Team Principal
Alessandro Alunni
Bravi.
“We
are extremely pleased to give this year’s runner-up the opportunity to test in a
GP2 car,” said Alunni Bravi. “As the first GP2 team to join Formula Master, we
are very proud to be this involved in the Series. We are also happy to confirm
that the winner of the Italia Formula Master series will be given a test with
our GP2 team as well.”
Formula Master promoters together
with Trident Racing agreed on the Italia Formula Master prize of a GP2 test for
the series, which will run for six events throughout Italy this year and is
promoted by Peroni Promotion.
FIA World Touring Car Championship
(FIA WTCC) test with N.Technology
 Partnering the FIA WTCC for the
second year running, Formula Master holds strong connections to the championship
with Italian WTCC team N.Technology founding the Series. Benefiting from
N.Technology’s touring car expertise, the Formula Master driver finishing in the
third place will be awarded a test in the Honda Accord Euro R Super 2000.
The
Italia Formula Master series runner-up will also be granted a test with the
N.Technology WTCC team. Further test prizes, set to take place in the United
States, are currently under discussion.
“I am
pleased to confirm that following Trident Racing’s decision to race in Formula
Master, the team can also provide such a great opportunity for our young
drivers,” said Chairman Mauro Sipsz who believes the considerable prize package
will validate drivers’ choice to join Formula Master.
“We
can already offer such a competitive package after just one racing season, with
our drivers now able to compete for tests in two FIA World Championships as well
as GP2. In addition to this year’s test rewards, we can confirm a €240,000 prize fund, with
€30,000 allocated for each event.”
2007 statistics
- FIA WTCC partner series
- Eight events – 16 races
- Eight European
destinations
- 40 drivers – 19
countries represented
- 30 cars on average for
each event
- 18 million TV viewers on
Eurosport
- 16 hours LIVE coverage
on Eurosport
- 367,000 attending
spectators
- Inaugural race at
Valencia, Spain on 19 May 2007
- Inaugural Champion
Jérôme D’Ambrosio (BEL), Cram Competition
- Inaugural race winner
Salvatore Gatto (ITA), Alan Racing
- Youngest race winner
Pablo Sanchez Lopez (MEX), Alan Racing
- Eight different race
winners
- Six different pole
setters
- 16 different drivers
have led a race
- 15 different drivers
have stepped onto the Formula Master podium
- 30 drivers in the points
Featuring N.Technology’s Formula
Master race car with electric gearshift and clutch paddles and advanced
aerodynamics, the car weighs just 550kg including the driver and runs on control
tyres by Yokohama.
The first
car in the world to secure 2008 FIA homologation, the Formula Master
single-seater has generated excitement from all sectors thanks to its dynamic
styling, light-weight body and powerful Honda K20A
engine.
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