Thread: British F3 International Series 2008

One of the more prestigious single seater series for young drivers with hopes of Formula 1 and greatness.

After a few years with declining grid sizes British F3 came back with a vengeance last year sporting grid sizes that hasn't been seen since the 90's. Hopefully the 2008 season will continue strong.

Last years top 10:
1. Marko Asmer, Estonia
2. Maro Engel, Germany
3. Stephen Jelley, Great Britain
4. Sam Bird, Great Britain
5. Nial Breen, Ireland
6. Jonahtan Kennard, Great Britain
7. Atte Mustonen, Finland
8. Alberto Valerio, Brazil
9. Sebastian Hohenthal, Sweden
10. Greg Mansell, Great Britain

Top 5 National class:
1. Sergio Perez, Mexico
2. Cong Fu Cheng, China
3. Hamed Al Fardan, Bahrain
4. Michael Meadows, Great Britain
5. Salman Al-Khalifa, Bahrain

Maro Engel will probably move up the ladder. Rookies Bird, Mustonen and Hohenthal will probably stay for a second year. Greg Mansell and his brother are probably leaving for the States.


Confirmed drivers:

Carlin Motorsport
Brendon Hartley, New Zealand. (2007 Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup champion and Red Bull Development Driver)
Oliver Turvey, Great Britain (2006 UK Formula BMW runner-up)
Jaime Alguersuari, Spain. (2007 Formula Renault 2.0 Italy runner-up and Red Bull Development Driver)
Sam Abay, Australia (runner.up in Formula BMW Asia in 2005)

Fortec Motorsport
Sebastian Hohenthal, Sweden (9th in 2007)
Marcus Ericsson, Sweden (2007 UK Formula BMW champion)
Philip Major, Canada (10th Formula BMW USA 2007)

Hitech Racing
Max Chilton, Great Britain (no points in 2007)
Walter Grubm?ller, Austria (16th in 2007)

R?ikk?nen Robertson Racing
Atte Mustonen, Finland (7th in 2007)
John Martin, Australia (15th in 2007)

T-Sport
Sergio Perez, Mexico (2007 National class champion)


National class entries:

T-Sport
Salman Al-Khalifa, Bahrain (5th in 2007)
Steven Guerrero, Colombia (5th in Formula BMW USA 2007)

CF Racing
Hywel Lloyd, Great Britain (2007 Formula Renault BARC champion)

Carlin Motorsport
Andy Meyrick, Great Britain
Kristijan Einar, Iceland

Fluid Motorsport
Stefan Wilson, Great Britain (2nd in Formula Palmer Audi 2007)
Jay Bridger, Great Britain (5th in the UK Formula Ford championship 2007)

Mansell brothers are son's of Nigel? Do they have moustaches?

Originally Posted by Harakimi

Mansell brothers are son's of Nigel? Do they have moustaches?

No moustaches yet, but at least Greg have Nigel's way of being an *** apparantly.

Greg beat up his team mate Hohenthal after an on-track battle (where Greg didn't feel he was given enough room). If Nigel didn't pay most of the bills I think his boys would have been dropped from Fortec during the season. Instead they decided to split the team up and move the Mansell's away from Hohenthal and they also stopped sharing data.

The Mansells weren't the most popular guys in the paddock during the season.

Carlin Motorsports have signed Jaime Alguersuari. He's the third driver confirmed at Carlin so far and the second Red Bull development driver.

Alguersuari was this year's runner up in the Italian Formula Renault 2.0 championship and was fifth in the Eurocup.

http://www.driverdb.com/racingdriver3996.html

Carlin has now signed its fourth driver for 2008.

The fourth seat went to Australian 20-year-old Sam Abay who raced in the UK Formula BMW series this season and ended up in 8th place. In 2005 he raced the Asian Formula BMW where he was second.

Probably the weakest link in the strong Carlin lineup, but he might surprise now with a year's worth of track-knowledge .

Any idea of Marko Asmer, is he going to stay in F3 or change classes?

Originally Posted by Harakimi

Any idea of Marko Asmer, is he going to stay in F3 or change classes?

Asmer's been in F3 longer than most of them and since he won the championship last year I don't really see him staying. It seems like a lack of money is the issue with Asmer though, so perhaps GP2 is a too expensive for him.

As he's got links in Japan perhaps Formula Nippon could be a good move as he might get paid to race there.

He has been testing DTM though lately so he might leave single seaters.