F2 News

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.

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.