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F1 Academy, the all-female Formula 4 championship, will only hold one of its seven rounds in Europe next year.

The 2025 calendar was revealed on Monday, and it consists of three rounds in Asia, three in North America and just one in the continent which last year hosted six out of the seven rounds in the championship’s inaugural season.

Every event next season will run on the Formula 1 support bill, and the season starts with races at Shanghai on March 21-23. Jeddah and Miami retain their places on the schedule, and will be visited on April 18-20 and May 2-4 respectively, then there is a break of a month before the paddock heads to Canada for the first time to race in Montreal on June 13-15.

Zandvoort holds the status as the only circuit to appear in every F1 Academy by hosting round four on August 29-31, then two of F1’s night races cap off the season. However until track schedules are released next year it is unknown whether F1 Academy drivers will also get to race under the lights.

Round five takes place around Singapore’s Marina Bay street circuit on October 3-5, and Las Vegas’s Strip circuit will be where the F1 Academy finale takes place on November 20-22.

Each round will feature two races, and there will be 15 test days across 2025. The venues and dates for those are yet to be announced.

“I want to thank our promoters for their enthusiasm and support, and for joining us on our journey to create opportunities for women to thrive at every level of our sport,” said F1 Academy’s managing director Susie Wolff.

“Finishing our season in Las Vegas will be an iconic moment, and its addition to the calendar is testament to the wealth of support we receive from F1 and Liberty Media.”

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F1 Academy championship leader Abbi Pulling claimed a double pole position in qualifying for this weekend’s races on the streets of Singapore.

Alpine junior Pulling has previous experience of the Marina Bay circuit from the last ever W Series contest two years ago, and the Rodin-run driver was fastest in the free practice session on Friday afternoon.

She went to the top of the times early in qualifying, but her first attempt was bettered by Maya Weug and then Doriane Pin when they crossed the line. The same happened on their second flying laps, with Pin leading from Prema team-mate Weug and Pulling.

After all the drivers pitted in the middle of the session for a change of tyres, Pulling went quickest once again with five minutes left on the clock, posting a 2m03.631s that would not be beaten.

Weug and Pin did improve their times on their next laps but were still two tenths of a second adrift of Pulling, with Ferrari junior Weug now ahead of Mercedes-backed Pin.

None of the trio could go quicker on their last laps, but Pulling did post a 2m03.747s that puts her on pole for race two in front of Pin and Weug.

Lia Block was an impressive best of the rest in fourth, the circuit racing rookie grabbing the position with her final lap but also set to line up in the same place for race two.

Hamda Al Qubaisi was fifth just ahead of Chloe Chambers, who spun in the final corner at the end of the session but remained in front of Campos team-mate Nerea Marti.

Ella Lloyd has been handed the wildcard fourth Prema drive for this weekend following a strong debut season in British Formula 4. She ran as high as fifth in the closing stages of qualifying and ended up eighth.

Qualifying round-up
Race 1 grid
1 Abbi Pulling Rodin 2m03.631s
2 Maya Weug Prema +0.238s
3 Doriane Pin Prema +0.265s
4 Lia Block ART Grand Prix +0.567s
5 Hamda Al Qubaisi MP Motorsport +0.608s
6 Chloe Chambers Campos Racing +0.619s
7 Nerea Marti Campos Racing +0.627s
8 Ella Lloyd Prema +0.678s
9 Bianca Bustamane ART Grand Prix +0.801s
10 Carrie Schreiner Campos Racing +0.902s

Race 2 grid
1 Pulling 2m03.747s
2 Pin +0.158s
3 Weug +0.261s
4 Block +0.558s
5 Marti +0.688s
6 H Al Qubaisi +0.715s
7 Schreiner +0.857s
8 Lloyd +0.861s
9 Chambers +0.979s
10 Bustamante +1.041s

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Since 2008, the Singapore Grand Prix has become one of the most popular motorsport events on the planet, with its spectacular floodlit scenery and high-commitment circuit layout around the Marina Bay.

The race had a long history before becoming a Formula 1 event, starting back in 1961.

Like many debuting F1 races now, Singapore of the late 1950s was home to a growing economy with an increasingly global appetite. It was benefiting from the rise of commercial jet flight, but the average stay of tourists was just three days.

While tourism really wasn’t near the top of the Malaysian government’s agenda (this being pre-independence Singapore), the potential of the tropical island paradise was obvious – not least for government coffers.

By 1961 the Ministry of Culture had caught on and ran ‘Visit Singapore – The Orient Year’, a sports-focused campaign to bring more people to the nation. Over the weekend of September 16-17, the first ‘Singapore – Orient Year Grand Prix’ was held.

100,000 people were expected to visit the Thomson Road circuit, located 20km north of the current F1 venue. The 4.865km layout was a terrifying mix of high-speed sweeps and tighter turns of varying camber, and the asphalt was of varying quality due to the cost of repairing or repaving anything more than very short stretches of road.

Track design by Readro

Thomson Road was picked with fans in mind, with suitable nearby roads for bus services and elevation to please spectators.

F1’s Malaysian GP was known for its extreme humidity, and Singapore organisers faced the same problem. They ensured all circuit staff had access to free drink, that additional telephone lines were made for ambulances and electricity connections to bypass the problem of burnt out electrics.

The biggest hitch of them all for the 1961 race was that its first scheduled date was during a public holiday, which complicated not only how many people would be available and willing to work that weekend, but if several government ministries and labour unions would allow it, especially when it came to the requirement of a police presence.

A different date was picked, the weekend of racing went ahead without too much issue and proved popular enough to earn the Malaysian GP moniker until Singapore declared independence.

It was at this point, in 1966, that the grand prix focused on being the fastest junior single-seater race in the Far East. The event got bigger, the prizes got larger, and subjectively the drivers got better as entry opened up internationally to drivers outside of the Singapore Motor Club membership.

Singaporean Lee Han Seng won this ‘first edition’ of the race, sponsored by big international brands, but local knowledge only lasted one more year before international stars started winning.

Kiwi talent Graeme Lawrence triumphed three times in a row between 1969 to ’71, and won eight other junior single-seater races with grand prix titles in Asia during his career.

Max Stewart won the 1972 race, with fellow Australian Vern Schuppan winning the final fateful edition of the race a year later – the last Singapore Grand Prix before 2008.

Schuppan’s career started in Formula Ford 1600 in Britain, but after one full season jumped to racing Formula B/Atlantic – a Formula 2 level category with Formula 3 level running costs – and won the 1971 British title. Using the same cars in the junior single-seaters grands prix of Asia (including Selangor and Macau), he quickly launched himself into F1, IndyCar and then the Le Mans 24 Hours with success.

“Bearing in mind I’d never raced in Australia, I hadn’t raced when I moved to England in 1969. So the first time I’d come up against [fellow] Australian drivers was in Singapore,” Schuppan tells Formula Scout.

“It was exciting for me, the drivers who came up [to race in Singapore] were guys that were generally older than myself. Guys I’d followed while I lived in Australia. They were fairly famous names, [like] Kevin Bartlett. There was a bunch of well-known drivers, some that are still around.

“Also Jack Brabham was out there, so considering I’d only been racing less than a couple of years at that stage, it was quite an exciting time to meet those guys and race against them.

“I guess Thomson Road was dangerous [by the standards of the time], with very large drainage areas either side of the track. The car would go in there and disappear sort of thing, if you happened to go off the road. Plus being fairly hilly, there are a lot of drop offs from the road.

Vern Schuppan during his time in IndyCar

“In fact, I crashed there. I took my virtually new March out there and had a rear suspension break during the first practice or qualifying, and I was lucky not to have a much more serious accident than I did. We managed to repair the car and I finished up racing it. Starting from the back because of not qualifying properly, I finished second in that 1972 race.”

The track rewarded bravery and was a driver favourite, but with powerful FB cars charging around it by the early 1970s and little in safety improvements, it was without exaggeration a death trap.

Although the FB cars were laden with downforce thanks to sticky tyres and large aerodynamic appendages, drivers still had to lift to avoid take off on ‘The Hump’, a right handed kink that acted as the first corner and the highest point on the track.

Cars were often modified too to enhance performance. With so much of the track at full throttle, they were filled heavy with fuel, so holes were deliberately put in the bodywork in the pursuit of weight loss. This of course made the internals, and driver, more susceptible to roadside debris.

Effective brakes were hugely important (but not common beyond the FB cars), with three major hairpins, two of which came at the end of high-speed sections. One difficulty was that the Circus Hairpin also came after a lengthy descent, meaning gravity often took control. VIPs, predominantly government officials, had their stand positioned here.

The tropical climate and unforgiving track made it mechanically gruelling, primarily due to the rocks that littered the track.

As the race was run to a ‘Formula Libre’ format, there was also F3 and FF1600 cars to contend with. Down the Thomson Mile, the straight split by The Hump, lapping slower cars was still difficult and the number of incidents that occurred there meant the stretch was colloquially known as ‘Murder Mile’.

In 1972, Singaporean Lionel Chan rolled into a marshal’s car and died, although there are conflicting reports on the exact circumstances of his death, while two-time Macau GP winner Jan Bussell escaped a crash where fuel set one of his rear tyres and then his entire car in fire.

Through The Snakes that followed, a tree and ravine-lined equivalent to Suzuka’s ‘S’ Curves, attempting overtakes was a near death wish. It was the hairpin immediately after, Devil’s Bend, that cast the largest shadow though.

While the grand prix proved as popular to drivers and fans in East Asia, the circuit was too dangerous to host the organisers’ growing ambitions, but a permanent circuit to replace it never got further than the planning stage.

Institution support evaporated after 1973, when Joe Huber died in a supporting touring car race – avoiding a fruit plantation but hitting a pole instead. The fatality count, an increasing amount of road traffic accidents occurring in the country, and a host of other socioeconomic factors meant the presence of the race could be justified no more.

It wasn’t just the race that was stopped after 1973, but motorsport itself. But this didn’t stop various parties trying to revive it.

Australia, New Zealand and Macau were some of the other Pacific nations running international grand prix events for junior single-seaters, and in 1985 the Australian race was granted F1 world championship status on a new street circuit in Adelaide.

The men behind Adelaide wanted to bring motorsport back to Singapore and Thomson Road, and aimed for a spot on the 1990 F1 calendar. That date was pushed back by a year by the time the Singapore government had approved plans for a grand prix return, and at a new location 15km east of the current Marina Bay track.

At a conservative cost of $30 million, the expo-style venue was supposed to include ‘space for exhibitions and a leisure complex’ in addition to the grand prix circuit. With more emphasis on private sector involvement, the plan failed and the land is now home to a lagoon-filled golf course and the promised expo centre.

In May 2007, Bernie Ecclestone signed a deal that brought Singapore onto the F1 calendar as the first ever night-time grand prix. On the support package was Formula BMW Pacific, in which Romanian Doru Sechelariu took a double win. Felipe Nasr did the same a year later, and in 2010 the wins were split between Singapore-licensed Brit Richard Bradley and Oscar Tunjo.

For 2012 and ’13, the cramped support paddock was occupied by GP2, and junior single-seaters have not been seen there since. Formula 4 South East Asia planned to visit in 2017 but never did, and with the growth of Asian F3 surely it’s only a matter of time until young drivers are making their names on Pulau Ujong once again.

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Sam Bird recovered from a difficult start to the weekend at Marina Bay to win the sprint race and keep the gap to Fabio Leimer at seven points heading to Abu Dhabi…

GP2 Series

Palmer dominates Friday and Saturday, Bird wins on Sunday to keep up with Leimer

Fabio Leimer and Sam Bird are separated by seven points at the head of the GP2 standings with one weekend remaining. They went to Singapore with the same gap. The weekend started better for the Swiss driver though, qualifying third as Bird could only manage tenth after being impeded by traffic.

As the first of the drivers to run an option-prime tyre strategy in the feature race in order to preserve a prime set for Sunday, Leimer slipped to fifth. Bird recovered from a bad first lap and a poor pitstop to claim eighth and the crucial reverse grid pole position for Sunday. The Briton duly converted pole into an uncontested victory while Leimer moved up from fourth to third to limit his losses.

Jolyon Palmer was the driver to beat for the first part of the weekend, topping practice, qualifying and then taking the feature race win. He had to work for his second victory of the season though, going backwards at the start and having to fight his way back through, catching and overhauling his Carlin team-mate?Felipe Nasr with stronger tyre performance during the latter part of the race. Still win-less in GP2, Nasr finished second with James Calado in third.

A prime-prime strategy left all three drivers struggling on Sunday, finishing down the order after being forced to change tyres mid-race. Nasr and Calado still have a mathematical chance of winning the title in Abu Dhabi at 31 and 45 points adrift, together with Stefano Coletti who is 44 points away after extending his incredible point-less run to 11 of the last 12 races. All three would need disaster to hit both Leimer and Bird at Yas Marina to stand a chance.

After finishing seventh ahead of Bird in the feature race, Marcus Ericsson followed his former iSport team-mate home in the sprint race to claim his fourth top two finish from five weekends. Fellow DAMS driver Stephane Richelmi maintained his impressive consistency with two fourth places, passing Leimer near the end on Saturday and finishing close behind on Sunday.

Report: Palmer overhauls Nasr to secure Singapore win

Report: Bird boosts title hopes with Singapore sprint win

Next round: Yas Marina, 2-3 November

British F3

King wins twice and wraps up title

Carlin celebrate their sixth consecutive British F3 title, courtesy of King (Photo: British F3)

Jordan King had something to celebrate after all three British F3 races in the finale of the shortened series at the Nurburgring. He won race one and race three, in between which he secured the title with a fifth place in race two as chief rival William Buller crashed out.

Buller had finished the first race three laps down after his engine went up in smoke on the grid before managing to join the race. King took a dominant win ahead of Antonio Giovinazzi and Felipe Guimaraes, who then stole the race two win from Spike Goddard at the very last corner. Tatiana Calderon completed the podium that time around.

King proved himself a worthy champion by seeing off the challenge of Buller in race three. Rookie Giovinazzi took third place to secure second spot in the standings by just one point ahead of category veteran Buller.

Report: King dominates first race of Nurburgring finale

Report: King crowned champion as Guimaraes wins race two

Report: King keeps Buller at bay to win final British F3 race of 2013

Formula Abarth

Rovera secures crown after Iaquinta and Roda also win

Having been the dominant force in Formula Abarth this season in his rookie season of cars, Alessio Rovera had a difficult start to the weekend in Misano. He began the first race from pole but fell back to tenth in race one with an apparent mechanical problem. He recovered to fifth in race two before winning the final race after nearest rival Simone Iaquinta was black flagged for forcing a rival onto the grass at the start of the race. The result was enough for Rovera to seal his title with a weekend to spare.

Iaquinta had won race one ahead of Michele Beretta and Dario Orsini, while third year driver Giorgio Roda claimed a maiden win in race two ahead of Sergey Trofimov and Orsini. Orsini was second again in race three with Vitaly Larionov completing the podium.

Report: Iaquinta wins race one at Misano amidst problems for poleman Rovera

Report: Roda takes maiden win at Misano

Report: Rovera claims Abarth title with Misano win

Next round: Monza, 19-20 October

Formula Renault 1.6 NEC

Rump turns up and wins to retain joint points lead

Rump claimed a last-gasp race two win (Photo: Chris Schotanus)

Clashing Formula Renault 1.6 races at Zolder and Mantorp Park affected a number of drivers who have contested races in both categories this season including Martin Rump, a title contender in both. With Rump absent from the NEC qualifying while he contested the Sweden round, nearest rival Roy Geerts took full advantage with pole position. He was beaten to the race one win by Janneau Esmeijer?but was still able to take the championship lead with Rump arriving in Belgium to finish sixth.

Rump fought his way up the order in race two to become a factor in the lead battle between Geerts and Esmeijer, snatching the victory at the end of the very last lap. With Geerts finishing second, he and Rump are now tied for the points lead on 149 points with Esmeijer on 119.

Report: Esmeijer beats Geerts to race one victory at Zolder

Report: Rump wins race two at Zolder from last on the grid

Next round: Nurburgring, 28-29 September

Formula Renault 1.6 Sweden

Rump wins here too but Johansson holds on

Rump headed to Zolder after failing in his bid to claim the Swedish title at Mantorp Park. He took the championship lead away from rival Erik Johansson with a dominant win in race one and led the second encounter early on. However, an error saw him finish up fifth, two places behind Johansson who did enough to secure the title by four points.

After his Formula BMW Talent Cup success the previous weekend, Robin Hansson scored a debut victory in race two.

Report: Johansson secures FR1.6 title in close season finale at Mantorp

Formula Renault Argentina

Santero secures title

Julian Santero wrapped up the Formula Renault Argentina title by taking his ninth win of the season in race 12 at General Roca. The 19-year-old’s closest rival Manuel Luque finished second with Felipe Schmauk completing the podium.

Next round: To be confirmed

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Jordan King

The F3 rookie proved himself to be a deserving champion with two wins at the Nurburgring.

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Sam Bird will go to the GP2 Series finale in Abu Dhabi seven points behind championship leader Fabio Leimer after claiming a controlled lights-to-flag win in the Singapore sprint race.

Bird made a good start from pole position and held a comfortable advantage over second-placed Marcus Ericsson for the distance, opening up a 5.7 second lead by the chequered flag.

Ericsson finished second with Leimer in third, maintaining the points gap he had when he arrived in Singapore. The Swiss driver had a bizarre scare after the chequered flag however when he collided with Alexander Rossi. The American, who finished a lap down, made a sharp left turn across the track into the support paddock and was hit by Leimer, who was driving around to the pits for the podium ceremony.

Stephane Richelmi spent the race in fourth while Jon Lancaster worked his way up to fifth after starting ninth. Johnny Cecotto finished a remote sixth with Daniel De Jong in seventh, narrowly ahead of Adrian Quaife-Hobbs, who started 22nd.

Feature race podium finishers Jolyon Palmer, Felipe Nasr and James Calado all finished down the order having had to pit to change off the tyres they had to start on. After running a prime-prime strategy on Saturday, the Carlin pair started on option tyres and Calado on worn rear primes.

Update: Calado was handed a 20 second penalty for forcing Sergio Canamasas into the wall on lap three, dropping him one place from 19th to 20th.

Race results

* Includes 20 second penalty

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Jolyon Palmer fought back from a poor start to beat Carlin team-mate Felipe Nasr to the feature race victory in Singapore.

Palmer got a bad launch from pole position as Nasr surged into the lead, with the Briton initially slipping to fourth before finding his way back past James Calado and Fabio Leimer.

Nasr had a lead of 13 seconds after he and Palmer had made their pitstops but the Brazilian struggled with his tyre wear in the closing stages as Palmer reduced the gap at more than 1.5 seconds a lap.

Palmer was on Nasr’s tail with four laps to go and Nasr was powerless to prevent his team-mate coming past and denying him his long-awaited maiden GP2 win. Palmer opened up a 13 second gap over the remaining laps before the chequered flag.

Calado overhauled Leimer for third by running longer into the race before changing his tyres. The Swiss driver was back on Calado’s tail late on but was unable to get past and found himself overtaken by Stephane Richelmi before the finish.

Tom Dillmann passed Marcus Ericsson towards the end to take sixth while Sam Bird did his title hopes the world of good by claiming the reverse grid pole position in eighth. After starting tenth he lost places off the start but was able to recover and pass Dani Clos for eighth before the end. Jon Lancaster also passed Clos for ninth.

Leimer has extended his lead over Bird to 12 points but will start fourth on the grid for Sunday’s sprint race.

Race results

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Jolyon Palmer transferred his free practice pace into qualifying in Singapore to secure a maiden GP2 pole position ahead of Carlin team-mate Felipe Nasr.

After topping the earlier practice session, Palmer held second place behind Nasr during the first half of the session, which was red-flagged at the midway point after Daniel Abt came to a halt on track and debutant Gianmarco Raimondo then crashed into the barrier under the grandstand at turn 18.

Championship leader Fabio Leimer had moved into top spot shortly before the stoppage but Palmer used a purple sector two to set the fastest time with five minutes left.

Nasr was able to move up into second place, 0.252 seconds behind Palmer. Leimer finished up third with Alexander Rossi in fourth having been a pole threat since he posted the first flying lap of the session.

Stephane Richelmi was the last man within a second of Palmer in fifth with Tom Dillmann recovering from an excursion down an escape road to claim sixth. Sergio Canamasas took advantage of the pace in his Caterham machine to secure seventh with James Calado in eighth. Marcus Ericsson was ninth but could have gone better had he not been baulked by a gaggle of cars in the final sector.

Leimer’s chief rival Sam Bird was another to be impeded towards the end of the lap, with Johnny Cecotto – with whom Bird clashed in Malaysia at the start of the season – appearing to twice get in Bird’s way as he could manage only tenth.

Mitch Evans will have to start from the back after crashing into the barriers at the new turn ten during the early part of the session.

Qualifying times

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Jolyon Palmer posted the fastest time as the Singapore weekend got underway with free practice on the Marina Bay street circuit.

The Carlin driver went 0.253 seconds faster than championship leader Fabio Leimer.

Marcus Ericsson was nearly six tenths slower than Palmer in third place, with Caterham’s Alexander Rossi taking fourth.

Mitch Evans was a strong fifth in his first running on the Singapore track, and was the last man within a second of the pace.

James Calado finished up sixth fastest, 0.022s ahead of fellow Briton Sam Bird. Bird, who is Leimer’s nearest title rival and driving in Singapore for the first time, set exactly the same time as eighth-placed Felipe Nasr.

Johnny Cecotto was ninth with Stephane Richelmi in tenth.

Practice times

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Canadian racing driver Gianmarco Raimondo will make his debut in the GP2 series during the penultimate round of the championship at Singapore, where he will race for Italian squad Trident.

Raimondo, 22, will take the seat of the #21 car, which has been occupied by three other drivers throughout the previous nine rounds of the season.

The Singapore outing will mark Raimondo’s return to competitive junior single-seaters following his 2012 F3 Open campaign, in which he narrowly missed out on the title. Apart from that, the Canadian has amassed multiple race victories in Formula BMW Americas during his tenure in the series in 2008-2009, as well as a podium finish in the F3 Euro Series in 2011.

Trident’s regular driver Nathanael Berthon, who scored the team’s only victory in the 2013 GP2 season, is set to be retained for the Marina Bay round.

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The calendar for the series, at the moment, is:

March 22-24 ? Sepang (Malaysia)

April 19-21 ?? Bahrain International Circuit (Bahrain)

May 10-12 ?? Catalunya (Spain)

May 24-24 ?? Circuit de Monaco (Monaco)

June 28-30 ?? Silverstone (Great Britain)

July 5-7 ?? Nurburgring (Germany)

July 26-28 ?? Hungaroring (Hungary)

August 23-25 ?? Spa-Francorchamps (Belgium)

September 6-8 ?? Monza (Italy)

September 20-22 ?? Marina Bay (Singapore)

November 1-3 ?? Yas Marina (United Arab Emirates)

Every round will be held as a support event to a Formula One Grand Prix, which means the second, standalone Bahrain round from 2012 has been dropped. The round at Valencia has been replaced with the Yas Marina round.

Series CEO Bruno Michel commented in the official release: “2013 will be another strong season for GP2. We have decided to keep the prestigious tracks outside of Europe, starting with Sepang and Sakhir, two venues which provided some heart-stopping action last season. We are also returning to Singapore in September for the second time of the Series? history. I am very pleased to be closing the season in Abu Dhabi: we have been to that track several times with GP2 Asia and raced there last time in November 2011 with our latest generation car.

“Added to these four overseas events, we will be racing alongside F1 in all seven European rounds which brings a total of eleven F1 tracks on our calendar again next season. Since the Series started in 2005, we have always provided the drivers with a car close to F1 in performance and used the same tyres. This package guarantees the GP2 drivers to gain the ultimate and most-needed experience to graduate to the next category. Our sole goal has always been and will continue to remain to prepare the next generation of F1 drivers. I believe that?s exactly what we will see again in 2013 and I am really looking forward to next season.”

The series has also announced the dates of its pre-season testing events:

February 26-28 ? Jerez (Spain)

March 5-7 ? Catalunya (Spain)

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