Formula V6 Asia 2007

[kallu]

[img width=600 height=196]http://www.courage-competition.com/gb/i ... roject.jpg[/img]

http://www.courage-competition.com/htmg ... oject.html

Sirish Chandran is planning to run a Indian car in the Le Mans in 2007. According to him A Courage LC70 will be prepared and run by Courage Competition at the Le Mans 24 hour race. The drivers are most likely to be Narain and Karun, although nothing has been signed by drivers yet.

I totally didnt see this coming !

[piranha]

Me neither. This comes out of the blue!
But it's only a hypotetical project initiated by the Overdrive magazine. One can only speculate if they have financial backing or they just want to raise publicity on them or on the Le Mans 24h race.

It would be fabulous indeed to get both Narain and Karun to drive the car, plus another driver (because they have to be 3 at Le Mans), maybe an experienced Le Mans racer from France.

[kallu]

yeah the 3rd driver is supposed to be Jean-Marc GOUNON

This probably is a publicity stunt. It sounds too good to be true. How can they run a Indian team when there is a little or no fan base for Lemans in India

[piranha]

Maybe it will be as odd as the Jamaican Winter Olympics bobsleigh team. 

[kallu]

lol !

Forgot about them. if they can send a bobsleigh team, we sure can send a Lemans team. !!

[kallu]

The second season is about to start in about 2 months !
looks like armaan will be racing for TARADTM a new team. will be good to see him back racing..
http://www.afos.com/news_full_afos.php?id=1697

driver to beat this season will most probably be Matt Halliday for BT Motorsport

[kallu]

The season is scheduled to start in first week of MAY

India has two drivers
Hyderabad-born Akhil Khushlani (17/Eurasia Motorsport) is another of the five Formula BMW Asia Juniors this season. Khushlani won the National Rotax Max Challenge in 2005, and notched up five wins in Formula Rolon last season.

When the mother of Cchiranjeev R. Bedi (17/Engstler Bollywood Racing) declared her son was "born in 10 minutes and has been into speed ever since," she was right, and from the age of five he was determined to forge a career in motorsport. Having competed in the JK Tyres and Indian karting championships, he raced a car for the first time last year at the 12-hour Merdeka Millennium Endurance Race in Malaysia. Bedi is the son of Bollywood star Ranjeet D. Bedi, veteran of 560 movies and, although he has appeared in a couple of his father's films, his sights are set firmly on the world of international motorsport. 

The masterstroke of combining the glamour of Bollywood, a name created by combining Bombay (now Mumbai) and Hollywood, with motor racing came about through team manager Manmohanjit Thind's involvement in the Kuala Lumpur International Airport and the Sepang International Circuit projects. The link-up with Engstler Motorsport of Germany was realised through the relationship of Mr. Thind with Franz Engstler & Kurt Treml, and this year the concept of Engstler Bollywood Racing becomes reality.





5 - 6 May 2007
( Rd 1, 2, 3 & 4)
  Sepang International Circuit, Malaysia 
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  23 - 24 Jun 2007
( Rd 5, 6, 7 & 8)
  Sepang International Circuit, Malaysia 
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  21 - 22 Jul 2007
( Rd 9, 10, 11 & 12)
  Sentul International Circuit, Indonesia 
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  8 - 9 Sept 2007
( Rd 13, 14, 15 & 16)
  Chengdu International Circuit, China 
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    6 - 7 Oct 2007
( Rd 17 & 18)
  Shanghai International Circuit, China 
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  3 - 4 Nov 2007
( Rd 19, 20, 21 & 22)
  Zhuhai International Circuit, China

[kallu]

Armaan was the quickest in both the test sessions held at sepang ...



http://www.afos.com/news_full_renault.php?id=1741

[kallu]

Armaan tops the official Practice session ahead of the first round. Second fastest is australian Karl Reindler. Looks like partiv seureshwaran is also competing

http://www.afos.com/news_full_fv6a.php?id=1789

[kallu]

Race 1
1 38 Marchy Lee  HKG Team Meritus 1:00.487 20 20:21.068
2 71 Seth Ingham USA CT Motorsport 1:00.550 20 20:27.771
3 58 Satrio Hermanto  INA Team Meritus  1:00.630 20 20:30.164
4 85 Hanss Lin  TPE Champ Motorsport  1:00.705 20 20:45.164
5 50 Adderly Fong  HKG Champ Motorsport  1:01.197 20 21:03.542
6 31 Hafiz Koh  SIN Team TARADTM 1:02.111 20 21:14.111
7 5 Partiv Sureshwaran  IND Eurasia Motorsport 44.471 20 21:20.134
8 19 Karl Reindler  AUS Team E-Rain  1:00.965 19 20:21.661
9 7 Jeffrey Lee  TPE Super Champ Racing  1:02.925 19 20:28.180
10 3 Armaan Ebrahim  IND Team TARADTM 1:00.694 15 20:41.247

Race2
1 71 Seth Ingham USA CT Motorsport 1:01.237 14 45:54.087
2 5 Partiv Sureshwaran  IND Eurasia Motorsport 1:01.734 16 46:09.639
3 58 Satrio Hermanto  INA Team Meritus  1:01.580 11 46:10.191
4 85 Hanss Lin  TPE Champ Motorsport  1:01.289 14 46:27.605
5 31 Hafiz Koh  SIN Team TARADTM 1:03.717 12 46:45.024
6 7 Jeffrey Lee  TPE Super Champ Racing  1:03.609 9 47:42.361
7 3 Ken Lee  KOR CT Motorsport  1:03.885 9 46:19.727
8 3 Armaan Ebrahim  IND Team TARADTM 1:02.545 2 46:14.114
DNF 38 Marchy Lee  HKG Team Meritus  - 0 1.579
DNF 50 Adderly Fong  HKG Champ Motorsport  - 0 3.523
DNF 19 Karl Reindler  AUS Team E-Rain  - 0 4.363


Armaan was involved in incidents and was out of both the races. Parthiva came second in the second race.

[kallu]

This is the championship standing after round 4
Akihl placed Second due to his consistent finishes in all the four races and is leading the Rookie cup.


1 33 Jazeman JAAFAR MAS 45 41 30 45 161
2 27 Akhil KUSHLANI*• IND 32 32 32 32 128
3 8 Zahir ALI             INA 38 34 46 1 119
4 38 James GRUNWELL THA 40 45 26 DNF 111
5 88 Ross JAMISON*• HKG 34 30 40 DNF 104
6 28 Kyle MITCHELL*• RSA DNF 37 18 40 95
7 77 Johan ADZMI• MAS DNF 24 37 28 89
8 99 Dennis VOLLMAIR• GER 24 DNF 28 34 86
9 7 Shohei SHIROMOTOJPN 26 22 24 DNF 72
10 68 David ZHU*• CHN DNF DNF 34 37 71
11 2 Sean MC DONAGH• USA 30 DNF DNF 30 60
12 5 Imran SHAHAROM• MAS 28 28 DNF DNF 56
13 11 Melvin MOH• MAS DNS 26 22 DNF 48
14 37 Cchiranjeev R.BEDI•IND DNF 20 20 DNF 40
15 58 Huzair HARUN• MAS - - - - 0
78 Omer YOUNAS• PAK - - - - 0

[kallu]

Round 3
1  3  ArmaanEbrahim 12  26:13.039  2:02.449  6  IND  TeamTARADTM
2  38  MarchyLee 12  26:13.621  2:01.656  7  HKG  SuperChampRacing
3  88  JamesWinslow 12  26:14.015  2:01.600  7  AUS  TeamMeritus
4  58  AdilSaryagunaHermanto 12  26:14.621  2:01.982  6  AUS  TeamMeritus
5  71  SetdIngham 12  27:37.922  2:02.082  6  USA  TeamERain
6  50  AdderlyFong 12  27:48.983  2:02.615  6  HKG  ChampMotorsport
7  7  JeffreyLee 11  26:16.198  2:10.738  2  TPE  SuperChampRacing
DNF  31  HafizKoh 8  20:56.663  2:08.453  4  SIN  TeamTARADTM
DNF 15  B J Lee  5  13:02.848  2:15.096  4  MAS  CT Motorsport 
DNF  85  HanssLinPoHeng 4  8:28.090  2:04.560  3  TPE  ChampMotorsport
DNF  78  EarlBamber 2  4:13.215  2:04.391  2  NZL  RedMeritus
DNF  5  ParthivaSureshwaren

Round 4
1  3  ArmaanEbrahim 20  40:47.761  2:01.251  8  IND  TeamTARADTM
2  88  JamesWinslow 20  41:18.949  2:01.437  17  AUS  TeamMeritus
3  5  ParTDivaSureshwaren 20  41:42.658  2:02.467  17  IND  EurasiaMotorsport
4  85  HanssLinPoHeng 20  41:55.276  2:01.196  16  TPE  ChampMotorsport
5  31  HafizKoh 20  42:40.700  2:04.645  18  SIN  TeamTARADTM
6  71  SeTDIngham 19  41:19.819  2:01.482  16  USA  TeamERain
7  7  JeffreyLee 19  43:05.734  2:08.559  15  TPE  SuperChampRacing
DNF  38  MarchyLee 18  37:05.258  2:01.735  8  HKG  SuperChampRacing
DNF  50  AdderlyFong 13  27:10.499  2:01.764  11  HKG  ChampMotorsport
DNF  58  AdilSaryagunaHermanto 11  22:45.158  2:01.238  10  AUS  TeamMeritus
DNF  15  B J Lee  8  20:54.446  2:12.136  7  MAS  CT Motorsport 
DNF  78  EarlBamber 1  2:15.274  2:09.849  1  NZL  RedMeritus

Armaan has put the disastrous previous rounds behind him and went on to win both the round 3 and 4.
Although i think he will have a very stiff competition from Earl bamber in next races who actually was on the pole for this round.

[jaydeep]

Creditable perfromance by Armaan ... In 4th round distance between top 2 drivers were more than 30 secs .. Great stuff Armaan.

Jaydeep.

[vijay-krishnan]

Creditable indeed from both Armaan and Parthiva...It will be interesting to see how it pans out with earl and ingham later since they pretty much destroyed each others chances by taking each other off....i wish there was some stronger competition in the field though....

[piranha]

i wish there was some stronger competition in the field though....

Karl Reindler was podium finisher in the A1GP series, while James Winslow is the reigning Asian F3 champion (and the rescuer of the unfortunate Moreno Suprapto  ). At least they are decent drivers. Great result from Armaan!