Karun Chandhok at World Series

26th April 2005

FIRST RACE OF THE SEASON FOR KARUN THIS WEEKEND

Zolder, Belgium – India’s motor racing star Karun Chandhok has his first race of the season coming up this weekend at the first two rounds of the World Series at the Zolder circuit in Belgium this weekend.

Karun who is driving for the Italian squad RC Motorsport, was realistic about his chances for the weekend ahead in the all new 3500cc V6 powered cars, capable of speeds of over 300 Kmh; “I’ve never been to Zolder, but Narain said it isn’t a particularly hard circuit to learn. Testing has been ok so far, not as good as we had hoped and we are certainly paying a bit for missing the first couple of test sessions. I think as the season progresses we will get stronger but for sure the aim in the first 2-3 races has to be to score some solid points and get the season going.”

The 21 year old from Madras, who is backed at the moment by JK Tyre, the Tata Group and Ucal, spoke highly about the competition for the season ahead, “It’s a really tight field this year. Last year I qualified 1.3 seconds off pole at Jerez and was 5th, but this year 1.3 seconds puts you 19th ! Drivers like Adrian Valles, Marcus Winklehock, Will Power, and Felix Portiero are all tremendously experienced at this level and very quick drivers so it’s going to be a tough year.”

The two races for the weekend are to be held on Sunday (May 1st), following the two qualifying sessions which are on Saturday.

ENTRY LIST FOR THE 2005 WORLD SERIES

RC Motorsport: Karun Chandhok / Giovanni Tedeschi
Eurointernational: Giorgio Mondini / Matteo Meneghello
Pons Racing: Adrian Vallés / Celso Miguez
Epsilon Euskadi: Félix Porteiro / Robert Kubica
Carlin Motorsport: Andreas Zuber / Will Power
Saulnier Racing: Simon Pagenaud / Ryo Fukuda
GD Racing: Milos Pavlovic / Parthiva Sureshwaran
KTR: Tristan Gommendy / Jaap Van Lagen
Interwetten: Stefano Proetto / Daniel La Rosa
Jenzer Motorsport: Colin Fleming / Patrick Pilet
DAMS: Pastor Maldonado / Alx Danielsson
Draco Multiracing : Markus Winkelhock / Christian Montanari
Avelon Formula: Ivan Bellarosa
Cram Competition: Damien Pasini / Eric Salignon
Victory Engineering: Enrico Toccacelo / Tomas Kotska

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