Armaan Ebrahim all set for
Formula Renault – UK Championship

4th April 2006

Armaan Ebrahim is all set for one of the toughest racing championships in the world and that is the Formula Renault-UK Championship. Armaan will be racing for "Position 1 Racing" who finished 1st in the Graduate Cup and 2nd in the Overall championship in the Formula Renault UK Championship in 2005.

Ian Barnwell, the CEO of Position 1 Racing has gone out of his way to secure Armaan as one of his two drivers in the team by subsidizing his drive quite heavily. Andy Welch, one of the most respected engineers in the British Formula Ford and the Formula Renault Championships in UK and USA will be Armaan’s chief engineer.

Armaan did 8 official tests in 4 different circuits in the UK with the team to become familiar with the circuits that he has never driven on before. Armaan has also had to re adjust himself to the 200 BHP Formula Renault as against the 550 BHP A1 GP car that he drove in the year 2005.

Despite more than half the tests being washed out due to heavy rain and snow, Armaan coped well in testing on circuits not at all familiar to him and was consistently in the top 10 out of the 32 cars that were testing. Armaan will be contesting for 2 cups in the championship. One is the graduate cup which is for drivers who are 19 years and below and the other is for the overall cup of the Formula Renault UK championship.

Once again Armaan at the age of 16 is by far the youngest driver on the circuit with most drivers repeating the championship for the 2nd and 3rd year. As the competition is so stiff most drivers do it at least twice to gain good finishes, as the first year always happens to be a learning curve for the fresh drivers. This is because of lack of circuit knowledge and also difficulties in adapting to the extreme climatic conditions in the UK.

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