Signature wants to keep its titles

Drivers and Teams Champion last year, the Signature Volkswagen team is once again in search of the laurels of the F3 Euroseries and will also try to win the first title of the FIA F3 International Trophy.

Published on 15/03/2011 à 11:54

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Unlike in 2010, the Bourges-based team will now enter four VW-powered Dallaras in the European championship for the quartet of Laurens Vanthoor, Caros Munoz, Daniel Abt and Marco Wittmann. The latter, vice-champion of the previous exercise, will be with Vanthoor the second repeater of the team. Munoz was officiating for Mücke and finished 9th. As for Daniel Abt, rival of Tom Dillmann in F3 German last year, debuting in this discipline.

« This year again we have the drivers to fight for victory. The first tests, the next few days in Valencia and Barcelona, allowing us to evaluate the technical work done by my team during the off-season and to anticipate the first meeting at Ricard HTTT on April 2 and 3 », Confided Philippe Sinault, the team director, before focusing on the brand new FIA F3 International Trophy. “ This championship is a good opportunity for the FIA to restore strength to F3 which today faces competition from GP3, the F2? This new platform will confirm the fact that F3 will remain a formidable springboard for F1 ».

The trophy will be contested over six events open to cars from the English and Japanese championships, as well as Euroseries competitors. The points scale will be the same as that used in F1. An affiliation with the premier category is real since the first three drivers in the ranking will be awarded the Superlicence, a mandatory entry point for any driver wishing to compete in F1.

FIA F3 International Trophy Calendar : May 22: Pau (F); May 31: Hockenheim (D); July 31: Spa-Francorchamps (B); August 14: Zandvoort (NL); November 20: Macau; November 27: South Korea.