Jace Denmark-Gessel steps up to USF2000 with Pabst Racing
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Pabst Racing has signed Jace Denmark-Gessel for the upcoming USF2000 season, bringing its line-up to three drivers.
The young American was a winner in senior karts in America and also competed in Europe before switching his focus to his cars last year with a number of tests and a cameo in United States Formula 4 with DC Autosport that resulted in points.
In addition to several private tests in one of Pabst’s USF2000 cars, Denmark started this year with another F4 appearance in the YACademy Winter Series although he retired from the only race he ended up starting.
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Cayman Islands-based teenager Kyffin Simpson will drive for the new TJ Speed team in Formula Regional Americas this season.
Simpson raced karts in America for several years before moving into car racing in United States Formula 4 with Velocity Racing Development. He picked up a best finish of sixth, before moving up to FRegional Americas with HMD Motorsports.
After his nine-race spell at the end of 2020, Simpson returns with the series’ newest team. Created by long-time single-seater engineer Tim Neff, the TJ Speed outfit plans to field three cars, with Simpson and F4 graduate Varun Choksey already signed.
Profiling the next-gen New Zealanders set to rule TRS this year
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The lack of available quarantining space for international drivers has meant this year’s Toyota Racing Series will have a grid of home talents. Some are already established talents, but others are new to the limelight
Over the past 10 years, the Toyota Racing Series has emerged as the lead winter series for junior single-seater drivers across the globe. That international appeal has led to many future Formula 1 drivers taking to the championship through January and February – including series champions Lance Stroll and Lando Norris – but also boosted the careers of local talents such as current Formula E star Mitch Evans and Red Bull’s Formula 2-bound junior Liam Lawson.
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Clark will race in the weekend’s Grand Prix and completes
the 16 driver line up.
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Clark’s China campaign
also saw him awarded Rookie of the Year and the MiTime Star
award for outstanding performance.
As well as his
successful campaign in the Chinese Formula 4 championship
where he secured no fewer than 12 race wins on his way to
the title, Clark debuted internationally in the USA Formula
4 championship in 2018 where he learnt the foundations of
international motorsport and has continued to capitalise on
that experience since.
Clark has raced internationally
more than he has in New Zealand and with COVID-19 putting an
Latin American second generation settles in Europe
Second generation Latin American drivers are coming through the ranks in Europe, with Rubens Barrichello s elder son, Eduardo, moving to race in the Formula Regional European this year, while Sebastian Montoya, Juan Pablo s son will be having his second season in the Italian Formula 4 championship. Elsewhere, Pastor Maldonado s young cousin Manuel, will swap single seaters for Sports Cars, as he s just announced he ll join United Autosport both for the Asian and the European Le Mans Series. Dudu Barrichello has signed a deal to race with JD Motorsports this year, after three seasons in the junior formulas in the United States. Rubens elder son, started his racing car career back in 2018 in the USA Formula 4 Championship, before moving to the faster US F2000 category for the two following years. His progress in 2020 was remarkable, the 19-years old finishing the championship as runner-up to the more experienced Christian Rasmusse