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NEWS
PRESENTATION
OF THE TEAM BIREL MOTORSPORT 2007
THE OFFICIAL TEAM
WILL COMPRISE 8 OFFICIAL DRIVERS WHO, IN THE MOST IMPORTANT
RACES, WILL BE JOINED BY TEST DRIVER GIACOMO PATRONO.
In the month of December the last
details have been finalised with regards to Birel’s
official team line-up for the main International karting events.
With regards to the 2006 season, 6 drivers have been confirmed,
including Giacomo Patrono who, as well as taking part in the
competition programme of the KF2 class, will also act as full-time
official tester at the factory of Lissone. In the KZ1 class
(formerly Sicc) Francesco Laudato and Manuel Cozzaglio have
been confirmed, while Sauro Cesetti will once again be the
driver of the KF1 (formerly Formula A). The Gernam driver
Marco Wittmann was promoted to the KF1 class after an excellent
2006 season in the 100 Ica. Lastly, Peter Antolfield was also
confirmed, who will be engaged in the KF2 after competing
in the Junior for two seasons. Among the new additions, always
in KF1, in the month of November an agreement had already
been announced with Jaime Croxford (who has come from the
Birel team – Pf International), whereas in the last
few weeks an agreement was also signed with the Japanese driver
Hattory. The drivers engaged in the KF1 will therefore be
four, who will all take part, for the whole programme, in
the Open Championship, the European Championship, the World
Cup and the World Championship. There are also some news in
KF2 where, alongside Patrono and Antonfield, the new Italian
champion of 100 Junior, Mario Turchetto, was also called.
The 2007 programme of the official team will not include drivers
directly managed in the KF3 category (formerly Junior). To
better evaluate the behaviour of the new motorisations, the
drivers taking part in the young class par excellence will
be managed by external teams. As far as technical staff is
concerned, Simone Fumagalli was confirmed manager of the team;
from 2007 Fumagalli was also assisted by Mariano De Faveri,
who will take on a role of higher responsibility.
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Simone
Fumagalli
Technical Director |
OFFICIAL DRIVERS
| DRIVERS
KF1 |
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Sauro
Cesetti |
Marco
Wittmann |
Jaime
Croxford |
Tatsuya
Hattori |
| DRIVERS
KZ1 |
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Francesco
Laudato |
Manuel
Cozzaglio |
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| DRIVERS
KF2 |
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Peter
Antonfield |
Mario
Turchetto |
Giacomo
Patrono |
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| OFFICIAL
ENGINE: TM |
| TELEMETRY:
UNIPRO |
| TYRES:
VEGA/BRIDGESTONE |
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