07.05.2003
Coloni Motorsport at work in Magione (I). First steps in F.3000
for Christian Montanari!
For Coloni Motorsport the Barcelona week end is not completely to
forget: the winner in fact was Giorgio Pantano and together with him
on the podium was another Italian, Enrico Toccacelo, the two Coloni-drivers
of the 2002 season, launched on the international motor sport scene
by the Italian team and selected thanks to the support of the CSAI
(the sport branch of the Italian Automobile Club) Federal School and
the prestigious weekly-mag AUTOSPRINT. This is an evident sign that
the Coloni Motorsport’s program tended to help and show off the
young Italian drivers worked well and still is continuing to work,
we have only to think, apart from Pantano and Toccacelo, to the drivers
who participated to the 2002 “Supertest”: Tonio Liuzzi,
who took the 4th place in his F.3000 debut in Imola and one of the
best rookies; Alessandro Piccolo, arrived in the F.1 feeder category;
Giammaria Bruni, recent winner in the Euro 3000 Series race at Nuerburgring
and Matteo Grassotto, 3rd again at Nuerburgring. We have then not
to forget the two young sprouts of Coloni Motorsport in F.3, Marco
Bonanomi and Christian Montanari, who gave the first two podiums in
Europe to the new Lola-Dome F106/03.
For
what concerns more strictly the track-activities, after having carefully
analyzed the cars in the wake of the unlucky Barcelona week end,
Coloni Motorsport, thanks to the precious technical support of his
suppliers and to the analysis work of the telemetry data done by
his technician, moved today, May 7th, on the Magione track (Italy)
in order to check and solve the troubles occurred in Spain. For
the first time Christian Montanari, one of the F.3 Coloni’s
drivers, drove the 3-litres Lola-Zytek. Christian wasn’t frightened
by the new single-seater and quickly familiarized with the car,
obtaining immediately excellent times and giving a precious contribution
to the analysis-process of what happened the past week.
Coloni
Motorsport activities in this short test in Magione weren’t
restricted to F.3000: in fact also Marco Bonanomi was on track.
The young Italian, after the second place took in the third race
of the Italian F.3 Championship, returned in Magione to continue
the development of the new Lola-Dome single-seater for the next
race in Imola (May 18th).
Coloni
Motorsport will go back in Magione again the next week for another
test to check the new technical solutions prepared in sight of the
next F.1 and F.3000 GP on the A1 Ring (A).
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