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Markus Niemelä
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born
20.03.1984, Finland
2006:
First season in Formula Renault UK, Mark Burdett Motorsport
- One victory
- One Fastest lap
- One Pole position
- Multiple Driver Of The Day Awards - awarded by Renault Sport
- Best positions 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 2x4th
- 7th in the final standings
- Voted as a “person of the year” in his hometown (Rauma)
2005:
First season in Formula BMW-ADAC (Team Rosberg)
- 7th in championship points. Many crashes resulting to damaged car
during the season (12 out of 20 races)
- One victory
- One pole
- 5th in UK Formula Renault Winter Championship, 3rd best qualifier
of the championship (3rd, 4th, 9th and 3rd in qualifyings) Result is
great considering that Markus drove Formula Renault first time ever
in free practice of first race meeting and had never been on those
tracks before!
2004:
First season in Formula Ford
- Finnish Champion
- Swedish Champion
- Winner of STCC Formula Ford championship
- Was leading Scandinavian Championship before the last round. Did
not take part in last round and finished 2nd in championship because
of that
- Won two first races of Finnish karting championship (didn’t drive
whole series because of For-mula Ford -championship)
- Nominated as a ”Young Champion” by Finnish ASN
- First formula BMW tests: Fastest at Lausitzring, Oschersleben and
Hockenheim short and sec-ond fastest on Nurburgring (unofficial
tests).
2003: karting, category Formula A. Because of accident in a European
championship race, couldn’t drive for three months – was not able to
drive any championship series as a whole.
- 5th in World Championship
- Podium places in French and Belgian championship races
- Victories in Finland and in Belgium (other than championship races)
- First test in race car (Formula Ford). After 4 laps was faster
than drivers who had raced Formula Ford with some good results!
2002: karting, category Formula A, as a private driver.
- Finnish champion, Formula A
- Fastest laptime of at least in one heat of every European
Championship round
- Became wanted driver for 2003 for many teams due to impressive
speed throughout the whole season 2002
- Qualified in World Cup final but technical problems caused DNF in
pre-final and final
2001:
karting, was supposed to drive Formula A European/World Championship
- Injury of left arm in snowboard accident before the start of
season (not able to race)
- Practiced driving one-handed whole year
- Only one race driven, one race won (national, popular end of the
season –race). Drove practi-cally one-handed, but won the race
against top Finnish karters (ICA)
2000:
karting, first season in an international category (ICA)
- 4th in international Viking Trophy –event (includes countries such
as all the Scandinavian coun-tries and Russia, Estonia, Lithuania
etc.)
1999:
karting,
- some victories (category Yamaha)
1998:
karting,
- Finnish junior championship 1st position by maximum points.
1997:
karting,
- Finnish junior championship 2nd position
1989-1996:
karting, regional and club championship victories etc.
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