F3 is one of the most prestigious race series in the UK and is for
single seaters prepared to international F3 regulations with production
based 2-litre engines.
Michael Meadows drove the NewNet Dallara F304 Mugen Honda
The Team and Team Owners
Steve Robertson spent three years in British Formula Three (which
included a 3rd place championship finish in 1990), he won the 1994 Indy
Lights championship in the USA and captured 7 wins during his 2 years
in the series. He is one of only two Indy Lights champions to never
race in Champ Car. He later raced in the British Touring Car
Championship, the BTCC, in a works Ford Mondeo. After racing, Robertson
went on, along with his father Dave, to manage young drivers. After
leading Jenson Button to Formula One, the pair took on young Finn Kimi
Räikkönen. Räikkönen would later make a big jump,
from Formula Renault to F1 with the Sauber team, the following year.
Kimi Matias
Räikkönen is a Finnish Formula One racing car driver for the
Scuderia Ferrari Formula 1 Team. He finished runner-up in the FIA
Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 2003 and 2005. Previously he
has driven for Sauber-Petronas (2001) and Team McLaren-Mercedes
(2002-2006) and has signed a 3-year deal with Ferrari for the 2007
through 2009 seasons. Kimi's early career started in karting from the
age of ten, including placing second in the 1999 European Formula Super
A championship. He also competed that year in the Formula Ford Euro
Cup, and by the age of twenty, he had won the British Formula Renault
Winter series, winning the first four races of the year. In 2000, he
won seven of ten events in the Formula Renault UK Championship. Peter
Sauber gave the Finn a test with the Sauber Formula One team in
September of 2000. After further tests in Jerez and Barcelona, Sauber
signed Räikkönen for the 2001 season and Kimi scored a
championship point in the 2001 Australian Grand Prix, his maiden Grand
Prix. Räikkönen, long linked to Sauber's engine supplier
Ferrari, sufficiently impressed McLaren Formula 1, earning a race seat
in Ron Dennis's team for 2002, taking the seat left vacant by
double-world champion (and fellow Finn) Häkkinen's retirement.
Kimi and
Steve, in November 2004, formed a racing team for the British F3
International Series, which is called Räikkönen Robertson
Racing. In only their second season (2006), "Double R" won the
Championship Class.