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ART joins BF3 for four races

The ART Grand Prix team, Champions of the Formula 3 Euroseries since 2003, will be making a large arrival on the British Formula 3 championship by competing at two meetings this season with a four-car team spearheading its line-up. The French squad will be joining the fray at the Spa-Francorchamps and Algarve rounds.         

With the Belgian round on the final weekend of July and the visit to Portugal in the second week of September, ART is prepared to attack the series aggressively on track as its four cars hit the grid. Entering with Dallara-built chassis, those behind the wheel will be Mexican Esteban Gutierrez, Finn Valtteri Bottas (winner of this year's Masters of F3), Frenchman Jules Bianchi (who set the fastest qualifying time at that event) and Adrien Tambay, son of former Ferrari F1 driver Patrick.

Valtteri Bottas took victory in last month's Masters of F3

"We are delighted that a team with such a Formula 3 pedigree will be joining the series at Spa," said Bianchi, current championship leader of the Euroseries, which heads to Zandvoort next weekend. "It will be fascinating to see how we get on against the cream of the British teams. We very much hope that some of the other Euro Series teams will take advantage of the gap in their calendar and also come to join the Cooper Tires series."

"It is also a good occasion for ART Grand Prix to race against the British teams, in a different environment and where we will have to learn and handle new technical parameters," added Frederic Vasseur, CEO of ART, the team of current World Champion Lewis Hamilton from 2002 to 2005. "This experience will widen our knowledge and skills package, which means this project is positive all round for ART Grand Prix and its drivers."

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