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12 May 2005 (buw)
Press Release Circuit Park Zandvoort


JB MOTORSPORT-DRIVERS STEVEN KANE, HO PIN TUNG AND FERDINAND KOOL
WITH MARLBORO-SUPPORT IN MARLBORO MASTERS OF FORMULA 3

Zandvoort, May 11, 2005 – The experienced team JB Motorsport, located in Roeselare in Belgium, will have special support and the Marlboro colours during the 15th edition of the Marlboro Masters of Formula 3. No less than three drivers will be racing with the striking red: Dutch driver Ferdinand Kool, Brit Steven Kane and Dutch-born Chinese driver Ho Pin Tung. Kool and Kane will be competing with a Lola chassis, powered by a two-litre Mugen Honda Formula 3-engine. Ho Pin Tung will be racing a Dallara chassis, also powered by a Honda-engine.

JB Motorsport is a regular entrant in the German Recaro Formula 3 Cup. And a succesful competitor at that: in April, Ho Pin Tung won the opening round of the current season at Oschersleben for the team from Belgium. In the 2003 season, Brazilian driver João Paolo de Oliveira won the title in the German Formula 3 Cup and last year, Jan Heylen and Michael Devaney were regular winners for the team. In earlier years, JB Motorsport competed in the German Formula 3 championship with race wins for Belgian driver Yves Olivier and good results for Dutch driver Walter van Lent, who won the “rookie-title” in German Formula 3 with JB in 1999. Robert Doornbos, the current test driver of the Jordan Formula 1-team, also raced with JB Motorsport. “We have a good tradition with Dutch drivers”, says JB Motorsport’s team manager Sven Platteeuw. This tradition also involves the co-operation with Philip Morris Holland for the Marlboro Masters of Formula 3: in 2002, JB Motorsport already raced in Marlboro-livery with drivers Stefan de Groot and Rob Austin.


This year, there will be three drivers competing with Marlboro support for JB Motorsport. Ferdinand Kool from the Dutch village of Oud Beijerland comes from a real motor racing family – his father Cock also competed in single-seaters – and is now in his second year in Formula 3 after a few years in Formula Ford and Formula Renault. Last season, Kool raced in the Spanish championship, this year, he is a regular entrant in the German Cup. He is looking forward to the Marlboro Masters: “In the past, I raced in support series. Last year, I took part in the Formula 3 race for the first time. Being able to race in Marlboro colours this year is, of course, a unique opportunity, especially for a Dutch driver in this fantastic event!”

Brit Steven Kane was one of Ferdinand Kool’s opponents in last year’s Spanish Formula 3 championship, in which Kane, a former motocross rider, ended the season in third place overall. This year, Kane is competing with Promatecme F3 in the British Formula 3 championship, but for the Marlboro Masters of Formula 3, he will team up with JB Motorsport. In 2001, he won the coveted title of “BRDC McLaren Autosport Young Driver of the Year-Award”. His mentor is former Formula 1 world champion, Damon Hill, who is very positive about the abilities of his protégé. In June, Kane will be racing in the Marlboro Masters of Formula 3 for the first time.

The same goes for Ho Pin Tung, the Dutch-born Chinese driver who hit the headlines two years ago for being the first Chinese in motor racing history to drive a Formula 1 car. As a reward for winning the title in the Asian Formula BMW championship, Tung was invited to test a car of the BMW Williams F1-team at the circuit of Jerez. Last year, the former winner of the Dutch KNAF Talent First programme already gained experience in the German Recaro Formula 3 Cup.

This year, he wants to benefit from this experience at JB Motorsport. Tung will also be competing in the Marlboro Masters of Formula 3 for the first time. “It is an event that should be on the schedule of every racing driver”, he says. “Moreover, this is the last time that the event will be supported by Marlboro, so it is a part of motor racing history. Therefore, I am all the more proud of being part of that.”


RESUME FERDINAND KOOL

Name: Ferdinand Kool
Nationality: Dutch
Date of birth: April 24, 1981
Place of birth: Rotterdam
Marital status: single
Residence: Oud-Beijerland
Hobbies: football, running, food
Website: -
Favourite circuit: Jerez (Spain)


1997 Dutch champion mini-junior karting
2000 Formule Ford Benelux
2001 2nd place Benelux Formula Ford championship
2002 German Formula Renault championship
2003 2nd place Benelux Formula Renault championship
2004 13th place Spanish Formula 3 championship
2005 German Recaro Formula 3 Cup with JB Motorsport (Dallara Opel)
Marlboro Masters of Formula 3 met JB Motorsport (Lola Mugen-Honda)


RESUME HO PIN TUNG

Name: Ho Pin Tung
Nationality: Dutch
Date of birth: December 4, 1982
Place of birth: Velp
Marital status: single
Residence: Velp and Sjanghai
Hobbies: mountainbike, computers, cars
Website: www.hopintung.com
Favourite circuit: Autopolis (Japan) en Spa-Francorchamps (Belgium)


1997-2000 karting
2001 KNAF Talent First-driver
Dutch and Benelux Formula Ford championship, 1 victory, 1 pole-position
2002 2nd place Portuguese Formula BMW race Estoril
2003 champion Formule BMW Asia, 10 victories, 12 pole-positions
2004 7th place German Recaro Formula 3 Cup, 4 podium finishes
2005 German Recaro Formula 3 Cup with JB Motorsport (Dallara Opel) 1 victory so far
Marlboro Masters of Formula 3 with JB Motorsport (Dallara Honda)


RESUME STEVEN KANE

Name: Steven Kane
Nationality: Brittish
Date of birth: Juni 5, 1980
Place of birth: Newton (GB)
Marital status: single
Residence: Milton Keynes (GB)
Hobbies: jogging, fitness
Website: www.steven-kane.com
Favourite circuit: every circuit


1995-1997 motocross
1998-2000 Karting
2000 Northern-Irish Formula Ford Zetec championship
2001 British Avon Junior Formule Ford championship
winner BRDC McLaren Autosport Young Driver of the Year-Award
2003 2nd place Scholarship class British Formula 3 championship
2004 3rd place Spanish Formula 3-championship
2005 British Formula 3 championship with Promatecme F3 (Lola Mugen-Honda)
Marlboro Masters of Formula 3 with JB Motorsport (Lola Mugen-Honda)


 
 
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