This motorsport school and team continues to train and launch talent towards the motorsport elite with a structure in the Spanish Formula 4 Championship
Motorsport is one of the sports in which it is more difficult to reach the elite. Adding to the difficulties of the discipline itself are the economic difficulties, and if these athletes do not have a good sponsor to support them during their professional career, climbing the stairs as a pilot is very complicated. But there is also another side to this sport, that of initiatives where purely sporting and professional are the protagonists in the training of young drivers, as is the case with the Formula de Campeones, the motorsport school of Ricardo Tormo Circuit.
This training school, run by Marco Rodríguez, has a team that participates in the Spanish Formula 4 Championship, the second most important and competitive F4 event after the Italian Championship. With the Champions Formula, if the necessary conditions are met, you can go from standing out in the basic kart championships to a Formula 4 race on the circuit of Spa-Francorchamps. Kids from the age of seven can start racing karts and from there they grow over the years, something that is not easy at all, nor is it the first time they have gone from a kart to a single seater, and the Formula de Campeones has the necessary resources and experience so that the pilots have a full professional youth.
All the great F1 champions have experienced karting in their early days and with this discipline the youngest ones begin to master the inertia of the cars, learn to draw, overtake in hand-to-hand combat and even think behind the wheel, something very important in the competition. But not everyone is ready for the switch to a single-seater like an F4. Change is complicated and it is in these single-seaters that the drivers become professionals and where it is shown if they are really prepared for something bigger. The adaptation process is essential for their future, and that is where the Champions Formula has its greatest asset, as it brings together a team of high-level professionals with high-quality drivers who receive scholarships through the Specialized Center for Sports Technification of the Engine, something we will now know.
In a perfect atmosphere like the circuit of Ricardo Tormo, the drivers of the Formula de Champions have had a very professional preparation today since the circuit launched the Specialized Center for Motor Sports Technification –CETDM–. From this program, a series of scholarship pilots will be selected who will become part of a training team specially prepared for the practice of high-quality sports. In addition to working on his studies, a very important part for the Circuit Schools, he trains physically with specific trainers, mentally and at driving level, both with training on the track and with simulators. From this CETDM onwards, the most outstanding ‘students’ are rewarded with a place in the F4 team, and not only the pilots in training are awarded, as many members of the Formula Champions team are young engineers or mechanics who are also in training and want to grow professionally in this sport.
In 2022, the members of the Formula of Champions F4 team will be Álvaro García -from Valencia, 16 years old- and Max Mayer -from Torrevieja, also 16 years old-. The two drivers will be driving single-seaters on major circuits in their first season and both have made good progress. Other high-quality youngsters have gone through the team before, such as Dani Macià and Quique Bordás in 2021, or the figures of Nerea Martí and Marta García, who are currently competing in the W Series. Looking ahead to the end of the season, Max Mayer and Álvaro García will have to compete in three race weekends: September 3 and 4 in Aragón, October 1 and 2 in Navarra and November 12 and 13 in Barcelona, some races that can be live followed via the Spanish F4 Championship YouTube channel. The equality of the single-seaters means we see very exciting races, and certainly some of the names on the current grid will be seen in Formula 1 in a few years.
Source: La Verdad
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