The expanded 2012 schedule is a response from a season-ending survey sent out by Series officials.
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Just over two weeks away, the second edition of the F1600 Formula F Championship Series is set to grow in 2012, adding another race weekend (six in total, for 12 races) and more teams, drivers, chassis and engines.







American Gabby Chaves has further strengthened his position as one of the leading young racers in Europe, thanks to a superb pair of test outings in Italian Formula 3 Championship and GP3 Series cars.
American junior formula car rising star Gabby Chaves continued his pursuit of Rookie of the Year honors in the Italian Formula 3 Championship this past weekend (October 9-10), with another strong outing at the Autodromo del Mugello.
The average margin of victory during the opening rounds of the 2010 F2000 Championship Series at VIR was .341 seconds. American driver Cole Morgan, coming off his first win since taking the 2007 title, is leading the national championship by two points over Brazilian Victor Carbone, now in his second season at Alegra Motorsports, as the 30-plus car field heads to Road Atlanta.
Gianmarco Raimondo, 2008 Formula BMW Americas Rookie Champion, continued his racing journey and 2010 preparations with a series of Formula 3 tests in Europe. Raimondo recently flew to Paris in early November and headed straight the famed Magny-Cours racing facility in Nevers, France where he continued to test and impress in the F3 cars.
Team was revealed for the first time at Silverstone today, shaking down its Mercedes-powered Mygale chassis on the National circuit with Formula Renault champion, Dean Smith, behind the wheel.
Josef Newgarden’s hopes of a repeat win at the historic Formula Ford Festival in England unfortunately ended prematurely over the weekend (October 17-18). The British Formula Ford runner-up and Rookie of the Year failed to finish a lap in the Final, when an overheating engine forced the American into pitlane after a superb start.