CARSINGLE-SEATERFORMULA PALMER

 
Formula Palmer Audi creator Jonathan Palmer has refused to rule out the possibility of replacing the category with a similar concept in the future.

FPA was axed following the 2010 campaign as the need for a new car threatened to push costs beyond what Palmer had maintained was right for the series. However the ex-Formula One driver has refused to fully give up on the ethos behind FPA, and says he would consider creating a new championship were the circumstances right.

Formula Palmer Audi founder Jonathan Palmer says he is proud of what the series achieved following confirmation that 2010 was the championship’s final campaign.

Palmer launched FPA in 1998 in order to provide low-cost single-seater competition in the face of spiraling costs in series such as Formula 3 and Formula 3000. The first season saw drivers pay just £85,000 for a 20-race schedule, with the champion receiving a paid-for seat in F3000.

 
Formula Palmer Audi race-winner Kieran Vernon has scored one of two 2011 Porsche Carrera Cup GB scholarships.

Newly-crowned Formula Palmer Audi champion Nigel Moore has set his sights on a switch to the Formula 2 category for 2011.

Nigel Moore overturned a 38-point deficit to take the Formula Palmer Audi title in the season-finale at Silverstone at the weekend.

The penultimate round of this year’s Formula Palmer Audi championship at Croft proved to be a weekend of firsts, with both Ramón Piñeiro and Max Snegirev taking the maiden single-seater victories.

Formula Palmer Audi racewinner Kieran Vernon is eyeing a test in F2 machinery, ahead of a planned switch to the series in 2011.

Kieran Vernon enjoyed a dominant weekend at Formula Palmer Audi’s Brands Hatch round, winning both races at the Kent circuit.

Nigel Moore and Jose Alonso Liste shared the spoils as the Formula Palmer Audi Championship took place at Rockingham this Bank Holiday weekend.

Nigel Moore scored his first ever single-seater victory at Oulton Park, but Maxime Jousse extended his Formula Palmer Audi Championship points lead.