On October, 16th at Osсhersleben raceway the 9th stage of the German Formula 3 Championship has begun. In today’s qualification for the first race, our ArtLine team was as always presented by two pilots: Sergey Chukanov and Jesse Krohn. 27 drivers did their best on a racetrack, and for the first time for a season by results of this qualification we have shown the third time of a lap! Our Finnish pilot Jesse Krohn passed the best lap for 1:42.916, his backlog from the permanent leader of the Cup Laurens Vanthoor made less than two seconds. The second pilot of the Team Sergey Chukanov showed 14th result, which was better, than seven pilots of the Formula 3 cars with more powerful engines.
2009-09-29: Results of 8th stage of ATS Formel-3 Cup - 2nd raceSeptember, 20th. 8th stage of ATS Formel-3 Cup in Germany has come to the end. Today the second race of a stage passed. The Team pilot Sergey Chukanov perfectly started in this arrival: having overtaken at once several cars on the first lap, he took 12th position in a field. But on 5th lap Sergey’s ArtTech drifted, he passed some positions and continued a race as 17th. On last laps Sergey has entered into a struggle already for 12th place with the Finnish pilot Mika Vahamiaki, but at this time both of them were unexpectedly overtaken by Adderly Fong. By a result of the race Chukanov has occupied 13 place in the Cup competition. In Trophy offset of ArtLine was the first again. One of the strongest pilots of Championship Laurens Vanthoor won the race.
On October, 16-18th the final stage of ATS Formel-3 Cup will pass at Oshersleben.
September, 19th. Today morning the qualification for 2nd race passed at Sachsenring. Sergey Chukanov showed 19th time.
At 12:10 a signal to the first race of 8th stage of the Championship has been given. From the very start our pilot won at once 3 positions, then 2 pilots ahead descended, and Sergey managed not to start up Max Nilsson - Dallara F307 pilot, with same as ours OPC Challenge engine in an intense struggle. Artline?s courageous driver also managed to reflect the attack of 4 more contenders, but by the end of arrival they have renewed again overtaking attempts. On a result of the race Sergey Chukanov won 7 place in the Cup competition! The first to finish came Tom Dillmann - the French pilot who proved to be a fast driver at the previous stage, the second place was occupied with one of “habitués of a podium” - Stef Dusseldorp, the 3rd there was Latvian Harald Schlegelmilch.
Tomorrow we expect 2nd race of a stage.
September, 18th. 8th stage of ATS Formel-3 Cup has started at Sachsenring in Germany. At this stage acts only one ArtLine’s driver Sergey Chukanov on ArtTech №62.
19 Formula 3 single-seaters took place in today’s qualification for the first race. On a fast lap our pilot has taken off from a line because of what the forward rear wing has warped, and there wasn’t time to change it. After 30 minutes of intense race the table of qualifying time was generated. Sergey Chukanov took 15th position, having shown time 1:16.501. Tom Dillmann became the first, the second result has shown one of obvious leaders of the Championship - Laurens Vanthoor, the third position was occupied with its team partner - Stef Dusseldorp.
Tomorrow the 2nd qualification and the first race will take place.
Today is the birthday of our driver Jesse Krohn. Jesse, congratulations from all our team!
2009-08-25: Results of the 7th stage of ATS Formel-3 Cup at Nurburgring.24 bolides took part in the 7th stage of the Cup the Formula 3 in Germany. In the second race one of ArtLine’s cars - 62 unexpected some problems with engine start before green lights. And because of this Sergey Chukanov had to start from the pit-line. As a result - he finished 17th, nevertheless having overtaken several contenders and having shown a good lap time. On the finish line Jesse Krohn took 9th place in the general offset, and won the golden cup for Artline in Trophy. All the race he stably went ahead Max Nilsson, whose car was equipped with the same motor, as ArtTech F24 - OPC Challenge.
The new participant of the Championship - the French pilot Tom Dillmann has won the race. The second place was occupied with one more freshman of a series German Tim Sandtler (Jo Zeller Racing). Stef Dusseldorp became the third.
The following stage of ATS Formel-3 Cup will pass on September, 18-20th at German Sachsenring raceway.
The first race in Formula 3 series is finished. Sergey Chukanov is 8th, after him - Jesse Krohn - 9th place. Under the Team’s decision both ArtTechs have left the paddock on old tyres for to save up new to the second race in which our pilots have better qualifying positions. And even this fact has not prevented our drivers to enter into the first ten. But the result could be better: all the race Chukanov and Krohn hold 7th and 8th places, but at the very end of arrival we were overtaken by Latvian Harald Schlegelmilch. The leader of the general offset Laurens Vanthoor took the gold, the second was his teammate Stef Dusseldorp, and the third place has occupied Tom Dillmann.
In 4 hours we’ll see the second race of a stage.
Qualification of the 2nd race at Nurburgring raceway went under the real downpour. Artline pilots - Chukanov and Krohn are the masters of driving “in a rain”, and they have confidently occupied the first and second leading positions. 24 Formula 3 cars took part in that challenge (Adderly Fong, Performance Racing has joined). The bolides drifted in a water show and one car was even damaged, so several laps went under yellow flags. Finally our Jesse Krohn was qualified 11th, with time 2:18.370. Sergey Chukanov has occupied 12th place, with time 2:19.146. And we also held the leadership in Trophy. The first result of qualification - 2:12.867 (the separation from contenders has made more than 2 seconds) and it was shown by the new pilot of our series Tom Dillmann, Neuhauser Racing.
Tomorrow on August, 22nd go both races of 7th stage of ATS Formel-3 Cup.
On August, 20th at Nurburgring in Germany 7th stage of ATS Formel-3 Cup has started. This week-end our Formula 3 race goes together with one of the biggest racing events - “1000KM OF THE NURBURGRING”.
At 14:10 two dark blue ArtTechs F24 started for qualification among 23 participants of the Championship. 3 more pilots joined at this stage: Frenchmen - Tom Dillann (Neuhauser Racing), Louis Wagner (Racing Experience) and German Tim Sandtler (Jo Zeller Racing). 30 intense minutes resulted for our pilot Sergey Chukanov with 14th time - 1:54.165. The second pilot - Jesse Krohn lagged behind his team partner only for 0,1 second, and occupied 16th place in the test table. And by a good tradition ArtLine Team took the lead position in our Trophy offset. The first result today was again shown by Laurens Vanthoor - 1:52.365.
The racing weekend at Dutch Assen has come to the end. Sergey Chukanov has occupied today 9th place in the general offset, Jesse Krohn could not finish because of a failure.
At 13:40 22 Formula Ф3 cars were built on a starting straight line. At 13:55 signal to start had been given. Sergey Chukanov on a dark blue ArtTech 62 started from 15th position. On the very first lap there was a collision at once with 3 bolides. Chukanov going behind them managed to avoid failure by some miracle and, without having touched, has passed by the rotating cars which blocked almost all the line. Our second pilot Jesse Krohn wasn’t so lucky. He touched one of rotating cars with a forward wheel and was taken off for line limits, having damaged forward right and back left suspension brackets of ArtTech. Unfortunately he could not continue the race with such damages.
Already on the second lap Sergey Chukanov occupied 9th position and confidently spent the race to the finish without having admitted any of contenders to approach an attack distance. On 8th position went the Swedish pilot Max Nilsson on Dallara F307 with same as ours, Opel Spiess Challenge engine; the backlog from him made about five seconds.
In total 18 of 22 cars finished. The race was won again by Belgian Laurens Vanthoor, the second prize took the new pilot of Series Harald Schlegelmilch, 3rd place has deservedly occupied by Rafael Suzuki. In our Trophy offset Chukanov again the first, now he has 110 points. For Mika Vahamiaki it was not possible to leave on the second position in Trophy: having received a blow to a back wheel from Zahir Ali, he lost some seconds and returned behind the main contender - Francesco Lopez, thus Mika occupied 3nd place on a podium.
By results of a weekend ArtLine team has entered for the first time into a zone with 6th points. ArtTech F24 bolides caused a heightened interest of contenders: representatives of almost all teams of the Cup visited our boxes. Judges especially carefully supervised all parameters of the car, and after the second race they took fuel samples only at ArtLine.
The further page of Team’s history will be written by 7th stage of ATS Formel-3 Cup on August, 21-23st at already familiar to us Nurburgring raceway in Germany.
