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With the 2006 season having just finished and James Winslow crowned champion, there will now be a twelve month wait until next year’s Asian Formula Three Championship following confirmation that it will become a ‘winter series’.

In a bid to make the most of the optimum weather conditions, the AF3 Corporation have decided to delay the start of the 2007 season until November, with an eye on luring various European drivers who would otherwise choose to sit out the winter season.

Nonetheless, in the meantime the corporation has also announced an AF3 Pacific Series to run from January to July, taking in four venues and eleven races.

In a confirmation of an earlier Full Throttle exclusive included in these four rounds is the Australian Grand Prix support race where the series will join forces with the Australian Formula Three Championship in Melbourne.

Furthermore, the series, which will reward the winner with a guaranteed Macau Grand Prix entry and full backing for the Asian F3 Series, will once again compete alongside their counterparts at Oran Park in Sydney.

Three races at Zhuhai in January and another three races at the Chinese circuit in July will begin and end the championship, launched so as to retain interest in the series in its transitional stage.

“We are excited at the prospect of joining the Australian Championship events in Melbourne and Sydney and we hope it marks the beginning of a long term association. We are grateful to Formula 3 Australia for their invitation to join them for these two events and we look forward to some really competitive racing”.

“We believe Asian Formula Three now offers a cost effective career path for drivers of all Nationalities and the fact that the AF3 Pacific Champion will drive in the Macau GP supports this belief. Add in the soon to be announced testing opportunities in Japan and the fact that four AF3 graduates have already taken part in A1GP events and it really demonstrates how drivers can further their careers through AF3.”

Asian Formula Three Pacific Series 2007 calendar :

January 20-21 Zhuhai
March 15-18 Albert Park (Australian Grand Prix support race)*
April 21-22 Oran Park*
July 7-8 Zhuhai

* Joining up with the Australian Formula Three Championship

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