Formula Future Fiat

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Formula Future Fiat
Category Open wheeled
Country Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil
Inaugural season2010
Folded2011
Constructors Flag of France.svg Flag of Italy.svg Signatech Fiat
Engine suppliers Flag of Italy.svg FPT
Last Drivers' championGuilerme Silva

Formula Future Fiat was an open wheel racing series founded in 2010 by Felipe Massa and his family. It was based in Brazil. The champion received support to compete in Formula Abarth.

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The category was founded in 2010 by Felipe Massa and his family. The series was organized in collaboration with the Confederação Brasileira de Automobilismo (CBA), RM Racing Events and Carlinhos Romagnolli Promoções e Eventos. [1]

History

Last race of 2011 Season. Racing Festival Formula Futuro 2011.jpg
Last race of 2011 Season.

The great attraction of this category was the low cost, thus enabling the continuation of drivers coming out of karting to develop their skills driving formula racing cars for when they arrive overseas in a luggage grade experience in next-generation cars.

The category has a great concern of the organization in its development, making the most of the driver season, where every driver has his box prepared by the organization, transportation of cars, mechanics, engineers, fuel, tires, maintenance, everything included in package accession to the rank of the drivers.

The car

The car was designed to comply with the Signatech-Fiat. The FPT engine have 150 hp and a top speed of more than 200 km/h. The transmission has five forward speeds with sequential shift mechanism. Pirelli is the single tyre supplier for the championship.

Regulation

Drivers have four free patrice sessions of 30-minutes and 20-minutes. On Saturday drivers have a qualifying session. The qualifying session decides the grid order for Saturday's race.

On Sunday race, the grid is decided by the Saturday result with top 8 being reversed, so the driver who finished 8th on Saturday will start from pole position and the winner will start from 8th place. [2]

Formula Future Fiat points system
 1st  2nd  3rd  4th  5th  6th  7th  8th  9th  10th 
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Race 215121086421

Champions

All drivers were Brazilian-registered.

SeasonChampionSecondThird
2010 Flag of Brazil.svg Nicolas Costa Flag of Brazil.svg Francisco Alfaya Flag of Brazil.svg João Jardim
2011 Flag of Brazil.svg Guilherme Silva Flag of Brazil.svg Luir Miranda Flag of Brazil.svg John Louis

Circuits

The circuits for the 2011 season were:

Former circuits in the Formula Future Fiat championship include:

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