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Yeah kids, bottle of champagne and a racing car, what could go wrong?

3 Jolyon Palmer
4 Benjamin Baily
5 Ricardo Texeira
7 Ivan Samarin
9 Nicola De Marco
10 Benjamin Lariche
11 Jack Clarke
12 Kelvin Snoeks
14 Sergey Afanasiev
33 Armaan Ebrahim

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I hope Tristan Vautier gets a full season ride this season after almost becoming FPA champion last year. He is a nice guy. I met him last year @ Brands Hatch, on the Thursday before the A1GP weekend at the end of April. I was walking around the track to get some good shots and just see this legendary track for once in my life, and after the bridge I was allowed to walk onto the track, along with some A1GP drivers who were inspecting the track.

As I was walking I saw a young kid walking with his dad. He came up to me and asked in which class I was driving. well I told him I was just a racing fan making the best of my day off of work in England. He had to laugh and I asked him who he was and what he was driving. He told me he was Tristan Vautier and it was his first visit to England, together with his dad. He was going to drive the Mediaco Formula Palmer Audi car.

We walked about half the track together and I asked him a lot of questions and after walking past John Watson, Neel Jani and Adam Carroll, we had a look in the garages and then we shook hands and I wished him all the best for the 2009 season. When I came back home I checked the internet for some more information and watched some races live. I was surprised he got some very good results in his first races over there, and followed his season all year long. I also told him to chech this forum but I think that's not the thing what was on his mind when he came back to France after the Brands Hatch weekend !

Too bad he didn't win the championship, but after seeing him driving the penultimate race of the F2 season last year I'm hoping he will be driving the whole season this year. Maybe some of you have some more info on him and his plans for 2010?

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@Tony: are you still planning to compete in F4?

Indian driver Ajith Kumar has become the 17th driver to confirm his place in the 2010 FIA Formula Two Championship line-up.

Kumar is a huge film star in his native country and a keen racing driver, having previously competed in both Asia and Europe. He made his racing debut in 2003, where he contesting selected rounds of the Formula BMW Asia series, and he scored a top six finish during his maiden campaign before moving to the UK in 2004 to compete in the hugely competitive British Formula 3 series. He contested ten races in the National class and scored two podium finishes.

Whilst acting has taken up the majority of Kumar's time in recent years, he feels the time is right to return to racing as the sport continues to grow in his own country.

Ajith Kumar said: "I am really excited about racing in F2. I have a great regard for Jonathan Palmer - thanks to him and his efforts Formula Two is the next best thing to F1. Coming from India with a population of 2 billion, I want to take motor racing in this country to the common man. Right now, it is still a niche sport largely popular in the urban areas. Given my profile as a film star, I hope to use my status to popularise the sport in India.

"I have the confidence of achieving some success in this year's FIA Formula Two Championship. I have already tested some other cars in Malaysia recently and am looking forward to more practice runs in the F2 car at Snetterton and Silverstone before the event kicks off. I hope my participation, along with Armaan Ebrahim and Parthiva Sureshwaran, will create the right amount of interest in the sport in India."

F2 Series Director Jonathan Palmer said: "I am delighted to welcome Ajith to F2. To have a well known Indian film star who has demonstrated such ambition now racing in F2 is very exciting for the championship, and I really admire Ajith's determination and enthusiasm. Paul Newman demonstrated that international celebrities can be competitive in international motorsport - and late in his career. Ajith on the other hand is several years younger than both Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello. The F2 team and other drivers look forward to giving maximum support to help Ajith become increasingly competitive."