RC Motorsport to hire Ananda

RC Motorsport to hire Ananda

JAKARTA (JP): Ananda Mikola is to become the first Indonesian
driver to be recruited by Italy's leading Formula-Three team, RC
Motorsport, for next year's European and Asian F-3 championship
series.

The 17-year-old, who finished fifth in last year's Formula
Asia championship, finished 11th in the ninth leg of the F-3
Italian Championship at the Mizano circuit, Santa Monica, late
last month. A slip near the finish cost him a place in the top
five.

Impressed by Ananda's Mizano result, Motorsport team manager
Giorgio Bertonasso and owner Bernard Freneix recently offered
Ananda's father and manager, Tinton Suprapto, who is also
director of the Sentul international circuit in West Java, an
initial one-year contract beginning next year for his son.

Tinton said that the European outings were part of Ananda's
education before graduating to Formula One in the next two to
three years. (arf)