Wooohoooo, I found a new hero Markus Niemela, a good friend of Heikki will replace Sakon Yamamoto in GP2 for the rest of the season...

But he didn't do that great this week-end But I'm confident :p

Who is Markus Niemela, pardon my ignorance?

This is our Markus

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and his biography:

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2006: First season in Formula Renault UK, Mark Burdett Motorsport

− One victory, One fastest lap, One pole position
− Multiple Driver Of The Day Awards - awarded by Renault Sport
− Best positions 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 2x4t
− 7th in the final standings

2005: First season in Formula BMW-ADAC (Team Rosberg)

− 7th in championship points (many crashes during the season)
− One victory, one pole
− 5th in UK Formula Renault Winter Championship, 3rd best qualifier of the championship (3rd, 4th, 9th and 3rd in qualifyings).
− Result is great considering that Markus drove Formula Renault first time ever in free practice of first race meeting and had never been on those tracks before!

2004: First season in Formula Ford

− Finnish Champion, Swedish Champion
− Winner of STCC Formula Ford championship
− Was leading Scandinavian Championship before the last round. Did not take part in last round and finished 2nd in championship because of that.
− Won two first races of Finnish karting championship (didn’t drive whole series because of Formula Ford -championship)
− Nominated as a ”Young Champion” by Finnish ASN
− First formula BMW tests: Fastest at Lausitzring, Oschersleben and Hockenheim short and second fastest on Nurburgring (unofficial tests).

2003: Karting, category Formula A.

− Because of accident in a European championship race, couldn’t drive for three months, was not able to drive any championship series as a whole.
− 5th in World Championship
− Podium places in French and Belgian championship races
− Victories in Finland and in Belgium (other than championship races)
− First test in race car (Formula Ford). After 4 laps was faster than drivers who had raced Formula Ford with some good results!

2002: Karting, category Formula A, as a private driver.
− Finnish champion, Formula A
− Fastest laptime of at least in one heat of every European Championship round
− Became wanted driver for 2003 for many teams due to impressive speed throughout
the whole season 2002
− Qualified in World Cup final but technical problems caused DNF in pre-final and final

2001: Karting

− Was supposed to drive Formula A European/World Championship
− Injury of left arm in snowboard accident before the start of season (not able to race)
− Practiced driving one-handed whole year
− Only one race driven, one race won (national, popular end of the season –race).
− Drove practically one-handed, but won the race against top Finnish karters (ICA)

2000: Karting, first season in an international category (ICA)− 4th in international Viking Trophy –event (includes countries such as all the Scandinavian countries and Russia, Estonia, Lithuania etc.)

1999: Karting, some victories (category Yamaha)
1998: Karting, Finnish junior championship 1st position by maximum points.
1997: Karting, Finnish junior championship 2nd position
1989-1996: Karting, regional and club championship victories etc.