PRESSURE ON FOR SELIO & BENAVENTE?
TWO DRIVERS STILL LOOKING FOR LONG SOUGHT AFTER WIN!
LAUSANNE,Switzerland – 17th of April, 2007 – Pressure…Pressure and more Pressure…The U.I.M. F1 World Championship tour gets set to open up in less than a month on the weekend of the 12th and 13th of May at the Grand Prix of Portugal in the picturesque city of Portimao and some of the drivers are starting to really feel the pressure of winning their first grand prix event.
Numbers say a lot, but let’s be fair, not all are conclusive as a pair of drivers will be feeling “the heat” more than others as racers from10 different countries will converge on the Algarve Coast and the Arade River at the start of the 26th year of the championship.
Who’s under the microscope this season? Let’s start with Sami Selio, the lead driver of the F1 Team Energy squad, who has been talked about as a future World Championship since his “Rookie-of-the-Year” season of 1998. Despite two “lost” years trying to help develop the OMC V-6 engine, the Helsinki, Finland driver has accumulated 11 podiums and 21 top 5 finishes and runner-up in the championship back in 2005. However, Sami is still looking at the 0 for 62 statistic that shows him with no victories in his 10 seasons of racing.