This young man from Geneva is potentially the next big French racing hope (Born in Switzerland but races under a French license) That is if you pay attention to his enormous success in the junior and lower racing classes. After a successful career in karting and a clean sweep of wins in his first season of Swiss Formula Renault, he moved to the French version of the class in 2004 where he struggled at first but after getting used to the opposition in that, went on to dominate the championship in 2005 taking 10 wins, at that point, he became part of Renault's Driver Development programme through which he recieved funding to do a full season of European Formula 3 and (if he were successful) a test in one of Renault's Grand Prix cars.And successful he was, after joining the leading ASM squad and a shaky start to the 2007 season, he domianted the opposition in the 2nd half of the F3 Euroseries season winning 6 races and the title by 11 points from rival Sebastien Buemi. This earned him a shot in the newly formed GP2 Asia series, a breakoff from the normal F1 supporting GP2 championship set up to rival the nation based A1GP championship and he impressed again winning 4 of the 10 races and winning the title by a hefty 24 points from his nearest rival which was again Buemi.
At the moment, he is enjoying a successful debut season in the main GP2 series, at the moment, he lies in 4th place in the standings with a mathematical chance of winning the title outright, not bad for a first season in a high up category. I would'nt be suprised one bit if he becomes an F1 regular for the 2009 or 2010 seasons.
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