KENNOL HAS STARTED THE FIA F2 IN POLE

The 2022 season of FIA Formula 2 has started. And for the 4th year in a row, KENNOL clinches the pole position. The brand new Japanese and Australian squad of drivers has a lot to discover, in their quest for a F1 team. But no doubt that the experimented KENNOL-sponsored F2 team, Virtuosi Racing, has the assets to help them touch the stars.

▌A LEGACY OF VICTORIES

KENNOL and Virtuosi Racing are certainly a record-holder in FIA Formula 2. Not only did the 2 partners clinched 1 World Champion title and 7 Vice-World Champion titles in 10 years! But the KENNOL-sponsored team also opened the 2022 season with a new pole. And that is the 4th successive season-opening pole for the team. Something that never happened before, an historical record.

I knew I had the car and the team around me to clinch the pole, and we did.

Jack DOOHAN, KENNOL-sponsored car #3

That performance certainly rewards a team and a strategy, even in qualifications. But it also highlights the rising talent of a young Australian driver, teamed with a Japanese, who both aim at Formula 1.

▌FOCUS ON JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA

Jack DOOHAN, 18 years old, is the 2021 Formula 3 vice-champion. Racing is in the young Australian’s blood since his father is the 5-consecutive motorbike World Champion Mick DOOHAN. 2022 is his first full year in F2, having taken part in the final two rounds of 2021, where he achieved a top five finish and qualified P2.

Marino Sato completes the Virtuosi Racing line-up. The Japanese racer made his Formula 2 debut towards the end of the 2019 season. Sato was the 2019 Euroformula Open Champion, taking the title with 9 wins, 11 podiums and 6 pole positions. He arrives with Formula 1 experience, having run for Alpha Tauri in the 2020 Young Driver Test in Abu Dhabi. Both race with KENNOL-sponsored cars #3 and #4.