Maxime Pelletier at the BMW World Final

More than two months after the last race of the Formula-BMW USA season, 17 year old Maxime Pelletier is getting on a plane this Friday to the BMW World Final held in Valencia, Spain on the week-end of November 25th.

Interviewed this week about his trip to Europe, Pelletier aknowldeged he was a bit disapointed by his second season in FBMW where he hoped to fight for the title (in the end, he finished 4th in the standings). But, considering he switched teams after the second race of the season, he's still happy with what he accomplished.

Pelletier puts great hopes in this World Final event. As the drivers from all 4 FBMW championships (USA, UK, ADAC and Asia) will be on site, so will lots of recruiting personel from European F3 teams. Pelletier hopes to sign a contract with such a team to get closer to his goal of driving in the Formula 1 championship. To put icing on the cake, the winner of next week confrontation will get the chance to test drive a Formula 1 car.

The timing is right

After reading the news in the past couple of days, I realized one thing : The Flying Frenchmen are back into motorsport. Take a good look around around you'll see them everywhere, drivers from Quebec are invading the motorsport scene once again. After Jacques Villeneuve left F1, Patrick Carpentier lost his IRL ride and Andrew Ranger leaving ChampCar, one could easily think the dream was over but now, we've got Bruno Spengler knocking at the door of Formula One (as a test driver for Dave Richard's new ProDrive adventure) for the next year, Jacques Villeneuve and Patrick Carpentier (after a great Busch run in Montreal) signing with NASCAR teams to have preparation rides for a full assault next year. We have also seen Kevin Lacroix winning on his first week-end of Champcar Atlantic racing, Jean-François Dumoulin won the GT class at the Daytona 24 hours and Alex Tagliani is still running as good as he can with what he's giving in Champcar.

Only one conclusion is possible, the Flying Frenchmen are back and you'll get every bit of the stories here!