Pelletier does not make it through lap one at Valencia

Hopes were high for young Maxime Pelletier as he approached the BMW World Final at Valencia but the week-end was a big disappointment. After struggling through the first days, Pelletier's car was getting better and he expected to climb back through the field from his 8th row starting spot on a grid of 35 cars for the finale. Unfortunately, Pelletier's race did not go beyond turn one as we was hit by his follow driver from the American series Alexander Rossi.

Pelletier was quite angry at Rossi after the race : "Rossi repeated a scenario he played often this season in America, which means having a great start and trying to gain 10 positions in the first lap. He hits cars and was even penalized by the stewards. He did the same in Spain and I was the victim".

Pelletier is now looking forward to a break for the holiday season before looking at their opportunities for 2008, either in F3 or FBMW Euro.

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.