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Post by Senninha on May 21, 2003 6:17:36 GMT -5
 MAY 21, 2003 Scalabroni's Formula 3000 team in trouble? Former F1 engineer Enrique Scalabroni set up a Formula 3000 team after the closure of his Asiatech project last year but there are reports that the team - known as BCN - that the team may not be able to get to the end of the season. "Our team has serious problems, and we are examining whether to continue competing this year, or to stop for a time," Scalabroni has been quoted as saying. BCN was previously competing in the Nissan World Series but moved to Formula 3000 this year by buying the assets of Nordic Racing. The team has run Australia's Rob Nguyen on a race by race contract, while the second car has been run for Valerio Scassellati and Alex Piccolo. Several Formula 3000 teams are struggling this year. Brand Motorsport has already pulled out of the series and in Austria Team Astromega dropped down to just one car. If BCN disappears from the scene the grid will drop to 15 cars.
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Post by Henrik on May 21, 2003 15:27:30 GMT -5
Senn,
About Rob Nguyen, you say he is Australian. The F3000 TV coverage had him down as being Swiss, which I thought was strange. Maybe a dual nationality?
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Post by Wycco on May 21, 2003 15:54:14 GMT -5
They call him an Aussie on US TV too...
Nguyen seems to qualify better then he races- he always seems to be responsible for collecting a group of cars behind him. (make for more overtaking)...
Very Disappointed with Van Hooey running out of cash... that guy had balls to do lots of gutsy (but stupid) things... he could have been the next Takagi! LOL
15 cars... the field is getting smaller and smaller... If BCN drop out, I would say we're getting close to crisis point!
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Post by rick1776 on May 21, 2003 20:20:11 GMT -5
Hes a Vietnamise-Australian. His family live in Queensland. Swiss??? No way.
cheers
rick1776
Oh and apparently hes quite quick.
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Post by Henrik on May 22, 2003 2:31:40 GMT -5
I have to admit that I was surprised when I saw the finish table on Eurosport, where it clearly said:
Rob Nguyen SUI
Mind you, on the Champcar races, they are still showing Camathias with a Danish flag....
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Post by Senninha on May 22, 2003 4:02:39 GMT -5
Rick is right, although he did go to school/college/uni whatever in Switzerland, and he may have lived there for a while.
He's quite quick - incredibly inexperienced!
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Post by Henrik on May 22, 2003 4:43:26 GMT -5
Everywhere I have looked he shows up as being Australian, and so I can only assume the people at Eurosport are messed up. Well that wouldn't be a first!!
Mind you, if he went to school here, perhaps he has a Swiss racing license. I mean I have a Swiss racing license but I am Swedish.....
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Post by Senninha on May 22, 2003 5:43:14 GMT -5
Ah ha!!
That'll be it. Off the top of my head the story goes something like this. I didn't remember this when I did my last post.
Vietnamese-Australian goes to study Business at uni in Switzerland. Is top of the class, very good and somehow, for one reason or another, wins a prize which equates to a season of racing in Formula Volkswagen in Germany (is that the right one?). That may not be entirely correct, he may not have won a prize, his parents may have bought him it as a reward for winning a prize at uni. I'm fairly sure his parents and a prize was involved. Anyway, that's where his 9 races came from. The point is, his licence did probably come from Switzerland, as he was definitely there when he obtained it. If it was a prize from a Swiss school, it would most certainly be.
I would think you got it right there and his licence is Swiss.
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