DECEMBER 21, 2004

Another quick Brazilian on the way

The HiTech Racing GP2 team will go into 2005 with two Formula 3 champions on its books: Nelson Piquet Jr, who won the British Formula 3 Championship, and Xandinho Negrao, who last weekend won the SudAm F3 Championship at Interlagos, beating his championship rival Gustavo Foizer by just two points. Negrao follows in the footsteps of a list of well-known drivers who have won the SudAm F3 title, including Christian Fittipaldi (1990), Ricardo Zonta (1995), Bruno Junqueira (1997), Vitor Meira (2000), Piquet (2002) and Danilo Dirani (2003).