The fourth Formula BMW World Final, to be held at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City from 5th to 7th December 2008, offers the winner a unique prize - he will get the chance of a test drive in a BMW Sauber F1 Team racing car.Eight teams have entered a total of 20 drivers - representing the finest talents from Formula BMW Europe, Formula BMW Americas and Formula BMW Pacific - to race for the Formula BMW crown. Included in the field are local hero Esteban Gutiérrez, and Alexander Rossi. Both are able to look back on very successful seasons: Gutiérrez claimed the title in Formula BMW Europe, of which seven of its eight races featured as support events at Formula One Grand Prix weekends.Rossi's victories in Montréal and São Paulo mean he scored three of his ten victories in front of Formula One crowds. Both these freshly crowned champions competed in the Formula BMW World Final 2007 - and have every intention of running up front in their second appearance this year. On Thursday, 4th December, the full impact of victory in the Formula BMW World Final will become vividly clear to the youngsters: Philipp Eng (AT), who won last year's event in Valencia, will be granted his Formula One opportunity in Mexico. List of confirmed drivers and teams: No Driver Nat. Team 2 Mikael Grenier, R CA Apex-HBR Racing Team5 Gianmarco Raimondo, R CA Autotecnica7 Velibor Jovanovic RS Dams Team8 Jim Pla FR Dams Team9 Thomas Hillsdon, R GB Eiffelland Racing10 Jazeman Jaafar MY Eiffelland Racing11 David Mengesdorf DE Eiffelland Racing12 William Buller GB Eurointernational14 Daniel Juncadella ES Eurointernational15 David Ostella, R CA Eurointernational16 Alexander Rossi US Eurointernational17 Doru Sechelariu RO Eurointernational18 Giancarlo Vilarinho, R BR Eurointernational19 Gabriel Chaves CO Euro Junior Team20 Alfonso Toledano MX Euro Junior Team21 Michael Christensen, R DK Josef Kaufmann Racing22 Esteban Gutiérrez MX Josef Kaufmann Racing23 Facundo Regalia, R ES Josef Kaufmann Racing24 Ollie Millroy, R GB Motaworld Racing25 Simon Moss, R ZA Motaworld Racing R= Rookie photo: BMW
Formula BMW: Preview of the 2008 World Final