(9/4/03): PLEASE READ: Due to a lack of time available, I will no longer be updating the silly season news and entry pages ahead of the racing season.

Driver colour key: BOLD=confirmed, Blue=tested for team, Green=due to test for team, red italic=linked to team.

Last update: 19/3/03

No.

Team

Car/engine

Driver

?

ADM Motorsport

Lola B99/50-Zytek

Gianmaria Bruni (I)

?

ADM Motorsport

Lola B99/50-Zytek

Rafael Sperafico (BR)

?

B&C Competition

Lola B99/50-Zytek

Matteo Cressoni (I)?*

?

B&C Competition

Lola B99/50-Zytek

?

?

Draco Junior Team

Lola B99/50-Zytek

Augusto Farfus (BR)

?

Draco Junior Team

Lola B99/50-Zytek

Sven Heidfeld (D)

?

Energy Racing

Lola B99/50-Zytek

Mathieu Zangarelli (F)?

?

Energy Racing

Lola B99/50-Zytek

?

?

Euronova Racing

Lola B99/50-Zytek

Alessandro Piccolo (I)?

?

Euronova Racing

Lola B99/50-Zytek

Matteo Cressoni (I)? / Wagner Ebrahim (BR)? / Philip Giebler (USA)? / Daniele Massaro?* / [Philip Giebler (USA), Alvaro Parente (P), Carlos Pereira (BR), Giorgio Sernagiotto (I), Alessandro Tonoli (I)]?

?

Scuderia Famà

Lola B99/50-Zytek

"Babalus" (I)?

?

Scuderia Famà

Lola B99/50-Zytek

[Alessandro Cadeddu (I), Ernani Judice (BR), Jeremy Toti (F)]?

?

Team Ghinzani

Lola B99/50-Zytek

Philip Giebler (USA)?

?

Team Ghinzani

Lola B99/50-Zytek

Marcel Costa (E)? / Toni Vilander (SF)? / [Michelangelo Comazzi (CH), Allam Khodair (BR), Olivier Muytjens (B), Filipe Silva (BR)]?

?

GP Racing

Lola B99/50-Zytek

Roman Rusinov (RUS)

?

GP Racing

Lola B99/50-Zytek

Fabrizio Del Monte (I)

?

Imola Racing

Lola B99/50-Zytek

Gabriele Lancieri (I)

?

Imola Racing

Lola B99/50-Zytek

Nicky Pastorelli (NL)

?

John Village Automotive

Lola B99/50-Zytek

Joel Nelson (USA)

?

John Village Automotive

Lola B99/50-Zytek

Peter Boss (USA)?

?

Traini Corse

Lola B99/50-Zytek

Colin Brown (GB)

?

Traini Corse

Lola B99/50-Zytek

Matteo Grassotto (I)

?

Uboldi Corse

Lola B99/50-Zytek

Raffaele Giammaria (I)?*

?

Uboldi Corse

Lola B99/50-Zytek

Andre Lotterer (D)?*

?

Victory Engineering

Lola B99/50-Zytek

Matteo Pellegrino (I)? / Matteo Cressoni (I)? / Marco Cioci (I)?* / Massimiliano Busnelli (I)?*

?

Victory Engineering

Lola B99/50-Zytek

[Mauro Contu (I), Lucas Lasserre (F), Marcello Thomaz (BR)]?

Also linked to championship: Thomas Biagi (I)? - drove for ADM in Bologna Motorshow sprint event; Fabrizio Gollin (I)? - drove for GP Racing in Bologna Motorshow sprint event; Gottfried Grasser (A)?; Matteo Malucelli (I)? - tested for Great Wall Racing (before it continued as Traini Corse); Elena Missaglia?; Kevin Nadin (F)? - was linked to Energy Racing, but ruled out by team; Leonardo Orecchioni (I)? - drove for GP Racing in Bologna Motorshow sprint event and tested for them in ESTA organised test (see notes below); Milos Pavlovic (YUG)?; Rafael Sarandeses (E)?; Alexandre Sperafico (BR)?; Polo Villaamil (E)?; Gabriele Gardel (CH)?, Rodrigo Ribeiro (BR)? - tested for Draco Junior Team; [Wagner Ebrahim (BR), Matteo Meneghello (I)]? - tested for GP Racing in ESTA organised test; [Davide Amaduzzi (I), Matteo Cressoni (I), Michele Rugolo (I)]? - tested for Great Wall Racing (before it continued as Traini Corse) in ESTA organised test; [Sam Hancock (GB), Maxime Soulet (B)]? - tested for Draco Junior Team in ESTA organised test; [Jeroen Bleekemolen (NL), Davide Di Benedetto (I), Diego Freitas (BR), Daniel Scandian (BR), Angelo Serafim (BR)]? - tested for ADM in ESTA organised test.

Previously linked to championship, now ruled out: Thiago Medeiros (BR) - tested for Victory Engineering in ESTA organised test (see notes below), but will race in IRL Infiniti Pro Series; Andrea Scafuro (I) - tested for Famà in ESTA test, but will race in Renault V6 Eurocup.

Notes:

IMPORTANT: Where brackets [ ] are used, drivers tested for that team in the ESTA (Euro Series Teams Association) organised test at Vallelunga in November. The team a driver tested for in this case in not significant, as all drivers were allocated a team for their free test.

* = driving for team in the Bologna Motorshow Euro 3000 sprint event, in December '02.

Draco's full name is Draco Junior Team Multiracing USA

Imola Racing is new squad run by Franco Sighinolfi (ex-Sighinolfi Autoracing).

Traini Corse raced in the previous two seasons under the Great Wall Racing banner, but look set to race under their own name in 2003 (Jan. '03).

It is not clear if Victory Engineering will continue, after Gabriele de Bono linked up with Cram Competition to form a new team in the Renault V6 series (Feb. '02).

Nelson is a Red Bull F1 Driver Search scholarship winner.

Other teams previously linked to the 2002 championship included: Charouz ISR Racing - sold team equipment to Energy Racing, and will graduate to FIA F3000 in merger with PSM Racing Line; Great Wall Racing - set to race with their own name, Traini Corse, instead.