CRG is pleased to announce the collaboration agreement with former F1 driver Jaime Alguersuari, who will be competing with the official Racing Team of the Italian Factory in the FIA ??European Championship and in the FIA ??World Championship of the KZ class.
After the rumors of the past months, as well as some testing sessions together with the Spanish team of CRG (MDC Racing) and with the official one in Italy, the return to racing for the Spanish driver who, after his arrival in F1 and his experience in Formula E, had retired from motorsport when he was just 25 years old, is now a reality. Despite his brilliant new career in the music field, where he is now well-known under the stage name of DJ Squire, the racing adrenaline has probably been missing a lot in recent years. Perhaps for this reason he decided to get back closer to karting, where passion and emotions are direct, pure, essential. After the first test with the kart something inside him suddenly rekindled and with the musical events stopped due to the effects of the pandemic, he was able to get back behind the wheel for some training sessions, realizing how much the track was missing and what it could probably still offer him. When he found out he was still fast, all the pieces of the puzzle begun to come together in a few weeks: from the first test to the agreement with CRG, one of the most successful factories in the history of karting, everything happened in less than three weeks. This is not a marketing action, despite Jaime having a strong following in Spain and especially among young people. These aspects are marginal for both parties in this collaboration: while CRG gave him confidence because the tests completed were very positive and because his determination is high, Jaime accepted the challenge of racing with a top team in the most important events of the karting, because he immediately became aware of being competitive.
The program that CRG and Alguersuari have decided for the 2021 season includes the participation with the Official CRG Team in the European Championship and the KZ World Championship, where he will work alongside the CRG drivers Jeremy Iglesias, Alex Irlando and Paolo Ippolito. On the sidelines of this international commitment, Jaime will also be competing in the Spanish Championship (CEK) with the support of the CRG MDC Racing Team and Karting El Vendrell of Carlos Gil, CRG importer for Spain. This program was thought to better prepare his return to top competitions.
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