Asian F3 Series frontrunner Ananda Mikola has been forced to relinquish an offer to contest the annual Macau Grand Prix with Team Midland Euroseries as the A1 Grand Prix event at Sepang takes place over the same weekend.
With Macau entries closing before the final AF3 round at Batangas on 6 November, the points leader at deadline time was awarded the series' nomination. Mikola currently leads the championship by 27 points, but the former F3000 racer has been the mainstay of the Indonesian national team since the country entered A1GP, and will again be required when the series reaches Malaysia in November.
A spokesman for AF3 said that the series hoped that, in future, the organisers of international events would not schedule them on the same weekend as Macau.
“We hope that, next year, we can again support our championship-leading driver in the Macau F3 Grand Prix,” the spokesman said.
The AF3 series will still be represented in Macau, however, with Dado Pena and Tyson Sy scheduled to race in the Formula Renault event in order to learn the tricky street circuit before taking part in the F3 event in 2006.
