The TanderSport team has revealed its driver line-up for the opening round of the 2008 Kumho Tyres Australian Formula 3 Championship at Eastern Creek Raceway the first time the team will run two cars in the series.
Leanne Tander, who will be out to kick-start her challenge for the 2008 Gold Star title, will be joined in the team by Chris Reindler who will make his championship debut driving the car in which Leanne finished second last season as he contests the Opes Prime National Class.
After finishing a narrow second last year, Tander has targeted a strong start to the 2008 hampionship to ensure that she takes as many points as possible away from the opening round in contrast to her difficult start to last years season where she sat a lowly sixth in the standings after the A1GP meeting.
Tander has already completed a week of solid testing and development in her new TanderSport Dallara F307 Mercedes Benz chassis at Eastern Creek, and finished by setting times two seconds underneath the official F3 lap record.
Our week of testing ended well on Friday and the team continued to learn a lot about the new car, she said. We got down to some very competitive times in the end and worked out how the car responds to changes, so it was a very productive end to the week, Leanne enthused.
It is a priority to start the season strongly and be in contention from the very first round of the championship. We came so close last season if we had found two more points throughout the season it would have been a different result so scoring strongly at the first round is absolutely important.
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