Indonesia's First Formula One Driver

[MarveL]

Alexandra Asmasoebrata.

Alexandra Asmasoebrata shared the same childhood & teenager time in the circuit with Rio haryanto, but different fate in the end..., now she appears daily as anchor in CNN sport news.

 

[Indos]

Alexandra Asmasoebrata shared the same childhood & teenager time in the circuit with Rio haryanto, but different fate in the end..., now she appears daily as anchor in CNN sport news.

Yup, she got married as well, her confidence taken in racing competition (beside she is famous as well) make her got a job in CNN Indonesia as news anchor. She is still quite young as well.

We have some big state owned companies who support Indonesian sport, like Pertamina, PGN, PLN, Telkom/Telkomsel, and in bank sector we have Mandiri, BNI, BRI.

My business also want to target our state owned company as well, hoping any leaders in that companies see my patriotic action in here and favor my business than others............

 

[Indos]

Another Indonesian world class racer is Rifat Sungkar (mix Arab)

With his wife

 

[Daniel808]

Sure, come bro, I gonna show you around. There are many racing fans groups as well as circuits other than F1. We play at Tianma. Many cars are not official-spec, no road license so circuit only, you gonna love these.

Wow, That's Amazing, bro !
You play at Tianma. Shanghai Tianma Circuit?

Damn, I gonna Love your Lifestlye so much, bro
We have same blood Lol

 

[Shotgunner51]

Wow, That's Amazing, bro !
You play at Tianma. Shanghai Tianma Circuit?

Damn, I gonna Love your Lifestlye so much, bro
We have same blood Lol

Yes Shanghai Tianma ciruit, welcome!

 

[katarabhumi]

Rio Haryanto’s day hampered by oil leak
Thomas Maher - Wednesay, March 2 2016

Manor’s Rio Haryanto finished bottom of the time sheets in Tuesday’s testing, but the Indonesian lost significant track time due to a mechanical issue.

The Manor car was a conspicuous absentee from the majority of the morning’s session, only managing three laps over the course of the morning.

Getting out on track in the afternoon, Haryanto put in a total of 45 laps without further issues – a clean day for the new signing after two mistakes over two days last week.

“We had a small oil leak in the gearbox this morning, we only managed to do a few laps in the morning.” explained Haryanto afterwards. “The afternoon was good though, I’m quite happy with that, I managed to get our plan down in the afternoon. I learned a lot and I’m getting more confident with the team and with the car.”

Asked about how he felt the car was, compared to last week, he reckoned that there have been clear signs of improvement with the new chassis:

“The car is better this week, we tried to find the right balance with the car and the lap times were going better. We still have to keep working hard to find a better balance to go quicker.”

“But it’s too early to say where we are in the order. We’re going to keep working hard and achieve a good result. I’d like to get more race simulation laps in before Melbourne and some quali runs. That would be good preparation for Melbourne. I did a couple of practice starts today and stopping in the pit box and that’s good. Getting closer and closer, I’ll be 100% ready for Australia.”

Rio Haryanto's day hampered by oil leak - FormulaSpy

 

[yoshi.oda]

If Rio's F1 career doesn't go on as planned, chances will be good that he might end up in Super Formula, where Kamui is competing at the moment. Another possibility is the World Endurance Championship, in which Kazuki is a Toyota driver in the LMP1 class. Or he will wind up racing in IndyCar and meet Takuma Sato, arguably the best Japanese driver to ever compete in F1.

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Sato is my guy

 

[alaungphaya]

F1 driver Rio Haryanto launches crowd-sourced fundraising drive to raise $24.5m

JASON REED/ REUTERS
Rio Haryanto hopes a crowd-sourced funding effort will raise $24.5m.


Indonesian Formula One driver Rio Haryanto is hoping text messaging, and many millions of potential helping hands, can raise money to keep his dreams on track.

The 23-year-old made his debut this season with Manor Racing, who have made big progress despite being the smallest team on the starting grid, but the deal requires a budget contribution.

Indonesian media has put the amount needed at €15 million (NZ$24.5m), with state-owned oil and gas company Pertamina paying €5m and the Ministry of Tourism also assisting.

JASON REED/ REUTERS
Manor Racing F1 driver Rio Haryanto races around Melbourne at the Australian Grand Prix.


The latest initiative, backed by the Indonesian government and telecoms companies, aims to raise money by encouraging fans to show support by texting RIO to the number 7788. Haryanto races with the number 88 on his car.

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Manor Racing F1 driver Rio Haryanto dons his fireproof hood.


"Basically it's the sports minister's idea to generate funding," Haryanto said at the Russian Grand Prix on Thursday (NZT Friday).

"They want to get as much as they can to get the budget for Formula One. You send a text message to the number and then its about 5000 rupiah (NZ$0.55) per message if you are willing to support me to have some extra funding.

"It's been going already for one week and I don't know what amount we have got so far. It's going quite well and we'll see what's the result," added the driver.

Haryanto has 467,000 followers on Twitter alone, more than many established F1 racers, while Indonesia has a population of around 250 million.

Communications Minister Rudiantara told CNN Indonesia that supporters should make their texting "like taking medicine, three times a day".

Manor, with Mercedes engines and new team management, have been much more competitive this season after failing to score a point in 2015 when they raced as Marussia.

"This year we can fight with the Sauber and Renault and every race we are still making progress," said Haryanto, who was second in a GP2 race in Sochi last year.

"It's good to be back to the tracks that I know," added the driver, who plans to base himself in Spain during the European season.

"Here I have good memories, being on the podium last year in GP2. It's just already a step ahead to know the track a bit more."

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So he pays 20mil Euro for his drive. Better dig deep, Rio fans.

 

[Indos]

So he pays 20mil Euro for his drive. Better dig deep, Rio fans.

Why so buthurt may friend lol........

We put him there so that many Indonesian believe that they can compete in any world class competition, including F 1 in which most of them are Westeners

Despite that, Rio is a good driver

And there are two young Indonesian who now compete in F 2 race that can be another option for future F 1 race

Paz Armand

Sean Gelael

 

[Beidou2020]

Always support Asian drivers. Great to see Indonesians doing well at sports.

 

[alaungphaya]

Why so buthurt may friend lol........

We put him there so that many Indonesian believe that they can compete in any world class competition, including F 1 in which most of them are Westeners

Despite that, Rio is a good driver

And there are two young Indonesian who now compete in F 2 race that can be another option for future F 1 race

Paz Armand

I'm not "butthurt". I am a big fan of motor racing and I hate pay drivers. Drivers like Haryanto, like Karthikayan, Chandok, Yoong, a whole bunch of Japanese losers too long to list - casual idiots who only care about the flag they fly are proud to see them involved but they are make the whole continent look bad by being embarassingly bad. Not only that, they hamper genuine Asian talent that should be there. You shouldn't support someone who shouldn't be there just because they're Asian. That's just stupid.

 

[Indos]

I'm not "butthurt". I am a big fan of motor racing and I hate pay drivers. Drivers like Haryanto, like Karthikayan, Chandok, Yoong, a whole bunch of Japanese losers too long to list - casual idiots who only care about the flag they fly are proud to see them involved but they are make the whole continent look bad by being embarassingly bad. Not only that, they hamper genuine Asian talent that should be there. You shouldn't support someone who shouldn't be there just because they're Asian. That's just stupid.

You should create one from Myanmar then to find the genuine one.

Well Malaysian Petronas is a big sponsor on F 1 but after Alex Yoong no F 1 team ever invited Malaysian driver to be their team driver.