May/Jun 2008 - German World Magazine

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CYNDIE ALLEMANN:
BY GIL BOUFFARD
By the time, you read this, twenty-one-year-old Cyndie Allemann
will have competed in four Firestone Indy Lights Series races
including the American 100 at the famed Indianapolis Motor
Speedway! Amazingly, Miss Allemann, a road racer, had her first race
in America on the high-speed oval at Homestead-Miami Speedway in
Florida, in March, where she performed quite well. She followed with
a pair of top ten finishes at Florida’s St. Petersburg Grand Prix.
The Firestone Indy Lights Series (formerly Indy Pro Series) is one
step below the Indy Racing League (IRL) and the Indianapolis 500.
Racing in Indy Lights, Cyndie will actually experience the excitement,
sights and sounds of the 500 as Indy Lights competes as a feature
event to the famed 500-mile race
Cyndie’s father Kurt was a Karting champion and her brother Ken
has been a stalwart in Swiss Karting winning the Swiss Karting
Championship seven times. It only seems logical that the young
woman from Moutier in the French speaking Bernese Jura section of
Switzerland would become an auto racer. That she would come to
America and race in the Firestone Indy Lights Series or the
Indianapolis 500 never entered her mind, she was more focused on
Formula One!
Starting on Karts, which is the school ground for auto racing,
Cyndie became the first female European Karting Champion in 1999.
After nearly ten years racing Karts and sitting out in the open, she
turned to single seater racing cars with bodies, racing for two years
in the German Formula Three Championship. Last year, Cyndie moved
into the ultra competitive Formula Three Euroseries. Californian
Charlie Kimball, formerly the Friday test driver for A1 Grand Prix Team
USA, currently races in the Formula Three Euroseries. McLaren’s
Formula One superstar Lewis Hamilton is a graduate of the Formula
Three Euroseries.
When asked about her decision why to race in America, she
answered: “The competition. The cars are more powerful and I’m
looking forward to racing on ovals”.And in a true racer spirit, she continued:
“I like to fight with the other guys”.
Interested in following the exploits of Cyndie Allemann? Visit her
personal web page: http://www.cyndieallemann.ch
NOTE OF INTEREST:
While everybody was celebrating Danica Patrick's
winning a major Indy Car race in Japan on Sunday 20
April, young Swiss racer Simona De Silvestro
became only the third woman to win a major
American Motor Race when she won the Atlantic
Championship race at the famed Long Beach Grand
Prix in California on the same day!