It has been nearly two months since Hong Kong's Ross Jamison (pictured) was last in a race car, but the rookie Formula BMW Asia driver doesn't believe any rust has set in.
After mid-July races in Indonesia, the series took a break and will resume on September 15 and 16 in Chengdu, before moving on to Shanghai in October and Zhuhai in November.
Jamison, 17, is fourth in the 15-driver series and despite mediocre finishes in Indonesia, he leads the rookies by 13 points. His summer holiday involved nothing more than some driving in car parks with the family car and in a simulator.
Though Jamison (pictured) admitted nerves could be a factor in the weeks ahead, he said he was mostly excited to start back in race mode and that the advantage with the newly built Chengdu circuit was that no other drivers had experience with it.
'Everyone will be on equal footing,' Jamison said. 'It looks like a nice flowing, medium-speed track, but I'll find out when I do the track walk.'
A common lack of track knowledge could be especially important to Jamison as the winner of the rookie title will receive a US$50,000 scholarship for next year's Formula BMW Asia series. Jamison, who is one of five drivers on Formula BMW Asia scholarship this season, initially struggled to find a sponsor (a season averages US$180,000) before partially collaborating with a London-based hedge fund.
