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He began racing karts at age ten until the age of fifteen winning the Southern Swedish Karting Championship. In 1996 he progressed to single-seaters in Swedish Formula Ford 1600 Junior Championship were he took the championship title in 1997 with staggering 17 wins.
In 1998 and 1999 he raced in the Formula Palmer Audi Championship, but it was two disappointing seasons with only two visits to the podium in total.
In 2000 he switched to the German Formula 3 series. And during 2001 in addition to winning at Nürburgring and A1-Ring took three pole positions including one at Macau Grand Prix.
For the season of 2002 Björn Wirdheim switched once again, this time to FIA International Formula 3000 championship joining Arden Motorsport. He finished fourth overall in addition to being named Rookie of the Year, and helping Arden to win the team title in the championship.
Wirdheim stayed with Arden in the following season of 2003 that would prove successful both for the team and driver. Dominating the championship so much that an obligatory pit stop for tyre change was introduced at the end of the season in an attempt to leveling out the advantage, but Arden managed to do better pit-stops overall than other teams and still came out on top. Björn Wirdheim became the first Swede to win the championship in its 19-year history, breaking Juan Pablo MontoyaJuan Pablo Montoya (born September 20, 1975) is a Colombian Formula One motor racing driver. Montoya was born in Bogota where his father, Pablo, worked as an architect and raced karts in his free time. Montoya began racing karts in 1981 at the young age o's previous record of most points won in one season of the series.
Still most people will probably remember that season for the race in MonacoThe Principality of Monaco known as Munegu in the local dialect, is a city state and the second-smallest country in the world, wedged in between the Mediterranean Sea and France along the French Riviera or Cote d'Azur (The Blue Coast). Consisting mostly o. Driving to an easy win on the streets of Monte CarloMonte Carlo is a very wealthy section of the city-state of Monaco known for its gambling, beaches, casino, glamour, and sightings of famous people. Monte Carlo is home to most of the Circuit de Monaco, on which takes place the Formula One Monaco Grand Pri, Wirdheim slowed down to wave at his pit-crew beleaving he already had taken the checkered flag and thus giving away the win to Nicholas Kiesa meters away from the actual finishline.
At the end of 2003 the young swede had been noticed by several Formula One team bosses giving him opportunity to test with both JordanGiancarlo Fisichella driving for the Jordan Grand Prix team at Indianapolis in 2002 Jordan Grand Prix is a Formula One racing team that debuted in 1991. The team is named after Irish-born owner Edmund "Eddie" Jordan. Jordan had a brief stint as a race dri and BARBritish American Racing (BAR is a Formula One constructor that entered the sport in 1999. The team is named after the British American Tobacco Company, aka BAT, which owns and sponsors the team with its Lucky Strike brand. BAT Industries had long been inv. After turning down an offer to drive Champ Car, Wirdheim signed with JaguarJaguar Cars is a British automobile manufacturer. Founded in 1922 as the Swallow Sidecar Company by William Lyons, it was renamed Jaguar Cars after WWII. The company is owned by the Ford Motor Company. Jaguar is known for its luxury saloons and sports car as third-driver performing the friday-testing for the team at Formula One Grand Prix week-ends during the 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co season.
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