Posted on 17 Dec 2010 in News
Slotting in for a debut Formula 3 test young Dane, Kasper Krogh, shone at Valencia on 15th December with Team West-Tec.
Driving one of the teams racewinning Dallara Copa F306 cars in European F3 Open configuration, this was a both a first test in Formula 3 machinery as well as a first visit to Valencia for Kasper, 19, who had never actually been to Spain before.
Maximising the track time available, and despite not being able to use new tyres, Kasper completed 300 km of driving and recorded a fastest lap which would have given him a respectable grid position on the European F3 Open grid.
Kasper Krogh: I really enjoyed driving the Formula 3 car, and it was a clear step up from what I have raced before. I was steady to start with, not knowing either the car or the circuit, although the work I had been able to do on the team Formula 3 simulator the week before was a big help.
I feel ready to race at Formula 3 level now and I am focussed on putting plans together for 2011 and 2012.
John Miller, Motul Team West-Tec: Kasper did a very good job, especially for a driver with so little comparative experience. He has driven in Danish Formula Ford Zetec and a handful of Formula Renault races before, although you wouldn’t know that. With more testing, he would just get quicker and quicker and I am no doubt could challenge at the front.
We would certainly like to do more with Kasper, as he is a pleasant driver to work with and I think would be very competitive, so I am sure we will be seeing more of him.
Posted on 14 Sep 2010 in News
A sudden disagreement regarding economics meant that Kasper was not able to start the 5th race of the season at Rockingham.
Kasper and his Danish entourage of sponsors and family arrived full of expectations already Thursday afternoon as he would be testing on the day following. Friday offered rain which gave Kasper an appreciated opportunety to practice on wet surface. The used this to get familiar with the car and track under the difficult circumstances and everything looked promising for Saturday’s qualifying. At the end of the day the team announced that they didn’t see themselves fit to keep their part of the agreement which made Kasper’s participation in the BARC championship possible. This meant that Kasper’s race weekend ended before it had started. One further consequence was that Kasper didn’t get a chance to finish the 2010 season. Now we have to look forward and prepare for 2011.
Posted on 06 Aug 2010 in News
The fourth round of the Protyre Formula Renault BARC championship took place Sunday 1 August at the Snetterton Circuit in eastern England. Changing weather meant that the first qualifying session, like last time on Croft, was to be difficult for Kasper.
After having driven a dry Friday test it was time to bolt wets on Kasper’s Formula Renault for the first qualifying. With no more than 20 minutes to learn the two miles Snetterton Circuit in wet conditions it came down to a slightly disappointing 10th starting position for the first race. For the second qualifying the rain had left a wet circuit which was starting to dry up as the session started. This time Kasper was running 8th until he decided that the track was dry enough for slicks. With only seven or eight minutes left of the session Kasper came into the pit lane to change tyres. The team got busy changing tyres which, as always with Antel Motorsport, happened very quickly but then they discovered that an oil hose had come off and by the time Kasper was able to rejoin the session on new and very slippery slicks there was only a few minutes left of the qualifying. Kasper managed to put in a good first lap which sent him to fourth position but on the second lap the gear cable snapped and Kasper had to finish the lap and go to the pits in second gear.
When the 17 Formula Renaults Sunday headed out to a dry grid for the first race Kasper and the team was convinced that they had the speed to be in the top five. Kasper made a good start but struggled to make up any positions starting from the outside. After the first lap Kasper was still running 10th and as he attempted to overtake Jake Rattenbury into the Esses he was suprised by Kourosh Khani who saw his opportunity to get passed both of them. Being caught between the two cars Kasper had no choice but to follow them which then meant that he got a poor exit from the right-hander which followed. This gave Andrew Jarman an opportunity to get passed Kasper too. Kasper was able to recover quickly by overtaking Jarman on the next lap after which he was closing in on Rattenbury by half a second per lap and on lap ten was able to get by him too. Meanwhile there was quite a gap up to Khani and although Kasper was closing the gap fast he crossed the line after the 14 laps in 8th one second behind Khani.
After the race Kasper said: “I was surprised to only be 7th fastest in the race. In the Friday test our lap times looked promising. The starting position for the second race is going to help me a lot but if the top five is just as much faster in the second race I will struggle to hold 4th place.”
It was important for Kasper to get a good get away for the second race with the experienced Alice Powell starting just behind him. As the red lights came off Kasper made a quick start and held on to 4th in the first two corners where everybody was staying to the inside. Down the long back straight top five was very close and they all kept to the inside being defensive down towards the left-right combination “Esses” where Kasper in the last moment pulled out of the line to try to overtake the winner of the first race Joseph Reilly. Kasper made the move stick on the outside in turn three and shortly after closed the door for Reilly as the track changed direction. Kasper didn’t have the pace to hold the super fast Reilly behind him for more than three laps though. The pressure from behind did not disappear with Reilly because now Kasper had the two Hillspeed drivers Alice Powell and James Theodore in the mirrors. Even though they were both quite a lot faster than Kasper, he managed to fend them off for the next eight laps.
Towards the end of the race Kasper’s rear tyres gradually got less grip which nearly resulted in a spin in “Esses”, due to which he got a really bad exit out of the right-hander making it possible for Powell to get alongside of Kasper. They now drove side by side through the next two very fast corners with Kasper on the outside and braking into the chicane Kasper had no other choice than to fall in behind Powell to prevent Theodore to pass as well. But within the next lap Theodore also got by and with only one lap to go and a big gap down to Josh Webster in seventh, Kasper took the chequered flag in a solid sixth position.
Of course an 8th and a 6th position was not the result we had hoped to go home with, but it did give some good championship points and Kasper achieved a combined 6th overall for the weekend which is his best score this season. It is a step forward and in the points table Kasper has now moved up to 8th overall.
We are now looking forward to the next race meeting at Rockingham the 11 and 12 September, where hopefully Kasper will have the pace to compete with the top five again.
Posted on 07 Jul 2010 in News
After spending two months out of the car, Kasper had the difficult task of going straight in to qualifying one on Saturday without so much as a warm up due to the restricted testing at Croft circuit. This proved to be a big advantage to the more experienced drivers in the series, having raced at Croft before. Kasper handled this pressure well however, qualifying in a slightly disappointing but solid P9.
After a thorough analysis of where there was time to be found, Kasper set out to improve on his grid position for race 2. He got progressively faster as the session went on, and spent most of it running in a very respectable P6 until the final two laps. He was pipped by only a tenth of a second, and dropped to P8 as the chequered flag fell. Despite only having improved by one grid slot from qualy one, Kasper was now much closer to the pace of the front runners. He was in fact the only driver to match his time from the first session on new tyres, with everybody else slowing by at least four tenths of a second.
The racing on Sunday was threatened by rain, which Kasper and the Antel team were desperately hoping to avoid due to Kaspers limited experience in the wet. Thankfully the showers came at the right time, and the circuit was dry again for both races.
After making some adjustments to the car after qualifying, Kasper looked immediately more comfortable in the car from the moment the lights went out for race one. He made a solid getaw
ay from the line, and then proceeded to pick off the cars infront of him one by one, starting with a great move on the exit of turn 2.
He was lapping 3rd quickest on his way through the pack, and shortly after taking 6th position from Championship leader Mitchell Hale, the safety car came out. This was perfect timing for Kasper to close on to the back of the leading pack. When the safety car came back in, there were four laps of the race remaining. Kasper then began pressurising the cars in front, with only the race leader lapping quicker than him in free air. As the two drivers in 4th and 5th scrapped with each other, he capitalised and passed the both of them to leave him just one place away from his first podium. Although he was catching 3rd place, there was not enough time left for him to make a move. He crossed the line to grab 4th place, his best finish so far in BARC Renault, and a fantastic drive from 9th on the grid.
Kasper was delighted to have made such progress through the pack;
The race was one of my best with a lot of exciting battles as I made my way through the field. Obviously I was not very happy starting 9th but we had improved a lot already for the second qualifying so I knew that the pace should be good for the race. I certainly enjoyed the race very much and was very comfortable in the car which felt fast and easy to drive at the same time.
The team had high hopes of a possible podium for Kasper in race two, but again it would have to be a storming drive from P8, but now he was fully in tune with the Croft circuit, they knew he had the outright pace to achieve it.
After making another strong start to the race, and lapping very quickly in 6th place, Kasper had some disappointing misfortune which would put an end to his hopes of a podium. W
hilst battling for 5th place, Kasper had the slightest of touches with the rear end of the car in front. This damaged his front wing to such an extent that his front end grip was gone. He could no longer set the impressive pace which he had been previously, and he began to drop through the pack and outside the top 10 with an almost un-driveable car.
The ups and downs of motorsport had hit Kasper once again at Croft, but there were many positives to take from the weekend. He and his team now look forward to Round 4 of the Championship at Snetterton, with all fingers crossed that he can return with his first of many podiums!
Posted on 10 May 2010 in News
Round 2 of the BARC Formula Renault Championship began with a dry day of testing at Silverstone, home circuit of Kaspers new team, Antel Motorsport.
After taking a few laps to get used to the new car, Kasper quickly became comfortable and began to set a very competitive pace, one which would have put him in the top four runners.
Team Manager Ross Curnow was immediately impressed;
“We very much enjoyed working with Kasper. He has a very good technical understanding of what the car should be doing and how he should be getting the best out of it. He responded very well to directions we gave him and as a result we made fantastic progress on Friday. We were unlucky that a red flag ruined his new tyre run, but the data clearly showed that we were genuinely quick.”
Much to the disappointment of the team, Saturday’s qualifying sessions were both wet. Kaspers limited experience in the rain meant that the day was always going to be difficult.
During the first session, Kasper was struggling with the car and conditions, finishing a very disappointing 13th.
After much work with his engineer to improve the car for the second sessions, Kasper went out and immediately felt more comfortable. He completed 5 laps on a damp circuit, all of which were hampered by heavy traffic. The red flag then came out, and as the cars sat in the pit lane waiting for the session to be restarted, disaster struck! The rain began to fall very heavily, meaning lap times would be slowed by around 3 seconds, and because Kasper had been held up on all 5 of his laps when the circuit was drier, he was again only sat in 13th place. On the wetter circuit Kasper was lapping 4th quickest, but unfortunately it was too late.
So with a lot of wor
k to do after a frustrating qualifying, Kasper would need to show good race craft on Sunday to make his way through the pack. With the circuit now dry for race day, Kasper made good progress from the very start. As was the case during Friday testing, Kasper was again extremely quick in the dry. He quickly made his way up to 8th position, and was back to lapping around 4th quickest, even through traffic. Unfortunately when he came to challenge for 7th, there were yellow flags preventing him from making a move, meaning he would have to sit behind a far slower car for the last part of the race.
Race two saw the 19 year old make an even better start, getting up to 7th position in just the first half of lap 1! With some slower cars close in front of him, it looked as if Kasper might be in with a chance of grabbing his first podium finish. This excitement was brought to an abrupt end by yet more bad luck, when another competitor ran into the side of his car through the last corner, leaving his car badly damaged and his hopes of a trophy put on hold.
Director of Antel Motorsport Brett Parris commented;
“We were absolutely devastated by that race two result. Knowing that Kasper could have 
made an absolutely storming drive from 13th on the grid to at least fourth position was extremely encouraging, but equally frustrating! In just 3 days of working with us he has shown that he has an enormous amount of raw talent, and is also very intelligent. We will see Kasper bringing trophies home this year, of that I am absolutely certain. He had a lot of bad luck this weekend from start to finish, but if he keeps driving that well then he can only succeed very soon.”
Round 3 of the Championship takes place at Croft on the 3rd and 4th of July.
Posted on 20 Apr 2010 in News
Icelands’s volcanic dust did it’s best to try and stop Anglo Motorsport’s driver Kasper Krogh making it to his first weekend with the team.
A 15 hour ‘flat out’ drive from Denmark to make Friday’s practice paid off in Saturday’s Qualifying 1 as Kasper put his BARC Renault on the second row of the grid for race one and then followed up with a third row start for race two, after a yellow flag incident interrupted his fast laps in Qualifying two.
“I could have gone faster but I made a small mistake coming out of Druids on my last planned lap, the team decided not to send me out again as my previous lap was good enough to hold on to sixth place” said Kasper after Q2.
Team manager Julian Tanser said “we had decided to stick with our 13 lap sessions to keep Kasper’s tyre in the best possible condition for the first race.”
Unfortunately the slopping grid of Brands Hatch caught out Kasper who dabbed the brake peddle to stop his car rolling forward just as the lights went out for the start of the race. Kasper set about gaining back the places lost at the start before spinning as he re-passed Alice Powell for sixth place.
After the disappointment of race one, Kasper kept a cool head for the start of race two, producing a near perfect start he gained two places before turn one, and for the next 10 laps Kasper battled for 3rd before being caught by a very quick Hale and Webster and Powell.
“Kasper has driven very well all weekend, obviously we where disappointed with the result of race one but I had set a top six finish as our aim for this weekend, I am very happy with what Kasper has achieved a great start to his season, we now look forward to the next round at Silverstone in a few weeks time”.
Julian Tanser, Team Manager.
Posted on 13 Apr 2010 in News
On his first visit to Silverstone Kasper Krogh made a fantastic start to his first season in FR2000 BARC.
Running on very used tyres Kasper spent most of the morning around 7th quickest in the official Testing ahead of the first round at Brand Hatch. After lunch the team bolted on new rubber and within a few laps Kasper’s times fell to put him 6th and then after a brief look at the data he went straight to fourth ahead of Josh Webster and Alice Powell where he remained until the dying minutes of the session, finishing up sixth as a couple of drivers put in quicker times on new rubber.
“Kasper looks at the data and listens to what he is told, then just goes out and puts in quick times” said Team boss Steve Clark, “brilliant just what we needed”.
What makes Kasper’s performance more impressive is the fact that it was his first time around the track, whilst all of the other drivers have driven many laps around this Internationally famous circuit.
Team now move to Brands Hatch with high hopes for the first race.
“Qualifying is so important at Brands, a few tenth will separate the top ten, Kasper will have to make the best of his new tyres, they have a three to four lap window of peak performance, if Kasper get it right then he should be on the first few rows for the start of the first race of the season” said Team Manager Julian Tanser.
Posted on 07 Apr 2010 in News
UK based Anglo Motorsport are proud to announce the signing of Kasper Krogh as their number one driver for their Formula Renault team.
‘We are very exited about signing Kasper’ said team boss Steve Clark, ‘he has shown fantastic speed during testing and his ability to understand the data we get from these cars in very encouraging.’
‘In testing we have seen very competitive lap times at tracks he has never driven before, I have no doubt that we will see Kasper on the podium before too long.’
Formula Renault in the UK is one of the most competitive single seater race series in Europe with the top ten drivers 
separated by tenths of seconds, the cars are powered by 2ltr engines they accelerate from 0-100 kp/h in under 3 seconds and are capable of over 250 kp/h. The series has been the first step on the racing careers for many of today’s F1 stars including Lewis Hamilton.
‘As with an F1 car being fast in one of these Renaults is all about understanding the effects of aero dynamics and driving smoothly’ said team manger Julian Tanser, ‘Kasper understands the car and that’s why the more he tests and races the more he will progress, he has all the elements we need to get him on to the podium this season. Importantly Kasper interacts well with his race engineer Julian Westwood and his number one mechanic Shaun Morris this is crucial when competing at this level, I am convinced Kasper is going to have a great 2010 season.’
