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December 5, 2024 - Bright sunshine and warm weather are rare forecasts in the heart of American winter, so Miami is one of few ideal destinations for pre-season testing and race activities. 

 

The 2025 season kicks off with added enthusiasm for the JENSEN team that will return to compete full-time in Formula Regional Americas Championship (FR Americas). As part of the team's extensive winter testing plan, sophomore team drivers Jake Pollack and Athan Sterling will gain additional competition experience, racing the team's Ligier JS F3 cars in the SCCA National races at Homestead-Miami Speedway in early January.

 

The team enjoyed considerable success in the 2023 FR Americas season, JENSEN finished second in the team championship highlighted with lead driver Oliver Westling scoring a pair of race wins at New Jersey Motorsports Park and the season finale at the Austin F1 circuit.

 

JENSEN team focus during the 2024 season was developing a long list of new drivers who were on a variety of testing and racing programs competing in the various regional F4 series across the country. The team enjoyed immediate success, returning to the FR Americas category scoring a podium and two fifth-place finishes with Danish rookie Theodor Jensen driving the team's No. 1 Ligier JS F3 car at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway event in June.

 

Jake Pollack will be driving the JENSEN team's No. 1 Ligier JS F3 race car for the Miami race weekend, as well as the full 2025 FR Americas season. 18-year-old Pollack lives in San Antonio, Texas, and enjoyed a very successful rookie season as part of his JENSEN young driver development program. Competing in four championships during the year, he scored two podiums in the Ligier JS F4 Series, as well as a pair of race wins competing in the F3 California series.

 

Athan Sterling will be driving the JENSEN team's No. 2 Ligier JS F3 race car for the Miami race weekend, with a view to graduating to race in FR Americas sometime in 2025. 18-year-old Sterling lives near Cleveland, Ohio, and likewise enjoyed a very successful rookie campaign as part of his JENSEN young driver development program. Sterling competed in three championships during the year, highlighted by six podiums in the F4 California series where he finished fourth in the season point standings.

 

Team owner and mentor Eric Jensen stated, "It's a long and often thankless process developing young race car drivers, but the reward of achieving real accomplishment ultimately makes the challenge very fulfilling. Most importantly both Jake and Athan are terrific young men, and it's exciting to see what they are capable of when the lights are shining brightest during race competition on Sundays."

 

Click here to watch a video from Oliver Westling's test day in January 2024 on the Homestead-Miami Speedway road course, which utilized the turn 3 and 4 oval banking, providing a good opportunity to explore dynamic ride height testing and aero mapping.

 

JENSEN will again provide internships for University engineering students to learn the science of race car engineering, for more details here is a link to read about the program - 2025 Race Engineering Internships

 

Click here to watch a video riding along with 18-year-old Danish driver Theodor Jensen while driving the JENSEN team's No. 1 Ligier JS F3 car at Indianapolis Motor Speedway during the 2024 FR Americas race weekend. He was immediately on pace, running in the top five all weekend during his series debut.

 

FR Americas is the top level American junior race series on the FIA Formula 1 Championship's young driver development ladder. 2025 championship is expanding with eight race weekends at iconic American circuits including Road America and Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

 

The Ligier JS F3 is the specification race car used in the championship, powered by 303-horsepower turbo-charged engines capable of top speeds nearing 160 mph.

 

For more information about Jake Pollack, Athan Sterling, and our JENSEN young driver development programs, contact Eric Jensen via email at jensen@jensenga.com.

 

For more information about the FR Americas, visit the series website: www.framericas.com.

  

- JENSEN PR