The Driver information guide for the Meritus 2012 JK Series team contains all the relevant team and series information and fee

1. Winners Asia & Pacific
Formula BMW
The Asian Driver Development
Series
7 Times Champions 2003-­2010
Contact Details:
Name: Peter Thompson
Email Peter: peter@meritus.gp
Mobile: +6012 3027434/+6010 2260256
BB Pin: 27009 EA9
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2. is based on the champion-creating success of the Formula BMW driver development
series, which was introduced by BMW Motorsport in 2002. JK Tyres has taken over the title sponsorship of the
series, since BMW pulled out of all single-seater classes.
Promoting and training young drivers remains the key goal of the JK Racing Asia Series. Seven former Formula
BMW winners currently race in Formula 1: Nico Rosberg, Timo Glock, Adrian Sutil, Sebastian Buemi, Nicholas
Hulkenberg, Bruno Senna and the 2010 world champion Sebastian Vettel. A number of other Formula BMW
graduates will soon get a taste of Formula 1 as reserve drivers such as DaNeil Ricciardo move up to take over
race seats.
Europe; they have gone on to win podiums in British Formula 3, European Formula Renault, Formula

3. Meritus is a specialist motorsport race engineering company, with a winning culture of
young drivers to achieve their dreams in the high-tech business of international motorsport.
the European Renault 2.0 litre series.
the award, the brand Meritus gives recognition to our sponsors, our engineering and our
ten times return on investment.

4. 2. A winning Asian Brand since 1995 with 34 Asian Motorsport titles
3. Winners in Formula Asia, Formula BMW, Formula V6 Asia
4. Awarded with a GP2 Asia Series team entry: multi race winner and vice champion
5. Same team of winning professionals, engineers and technicians for almost 10 years
7. Engineers, Chief Race Engineer, Driver Coach & Engineer, Data & Simulation Engineer
11. Professional programme of Driver Simulation Technology
12. Logistics, management and administration services
Bernie Ecclestone presents a model of our winning GP2 car to the Malaysian PM

5. (the BMW FB02) represents the highest possible degree of safety.
ingredient of the competition is the ability and commitment of the drivers.
The goal of the BMW (JK) racecar is to provide F1 levels of safety. The steel suspension
wheels breaking free from the car, thus protecting drivers and spectators.
The JK racecar accelerates from 0 to 100km/h in less than four seconds, and can reach a top
speed of 230kh/h. The FB02, powered by a BMW140bhp, in-line, four-cylinder engine is
to ensure optimum power transmission. This unit was derived from Formula 3, meaning it is
well suited to achieve high durability in Formula BMW.

6. 1. The JK Racing Asia series has international TV distribution
2. The JK Racing Asia series employs international PR agencies
3. Additionally Meritus employs regional PR specialists
5. Meritus distributes media in 3 regional languages: English, Mandarin and Arabic
9. www.Meritus.GP is a fully interactive news portal
10. Meritus social networking includes:
- www.Facebook.com/MeritusGP
- www.Youtube.com/MeritusGP
- www.Twitter.com/MeritusGP
- www.Meritus.GP/Racebook
11. Winning is Business creating millions of dollars in sponsorship brand development
12. Activating and developing driver and sponsor brand image values

7. team-mate Narain Karthikeyan won the championship and went on to race for Jordan F1.
days at Sepang. This was a fateful event as history proves that the driver who wins and
conquers the 15 corners of Sepang goes on to win the championship!
By the time Rio and the team arrived for the oldest street circuit in the world, the Macau Grand
Rio Haryanto has gone on to prove that he is the Asian Motorsport Ambassador in Europe by

8. him all the way through to F1. Watch this space!

9. committed to providing the same driver training as its predecessor.
The Asian series has been won by a number of outstanding 14-year-olds, coached and run
2nd after 19-year-old Richard Bradley. While Bradley went on to race in the Japanese F3 series,
The latest recipient of a special licence is Akash Neil Nandy, who turned 14 on 10 January
2011. Akash has already featured on the podium 4 times, much to the delight of his Meritus
team.
The Meritus Hall of Fame includes F1 drivers Takuma Sato and Narain Karthikeyan, while our
2009 champion Rio Haryanto was provided an F1 test by Virgin for his winning 2010 GP3
Euroseries performance.
development testing later this year.

11. Full race engineering, data, coaching services package included
Racecar is refurbished, updated and maintained to 2012 spec
First New Engine: First new supplied (replacements €6500 purchased by the driver)
Registration Fees:
Multi-championship race & data engineers worked together for 10
Technicians: Similarly our racecar technicians and support crew have served our
All fuel, brakes and consumables included
For free practice and races dry tyres are included as per regulations
Wet tyres: Drivers purchase new wet tyres when conditions require
Test Ban: Starts on the 1st April each season
Drivers have access to all team race data and historic information
Meritus activation team will provide a PR package for each driver
Replacement of damaged parts and replacement engines if any
The blue highlighted advertising areas are for the use of the drivers sponsors

12. Test ban 1st April: The Sepang test day consists of the following:
- track simulation and coaching
We are provided with two races and the typical programme is:
- Friday:
50km (25 minute) race on Sunday morning just before F1
More testing and a 4 race package forms the programme:
- Thursday:
- Friday:
- Friday: 30 min qualifying: 1st & 2nd fastest times for race 1 & 2 grids
3rd & 4th race grids based on race 1 & 2 results
F1 points scoring system and regulations supplied on email request
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13. for drivers seeking a professional career in motorsport. Meritus profesional driver coaching
The series is almost half the cost of a comparable young driver development
2. The professionalism and competition that the JK series provides together with the driver
development programmes which the teams provide can be easily monitored by the
success that our winners enjoy when they move on to global motorsport series. Some
Ho Pin Tung: 2003 champion is a reserve driver at Renault F1
Earl Bamber: 2006 champion wins Formula Masters, GP2, A1GP & Super League
Rio Haryanto: is winning in the GP3 Euro Series

14. and the calendar has included at least two or three F1 support events annually. Title sponsor JK has
the Championship to include seven events, with two possible events during our big summer gap in
the calendar. The idea is to support two European events of the World Touring Car Championship
At the moment the EuroAsia calendar is based on speculation and therefore in our team costings we
career in motorsport.
Asian F1 event. The remaining events we hope will support Japanese GT events in Malaysia and

16. car, farm and light commercial vehicle tyre market.
JK Tyres has always been closely associated with the world of sports. For almost three decades, the company has
carefully followed a plan for a sustained approach to promote Motorsport as a marketing platform. Participating
The sport had an elitist perception but JK tyres took upon itself to package and redesign the sport to make
strategic decision to promote the company through the medium of motorsport, with the ultimate aim of making
are now national award winning heroes and the new JK Racing Asia Series undoubtedly is the best junior driver

17. Meritus provides a full range of motorsport services including motorsport engineering, driver
leaders in sponsor activation, developing and managing multi-million dollar promotions and
sponsors reap the rewards of our Asian knowledge. While we are proud of all our championship
Activation team ensures that our sponsors win brand values and network opportunities as
well as winning sales and services.
motorsport heroes by supporting and training young talented drivers to achieve their dreams.

18. Broadcaster Territory Programme Prog/Details Mins Duration No./Prog Viwership
Star Sports Pan Asia AFOS 9 x 60 mins 540 1620 minutes 27 2,000,486.428
9 x 2 repeat x 60 1080
Ten Sports India India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, AFOS 9 x 60 mins 540 1620 minutes 27 45,000.000
Nepal 9 x 2 repeat x 60 1080
Ten Sports Pakistan Pakistan AFOS 9 x 60 mins 540 1620 minutes 27 5,000,000
9 x 2 repeat x 60 1080
Zee Sports United States of America AFOS 9 x 60 mins 540 1080 minutes 18 80,000
9 x 1 repeat x 60 540
TVB Pearl Hong Kong Sunday Sports 9 x 30 mins 270 270 minutes 9 2,330,000
TVB Jade Hong Kong Sports World 9 x 60 mins 540 540 minutes 9 2,330,000
Motors TV Europe AFOS 9 x 60 mins 540 2700 minutes 45 328,470,000
9 x 4 repeat x 60 2,160
Altitude TV United States of America AFOS 9 x 60 mins 540 2700 minutes 45 6,489,450
9 x 4 repeat x 60 2,160
SPEED Australia AFOS 9 x 60 mins 540 1080 minutes 18 340,000
9 x 1 repeat x 60 540
Doordashan Sports India, Bangladesh, AFOS 9 x 60 mins 540 1080 minutes 18 700,000,000
Nepal, Pakistan & Sri Lanka 9 x 1 repeat x 60 540
ABS-CBN Global Middle East, North America, Speed TV & Turbo Time 9 x 60 mins 540 540 minutes 9 N/A
Europe & Asia Pacific
Total: 14850 minutes 252 1,290,524,878