This year, Hope PoleVision Racing and young coming man Valle Mäkelä will race together in the new Formula Le Mans Category.

23-year-old Valle Mäkelä is joining the Fribourg-based team in Formula Le Mans. The Finnish driver already has an impressive set of results to his name in motor racing, and he will team upwith Swiss Mathias Beche (22) in the Courage-Oreca FLM09 (V8, 430 bhp). This new championship is made up of ten races including one as a curtain raiser to this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours!

Mäkelä made his career debut at the age of five in karts, and soon began scoring good results winning races in both national and international championships. In 2000, he became the ICA Finnish Junior Champion.

A year later he finished second in the Finnish ICA Formula A Championship and also in the Baltic ICA Championship. Aged sixteen, he changed to car racing and drove for the Söderman team for which he won the Finnish Formula Ford Series. In 2003, he raced in the hotly-disputed English Formula Ford Championship and finished third overall, going on to win the title the following year.

Between 2005 and 2008 he won numerous races in various categories including Formula Renault, the WTCC, Formula BMW and Formula Star Mazda in the United States.

The young and determined Finn’s aim is to become a professional driver and score the maximum number of rostrum finishes this season with his new team. At yesterday’s practice on the Mangy-Cours circuit, Mäkelä said that he couldn’t wait for the opening round of the championship on the legendary Spa-Francorchamps circuit on 8th May.

Source : Hope PoleVision Racing