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Markus Niemelä
Nationality	Finnish
Date of Birth	March 20 1984 (1984-03-20) (age 24)
2008 GP2 Series
Debut season	2007
Current team	BCN Competicion
Car No.	18
Starts	5
Wins	0
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Championship titles
2004 2004	Formula Ford Zetec Sweden Formula Ford Zetec Finland

Markus Niemelä (born 20 March 1984 in Rauma) is a Finnish race car driver and a race winner in the Formula Renault Series in the UK in 2006. His international racing career has been volatile due to a number of injuries he has sustained during his career.

1 Career
2 References
3 External links

Career

Karting

1998

Markus won the Finnish junior karting championship with maximum points.

2001

Injury of left arm in a snowboarding accident before the start of season prevented participation in the Formula A European/World Championship. Won the one race where participated, driving practically one-handed against top Finnish karters (ICA).

2002

Markus was the Finnish champion in Formula A. He set the fastest laptime of at least in one heat of every European Championship round. Qualified in World Cup final but technical problems caused DNF in pre-final and final.

2003

Because of accident in a European championship race, couldn’t drive for three months. Returned for World Championships to finish 5th.

Single-seaters

2004

Markus became the Finnish and Swedish Champion and the winner of STCC Formula Ford championship. Led Scandinavian Championship before the last round but finished 2nd overall because did not participate on the last round. Nominated as a ”Young Champion” by Finnish ASN. Tested for Formula BMW and was fastest at several unofficial tests.

2005

Markus finished 7th in championship points with one victory and one pole position. Many crashes resulting to damaged car during the season (12 out of 20 races). He was also 5th in UK Formula Renault Winter Championship, 3rd best qualifier of the championship (3rd, 4th, 9th and 3rd in qualifyings). Markus drove Formula Renault first time ever in free practice of first race meeting.

2006

One victory, fastest lap and pole position. Multiple Driver Of The Day Awards - awarded by Renault Sport. Markus finished 7th in the final standings with best positions 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 2x4th.

2007

In Eurocup, his best result so far is 2nd place at Hungaroring. In the Asian series, he is 2nd after four races. He joined BCN Competicion in the GP2 Series to replace Sakon Yamamoto who moved to F1 during the season. During his first race, also at the Hungaroring, he was forced to retire when his left shoulder unexpectedly dislocated after 11 laps, which also prevented him from taking part in the second race of the meeting.^[1]