NATACHA GACHNANG JOINS THE GRAVITY ACADEMY
Gravity Sport Management is delighted to announce that Swiss driver, Natacha Gachnang has joined the 2010 Gravity Academy Programme. Natacha will race in the new GT1 World Championship created by the FIA, in which she will drive a Ford GT1 entered by the Matech Competition team. She will share the car with another Swiss driver, Cyndie Alleman, creating a 100% Swiss women’s team. However, her 2010 programme doesn’t stop there as she will also race in the AutoGP Championship with the Charouz Gravity team. Her team-mates are Adrien Tambay, Walter Grubmüller and Jan Charouz. Natacha Gachnang: “I’m proud to have been selected by such a competitive organisation as Gravity Academy. It’s a key stage in my career, which will help me run a double programme this season in endurance and single-seaters. In addition, the support system provided by Gravity Academy enables each driver to make progress in every area. I can’t wait to start our collaboration, and I’m sure it will make me a better driver.”
Natacha Gachnang: brief biography
Born: 27th October 1987 in Vevey (Switzerland) 1998: Debut in karts 1999: Swiss Mini 100 Karting Championship, 2nd 2000: Swiss Junior Karting Championship,3rd 2001: Swiss Junior Karting Championship, 1st 2002: CIK-FIA Junior European Karting Championship, 10th 2003-2005: German Formula BMW-ADAC Championship 2006: German F3 Championship (one podium, nine top-10 finishes) 2007: Star Mazda Series (two podiums in four races) 2008: Spanish F3 Championship, 3rd with four podiums 2009: Formula 2 and Formula Le Mans
2010: Joins Gravity Academy, races in the FIA GT1 and AutoGP Championships.
GRAVITY ACADEMY IN A FEW WORDS
Gravity Academy is a dedicated motor sport organisation set up by Gravity Sport Management, a Luxembourg-based company, which began its activity in 2008. Its aim is to pick out, support and promote young drivers with the help of private investors. Gravity Academy makes available to its future champions, all the resources necessary to help their self-development including their driving technique, physical fitness training, familiarisation with the economic aspect of motor sport and their relationship with the media. Thanks to an on-going evaluation and follow-up monitoring system, an individually-tailored programme is created for each member in the programme. The drivers’ participation is automatically renewed when they have achieved their aims at the end of the season.
