One year ago, 35,000 spectators attended the debut of the World Series by Nissan in Belgium. The local hero Bas Leinders, third overall - and recently appointed the official third driver in the Minardi Cosworth F1 Team - was one of the main attractions for the local supporters, who had to miss their Formula One event due to the tobacco ban.

After the opening round of the 2004 season  at Jarama, were Enrique Bernoldi (GD Racing) took two victories, the Brazilian moves to Zolder as provisional leader of the 450 Hp Series.  Following closely, the Argentinean Juan Cruz is second, putting an impressive drive in both heats for the Gabord Competition Team. Former Champ Car driver Tiago Monteiro made a very respectable debut in the World Series with one podium position and finishing 6th in the second race to be placed third in the overall.

The French Team Paul Belmondo Racing made a promising debut placing Ryo Fukuda in the podium.

Gabord Competición and Epsilon Euskadi will be testing at Valencia this week.  Both Teams will employ their official drivers,  Gabord Competición will be testing different set-ups and working closely with  Ralph Firman.  The same task for Vilariño and Ravier, who complained about the performance of the car after their poor results in Jarama.

RC Motorsport will be testing in Zolder with Olivier Pla.

The rest of the teams, including those for the World Series Light categories,  will travel to  Zolder for the Collective Test on Thursday,  22nd of April - Friday track activity will start at 14.10 due of the noise ban imposed by the authorities in the area.

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