MARK GODDARD is the managing director of the Asian Forumula Three Corporation, which is based in Manila in the Philippines. Though he is British, there are a lot of Brits involved in the Asian racing scene, probably because it's a pretty new thing to have competitive racing events in Asia, and there are so many British expats living in Australia. Also, Asia means opportunities that don't exist for many drivers in Britain, as the cost of having a team in Asia is a fraction of what it would cost in Britain (about $160,000 US as opposed to the $800,000 it would cost in Britain).
F3 is for newer drivers, by winning these races a driver can work their way up to the Formula One racing that gets the big audiences and sponsorship money.
The Asian Formula Three Corporation are eight racing teams, including "Team Goddard", of which Mark Goddard is the Team Principal. Thus he probably traveled with his team to Zuhai China for the first 3 rounds in January, to Albert Park Australia in March, and I think the team isn't advancing farther than that this year but if they did they would go to Sentul Indonesia in May and finally back to Zuhai China in July.
Mr. Goddard never got that far as a driver, his best showing was finishing 3rd in the B-series in British F3. But was apparently a roomate of former worldclass F1 driving Eddie Irvine, who even was able to win with cars designed by overrated Jaguar, while that company briefly experimented with F1 racing. Irvine is now the fifth richest person in northern Ireland.
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