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Johan Jokinen- Personifying Rapidity

Johan Jokinen- Personifying RapidityJohan is a formula racing champion born in June 1990, who created a niche in Formula championships. Speed and fast cornering were the only things that smiled and obsessed him from his childhood age. With no motorsports family background and any relative support, Johan has struggled for his initial couple of years before sending off a mark of an exceptional car racer at European championship in year 2006.

This Danish motorsports racer spent entire 2007, in his native country. He competed with Egebart in Danish Formula Ford Series by taking many victories away and also secured first position in Danish Automobile Sports Union (DASU). He was also awarded the talent of the year by DASU, which opened doors to him for international championships. Johan had participated in KEO racing, which put him through the first race of ‘Formula Renault 2’ as a part of international formula racing. In year 2008, Johan experienced an outstanding debut season with regular progress and victorious season at Motopark Academy. The year 2009, brought him golden opportunity to get trained with renowned motor racers like Robert Kubica and Jarno Trulli at driver’s academy in Italy.

Johan was signed by Kolles & Heinz Union to drive for the Formula Three Euroseries where he made the full-time set up to Formula Three Championships. Aspired to prove his racing talent, Johan was involved in official 2009 formula winter championship. It took him only two days to excel out of all participants as he shown most consistent and fastest performance ever in his life. The year 2010 set up strong ladder for his success by contributing two most important ‘FIA Formula 2’ and ‘Formula one’ championships to his performance. The injuries of Johan were never suppressed his capabilities, even though he faced lot of unlucky incidents and mechanical failures throughout his career. Even after taking long summer break in year 2010, he sealed the Peugeot Spider Cup Championship exceptionally well. Besides racing, Johan Jokinen kept himself busy in several activities like football, cycling as well as skiing and he has strong affection towards music, cooking and books.

Johan very well knows how to get into the zone of racing and direct all the energy into it. Proper car control, track awareness and alertness of other racers action is what he keep within his scope of concentration while driving. He has the ability to run the car with balance, on any racing track and in any weather conditions.

 

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