2007 F-BMW Asia: James Grunwell

James Grunwell is 16 years old and competing in his 2nd Formula BMW Asia championship. He showed a great deal of talent during the 2006 series and was almost there many times. His professional and mature attitude has come to the front and he his finally won his first Formula BMW race during the first event of the 2007 Formula BMW series. He almost took his second win closing a 4second cap. watch this driver he has the talent to go all the way!

2007 F-BMW Asia: Jazeman Jaafar

Jazeman Jaafar is only 14 years old and already the youngest winner ever in a Formula BMW race car. Jazeman earned his place in the Meritus Hall of Fame for his double win during the first event of the 2007 Formula BMW Asia championship. Note this name he will be in F1!

2006 F-BMW Asia: Earl Bamber

Earl Bamber is the youngest driver at 16 ever to win the 'Formula BMW Asia Championship' title and by wining 10 races in his rookie year Earl also is the first driver to win both the Driver and Rookie championships. Bambi should have won more but a wiring loom failure in qualifying for rounds 6,7 and 8 cost him a lot and a selector failure in round 11 cost him a win while leading. This young seriously cool racer has all the potential to go a long way in the sport and the Meritus team are proud to add him to our hall of fame.

2006 F-BMW Asia: Hamad Al Farden

Hamad Al Fardan earned his place in the Meritus Hall of Fame with the Meritus 05 FBMWA team. Hamad rejoined the Meritus in 2006 but this time with the all-new Meritus FV6 Asia Team. Hamad has won his place as the 1st Meritus Hall of Fame winner by firstly winning Rds1&2 of the 06 FBMWA Series as a warm-up for his attack on the 06 FV6 Asia Series. Hamad followed these two wins with a P1 in Round 3 of the FV6 [including a P3 (rd1) P2 (rd2) and a P4 (rd4)]. Hamad is currently leading the inaugural Formula V6 Asia Championship.

2006 F-BMW Asia: Earl Bamber

'Bambi' as he is called by his friends, this very young (15) New Zealander has impressed many with his outstanding racecraft by winning Rds 3,4 & 5 of the 2006 Formula BMW Asia series. Earl is a cool dude and very focused and always very mature when he is working with his engineers. He knows what he needs and has but one target for 2006 - the BMW Driver's Title.

2005 F-BMW Asia Winner: Hamad Al Farden

Hamad had just turned 18 and for his birthday he was awarded 20 points for his first ever Formula win in round 5 of the Formula BMW Asia Championship. Hamad drove a fault-free race, pressurizing team mate and pole sitter Michael Patrizi until Patrizi made a small error. Taking over the lead to drive to a stylist win on the tight and demanding Bira circuit near Pattaya in Thailand. Returning to Bahrain he was met at the airport by a royal group of enthusiastic followers including a representative of the Bahraini King. Since the first win of his career, Hamad has gone on to take two more great wins in round 8 and 9 of the Championship and has now equalled the championship leaders points.

2005 F-BMW Asia Winner: Michael Patrizi

Michael Patrizi has a great Italian name that befits a winner, he also has the self-confidence, the ability, the racecraft and the desire to be a world champion. Combined with his own domineering style, Michael has put together all the right ingredients to win. He almost got it right in round 1, almost in round 5, almost again in round 7 but his win from 6th place on the grid in round 10 proved beyond doubt that he has what it takes. With 97 points he is only 19 away from the championship leaders. On top of his wish list is to win the remaining rounds of the series but at least five more driver have also written that same request in stone.

2005 F-BMW Asia Winner: Charlie-Ro Charlez

Dubbed the ‘Jenson Button’ and ‘Asian points-master’ he should not normally be listed in the Meritus Hall of Fame for eMeritus winners but his performance during rounds 9 and 10 at the Taeback circuit in Korea has earned him enough credit to be listed with the other winners such as the Meritus F1 stars Narain and Takuma. Charlez bagged not only his 1st pole sitter slot but added a second pole to prove that it was not a fluke, while his two 2nd place finishes in rounds 9 and 10 also proved that he has a winner’s racecraft. Charlie has earned the name of the ‘Asian points-master’ for his calculating ability to read race strategy carefully and to always pick up points. His strategy could well be good advice for many ‘hero to zero’ racers; to date, without winning a race, Charlez has collected a points tally of 107 only 9 points behind the leaders with 80 points still to be distributed.

2005 F-BMW Asia Winner: Robert Boughey

Robert Boughey joined the team for the 2005 Formula BMW Asia Championship. He qualified on the front row of the grid for the second round of the series supporting the Bahrain Grand Prix on 4th April 2005. Rob had an excellent start and led every lap to achieve the first win of his motorsport career. Robert was joined by his team mate Mike Patrizi who finished 3rd in Round 2 of the Championship. In addition Mike Patrizi and his team mate Charlie Charlez finished 2nd and 3rd in Round 1 of the 2005 F-BMW Asia Championship.

2004 F-BMW Asia Champion: Marchy LEE Yin-Kin

Marchy Lee joined the team for the last round of the 2003 F-BMW Championship and he was the first driver to take pole slots away from the most dominating Chinese driver of that season, TUNG Ho Pin. Marchy went on to win the first ever Formula BMW race at the GoldenPort Beijing Circuit. Marchy has proved himself time and again as one of the top racers in Asia, and definitely the best in China. After finishing second in the 50th Macau GP Asian Formula Renault Challenge, Marchy used the 2004 Formula BMW championship to rejuvenate his career in international motorsport, earning 10 pole positions and scoring an unprecedented 12 wins from 14 starts. Entering the Macau 51st F3 Grand Prix Marchy Lee was in 8th position during early testing when an incident with two crashed cars curtailed what could have been a podium result.

For 2005 Marchy has been tipped to represent China in the A1GP Championship and a testing opportunity with the Minardi F1 team later in the year may end up with Marchy receiving a more permanent position as an F1 test driver.

2003 F-BMW Asia Champion: TUNG Ho-Pin, China

Ho-Pin completely dominated the 2003 Formula BMW Asia championship, with 10 wins and 12 pole positions out of 14 races. His performance impressed BMW Motorsports so much that they granted him a test with the BMW.Williams F1 team, making him the first ever Chinese racer to drive a modern F1 car.

2003 F-BMW Asia Championship runner-up: Hanss LIN Po Heng, Chinese Taipei

Hanss battled throughout the season with Ho-Pin, and was 1 of only 2 drivers to take a race win away from Ho-Pin. In any ordinary season Hanss would have won the championship convincingly. He is already the most successful formula racer from Chinese Taipei, and looks set to go on to greater things.

2003 Malaysian Merdeka 12-Hour Winners:

Meritus won on their first attempt the prestigious 12-hour endurance race celebrating the Malaysian National Day (Merdeka). The team entered two Porsche GT3 cars and the winning driver line-up included the Meritus MD Firhat Mohkzani, TJ Chin and Eric Chou. History was also made on that day as it was the youngest driver line-up in the history of the event.

2002 Macau GP: Hideki Mutoh

Hideki Mutoh joined the team from the same Japanese racing team as Takuma Sato, and won pole by over a second. However due to a jump start infringement he was unable to secure the win that he desired.

2002 Macau GP Winner: Jamie Green

Jamie Green joined the Meritus Renault team at the inaugural Formula Renault race supporting the 49th Macau GP, winning the event by 58 seconds.

2002 Race Winner: Meckel Ali

Meckel Ali came to the last race in the Championship regaining pace after a big flip on the Thailand Bira circuit. Meckel had all to do on the Zhuhai circuit but the ghosts of 2001 did not allow him to get the best of his car and he ended up 3rd in the last ever AF2000 Championship.

2001 Race Winner: Meckel Ali

Meckel Ali joined the Meritus team as Indonesian kart champion and in his rookie year in slicks and wings finished 4th in the championship after a big off on the very fast Zhuhai circuit and signed up for a second year with the team.

2000 Champion Driver: Ng Wai Leong

Ng Wai Leong from Malaysia re-joined the team and dominated the championship throughout the year. He has proved the Meritus investment in him over the years and has spearheaded Meritus investment in young Malaysian kartists.

1999 Macau GP Championship: Takuma Sato

Future F1 star Takuma Sato joined the team for the inaugural round of on the front row beside James Hanson where he dominated the race after leading from the first corner.

1999 Champion driver: Nattapong

Wai Leong took a break from racing in 1999 to establish his racing business in Malaysia and his place was filled by Nattapong Horthongkum from Thailand who won the championship outright at the final event in Johor Bahru.

1998 Vice Champion driver: Ng Wai Leong

Wai Leong led the team with Nurmad Jusat. There were some great racing battles between Wai Leong and the Australian champion who clinched the championship on the last round, leaving Wai Leong in second place.

1997 Champion driver: Bagoes Hermanto

Again Meritus ran a team of 3 cars with Bagoes Hermanto, Indonesian kart champion, Ng Wai Leong, a Chinese Malaysian kart champion and Nurmad Jusat, Malay rookie. Bagoes won the title, followed closely by Wai Leong. Bagoes competed in the 1998 Formula Palmer Audi series in the UK before retiring from motorsport to concentrate on his degree studies at London University. Bagoes is currently running one of the leading petrol retail companies after the removal of the petrol monopolies in Indonesia.

1996 Champion driver: Narain Karthikeyan

Narain was introduced to Meritus by his 1995 engineer Patrick Roberts, who led Meritus’ engineering success for the following 7 years. Narain won the team’s inaugural Asian championship in 1996 on the last lap of the last race in what has become one of the most exciting series in the past ten years of Asian motorsport. As a result of this championship win and the investment by Meritus in his career, Narain went on to win races in Formula Opel Lotus and F3 with further successes in F3000 which led to many wins in the 2004 Nissan World Series. Narain is the second Meritus driver to take a full time driving role in F1, joining the Jordan 2005 F1 team.

1989 to 1995 European Formulae Drivers with Meritus

Anthony Reid - England

British Touring Car Champ

David Coulthard - Scotland

F1 Winner

Vincenzo Sospiri - Italy

F3000 Champion

Diogo Castro Santos - Portugal

F3 Winner (retired)

Bernard Dolan - Ireland

Formula Open winner

Bruno Aguiar - Brazil

Formula Open Winner

Ricardo Rosset - Brazil

F1 driver