Sauber Red Bull Racing's American Dream Driver: Brook Johnston

Practice Day One here in Monte Carlo has been utterly fantastic and todays practice session heat one lived up to the hype for this weekends tight race for the championship. As I walked around today I couldn't help but noticing that the majority of the fans here seemed to be supporting the American team Sauber Red Bull Racing. I mean with a Formula One guru as your team chief and manager/coach, a high budget coming from top sponsorship and two rowdy and young American drivers, who wouldn't be infatuated with them? The last two days the team has brought out several public festivities including driving simulators, Red Bull girls, autograph sessions and freebies including posters, pens, Red Bull and other prizes to win over the public eye. Now as a huge Formula One fan and supporter of both BMW-Sauber and Red Bull Racing, I think this team certainly has the Championship winning motive and design behind their every action. Especially in their Championship points leading driver Brook Johnston. Johnston and his counterpart Jaskel are two young American drivers that have a ton of racing background in open wheel series and several crowning opportunities, placing them here in the Formula BMW Internationals Series. With several karting championships, American Formula Series championships, and experience in the American Le Mans GT Class Sports Car Series, Johnston has proved his dire right to be here in Monaco this weekend. After seeing Ross Byrann and several Formula One scouts and teams here this week running around, I would imagine Johnston has kept the public eye and the professional eye keen. His test for Formula One teams Scuderia Torro Rosso this coming August was recently announced yesterday to the Euro press and down played rather much due to one spot held for fifteen drivers trying out. As a fan and after following the American this season, I wouldn't be surprised if he performed well this weekend and maintained the points lead if he got some other superb offers from needy teams such as Renault and BMW-Sauber's Formula One teams. This weekends race will determine a large portion of the American's desire to reach Formula One and to see if he has the proper European style needed to compete in the series. Todays practice session showed Johnston as the fastest man around the track with sunny weather early in the morning with a lap time of 1:14.83. However others ran out the track with tons of traffic before a wet fog rolled in over the track and caused slower times with Sciutto of Italy as the second fastest in the heat today at 1:15.25. Sauber Red Bull Racing driver Matt Jaskel had the third fastest time of the day at 1:15.34 yet could not seem to get the car dialed in perfectly today, he explained to the press in frustration. I look forward to updating you on tomorrows qualifying session and eager anticipation to see who will come out on top. Here in Monaco the qualifying position has determined the race winner almost seventy five percent of the time.