Marko Asmer was born on 30 July 1984 and is an Estonian racing driver, who won the British Formula 3 Championship title in 2007.
19 Facts About Marko Asmer
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Marko Asmer's father is a former racing driver Toivo Marko Asmer, who was Estonian Minister of Regional Affairs between 1999 and 2003.
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Marko Asmer's father is motorsports promoter, musician and politician Toivo Asmer.
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Marko Asmer began karting in 1995, aged eleven, and had won the Estonian, Baltic, Finnish and Scandinavian kart championships by 2001.
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Marko Asmer went on to make his car racing debut in 2003 and raced in British Formula Ford for team JLR.
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Marko Asmer scored six wins that season and finished in second place in the Formula Ford festival.
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Apart from a brief participation in the Formula Renault V6 Eurocup in 2003, Marko Asmer's career was henceforth focused on Formula Three in Britain and Japan.
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Marko Asmer made his British series debut in 2004 with Hitech Racing and, apart from a move to Japan in 2006, he has remained with the team in the years since.
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Marko Asmer became a championship title contender on his return to the British series in 2007, led the points standings for most of the season, and secured the title at Croft with three races remaining.
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In 2008 Marko Asmer was BMW Sauber's second test driver alongside Christian Klien and competed in seven of ten rounds in the GP2 Series for FMS International.
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In February 2011 Marko Asmer returned to motorsport when he tested a British Formula 3 car for the Double R Racing team at Silverstone, during which he set competitive times.
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Marko Asmer went on to say that he had no firm plans for the future, although he did want to take part in the Macau Grand Prix.
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Marko Asmer said that he would welcome a return to racing "if something good comes up", although a full-time return to British F3 would not interest him.
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Marko Asmer failed to finish in Race One or Two, but drove solidly to finish sixth in the Feature Race.
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In recent years Marko Asmer has returned to actively racing in competitive international motorsport.
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Marko Asmer competed in several rounds of the ADAC GT Masters.
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Marko Asmer continued to race for GT Russian Team, taking part in the 2015 Blancpain GT Series, with his best result being a 7th-place finish in the main race in the final round in Zandvoort.
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Marko Asmer raced in the top A6 category of the Dubai 24 Hour, again for the GT Russia Team.
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Since summer 2020 Marko Asmer is the manager of Estonian racing driver Juri Vips.