Petrus Handoyo

Petrus Handoyo (born 30th March, 1975 in Jakarta, Indonesia) is a racing driver with Indonesian nationality. He has driven in many series including Life Grand Prix Series, Rejects-1 World Championship, AltCART, and some F1 drives. His son, Matius Handoyo is also a racing driver.

Early Life

Petrus Handoyo was born in 1975 in a motorsport-fan family in Jakarta, Indonesia. Altough he had driven karts quite often, it was not until the age of ten he took motorsport career seriously. He drived in some kart championships in Autralia, finishing best 5th in 1989. First time he drive on an international race was 1990 Australian Drivers Championship, at a young age of just 15 years old. He managed to secured 8th place in the championship, with one victory, beating Mark McLaughin by 0.003 seconds. This success let him secure a drive for 1991 in Japanese Formula 3. He finished 9th in the championship, without win with 2 podiums. For 1992 he moved to Europe, competing in some F3 races and some F3000 races. None of them are full season so he finished quite low in the championship. He took 3rd place in Pau F3000 round.

Life Grand Prix

Handoyo secured a long-time partnership with a Canadian team Caraxl Racing, one of major factor why is because one of it's founder is Indonesian. Handoyo helped the team develop the car in testing while also doing some F3000 race. His first chance for race came in Mondello after James Generic was injured. Handoyo qualified 28th, and saves his car in the last 2 cars running until himself got a brake failure, hitting the dangerous dirt enbankments at Turn 3, resulting himself an injury for two months. This does not lessen his ambition in racing. Back for Austrian to French round, he failed to finish all races. Final chance of the year came on the race at Nusantara area (Malaysia and Indonesia). After retiring in Malaysia, Handoyo finished 5th in home soil, boosting both popularity his and skill.

Rejects-1 World Championship

Petrus Handoyo enters the Rejects-1 World Championship in 1994, the arguably continuation of the demised Life Grand Prix Series. Caraxl Racing elected to run EuroBrun ER188B which proved quite disappointing. Handoyo finished only 5 races in the season, 1 DNQ at Australia, with 1 podium (3rd) at Canada. Handoyo ashamed himself when he accidentaly stalled his car just seconds before his home race got underway, thus earning 37th (last) driver on the race report. Handoyo finished the season 25th in the standings with 27 points.

Entering 1995, Caraxl Racing decided to switch to Life L190, a car which they already got familiar with despite some changes by Rejects-1 comission. Handoyo announced he will miss round 2 and 3 of 1995 due to university conflicts. The year started surprisingly as Handoyo managed to maximized the low-drag car of Life, taking pole position at Daytona Speedway Road Course, USA. However, on the last lap a heartbreak, he was overtaken by Shigeru Hashimoto because of tires degrading due to him observed driving on the high lane of the banking. He finished 2nd having led all but final lap. Returning at round 4, performance free-falls, he scored no points in the next 7 races, finishing twice outside points. He decided to took a break from racing to continue his study and some steam-releasing vacation. He returned at Sentul and finished 7th. Handoyo finished 28th in the standings with 20 points.

Personal Life

Handoyo married to Sandra Elias, and had two children, Matius and Triana. Matius is the one who followed his father's footsteps.

Handoyo has a unique helmet. The helmet has a batik pattern, and coloured in a four-way symmetrical way of blue, yellow, green, and red. He once asked why his helmet looks like that, his answer was: "My country is a very diversed country in terms of everything. Batik represents one of the most important heritage, while the colours represents the unity of our culture and people."

Career Results

Rejects-1

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	DC	Points
1994	Caraxl Racing	USA Ret	CAN 9	ARG 3	BRA Ret	ITA 7	FRA Ret	AUT 5	GER Ret	GBR Ret	IRE Ret	NED Ret	BEL Ret	FIN Ret	JPN Ret	NZL 10	AUS DNQ	IDN Ret	25th	27
1995	Caraxl Racing	EUS 2	WUS	CAN	BRA Ret	NZL Ret	AUS Ret	JPN Ret	ITA Ret	GBR 13	IRE 17	FRA	GER	BEL	NOR	POR	MAL	IDN 7	28th	20