Marko Jantscher

Jantscher (F3RWRS)

Marko Jantscher (born 21th January 1995 in Salzburg, Austria) is an Austrian race driver currently contracted to Licor Beirão. A former driver in German F3, he raced for Fusion Motorsports in his first F3RWRS season.

Early life

Marko was born in Salzburg to Florian, a director at a building aggregates company and Karina, a forensic scientist. The family moved to Düsseldorf when Jantscher was 12, where he first went karting. Discovering an innate talent, Jantscher entered a few championships in the west of Germany. Much to the anger of his rivals, the young Austrian dominated each championship he entered, bagging himself a drive in the ADAC Formel Masters championship.

Racing Career

ADAC Formel Masters and Formula 3

Jantscher managed to come 2nd in his first season of the ADAC Formel Masters series, which included wins in all three races at Oschersleben. He was picked up for German Formula 3, and this time came 3rd in the championship with 289 points.

GPG Nations Cup

On the back of these great results, Jantscher was seen as something of an up-and-coming talent destined to make it to the top. He was nominated for the Austria team of the [GrandPrixGames Nations Cup], guiding his country to 7th and 6th places in the two seasons they entered. As Fusion principal Jake Legge also ran that team, he brought Jantscher with him to F3RWRS.

F3RWRS

Jantscher was announced alongside Leandro Moreira for the new Fusion Motorsports F3RWRS team. After a steady start, he had a run of five podiums in a row, culminating in a sprint race win at Donington. He won again in the sprint at the Norisring, and this run of good form alerted top teams like Jones Racing, Licor Beirão and Aston Martin. He signed a deal with Licor Beirão, but after the negotiations came to a close Jantscher endured some terrible luck. Having been hung out to dry at Ascari by his teammate Stefan Kuntz in the first Italy race, Nick Nurmester took him off in the second race. Suspension failure and electrical problems curtailed the hopes of more points at Fuji Speedway, taking the Austrian out of the title race. This hoodoo continued into the last race, where Daniel Melrose made an overtaking manoeuvre on Jantscher at Surfers' Paradise. Unfortunatly, Jantscher had nowhere to go except the wall which capped off a disappointing end to an otherwise impressive year.

F2RWRS

After some long negotiations, Jantscher was confirmed as a Licor Beirão driver for 2016 F2RWRS season, and will replace the F1RWRS-bound Alberto Cara.

Results

F3RWRS

Year	Team	Chassis	Engine	1		2		3	4		5		6		7	8		9		10	DC	Pts
2015	Fusion Motorsports	Fusion FM-01	Audi F3-1	AUS R1 4	AUS R2 21	TUR R1 4	TUR R2 9	MON SP 3	USA R1 2	USA R2 3	GBR R1 2	GBR R2 1	GER R1 21	GER R2 1	SPA SP 5	ITA R1 37	ITA R2 18	JPN R1 Ret	JPN R2 34	SUR SP Ret	5th	69

F2RWRS

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	DC	Pts
2015	Aston Martin Motor Racing	TAS	RSA	TUR	MON	FRA	GBR	GER	BEL	AUT	ITA	NDS	SIN	JPN	USA	100 Ret	39th	0
2016	Licor Beirão Portugal Racing	AUS	PAC	GBR	ITA	AUT	TUR	USA	GER	NDS	MON	TBA	CHN	JPN	100		N/A*	0*