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'''Nick Nurmester''' (born 7th March, 1988 in Birmingham, England) is a Finnish-British racing driver racing under a Finnish license. He is best known for competing in various touring car series and is currently driving in the [[F3RWRS]]. He is the cousin of former Formula One driver [[Niko Nurminen]], who is also managing him at the moment. He is also the son of [[Thomas Nurmester]] and half-brother of [[Nathan Nurmester]].
 
'''Nick Nurmester''' (born 7th March, 1988 in Birmingham, England) is a Finnish-British racing driver racing under a Finnish license. He is best known for competing in various touring car series and is currently driving in the [[F3RWRS]]. He is the cousin of former Formula One driver [[Niko Nurminen]], who is also managing him at the moment. He is also the son of [[Thomas Nurmester]] and half-brother of [[Nathan Nurmester]].
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It didn't take long for him to be signed by [[Jones Racing]], who had already been interested in him during 2014. As he was retained by the team in a reserve role due to lack of race seats, Nurmester was sent on loan to [[Kamaha Junior Motorsport]] to replace the banned [[Anita Horford]]. However, his first race for a new team didn't go well as while he qualified 9th, way ahead of his team mate [[Victoria Desai]], in the race he crashed and eventually finished 27th. In the second German race he retired early on with transmission problems, while at Spa he had a very poor race and finished 34th. After a poor qualifying at the first race in Italy, he gained places during the race for probably the first time during the whole season and finished 18th. In the second race he crashed with [[Marko Jantscher]] and finished 29th. A wheel problem in the first Japanese race forced him to finish 28th, but in the second race he scored his debut points with an 8th after a last-lap overtake. At the season-ending Surfers Superprix he finished 15th after a poor qualifying.
 
It didn't take long for him to be signed by [[Jones Racing]], who had already been interested in him during 2014. As he was retained by the team in a reserve role due to lack of race seats, Nurmester was sent on loan to [[Kamaha Junior Motorsport]] to replace the banned [[Anita Horford]]. However, his first race for a new team didn't go well as while he qualified 9th, way ahead of his team mate [[Victoria Desai]], in the race he crashed and eventually finished 27th. In the second German race he retired early on with transmission problems, while at Spa he had a very poor race and finished 34th. After a poor qualifying at the first race in Italy, he gained places during the race for probably the first time during the whole season and finished 18th. In the second race he crashed with [[Marko Jantscher]] and finished 29th. A wheel problem in the first Japanese race forced him to finish 28th, but in the second race he scored his debut points with an 8th after a last-lap overtake. At the season-ending Surfers Superprix he finished 15th after a poor qualifying.
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Nurmester also got the nod to drive in the F2RWRS for the final race of the 2015 season, the Indianapolis 100, as a replacement to [[Falik Arrows]]' [[Yuka Katayama]] who had been injured in the previous round at Round America. While his qualifying went poorly due to being blocked, he carefully managed through the attrition-filled race to finish 5th and last, scoring points in his debut.
  
 
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Nick Nurmester
Nationality Flag of Finland svg.png/Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Finnish/British
Born 7th March, 1988
Birmingham, England
F3RWRS
Debut Season 2015
Latest Season 2016
Current Team Jones Racing
Car Number 6
Former Teams Kamaha Junior Motorsport, JLD Motorsport
Races 12
Championships 0
Victories 0
Podiums 0
Points 1
Pole Positions 0
Fastest Laps 0
First Race 2015 F3RWRS Round of Australia
First Victory N/A
Last Victory N/A
Last Race 2015 F3RWRS Surfers Superprix
Best Finish =31st (2015)
F2RWRS
Debut Season 2015
Latest Season 2015
Current Team N/A
Car Number 3
Former Teams Falik Arrows
Races 1
Championships 0
Victories 0
Podiums 0
Points 4
Pole Positions 0
Fastest Laps 0
First Race 2015 Indianapolis 100
First Victory N/A
Last Victory N/A
Last Race 2015 Indianapolis 100
Best Finish 27th (2015)


Nick Nurmester (born 7th March, 1988 in Birmingham, England) is a Finnish-British racing driver racing under a Finnish license. He is best known for competing in various touring car series and is currently driving in the F3RWRS. He is the cousin of former Formula One driver Niko Nurminen, who is also managing him at the moment. He is also the son of Thomas Nurmester and half-brother of Nathan Nurmester.

Early life

Nick Nurmester is the son of now-retired FIA official Thomas Nurmester, who fell in love with a Finnish exchange student in the winter of 1987, having just gotten out of a nasty divorce the previous year. Thomas already had a son in Nathan, who he had intended to bring up as the next big British racing star. But the Finnish genes Nick had inherited from his mother made Thomas to change his focus, believing that the heritage would play a crucial part in his future success, and Nathan was left out in the cold. This would eventually lead to Nathan cutting his ties with Thomas at the age of 20; they have not talked ever since.

However, Nick wasn't so interested in racing at first, largely caused by the horrors of the 1994 Formula One season. This delayed the start of his racing career by a few years.

Early career

Nurmester's helmet

Nurmester finally started racing karts competitively in Finland at the age of 9, encouraged by his cousin Niko Nurminen's racing efforts. His first season was also funded by his cousin, but the next three ones he spent with various other teams. After one unsuccessful year in the European Junior championship, he returned to the Finnish championship for another two years. In 2003, he took an unexpected turn and raced in the Finnish Jokamiesluokka for the next two years. He then got his first experience with stock cars in a rather unremarkable season in the Honda Civic Nordic Championship. However, his next season in the local Super Touring series was a huge success, losing out to the champion by only six points. In 2007, he started driving in the Nordic F3 Championship again with his cousin's help, but after lack of success Nurminen withdrew his support after one and a half seasons. Nurmester then finished the year in BTCC, but without any chance of success in the hopeless BTC Racing team. In 2009 he made his debut in LFSTCC, showing great skill in qualifying but often failing to convert those chances to results due to his unreliability. He also made an appearance in one Formula Two race this year, an entry funded by his cousin as the last attempt to get Nurmester break through into the single-seater championship. However, Nurmester retired after spinning out in his only race. After that Nurmester concentrated on LFSTCC, being an excellent qualifier but still unreliable in the races. In 2013 he came close to winning the championship but lost after spinning out in the last corner of the last lap of the last race.

F3RWRS

At the 2014 Surfers Superprix, it was announced that Nurmester has signed a contract with JLD Motorsport for a drive in the 2015 F3RWRS championship. However, he suffered from poor reliability and only finished once, in 9th, before being sacked after the Monaco SuperPrix. Before his sacking he was also the test and reserve driver for Melrose Racing Team during the 2015 Rejects of LFS season along with Joel Melrose and Nathan McKane.

It didn't take long for him to be signed by Jones Racing, who had already been interested in him during 2014. As he was retained by the team in a reserve role due to lack of race seats, Nurmester was sent on loan to Kamaha Junior Motorsport to replace the banned Anita Horford. However, his first race for a new team didn't go well as while he qualified 9th, way ahead of his team mate Victoria Desai, in the race he crashed and eventually finished 27th. In the second German race he retired early on with transmission problems, while at Spa he had a very poor race and finished 34th. After a poor qualifying at the first race in Italy, he gained places during the race for probably the first time during the whole season and finished 18th. In the second race he crashed with Marko Jantscher and finished 29th. A wheel problem in the first Japanese race forced him to finish 28th, but in the second race he scored his debut points with an 8th after a last-lap overtake. At the season-ending Surfers Superprix he finished 15th after a poor qualifying.

F2RWRS

Nurmester also got the nod to drive in the F2RWRS for the final race of the 2015 season, the Indianapolis 100, as a replacement to Falik Arrows' Yuka Katayama who had been injured in the previous round at Round America. While his qualifying went poorly due to being blocked, he carefully managed through the attrition-filled race to finish 5th and last, scoring points in his debut.

Personal life

Nurmester is the son of former Formula One driver and FIA official Thomas Nurmester, who also had another son - Nathan - with a different mother. This makes Nathan and Nick half-brothers, although they've rarely talked to each other. He is also a cousin of Niko Nurminen, a former Formula One driver from Finland who made sporadic appearances in the mid-90s driving for Pacific, Forti and the failed Precision Motorsports F1 team before moving to F1RGP2C. After retiring from motorsports in 2007, Nurminen has concentrated on helping Nurmester in his motorsports career.

Complete Motorsport Results

Career Summary

Year Series Team Position
1997 Finnish Junior Kart Championship Nurminen Racing Engineering 8th
1998 Finnish Junior Kart Championship Team Virtanen 5th
1999 Finnish Junior Kart Championship Orimattila Racing Team 1st
2000 European Junior Kart Championship Tikkurila GP Team 12th
2001 Finnish Junior Kart Championship Tikkurila GP Team 2nd
2002 Finnish Junior Kart Championship Tikkurila GP Team 1st
2003 Finnish Jokamiesluokka, Junior Series Independent 8th
2004 Finnish Jokamiesluokka, Junior Series Independent 4th
2005 Honda Civic Nordic Championship VAK Engineering 13th
2006 Finnish Super Touring Championship Independent 2nd
2007 Nordic Formula 3 Championship Nurminen Racing Engineering 14th
2008 Nordic Formula 3 Championship Nurminen Racing Engineering 8th
British Touring Car Championship BTC Racing 27th
2009 Live for Speed Touring Car Championship ATL Racing 10th
FIA Formula Two Championship Nurminen Racing Engineering 28th
2010 Live for Speed Touring Car Championship ATL Racing 4th
2011 Live for Speed Touring Car Championship ATL Racing 8th
2012 Live for Speed Touring Car Championship BH Motorsport 5th
2013 Live for Speed Touring Car Championship BH Motorsport 2nd
2014 Live for Speed Touring Car Championship BH Motorsport 12th
2015 F3RWRS JLD Motorsport/Kamaha Junior Motorsport =31st
F2RWRS Falik Arrows 27th
2016 F3RWRS Jones Racing ongoing

Complete Motorsport Results

F3RWRS

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Pts DC
AUS TUR MON USA GBR GER SPA ITA JPN SUR 1 =31st
2015 JLD Motorsport Ret Ret 9 35† Ret
Kamaha Junior Motorsport 27 Ret 34 18 29 28 8 15

F2RWRS

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 DC Pts
2015 Falik Arrows TAS RSA TUR MON FRA GBR GER BEL AUT ITA NED SIN JPN USA 100
5 		27th 4

† Did not finish, but was classified due to completing 90% of the race distance</br> * Season in progress

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