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WSxR: Avabanana replaces Fettle at Carlin by Virgil Ellipse
15th Aug 2007
Michael Avabanana will join Carlin Motorsport for the rest of this year's World Series by Renault championship, as a replacement for Suchfine Fettle.

Fettle's promotion to Formula One with Scuderia Lollo Rosso had left a vacancy at Carlin but Avabanana will fill the gap from this weekend's round at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium.

Avabanana had been set to compete in GP2 this season but his campaign was interrupted when he broke his wrist in Bahrain. He will now finish the year in the World Series, where apparently it doesn't matter if you've only got one useable hand.

The German's appointment represents a milestone for the series, which will now feature a driver who really can't steer properly, rather than a whole grid full of drivers who merely behave as if they can't.

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KEY TO SERIES NAMES (hovering over the abbreviations in the table above also shows the full series name)
BF3CBritish F3 Championship
The top class in Britain's premier single-seater series.
F1Formula 1
The world's most prominent, most expensive and frequently most tedious single-seater series.
GP2GP2
The former Formula 2, now twice-renamed and god alone knows why.
NASCARNASCAR
Umbrella term for a number of bafflingly popular Stateside stock car series.
WSxRWorld Series by Renault
The FRenault V6 Eurocup and World Series by Nissan successor, as much of a World Series as baseball; aka Formula Renault 3.5 for some reason.