Charlie Kimball

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Charlie Kimball (born February 20, 1985 in Chertsey, England) is an Anglo-American racecar driver currently competing in the World Series by Renault championship.

Kimball driving for Victory Engineering in the Donington Park round of the 2007 World Series by Renault season.

Kimball's single-seater career started in 2002 when he took part in the American Formula Dodge national championship, finishing the season in 10th place overall. He also won three races in the SCCA Formula Ford series. For 2003 he moved up to Formula Ford U.S., finishing third overall with two race wins and seven podium finishes. He also contested the UK Formula Ford winter series, taking one race win to finish third overall.

In 2004 he competed in the full UK Formula Ford championship for Team JLR, taking two race wins and eleven podiums on his way to fourth in the championship. In the end-of-season Formula Ford Festival at Brands Hatch he finished in eighth place. His performances earned him a drive with front runners Carlin Motorsport in the 2005 British Formula 3 championship, where he took five race wins to finish an impressive second behind team-mate Álvaro Parente. He also finished 12th in the Malboro Masters at Zandvoort, but failed to finish the season-ending Macau Grand Prix.

For 2006 Kimball stayed in Formula 3, but moved up to the F3 Euroseries with the French Signature-Plus team. He took one race win and three podiums to finish the season in eleventh place. Once again, he took part in the Masters Formula 3 race at Zandvoort and the Macau Grand Prix, finishing in 9th and 21st places respectively.

In 2007 he is competing in the World Series by Renault for the Italian Victory Engineering team, alongside Dutchman Giedo van der Garde.^[1]