Trent Hindman, 19, who won the 2014 Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge Grand Sport drivers title in a Fall-Line M3 that he shared with John Edwards, has been awarded one of four coveted positions in the 2015 BMW Motorsport Junior Program.
Hindman is campaigning the #46 Fall-Line M3 in this year’s CTSCC Grand Sport class along with his co-driver Ashley Freiberg, who was recently named a BMW of North America driver.
Hindman emerged as one of the winners in a seven-car shootout at the Circuito Monteblanco in southern Spain, where each driver was in an M235i Racing. A jury assessed the competitors’ abilities on a number of dimensions. BMW Motorsport’s release says the dimensions included “driving strength, consistency, understanding of the car, teamwork with the engineers, concentration, flexibility, self-assessment, ability to receive feedback and criticism, and behavior in the group.”
The other three winners were Victor Bouveng, Nick Cassidy, and Louis Delétraz. Bouveng, 18, is from Sweden. He raced in the Scirocco R Cup, a DTM support series, in 2013 and 2014. Cassidy, a 20-year old New Zealander, finished third in the Formula 3 Macau Grand Prix in 2014. He has also run touring cars in both the Australian V8 Supercar and New Zealand V8 Super Tourer series. Delétraz, who will turn eighteen on April 22, is from Switzerland. He has run in the BMW Talent Cup and Formula Renault 2.0 NEC.
BMW motorsport says: “The BMW Motorsport Juniors training program, led by chief instructor Dirk Adorf, gets underway with testing in May. In addition to a further test in September, the program includes two workshops at the iZone Driver Performance Center in Silverstone and three VLN race starts in the BMW M235i Racing. At the end of the year, the most successful BMW Motorsport Junior of the season will be given the opportunity to continue his training for a second year in a higher racing category. The winner of the 2014 BMW Motorsport Junior Program, Jesse Krohn, will complete an intensive racing program in the BMW Z4 GTE and BMW Z4 GT3 in his second year of training.”
Krohn’s season begins with the four-hour ELMS race at Silverstone on April 11, where he will share a Marc VDS Z4 GTE with Andy Priaulx and Henry Hassid.
Hindman said, "It’s truly an honor to be given this opportunity to further my education and development as a driver in the BMW Motorsport Junior Program, especially after being involved in the BMW Sports Trophy last year and celebrating great success with my team Fall-Line Motorsports and John Edwards in the BMW M3. I can’t wait until the program begins and I’m looking forward to spending time at the most incredible racetrack in the world; the Nürburgring-Nordschleife. I’m really grateful and can’t thank everybody at BMW Motorsport enough for allowing me to be a part of such an excellent program."—Brian S. Morgan
