Christian Lundgaard Joins Renault Sport Academy

Dane Christian Lundgaard whom has been announced few weeks ago as part of the 2017 SMP F4 NEZ Championship certified by FIA, has been integrated today into Renault Sport Academy.

Not long after being announced in the third season of the North European Zone Series, the first Denmark-born driver enrolled in the SMP F4 NEZ Championship has been rewarded for his results by entering the prestigious Renault Sport Academy alongside Jarno Opmeer, 2016 SMP F4 NEZ Championship runner-up, Jack Aitken, Max Fewtrell, Sun Yue Yang and Marta Garcia, the latest entering the 2017 F4 Spanish Championship.

The Renault Sport Academy was started in 2016 to continue Renault’s rich heritage of developing young driver talent and is tasked with finding future Renault Sport Formula 1 World Champions. It utilises Renault Sport Racing’s various platforms and global motorsport structures in its quest to nurture new talent, involving the local Renault markets in seeking new drivers from their regions.

Renault has an impressive record of finding the F1 stars of the future, with the likes of Robert Kubica, Lucas di Grassi, Pastor Maldonado, Heikki Kovalainen, Jérôme d’Ambrosio and Romain Grosjean being nurtured through previous Renault driver development programmes.

Christian Lundgaard: “First, I’d like to thank Renault and the Renault Sport Academy for this opportunity. It feels great already to be part of the programme. This year is key for me as it will be my first season in single-seaters after karting. The Renault Sport Academy will help me prepare physically and mentally for this new challenge ahead and it feels fantastic to have such support from the team involved.”