Sten Pentus
Sten Pentus ( born November 3, 1981 in Tallinn) is an Estonian racing driver. He took from 2008 to 2011 in the Formula Renault 3.5 part. In 2012 he started in the Auto GP World Series.
Career
After Pentus was active in karting and, inter alia, Had become in 1996 the Estonian junior runner-up, he moved in 2000 to Formula racing and became an instant champion in Formula Baltic and the Baltic formula 4 Pentus 2001 remained in the Baltic formula 4 and won this championship one more time. In the following two seasons, he has started again in Formula Baltic and won the 2002 runner-up title in this series. In addition, he left in 2002 in both the Finnish as well as in the Baltic Touring Car Championship at the start. Mid-2004 Pentus in the German Formula BMW, finishing in 18th place in the drivers' standings. After he was gone again in Formula Baltic in 2005 at the start, he took in 2006 to some races of the Formula Renault 2.0 Euro Cups and part of the North European Formula Renault.
Started in 2007 Pentus in the BARC Formula Renault and came eleventh in the standings. He then joined in the winter of 2007 to the winter championship of the BARC Formula Renault and he won his first race outside of his Baltic homeland. 2008 Pentus went to the British Formula Renault at the start. There he failed to build on the successes of the previous year and he finished only 18th in the overall standings. He also made his debut in Formula Renault 3.5. 2009 Pentus received a cockpit for the entire season of Formula Renault 3.5 at Mofaz Racing. Already in the second race of the new season the Estonians succeeded as second his first podium placement in the Formula Renault 3.5. In the rest of the season but it did not succeed to build on his good start to the season, and scored only three further points race. At the end of the season, he finished 16th overall. 2010 remained Pentus in Formula Renault 3.5 and went for Fortec Motorsport at the start. As in the previous season succeeded Pentus a good start to the season and he won the second race in Alcaniz his first race in this championship. This season he managed to score regularly and he scored at the Hungaroring another victory. At the end of the season he took fourth place in the championship, which was well ahead of his teammate Jon Lancaster, who was 13. 2011 denied Pentus EPIC Racing its fourth season in Formula Renault 3.5. He failed to build on the achievements from the previous season and he was a sixth place as best result and 11 points, 24 in the championship. His team-mate Albert Costa totaled 151 points in fourth place.
2012 were Pentus for the second race weekend for Virtuosi UK Racing in the Auto GP World Series a. After he had paused a race weekend, he received a cockpit at Zele Racing for two events. With a fourth place as best result he was 15th in the driver standings.
Personal
Sten Pentus is the younger brother of the Estonian politician Keit Pentus (* 1976).
Career stations
- 2000: Baltic formula 4 (Master)
- 2000: Formula Baltic (Master)
- 2001: Baltic formula 4 (Master)
- 2001: Baltic Touring Car Championship, Super 1600 (2nd place)
- 2002: Formula Baltic (2nd place)
- 2002: Baltic Touring Car Championship, B2000 ( 7th place)
- 2002: Finnish Touring Car Championship
- 2003: Formula Baltic (4th place )
- 2004: German Formula BMW ( 18th place)
- 2005: Formula Baltic ( place 10 )
- 2006: Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup
- 2006: North European Formula Renault ( 30th place )
- 2007: BARC Formula Renault (11th )
- 2007: BARC Formula Renault Winter Series (4th place )
- 2008: British Formula Renault ( 18th place)
- 2008: Formula Renault 3.5 (ranked 31)
- 2009: Formula Renault 3.5 ( 16th place)
- 2010: Formula Renault 3.5 ( 4th place)
- 2010: Toyota Racing Series (4th place )
- 2011: Formula Renault 3.5 (ranked 24)
- 2012: Auto GP ( 15th place)