SHAABAN2F1 is my motorsport development program in the established F1 Ladder championships, with the aim of making me into a competitive Arab F1 driver while increasing Middle East awareness of the F1 Ladder and my Partners' shared Vision.

Shell is a SHAABAN2F1 Premier Sponsor Partner, and has helped inaugurate the first-ever program to develop an Arab driver towards F1.  Shell has over 70 years of motorsport sponsorship history and currently sponsors Ferrari in F1, Ducati in MotoGP, and Audi in Le Mans.  Our partnership marks the first time Shell has ever sponsored an individual on the F1 Ladder.

If you are interested in joining us on this global challenge and would like to learn more about SHAABAN2F1, please send us an email by clicking on the button below.

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The route to prove oneself capable of competing in F1 is called the "F1 Ladder" of which the final two most-challenging steps, appearing schematically to the right, are:
 

Penultimate Step: F3 EURO SERIES
 
• Considered to be a "smaller-scale F1" as it shares a similar driving technique, F3 is an essential development series for future F1 drivers – legendary F1 champions Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher came to the fore in F3.
 

• The Euro Series is the pinnacle of global F3 competition. Seven 2008 F1 race-drivers are graduates, including star-drivers Lewis Hamilton, Nico Rosberg, Robert Kubica and Sebastian Vettel. Four 2007 F3 Euro Series drivers are now official F1 test drivers.

 
Final Step: GP2 SERIES & GP2 ASIA
 
• Lapping within 6-10 seconds of the quickest F1 cars, GP2 Series is the official F1 support series. Races support F1 during all the European Grands Prix each season. Twelve F1 race and test drivers graduated into F1 from GP2 since its 2005 inception, such as Lewis Hamilton, Nico Rosberg, Heikki Kovalainen and Nelson Piquet.
 

• GP2 Asia is a new winter-season GP2 championship that will support the final Asian rounds of a given F1 season and the opening Asian rounds of the F1 season which follows.