| Kristjan Einar comes from Iceland - the high north island where population numbers around 300.000 people and a race track does not exist. The motorsport culture consists of rally, rallycross, dragracing, off-road, motocross and karting. Single seaters have never been an option.
Kristjan Einar began competing in karts at 14 - as local law doesn't allow younger drivers to compete. This also prevented him from circuit-practice so Einar Karlsson his grandfather took him and a small kart to an old rallycross track in a lavafield outside Reykjavik and there he drove - every weekend, rain, shine or snow. When finally 14 he began competing in carts motorsport mentor Steingrímur Ingason joined in.
Kristjan Einar´s confidence racing in bad visibility, pouring rain and slippery tracks like when he took his first F3 podium at Monza, has been traced back to all those rounds on slicks at the icy track!
Armed with the National Karting title and support of his family and friends he went to the UK and got the opportunity to test for FMBW with Carlin Motorsport. The testing was at Pembrey in Wales on June 24th in 2007. It ignited a chain of challenges and - to make a long story short - brought Kristjan Einar to the grid of the British Formula 3, racing in the National Class with the most successful BF3 team of all times - 7 months from to the day he drove a single seater for the first time in his life
Before the British F3 season began, Kristján Einar went with his Carlin Engineer, Matt Ogle and his father, Kristján Fridriksson to the other end of the world and participated in a challenging 9 race/3 weekend International Trophy part of the Toyota Racing Series in New Zealand. On January 6th 2008 he raced a single seater for the first time at the Ruapuna Raceway with the NZ Triple X Motorsports team.
In the British Formula 3 Kristján Einar competed with Carlin Motorsport and became a part of the teams incredible driver rooster with Jaimie Alguersuari, Brendon Hartley, Oliver Turvey and Sam Abay in the International Class and Andy Meyrick as his Welsh teammate in the National Class. For a beginner on this grid, this was great company, offering endless experience and talent to draw from, the drivers and racing mentors like Trevor Carlin, Martin Stone, Steve Hollman, Gary Bonner and Carlin's outstanding group of engineers and mechanics.
Kristján Einar was in 4th place overall into mid seaon, but finished 7th overall of 15 National Class competitors in total, following point-less race weekends in Bucharest where he was crashed out and at Donington BF3 finals where he could not attend.
With his eye on proceeding to the Atlantic Championship, Kristján Einar met with the owners and managers of Newman Wachs Racing in September 2008 and tested with the team in early winter. The testing was done at Sebring Florida and Kristjan Einar tested with flying colors and excellent assessments from team manager Brian Halahan and NWR´s chief engineer Don Halliday. An onboard from the Sebring tests is accessable on the videowall.
The Atlantic season had to go on hold only weeks before the first race at Sebring, when Kristján Einar´s US sponsor withdrew due to world financial affairs. Within a week, Kristján Einar was back in Europe testing with Team West-Tec for the new FLMS series. Test went well and resulted in a seat, not in the FLMS though but in the European Formula 3 Open. He raced in the championship on 6 of it's 8 raceweekends on Europes main circuits and under great mentoring of TWT's engineers like Gavin Wills which led Kristjan Einar to his 2nd podium at Donington Park. Team mates in 2009 were two champions, Norwegean Thor-Christian Ebbesvik and Britain't Callum Macleod.
Kristjan Einar has just finished his 2.nd season in cars and proven that on the grid with drivers of several years ahead in race experience he has a great and consistently growing talent. This years developments in his home country Iceland have made his racing extremely hard - but not impossible. When you never see problems, only projects that require a lot of work, things get done. Kristján Einar is a good example of his own motto: The harder you work the luckier you get! He has come a long way in a short time and his goals are set high.
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