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Benjamin Pedersen of Copenhagen, Denmark, heads into the Formula 4 United States Championship Powered by Honda mid-season event at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course driven to defend his point lead against a stout 32-car field.

“When I have a great team behind me producing consistent results, it’s easy to get to the top, but staying there requires even more work,” said Pedersen. “Inde Motorsports Ranch in Arizona is our home testing track, so in between on-track practice sessions I’ve been taking extreme elevation runs in 100-degree heat to prepare my body for the humidity. The team and I also spent one full day reviewing turns one by one, watching past years’ videos and studying data from Mid-Ohio weekends.”

Driving the bright orange and black No. 24 DirtFish Rally F4 car, Pedersen enters the weekend with two wins, a pair of podiums and two top-five finishes.

Pedersen is one of the few drivers in the F4 U.S. field to previously compete on the 2.25 mile, 12-turn road course. Over the span of his F4 career, the Global Racing Group driver finished at Mid-Ohio in the top-10 three times, the top-five once and claimed a podium during the inaugural championship race. He returns to the Buckeye state hungry for another win.

“Mid-Ohio is also pretty tricky when rain hits with the track surface, so that is always a variable,” said Pedersen. “While I have prepared for Mid-Ohio like all the other tracks we’ve visited this season, I spent a lot more time on the simulator practicing for those tough weather conditions, especially since it rains every time we visit Mid-Ohio.”

Pedersen and the rest of the GRG squad travel to Lexington, Ohio, June 29-July 1 with a twilight test at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on Thursday, followed by two official practice sessions on Friday. Qualifying starts Saturday morning with the first round of racing in the afternoon. The weekend concludes on Sunday with the final two rounds of racing. Fans can follow Pedersen’s weekend results on the Race-Monitor app. For more information on GRG or Pedersen visit GlobalRacingGroup.com.

About Benjamin Pedersen: 
Benjamin Pedersen is a 19-year-old professional Danish-American open-wheel driver, currently competing in the F4 U.S. Championship. Pedersen has extensive training behind the wheel of multiple types of vehicles, including the Subaru STI at DirtFish, road racing GT cars, Formula Mazda and kart racing, where he has achieved multiple wins and podium finishes. In his professional racing career, Pedersen has captured five-wins, with his most memorable win during the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix with F4, five top-three finishes, 17 top-ten placements and placed second in the FIA F4 U.S. 2017 points. His goal is to work his way through the formula ranks into Formula 1.
 

About Global Racing Group:

Global Racing Group masterminds the best race, rally and rallycross driver development programs in motorsport and applies a unique cross-discipline approach to its driver training. Its racing and commercial activities in F3 and F4 are strongly supported by three distinct advisory boards that specialize in the fields of business, motorsport competition and sports management. The personalities on these boards have years of experience in motorsport and can call on motorsport executive and Fortune 2000 company contacts around the world when there is a commercial requirement. Global Racing Group offers high-level sponsor and brand development services to businesses and brands that are interested in launching dynamic and bold engagement programs in motorsport.