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Spin back to the early part of 2006, and you’d hear people talking enthusiastically about Michael Ammermüller as a shoe-in for a drive in one of Red Bull‘s Formula 1 teams in the near future. But now: he’s nowhere. What happened? He’d leapt up to GP2 from practically nowhere in 2006, scoring a win in his first weekend. Add a couple more podiums in the first half of the season, as well as further points finishes, and you’ve got a rising star right there. Even more so because he was part of the Red Bull Junior Team. The second half of his 2006 GP2 season was barren, but nonetheless, when Christian Klien parted company with Red Bull Racing before the last three races of the Formula 1 season, Ammermüller took on the role of third driver with the team. Better than a foot in the door, he had a cheek on the seat. A test role with Red Bull Racing for 2007 followed; his Formula 1 future was looking rosey. But his 2007 GP2 season started as 2006 had ended, with injury interrupting a string of no results. Ultimately he lost his seat, to be replaced by another Red Bull Junior Team member, Sébastien Buemi. Who, incidentally, is now looking like a shoe-in for a Toro Rosso drive for 2009. What might have been, eh? Instead, Ammermüller took Sebastian Vettel‘s place in World Series by Renault, when Vettel’s Formula 1 committments became full-time. Ammermüller failed to set the world alight there either. He raced for Germany in A1GP in 2007-08, where he mainly shunted people off, cementing his reputation of being somewhat volatile. For 2008 he ended up in Formula Master, a relatively new series supporting various WTCC and Formula 1 races, where he finished third in the standings, against pretty unknown competition. At least his website is realistic, if a little heartbreaking. The news of his move to Formula Master begins thus:
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