Birmingham, AL – Coming off an SCCA Majors win at Road America, 16-year-old Max Mällinen finished second in the high-profile 45th Anniversary Formula F race at Barber Motorsports Park this past weekend. While it wasn’t a repeat of his first victory, the Liberty Lake, Washington native nearly won against a full-time IndyCar driver in Josef Newgarden.

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Elkhart Lake, WI – Liberty Lake, Washington native Max Mällinen scored his first victories in open-wheel competition in style, sweeping two SCCA Majors races at Elkhart Lake’s Road America in his No. 10 Swan Motorsports Spectrum/Honda. The 16-year-old junior at Central Valley High School was able to convert two outside front row starting spots into two first-place drives during the Cat Majors at Road America.

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Liberty Lake, WA – Max Mällinen will switch his remaining 2014 Formula F/F1600 racing focus to winning the 2014 SCCA National Championship Runoffs at Laguna Seca in the No. 10 Swan Motorsports Spectrum/Honda. The 16-year-old has had a solid start to the F1600 Championship Series season, running five races and now aiming to qualify for the October Championship.

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Liberty Lake, WA –Hidden in his pair of results from the F1600 Formula F Championship Series races at Watkins Glen was Max Mällinen’s carving through the highly competitive field. Learning the track during Saturday’s qualifying after a Friday washout, the youngest racer in the F1600 field advanced six positions in the first race and five in Sunday’s F1600 round, toward an 11th place result.

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Liberty Lake, WA – Max Mällinen continued to get acclimated to his No. 10 Swan Motorsports Spectrum/Honda race car during the opening rounds of the 2014 F1600 Formula F Championship Series at Road Atlanta. His professional racing debut, Mällinen was part of a highly-competitive, 25-car strong field with some of the best up and coming talent in the country, turning in a lap for fifth fastest during Saturday qualifying.

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