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GP3 and Formula Renault team Koiranen GP is weighing up an expansion into the FIA's prospective Formula 2 category.

Koiranen has won multiple titles in Formula Renault 2.0, has scored six race victories since entering GP3 in 2013, and is now running the brand-new SMP Formula 4 Championship, which has brought the FIA's F4 concept to the Northern European Zone, comprising Finland, Russia and Estonia.

When asked about F2, team boss Afa Heikkinen told AUTOSPORT: "It's definitely interesting, but it has to make sense: what is the package, what is the car, and who is running the championship?

What should Formula 2 be?

"I think it makes sense and it's needed, but as a team you have to do the right thing.

"It would be heavy investment, so we have to calculate the figures and it has to make sense for us."

Even if the Barcelona-based, Finnish-owned team does not compete in F2 in the short term, Heikkinen says he has his eye on Koiranen stepping up the ladder.

"We have big ambition in the team," he said. "We have some ideas of what we want to do, but at the same time we have to accept the reality that we cannot do everything.

"We should now consider what we have at the moment, and over the next one or two seasons make everything work better before we are ready for the next big step."

For a full feature on Koiranen GP, including an insight on its SMP F4 Championship, read this week's AUTOSPORT magazine

