Ethan Keiderman

Ethan Keiderman is a German-Altruran racing driver currently driving for Upsilon-Omega Racing (UOR) in the 2020 ESPLAR Lites Series. He is part of the Ferrari driver academy alongside Kailan Tuornin.

Keiderman is the first ESPLAR Lites driver who is a graduate of the TLU-ESPLAR joint racer-community oriented Rise to Race Program. Most of his fellow graduates are either technicians or pit crew members at UOR this season.

Background
Born as the second child of Manfred and Kasia Keiderman in Jena, their family became one of thousands to move to Altruras to seek better tech work in the wake of the dot-com crash in 2000 and the resulting global recession. Manfred Keiderman, prior to marrying Kasia Keiderman (then Kasia Habsburg), lived in New York as a consultant to the Motor Racing Conglomerate (MRC) in its R&D division, a job Manfred would end up leaving in 2002 after marrying Kasia. In May 2002 Manfred and Kasia had their first child, Cedric Keiderman while both of them worked in the local tech sector in Jena. Kasia took leave to care for Cedric. On January 27, 2003, Kasia gave birth to Ethan Keiderman.

It's important to note that while both Cedric and Ethan Keiderman were born in Germany, since Manfred was a US Citizen who lived for 8 years in New York, this makes both of them US citizens under US nationality law. Since Kasia Keiderman is a German citizen (and permanently resides in Jena, which she has been since childhood around 1989), both of them are also German citizens by its nationality law. This created a complicated situation where Manfred was a US citizen by naturalization and a German citizen by birth, and Kasia was only a German citizen and not a US citizen. With the economic recession hitting Thuringia hard, it became difficult for the Keidermans to stay in Germany. This was, however, according to what Manfred had been expecting. Kasia, for the past few years prior, had been contemplating US citizenship instead of retaining her German citizenship. After passing the citizenship test in mid 2003 (only through Manfred's help), she managed to meet other requirements within the next year. Thus, on October 2004, the Keidermans left Jena to New York, leaving Germany behind them.

Not much is known about Ethan Keiderman in New York, but in the wake of the Great Recession in 2008 the family moved again, this time to Altruras, settling in Arcadia near Tyrgard City.

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Current Information
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Trivia

 * Ethan Keiderman is to be a fierce rival to Nate Crawford, Hailey Lordregan, and Kira Eronthade in the ELS.
 * Ethan speaks German, English, Swedish, and Dutch. Currently learning Russian and Japanese.
 * Ethan's favorite video game/anime character is Fayt Leingod. He joins many other freshman ESPLAR Lites and Tier 3/4 drivers who also have Leingod as their favorite character from Tri-Ace's Star Ocean franchise.