Carlin Motorsport
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Carlin Motorsport is a motor racing team based in the United Kingdom. It competes in six championships — Formula BMW, British Formula Three Championship, Formula Renault, World Series by Renault, the GP2 Series and A1 Grand Prix.
It was founded in 1996 by Trevor Carlin and Martin Stone to operate a pit-stop challenge campaign for Williams F1 around Europe. In 1997 the team entered the British Formula Three Championship and began to set up the structure to operate a race winning, 3-car team in 1999.
In 1998, Carlin Motorsport was voted Team of the Year by the Formula Three Association for the high standards of their presentation and their impressive results with Indian newcomer, Narain Karthikeyan.
Trevor Carlin enjoys a history of success in International Formula 3 racing spanning over ten years. As Team Manager of Bowman Racing, he assembled a talented group of engineers and achieved 1st, 2nd and 3rd places in the British Championship in the team's first three seasons and won the 1989 Macau Grand Prix with David Brabham.
In 1993, Carlin joined West Surrey Racing where he oversaw the racing programmes of Marc Gene, Cristiano da Matta and Pedro de la Rosa before negotiating the team's move into the British Touring Car Championship with Ford Motor Company.
The engineering staff at Carlin Motorsport is headed by David Lowe who came from Arrows Grand Prix and he is supported by Mark Owen, a former Benetton Formula One employee, Paul Wallace and Matt Callaghan. To oversee the commercial aspects of the Carlin team, Trevor Carlin and Martin Stone recruited Steve Hollman in 1999, one of the original founders of Bowman Racing.
In the 2005-06 A1 Grand Prix season, Carlin are contracted to run the Lebanon and Portugal entries.
In April 2006, Trevor Carlin confirmed that the team had applied for a place in the Formula One World Championship from the 2008 season, [1] although this was later rejected, in favour of the Prodrive application.
In November 2006, Carlin Motorsport announced that they will be entering the 2007 GP2 Series as a joint venture with David Price Racing. Trevor Carlin will head the operation and Dave Price is staying with the team, which will enter under the name of Carlin DPR. The new team is relocating to the former Brabham F1 factory in Chessington, Surrey, which Carlin bought earlier in 2006. The GP2 programme will be assisted by the use of the in-house wind tunnel which is also being used for F3 development.
[edit] External links
- Carlin Motorsport. Retrieved on 2006-03-22.
