Arden International

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Arden International
Motor racing team
Founded	1997
Country	United Kingdom
Team Principal(s)	Christian Horner
Current series	GP2, A1 Grand Prix
Former series	Formula 3000 Italian Formula 3000
Drivers' titles	2003 Formula 3000 (Wirdheim) 2004 Formula 3000 (Liuzzi)
Teams' titles	2000 Italian Formula 3000 2002 Formula 3000 2003 Formula 3000 2004 Formula 3000

Arden International is an international Formula 3000/GP2 Series team, created by Christian Horner.

Initially created to raise up Horner's career, and then reliant on sponsorship from Viktor Maslov, the team began to get good results and was the best team of Formula 3000 in its last years, showing new talents to motorsport world like Darren Manning, Tomáš Enge, Björn Wirdheim and Vitantonio Liuzzi.

The team won two titles (2003, with Wirdheim and 2004, with Liuzzi), has scored 334 points, won 15 races and achieved 20 pole positions in Formula 3000.

In 2005, Arden stayed in the series, now rebranded as the GP2 Series and achieved second place in the Constructors' Championship with Heikki Kovalainen and Nicolas Lapierre, and second place in the Drivers' Championship with Kovalainen.

In 2006, Arden competed in GP2 with Lapierre and the rookie Michael Ammermüller (Neel Jani acted as a substitute for Lapierre when the latter was injured in the race at Monaco). This year, Arden suffered a massive drop, and had only 57 points to show, compared to the previous season's 126.

For 2007, Arden have signed Bruno Senna, nephew of triple F1 champion Ayrton Senna, and A1 Team South Africa driver Adrian Zaugg.

For 2008, the team was renamed Trust Team Arden, after its Dutch title sponsor Trust. Swiss driver and Red Bull talent Sebastien Buemi and Dutchman Yelmer Buurman are confirmed as its race line-up.

Arden also operated A1 Team Great Britain in the first season of the A1GP series.

[edit] Complete series results

GP2 Series Results[1]
Year	Car	Drivers	Wins	Poles	Fast laps	Points	D.C.	T.C.
2005	Dallara-Mecachrome	Heikki Kovalainen	5	4		105	2nd	2nd
		Nicolas Lapierre	0	1		21	11th
2006	Dallara-Mecachrome	Nicolas Lapierre	0	0	1	32	9th	4th
		Michael Ammermüller	1	0	0	25	11th
		Neel Jani	0	0	0	0	25th
2007	Dallara-Mecachrome	Bruno Senna	1	0	0	34	8th	7th
		Adrian Zaugg	0	0	0	10	18th
		Filipe Albuquerque	0	0	0	0	32th
2008	Dallara-Mecachrome	Sébastien Buemi
		Yelmer Buurman

A1 Grand Prix results[2]
Year	Car	Team	Wins	Poles	Fast laps	Points	T.C.
2005-06	Lola-Zytek	A1 Team Great Britain	0	1	0	97	3rd
2006-07	Lola-Zytek	A1 Team Great Britain	3	2	2	92	3rd

• 2007-08 is the current season.

International Formula 3000 Championship Results[1]
Year	Car	Drivers	Wins	Poles	Fastest laps	Points	D.C.	T.C.
1997	Lola-Zytek Judd	Christian Horner				1	21th	16th
1998	Lola-Zytek Judd	Kurt Mollekens	0	0	0	19	6th	7th [1]
		Christian Horner	0	0	0	0	NC
1999	Lola-Zytek	Marc Goossens	0	0	0	0	NC	NC ‡
		Viktor Maslov	0	0	0	0	NC
2000	Lola-Zytek	Darren Manning	0	1	1	10	8th	8th †
		Viktor Maslov	0	0	0	0	NC
2001	Lola-Zytek	Darren Manning	0	0	0	9	11th	9th †
		Viktor Maslov	0	0	0	0	NC
2002	Lola-Zytek Judd	Tomáš Enge	3	4	5	50	3rd	1st †
		Björn Wirdheim	1	1	0	29	4th
2003	Lola-Zytek Judd	Björn Wirdheim	3	5	7	78	1st	1st
		Townsend Bell	0	0	0	17	9th
2004	Lola-Zytek Judd	Vitantonio Liuzzi	7	9	3	86	1st	1st
		Robert Doornbos	1	0	1	44	3rd

Italian Formula 3000 results[3]
Year	Car	Drivers	Wins	Poles	Fast laps	Points	D.C.	T.C.
1999	Lola T96/50-Zytek	Viktor Maslov	0	0	0	1	18th	11th †
2000	Lola T96/50-Zytek	Warren Hughes	2	1	3	37	2nd	1st †
		Darren Manning	1	1	1	14	6th

• D.C. = Drivers' Championship position, T.C. = Teams' Championship position.
• † Involved as Arden Team Russia
• ‡ Involved as Lukoil Arden Racing
• [1] collaboration with KTR team

[edit] Sources

[edit] External links

• arden-motorsport.com, official team website.
• gp2series.com, team info at GP2 Series website.