Carlin Motorsport

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Carlin Motorsport
Carlin Motorsport
Motor racing team
Founded 1996
Country Flag of the United Kingdom United Kingdom
Team Principal(s) Flag of the United Kingdom Trevor Carlin
Current series A1 Grand Prix
British F3
Formula BMW UK
Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0
Formula Renault 2.0 UK
World Series by Renault
Former series Porsche Supercup
Drivers' titles 2001 British F3 (Sato)
2003 British F3 (Merwe)
2005 British F3 (Parente)
Teams' titles 2006 Formula BMW UK
2007 British F3

Carlin Motorsport is a motor racing team based in the United Kingdom. It competes in six championships — British Formula Three Championship, Formula Three Euroseries and World Series by Renault.

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.

Mikhail Aleshin driving for Carlin at the Donington Park round of the 2007 World Series by Renault season.
Mikhail Aleshin driving for Carlin at the Donington Park round of the 2007 World Series by Renault season.

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 Gené, 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[1] and Portugal[2] 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,[3] 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. It was planned that Trevor Carlin would head the operation and Dave Price would also stay with the team, which would enter under the name of Carlin DPR. The new team was relocating to the former Brabham F1 factory in Chessington, Surrey, which Carlin bought earlier in 2006, but it was announced in January 2007 that the merger had fell through, and Carlin would no longer be entering into the series at all in 2007. [4]

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[edit] Series results

A1 Grand Prix Results[5]
Year Car Team Wins Poles Fast laps Points T.C.
2005-06 Lola-Zytek Flag of Portugal A1 Team Portugal 0 0 0 66 9th
Flag of Japan A1 Team Japan 0 0 0 8 21th
Flag of Lebanon A1 Team Lebanon 0 0 0 0 23th
2006-07 Lola-Zytek Flag of Lebanon A1 Team Lebanon 0 0 0 0 23th
2007-08 Lola-Zytek Flag of Lebanon A1 Team Lebanon 0 0 0 0 20th
World Series by Renault/Nissan results[6]
Year Car Drivers Wins Poles Fast laps Points D.C. T.C.
2003 Dallara-Nissan VQ Flag of India Narain Karthikeyan 0 0 0 121 4th 4th
Flag of France Bruce Jouanny 0 2 0 62 10th
2004 Dallara-Nissan VQ Flag of Portugal Tiago Monteiro 5 4 2 154 2nd 2nd
Flag of France Olivier Pla 1 0 0 66 9th
2005 Dallara-Renault Flag of Austria Andreas Zuber 1 1 4 73 6th 4th
Flag of Australia Will Power 2 3 0 64 7th
Flag of Switzerland Giorgio Mondini 0 0 0 0 24th †
2006 Dallara-Renault Flag of Russia Mikhail Aleshin 0 1 0 41 11th 4th
Flag of South Africa Adrian Zaugg 0 1 0 33 13th
Flag of Germany Sebastian Vettel 1 1 0 28 15th
Flag of the United States Colin Fleming 0 0 0 19 18th
Flag of South Africa Gavin Cronje 0 0 0 0 th
2007 Dallara-Renault Flag of Germany Sebastian Vettel 1 1 1 74 5th 3rd
Flag of Russia Mikhail Aleshin 1 1 0 44 12th
Flag of Germany Michael Ammermüller 0 1 0 12 22th
Flag of Canada Robert Wickens 0 0 0 6 25th
  • [B] Drivers and classification in the B or National class in British F3.
  • [G] Guest drivers in British F3, no points awared.
  • † These drivers also drove for other teams during the season and their final positions include all team results.
  • D.C. = Drivers' Championship position, T.C. = Teams' Championship position, NC = Not Classified.

[edit] Timeline

Type 1990s 2000s
96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08
Formulas British Formula Three Championship
World Series by Renault/Nissan
Formula BMW UK
A1 Grand Prix
FR 2.0Euro
FR 2.0UK
Touring car Porsche Supercup

[edit] References

  1. ^ A Team Lebanon informations a1podium.com
  2. ^ A Team Portugal informations a1podium.com
  3. ^ "Carlin confirms F1 entry application", uk.sports.yahoo.com, 2006-04-11. Retrieved on 2006-04-11. 
  4. ^ "Bakkerud to DPR but Carlin merger falls through.", crash.net, 2007-01-17. Retrieved on 2007-03-16. 
  5. ^ A1GP complete resultsresults.a1gp.com
  6. ^ WSbR&N complete results speedsportmag.com
  7. ^ British F3 results since 2001 speedsportmag.com

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