David Price Racing

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David Price Racing
Motor racing team
Founded	1976
Country	United Kingdom
Team Principal(s)	David Price
Current series	GP2
Former series	British F3 Aurora F1 French F3 Le Mans 24 Hours BPR Global GT Series FIA GT Championship Formula Renault V6 Eurocup A1 Grand Prix
Drivers' titles	-
Teams' titles	1995 BPR Global GT Series

David Price Racing (commonly referred to as DPR) is a British motor racing team, owned and run by David Price. They have competed in various forms of motorsport since their foundation in 1976.

Contents 1 History 2 GP2 Series 3 Series results 4 Sources 5 External links

[edit] History

The team initially ran small open-wheel series in Britain in the late 1970s, including British Formula 3 and Aurora F1. Many future Formula drivers raced for the team, including Nigel Mansell, Martin Brundle, Johnny Dumfries, and Tiff Needell. With Dumfries, David Price Racing was able to win the British F3 championship in 1984. The team would also expand into French Formula 3 at the time with Paul Belmondo.

In 1987, David Price moved into sports car racing, becoming team manager for Richard Lloyd Racing. This earned him a job at Sauber-Mercedes in 1988, helping the team achieve the World Sportscar Championship and a 24 Hours of Le Mans victory in 1989. David Price was then hired by Nissan Motorsports Europe to run their sportscar program, before eventually becoming a race director at Brabham in Formula One in 1993.

David Price Racing returned to competition in 1995, running in the BPR Global GT Series. One of the multiple McLaren F1 GTR teams in the series, they won the teams championship in their first year of competition with drivers John Nielsen and Thomas Bscher. The following year they would take third in the BPR championship. David Price Racing then became the European factory team for Panoz, running their Esperante GTR-1s in the new FIA GT Championship as well as supporting the primary team in the United States.

During a brief interlude from Panoz, David Price Racing ran a BMW V12 LM at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, finishing fifth overall. The team would later return to support Panoz's own Le Mans prototype efforts in the American Le Mans Series and at Le Mans itself. Following the 2001 season, David Price Racing went on hiatus. The team would briefly assist MG in development of the XPower SV for 2002.

In 2004, David Price Racing returned, once again running open-wheel cars. They ran the Formula Renault V6 Eurocup series before moving into the new GP2 Series in 2005, winning two races with Olivier Pla. The team briefly changed their name to Direxiv in 2006, before returning to the David Price Racing name in 2007. They also briefly ran the A1 Grand Prix series for A1 Team USA^[1] during the 2005-06 season.

[edit] GP2 Series

David Price Racing only competed in the GP2 Series at the moment, with drivers Christian Bakkerud and Andy Soucek. During the off-season, David Price talked about merging with Carlin Motorsport for a combined team in GP2, but the deal fell through, leaving DPR to compete on their own.

GP2 Series Results[2]
Year	Car	Drivers	Wins	Poles	Fast laps	Points	D.C.	T.C.
2005	Dallara-Mecachrome	Olivier Pla	2	0	1	20	13th	10th
		Ryan Sharp	0	0	1	2	23th
		Giorgio Mondini	0	0	0	0	26th
2007	Dallara-Mecachrome	Andy Soucek	0	0	0	15	16th	12th
		Christian Bakkerud	0	0	0	0	34th
		Olivier Pla	0	0	0	0	35th

• D.C. = Drivers' Championship position, T.C. = Teams' Championship position.

[edit] Series results

A1 Grand Prix Results[3]
Year	Car	Team	Wins	Poles	Fast laps	Points	T.C.
2005-06	Lola-Zytek	A1 Team USA	0	0	0	23	16th

Formula Renault V6 Eurocup results[4]
Year	Car	Drivers	Wins	Poles	Fast laps	Points	D.C.	T.C.
2004	Tatuus-Renault V4Y RS	Robert Bell	0	2		156	5th	8th
		Hayanari Shimoda	0	0		73	13th

24 Hours of Le Mans results
Year	Class	No	Tyres	Car	Drivers	Pole	Fast lap	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1999[5]	LMP	18	Y	BMW V12 LM BMW S70 6.0L V12	Thomas Bscher Bill Auberlen Steve Soper	no	no	345	5th	4th

FIA GT Championship results
Year	Class	Car	Drivers	Wins	Poles	Fast laps	Points	T.C.
1997[6]	GT1	Panoz Esperante GTR-1 Ford (Roush) 6.0L V8	David Brabham Perry McCarthy	0	0	0	4	6th

BPR Global GT Series results[7]
Year	Class	Car	Drivers	Wins	Poles	Fast laps	Points	T.C.
1995	GT1	McLaren F1 GTR	Thomas Bscher John Nielsen	2	2	3	252	1st
1996	GT1	McLaren F1 GTR	Thomas Bscher John Nielsen	2	0	0	174	3rd

• D.C. = Drivers' Championship position, T.C. = Teams' Championship position.

[edit] Sources

[edit] External links

• David Price Racing