Arden International

Arden International
Full name Arden International Motorsport
Founded 1997
Base Banbury, United Kingdom
Founder/s Christian Horner
Garry Horner
Team principal/s Christian Horner
Garry Horner
Race drivers 14. Josef Král
15. Jolyon Palmer
Race drivers 3. Josef Král
4. Jolyon Palmer
GP2 Series record
Debut 2005
Teams' Championships 0
Drivers' Championships 0
Race victories 10
Debut 2008
Teams' Championships 0
Drivers' Championships 0
Race victories 2
Other Series
Current Series GP2 Series
GP3 Series
Former Series Formula 3000
Italian Formula 3000
A1 Grand Prix
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 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 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 Sébastien Buemi and Dutchman Yelmer Buurman were its race line-up. Midseason, Buurman was replaced by ART Grand Prix outcast Luca Filippi.

For 2009, the team signed F3 frontrunners Sergio Pérez and Edoardo Mortara.

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

For 2010 they will operate a GP3 Series team with Mark Webber, the team will be called MW Arden. This builds on the fact that Mark Webber races for Red Bull Racing, which is run by Arden Team Owner and Team Principal of Red Bull Christian Horner.

For 2011 GP2 Main Series and 2011 GP2 Asia Series seasons, the team signed Josef Král and Jolyon Palmer.[1]

Contents

Complete series results

GP2 Series Results[2]
Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles Fast laps Points D.C. T.C.
2005 Dallara-Mecachrome Heikki Kovalainen 23 5 4 1 105 2nd 2nd
Nicolas Lapierre 23 0 1 1 21 11th
2006 Dallara-Mecachrome Michael Ammermüller 21 1 0 0 25 11th 4th
Nicolas Lapierre 17 0 0 1 32 9th
Neel Jani 4 0 0 0 0 25th
2007 Dallara-Mecachrome Bruno Senna 21 1 0 0 34 8th 7th
Adrian Zaugg 19 0 0 0 10 18th
Filipe Albuquerque 2 0 0 0 0 32nd
2008 Dallara-Mecachrome Sébastien Buemi 20 2 0 0 50 6th 6th
Yelmer Buurman 10 0 0 0 5 20th
Luca Filippi 10 0 0 0 1 19th
2009 Dallara-Mecachrome Sergio Pérez 20 0 0 1 22 12th 8th
Edoardo Mortara 20 1 0 2 19 14th
2010 Dallara-Mecachrome Charles Pic 20 1 1 0 28 10th 7th
Rodolfo González 20 0 0 0 4 21st
2011 Dallara-Mecachrome Josef Král 18 0 0 0 15 15th 11th
Jolyon Palmer 18 0 0 0 0 28th
2012 Dallara-Mecachrome
GP3 Series
GP3 Series Results
Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles Fast laps Points D.C. T.C.
2010 Dallara-Renault Michael Christensen 16 0 0 0 0 31st 9th
Miki Monrás 16 0 0 1 17 10th
Leonardo Cordeiro 16 0 0 1 1 27th
2011 Dallara-Renault Mitch Evans 16 1 2 0 29 9th 2nd
Simon Trummer 16 0 0 0 9 18th
Lewis Williamson 16 1 1 0 31 8th
2012 Dallara-Renault
A1 Grand Prix results[3]
Year Car Team Wins Poles Fast laps Points T.C.
2005-06 Lola-Zytek A1 Team Great Britain 0 1 0 97 3rd

Timeline

1990s 2000s 2010s
97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11
Formulas International Formula 3000 GP2 Series
Italian F3000
A1GP
GP3

Sources

  1. ^ "KRAL AND PALMER JOIN ARDEN FOR 2011 GP2 SEASON". http://gp2series.com/. 2011-01-26. http://gp2series.com/News-Room/News/2011/01_Jan/Kral-and-Palmer-join-Arden-for-2011-GP2-season/. Retrieved 2011-01-26. 
  2. ^ a b GP2 and Formula 3000 entrylist and complete results speedsportmag.com
  3. ^ A1GP complete resultsresults.a1gp.com
  4. ^ Italian Formula 3000 complete results speedsportmag.com

External links

Teams and drivers competing in the 2012 GP2 Series season
Addax DAMS Racing Eng. iSport ART Caterham Coloni Trident Super Nova Rapax Arden Ocean Carlin
1 TBA
2 TBA		 3 TBA
4 TBA		 5 TBA
6 TBA		 7 Ericsson
8 Palmer		 9 Calado
10 Gutiérrez		 11 TBA
12 TBA		 14 Ceccon
15 TBA		 16 Leal
17 Richelmi		 18 TBA
19 TBA		 20 TBA
21 TBA		 22 TBA
23 TBA		 24 TBA
25 TBA		 26 TBA
27 TBA
Teams and drivers competing in the 2011 GP3 Series season