Team West-Tec F3 is a motor racing team owned by Gavin Wills and John Miller. The team currently operates from a base in Corby in the United Kingdom and is the most successful team in the history of the European Formula 3 Open series.
In 2007 Team West-Tec F3 became the first ever British team to compete in the Spanish Formula Three Championship, purchasing assets from leading GP2 team Racing Engineering. In 2009 the series was renamed the European F3 Open Championship. Since 2007 the team has taken 44 wins and 116 podiums and three Championship titles - including winning the support race at the 2008 European Grand Prix at Valencia.
In 2009 the team also returned to British Formula 3 International Series completing a full campaign with Maxim Snegirev as well as part campaigns for Mathieu Maurage, Miky Faccin, Jay Bridger and Ma Qing Hua.
In 2010 the team continued in the European F3 Open but committed to primarily use their British F3 cars for testing programmes with drivers from F1, GP2 and GP3 - where young drivers get very little track time to develop and hone their skills. However the team continued to make occasional British F3 race starts and took a superb National Class win with young Mexican, Juan Carlos Sistos on his series debut at Silverstone.
The team also announced a plan to form a new joint venture with China's leading motorsport team, Champ Racing to enter an additional car under the banner of Champ Motorsport with Team West-Tec - this new venture started in September 2010 with experienced driver Michael Ho racing at Brands Hatch, Monza, Jerez and Barcelona in late 2010. In just his second race weekend, at Monza, Michael took a great third place podium finish in the Copa Class, in fifth overall.
The team had a very successful season in the European F3 Open in 2010, challenging at the front in both classes and having won races outright with more than one driver, eventually finishing as Runners-Up in both the Drivers and Teams Championships.
For 2011 the European F3 Open team featured four full-season drivers in Victor Correa, Fabio Gamberini, Luca Orlandi and Sam Dejonghe, with a number of other pilots racing on part programmes during the year such as Fahmi Ilyas, Kotaro Sakurai and Tatiana Calderon.
2011 was an extremely successful season. Victor Correa won two races outright and Fahmi Ilyas one in the team's newest Dallara F308s, Ilyas having made a stunning debut at Brands Hatch using the car to be used later by Tatiana Calderon who scored points at Barcelona after she stepped up from Star Mazda in the USA. Fabio Gamberini also won a race outright at Spa and also won an impressive ten times in the Copa class, where he was Champion as well as being an amazing third overall. Sam Dejonghe twice featured on the overall podium and took four Copa class wins to finish as Copa runner-up and Luca Orlandi, despite missing two races, secured third in Copa for an unprecedented 1-2-3 for the team. Kotaro Sakurai featured on the Brands Hatch Copa podium in Luca's place on his debut in the series.
The team won the overall Teams Championship, and remains the most successful team in the history of the series.
The following drivers are known to have driven for Team West-Tec F3 since 2007: