AmD Essex

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

AmD Essex
Industry	Automotive tuning
Founded	1987
Headquarters	West Thurrock, United Kingdom
Website	amdessex.com

AmD Essex
Motor racing team
Founded	2010
Country	United Kingdom
Team Principal(s)	Shaun Hollamby
Current series	BTCC
Former series	Dunlop Sportmaxx Cup
Drivers
Drivers' titles	2009 (Shaw)(Sportmaxx)
Teams' titles

AmD Technik Essex (also known as Automotive Developments) is a British car tuning company and auto racing team.

History

The company was formed in 1987, specialising in the Volkswagen-Audi marque, forming their own VW-backed race team in 1990.^[1] They went on to win many championships with AmD-built and tuned Volkswagen Golfs. The company now offers tuning parts for most European cars.

For the 2008 & 2009 season AmD ran SEAT Leóns in the Dunlop Sportmaxx Cup and won the championship in 2009, with Simon Shaw driving.

BTCC

In 2010, AmD Essex, under the name AmD Milltek Racing, raced in the British Touring Car Championship running a Volkswagen Golf Mk5, driven by their managing director, Shaun Hollamby. The car was previously run in the Baltic Touring Car Championship.

The team remained in the series in 2011, with Tom Onslow-Cole campaigning the Golf for the first four rounds of the season, running with an Lehmann built NGTC engine.

On Sunday 5 June, following Race 2 of round four at Oulton Park, Onslow-Cole announced he would be leaving the team following the final race of the day. Given the sudden circumstances, AmD Milltek took the decision not to field the car for the final round of the day. A day later, it emerged that Onslow-Cole was to return to his previous team, Aon Ford, to run a third car.

In the following week, It was announced that managing director Shaun Hollamby would pilot the car at round five at Croft, to give the team longer to find an appropriate replacement for Onslow-Cole. After Croft, Hollamby announced his retirement from high-level motorsport.^[2]

For the remainder of the 2011 season, the team signed former Renault Clio Cup champion, Martin Byford to drive the car.^[3]

At the Autosport International show, AmD announced that Ollie Jackson would be driving for the team during the 2012 season.^[4]

References

↑ "About AmD Technik". AmD Technik (Essex) Ltd. Archived from the original on 15 January 2010. Retrieved 20 January 2010.
↑ http://www.gpupdate.net/en/autosport-news/262490/hollamby-retires-from-driving/
↑ http://www.btccpages.com/news/1/2163/Martin-Byford-joins-AmD-Milltek-Racing/
↑ http://www.btccpages.com/news/1/2242/Ollie-Jackson-joins-AmD-for-2012-BTCC/

External links

Teams and drivers competing in the 2013 British Touring Car Championship season

Honda Yuasa Racing Team	eBay Motors	Airwaves Racing	Welch Motorsport with Sopp + Sopp	Dynojet	wixracing.co.uk

1. Shedden 2. Neal	5. Collard 18. Foster 29. Turkington	6. Onslow-Cole 7. Jackson 8. Smith	10. Welch	11. Wrathall	13. Austin 14. Bratt

PPCGB.com/Kraftwerk Racing	Speedworks Motorsport	RCIB Insurance Racing	Ciceley Racing	BMR Restart Racing

16. Moffat	17. Newsham 48. Jackson	22. Fuller 31. Goff	33. Morgan	39. Scott

Wheel Heaven/Houseman Racing	Team Club 44	Pirtek Racing	Addison Lee Motorbase	MG KX Momentum Racing

43. Wood	44. Neate	55. Smith 77. Jordan	66. Griffin	88. Tordoff 99. Plato

Other drivers

4. Caine (Addison Lee Motorbase), 9. Hill (Addison Lee Motorbase), 12. Nye (Welch Motorsport), 15. Kaye (AmD Tuning.com), 20. Cole (RCIB Insurance Racing), 21. Wilmot (PPCGB.com/Kraftwerk Racing), 23. Gallagher (RCIB Insurance Racing), 35. Holland (RCIB Insurance Racing), 45. Bushell (Team Club 44), 51. Mason (AmD Tuning.com), 58. O'Neill (RCIB Insurance Racing), 90. Girling (M247 Racing)

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.