Campos Racing

Campos Racing
Motor racing team
Founded	1997
Country	Spain
Team Principal(s)	Adrián Campos
Current series	World Touring Car Championship European F3 Open Championship
Former series	Auto GP World Series GP2 Series World Series by Nissan
Drivers
Drivers' titles	1998 Open Fortuna by Nissan (Gené) 1999 Euro Open MoviStar by Nissan (Alonso) 1999 Open Telefónica by Nissan (García) 2008 Spanish Formula Three (Sánchez) 2009 European F3 Open Championship (Méndez)
Teams' titles	1998 Open Fortuna by Nissan 1999 Euro Open MoviStar by Nissan 1999 Open Telefónica by Nissan 2008 GP2 Series 2008 Spanish Formula Three 2009 European F3 Open

Campos Racing is a Spanish motor racing team, run by former Formula One driver Adrián Campos. The team has been successful in Formula Three and the GP2 Series.

History

After retiring from racing, Campos formed his own team at the end of 1997, under the name Campos Motorsport. In 1998 the team began by competing in the new Open Fortuna by Nissan, with Marc Gené and Antonio García as drivers. Gené won the championship and García finished fifth, with Campos taking the teams title. Gené stepped up to Formula One in 1999, and his place in the team was taken by karting driver Fernando Alonso. Alonso went on to win the Euro Open Movistar by Nissan as it was renamed, with García finishing fifth again and Campos retaining the teams title. With Alonso moving onto International Formula 3000, García led the team in 2000, winning the championship and also helping Campos to win a third consecutive teams title. The series became the World Series by Nissan in 2002.

In 2004 the team switched its focus to the Spanish Formula Three Championship, running two teams with four drivers. In 2005, the team's name was changed to Campos Racing and they set up a team in the new GP2 Series, as well as running a team in Spanish Formula 3 as well as its Copa de España F300 class, which it won with Arturo Llobell in 2005 and Germán Sánchez in 2006.

Vitaly Petrov driving for Campos Racing at the Silverstone round of the 2008 GP2 Series season.

Under the name of Campos Grand Prix, the team finished third in the GP2 drivers and teams championships, with Giorgio Pantano and Vitaly Petrov as drivers. In 2008, they won the teams championship and finished third in the drivers championship with Lucas di Grassi. They won their first overall Spanish F3 crown in 2008 with Germán Sánchez, and retained that title (now known as the European F3 Open) in 2009 with Bruno Méndez.

After the 2008 season, Campos passed control of his GP2 team to Spanish businessman Alejandro Agag, who renamed it Addax Team. In 2009, Campos was awarded a Formula One entry for his team to race in the 2010 season, originally under the Campos Grand Prix name, but the name was soon changed to Campos Meta. After financial struggles, the team was bought out in February 2010 by majority shareholder José Ramón Carabante, who renamed it Hispania Racing.

Results

GP2 Series

Year	Team name	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	FLaps	Points	D.C.	T.C.
2005	Campos Racing	Dallara-Mecachrome	Juan Cruz Álvarez	23	0	0	0	4.5	18th	12th
			Sergio Hernández	23	0	0	0	3	20th
2006	Campos Racing	Dallara-Mecachrome	Adrián Vallés	21	0	0	1	7	18th	12th
			Félix Porteiro	21	0	0	0	5	22nd
2007	Campos Grand Prix	Dallara-Mecachrome	Vitaly Petrov	21	1	0	0	21	13th	3rd
			Giorgio Pantano	21	2	1	1	59	3rd
2008	Barwa International Campos Team	Dallara-Mecachrome	Vitaly Petrov	20	1	0	1	39	7th	1st
			Ben Hanley	6	0	0	0	1	24th
			Lucas di Grassi	14	3	0	2	63	3rd

Timeline

External links

• Campos Racing official website