Fortec Motorsport

Fortec Motorsports

Founded	1989
Base	Daventry, Northamptonshire, England
Team principal(s)	Richard Dutton
Current series	Formula Renault 3.5 Series FIA European F3 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 Formula Renault 2.0 Alps Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup MSA Formula
Former series	International Formula 3000 Formula BMW UK Formula BMW Europe Formula 3 Euro Series Euro Formula 3000 British Formula 3 Formula Renault 2.0 UK British GT Championship Blancpain Endurance Series Blancpain Sprint Series Intersteps
Current drivers	Oliver Rowland Jazeman Jaafar Pietro Fittipaldi Matt Rao Martin Cao Zhi Cong Li Martin Kodrić Ben Barnicoat Callan O'Keeffe Luke Chudleigh Zachary Claman DeMelo Alex Gill Jehan Daruvala Ferdinand Habsburg
Website	http://fortecmotorsports.com/
Teams' Championships	2005 Formula BMW UK 2006 Formula Renault 2.0 UK 2006 Formula BMW UK 2007 Formula Renault 2.0 UK 2007 Formula BMW UK 2008 Formula Renault 2.0 UK
Drivers' Championships	2002 Formula Renault 2.0 UK (Watts) 2004 Formula Renault 2.0 UK (Conway) 2004 Formula Renault 2.0 UK Winter (Hall) 2006 Formula Renault 2.0 UK (Hohenthal) 2006 Formula BMW UK (Breen) 2007 Formula Renault 2.0 UK (Tappy) 2007 Formula BMW UK (Ericsson) 2012 Formula Renault 3.5 (Frijns) 2014 British Formula Three (Cao)

Fortec Motorsport Ltd. is a motor-racing team that races in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series, the British Formula Three Championship, and several junior formulae categories at a British and pan-European level. The team was bought in 1995 by current owner Richard Dutton.^[1]

Past drivers for the team include Juan Pablo Montoya, Gianmaria Bruni, Danny Watts, Jamie Green, James Rossiter, Mike Conway, Fabio Carbone and Heikki Kovalainen.

History

James Walker driving for Fortec at the Silverstone round of the 2008 World Series by Renault season.

Fortec has enjoyed great success since its inception. In 2002 Danny Watts won the British Formula Renault Championship for the team, with team-mate Jamie Green following close behind in second. In the same year, Fabio Carbone won the prestigious Marlboro Masters Formula Three race, held at Zandvoort in the Netherlands. The team's next championship win came with another British Formula Renault title in 2004, with Mike Conway finishing over 90 points clear of his nearest rival, Comtec Racing's Westley Barber. Fortec added further team championships in the Formula BMW UK championship, taking three successive titles between 2005 and 2007, also taking drivers' championship titles with Niall Breen and Marcus Ericsson.

After a barren year for the team in Formula Renault in 2005, 2006 saw the team regain both championship titles, with Sebastian Hohenthal just clinching the drivers' title on countback, after he and Team A.K.A. driver Patrick Hogan ended the season on the same number of points. Duncan Tappy and Dean Smith finished in the top two placings in 2007. Another teams' title followed in 2008. More recently, the team has seen great improvements in its Formula Renault 3.5 Series results, finishing fifth in the Teams' Championship in 2009, fourth in 2010 and finishing as runners-up in 2011 season with driver Alexander Rossi finishing third overall and best rookie. In 2012 the team fielded rookies Robin Frijns from the Netherlands and Carlos Huertas from Colombia, Frijns won the driver championship in his first year scoring 3 wins during his championship season, Meanwhile Huertas scored regular results and finished 16th in the season scoring 35 points, but Fortec finished 3rd in the teams championship behind Tech 1 Racing and New team Arden Caterham Motorsport.

Fortec were also crowned Team Champions in the Formula Renault 2.0 UK Championship with Alex Lynn clinching the drivers' title with a record-breaking twelve wins in one season. Oliver Rowland secured second in the Championship, as well as winning the Graduate Cup. William Buller was Fortec's top finisher in the British Formula Three Championship, as he finished fourth in the Championship. In club-level racing, the new-for-2011 InterSteps Championship saw Jake Dennis win the Championship from teammate Alex Walker with Ed Jones finishing in fourth place, while in Formula Renault BARC, Josh Webster narrowly missed out on the drivers', after a close battle with eventual champion Dino Zamparelli.

After the Formula Renault UK was cancelled for the 2012 season, the team joined the Formula Renault 2.0 NEC.

Results

World Series by Renault

Formula Renault 3.5 results[2]
Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	F.L.	Podiums	Points	D.C.	T.C.
2007	Dallara T05–Renault	James Walker	17	1	0	0	19	1	19th	12th
		Richard Phillipe	11	0	0	0	0	0	N/A
		Yelmer Buurman	4	0	0	0	0	15	20th
		Esteban Guerrieri	2	0	0	0	0	0	39th
2008	Dallara T05–Renault	James Walker	17	0	0	0	1	36	13th	9th
		Fairuz Fauzy	13	0	0	0	1	17	18th
		Julian Theobald	4	0	0	0	0	0	33rd
2009	Dallara T08–Renault	Fairuz Fauzy	17	1	1	1	5	98	2nd	5th
		Sten Pentus	13	0	0	0	1	23	16th
2010	Dallara T08–Renault	Sten Pentus	17	2	1	2	4	78	4th	4th
		Jon Lancaster	17	0	0	0	1	39	13th
2011	Dallara T08–Renault	Alexander Rossi	17	3	0	2	6	39	3rd	2nd
		Cesar Ramos	17	0	2	0	47	0	11th
2012	Dallara FR35/12–Zytek	Robin Frijns	17	3	4	1	8	189	1st	3rd
		Carlos Huertas	17	0	0	0	0	35	16th
2013	Dallara FR35/12–Zytek	Stoffel Vandoorne	17	4	3	2	10	214	2nd	2nd
		Oliver Webb	17	0	0	0	0	25	14th
2014	Dallara FR35/12–Zytek	Sergey Sirotkin	0	0	0	0	0	0	n/a	n/a
		Oliver Rowland	0	0	0	0	0	0	n/a

British Formula 3

British Formula 3 results
Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	F.L.	Podiums	Points	D.C.
1992	Reynard 923–Mugen-Honda	Kelvin Burt	16	2	0	2	7	55	3rd
1993	Reynard 933–Mugen-Honda	Andre Ribeiro	15	0	0	0	3	19	5th
		Gareth Rees	15	0	0	0	0	5	13th
1994	Reynard F394–Mugen-Honda	Jerome Dufour	19	0	0	6	3	103	7th
		Christian Horner	20	0	0	0	0	10	17th
1995	Reynard F395–Mugen-Honda	Jamie Davies	17	0	0	0	5	107	6th
		Gualter Salles	17	1	0	0	3	106	7th
		Jamie Spence	5	0	0	0	1	29	13th
		Geoffrey Horion	18	0	0	0	0	3	22nd
1996	Dallara F396–Mitsubishi	Juan-Pablo Montoya	16	3	1	4	5	137	5th
		Guy Smith	16	1	2	0	5	132	6th
1997	Dallara F397–Mitsubishi	Brian Smith	15	1	1	1	2	72	6th
		Ben Collins	16	0	0	0	1	64	7th
1998	Dallara F398–Mitsubishi	Kristian Kolby	16	0	0	2	1	82	6th
		Andrej Pavicevic	16	0	0	0	0	19	14th
1999	Dallara F399–Mitsubishi	Kristian Kolby	16	1	0	2	6	153	6th
		Matt Davies	16	0	0	0	4	113	14th
2000	Dallara F300–Mugen-Honda	Gianmaria Bruni	14	0	0	0	2	95	5th
		Michael Bentwood	14	0	0	0	2	69	7th
2001	Dallara F301–Renault	Gianmaria Bruni	26	1	0	1	156	5th
		Alex Gurney	24	0	0	0	0	17	16th
2002	Dallara F302–Renault	Heikki Kovalainen	25	5	2	2	12	257	3rd
		Fabio Carbone	25	0	1	1	4	137	6th
2003	Dallara F303–Renault Sodemo	Robert Dahlgren	24	1	0	1	3	102	9th
		Will Power	18	0	0	0	1	40	14th
2004	Dallara F304–Opel	James Rossiter	24	3	3	2	12	228	3rd
		Marcus Marshall	22	1	0	0	1	24	17th
		Ronayne O'Mahony	2	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2005	Dallara F304–Mercedes HWA	Mike Conway	1	1	0	0	7	192	3rd
		James Walker	22	1	0	1	1	69	11th
		Ronayne O'Mahony	20	0	0	0	0	21	14th
		Yelmer Buurman	2	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2006	Dallara F306–Mercedes	Yelmer Buurman	22	2	0	0	5	186	4th
		Stuart Hall	19	0	0	0	0	21	13th
		Charlie Hollings	7	0	0	0	0	6	16th
2007	Dallara F307–Mercedes	Sebastian Hohental	22	1	0	0	4	101	9th
		Greg Mansell	22	0	0	0	3	79	10th
		Leo Mansell	21	0	0	0	0	2	17th
2008	Dallara F308–Mercedes	Marcus Ericsson	22	0	2	4	5	141	5th
		Sebastian Hohental	16	1	0	0	4	105	7th
		Dean Smith	2	0	0	0	0	20	16th
		Philip Major	8	0	0	0	0	0	18th
2009	Dallara F309–Mercedes	Riki Christodolu	20	1	0	0	4	130	5th
		Víctor García	20	0	0	0	0	30	14th
		Daniel McKenzie	20	11	5	11	19	351	1st [B]
2010	Dallara F309–Mercedes	Oliver Webb	30	3	4	4	13	250	3rd
		Daniel McKenzie	30	2	1	1	4	109	9th
		Max Snegirev	30	0	0	0	0	1	18th
2011	Dallara F311–Mercedes	William Buller	30	1	2	4	9	197	4th
		Lucas Foresti	30	3	1	2	6	109	7th
		Harry Tincknell	30	1	0	0	4	78	11th
		Fahmi Ilyas	30	0	0	0	0	7	21st
2012	Dallara F312–Mercedes	Félix Serrallés	28	4	3	5	12	299	3rd
		Alex Lynn	28	1	2	5	9	253	4th
		Pipo Derani	28	2	0	2	4	146	8th
		Hannes van Asseldonk	27	0	0	3	0	132	9th
2013	Dallara F312–Mercedes	William Buller	12	1	0	7	6	134	3rd
		Felipe Guimarães	12	2	0	1	4	109	4th
		Félix Serrallés	3	0	0	0	0	15	10th
		Alfonso Celis, Jr.	3	0	0	0	0	15	11th

FIA European Formula 3 Championship

FIA European Formula 3 Championship results
Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	F.L.	Podiums	Points	T.C.	D.C.
2013	Dallara–Mercedes	Luis Felipe Derani	30	0	0	0	3	143	4th	8th
		Félix Serrallés	29	0	0	1	2	104		11th
		Josh Hill	15	0	0	0	1	56		12th
		John Bryant-Meisner	6	0	0	0	0	2		25th
		Dmitry Suranovich	3	0	0	0	0	0		33rd
		Alfonso Celis	3	0	0	0	0	0		34th
		Ed Jones	3	0	0	0	0	0		NC
2014	Dallara–Mercedes	Mitch Gilbert	0	0	0	0	0	0	n/a	n/a
		John Bryant-Meisner	0	0	0	0	0	0		n/a

Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0

Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 results
Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	F.L.	Podiums	Points	D.C.	T.C.
2008	Tatuus–Renault	Alex Morgan	12	0	0	0	1	17	14th	12th
		Dean Smith	14	0	0	0	11	17th
		Gabriel Dias	14	0	0	0	0	3	24th
		Daniel McKenzie	12	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2009	Tatuus–Renault	James Calado	6	0	0	0	0	10	17th	8th
		Oliver Webb	4	0	0	0	0	29th
		Kevin Kleveros	12	0	0	0	0	30th
		Will Stevens	4	0	0	0	0	34th
		Frederik Blomstedt	2	0	0	0	0	41st
2011	Tatuus–Renault	Will Stevens	14	1	3	0	4	116	4th	3rd
		Félix Serrallés	14	0	0	0	0	41	12th
		Alex Lynn	4	0	1	0	1	26	14th
		Mitchell Gilbert	6	0	0	0	0	0	30th
		Ed Jones	6	0	0	0	0	0	NC
		Fahmi Elyas	2	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2012	Tatuus–Renault	Oliver Rowland	14	1	0	0	3	109	3rd	3rd
		Jake Dennis	6	0	0	0	1	31	12th
		Mikko Pikari	14	0	0	0	1	30	15th
		Ed Jones	14	0	0	0	0	2	27th
		Nick Cassidy	6	0	0	0	0	8	24th
		Josh Hill	2	0	0	0	0	8	25th
		Alexey Chuklin	2	0	0	0	0	0	NC
		Steijn Schothorst	2	0	0	0	0	0	NC
		Gustavo Menezes	2	0	0	0	0	0	NC
		Egor Orudzhev	2	0	0	0	0	0	NC
		Dan De Zille	2	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2013	Tatuus–Renault	Jake Dennis	14	0	1	1	1	130	4th	3rd
		Ed Jones	12	0	0	0	2	45	11th
		Mikko Pikari	14	0	0	0	0	17	17th
		Matt Parry	2	0	0	0	0	0	NC
		Jack Aitken	2	0	0	0	0	0	NC
		Ryan Tveter	2	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2014	Tatuus–Renault	Matt Parry	0	0	0	0	0	0	n/a	n/a
		Jack Aitken	0	0	0	0	0	0	n/a
		Martin Rump	0	0	0	0	0	0	n/a

Timeline

References

External links

• Official website