Koiranen GP
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| Founded | 1997 |
|---|---|
| Base | Barcelona, Spain |
| Team principal(s) | Afa Heikkinen |
| Founder(s) | Marko Koiranen |
| Current series |
GP3 Series Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 Formula Renault 2.0 NEC |
| Former series |
Formula Renault 2.0 Italia Nordic Formula Three Masters Formula Renault 2.0 Alps |
| Current drivers |
 Matevos Isaakyan Matt Parry |
| Website | http://koiranengp.com/ |
| Teams' Championships |
Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0: 2011, 2014 Formula Renault 2.0 NEC: 2011 Formula Renault 2.0 Alps: 2014, 2015 |
| Drivers' Championships |
Italian Formula Renault 2.0 Winter Series: 2005: Atte Mustonen Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0: 2010: Kevin Korjus 2014: Nyck de Vries Formula Renault 2.0 NEC: 2011: Carlos Sainz Jr. Formula Renault 2.0 Alps: 2012: Daniil Kvyat 2014: Nyck de Vries 2015: Jack Aitken |
Koiranen GP, also known as Koiranen bros. Motorsport is a Finnish auto racing team based in Barcelona, Spain. The team currently competes in the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0, Formula Renault 2.0 Alps and GP3 Series.[1] Also it is a promoter of the SMP F4 Championship and Spanish Formula 4 Championship.
History
Finnish Junior Formulas
The team was founded in 1997 by brothers Marko and Jari Koiranen. They joined the Finnish Formula 4 championship the same year, and also competed in Nordic and Finnish Formula Three championships until 2005.[2]
Formula Renault
2003 saw Koiranen Motorsport join the German Formula Renault Championship, before expanding their Formula Renault programme to include a Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 campaign.[2] They experienced their first real success when Valtteri Bottas finished third in the Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup in 2007.[3] The team won their first title in 2010, when Kevin Korjus won the Eurocup title.[4]
In 2011, Red Bull Junior Team started collaboration with the Finnish team. Daniil Kvyat and Carlos Sainz Jr. joined the team for Eurocup and NEC campaign. In Northern European Cup Sainz, Jr. achieved drivers' title and with help of Kvyat they both claimed teams' championship. They also claimed teams' trophy in Eurocup. Kvyat remained with the team for the next year and brought drivers' title in new Formula Renault 2.0 Alps series for the team .
In 2012, Koiranen Motorsport was one of eighteen teams to make a bid for one of the vacant grid positions in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series, the highest tier of the Formula Renault championships.[5] The team was unsuccessful, losing out to DAMS and Arden Caterham, but were placed on a reserve list, granting them automatic entry to the grid in the event that any of the existing thirteen teams failed to be ready in time.[6]
GP3 Series
Koiranen GP replaced Ocean Racing Technology in the GP3 Series, starting in 2013.[1] Their drivers at the start of the season were Patrick Kujala and Aaro Vainio from Finland and Kevin Korjus from Estonia.[7] Vainio was replaced by former FIA F2-champion Dean Stoneman for the last two races of the 2013 season.[8] Koiranen GP finished their inaugural season with third place in the team's championship.
For their second season in the GP3 Series Koiranen changed their whole driver line-up. New drivers were Carmen Jordá from Spain, Jimmy Eriksson from Sweden and Santiago Urrutia from Uruguay.[9] Dean Stoneman was once again brought in mid-season after Marussia Manor Racing folded before the race weekend in Sochi. Stoneman replaced Jordá for the remaining four races of the season.[10] Koiranen GP placed 4th in the team's championship.
Koiranen retained Eriksson for the 2015 season and paired him with Adderly Fong and Formula Renault graduate Matt Parry. Koiranen borught in russian Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup driver Matevos Isaakyan to replace Fong for last four races of the season.[11] Koiranen repeated last season's results finishing fourth in the teams championship.
Koiranen will retain Parry[12] and Isaakyan[13] for the 2016 season.
Complete series results
GP3 Series
(Key)
| Year | Chassis | Engine | No. | Drivers | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | DP | DC | TP | TC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Dallara GP3/13 | AER 3.4L | ESP FEA |
ESP SPR |
VAL FEA |
VAL SPR |
GBR FEA |
GBR SPR |
GER FEA |
GER SPR |
HUN FEA |
HUN SPR |
BEL FEA |
BEL SPR |
ITA FEA |
ITA SPR |
ABU FEA |
ABU SPR |
207 | 3rd | ||||||
| 26 |  Patrick Kujala |
Ret | 16 | 21 | 15 | Ret | EX | 13 | 13 | 14 | 11 | 13 | 20 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 19 | 5 | 20th | |||||||
| 27 | Aaro Vainio |
5 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 9 | 20 | 22 | 16 | 13 | 75 | 9th | |||||||||
| Dean Stoneman |
6 | 2 | 20 | 16th | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 28 |  Kevin Korjus |
8 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 20 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 107 | 7th | |||||||
| 2014 | Dallara GP3/13 | AER 3.4L | ESP FEA |
ESP SPR |
AUT FEA |
AUT SPR |
GBR FEA |
GBR SPR |
GER FEA |
GER SPR |
HUN FEA |
HUN SPR |
BEL FEA |
BEL SPR |
ITA FEA |
ITA SPR |
RUS FEA |
RUS SPR |
ABU FEA |
ABU SPR |
200 | 4th | ||||
| 7 |  Carmen Jordá |
Ret | Ret | 20 | 21 | 24 | 17 | Ret | 22 | 25 | 25 | 17 | Ret | 20 | 21 | 0 | 29th | |||||||||
| Dean Stoneman [nb 1] |
1 | 2 | 1 | Ret | 163 | 2nd | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 8 |  Jimmy Eriksson |
2 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | Ret | 7 | 15 | 10 | 16 | Ret | 19 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 132 | 5th | |||||
| 9 |  Santiago Urrutia |
21 | 13 | 16 | 12 | Ret | 14 | 22 | 18 | 12 | Ret | 13 | 18 | Ret | 15 | 14 | 12 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 23rd | |||||
| 2015 | Dallara GP3/13 | AER 3.4L | ESP FEA |
ESP SPR |
AUT FEA |
AUT SPR |
GBR FEA |
GBR SPR |
HUN FEA |
HUN SPR |
BEL FEA |
BEL SPR |
ITA FEA |
ITA SPR |
RUS FEA |
RUS SPR |
BHR FEA |
BHR SPR |
ABU FEA |
ABU SPR |
195 | 4th | ||||
| 10 |  Adderly Fong |
17 | 21 | 17 | 12 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 11 | 15 | 9 | 15 | 18 | 0 | 22nd | |||||||||||
| Matevos Isaakyan |
Ret | 14 | 9 | 14 | 2 | 21st | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | Jimmy Eriksson |
6 | 2 | 20 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 118 | 5th | |||||
| 12 | Matt Parry |
13 | 9 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | Ret | Ret | DSQ | Ret | 7 | Ret | 11 | 3 | 6 | 24 | 67 | 8th | |||||
| 2016 | Dallara GP3/16 | AER 3.4L | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | Matt Parry |
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| 15 | Matevos Isaakyan |
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| 16 | TBA |
* Season still in progress.
- ↑ Dean Stoneman joined Koiranen GP for the last two weekends of 2014 season. At that point he had collected 95 points with Marussia Manor Racing which will not be added to Koiranen's team's championship points.
Timeline
| Current series | |
|---|---|
| Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 | 2004, 2006, 2010-2015 |
| Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup | 2006–2011, 2015 |
| Formula Renault 2.0 Alps | 2012–2015 |
| GP3 Series | 2013–2015 |
| Former series | |
| Finnish Formula 4 Championship | 1997–1998 |
| Finnish Formula 3 Championship | 1999–2007 |
| Nordic Formula Renault | 2009–2010 |
References
- 1 2 "GP3 Series announce line up for 2013-15". GP3Series.com (GP2 Series Limited). 1 October 2012. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
- 1 2 "RECENT RESULTS". Koiranen Motorsport. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
- ↑ "Formula Renault 2.0 NEC 2007". driverdb.com. Driver Database. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
- ↑ "Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup 2010". driverdb.com. Driver Database. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
- ↑ "18 teams apply for 2012 season". renault-sport.com (Renault Sport). 10 October 2011. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
- ↑ "Thirteen teams selected for 2012". renault-sport.com (Renault Sport). 17 October 2011. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
- ↑ "Vainio, Korjus and Kujala complete Koiranen GP line-up". GP3 Series (GP2 Motorsport Limited). 11 February 2013. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
- ↑ "Dean Stoneman to reconquer single-seaters with Koiranen GP". GP3 Series (GP2 Motorsport Limited). 18 October 2013. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
- ↑ "Spaniard Carmen Jorda signs with Koiranen GP". GP3 Series (GP2 Motorsport Limited). 17 April 2014. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
- ↑ "Marussia Manor salta Sochi Stoneman da Koiranen, Kujala con Trident" [Marussia to miss Sochi, Stoneman in Koiranen, Kujala for Trident]. ItaliaRacing.net (in Italian) (Inpagina). 8 October 2014. Retrieved 8 October 2014.
- ↑ "2015 GP3 Series Round 8: Sakhir, Bahrain". gp3series.com. 17 November 2015.
- ↑ http://www.paddockscout.com/matt-parry-sticks-with-koiranen-for-2016-gp3-season/32589
- ↑ http://koiranengp.com/news-posts/koiranen-gps-2016-program/
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