Double R Racing

Double R Racing

Founded	2004
Founder(s)	Kimi Räikkönen Steve Robertson
Base	Woking, Surrey
Team principal(s)	Anthony Hieatt
Current series	BRDC British Formula 3 Championship F4 British Championship F4 Spanish Championship
Former series	European Formula 3 Formula BMW Europe Formula 3 Euro Series British F3
Current drivers	Jamie Chadwick Harry Hayek Guilherme Samaia Zhuo Cao Linus Lundqvist Karl Massaad
Drivers' Championships	British Formula 3: 2006: Mike Conway BRDC British Formula 3 Championship: 2016 Matheus Leist
Website	http://www.doublerracing.co.uk/

Double R Racing is a motor racing team, which races in Formula Three and other junior levels of formula racing including the MSA Formula Championship for the 2016 season. The team was formed in November 2004 as Räikkönen Robertson Racing by then McLaren Formula One driver and 2007 world champion with Ferrari, Kimi Räikkönen, and his race manager Steve Robertson, a former Formula Three driver. It is based in Woking, site of the McLaren manufacturing facility, and it is managed by Anthony "Boyo" Hieatt. Hieatt took sole control of the team in November 2010, leading to the team's renaming.^[1]

History

Dan Clarke prepares to race in his Dallara-Mugen-Honda during the 2005 season

When the team was announced, it was confirmed that Räikkönen Robertson would compete in the British F3 International Series, in the Championship Class (the first of two different classes) from the 2005 season. In this first season, the two Dallara F305 Mugen-Hondas were driven by British driver Dan Clarke, and Brazilian Bruno Senna, nephew of the legendary three-time Formula One World Champion Ayrton, who died in 1994. This saw the team fare well, with Clarke taking the team's maiden win at Castle Combe, as well as five other podium finishes, and going on to finish 5th in the Championship, while Senna scored three podium finishes, and finished in 10th position in the standings.

At the BP Ultimate Masters at Zandvoort, Räikkönen Robertson only entered Senna, who qualified 18th but failed to finish, while at the Macau Grand Prix, Räikkönen Robertson again only entered one car, with Clarke appearing for Formula Three Euroseries team Prema, instead. Senna qualified 22nd around the tight, twisty Circuito da Guia, although he failed to finish in either the qualifying race or the Grand Prix itself.

For the 2006 season, Räikkönen Robertson changed their engine supplier to Mercedes HWA, upgraded to Dallara's F306 chassis, and replaced Champ Car-bound Clarke with Mike Conway, who finished 3rd in British F3 in 2005 and Stephen Jelley, to team up with Senna, as they looked to make a serious assault on the overall Series title.

The season started well, with Senna winning both races at Oulton Park. After winning the next race at Donington Park as well, the Brazilian had a useful lead at the championship. Sadly a serious crash at Snetterton, which was not his fault (Bruno was fine, though could not race in the second race of that weekend, due to the damage to the car) seemingly halted his progress, and his results began to worsen through no particular fault on his part. This coincided with a dramatic improvement in Conway's results and he overtook Senna in the race for the title. Conway continued on his way and his impressive results saw him take a seemingly unassailable lead, while Senna's inconsistent form saw slip behind Carlin's Oliver Jarvis, in the race for the runner-up's spot, despite an impressive win in the wet at Mugello. At Silverstone, Conway claimed the title with another weekend to spare. In that final weekend at Thruxton, Räikkönen Robertson also ran their fourth car (the one damaged in Senna's crash at Snetterton, now rebuilt) in the Invitation Class, a category for drivers making a guest appearance. British Porsche Carrera Cup driver Danny Watts, who had been in British F3 two years before, made a return, and won the penultimate race at Thruxton. In just their second season, Räikkönen Robertson were champions, winning a massive fourteen races from the twenty-two that took place, and Championship Class wins for fifteen (Conway came behind the Invitation Class Signature-Plus cars at Pau, while Watts was, of course, in the same category).

In F3's international meetings, Räikkönen Robertson had far more luck than they had in 2005. At the BP Ultimate Masters, the team entered all three drivers, qualifying 7th (Senna), 12th (Conway), and 22nd (Jelley), with Senna finishing 7th, Jelley 18th, and Conway retiring. At the Macau Grand Prix, Räikkönen Robertson only entered two cars, with Senna not being able to appear. After Conway's accident in the second qualifying session, the pair ended up in 11th (Conway) and 16th (Jelley) respectively, while in the qualifying race they finished 7th (Conway) and 13th (Jelley). In the Grand Prix itself, Conway jumped from 7th to 4th at the start and as the three cars in front him collided on the first lap, he took a lead he was never to relinquish, to become the first British winner of the Grand Prix since Darren Manning in 1999, and the first winner from the British F3 International Series since Takuma Sato in 2001. Jelley, meanwhile, finished in 11th place.

For the 2007 season, Räikkönen Robertson upgraded to Dallara's latest F307 chassis, and were again powered by the Mercedes-HWA engine. Conway and Senna made the leap to the GP2 Series, whilst Jelley continued with Räikkönen Robertson, partnered by Jonathan Kennard and Finn Atte Mustonen. Meanwhile, Räikkönen Robertson also entered a team in the National Class, their two cars being driven by British driver Alistair Jackson and Spain's Albert Costa. The team claimed 4 pole positions and won 4 races, scoring 5 fastest laps.

Success

In 2008 the team won one race with Finn Atte Mustonen. The team continued with its supply of Mercedes' engines.

In 2009 the team kept the Mercedes Supply of engine. But changed the driver line-up completely by using Daisuke Nakajima and Carlos Huertas these two spent the full season with the team and Marcus Ericsson spent 6 races with the team scoring two wins and a second place. Nakajima and Ericsson both claimed one pole position each.

In 2010 the team fielded Brazilian Driver Felipe Nasr, Daisuke Nakajima and Carlos Huertas. For the first race of the season with Nakajima scoring points in the first race of the season.

For this year's 2016 season the team is contesting both the BRDC British Formula 3 Championship and the MSA Formula Championship. Finn Aleksanteri Huovinen, Brazilian Enzo Bortoleto and his compatriot Matheus Leist are competing in F3 whilst Zane Goddard from Australia and Carrie Schreiner from Germany are competing in the MSA championship.

Matheus Leist is currently lying second in the British Formula 3 Championship, just four points behind the current leader Ricky Collard with two rounds remaining to close the gap. His team mates Huovinen and Bortoleto are also inside the top ten lying tenth and eighth respectively.

In the MIA Formula Championship, Australian Zane Goddard is currently in tenth position with 102 points but is set to rise through the rankings after a sensational weekend at Croft where he achieved his maiden victory alongside 61 points over the weekend thanks to three fastest laps and two second-place finishes in the other two rounds. German Carrie Schreiner is lying in 14th position having only contested two race weekends.

Complete current series results

British Formula 3 Championship

British Formula 3 Championship results[2]
Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	D.C.
2005	Dallara F305-Mugen Honda	Dan Clarke	22	1	0	1	7	160	5th
		Bruno Senna	22	0	1	0	2	75	10th
2006	Dallara F306-Mercedes HWA	Bruno Senna	22	5	3	5	10	229	3rd
		Stephen Jelley	22	0	0	2	5	126	7th
		Mike Conway	22	8	8	5	16	321	1st
2007	Dallara F307-Mercedes	Stephen Jelley	22	2	2	1	8	183	3rd
		Jonathan Kennard	22	1	2	3	5	130	6th
		Atte Mustonen	22	1	2	1	5	126	7th
2008	Dallara F308-Mercedes HWA	Henry Arundel	22	0	0	0	0	21	15th
		John Martin	22	0	0	1	0	45	13th
		Alistair Jackson	16	0	0	0	0	9	17th
		Clemente de Faria Jr.	4	0	0	0	0	0	22nd
		Atte Mustonsen	22	1	0	0	5	138	6th
2009	Dallara F309-Mercedes HWA	Marcus Ericsson	6	2	1	0	4	65	11th
		Dominic Storey	2	0	0	0	0	0	21st
		Kevin Chen	6	0	0	0	0	2	20th
		Carlos Huertas	22	0	0	1	2	95	8th
		Daisuke Nakajima	22	0	1	0	2	95	7th
2010	Dallara F308-Mercedes HWA	Daisuke Nakajima	30	0	0	0	4	97	11th
		Carlos Huertas	30	0	0	1	4	104	10th
		Felipe Nasr	30	1	0	3	4	136	5th
2011	Dallara F308-Mercedes HWA	Pipo Derani	30	0	0	0	1	36	15th
		Scott Pye	30	1	0	0	2	81	10th
		Valtteri Bottas	3	1	0	1	1	17	17th
		Mitch Evans	3	0	0	0	0	10	20th
2012	Dallara F312-Mercedes HWA	Geoff Uhrhane	29	0	0	0	0	35	12th
		Fahmi Ilyas	23	0	0	0	0	48	11th
		Rupert Svendsen-Cook	6	0	0	0	0	24	13th
2013	Dallara F312-Mercedes HWA	Sean Gelael	12	0	0	1	3	78	8th
		Antonio Giovinazzi	12	2	0	0	7	135	2nd
		Tatiana Calderón	12	0	0	0	1	79	7th
2014	Dallara F312-Mercedes HWA	Andy Chang	12	0	0	0	4	103	6th
		Roberto Merhi	3	0	0	2	2	39	11th
		Dan Wells	3	0	0	0	3	41	10th
		Camren Kaminsky	21	0	0	0	3	161	3rd
		Max Marshall	9	0	0	0	2	93	7th
	Dallara F308-Mercedes HWA
2016	Tatuus-Cosworth F4-016	Matheus Leist	23	4	2	6	11	493	1st
		Aleksanteri Huovinen	23	0	0	0	1	245	9th
		Enzo Bortoleto	23	0	0	0	2	220	11th
2017	Tatuus-Cosworth F4-016	Guilherme Samaia	12	0	0	0	0	87	14th
		Jamie Chadwick	12	0	0	0	1	121	10th
		Harry Hayek	6	0	0	0	0	51	16th
		Linus Lundqvist

F4 British Championship

F4 British Championship results
Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	D.C.
2015	Mygale-Ford EcoBoost F4	Gustavo Myasava	6	0	0	0	1	19	20th
		Matheus Leist	30	2	1	1	7	273	5th
		Tarun Reddy	30	0	0	0	1	77	15th
2016	Mygale-Ford EcoBoost F4	Carrie Schreiner	12	0	0	0	0	14	17th
		Zane Goddard	30	4	2	4	8	239	8th
2017	Mygale-Ford EcoBoost F4	Karl Massaad	14	0	0	0	1	46	10th
		Linus Lundqvist	14	3	4	5	6	152.5	3rd
		Zhuo Cao	14	0	0	0	0	7	14th

F4 Spanish Championship

F4 Spanish Championship results
Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	D.C.
2016	Tatuus-Abarth	Elias Niskanen	3	0	0	0	0	6	17th
		Tuomas Tujula	20	1	0	1	6	189	3rd
		Konsta Lappalainen	5	0	0	0	0	22	15th
		Juuso Puhakka	9	0	0	0	1	44	13th
		Juho Valtanen	6	0	0	1	3	47	11th
		Harry Hayek	3	0	0	0	0	0	NC
		Tuomas Haapalainen	15	0	1	1	2	85	6th
		Rasmus Markkanen	3	0	0	0	0	8	16th
		Roope Markkanen	3	1	0	0	2	45	12th

Timeline

References

External links

• Team Profile Official British F3 website