ART Grand Prix
ART Grand Prix is a French motorsport team that is active in motorsport . The team competes in the FIA Formula 2 Championship , FIA Formula 3 Championship and DTM . From 2003 to 2010 the team was active in the Formula 3 Euro Series , where it drove under the name ASM Formule 3 until 2007 . In 2011 the team used the name Lotus ART , in 2012 ART started as the Lotus GP .
founding
ART Grand Prix is a 2005 created joint project by Frédéric Vasseur , the team boss Established in 1996 Formula 3 teams ASM and Nicolas Todt , the son of the former managing director and Formula 1 team principal of Ferrari , Jean Todt . Vasseur wanted to get into the newly founded GP2 series with his successful Formula 3 team and Todt was interested in taking part in the management of a motorsport team. Before that, he worked as a manager for individual motorsport professionals, including for Felipe Massa . Todt took over the commercial duties, while Vasseur took care of the daily racing business.
GP2 series
In the first season of the GP2 series, the French Alexandre Prémat and the German Nico Rosberg drove for the team. Rosberg won the drivers' championship, Prémat came fourth. ART Grand Prix was also able to win the team ranking with these placements.
In the 2006 season Rosberg moved to the Formula 1 team Williams F1 , Prémat stayed with ART. The second driver was the Englishman Lewis Hamilton , who had dominated the Formula 3 Euro Series in Team ASM the year before . Hamilton won the GP2 drivers' championship and Prémat came third. Again the team was able to claim victory in the team classification.
The 2007 season was not that successful. After Hamilton left for the McLaren-Mercedes Formula 1 team and the switch from Prémat to the DTM , the team started with the Brazilian Lucas di Grassi and the German Michael Ammermüller . While di Grassi largely fulfilled the hopes placed in him and finished second in the drivers' championship at the end of the season, Ammermüller was injured in an accident in the first race in Bahrain. In the following race weekend, the Russian Mikhail Aljoschin competed alongside di Grassi , while the Swiss Sébastien Buemi Ammermüller took over in Monaco . Ammermüller returned to the team for the races at Magny-Cours and Silverstone; due to the hand injury sustained in Bahrain, however, he was unable to finish the Formula GP2 season and was replaced by Buemi. In the driver standings, the Swiss only finished 21st; nevertheless, thanks to di Grassi's performance, the team was able to end the season in second place in the team ranking.
In 2008 ART Grand Prix competed in both the GP2 Asia series and the regular series. In the Asia series, which took place between January and April 2008, ART Grand Prix with Romain Grosjean was able to provide the first winner of this new racing series and win the team championship. The second car was driven by Stephen Jelley . In the 2008 season the team started Luca Filippi and Romain Grosjean. After the fifth race weekend, however, Filippi was replaced by the Japanese Sakon Yamamoto due to lack of success . As the best result, this was able to achieve fourth place in Budapest . Grosjean won a race each in Istanbul and Spa-Francorchamps and was on the podium twice as second and third. That was enough for fourth place in the driver standings and brought ART Grand Prix fifth place in the team standings.
In the 2008/2009 GP2 Asia Series season , Sakon Yamamoto, Nelson Philippe , Pastor Maldonado and Nico Hülkenberg competed for ART Grand Prix. While Yamamoto took part in each race, the other three pilots shared a cockpit. The most successful pilot was Hülkenberg, who finished sixth overall with a race win. ART came fourth in the team ranking. In the 2009 season of the GP2 series, Hülkenberg and Maldonado drove for ART Grand Prix. Both drivers could decide races for themselves. Hulkenberg won five, Maldonado two races. At the end of the season, Hülkenberg won the driver's title and became the third ART driver to do so. Maldonado finished the season in sixth place overall.
In the GP2 Asia Series season 2009/2010 you started the season with Marcus Ericsson and Sam Bird . After the first race weekend Ericsson was Jules Bianchi replaced. The best pilot of the team was the seventh placed Bird, who also achieved the best team result with a second place. The team took fifth place in the team ranking. In the main series, the ART Grand Prix 2010 again competed with Bianchi and Bird. While Bianchi achieved third place overall without a race win, Bird finished fifth in the drivers' championship with one win. In the team classification, ART finished the season in third place.
From the 2011 GP2 Asia Series season onwards , the team will compete under the name Lotus ART .
GP3 series
From 2010 onwards , the ART Grand Prix started in the newly founded GP3 series . Alexander Rossi , Esteban Gutiérrez and Pedro Nunes started as a driver trio . While Nunes scored only a few points and finished 24th overall, Rossi and Gutiérrez drove for victories. Rossi finished fourth with two wins, Gutiérrez won the championship with five wins. ART Grand Prix was also champion in the team classification.
Formula 3 Euro Series
The ASM Formule 3 team founded by Vasseur was already active in Formula 3 before the merger with Todt and started in the Formula 3 Euro Series with engines from Mercedes from 2003 to 2010 . In the first season were Alexandre Premat and Olivier Pla , the regular drivers in the debut season. In addition, Jamie Green was used on a race weekend and Bruno Spengler was signed from the fourth race weekend. The best pilot of the team that won the team classification was Pla, who finished fourth overall. With Prémat in seventh place and Spengler in tenth place, two other ASM pilots were among the top ten. In 2004 Prémat, Green and Eric Salignon formed the ASM driver trio. Salignon was replaced after eight race weekends and represented by Adrian Sutil for the season finale . ASM again won the team classification and with Green and Prémat in the first two places they achieved a double lead in the drivers' classification. Salignon came in sixth. The three pilots all won races.
In 2005 , Sutil received a regular cockpit at ASM. His teammate was the Briton Lewis Hamilton . The two dominated the championship and took first places in the drivers' championship. Hamilton decided the championship title with 15 wins. For the last race weekend Sutil was represented by Maximilian Götz . ASM won the team ranking for the third time in a row. In 2006 , four racing cars competed for the first time. Sebastian Vettel , Paul di Resta , Giedo van der Garde and Kamui Kobayashi started for the French racing team. Once again, two of the team's drivers dueled for the driver's title: Di Resta finally won the title ahead of Vettel. Van der Garde and Kobayashi were sixth and eighth. The team classification again went to ASM. In 2007 , Kobayashi stayed on the team. Romain Grosjean , Nico Hülkenberg and Tom Dillmann were signed as new pilots . Grosjean won the drivers' championship title for ASM with six wins. For the first time in three years, the team did not make the runner-up and Hulkenberg finished the season as the second-best driver in third place overall. Kobayashi took fourth, Dillmann ninth. ASM won the team championship again.
From the 2008 season , the team also started in the Formula 3 Euro Series under the name ART Grand Prix. Hülkenberg stayed in the team and got two new teammates with James Jakes , Jules Bianchi and Jon Lancaster . Hulkenberg dominated the season and won the driver's title. With Bianchi, who finished third, only one other team-mate made it into the top ten drivers this season. Lancaster and Jakes finished 12th and 13th. The team classification went to the ART Grand Prix for the sixth time in a row. In 2009 they kept Bianchi in the team and signed Valtteri Bottas , Esteban Gutiérrez and Adrien Tambay . This season, Bianchi dominated the racing series and won the championship title. Bottas was third, Gutiérrez ninth and Tambay 21. ART once again defended the title in the overall standings. In 2010 they only entered three cars. Bottas kept his cockpit and was assisted by Alexander Sims and Jim Pla . For the first time since the start of the Formula 3 Euro Series, ART Grand Prix did not win the team classification and was beaten by Signature . In the drivers' championship, too, the title did not go to any ART driver. Bottas repeated the placement from the previous year and came third again. Sims finished fourth, Pla tenth.
After the end of the 2010 season, ART Grand Prix announced that the team was withdrawing from the Formula 3 Euro Series after eight years in order to concentrate on its involvement in the GP2 and GP3 series.
Web links
- Official website (English and French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Lotus-ART becomes 2012 Lotus-GP" (Motorsport-Total.com on January 10, 2012)
- ↑ Ammermüller with broken wrist out motorsport-total.com v. April 17, 2007
- ↑ Aleshin replaces Ammermüller motorsport-total.com v. May 8, 2007
- ↑ Buemi replaces Ammermüller motorsport-total.com v. May 23, 2007
- ↑ Buemi will replace Ammermüller until the end of the season motorsport-total.com v. August 16, 2007
- ↑ ART: Yamamoto replaces Filippi motorsport-total.com from July 15, 2008
- ↑ "Official: Hülkenberg moves up to the GP2 series" (Motorsport-Zotal.com on October 31, 2008)
- ↑ "Maldonado switches to ART" (Motorsport-Zotal.com on November 10, 2008)
- ↑ "Curious: ART joins Lotus" (Motorsport-Total.com on September 22, 2010)
- ↑ "Shock for the Euro Series: ART withdraws!" (Motorsport-Total.com on November 10, 2010)
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