Racing Point

Racing Point

Surname	Racing Point F1 team
Companies	Racing Point UK Limited
Company headquarters	Silverstone , UK
Team boss	Otmar Szafnauer
Technical Director	Andrew Green
2020 season
driver	(11) Sergio Pérez (18) Lance Stroll
Test driver
chassis	Racing Point RP20
engine	BWT Mercedes-Benz 1.6 V6 Turbo
tires	Pirelli
statistics
First Grand Prix	Belgium 2018
Race driven	37
Constructors' championship	best result: 7th ( 2018 , 2019 )
Drivers World Championship	best result: 8th ( 2018 )
Race wins	0
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
Position 2019	7. (73 points)
Points	191
(Status: Belgian Grand Prix 2020)

The Racing Point F1 Team ( Racing Point for short ) is a British- licensed Formula 1 racing team based in Silverstone, England . The team was formed in August 2018 and was registered as the Racing Point Force India F1 Team in its debut season . Since the 2018 Belgian Grand Prix , it has been competing in the Formula 1 World Championship with material and staff from the insolvent Force India racing team . Racing Point will start under the name Aston Martin in 2021.

history

Emergence

Racing Point logo

After the racing team Force India, which started with an Indian license, became insolvent in July 2018, the company Racing Point UK Ltd., registered on August 2, 2018, took over . the personnel and material Force India. Racing Point is a group of investors around the Canadian entrepreneur Lawrence Stroll , the father of the racing driver Lance Stroll . The aim was to continue to compete in the Formula 1 World Championship with the Force India technical equipment. Media reports mostly assumed that Lance Stroll, who had driven for the defeated Williams team in 2018 , should be given the opportunity to compete for a more competitive racing team in the future. The family had already proceeded in a similar way in 2014 when they took over the established Formula 3 team Prema , whose drivers won the Formula 3 Euro Series every year from 2012 to 2016 , and used Lance Stroll as a driver there.

Racing Point is not the legal successor to Force India, but is viewed as a newly founded racing team. The FIA accepted Racing Point's announcement on the Thursday before the 2018 Belgian Grand Prix. The Formula 1 World Championship teams unanimously decided that Racing Point could claim the prize money from Force India. However, only the world championship points that Racing Point achieved from the Belgian Grand Prix were taken into account; the points scored by Force India up to the summer break were not taken into account. In addition, the other racing teams decided that the term Force India must remain part of the team name for the rest of the season. Otmar Szafnauer became the new team manager . He took the place of Robert Fernley , who had left Force India when bankruptcy proceedings opened.

2018 season

The team's first race was the Belgian Grand Prix , the 13th race of the 2018 Formula 1 World Championship . Racing Point used the VJM11 chassis that Force India had started with for the remainder of the season . They were powered by Mercedes engines. The cars retained the pink, white, and blue paintwork of the Force India vehicles.

The drivers were the previous Force India pilots Esteban Ocon and Sergio Pérez . Both drivers occupied the second row behind Lewis Hamilton and the eventual winner Sebastian Vettel in Belgium . They finished the race in fifth and sixth. Racing Point thus achieved more points after the first race than its competitor Williams F1, who competed with the same engine, over the course of the entire season. At the end of the season after the ninth Grand Prix for Racing Point, the racing team finished seventh in the constructors' championship.

Season 2019

Sergio Perez during the 2019 Hungarian Grand Prix

Lance Stroll during the 2019 Hungarian Grand Prix

In 2019 , the team started under the name Racing Point, and the chassis was also registered under this name. Pérez stayed with the team, Ocon was replaced by Lance Stroll . At the 2019 German Grand Prix , Lance Stroll achieved fourth place, the team's best result to date. At the end of the season, Racing Point was seventh overall with 73 points. Perez was tenth with 52, Stroll 15th with 21 points.

2020 season

Sergio Perez in RP20

The driver pairing for 2020 is unchanged.

During the preparation for the season, the RP20 caused controversy because of its similarity to the Mercedes-AMG F1 W10 EQ Power + , which won the 2019 Formula 1 World Championship. Following the Grand Prix of Styria , a formal protest was raised against the RP20, which specifically concerned the brake shafts, which according to the regulations must be designed by each team themselves. The FIA ​​seized the RP20's brake ducts and requested those of the W10 to investigate the protest.

In the run-up to the British Grand Prix , Sergio Pérez tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus . He is therefore not allowed to participate in the Grand Prix. The team signed Nico Hülkenberg as a short-term replacement. At the Grand Prix of the 70th anniversary , Hülkenberg replaced Pérez again.

On August 7, 2020, after Renault objected to the team, the FIA ​​stewards imposed a deduction of 15 points and a fine of 400,000 euros because the rear brake shafts of the RP20 were too similar to those of the 2019 Mercedes W10. The penalty only applies to the Styrian Grand Prix; a warning was issued for the remaining races.

Racing Point is currently in fourth place with 66 points in the constructors' championship after the seventh race of the season, taking into account the 15 points deduction.

Numbers and dates

Statistics in Formula 1

Status: 2020 Belgian Grand Prix

season	Team name	chassis	engine	tires	Grand Prix	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Round	Points	World Cup rank
2018	Racing Point Force India F1 Team	Force India VJM11	Mercedes	P	9	-	-	-	-	-	52	7th
2019	SportPesa Racing Point F1 Team	Racing Point RP19	BWT Mercedes	P	21st	-	-	-	-	-	73	7th
2020	BWT Racing Point F1 Team	Racing Point RP20	BWT Mercedes	P	7th	-	-	-	-	-	66	4th
total					37	-	-	-	-	-	191

Remarks

1. ↑ In the 2020 season, 15 points were deducted from the team as a penalty.

All Racing Point drivers in Formula 1

Status: 2020 Spanish Grand Prix

Surname	Years	Grand Prix	Points	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	SR	best WM-Pos.
Sergio Perez	2018 -	35	117	-	-	-	-	-	08. ( 2018 )
Lance Stroll	2019 -	28	63	-	-	-	-	-	15th ( 2019 )
Esteban Ocon	2018	9	20th	-	-	-	-	-	12. ( 2018 )
Nico Hulkenberg	2020	1	6th	-	-	-	-	-	-

Current drivers are shown in yellow.

Results in Formula 1

season	chassis	driver	No.	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	Points	rank
2018	Force India VJM11																								52	7th
		S. Perez	11													5	7th	16	10	7th	8th	DNF	10	8th
		E. Ocon	31													6th	6th	DNF	9	9	DSQ	11	14th	DNF
2019	RP19																								73	7th
		S. Perez	11	13	10	8th	6th	15th	13	12	12	11	17th	DNF	11	6th	7th	DNF	7th	8th	7th	10	9	7th
		L. Stroll	18th	9	14th	12	9	DNF	16	9	13	14th	13	4th	17th	10	12	13	11	10	12	13	19 *	DNF
2020	RP20																								81 66	4th
		S. Perez	11	6th	6th	7th	INJ	INJ	5	10
		N. Hulkenberg	27				DNS	7th
		L. Stroll	18th	DNF	7th	4th	9	6th	4th	9

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Remarks

1. ↑ In the 2020 season, 15 points were deducted from the team as a penalty.

Overview of the current staff

Area of ​​responsibility	Surname
Regular driver	Sergio Perez
	Lance Stroll
Test driver
Team boss	Otmar Szafnauer
technical director	Andrew Green
Sports director	Andy Stevensen
Chief engineer	Tom McCullough
Chief designer	Akio Haga, Ian Hall
Chief aerodynamicist	Simon Phillips
Race engineer Pérez
Race engineer Stroll	Brad Joyce
Commercial Manager	Steve Curnow
Team owner	Lawrence Stroll

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Jack Philipps: Racing Point Force India enters F1 at the bottom of the pile. Motorsportmagazine.com, August 24, 2018, accessed August 24, 2018 . 
2. ^ Andrew Benson: Force India renamed Racing Point Force India for rest of 2018 season. bbc.com, August 23, 2018, accessed August 24, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Rob La Salle: Racing Point Force India: From Monza with Lance Stroll? speedweek.com, August 23, 2018, accessed August 24, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Gruz David: "Stroll cruises to victory in opening Italian F4 race". paddockscout.com, June 8, 2014, accessed August 24, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Dieter Rencken, Dominik Sharaf: Special permit: Force India can start as a new team. Motorsport-Total.com, August 23, 2018, accessed on August 24, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Dieter Rencken, Keith Collantine: Force India's rivals agree to let team keep prize money. August 24, 2018. Retrieved August 24, 2018 (de-US). 
7. ^ Laurence Edmondson: Force India to compete under new name, Racing Point Force India. August 23, 2018, accessed on August 24, 2018 . 
8. ↑ 2018 Constructor Standings. Accessed July 31, 2020 (English). 
9. ↑ Marcus Lüttgen, Dieter Rencken: Formula 1 entry list 2019: Force India is history. Motorsport-Total.com, December 1, 2018, accessed December 1, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Results - 2019 German Grand Prix - Formula 1. Accessed August 1, 2019 (British English). 
11. ↑ 2019 Constructor Standings. Accessed July 31, 2020 (English). 
12. ↑ Checo Announced! | SportPesa Racing Point F1. Accessed August 31, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Racing Point Protest: FIA did not check brake shafts in winter. Retrieved July 22, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Investigations at the Formula 1 racing team Racing Point: Too good to be legal? , Spiegel Online from July 13, 2020; Accessed July 22, 2020
15. ↑ Positive COVID-19 test: Sergio Perez has the coronavirus! Accessed July 31, 2020 . 
16. ↑ Corona test negative: Nico Hülkenberg is allowed to drive in Silverstone! Accessed July 31, 2020 . 
17. ↑ Nico Hulkenberg to stand in for Sergio Perez at Racing Point at 70th Anniversary Grand Prix | Formula 1®. Retrieved August 8, 2020 . 
18. ↑ FIA declares racing point copying illegal: fine and point deduction! , motorsport-total.com from August 7, 2020; Accessed August 7, 2020
19. ↑ Analysis: All the details about the Racing Point verdict! , motorsport-total.com from August 7, 2020; Accessed August 7, 2020
20. ↑ 2020 Team Standings. Retrieved August 8, 2020 . 

Web links

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