Hexis Racing

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Hexis Racing
legal form Société à responsabilité limitée
founding 2001
Seat Lédenon , France
management Michel Mateu (team owner)
Philippe Dumas (team manager)
Clément Mateu (team manager)
Number of employees 12 (as of 2011)
Branch Motorsport
Website Hexis Racing

Hexis Racing is a French motorsport team that is active in the field of Gran Turismo and took part in the FIA GT1 World Championship from 2010 to 2012 . The team had a close connection to the automobile manufacturer Aston Martin and therefore competed for a long time as Hexis Aston Martin Racing ( Hexis AMR for short ).

history

An Aston Martin DBRS9 from Hexis AMR in the 2008 ADAC GT Masters
A Hexis AMR Aston Martin DBR9 in the 2010 FIA GT1 World Championship
A Hexis AMR Aston Martin DBR9 in the 2011 FIA GT1 World Championship

The team's founder and owner is the French entrepreneur Michel Mateu, whose Hexis group is also present as a sponsor on the vehicles: mainly with the film manufacturer Hexis , but also with the energy drink Hexis Energy . The team's GT vehicles can often be recognized by their silver stickers .

Beginnings in formula racing

After the team was founded in the winter of 2001, the 2002 season was the first in which Hexis Racing intervened in racing. From 2002 to 2005 inclusive, it was active in the French Formula Renault championship. The best result was a third place in the 2005 team championship.

Gran Turismo

Hexis Racing has been exclusively involved in GT racing since 2006. In 2005 and 2006 the team contested the French FFSA GT championship with a Porsche 996 Cup. From 2007 Hexis Racing drove with Aston Martin DBRS9 in the GT3 category and used it in the French GT Championship and the FIA GT3 European Championship in the same year . From then up to and including 2010, the team was active in the FIA ​​GT3 European Championship. In 2008 the team was runner-up in the team championship, and finally champions in 2009. In both years Thomas Accary took shared second place in the drivers' championship: in 2008 together with Pierre-Brice Mena, in 2009 with Julien Rodrigues.

In 2008 Hexis Racing no longer started in the French GT championship, but switched to the ADAC GT Masters . Christian Hohenadel was fifth in the championship in the driver standings, Hexis Racing third in the team standings. In the following year, the team no longer competed in the ADAC GT Masters, but used an Aston Martin V8 Vantage in the GT2 category sporadically in the FIA GT championship . In 2011 Hexis Racing entered the Blancpain Endurance Series with two DBRS9s .

FIA GT1 World Championship

Hexis Racing, together with Münnich Motorsport, is one of two teams that contested all three seasons of the FIA GT1 World Championship . It is also one of the most successful: in 2010 and 2012 , Hexis Racing was runner-up in the world championship and in 2011 world champion in the team championship.

2010 put two Hexis Racing Aston Martin DBR9 specification GT1 in the FIA GT1 World Championship one. Frédéric Makowiecki was supposed to share a vehicle with Jean-Denis Delétraz , who did not compete. Makowiecki therefore drove at various events with Philippe Dumas, Thomas Accary, Stéphane Sarrazin and Yann Clairay. Clivio Piccione and Jonathan Hirschi drove the other DBR9. Makowiecki finished third in the drivers' championship with three victories, while the team finished second in the team’s standings and thus contributed to winning the manufacturers trophy for Aston Martin.

In 2011 the driver pairings stayed the same throughout the season: Clivio Piccione and Stef Dusseldorp drove one of the team's Aston Martin DBR9s, European champions Christian Hohenadel and Andrea Piccini drove the other. Hohenadel and Piccini finished third in the drivers' standings, Hexis Racing overtook Young Driver AMR and JR Motorsports at the season finale and thus won the world championship title in the team standings .

With the change in the technical regulations of the FIA ​​GT1 World Championship to the GT3 group , Hexis Racing changed the vehicle in 2012 : the two McLaren MP4-12C GT3s were paired with Stef Dusseldorp and Frédéric Makowiecki, as well as Grégoire Demoustier and McLaren factory driver Álvaro Parente hazards. Dusseldorp and Makowiecki achieved the world's first victory for a McLaren MP4-12C GT3 at the Circuito de Navarra .

successes

2008

2009

  • Champion of the team classification of the FIA ​​GT3 European Championship.

2010

2011

  • World champion of the team classification of the FIA ​​GT1 world championship.

2012

  • Vice World Champion in the team classification of the FIA ​​GT1 World Championship.

Results

FIA GT1 World Championship

year Team name Make No.
1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 13 14th 15th 16 17th 18th 19th 20th Total Item
2010 FranceFrance Hexis AMR Aston Martin 9 7th Ret 1 2 8th 9 11 9 Ret 5 Ret 7th 10 6th 9 2 15th 13 1 1 177 2
10 8th 17th 2 13 9 4th 17th 13 13 10 5 4th 16 13 EX Ret 3 4th 4th 3
2011 FranceFrance Hexis AMR Aston Martin 3 5 1 6th 6th 13 Ret 2 11 5 4th 10 8th Ret 11 4th 3 5 Ret 8th 3 235 1
4th 9 4th 10 2 11 8th 5 1 10 Ret 5 5 6th 5 8th 4th 3 10 14th 5
2012 FranceFrance Hexis Racing McLaren 1 DNS Ret 4th 5 1 1 9 2 4th 3 8th Ret 4th 1 Ret 10 1 1 209 2
2 4th Ret 10 7th 2 6th Ret Ret 8th Ret 9 9 6th 2 5 Ret 3 3
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


Picture gallery

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i "Hexis AMR" (hexisracing.com on September 5, 2012)
  2. ↑ "Oschersleben: L'Aston Martin Vantage GT2 de retour ..." (endurance-info.com on September 6, 2012)
  3. ^ "Hexis names pilots for Blancpain Endurance Series" (gt-eins.at on September 6, 2012)
  4. ^ "2010: New GT teams for Aston" (gt-eins.at on September 6, 2012)
  5. ↑ "First leg, front row for HEXIS Racing AMR in Abu Dhabi!" (endurance-info.com on September 6, 2012)
  6. ↑ "Jonathan Hirschi dernier homme you HEXIS AMR." (endurance-info.com on September 6, 2012)
  7. ↑ "Title No. 5 for Vitaphone" (gt-eins.at on September 6, 2012)
  8. ^ "First Aston pilots for the 2011 GT1 World Championship" (gt-eins.at on September 6, 2012)
  9. ↑ "Philippe Dumas: HEXIS est Champion du Monde!" (endurance-info.com on September 6, 2012)
  10. ↑ "Hexis Racing dévoile ses Equipages et sa décoration." (endurance-info.com on September 6, 2012)
  11. ↑ "GT World Championship Review: McLaren Show Runs in Northern Spain" ( Memento of the original from November 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (sportscar-info.de on September 6, 2012)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sportscar-info.de

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