Manor Racing

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Manor
Manor F1 Team logo.png
Surname Manor Racing
Companies Manor Grand Prix Racing Ltd.
Company headquarters Dinnington , United Kingdom
United KingdomUnited Kingdom 
Team boss New ZealandNew Zealand Dave Ryan
statistics
First Grand Prix Bahrain 2010
Last Grand Prix Abu Dhabi 2016
Race driven 132
Constructors' championship 0 - best result: 9th ( 2014 )
Drivers World Championship 0 - best result: 17th ( 2014 )
Race wins 0
Pole positions 0
Fastest laps 0
Points 3

Manor Racing was a UK- based racing team founded in 2009 that has competed in the Formula 1 World Championship since the beginning of the 2010 season . The racing team, which operated under the name Manor Grand Prix in the founding phase, used different names in the years it took part. Initially it appeared with a view to the main sponsor Virgin under the name Virgin Racing . In 2011, the Russian automobile manufacturer Marussia took part in the team, which then entered the team with a Russian license and from 2012 as the Marussia F1 Team . After the racing team became insolvent at the end of 2014 and was in insolvency proceedings, they succeeded in making a new start in the sport in spring 2015 after restructuring. From the 2015 season , the racing team again used the name Manor in the name, which was the sole team name from the start of the 2016 season . The team was liquidated in January 2017 .

history

Foundation and preparations

Manor was one of the three new teams that debuted in the 2010 Formula 1 season. They also include HRT and Lotus Racing , which started in 2012 under the name Caterham F1 .

The team was founded in 2009 as a joint venture between the Formula 3 Euro Series team Manor Motorsport , led by John A. Booth , and the British technology company Wirth Research . The trigger for the establishment was an initiative of the FIA in 2009, which aimed to reduce costs in Formula 1 and set an upper budget limit. After many years, it made Formula 1 attractive again for new teams. When the FIA ​​then advertised places for three other teams, Booth and Wirth applied to participate in the 2010 Formula 1 season. On June 12, 2009, the FIA ​​confirmed that two starting places had been awarded to Manor for the 2010 season.

In the summer of 2009, the team began preparing for the new season. John Booth acted as team principal, while Wirth, who had designed racing cars for the Simtek and Benetton teams in the 1990s, was in charge of the technical department. Wirth introduced a construction philosophy based exclusively on Computer Aided Design (CAD) , which overwhelmed the small team. When, after a year and a half, there was no tangible success, the collaboration with Wirth Research was ended in June 2011.

Before the first race, the team changed its name. After Booth had agreed to sponsor the team with Richard Branson , the owner of the Virgin Group, it was named Virgin Racing . On November 30, 2009, the FIA ​​confirmed the team name change.

2010: Virgin Racing

Timo Glock on a test drive before the 2010 season in Jerez

The Virgin VR-01 was introduced on February 3, 2010. Nick Wirth only relied on CFD when designing the car . He did not carry out any wind tunnel tests and instead limited himself to simulating flow patterns on the computer. No other team took this route. The engine supplier was the British manufacturer Cosworth , who, in addition to the other two new racing teams, also supplied the traditional Williams team . The drivers were the German Timo Glock and the Brazilian Lucas di Grassi . In addition, the Portuguese GP2 driver Álvaro Parente and the Brazilian Luiz Razia were signed as official test drivers for the team.

Virgin Racing faced technical difficulties in the first few races. The most significant problem was the VR-01's tank, which was initially too small, so that the team had to fear at least at some events that they would not be able to finish the races. Nick Wirth gave incorrect data on the density of the fuel used as the reason for this. For the European races, Virgin succeeded in increasing the tank volume sufficiently. For this, the chassis had to be fundamentally rebuilt, which required prior approval from the FIA. Another problem was the sometimes too thin and torsion-free suspension parts of the VR-01.

In the third race of the year, the Malaysian Grand Prix , di Grassi achieved the first finish for Virgin. In the following race, the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai , both vehicles failed again. Due to technical difficulties, Glock could not start. At the Spanish Grand Prix , both Virgin drivers crossed the finish line for the first time; They succeeded in doing this in three other races. However, none of the drivers could achieve a championship point. The team's best result was two 14th places. Since the competitor HRT had achieved a total of three 14th places and Lotus even a twelfth place at the end of the season, Virgin Racing ended the debut season as the last team in twelfth place in the constructors' championship.

2011-2015: Marussia

2011 season

Marussia Virgin Racing logo for the 2011 season

During the last race of the 2010 season in Abu Dhabi , it was announced that the Russian sports car manufacturer Marussia Motors would acquire a significant stake in the team together with the investor LDC. As a result, the team name was changed to Marussia Virgin Racing , and the team competed with a Russian license.

With the new investor in the background, the team had a budget of 57 million euros in the 2011 season. While Glock kept his cockpit, di Grassi had to leave the team. He was replaced by Jérôme D'Ambrosio , who had already participated in some Friday training sessions for Virgin in 2010. Test driver was Robert Wickens .

The team’s second car, named Virgin MVR-02 based on the main investor , was again developed by Wirth Research. As with the predecessor, designer Nick Wirth completely dispensed with wind tunnel tests; all tests were simulated exclusively in the EDP. Virgin was still the only team that followed such a development concept.

Jérôme D'Ambrosio in the Virgin MVR-02 at the 2011 Malaysian Grand Prix
Timo Glock at the 2011 Malaysian Grand Prix

The first races of the 2011 season were problematic. The technical level did not turn out to be an improvement over the previous year; in the opinion of the team boss it was even worse in some areas. In addition, the MVR-02 was only slightly further developed regardless of the secured budget; it happened repeatedly that newly developed parts did not improve performance.

Both drivers were able to qualify regularly with one exception until the summer; however, the team did not succeed in catching up with the rival Lotus Racing team. Rather, the Virgin drivers found themselves increasingly harassed by the HRT pilots who had started the new season with a poorly prepared car. One of the HRT pilots increasingly managed to position himself in front of Glock or D'Ambrosio on the starting grid. At the Canadian Grand Prix in June 2011, the team's performance had dropped so far that D'Ambrosio could no longer qualify on his own ; Participation in a race was only possible by way of an exceptional decision by the race management. Timo Glock in particular complained about the poor drivability of the car and the problematic aerodynamics.

In view of the poor performance, Nick Wirth came under increasing criticism. Both Timo Glock and John Booth demanded the start of conventional wind tunnel tests from April 2011, which Wirth refused, however. After the Monaco Grand Prix , in which Glock was eliminated due to a suspension failure, Virgin parted with Wirth Research. Pat Symonds became the new technical head of the team . The aim of the separation was to have a more successful car developed in the conventional way for 2012.

In the last races of the season no improvement in sporting performance could be achieved. Lotus, the best of the three teams that started in 2010, stayed out of reach, but HRT had a firm grip on the finish line. The Virgin pilots mostly crossed the finish line before the HRT drivers and achieved several 14th and 15th places, which HRT was denied. But since HRT driver Vitantonio Liuzzi finished the Canadian Grand Prix in 13th place, HRT took a better position than Virgin in the team standings at the end of the year. However, this rating does not accurately reflect the performance ratios as Liuzzi's result in Montréal came about under exceptional racing conditions.

During the season the team began with a move to Banbury .

2012 season

Timo Glock in the Marussia MR01 at the 2012 Malaysian Grand Prix

Marussia contested the 2012 season with the MR01 , a racing car developed under the direction of Pat Symonds, which, as in previous years, was powered by a Cosworth engine. The MR01 was the team's first car to undergo an aerodynamic test in a wind tunnel before the start of the season. The corresponding tests were already running in September 2011. The completion of the MR01 was delayed, however. The car was due to be presented in Barcelona on March 1st, 2012 . Since the MR01 had only passed 17 of the 18 mandatory crash tests at this point in time, further development work was necessary, so that the presentation did not take place until March 5, 2012 in Silverstone . At this point the official test drives for the Formula 1 season had already been completed. Therefore, the MR01 appeared in untested condition at the first race of the season.

At the beginning of the season, last year's driver D'Ambrosio was replaced by Charles Pic ; Timo Glock, however, stayed in the team. The test driver was María de Villota from Spain .

Glock took twelfth place in the Singapore Grand Prix , which meant that Marussia was temporarily tenth in the constructors' championship in autumn 2012. Marussia lost this place to the Caterham team in the last race of the year after its driver Vitaly Petrow had crossed the finish line in eleventh place in Brazil . In the end, Marussia was eleventh in the constructors' championship. This was the first time that the team managed to place itself in front of the Spanish competitor HRT. Marussia ended the season in a £ 50m deficit.

A momentous incident occurred in July 2012 during test drives on the grounds of the Imperial War Museum Duxford . The car of the test pilot María de Villota hit the open loading flap of a team truck while driving straight ahead and de Villota had a serious accident in the accident. She suffered a fractured skull base and lost her right eye . She died in October 2013 as a result of the accident.

2013 season

Max Chilton in the Marussia MR02

In 2013 , Marussia contested its fourth Formula 1 season. Marussia was considered the financially weakest team this year. At the start of the season, the team had a budget of $ 40 million, which was about half the budget of Toro Rosso. According to John Booth, this budget was not enough to contest all races of the season. One consequence of the financial problems was the termination of the contract with Timo Glock in January 2013. Team manager Graeme Lowdon explained: "In 2013, the team is dependent on the use of two paydrivers ". Glock was initially replaced by Luiz Razia . During the test drives, however, the contract with Razia was also terminated and Jules Bianchi signed. Second driver was British debutant Max Chilton , whose father is vice chairman of the US Aon Corporation, which sponsored the racing team.

After the dissolution of the HRT team at the end of 2012, Marussia was the only Formula 1 racing team that still used an eight-cylinder Cosworth engine. In view of the team's financial difficulties, the Marussia MR02 was not a new development, just a slightly modified version of the previous year's model. Marussia used a KERS from Williams this year .

2014 season

Sporting development
Marussia MR03

In 2014 , Marussia bought both the V6 turbo engines and the eight-speed gearbox from Ferrari . The emergency vehicle was the Marussia MR03 designed by John McQuilliam , which, according to the team boss, had no references to the previous models with the exception of a few individual parts. As in the previous year, drivers were Jules Bianchi and Max Chilton. At the Monaco Grand Prix , Marussia scored the first world championship points since the team was founded by placing Bianchis in ninth place. This put Marussia in ninth place in the constructors' championship after the eighth race.

After the summer break, the team's financial problems came to a head. Before the Belgian Grand Prix , John Booth announced that American debutant Alexander Rossi , who was test and reserve driver at Marussia this year, would take part in the race in Chilton's place , and attributed this to "contractual circumstances". Chilton's management stated that Chilton was volunteering in Belgium so the team could sell the cockpit to raise sponsorship money. After the first free practice in Spa-Francorchamps , however, the team reported Chilton again as a pilot. Observers attributed this to the fact that Chilton had managed at the last minute to provide outstanding funds for racing.

On October 5, 2014, Jules Bianchi had a serious accident at the Japanese Grand Prix on the Suzuka International Racing Course . Under difficult weather conditions during a yellow phase it crashed into a recovery crane that was supposed to recover Adrian Sutils Sauber. For the subsequent Russian Grand Prix , the team initially registered Alexander Rossi for the second car; However, the team management ultimately decided to contest the race with only one car (Chilton). Bianchi succumbed to serious head injuries on July 17, 2015 after being in a coma since the accident.

insolvency

In the fall of 2014, the team's losses since their debut in 2010 had reached a total of 228 million US dollars (180 million euros). After the team had already announced the possibility of imminent insolvency at the London High Court before the 2014 Russian Grand Prix , Marussia F1 filed for bankruptcy in Great Britain on October 27, 2014. The team had already decided a few days earlier not to take part in the upcoming races in the USA and Brazil . Marussia was the second Formula 1 team after Caterham F1 to collapse within two weeks in October 2014. After HRT had already ceased operations at the end of 2012, none of the teams newly founded in 2010 were at the start in Austin .

The team had registered with the FIA under the name Manor F1 Team to take part in the 2015 World Championship. According to the insolvency administrator, this was only done with the aim of securing the team's license in the event that investors could be found. After no investors could be found, the liquidator announced that it would sell all of the team's assets in order to service creditors.

A week before the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix , competitor Caterham, who was also insolvent, surprisingly announced that it would take part in this last race of the season, after having previously missed two Grand Prizes like Marussia. On the Wednesday before the race in Abu Dhabi, the insolvency administrator Marussias then tried to get the team to start there. The aim was to defend Marussia's ninth place in the constructors' world championship and to receive the right to the associated proceeds from the exploitation of rights in order to raise additional funds to satisfy the creditors. However, the very short-term attempt failed on the same day after the insolvency administrator (unlike the Caterhams) was unable to raise the funds necessary for a trip to Abu Dhabi in time.

2015 season

Logo of the Manor Marussia F1 Team in the 2015 season
rescue
The MR03 in the livery from the beginning of the 2015 season
With sponsor stickers: The MR03B at the 2015 Belgian Grand Prix
Debutant at Manor: Roberto Merhi

In February 2015, Northern Irish entrepreneur Stephen Fitzpatrick took over the racing team. As a result, the company was released from the insolvency proceedings, so that a start in the 2015 Formula 1 season was possible. Since the team had sold its previously used factory halls in Banbury to the newly founded Haas F1 team during the insolvency proceedings , it had to set up a new base in Dinnington in central England at short notice . The team was reported under the name Manor Marussia F1 Team ; In press reports, however, the short form Manor was mostly used.

The team's technical basis was improvised. For 2015 Manor did not have a newly designed car at the start. The first work on a new car began in the summer of 2014; but they did not get beyond the stage of a wind tunnel model. Initially, Manor tried to start with the unchanged MR03 from the previous year; However, these considerations failed in February 2015 after not all members of the so-called strategy group had given their consent. The team then prepared an interim car based on the MR03 from 2014, but adapted to the 2015 season regulations. Ten days before the first race of the season, this model passed the required crash tests. Motors from Ferrari , which were at the level of development from 2014, served as the drive .

Will Stevens , who had already driven the last race for Caterham the previous year, was signed up as the driver for the 2015 season . His teammate was the Spanish debutant Roberto Merhi , who was replaced for some races by the American Alexander Rossi . Manor had few sponsors during the season. In the first races, the red and white painted car had almost no sponsor stickers. From the race in Canada, the team promoted Airbnb , later other donors such as Flexbox and Shazam were added. This changed the colors of the car to red-white-blue.

Sporting development

At the opening race in Australia , Manor brought both vehicles through the technical inspection, but the team did not take part in the free practice sessions or in the qualification training. The team management attributed the absence to various problems that could not have been solved in the short time left. This included the lack of the software necessary for racing. This was deleted from the team's computers during the bankruptcy so that it could be sold. The FIA ​​refrained from imposing a penalty on the team on race Sunday for failing to attend. The repeated suspicion that Manor had not intended to take part in the race from the start could not be confirmed. However, the team has to bear the travel costs for this race itself. At the second round in Malaysia only Merhi drove in the race. An hour before the race, the team announced that there were fuel pressure problems on Stevens' vehicle that could not be resolved, so that Stevens could not go to the start. His car was then withdrawn before the start of the race. After it became apparent during training that Manor-Marussia had never sent both vehicles out on the track at the same time, speculations arose that the team only owned a certain necessary part in one version and that it had to be swapped back and forth between the two vehicles. Manor-Marussia denied this representation. In the third race in China both cars drove for the first time; Merhi and Stevens finished in the last places.

In 2015, Manor's cars were typically the slowest vehicles in the field. In practice, the drivers were almost five seconds short of the respective pole time per lap, so that they mostly started the races from the last row on the grid. In the absence of further technical development, this gap did not decrease during the season. The Manor were among the most reliable vehicles of the season: both cars finished 14 times. However, they never reached points. The best results were the twelfth places for Merhi in the UK and Rossi in the US .

2016: New start as a manor, renewed insolvency and liquidation

Manor MRT05

After the last race of the season in 2015, team founder John Booth and long-time team manager Graeme Lowdon left the team. Manor therefore had no management staff for the winter months. Attempts to win Alexander Wurz or Martin Whitmarsh for this role failed.

At the beginning of the 2016 season , the team hired former Ferrari employees Nikolas Tombazis and Pat Fry for the technical area .

In 2016, Manor used engines from Mercedes that were at the same level of development as those of the Mercedes works team . Manor took over the transmission and the rear axle from Williams . The chassis of the newly developed Manor MRT05 passed the crash test in January 2016. The car was presented to the public on February 22nd, 2016 during test drives in Barcelona.

As part of the cooperation with Mercedes, the reigning DTM champion Pascal Wehrlein received a place as a regular driver. Mercedes paid Manor £ 4 million for this  . The Indonesian Rio Haryanto initially received the second cockpit, which he had to hand over to Esteban Ocon from the Belgian Grand Prix .

In the first half of the season, Manor shortened the gap to the midfield teams, especially Renault and the Swiss racing team Sauber , which suffered from considerable economic difficulties in 2016. Wehrlein achieved the team's best qualifying performance in Austria , where he started the race from twelfth place. Here he crossed the finish line in tenth, scoring the first world championship point since Monaco in 2014. This put the team in 10th place in the intermediate classification of the constructors' championship, which it lost to Sauber at the Brazilian Grand Prix , the penultimate race of the season, when Felipe Nasr placed ninth . Thus Manor was at the end of the season in eleventh place in the constructors' classification and thus received no participation in the prize money of the Formula 1 World Championship. The sum that Sauber and not Manor received was estimated at more than 30 million euros.

After talks with potential investors had failed, the team's parent company, Just Racing Services Ltd. , filed for bankruptcy on January 6, 2017. Since no buyer is found, the associated insolvency on 27 January 2017, the liquidation of the company.

Numbers and dates

Statistics in Formula 1

season Team name chassis engine tires Grand Prix Victories Second Third Poles nice Race laps Points World Cup rank
2010 Virgin Racing Virgin VR-01 Cosworth 2.4 V8 B. 19th - - - - - - 12.
2011 Marussia Virgin Racing Virgin MVR-02 Cosworth 2.4 V8 P 19th - - - - - - 12.
2012 Marussia F1 Team Marussia MR01 Cosworth 2.4 V8 P 20th - - - - - - 11.
2013 Marussia F1 Team Marussia MR02 Cosworth 2.4 V8 P 19th - - - - - - 10.
2014 Marussia F1 Team Marussia MR03 Ferrari 1.6 V6 Turbo P 16 - - - - - 2 9.
2015 Manor Marussia F1 Team Marussia MR03 Ferrari 1.6 V6 Turbo P 18th - - - - - - 10.
2016 Manor Racing Manor MRT05 Mercedes 1.6 V6 Turbo P 21st - - - - - 1 11.
total 132 - - - - - 3

All drivers in Formula 1

Surname Year (s) Grand Prix Points Victories Second Third Poles SR best world championship rank
GermanyGermany Timo Glock 2010–2012 55 - - - - - - 20th ( 2012 )
United KingdomUnited Kingdom Max Chilton 2013-2014 35 - - - - - - 21st ( 2014 )
FranceFrance Jules Bianchi 2013-2014 34 2 - - - - - 17. ( 2014 )
GermanyGermany Pascal Wehrlein 2016 21st 1 - - - - - 19. ( 2016 )
FranceFrance Charles Pic 2012 20th - - - - - - 21st ( 2012 )
BelgiumBelgium Jérôme D'Ambrosio 2011 19th - - - - - - 24. ( 2011 )
BrazilBrazil Lucas di Grassi 2010 18th - - - - - - 24th ( 2010 )
United KingdomUnited Kingdom Will Stevens 2015 17th - - - - - - 21. ( 2015 )
SpainSpain Roberto Merhi 2015 13 - - - - - - 19th ( 2015 )
IndonesiaIndonesia Rio Haryanto 2016 12 - - - - - - 24. ( 2016 )
FranceFrance Esteban Ocon 2016 9 - - - - - - 23rd ( 2016 )
United StatesUnited States Alexander Rossi 2015 5 - - - - - - 20th ( 2015 )

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
2010 VR-01 Flag of Bahrain.svg Flag of Australia.svg Flag of Malaysia.svg Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Flag of Spain.svg Flag of Monaco.svg Flag of Turkey.svg Flag of Canada.svg Flag of Europe.svg Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Flag of Germany.svg Flag of Hungary.svg Flag of Belgium (civil) .svg Flag of Italy.svg Flag of Singapore.svg Flag of Japan.svg Flag of South Korea.svg Flag of Brazil.svg Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg - 12.
GermanyGermany T. Glock 24 DNF DNF DNF DNS 18th DNF 18th DNF 19th 18th 18th 16 18th 17th DNF 14th DNF 20th DNF
BrazilBrazil L. di Grassi 25th DNF DNF 14th DNF 19th DNF 19th 19th 17th DNF DNF 18th 17th 20th 15th DNS DNF NC 18th
2011 MVR-02 Flag of Australia.svg Flag of Malaysia.svg Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Flag of Turkey.svg Flag of Spain.svg Flag of Monaco.svg Flag of Canada.svg Flag of Europe.svg Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Flag of Germany.svg Flag of Hungary.svg Flag of Belgium (civil) .svg Flag of Italy.svg Flag of Singapore.svg Flag of Japan.svg Flag of South Korea.svg Flag of India.svg Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg Flag of Brazil.svg - 12.
GermanyGermany T. Glock 24 NC 16 21st DNS 19th DNF 15th 21st 16 17th 17th 18th 15th DNF 20th 18th DNF 19th DNF
BelgiumBelgium J. D'Ambrosio 25th 14th DNF 20th 20th 20th 15th 14th 22nd 17th 18th 19th 17th DNF 18th 21st 20th 16 DNF 19th
2012 MR01 Flag of Australia.svg Flag of Malaysia.svg Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Flag of Bahrain.svg Flag of Spain.svg Flag of Monaco.svg Flag of Canada.svg Flag of Europe.svg Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Flag of Germany.svg Flag of Hungary.svg Flag of Belgium (civil) .svg Flag of Italy.svg Flag of Singapore.svg Flag of Japan.svg Flag of South Korea.svg Flag of India.svg Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg Flag of the United States.svg Flag of Brazil.svg - 11.
GermanyGermany T. Glock 24 14th 17th 19th 19th 18th 14th DNF DNS 18th 22nd 21st 15th 17th 12 16 18th 20th 14th 19th 16
FranceFrance C. Pic 25th 15 * 20th 20th DNF DNF DNF 20th 15th 19th 20th 20th 16 16 16 DNF 19th 19th DNF 20th 12
2013 MR02 Flag of Australia.svg Flag of Malaysia.svg Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Flag of Bahrain.svg Flag of Spain.svg Flag of Monaco.svg Flag of Canada.svg Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Flag of Germany.svg Flag of Hungary.svg Flag of Belgium (civil) .svg Flag of Italy.svg Flag of Singapore.svg Flag of South Korea.svg Flag of Japan.svg Flag of India.svg Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg Flag of the United States.svg Flag of Brazil.svg - 10.
FranceFrance J. Bianchi 22nd 15th 13 15th 19th 18th DNF 17th 16 DNF 16 18th 19th 18th 16 DNF 18th 20th 18th 17th
United KingdomUnited Kingdom M. Chilton 23 17th 16 17th 20th 19th 14th 19th 17th 19th 17th 19th 20th 17th 17th 19th 17th 21st 21st 19th
2014 MR03 Flag of Australia.svg Flag of Malaysia.svg Flag of Bahrain.svg Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Flag of Spain.svg Flag of Monaco.svg Flag of Canada.svg Flag of Austria.svg Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Flag of Germany.svg Flag of Hungary.svg Flag of Belgium (civil) .svg Flag of Italy.svg Flag of Singapore.svg Flag of Japan.svg Flag of Russia.svg Flag of the United States.svg Flag of Brazil.svg Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg 2 9.
FranceFrance J. Bianchi 17th NC DNF 16 17th 18th 9 DNF 15th 14th 15th 15th 18 * 18th 16 20 * INJ INJ INJ INJ
United StatesUnited States A. Rossi 42 WD
United KingdomUnited Kingdom M. Chilton 04th 13 15th 13 19th 19th 14th DNF 17th 16 17th 16 16 DNF 17th 18th DNF
2015 MR03 Flag of Australia.svg Flag of Malaysia.svg Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Flag of Bahrain.svg Flag of Spain.svg Flag of Monaco.svg Flag of Canada.svg Flag of Austria.svg Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Flag of Hungary.svg Flag of Belgium (civil) .svg Flag of Italy.svg Flag of Singapore.svg Flag of Japan.svg Flag of Russia.svg Flag of the United States.svg Flag of Mexico.svg Flag of Brazil.svg Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg - 10.
United KingdomUnited Kingdom W. Stevens 28 DNP WD 15th 16 17th 17th 17th DNF 13 16 * 16 15th 15th 19th 14th DNF 16 17th 18th
SpainSpain R. Merhi 98 DNP 15th 16 17th 18th 16 DNF 14th 12 15th 15th 16 13 19th
United StatesUnited States A. Rossi 53 14th 18th 12 15th 18th
2016 MRT05 Flag of Australia.svg Flag of Bahrain.svg Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Flag of Russia.svg Flag of Spain.svg Flag of Monaco.svg Flag of Canada.svg Flag of Europe.svg Flag of Austria.svg Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Flag of Hungary.svg Flag of Germany.svg Flag of Belgium (civil) .svg Flag of Italy.svg Flag of Singapore.svg Flag of Malaysia.svg Flag of Japan.svg Flag of the United States.svg Flag of Mexico.svg Flag of Brazil.svg Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg 1 11.
GermanyGermany P. Wehrlein 94 16 13 18th 18th 16 14th 17th DNF 10 DNF 19th 17th DNF DNF 16 15th 22nd 17th DNF 15th 14th
IndonesiaIndonesia R. Haryanto 88 DNF 17th 21st DNF 17th 15th 19th 18th 16 DNF 21st 20th
FranceFrance E. Ocon 31 16 18th 18th 16 21st 18th 21st 12 13
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

Web links

Commons : Virgin Racing  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Marussia F1 Team  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Manor  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of March 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Name changes approved by the Formula 1 Commission: Message on the website www.motorsport-total.com dated November 4, 2011.
  3. ↑ Maria Reyer: New name, new logo: Marussia becomes Manor Racing. www.motorsport-total.com, January 16, 2016, accessed January 25, 2016 .
  4. ↑ "Manor, Campos and USF1" (Motorsport-magazin.com on June 12, 2009)
  5. ↑ "FIA entry list for 2010: FOTA teams are there!" (Motorsport-Total.com on June 12, 2009)
  6. ↑ At Simtek, Wirth was also the team manager.
  7. ↑ “Manor GP set to be rebranded as Virgin Racing” (BBC Sport on November 30, 2009)
  8. ↑ Auto Motor und Sport Spezial - Formula 1 2010, p. 68.
  9. ↑ What's behind the too small Virgin tank , Motorsport-total, March 27, 2010
  10. ^ FIA grants Virgin permission to convert , Motorsport-total, March 26, 2010
  11. ^ "Both Virgin racers victims of technology" , Motorsport-aktuell.com, April 19, 2010
  12. ^ "Marussia-Virgin with Russian license" (Motorsport-Total.com on February 4, 2011)
  13. ↑ "Does Wirth stumble over the Bosporus"? Message on the website www.motorsport-total.com (accessed on April 20, 2011).
  14. ↑ "Fix: D'Ambrosio next to Glock 2011 at Virgin" (Motorsport-Total.com on December 21, 2010)
  15. ↑ New factory: Marussua-Virgin under time pressure. News from June 11, 2011 on the website www.motorsport-total.com .
  16. ↑ D'Ambrosio is allowed to start in Montreal: News from June 11, 2011 on the website www.motorsport-total.com .
  17. ↑ Marussia-Virgin separates from Wirth: Message on the website www.motorsport-total.com from June 2, 2011.
  18. ↑ As the best positioning HRT, apart from 13th place at the Grand Prix of Canada, only achieved several 17th places.
  19. ↑ In the media, the world championship run, which was characterized by interruptions and safety car phases, was repeatedly referred to as the chaos race; Overview of the press releases on the website www.spiegel.de (accessed on June 14, 2011).
  20. ↑ "Booth:" We looked like fools "" (Motorsport-Total.com on September 3, 2011)
  21. ^ Marussia delays new car until final test. GPUpdate, January 24, 2012, accessed February 13, 2012 .
  22. ↑ Failed crash test: Marussia is absent from Barcelona. motorsport-total.com, February 27, 2012, accessed on March 12, 2012 .
  23. ↑ Marussia unveils MR01 at Silverstone. motorsport-total.com, March 5, 2012, accessed on March 12, 2012 .
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