Fortec Motorsport
Fortec Motorsport Ltd. is a motor-racing team that races in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series, the British Formula 3 Championship, and several junior formulae categories at a British and pan-European level. The team was bought in 1995 by current owner Richard Dutton.[1]
Past drivers for the team include Juan Pablo Montoya, Gianmaria Bruni, Danny Watts, Jamie Green, James Rossiter, Mike Conway, Fabio Carbone and Heikki Kovalainen.
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History
Fortec has enjoyed great success since its inception. In 2002 Danny Watts won the British Formula Renault Championship for the team, with team-mate Jamie Green following close behind in second. In the same year, Fabio Carbone won the prestigious Marlboro Masters Formula Three race, held at Zandvoort in the Netherlands. The team's next championship win came with another British Formula Renault title in 2004, with Mike Conway finishing over 90 points clear of his nearest rival, Comtec Racing's Westley Barber. Fortec added further team championships in the Formula BMW UK championship, taking three successive titles between 2005 and 2007, also taking drivers' championship titles with Niall Breen and Marcus Ericsson.
After a barren year for the team in Formula Renault in 2005, 2006 saw the team regain both championship titles, with Sebastian Hohenthal just clinching the drivers' title on countback, after he and Team A.K.A. driver Patrick Hogan ended the season on the same number of points. Duncan Tappy and Dean Smith finished in the top two placings in 2007. Another teams' title followed in 2008. More recently, the team has seen great improvements in its Formula Renault 3.5 Series results, finishing fifth in the Teams' Championship in 2009, fourth in 2010 and finishing as runners-up in 2011 season with driver Alexander Rossi finishing third overall and best rookie. In 2012 the team fielded rookies Robin Frijns from the Netherlands and Carlos Huertas from Colombia, Frijns won the driver championship in his first year scoring 3 wins during his championship season. Meanwhile, Huertas scored regular results and finished 16th in the season scoring 35 points, but Fortec finished 3rd in the teams championship behind Tech 1 Racing and New team Arden Caterham Motorsport.
Fortec were also crowned Team Champions in the Formula Renault 2.0 UK Championship with Alex Lynn clinching the drivers' title with a record-breaking twelve wins in one season. Oliver Rowland secured second in the Championship, as well as winning the Graduate Cup. William Buller was Fortec's top finisher in the British Formula 3 Championship, as he finished fourth in the Championship. In club-level racing, the new-for-2011 InterSteps Championship saw Jake Dennis win the Championship from teammate Alex Walker with Ed Jones finishing in fourth place, while in Formula Renault BARC, Josh Webster narrowly missed out on the drivers', after a close battle with eventual champion Dino Zamparelli.
After the Formula Renault UK was cancelled for the 2012 season, the team joined the Formula Renault 2.0 NEC.
Results
World Series by Renault
| Formula Renault 3.5 results[2] | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | F.L. | Podiums | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
| 2007 | Dallara T05–Renault |  James Walker |
17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 19th | 12th |
 Richard Phillipe |
11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | |||
 Yelmer Buurman |
4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 20th | |||
 Esteban Guerrieri |
2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39th | |||
| 2008 | Dallara T05–Renault | James Walker |
17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 36 | 13th | 9th |
 Fairuz Fauzy |
13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 18th | |||
 Julian Theobald |
4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33rd | |||
| 2009 | Dallara T08–Renault | Fairuz Fauzy |
17 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 98 | 2nd | 5th |
 Sten Pentus |
13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 23 | 16th | |||
| 2010 | Dallara T08–Renault | Sten Pentus |
17 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 78 | 4th | 4th |
| Jon Lancaster |
17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 39 | 13th | |||
| 2011 | Dallara T08–Renault |  Alexander Rossi |
17 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 39 | 3rd | 2nd |
 Cesar Ramos |
17 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 47 | 0 | 11th | |||
| 2012 | Dallara FR35/12–Zytek | Robin Frijns |
17 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 189 | 1st | 3rd |
 Carlos Huertas |
17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 16th | |||
| 2013 | Dallara FR35/12–Zytek |  Stoffel Vandoorne |
17 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 214 | 2nd | 2nd |
| Oliver Webb |
17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 14th | |||
| 2014 | Dallara FR35/12–Zytek |  Sergey Sirotkin |
17 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 132 | 5th | 2nd |
| Oliver Rowland |
17 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 181 | 4th | |||
| 2015 | Dallara FR35/12–Zytek | Jazeman Jaafar |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | n/a | n/a |
| Oliver Rowland |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | n/a | |||
British Formula 3
| British Formula 3 results | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | F.L. | Podiums | Points | D.C. |
| 1992 | Reynard 923–Mugen-Honda | Kelvin Burt |
16 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 55 | 3rd |
| 1993 | Reynard 933–Mugen-Honda | Andre Ribeiro |
15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 19 | 5th |
| Gareth Rees |
15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 13th | ||
| 1994 | Reynard F394–Mugen-Honda | Jerome Dufour |
19 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 103 | 7th |
| Christian Horner |
20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 17th | ||
| 1995 | Reynard F395–Mugen-Honda | Jamie Davies |
17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 107 | 6th |
| Gualter Salles |
17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 106 | 7th | ||
| Jamie Spence |
5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 29 | 13th | ||
| Geoffrey Horion |
18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 22nd | ||
| 1996 | Dallara F396–Mitsubishi | Juan-Pablo Montoya |
16 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 137 | 5th |
| Guy Smith |
16 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 132 | 6th | ||
| 1997 | Dallara F397–Mitsubishi | Brian Smith |
15 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 72 | 6th |
| Ben Collins |
16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 64 | 7th | ||
| 1998 | Dallara F398–Mitsubishi |  Kristian Kolby |
16 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 82 | 6th |
| Andrej Pavicevic |
16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 14th | ||
| 1999 | Dallara F399–Mitsubishi | Kristian Kolby |
16 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 153 | 6th |
| Matt Davies |
16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 113 | 14th | ||
| 2000 | Dallara F300–Mugen-Honda |  Gianmaria Bruni |
14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 95 | 5th |
| Michael Bentwood |
14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 69 | 7th | ||
| 2001 | Dallara F301–Renault | Gianmaria Bruni |
26 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 156 | 5th | |
| Alex Gurney |
24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 16th | ||
| 2002 | Dallara F302–Renault |  Heikki Kovalainen |
25 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 257 | 3rd |
| Fabio Carbone |
25 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 137 | 6th | ||
| 2003 | Dallara F303–Renault Sodemo |  Robert Dahlgren |
24 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 102 | 9th |
 Will Power |
18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 40 | 14th | ||
| 2004 | Dallara F304–Opel | James Rossiter |
24 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 228 | 3rd |
| Marcus Marshall |
22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 17th | ||
 Ronayne O'Mahony |
2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | ||
| 2005 | Dallara F304–Mercedes HWA | Mike Conway |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 192 | 3rd |
| James Walker |
22 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 69 | 11th | ||
| Ronayne O'Mahony |
20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 14th | ||
| Yelmer Buurman |
2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | ||
| 2006 | Dallara F306–Mercedes | Yelmer Buurman |
22 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 186 | 4th |
| Stuart Hall |
19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 13th | ||
| Charlie Hollings |
7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 16th | ||
| 2007 | Dallara F307–Mercedes | Sebastian Hohental |
22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 101 | 9th |
| Greg Mansell |
22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 79 | 10th | ||
| Leo Mansell |
21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17th | ||
| 2008 | Dallara F308–Mercedes | Marcus Ericsson |
22 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 141 | 5th |
| Sebastian Hohental |
16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 105 | 7th | ||
| Dean Smith |
2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 16th | ||
 Philip Major |
8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18th | ||
| 2009 | Dallara F309–Mercedes | Riki Christodolu |
20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 130 | 5th |
 Víctor García |
20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 14th | ||
| Daniel McKenzie |
20 | 11 | 5 | 11 | 19 | 351 | 1st [B] | ||
| 2010 | Dallara F309–Mercedes | Oliver Webb |
30 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 250 | 3rd |
| Daniel McKenzie |
30 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 109 | 9th | ||
| Max Snegirev |
30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18th | ||
| 2011 | Dallara F311–Mercedes | William Buller |
30 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 197 | 4th |
| Lucas Foresti |
30 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 109 | 7th | ||
| Harry Tincknell |
30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 78 | 11th | ||
| Fahmi Ilyas |
30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 21st | ||
| 2012 | Dallara F312–Mercedes |  Félix Serrallés |
28 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 299 | 3rd |
| Alex Lynn |
28 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 253 | 4th | ||
| Pipo Derani |
28 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 146 | 8th | ||
| Hannes van Asseldonk |
27 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 132 | 9th | ||
| 2013 | Dallara F312–Mercedes | William Buller |
12 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 134 | 3rd |
| Felipe Guimarães |
12 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 109 | 4th | ||
| Félix Serrallés |
3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 10th | ||
 Alfonso Celis, Jr. |
3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 11th | ||
FIA European Formula 3 Championship
| FIA European Formula 3 Championship results | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | F.L. | Podiums | Points | T.C. | D.C. |
| 2013 | Dallara–Mercedes | Luis Felipe Derani |
30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 143 | 4th | 8th |
| Félix Serrallés |
29 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 104 | 11th | |||
| Josh Hill |
15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 56 | 12th | |||
| John Bryant-Meisner |
6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 25th | |||
| Dmitry Suranovich |
3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33rd | |||
| Alfonso Celis |
3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34th | |||
 Ed Jones |
3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | |||
| 2014 | Dallara–Mercedes | Mitch Gilbert |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 7th | 16th |
| Alfonso Celis, Jr. |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29th | |||
 Hongwei Cao |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | n/a | |||
| John Bryant-Meisner |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 21st | |||
| Santino Ferrucci |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 19th | |||
| 2015 | Dallara–Mercedes | Pietro Fittipaldi |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 8th | 17th |
| Matthew Rao |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29th | |||
| Hongwei Cao |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30th | |||
 Wing Chung Chang |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36th | |||
| Zhi Cong Li |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37th | |||
Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0
| Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 results | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | F.L. | Podiums | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
| 2008 | Tatuus–Renault | Alex Morgan |
12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 14th | 12th |
| Dean Smith |
14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 17th | ||||
| Gabriel Dias |
14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 24th | |||
| Daniel McKenzie |
12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | |||
| 2009 | Tatuus–Renault | James Calado |
6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 17th | 8th |
| Oliver Webb |
4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29th | ||||
| Kevin Kleveros |
12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30th | ||||
| Will Stevens |
4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34th | ||||
| Frederik Blomstedt |
2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41st | ||||
| 2011 | Tatuus–Renault | Will Stevens |
14 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 116 | 4th | 3rd |
| Félix Serrallés |
14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 12th | |||
| Alex Lynn |
4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 26 | 14th | |||
| Mitchell Gilbert |
6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30th | |||
| Ed Jones |
6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | |||
| Fahmi Elyas |
2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | |||
| 2012 | Tatuus–Renault | Oliver Rowland |
14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 109 | 3rd | 3rd |
| Jake Dennis |
6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 31 | 12th | |||
| Mikko Pikari |
14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 30 | 15th | |||
| Ed Jones |
14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 27th | |||
 Nick Cassidy |
6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 24th | |||
| Josh Hill |
2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 25th | |||
| Alexey Chuklin |
2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | |||
| Steijn Schothorst |
2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | |||
| Gustavo Menezes |
2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | |||
| Egor Orudzhev |
2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | |||
| Dan De Zille |
2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | |||
| 2013 | Tatuus–Renault | Jake Dennis |
14 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 130 | 4th | 3rd |
| Ed Jones |
12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 45 | 11th | |||
| Mikko Pikari |
14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 17th | |||
| Matt Parry |
2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | |||
| Jack Aitken |
2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | |||
| Ryan Tveter |
2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | |||
| 2014 | Tatuus–Renault | Matt Parry |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | n/a | n/a |
| Jack Aitken |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | n/a | |||
| Martin Rump |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | n/a | |||
Timeline
| Current series | |
|---|---|
| Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 | 2008-2009, 2011-2015 |
| Formula Renault 3.5 Series | 2007–2015 |
| European Formula 3 Championship | 2012–2015 |
| Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup | 2012-2015 |
| Formula Renault 2.0 Alps | 2012, 2014-2015 |
| MSA Formula | 2015 |
| Former series | |
| British Formula Renault Championship | 1999-2011 |
| British Formula 3 Championship | 1992-2014 |
| International Formula 3000 | 1999-2001 |
| Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup | 2002–2004 |
| Formula BMW UK | 2004-2007 |
| Formula 3 Euro Series | 2006, 2012 |
| Formula BMW Europe | 2008-2011 |
| Formula Renault BARC | 2010-2012 |
| Protyre Formula Renault | 2013-2014 |
| FIA GT Series | 2013 |
| Blancpain Endurance Series | 2013 |
| British GT Championship | 2013 |
| Blancpain Sprint Series | 2014 |
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ WSbR complete results speedsportmag.com
External links
- Use dmy dates from July 2015
- Use British English from July 2015
- Official website not in Wikidata
- British auto racing teams
- 1989 establishments in the United Kingdom
- Sports clubs established in 1989
- British Formula Renault teams
- Formula 3.5 V8 teams
- Formula 3000 teams
- Formula BMW teams
- Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 teams
- Formula 3 Euro Series teams
- British GT Championship teams
- Blancpain Endurance Series teams
- FIA European Formula 3 Championship teams
- British Formula Three teams
