Team West-Tec
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Team West-Tec F3 is a motor racing team owned by Gavin Wills and John Miller. The team currently operates from a base in Corby
in the United Kingdom
and is the most successful team in the history of the European Formula 3 Open series.
. In 2009 the series was renamed the European F3 Open Championship. Since 2007 the team has taken 44 wins and 116 podiums and three Championship titles - including winning the support race at the 2008 European Grand Prix at Valencia.
In 2009 the team also returned to British Formula 3 International Series completing a full campaign with Maxim Snegirev as well as part campaigns for Mathieu Maurage, Miky Faccin, Jay Bridger and Ma Qing Hua.
In 2010 the team continued in the European F3 Open but committed to primarily use their British F3 cars for testing programmes with drivers from F1, GP2 and GP3 - where young drivers get very little track time to develop and hone their skills. However the team continued to make occasional British F3 race starts and took a superb National Class win with young Mexican, Juan Carlos Sistos on his series debut at Silverstone.
The team also announced a plan to form a new joint venture with China's leading motorsport team, Champ Racing to enter an additional car under the banner of Champ Motorsport with Team West-Tec - this new venture started in September 2010 with experienced driver Michael Ho racing at Brands Hatch, Monza, Jerez and Barcelona in late 2010. In just his second race weekend, at Monza, Michael took a great third place podium finish in the Copa Class, in fifth overall.
The team had a very successful season in the European F3 Open in 2010, challenging at the front in both classes and having won races outright with more than one driver, eventually finishing as Runners-Up in both the Drivers and Teams Championships.
For 2011 the European F3 Open team featured four full-season drivers in Victor Correa, Fabio Gamberini, Luca Orlandi and Sam Dejonghe, with a number of other pilots racing on part programmes during the year such as Fahmi Ilyas, Kotaro Sakurai and Tatiana Calderon.
2011 was an extremely successful season. Victor Correa won two races outright and Fahmi Ilyas one in the team's newest Dallara F308s, Ilyas having made a stunning debut at Brands Hatch using the car to be used later by Tatiana Calderon who scored points at Barcelona after she stepped up from Star Mazda in the USA. Fabio Gamberini also won a race outright at Spa and also won an impressive ten times in the Copa class, where he was Champion as well as being an amazing third overall. Sam Dejonghe twice featured on the overall podium and took four Copa class wins to finish as Copa runner-up and Luca Orlandi, despite missing two races, secured third in Copa for an unprecedented 1-2-3 for the team. Kotaro Sakurai featured on the Brands Hatch Copa podium in Luca's place on his debut in the series.
The team won the overall Teams Championship, and remains the most successful team in the history of the series.
Jimmy Auby Ben Barker Benjamin Breny Jay Bridger
Daniel Brown Alex Brundle
Tatiana Calderon
Daniel Cammish Adrian Campfield Gabby Chaves Max Cornelius Victor Correa
Sam Dejonghe Thor-Christian Ebbesvik Kristján Einar
Marcus Ericsson
Mitch Evans
Miky Faccin Garry Findlay Fabio Gamberini
Juanchi Garriz Julien Gerbi
Tom Gladdis
Stuart Gough Matt Hamilton
Ben Harvey
Rio Haryanto
Michael Ho (Ho Hon Keong) Fahmi Ilyas Alex Jones Natalia Kowalska
Kasper Krogh Jonathan Legris
Ma Qing Hua Callum MacLeod
Scott Malvern Mathieu Maurage Andy Meyrick Ollie Millroy James Nash
Jordan Oakes Luca Orlandi Tamas Pal Kiss
Sten Pentus
Sean Petterson Ramon Piniero Luiz Razia
Isa Ro-Charlez Michel Rossi Kotaro Sakurai David Shelton Juan Carlos Sistos
Max Snegirev
Kelvin Snoeks
Tom Tweedie Renger van de Zande Christian Vietoris
Lars Viljoen Francisco Villar Alex Waters Zhou Zibo William Zollo
Corby
Corby Town is a town and borough located in the county of Northamptonshire. Corby Town is 23 miles north-east of the county town, Northampton. The borough had a population of 53,174 at the 2001 Census; the town on its own accounted for 49,222 of this figure...
in the United Kingdom
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and is the most successful team in the history of the European Formula 3 Open series.
History
In 2007 Team West-Tec F3 became the first ever British team to compete in the Spanish Formula Three Championship, purchasing assets from leading GP2 team Racing EngineeringRacing Engineering
Racing Engineering is a Spanish racing team founded in 1999 by Alfonso de Orléans-Borbón. The team's headquarters are located in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, near Jerez, in a state-of-the-art factory, where all car preparation and race team organization is based....
. In 2009 the series was renamed the European F3 Open Championship. Since 2007 the team has taken 44 wins and 116 podiums and three Championship titles - including winning the support race at the 2008 European Grand Prix at Valencia.
In 2009 the team also returned to British Formula 3 International Series completing a full campaign with Maxim Snegirev as well as part campaigns for Mathieu Maurage, Miky Faccin, Jay Bridger and Ma Qing Hua.
In 2010 the team continued in the European F3 Open but committed to primarily use their British F3 cars for testing programmes with drivers from F1, GP2 and GP3 - where young drivers get very little track time to develop and hone their skills. However the team continued to make occasional British F3 race starts and took a superb National Class win with young Mexican, Juan Carlos Sistos on his series debut at Silverstone.
The team also announced a plan to form a new joint venture with China's leading motorsport team, Champ Racing to enter an additional car under the banner of Champ Motorsport with Team West-Tec - this new venture started in September 2010 with experienced driver Michael Ho racing at Brands Hatch, Monza, Jerez and Barcelona in late 2010. In just his second race weekend, at Monza, Michael took a great third place podium finish in the Copa Class, in fifth overall.
The team had a very successful season in the European F3 Open in 2010, challenging at the front in both classes and having won races outright with more than one driver, eventually finishing as Runners-Up in both the Drivers and Teams Championships.
For 2011 the European F3 Open team featured four full-season drivers in Victor Correa, Fabio Gamberini, Luca Orlandi and Sam Dejonghe, with a number of other pilots racing on part programmes during the year such as Fahmi Ilyas, Kotaro Sakurai and Tatiana Calderon.
2011 was an extremely successful season. Victor Correa won two races outright and Fahmi Ilyas one in the team's newest Dallara F308s, Ilyas having made a stunning debut at Brands Hatch using the car to be used later by Tatiana Calderon who scored points at Barcelona after she stepped up from Star Mazda in the USA. Fabio Gamberini also won a race outright at Spa and also won an impressive ten times in the Copa class, where he was Champion as well as being an amazing third overall. Sam Dejonghe twice featured on the overall podium and took four Copa class wins to finish as Copa runner-up and Luca Orlandi, despite missing two races, secured third in Copa for an unprecedented 1-2-3 for the team. Kotaro Sakurai featured on the Brands Hatch Copa podium in Luca's place on his debut in the series.
The team won the overall Teams Championship, and remains the most successful team in the history of the series.
List of drivers
The following drivers are known to have driven for Team West-Tec F3 since 2007:Jimmy Auby Ben Barker Benjamin Breny Jay Bridger
Jay Bridger
Jay Bridger is a British racing driver. In 2010 he competed in the British Formula Three Championship.-External links:* *...
Daniel Brown Alex Brundle
Alex Brundle
Alex Brundle is a British racing driver. He is the son of Formula One driver-turned-commentator Martin Brundle. He attended Oakham School in Rutland, and is managed by 2MB Sports Management, a company established by Martin and his colleague Mark Blundell.-T Cars:Brundle drove a kart for the first...
Tatiana Calderon
Tatiana Calderon
Tatiana Calderón is an Colombian racing driver from Bogotá, Colombia. She competes in the Star Mazda Championship and was the first woman to earn a podium finish in the series.-Early life:...
Daniel Cammish Adrian Campfield Gabby Chaves Max Cornelius Victor Correa
Victor Corrêa
Victor Correia is a Brazilian racing driver currently competing in the category European F3 Open -Career:The young Victor Correa began his career in kart in 1999 in Alfenas Brazil to 9 years old competing regional championships and soon won Champion South Mineiro as Cadet...
Sam Dejonghe Thor-Christian Ebbesvik Kristján Einar
Kristján Einar
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Marcus Ericsson
Marcus Ericsson
Marcus Ericsson is a Swedish race car driver. After a successful début in car racing in 2007 which saw him take the British Formula BMW title with Fortec Motorsport, he moved up into the British team's British Formula Three squad...
Mitch Evans
Mitch Evans
Mitchell Evans , is a motor racing driver from New Zealand who won the 2010 and 2011 Toyota Racing Series in New Zealand and was runner up in the 2010 Australian Drivers' Championship despite missing three races...
Miky Faccin Garry Findlay Fabio Gamberini
Fabio Gamberini
Fabio Gamberini is a Brazilian racing driver currently competing in the European F3 Open Championship. He also competed in the Nürburgring rounds of the 2011 Formula Two season-Career summary:* Season in progress...
Juanchi Garriz Julien Gerbi
Julien Gerbi
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Tom Gladdis
Tom Gladdis
Tom Gladdis is a racing driver, currently competing in the FIA Formula Two Championship.-Formula BMW:...
Stuart Gough Matt Hamilton
Matt Hamilton (racing driver)
Matthew Hamilton is a British auto racing driver. He is currently competing in the British Touring Car Championship.-Racing career:...
Ben Harvey
Ben Harvey
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Rio Haryanto
Rio Haryanto
Rio Haryanto is an Indonesian racing driver. He currently competes for Virgin Racing-assisted Manor Racing in GP3 Series....
Michael Ho (Ho Hon Keong) Fahmi Ilyas Alex Jones Natalia Kowalska
Natalia Kowalska
Natalia Kowalska is a Polish racing driver.-Career:Kowalska started her career in Kart racing in Poland. In 2007 she moved to formula racing, driving a partial program in the Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup. In 2008 she drove six races in the Star Mazda North American Championship...
Kasper Krogh Jonathan Legris
Jonathan Legris
Jonathan Legris is a British racing driver. He has competed in such series as Formula BMW UK, the British Formula Three Championship and the European F3 Open Championship.-External links:* *...
Ma Qing Hua Callum MacLeod
Callum MacLeod
Callum MacLeod is a professional British race car driver who drove in the 2009 and 2010 European F3 Open Championship seasons, and currently drives in the 2011 GP3 Series season.-Racing career highlights:...
Scott Malvern Mathieu Maurage Andy Meyrick Ollie Millroy James Nash
James Nash (racing driver)
James Nash is a British auto racing driver. He is currently competing in the British Touring Car Championship with Triple 8 Race Engineering...
Jordan Oakes Luca Orlandi Tamas Pal Kiss
Tamás Pál Kiss
Tamás Pál Kiss is a Hungarian auto racing driver.-Karting:Kiss made his karting début in 1998 when he was seven years old...
Sten Pentus
Sten Pentus
Sten Pentus is an Estonian racing driver.He is a former Estonian Formula 4 Champion, and a previous winner of the Formula Baltic championship in a Reynard 903....
Sean Petterson Ramon Piniero Luiz Razia
Luiz Razia
Luiz Tadeu Razia Filho is a Brazilian racing driver.-Early career:Razia began his single seater career in 2005 in the South American Formula 3 championship. Driving for Dragão Motorsport, Razia finished sixth in the championship taking six podium finishes, including two race wins...
Isa Ro-Charlez Michel Rossi Kotaro Sakurai David Shelton Juan Carlos Sistos
Juan Carlos Sistos
Juan Carlos Sistos is a Mexican racing driver. He has competed in such series as Euroseries 3000 and the European F3 Open Championship. In August 2010 it was announced that Juan Carlos had joined Motul Team West-Tec for British Formula 3 and he took a sensational National Class win on his debut at...
Max Snegirev
Max Snegirev
-Formula Palmer Audi:Unlike most of the racing drivers, Snegirev had no karting experience and made his racing debut in Formula Palmer Audi in 2007. He finished nineteenth with fourteen point-scoring finishes and six retirements....
Kelvin Snoeks
Kelvin Snoeks
Kelvin Manuel Mathijs Snoeks is a Dutch racing driver. In 2010 he competed in the FIA Formula Two Championship...
Tom Tweedie Renger van de Zande Christian Vietoris
Christian Vietoris
Christian Vietoris is a German racing driver.-Karting:Vietoris started his career through karting, the most common entry point and all racing drivers, in 1994...
Lars Viljoen Francisco Villar Alex Waters Zhou Zibo William Zollo