Asiatech

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Asiatech engined Minardi of Mark Webber at the 2002 French Grand Prix.

Asiatech was a company which purchased the assets of the Peugeot Formula One engine programme at the end of the 2000 season and supplied Peugeot-based engines for two years.

In 2001, Asiatech supplied their V10 engines to the Arrows Formula One team free of charge. However, these were largely unsuccessful and the following year Arrows decided to pay and have Cosworth engines instead.^[1]

For 2002, Asiatech were left to supply engines to the Minardi F1 Team. But again these were rather unsuccessful.

During the 2002 season, Asiatech began considering the possibility of starting their own Formula One team, and purchased a former Williams design office in Didcot. They also enlisted the help of Enrique Scalabroni, who designed a protoype F1 car. The car was to be firstly a testbed for Asiatech engines, then subsequently entered in the 2004 season^[2]. However, Asiatech folded at the end of the 2002 season.^[3]

In May 2002, there were reports that for the 2003 season Asiatech could supply Jordan with engines, or even buy the team out. These came after Honda decided to concentrate their engine efforts on the BAR team, and announced they would be withdrawing supply from Eddie Jordan's team at the end of the 2002 season. ^[4]

In February 2003, the assets of the Asiatech engine company were sold in an auction in Paris, overseen by Jacques Martin and Gilles Chausselat. Included in the Auction were 18 engines, a dyno, a variety of machine tools, plus electronic measuring equipment amongst other things.^[5]

[edit] Formula One Results

Results for cars using Asiatech engines.

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Year	Chassis	Engine(s)	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Points	WCC
2001	Arrows A22	Asiatech V10		AUS	MAL	BRA	SMR	ESP	AUT	MON	CAN	EUR	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	USA	JPN	1	10th
			Jos Verstappen	10	7	Ret	Ret	12	6	8	10	Ret	13	10	9	12	10	Ret	Ret	15
			Enrique Bernoldi	Ret	Ret	Ret	10	Ret	Ret	9	Ret	Ret	Ret	14	8	Ret	12	Ret	13	14
2002	Minardi PS02	Asiatech AT02 V10		AUS	MAL	BRA	SMR	ESP	AUT	MON	CAN	EUR	GBR	FRA	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	USA	JPN	2	9th
			Alex Yoong	7	Ret	13	DNQ	DNS	Ret	Ret	14	Ret	DNQ	10	DNQ			13	Ret	Ret
			Anthony Davidson													Ret	Ret
			Mark Webber	5	Ret	11	11	DNS	12	11	11	15	Ret	8	Ret	16	Ret	Ret	Ret	10