Carlin Motorsport

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Carlin Motorsport
Motor racing team
Founded	1996
Country	United Kingdom
Team Principal(s)	Trevor Carlin
Current series	A1 Grand Prix British F3 Formula BMW UK Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 Formula Renault 2.0 UK World Series by Renault
Former series	Porsche Supercup
Drivers' titles	2001 British F3 (Sato) 2003 British F3 (Merwe) 2005 British F3 (Parente)
Teams' titles	2006 Formula BMW UK 2007 British F3

Carlin Motorsport is a motor racing team based in the United Kingdom. It competes in six championships — British Formula Three Championship, Formula Three Euroseries and World Series by Renault.

It was founded in 1996 by Trevor Carlin and Martin Stone to operate a pit-stop challenge campaign for Williams F1 around Europe. In 1997 the team entered the British Formula Three Championship and began to set up the structure to operate a race winning, 3-car team in 1999.

In 1998, Carlin Motorsport was voted Team of the Year by the Formula Three Association for the high standards of their presentation and their impressive results with Indian newcomer, Narain Karthikeyan.

Trevor Carlin enjoys a history of success in International Formula 3 racing spanning over ten years. As Team Manager of Bowman Racing, he assembled a talented group of engineers and achieved 1st, 2nd and 3rd places in the British Championship in the team's first three seasons and won the 1989 Macau Grand Prix with David Brabham.

In 1993, Carlin joined West Surrey Racing where he oversaw the racing programmes of Marc Gené, Cristiano da Matta and Pedro de la Rosa before negotiating the team's move into the British Touring Car Championship with Ford Motor Company.

The engineering staff at Carlin Motorsport is headed by David Lowe who came from Arrows Grand Prix and he is supported by Mark Owen, a former Benetton Formula One employee, Paul Wallace and Matt Callaghan. To oversee the commercial aspects of the Carlin team, Trevor Carlin and Martin Stone recruited Steve Hollman in 1999, one of the original founders of Bowman Racing.

In the 2005-06 A1 Grand Prix season, Carlin are contracted to run the Lebanon^[1] and Portugal^[2] entries.

In April 2006, Trevor Carlin confirmed that the team had applied for a place in the Formula One World Championship from the 2008 season,^[3] although this was later rejected, in favour of the Prodrive application

In November 2006, Carlin Motorsport announced that they will be entering the 2007 GP2 Series as a joint venture with David Price Racing. It was planned that Trevor Carlin would head the operation and Dave Price would also stay with the team, which would enter under the name of Carlin DPR. The new team was relocating to the former Brabham F1 factory in Chessington, Surrey, which Carlin bought earlier in 2006, but it was announced in January 2007 that the merger had fell through, and Carlin would no longer be entering into the series at all in 2007. ^[4]

Contents 1 Series results 2 Timeline 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Series results

A1 Grand Prix Results[5]
Year	Car	Team	Wins	Poles	Fast laps	Points	T.C.
2005-06	Lola-Zytek	A1 Team Portugal	0	0	0	66	9th
		A1 Team Japan	0	0	0	8	21th
		A1 Team Lebanon	0	0	0	0	23th
2006-07	Lola-Zytek	A1 Team Lebanon	0	0	0	0	23th
2007-08	Lola-Zytek	A1 Team Lebanon	0	0	0	0	20th

World Series by Renault/Nissan results[6]
Year	Car	Drivers	Wins	Poles	Fast laps	Points	D.C.	T.C.
2003	Dallara-Nissan VQ	Narain Karthikeyan	0	0	0	121	4th	4th
		Bruce Jouanny	0	2	0	62	10th
2004	Dallara-Nissan VQ	Tiago Monteiro	5	4	2	154	2nd	2nd
		Olivier Pla	1	0	0	66	9th
2005	Dallara-Renault	Andreas Zuber	1	1	4	73	6th	4th
		Will Power	2	3	0	64	7th
		Giorgio Mondini	0	0	0	0	24th †
2006	Dallara-Renault	Mikhail Aleshin	0	1	0	41	11th	4th
		Adrian Zaugg	0	1	0	33	13th
		Sebastian Vettel	1	1	0	28	15th
		Colin Fleming	0	0	0	19	18th
		Gavin Cronje	0	0	0	0	th
2007	Dallara-Renault	Sebastian Vettel	1	1	1	74	5th	3rd
		Mikhail Aleshin	1	1	0	44	12th
		Michael Ammermüller	0	1	0	12	22th
		Robert Wickens	0	0	0	6	25th

British Formula Three Championship results[7]
Year	Car	Drivers	Wins	Poles	Fast laps	Points	D.C.	T.C.
1997	Dallara F397-Mugen Honda	Jamie Spence					14th †
		Henry Stanton				1	15th
1998	Dallara F397-8-Mugen Honda	Narain Karthikeyan					11th †
		Lei Kit Meng				0
1999	Dallara F399-Mugen Honda	Narain Karthikeyan				104	6th
		Michael Bentwood				50	8th
2000	Dallara F300-Mugen Honda	Takuma Sato				129	3rd
		Ben Collins				67	8th
		Rob Austin				0	19th
2001	Dallara F301-Mugen Honda	Takuma Sato	12	6	15	345	1st	1st
		Anthony Davidson	6	7	4	272	2nd
		Kazuki Hoshino [B]	0	0	1	133	7th [B]	6th [B]
2002	Dallara F302-Mugen Honda	James Courtney	5	12	12	269	2nd	1st
		Michael Keohane	2	0	0	169	5th
		Alan van der Merwe	1	0	0	98	8th
		Shinya Hosokawa	1	0	0	51	12th
		Derek Hayes	0	1	1	25	16th
2003	Dallara F303-Mugen Honda	Alan van der Merwe	9	4	4	308	1st	1st
		Jamie Green	4	3	4	237	2nd
		Richard Antinucci	0	0	2	125.5	4th
		Ronnie Bremer	0	0	0	121	6th
		Michael Keohane	0	0	0	42	13th
		Alvaro Parente	0	0	0	7	22th
2004	Dallara F304-Mugen Honda	Clivio Piccione	2	2	0	161	4th	1st
		Danilo Dirani	0	3	3	146	5th
		Álvaro Parente	2	2	0	137	7th
		Alexandre Sarnes Negrao	0	0	0	1	19th
2005	Dallara F305-Mugen Honda	Álvaro Parente	11	9	7	289	1st	1st
		Charlie Kimball	5	6	6	246	2nd
		Christian Bakkerud	0	0	1	124	7th
		Keiko Ihara	0	0	0	12	17th
		Ricardo Teixeira [B]	0	0	0	61	9th [B]	7th [B]
2006	Dallara F306-Mugen Honda	Oliver Jarvis	2	5	3	250	2nd	2nd
		Maro Engel	1	3	2	174	5th
		Christian Bakkerud	1	0	3	129	6th
		Keiko Ihara	0	0	0	4	17th
	Dallara F304-Mugen Honda	Ricardo Teixeira [B]	0	0	0	74	7th [B]	5th [B]
		Mario Moraes [G]	0	0	0	0	NC [G]
2007	Dallara F307-AMG Mercedes	Maro Engel	3	4	1	208	2nd	1st
		Sam Bird	2	0	1	180	4th
		Niall Breen	1	0	0	145	5th
		Alberto Valério	0	0	1	114	8th
		Mario Moraes	0	0	0	42	14th

• [B] Drivers and classification in the B or National class in British F3.
• [G] Guest drivers in British F3, no points awared.
• † These drivers also drove for other teams during the season and their final positions include all team results.
• D.C. = Drivers' Championship position, T.C. = Teams' Championship position, NC = Not Classified.

[edit] Timeline

Type	1990s				2000s
	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08
Formulas		British Formula Three Championship
								World Series by Renault/Nissan
									Formula BMW UK
										A1 Grand Prix
												FR 2.0Euro
												FR 2.0UK
Touring car						Porsche Supercup

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Carlin Motorsport. Retrieved on 2006-03-22.