ArtLine Racing
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| Founded | 1998 |
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| Team principal(s) | Shota Abkhazava |
| Current series |
FIA Formula 3 European Championship Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe |
| Former series |
German Formula Three Russian Formula 3 Russian Formula 1600 |
| Teams' Championships |
2001 Russian Formula 3 2003 Russian Formula 1600 2007 Russian Formula 1600 2008 Russian Formula 3 |
| Drivers' Championships |
2001 Russian Formula 3 (Mediani) 2003 Russian Formula 1600 (Tyuryumin) 2005 Russian Formula 1600 (Petrov) 2006 Russian Formula 1600 (Samarin) 2007 Russian Formula 1600 (Samarin) 2008 Russian Formula 3 (Semyonov) 2009 German F3 Trophy (Chukanov) 2010 German F3 Trophy (Brutschin) |
ArtLine Engineering (Russian: АртЛайн Инжиниринг) is a racing team and race car manufacturer based in Russia and Germany and specialized on design and production of single seater race cars named ArtTech.
The team was established in 1998 by motorsport engineer Shota Abkhazava getting its first name “Pilot F3 Engineering”. From the date of foundation, the chief designer is Sergei Piskunov, formerly Abkhazava’s fellow worker in famous Russian sport car laboratory LSA MADI.
In the region of Eastern Europe and post-Soviet states, ArtLine Engineering is the first and the only engineering company which produces Formula 3 chassis.
For its first racing season the team bought the most modern Italian-made race car Dallara F399. Team’s first driver Fabio Babini already had experience of participating in Russian Formula 3 series at the wheel of Russian-made open-wheeler Astrada, a car with a tubular space-frame chassis. Rally driver from St-Petersburg Alexander Antonov became Babini’s teammate, after 2-years driving of Formula 3 car “JAK-26” for Rothmans-ASPAS team. On the 4th stage of Russian Championship, Babini got the first pole and won the race, thus interrupting series of wins of his compatriot Alberto Pedemonte from Lukoil Racing.
In the 2000th season Babini gave his place to Maurizio Mediani. The team’s name was changed to “ArtLine Engineering”. For the next several years, competition between Mediani and Pedemonte became the main feature of the Russian circuit racing. With 5 poles, 4 wins and 3 second places, Mediani became Russian vice-champion passing Pedemonte. Antonov was not successful at the wheel of older model Dallara F393, however the team still managed to finish 3rd in the teams’ championship.
A year after Mediani went top of drivers’ championship as early as on the 3rd stage of the Russian F3 series and kept his lead till the end of the season, bringing the first champion’s title in the ArtLine’s history. The team was enforced with the second Italian, 23-year-old , and the other Dallara F399. The result was that the team drivers came first in all eight qualifyings of the season and won 6 races, enabled ArtLine to finish second in the teams’ championship, still passing Lukoil.
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