Koiranen GP
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| Founded | 1997 |
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| Founder(s) | Marko Koiranen |
| Base | Barcelona, Spain |
| Team principal(s) | Afa Heikkinen |
| Current series | SMP F4 Championship |
| Former series |
GP3 Series Formula Renault 2.0 Italia Nordic Formula Three Masters Formula Renault 2.0 Alps Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 Formula Renault 2.0 NEC |
| Current drivers |
 Mikhail Belov Ivan Berets Tuomas Haaplainen Elias Niskanen Juuso Puhakka Sami-Matti Trogen |
| Teams' Championships |
Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0: 2011, 2014 Formula Renault 2.0 NEC: 2011 Formula Renault 2.0 Alps: 2014, 2015 |
| Drivers' Championships |
Italian Formula Renault 2.0 Winter Series: 2005: Atte Mustonen Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0: 2010: Kevin Korjus 2014: Nyck de Vries 2015: Jack Aitken Formula Renault 2.0 NEC: 2011: Carlos Sainz Jr. Formula Renault 2.0 Alps: 2012: Daniil Kvyat 2014: Nyck de Vries 2015: Jack Aitken SMP F4 Championship: 2015: Niko Kari |
| Website | http://koiranengp.com/ |
Koiranen GP, also known as Koiranen bros. Motorsport, is a Finnish auto racing team based in Barcelona, Spain. The team currently competes as a promoter of the SMP F4 Championship and Spanish Formula 4 Championship.
The team was founded in 1997 by brothers Marko and Jari Koiranen. They joined the Finnish Formula 4 championship the same year, and also competed in Nordic and Finnish Formula Three championships until 2005.
2003 saw Koiranen Motorsport join the German Formula Renault Championship, before expanding their Formula Renault programme to include a Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 campaign. They experienced their first real success when Valtteri Bottas finished third in the Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup in 2007. The team won their first title in 2010, when Kevin Korjus won the Eurocup title.
In 2011, Red Bull Junior Team started collaboration with the Finnish team. Daniil Kvyat and Carlos Sainz Jr. joined the team for Eurocup and NEC campaign. In Northern European Cup Sainz, Jr. achieved drivers' title and with help of Kvyat they both claimed teams' championship. They also claimed teams' trophy in Eurocup. Kvyat remained with the team for the next year and brought drivers' title in new Formula Renault 2.0 Alps series for the team .
In 2012, Koiranen Motorsport was one of eighteen teams to make a bid for one of the vacant grid positions in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series, the highest tier of the Formula Renault championships. The team was unsuccessful, losing out to DAMS and Arden Caterham, but were placed on a reserve list, granting them automatic entry to the grid in the event that any of the existing thirteen teams failed to be ready in time.
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