Founded | 1999 |
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Founder(s) | Alfonso de Orléans-Borbón |
Base | Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain |
Team principal(s) | Alfonso de Orléans-Borbón |
Current series | FIA Formula 2 Championship |
Former series |
GP2 Series World Series by Nissan Spanish F3 |
Current drivers |
Louis Delétraz Gustav Malja |
Teams' Championships |
Spanish Formula 3: 2001-2006 World Series by Nissan: 2002 |
Drivers' Championships |
Spanish Formula 3: 2001: Ander Vilariño 2003: Ricardo Mauricio 2004: Borja Garcia GP2 Series: 2008: Giorgio Pantano 2013: Fabio Leimer |
Website | http://www.racing-engineering.com/ |
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. The team has won 12 championship in many categories such as Formula 3, World Series and GP2. The French driver Franck Montagny, the Briton Justin Wilson, Lucas Di Grassi and Dani Clos, are some of the drivers who entered the highest category in international motor sports after competing with Racing Engineering in Formula 3, World Series or GP2. Even the quadruple world champion Sebastian Vettel, Formula One's youngest winner, raced with Racing Engineering's Formula 3 team.
In 2000, Racing Engineering was the first Spanish team to participate in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, doing so in the GT Class with a Porsche 911 GT3-R.
In ten years of history, the team has won eleven championship titles, which is a record for any motor racing team in such a brief period of time.
Racing Engineering has participated in categories such as the Spanish GT Championship, Spanish Formula Three, in which Racing Engineering won all six consecutive championships in which it participated, World Series by Nissan and more recently, in the GP2 Series, the main feeder championship for Formula 1.
Racing Engineering participated in the Spanish Formula Three championship between 2001 and 2006 and were team champions in each of those years. The team featured names such as Nicolas Prost, Sebastian Vettel, Sébastien Buemi, Ricardo Mauricio, Álvaro Parente and Miguel Molina among their drivers. They also achieved the drivers’ title with Ander Vilariño in 2001, Ricardo Mauricio in 2003 and Borja Garcia in 2004.