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BCN Competición
BCN Competición was a Spanish motorsport team active in the GP2 Series and the International Formula 3000. The team, owned by Enrique Scalabroni and Jaime Pintanel, was founded in 2002. Due to financial problems, the team was sold to Tiago Monteiro and José Guedes at the end of November 2008 and has since competed under the name Ocean Racing Technology. BCN Competición was the only GP2 team not to win a single race; it achieved only two podiums in four years. Contributing factors were BCN Competición's frequent use of a rotating selection of paying drivers. History The BCN Competición project began at the 2002 San Marino Grand Prix, when Enrique Scalabroni and Jaime Pintanel (who had known each other since 1993) considered the idea of setting up a team in Formula 3000. In those days, Scalabroni was immersed in the mission to convert Asiatech into a Formula One team and his plan was for the 3000 team to be a junior team of this. Asiatech did not succeed in this conver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barcelona
Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits,Barcelona: Población por municipios y sexo – Instituto Nacional de Estadística. (National Statistics Institute) its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the province of Barcelona and is home to around 5.3 million people, making it the fifth most populous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Langhorne
William Langhorne (born July 29, 1974, in Washington, D.C.), is a race car driver sponsored by Porsche. He is also a former driver in the Indy Racing League. After coming up through karting and the Skip Barber Racing Schools, he drove in the Barber Dodge Pro Series from 1997 to 1999 and Toyota Atlantic in 1999 and 2000. He reached his goal of top-level open-wheel racing when he competed in the 2002 IRL season with 3 starts for Treadway Racing. His best career IRL finish was in 13th position in the Delphi Indy 300 at the Chicagoland Speedway. In 2003, he raced in Formula 3000 for BCN Competicion. In 2004 and 2005 he raced in the ARCA ReMax Series. In 2006 he raced for Molitor Racing in the Porsche Michelin Supercup Series that tours with Formula One. He is an alumnus of Burke Mountain Academy and Babson College. Racing record American Open Wheel ( key) Indy Racing League Complete Porsche Supercup results ( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ISport International
iSport International was a British motor racing team that competed in the GP2 Series. The team was founded by Paul Jackson, Gavin Bickerton-Jones and Richard Selwin, former members of the Petrobras Junior Team in 2004, ahead of the inaugural GP2 season. Their factory is based in Carleton Rode near Norwich in the United Kingdom. iSport's most successful season in GP2 came in 2007, when they won the teams' title, with Timo Glock winning the drivers' championship. The team finished second in 2008, and won the 2009–10 GP2 Asia Series drivers' and teams' championship. They pulled out of the GP2 series before the 2013 season, after encountering financial difficulties. iSport returned to motorsport in 2014, running a GP2 team for Russian Time. Racing history GP2 Series The inaugural season of the GP2 series saw iSport take the fastest time in the shoot-out for race numbers, giving drivers Scott Speed and Can Artam numbers 1 and 2 for the season. While the team was regularly fast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timo Glock
Timo Glock (; born 18 March 1982) is a German racing driver, who competes in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters for Dörr Motorsport. Glock competed in Formula One between and . Glock raced in Formula One for Jordan, Toyota, Virgin and Marussia, finishing 10th in the World Drivers' Championship in both and , amongst three podium finishes. After leaving Formula One at the end of the season, Glock became a factory driver for BMW in the 2013 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, achieving his first DTM podium at the Red Bull Ring, and a first win at the season finale at the Hockenheimring. Early career Born in Lindenfels, West Germany, Glock began his motorsport career in 1998 at the age of 15. He won several karting championships as well as the BMW ADAC Formula Junior Cup in 2000 and the Formula BMW ADAC Championship in 2001. In his first German Formula Three Championship season in 2002, he finished third in the standings en route to rookie of the year honours. In 2003, he competed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ART Grand Prix
ART Grand Prix is a French motor racing team that competes in formula single-seaters in Europe. In 2012, it competed in the GP2 Series and GP3 Series as Lotus GP to reflect sponsorship from British sports and racing car manufacturer Lotus. The team competed as Lotus ART in 2011. Corporate history ART Grand Prix was created in 2005 as a collaborative project between Frédéric Vasseur, the principal of ASM Formule 3, and Nicolas Todt, the son of the then Scuderia Ferrari team principal and eventually Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) president Jean Todt. Vasseur wanted to expand his championship-winning Formula Three team into the newly created GP2 Series, while Nicolas Todt had expressed an interest in team management. He had become involved in motorsport as a driver manager, and was notable for representing Felipe Massa. Todt took charge of the new team's commercial and promotional interests, while Vasseur managed the day-to-day running of the operation. ART ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroki Yoshimoto
(born 2 September 1980 in Osaka) is a Japanese race car driver. He raced in the 2005 GP2 Series for the BCN Competicion team, alongside the Venezuelan E. J. Viso. For 2006 he was initially teamed with the more experienced Timo Glock of Germany. In addition to his racing, he is also the vocalist for Japanese rock band doa under the name . In 2023, Yoshimoto and doa's members have announced departure from the agency Giza Studio and from September and became freelancer under Floodlight company, the announcement was made on doa's official website. Racing career Yoshimoto is the only driver in GP2 Series to have driven the bulk of his pre-GP2 career in Asia, the rest of the series mainly moving up the ranks in South America or Europe. Yoshimoto started out in 1999, competing in Japanese Formula Junior 1600. He moved for Japanese Formula Toyota in 2000, racing in Korean F1800 later in the year. A move to Japanese Formula Three for 2001 was his reward for hard work, although h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super Nova Racing
Super Nova Racing was a British racing team that has competed in International Formula 3000, Formula 3000/GP2 Series, GP2 and the A1 Grand Prix series. History Super Nova first entered racing in 1991. Super Nova was a new incarnation of the pre-existing David Sears (Motorsport), David Sears Motorsport, sponsored by the Nova (English school in Japan), Nova chain of Japanese English schools and also ran the Danish Den Blå Avis outfit. In July 2007, naming sponsor Nova (English school in Japan), Nova's legal problems became the subject of intense media coverage in Japan, and by the end of September 2007 the company was reported to be unable to pay staff salaries or rent, being declared bankrupt in November 2007 amidst a widening scandal about business improprieties, but SuperNova continued to list Nova as a sponsor. On 24 June 2008, President Saruhashi of the Nova chain of English schools was taken into police custody and faced charges of embezzlement. In August 2009, Saruhashi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milos Pavlovic 2008 GP2 Monaco
Milos or Melos (; , ; ) is a volcanic Greek island in the Aegean Sea, just north of the Sea of Crete. It is the southwestern-most island of the Cyclades group. The ''Venus de Milo'' (now in the Louvre), the ''Poseidon of Melos'' (now in the NAMA) and the ''Asclepius of Milos'' (now in the British Museum) were all found on the island, as was an archaic Apollo now in Athens. Milos is a popular tourist destination during the summer. The Communities and Municipalities of Greece, municipality of Milos also includes the uninhabited offshore islands of Antimilos and Akradies. The combined land area is and at the 2021 census the population was 5,193 inhabitants. History Obsidian (a glass-like volcanic rock) from Milos was a commodity as early as Obsidian hydration dating, 15,000 years ago. Natural glass from Milos was transported over long distances and used for razor-sharp "stone tools" well before farming began and later: "There is no early farming village in the Near East that do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
