Trident Motorsport (formerly known as Trident Racing) is a motor racing team that competes in

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. It was founded in 2006 in order to compete in the GP2 championship, which was

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's second highest-ranking single-seater formula below

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. Trident is headquartered at San Pietro Mosezzo in the

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region of

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Racing history

GP2 Series

After a rapid formation, Trident secured a place on the

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GP2 entry list, represented by former Formula One driver

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and rookie

Andreas Zuber Andreas "Andi" Zuber (born 9 October 1983 in Judenburg, Austria) is a former Auto racing, motor racing driver. An Austrian by birth, he is based in Dubai and once raced under a licence issued by the United Arab Emirates. Career Formula König De ...

. It was one of three teams that had lodged requests for the thirteenth entry that was made available for that season onwards. GP2's organiser Bruno Michel commented: "Trident Racing put forward a proposal which promised strong sporting and engineering excellence." Trident's first year of competition was competitive against more experienced opposition. Bruni provided two race wins, together with three

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s and two fastest race laps, whilst Zuber secured a single race win. In the teams' championship standings, Trident ended the year in sixth place overall. For the

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season, Trident chose

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race winner

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from

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and

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front-runner

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from

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, who suffered a training injury mid-season and was replaced by

Ricardo Risatti Ricardo ''Caíto'' Risatti (born September 27, 1986, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine racing driver. He was the 2006 Spanish Formula Three champion and now competes in the Argentine touring car series, TC 2000. Risatti is a fourth-generation race ...

and then Sergio Hernández. Before his injury, Maldonado secured pole position and the race victory in the series' single race at

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, and secured eleventh place in the drivers' championship despite missing the final eight races of the season. His team-mates struggled, however, dropping Trident to tenth in the teams' championship. Trident's

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drivers were

Mike Conway Michael Robert Conway (born 19 August 1983) is a British professional racing driver. He lives in Sevenoaks, Kent and is currently competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship with Toyota Motorsport GmbH, Toyota Gazoo Racing. Early caree ...

and

Ho-Pin Tung Ho-Pin Tung (; born December 4, 1982) is a Dutch-born racing driver who races with a Chinese license. Career Tung was born in Velp, Gelderland, Netherlands, to Chinese parents with ancestry tracing to Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province. Tung starte ...

. The team's best result again came at Monaco, with Conway leading Tung home for a Trident one-two in the sprint race. Both drivers were unable to replicate this performance elsewhere, but Trident improved to ninth in the teams' championship. For

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, the team changed its driver line-up to

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and

Davide Rigon Davide Rigon (born 26 August 1986) is an Italian professional racing driver who is currently competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship and other selected GT races for AF Corse. He is also currently part of the Scuderia Ferrari Formula ...

, with

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deputising for Rigon for a single round of the championship. The trio scored a mere three points between them, resulting in Trident finishing twelfth and last in the teams' championship. The 2010 season saw a slight improvement as the team improved to eleventh overall; the drivers for the year were

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and

Johnny Cecotto Jr. Johnny Amadeus Cecotto, more commonly known as Johnny Cecotto Jr. (born 9 September 1989 in Augsburg, West Germany) is a former racing driver. He races with a Venezuelan license but holds both German and Venezuelan nationality. He is the son of fo ...

, the latter of whom was replaced first by

Edoardo Piscopo Edoardo Piscopo (born 4 February 1988) is a former Italian racing driver. Career Formula BMW After previously competing in karting, Piscopo began his single seater career in Formula BMW USA in 2005, where despite missing the first rounds he ...

and then Federico Leo. R Gonzalez 2 Monza 2011

Trident enjoyed something of a renaissance in

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, with new lead driver

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winning two races en route to eleventh in the drivers' championship, despite suffering a back injury at the penultimate round of the season at

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which saw him ruled out of the finale; he was replaced by Monegasque compatriot

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. In the other car, the returning González failed to score. For the 2012 season, Richelmi was retained and joined by Julián Leal: the duo scored 31 points between them under the new scoring system, but Trident slipped to tenth in the teams' championship, having finished eighth the season before. For the 2015 season, Raffaele Marciello, of the

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, and

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joined the team from

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and

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respectively. The team finished seventh overall. The team entered

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with Philo Paz Armand and

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being promoted from GP3. After a winless season the previous year, Ghiotto scored a victory at the sprint race in Malaysia bringing them to eighth in the standings.

GP2 Asia Series

Trident also competed in the

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from its inception in 2008 to its cancellation in 2011. In the series' inaugural championship, the team fielded

Harald Schlegelmilch Haralds Šlēgelmilhs, known internationally as Harald Schlegelmilch (born December 6, 1987) is a Latvian racing driver. Career He started racing at the age of 8. He raced in karting championships for seven years. In 2003, Harald participated in ...

and

for a total of four points, finishing thirteenth and last in the teams' championship. For the 2008-09 season, Trident employed an unusually high number of seven drivers to share its two race seats:

Giacomo Ricci Giacomo Ricci (born 30 March 1985 in Baveno) is a former Italian racing driver. Career Formula BMW Ricci began his car racing career by driving in the German-based Formula BMW ADAC series in 2001 and 2002, with a best finish of seventh in the d ...

Alberto Valerio Alberto "Betinho" Valério (Ipatinga, 6 September 1985) is a former Brazilian racing driver. Career Formula Three Valerio drove in the Formula Three Sudamericana championship from 2003 to 2005, winning the title in his final year of the categ ...

Frankie Provenzano Francesco Provenzano (born February 12, 1986, in Rome) is an Italian racing driver. Career Formula Renault Provenzano began his formula racing career with the BVM Minardi team in Italian Formula Renault, finishing second to Jaime Alguersuari in ...

Chris van der Drift Christopher Jason van der Drift (born 8 March 1986) is a New Zealand racing driver of Dutch descent who currently competes in the Asian Le Mans Series for Absolute Motorsport. Career Van der Drift started karting at the age of 7 and in 1994 h ...

Adrián Vallés Adrián Vallés Escortell (born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish race car driver. Career Vallés was born in Teulada, Alicante. After a strong karting career, he drove in Spanish Formula Three, before moving to the World Series by Nissan in 2004. T ...

and

all shared driving duties at some stage, propelling Trident to ninth in the teams' championship between them. In the 2009-10 season, the team reduced is roster two four drivers, with gentleman driver Plamen Kralev buying one seat for the entirety of the championship, and the other shared between

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and

. This campaign was less successful, as the team slipped back to eleventh in the standings. The truncated 2011 season was Trident's best, as lead driver

put in a strong showing to finish fourth in the drivers' table, with one win, a position replicated by the team in its own championship. In the other car,

failed to score.

GP3 Series

Trident joined the

GP3 Series The GP3 Series, or GP3 for short, was a single-seater motor racing series launched in 2010 as a feeder series for the GP2 Series, introduced by GP2 organiser Bruno Michel. GP3 followed the entire European leg of the Formula One series and the ...

for its third year of competition in

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, replacing the departing

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team. It became the first GP3 team to intentionally field two drivers instead of the usual three (although several other teams later dropped down to two-car entries for certain rounds), beginning the season with

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and

Antonio Spavone Antonio Spavone (born 2 June 1994) is an Italian former racing driver and entrepreneur. Career Karting Spavone was born in Naples. He began karting in 2005 and raced primarily in his native Italy for the majority of this part of career, worki ...

. For the fourth round of the championship at

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, it expanded briefly to three cars for

Giovanni Venturini Giovanni Venturini (born 9 November 1991 in Vicenza) is a professional racing driver from Italy. Career Formula 2000 Light Venturini began his Formula racing career in November 2008, racing in the Formula 2000 Light Italy Winter Trophy, where he ...

, but Spavone's ride disappeared thereafter and the team once again returned to a two car set-up. Venturini was the most successful of the Italian trio, finishing on the podium twice and finishing thirteenth in the drivers' championship, in contrast to Piria and Spavone, who did not score. Trident finished ninth and last in the teams' championship. The team enjoyed an upturn in performance in the following two seasons, with performances from

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and

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, allowing them to finish second and third in the respective constructors championships. In 2018, the team was represented by

Giuliano Alesi Giuliano Ryu Alesi (born 20 September 1999) is a French professional racing driver. He is the son of French racing driver and Formula One Grand Prix winner Jean Alesi and Japanese actress and TV personality Kumiko Goto. Career Karting Born ...

, Ryan Tveter and

Alessio Lorandi Alessio Lorandi (born 8 September 1998) is an Italian former racing driver. Career Karting Lorandi began his racing career in karting in 2007. He won the Karting Federation Junior championship in 2013 and remained in karting until 2014. Formu ...

. After Lorandi was promoted to Formula 2 prior to the Hungaroring round,

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was signed as his replacement.

FIA Formula 2 Championship

In 2018 the team was represented by

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test drivers

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Santino Ferrucci Santino Michael Ferrucci (born May 31, 1998) is an American racing driver. He competes in the IndyCar Series, driving the No 14 Chevrolet for A. J. Foyt Enterprises. He has also previously raced in the FIA Formula 2 Championship and the NASCAR ...

and

who switched from GP3 mid season after Ferrucci was banned for two rounds following a collision with teammate

at Silverstone, then had his contract terminated citing sponsorship issues. For the

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, the team promoted

from their defunct GP3 division. On 11 March 2019,

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was confirmed as his teammate. Ryan Tveter replaced Boschung at the

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before being replaced by

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, who had previously raced for Campos, for

. Boschung returned for

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before stepping aside to relieve sponsorship issues at

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for Giuliano Alesi who ran the sole car. Boschung returned for

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before being replaced by

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at Abu Dhabi. For the 2020 season, the team hired new Williams development driver

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who had not raced in 2019 due to a pre-season testing injury. He was joined by 2019 Euroformula Open Champion

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who raced for

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from Spa onwards where he failed to score a point. Nissany's best result came at

, where he finished eighth in the feature race and battled for the race lead with

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in the sprint race, until the pair collided. He scored five points throughout the season, four more than teammate Sato, who finished eighth in the Mugello Sprint Race. The pair finished 19th and 22nd in the standings respectively, leading to Trident finishing last in the teams' championship. In 2021, F3 graduate Bent Viscaal partnered with Sato, his best finish was 2nd at the second Monza sprint race bringing Trident their best ever result in F2. In 2022, Trident would take their first win in Formula 2 with

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in the opening race of the season.

FIA Formula 3 Championship

In October 2018, Trident was listed among ten teams to compete in the inaugural

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. Their drivers were

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, both of whom switched from

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after competing with them in the GP3 Series; the latter moved to Formula 2 midway through the 2018 season, and

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, who raced for them in GP3.

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finished 5th on 98 points in the championship with a win at the first race at Spa being the highlight of his season.

finished in 25th with no points with a 9th place at the Red Bull Ring's Race 2 being the closest he got.

finished 12th with 36 points and the highlights of his season were a third-place at Catalunya Race 2 and Sochi Race 1. For the 2020 season, Trident signed ADAC Formula 4 champion

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who moved from the Sauber Junior Team by Charouz where he finished 18th in 2019.

replaced

ahead of the latter's move to the

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with

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in late June before a race had been run.

Macau Grand Prix

2019 saw the introduction of the Macau Grand Prix as a non-championship event run to

FIA Formula 3 The FIA Formula 3 Championship (FIA F3) is a third-tier international single-seater racing championship organised by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The championship launched in 2019 as a feeder series for the FIA Formu ...

car specifications after the season has ended. The

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will be Trident's debut in the race. They are running Olli Caldwell,

and

meaning they are running a completely changed lineup from the

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. The drivers qualified in the middle of the pack with Caldwell qualifying 17th, Beckmann in 19th and Lorandi in 14th. In the qualifying race, Beckmann and Lorandi were able to make it through the Lap 1 incident at Lisboa which got Beckmann 9th and Lorandi 7th with Caldwell being blocked by the incident to finish 23rd. Caldwell retired in the early stages of the Main Race to finish 29th whereas Beckmann retained his starting spot to finish 9th and Lorandi moved up to 5th from 7th.

Formula Regional European Championship

In November 2021, Trident announced that they would enter the

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starting from the 2022 season. The team fielded in 2021 ADAC and 2021 Italian F4 vice-champion

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Leonardo Fornaroli Leonardo Fornaroli (born 3 December 2004) is an Italian racing driver, who competes in the FIA Formula 2 Championship for Invicta Racing. Fornaroli won the 2024 FIA Formula 3 Championship in his second year with Trident Motorsport, Trident, and ...

, and

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. In 2025, Trident signed

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, Ruiqi Liu and

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for the campaign. The team claimed their first win in the series, courtesy of De Palo during the season opener in Misano.

Formula 4

In June 2025, Trident announced that they would expand into the

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starting from the 2026 season, marking their first season competing in the

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category.

Current series results

FIA Formula 2 Championship

* Season still in progress

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( key) * Season still in progress

FIA Formula 3 Championship

* Season still in progress.

In detail

( key) * Season still in progress.

Macau Grand Prix

Formula Regional European Championship

*Season still in progress.

In detail

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) *Season still in progress.

Former series results

GP2 Series

In detail

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

GP2 Final

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

GP2 Asia Series

In detail

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

International Formula Master

Auto GP

GP3 Series

In detail

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

Timeline

Notes

References

External links

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GP2 official website: Trident Racing profile

Details of Trident's entry into GP2
{{DEFAULTSORT:Trident Racing Italian auto racing teams GP2 Series teams GP3 Series teams Auto racing teams established in 2006 2006 establishments in Italy International Formula Masters teams Auto GP teams FIA Formula 2 Championship teams FIA Formula 3 Championship teams Formula Regional European Championship teams