Founded | 2015 |
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Base | Hong Kong (HQ) Zhuhai International Circuit, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China (operations) |
Team principal(s) | Bill O'Brien |
Current series | Formula 4 South East Asia Championship |
Former series | Asian Formula Renault Series F4 Chinese Championship Formula Regional Asian Championship |
Current drivers | Pierre-Louis Chovet Ido Cohen Brice Morabito Thomas Luedi Alister Yoong |
Teams' Championships | Asian Formula Renault Series : 2015-2019 China Formula 4 Championship : 2017-2019 F3 Asian Championship : 2020 |
Drivers' Championships | Asian Formula Renault Series : 2015 : Dan Wells 2016 : Josh Burdon 2017 : Charles Leong 2018 : Daniel Cao 2019 : Joey Alders China Formula 4 Championship : 2017 : Charles Leong 2019 : Conrad Clark F3 Asian Championship : 2019-20: Joey Alders |
Website | http://www.blackartsracing.com |
BlackArts Racing Team (BAR) is a Chinese motor racing team that was formed in January, 2015. Its main operational headquarters is located within the Zhuhai International Circuit, in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province bordering Macau. The teams business operations predominantly focus on professional racing series in Asia including F3 Asian Championship, Asian Formula Renault Series/AFR Series, Circuit Hero Series, China Formula 4 Championship, and TCR Asia Series. The team also provides year-round beginning and advanced driver training via racing schools, individual driver training, and corporate track days.
The team's most notable achievements include winning the Driver and Team Championships in the 2015-2018 Asia Formula Renault Series.
The BlackArts Racing (BAR) team was founded by a group of four entrepreneurs, business professionals and senior executives in January 2015.
Team Highlights:
2015: A group of successful International entrepreneurs create BAR to compete in the Asia Formula Renault Series and Circuit Hero Series.
Asia Formula Renault - 12 races with 12 Class A Wins - Driver's Champion and 2nd Runner Up; Team Champion
Circuit Hero Series [Pan Delta Super Racing Festival] - 18 BAR podiums in 6 races - Champions, Class A and C
KL GP BAR 10th overall and 4th in the GT4 Class in the first ever KL GP
Macau GP Three BAR drivers in two divisions, including the F3 GP
2016:
Circuit Hero 500 km Winner, Class A; Double Podiums Formula Enduro
Asia Formula Renault - 12 races with 7 Class A Wins - Class A Driver's Champion; Team Champion
2017
Asia Formula Renault Driver's Champion Class A, Class B; Team Champion
FIA China F4 Driver's Champion; Team Champion
2018
Asia Formula Renault Class A Driver's Champion; Team Champion
FIA China F4 Team Champion
The Racing School is a formal driver training course recognized by the Hong Kong Automobile Association, able to issue race license certificates through its one-day and two day courses. The Racing School is available to both newer and experienced drivers. BAR also conducts an annual Advanced Training Course with the assistance of professional engineers and coaches such as Richard Bradley and Danny Watts. The Racing School is conducted with both Formula Renault cars and Volkswagen Scirocco R-Cup touring cars.
Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | Fast Laps | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
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2023 | Tatuus F4-T421 | Lincoln Taylor | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 16th | 6th |
Vivian Siu | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 20th | |||
Iñigo Anton | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 21st | |||
Alister Yoong | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 24th | |||
Arjun Chheda | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 26th | |||
Ian Loggie | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30th |
Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | Fast Laps | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
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2024 | Tatuus F4-T421 | Iñigo Anton | |||||||
Arjun Chheda |
Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | Fast Laps | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
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2018 | Tatuus F3 T-318 | Louis Prette | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 70 | 9th | 6th |
Thomas Luedi | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25th | |||
Presley Martono | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 20th | |||
Tom Beckhäuser | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 22nd | |||
2019 Winter | Tatuus F3 T-318 | Charles Leong | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 12th | 5th |
Vivien Keszthelyi | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 13th | |||
Joey Alders | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | |||
2019 Summer | Tatuus F3 T-318 | Thomas Luedi | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20th | 3rd |
Brendon Leitch | 15 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 152 | 4th | |||
Tom Beckhäuser | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 17th | |||
Miki Koyama | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 15th | |||
2019-2020 | Tatuus F3 T-318 | Thomas Luedi | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 17th | 1st |
Joey Alders | 15 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 266 | 1st | |||
Yu Kanamaru | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 104 | 6th | |||
Mikhael Belov | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 39 | 11th | |||
Miki Koyama | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 16th | |||
2021 | Tatuus F3 T-318 | Rafael Villagómez | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 18th | 6th |
Lorenzo Fluxá | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 14th | |||
Zdeněk Chovanec | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19th | |||
Cem Bölükbaşı | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 61 | 9th | |||
2022 | Tatuus F3 T-318 | Pierre-Louis Chovet | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 16th | 7th |
Ido Cohen | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 21st | |||
Brice Morabito | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30th | |||
Thomas Luedi | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32nd |
Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | Fast Laps | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
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2016 | Mygale M14-F4 | Pavan Ravishankar | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 14th | NC |
2017 | Mygale M14-F4 | Hon Chio Leong | 17 | 11 | 3 | 9 | 345 | 1st | 1st |
Louis Prette | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 17th | |||
Josh Burdon | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 75 | 8th | |||
Yves Volte | 14 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 239 | 4th | |||
Daniel Cao | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 27 | 16th | 9th | ||
Ryan Liu | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 11th | |||
2018 | Mygale M14-F4 | Daim Hishammudin | 18 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 256 | 3rd | 1st |
Hon Chio Leong | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | |||
Daniel Wells | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 9th | |||
Daniel Cao | 6 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 105 | 7th | |||
Minjae Kang | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 13th | |||
Oscar Lee | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 12th | |||
2019 | Mygale M14-F4 | Patrick Tsang | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 25th | 1st |
Lu Zhiwei | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 20th | |||
Nic Lai | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 19th | |||
Conrad Clark | 17 | 12 | 3 | 10 | 379 | 1st | |||
Eric Sun | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 15th | |||
Liu Zezhen | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 7th | |||
2020 | Mygale M14-F4 | Oscar Gao | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 9th | 4th |
Zhu Yuanjie | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 96 | 6th | |||
Kang Ling | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC |
Current series | |
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Formula 4 South East Asia Championship | 2023–present |
Formula 4 Australian Championship | 2024–present |
Former Series | |
Asian Formula Renault Series | 2015–2019 |
F4 Chinese Championship | 2016–2020 |
Formula Regional Asian Championship | 2018–2022 |
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