Founded | 2012 |
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Base | Moscow, Russia |
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Former series | FIA World Endurance Championship European Le Mans Series Asian Le Mans Series IMSA SportsCar Championship Blancpain GT Series |
Noted drivers | Mike Conway Olivier Pla Sam Bird Pipo Derani Giedo van der Garde René Rast Ryō Hirakawa Mikkel Jensen Nyck de Vries Roman Rusinov |
Website | https://www.gdriveracing.com/ |
G-Drive Racing is a Russian sports car racing team. It is named after the commercial fuel distributed by Gazprom Neft, a subsidiary of oil giant Gazprom. [1] They made their debut in the LMP2 class of the 2012 FIA World Endurance Championship in a partnership with Signatech, before quickly rising to prominence, winning three titles in the European Le Mans Series, taking the 2015 WEC title, as well as winning the Asian Le Mans Series twice. [2] [3] Over the years, G-Drive ran in conjunction with multiple race teams, including Jota Sport, TDS Racing, Graff Racing, and Algarve Pro Racing. [4] [5]
As a result of regulations imposed by the FIA on Russian competitors in the aftermath of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, G-Drive withdrew from international competition. They currently organise multiple sporting events in Russia. [6] The team opened a rally raid division in 2023 for Roman Rusinov and Anastasiya Nifontova, and the former won the Silk Way Rally in the T3 category the following year. [7] [8]
Year | Entrant | Team | Class | No | Chassis | Engine | Drivers | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Pos. | Pts |
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2016 | G-Drive Racing | Jota Sport | LMP2 | 38 | Gibson 015S | Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 | Simon Dolan Giedo van der Garde Harry Tincknell | SIL 1 | IMO 2 | RBR 3 | LEC 5 | SPA 5 | EST 1 | 1st | 103 |
2017 | G-Drive Racing | DragonSpeed | LMP2 | 22 | Oreca 07 | Gibson GK428 4.2L V8 | Memo Rojas Léo Roussel Ryō Hirakawa (rounds 1–2, 5–6) Nicolas Minassian (rounds 3–4) | SIL 2 | MNZ 1 | RBR 2 | LEC 2 | SPA 2 | ALG 4 | 1st | 110 |
2018 | G-Drive Racing | TDS Racing | LMP2 | 26 | Oreca 07 | Gibson GK428 4.2L V8 | Andrea Pizzitola Roman Rusinov Alexandre Imperatori (round 1) Jean-Éric Vergne (rounds 2–6) | LEC 4 | MNZ 1 | RBR 1 | SIL 1 | SPA 12‡ | ALG 4 | 1st | 100.25 |
Graff | 40 | James Allen José Gutiérrez (rounds 1–4) Enzo Guibbert (rounds 1–2) Garry Findlay (round 4) Henning Enqvist (rounds 5–6) Julien Falchero (rounds 5–6) | LEC 6 | MNZ Ret | RBR 13 | SIL 12 | SPA 11‡ | ALG 7 | 12th | 15.25 | |||||
2019 | G-Drive Racing | TDS Racing | LMP2 | 26 | Aurus 01 | Gibson GK428 4.2L V8 | Roman Rusinov Job van Uitert Norman Nato (round 1–2) Jean-Éric Vergne (rounds 3–6) | LEC 4 | MNZ 1 | CAT 1 | SIL 2 | SPA 4 | ALG 6 | 2nd | 101 |
2020 | G-Drive Racing | TDS Racing | LMP2 | 26 | Aurus 01 | Gibson GK428 4.2L V8 | Mikkel Jensen Roman Rusinov Nyck de Vries (rounds 1, 4–5) Jean-Éric Vergne (round 3) | LEC 2 | SPA Ret | LEC 2 | MNZ Ret | ALG 1 | 3rd | 61 | |
2021 | G-Drive Racing | Algarve Pro Racing | LMP2 | 25 | Aurus 01 | Gibson GK428 4.2L V8 | Rui Andrade John Falb Pietro Fittipaldi (round 1) Roberto Merhi (rounds 2–4) Gustavo Menezes (rounds 5–6) | CAT 7 | RBR 3 | LEC 10 | MNZ 6 | SPA 7 | ALG 8 | 6th | 42 |
26 | Franco Colapinto Roman Rusinov Nyck de Vries (rounds 1–3, 5–6) Mikkel Jensen (round 4) | CAT 4 | RBR 2 | LEC 1 | MNZ 8 | SPA NC | ALG 5 | 4th | 74 |
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