Founded | 2005 |
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Founder(s) | Mark Gallagher Mark Kershaw |
Base | Silverstone, England |
Team principal(s) | Teddy Yip Jr. Mark Gallagher |
Former series | GP2 Series, A1 Grand Prix [lower-alpha 2] GP3 Series European Le Mans Series |
Noted drivers | Robert Wickens Marlon Stöckinger Richie Stanaway Oliver Rowland Seb Morris Alex Fontana Sandy Stuvik |
Teams' Championships | A1 Grand Prix : 2008–09 A1 GP [lower-alpha 2] |
Website | http://www.statusgp.com/ |
Status Grand Prix is a former motorsport team registered in Canada. [lower-alpha 1]
Based in Silverstone the team was formed in 2005 to run the A1 Team Ireland franchise in the new A1 Grand Prix series. [1] The team's founders were former Jordan Grand Prix Executive Mark Gallagher and Dublin businessman Mark Kershaw. Later shareholders included former Formula One driver David Kennedy, John Hynes and Teddy Yip Jr., whose father Teddy Yip owned the Theodore Racing Formula One team. They also ran the A1 Team Canada operation in 2007–08 and also assisted A1 Team Netherlands in 2008–09, the season in which Team Ireland won the championship title.
In 2010, Status Grand Prix competed in the inaugural GP3 Series finishing second in the team championship. Gary Anderson led the technical side of the team. At the end of the 2015 season, Status withdrew from the championship.
In 2014, Status Grand Prix acquired the Malaysian team of Tony Fernandes, EQ8 Caterham Racing, for the 2015 GP2 Series season, but participated in the last meeting of the 2014 GP2 Series season under the name of Caterham. [2]
Status first raced officially in the 2015 GP2 Series season with Marlon Stockinger and Richie Stanaway as their drivers, with Oliver Rowland standing in for Stanaway in the final two rounds. Stanaway gave the team victories in the sprint races at Monaco and Sochi.
Status Grand Prix ended its participation in motor racing prior to the 2016 season.
Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | Fast laps | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
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2015 | Dallara GP2/11-Mecachrome | Marlon Stöckinger | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26th | 8th |
Richie Stanaway | 18 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 10th | |||
Oliver Rowland [lower-alpha 3] | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 21st |
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Year | Chassis Engine Tyres | Drivers | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | T.C. | Points |
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2015 | GP2/11 Mecachrome P | BHR FEA | BHR SPR | CAT FEA | CAT SPR | MON FEA | MON SPR | RBR FEA | RBR SPR | SIL FEA | SIL SPR | HUN FEA | HUN SPR | SPA FEA | SPA SPR | MNZ FEA | MNZ SPR | SOC FEA | SOC SPR | BHR FEA | BHR SPR | YMC FEA | YMC SPR | 8th | 60 | |
Marlon Stöckinger | 11 | 19 | Ret | 20 | 19 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 22 | 19 | 23 | 17 | 19 | Ret | 19 | Ret | Ret | 13 | 19 | 18 | C | ||||
Richie Stanaway | 15 | 11 | 10 | 19 | 7 | 1 | 23 | 15 | Ret | 13 | 21 | 13 | 18 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 1 | ||||||||
Oliver Rowland | 22 | Ret | 15 | C |
Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | Fast laps | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
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2010 | Dallara GP3/10-Renault | Robert Wickens | 16 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 71 | 2nd | 2nd |
Ivan Lukashevich | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32nd | |||
Daniel Morad | 16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 12th | |||
2011 | Dallara GP3/10-Renault | Alexander Sims | 16 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 34 | 6th | 5th |
António Félix da Costa | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 13th | |||
Ivan Lukashevich | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26th | |||
2012 | Dallara GP3/10-Renault | Marlon Stöckinger | 16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 55 | 10th | 6th |
Kotaro Sakurai [lower-alpha 4] | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24th | |||
Alice Powell | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19th | |||
Lewis Williamson | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 17th | |||
2013 | Dallara GP3/13-AER | Jimmy Eriksson | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24th | 9th |
Adderly Fong | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 21st | |||
Josh Webster | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28th | |||
Alexander Sims [lower-alpha 5] | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 77 | 8th | |||
2014 | Dallara GP3/13-AER | Nick Yelloly | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 127 | 6th | 3rd |
Richie Stanaway | 18 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 125 | 8th | |||
Alfonso Celis Jr. | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 21st | |||
2015 | Dallara GP3/13-AER | Seb Morris | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 18th | 8th |
Alex Fontana | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 16th | |||
Sandy Stuvik | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 17th |
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
A1 Grand Prix Results [3] | |||||||||
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Year | Car | Team | Drivers | Wins | Poles | Fast laps | Points | T.C. | |
2007–08 | Lola A1GP-Zytek | A1 Team Ireland | Ralph Firman · Adam Carroll | 1 | 0 | 1 | 94 | 6th | |
A1 Team Canada | James Hinchcliffe · Robert Wickens | 1 | 2 | 1 | 75 | 9th | |||
2008–09 | A1GP-Ferrari | A1 Team Ireland | Adam Carroll | 5 | 6 | 5 | 112 | 1st |
Former series | |
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A1 Grand Prix | 2007–2009 |
GP3 Series | 2010–2015 |
European Le Mans Series | 2012 |
GP2 Series | 2015 |
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