Status Grand Prix
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| Founded | 2005 |
|---|---|
| Founder(s) | Mark Gallagher |
| Base | Silverstone, England |
| Team principal(s) | Teddy Yip Jr. |
| Current series | GP2 Series GP3 Series |
| Former series | A1 Grand Prix European Le Mans Series |
| Current drivers |  Marlon Stöckinger Richie Stanaway Seb Morris Alex Fontana Sandy Stuvik |
| Teams' Championships | 2008–09 A1 GP (Ireland) |
| Website | http://www.statusgp.com/ |
Status Grand Prix is a motorsport team registered in Canada.
Team history
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 shareholders are former Jordan Grand Prix Head of Marketing Mark Gallagher, former Formula One driver Dave 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.
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]
Series results
- GP3 Series
| Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | Fast laps | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Dallara-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-Renault | Alexander Sims
|
16 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 34 | 6th | 5th |
 Antonio Felix da Costa
|
16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 13th | |||
| Ivan Lukashevich
|
16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26th | |||
| 2012 | Dallara-Renault | Marlon Stöckinger
|
16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 55 | 10th | 6th |
 Kotaro Sakurai
|
6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24th | |||
| Alice Powell
|
16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19th | |||
| Lewis Williamson
|
8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 17th | |||
| 2013 | Dallara-Renault |  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†
|
2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 77 | 8th | |||
| 2014 | Dallara-Renault | Nick Yelloly
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18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 127 | 6th | 3rd |
| Richie Stanaway
|
18 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 125 | 8th | |||
 Alfonso Celis, Jr.
|
18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 21st |
† Alexander Sims scored 61 of his 77 points in 2013 with Carlin Motorsport
D.C. = Drivers' Championship position, T.C. = Teams' Championship position.
- A1 Grand Prix
| A1 Grand Prix Results[3] | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Car | Team | Drivers | Wins | Poles | Fast laps | Points | T.C. | |
| 2007–08 | Lola-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 | Ferrari | A1 Team Ireland
|
Adam Carroll | 5 | 6 | 5 | 112 | 1st | |
T.C. = Teams' Championship position.
Timeline
| 2000s | 2010s | ||||||||
| 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | |
| Formulas | A1 Grand Prix | GP3 Series | |||||||
| GP2 Series | |||||||||
| Sports car | ELMS | ||||||||
References
- ^ Mark Gallagher. "Status Grand Prix". mark-gallagher.com. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
- ^ "Leading GP3 team Status to run Caterham GP2 squad". autosport.com. Autosport. 17 October 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
- ^ A1GP complete resultsresults.a1gp.com