Status Grand Prix
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| Founded | 2005 |
|---|---|
| Founder(s) | Mark Gallagher Mark Kershaw |
| Base | Silverstone, England |
| Team principal(s) | Teddy Yip Jr. |
| Current series | GP2 Series |
| Former series | A1 Grand Prix[b] GP3 Series European Le Mans Series |
| Current drivers |  Marlon Stöckinger Richie Stanaway Oliver Rowland Seb Morris Alex Fontana Sandy Stuvik |
| Teams' Championships | A1 Grand Prix: 2008–09 A1 GP[b] |
| Website | http://www.statusgp.com/ |
Status Grand Prix is a former motorsport team registered in Canada.[a]
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 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 ceased to enter race series prior to the 2016 season due to lack of funding and sponsorship.
Series results
- GP2 Series
| Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | Fast laps | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Dallara-Mecachrome | Marlon Stöckinger
|
21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26th | 8th |
| Richie Stanaway
|
18 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 10th | |||
| Oliver Rowland
|
3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 21st† |
† Includes points scored for MP Motorsport
- 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 |
 António Félix 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-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†
|
2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 77 | 8th | |||
| 2014 | Dallara-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-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 |
† 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
| Former series | |
|---|---|
| A1 Grand Prix | 2007–2009 |
| GP3 Series | 2010–2015 |
| European Le Mans Series | 2012 |
| GP2 Series | 2015 |
Footnotes
- ^ a b Till 2013 the team competed under Irish racing license
- ^ a b Operation Team at A1 Team Canada, A1 Team Ireland
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 Archived 2007-12-26 at the Wayback Machine resultsresults.a1gp.com