Team West-Tec

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Team West-Tec

Founded	1988[1]
Founder(s)	Gavin Wills
Base	Corby, Northamptonshire, England
Team principal(s)	Gavin Wills John Miller
Former series	Euroformula Open British Formula 3 FIA Formula 3 European Championship British LMP3 Cup ASCAR Racing Series
Teams' Championships	2011 European F3 Open
Drivers' Championships	ASCAR Racing Series 2005 (Vergers) ASCAR Racing Series 2006 (Playle) 2009 European F3 Open Copa Class (MacLeod) 2011 European F3 Open Copa Class (Gamberini) 2013 European F3 Open (Jones)
Website	http://www.teamwest-tec.com/

Team West-Tec F3 is a motor racing team owned by Gavin Wills and John Miller based in Corby in the United Kingdom, the most successful team in the history of the European F3 Open Championship, it also won two drivers championships in the ASCAR Racing Series.

History[edit]

From 2001 to 2006 the team took part in the ASCAR Racing Series which was mainly based locally at the Rockingham Motor Speedway. The team took two consecutive drivers titles in 2005 and 2006 with Michael Vergers and Oli Playle.

In 2007 Team West-Tec F3 became the first British team to compete in the Spanish Formula Three Championship, purchasing assets from leading GP2 team Racing Engineering. In 2009 the series was renamed the European F3 Open. Since 2007 the team has taken 44 wins and 116 podiums and three championship titles – including winning the support race at the 2008 European Grand Prix at Valencia.

In 2009 the team also returned to British Formula 3 International Series completing a full campaign with Max Snegirev as well as part campaigns for Mathieu Maurage, Miky Faccin, Jay Bridger and Ma Qinghua.

In 2010 the team continued in the European F3 Open but primarily used their British F3 cars for testing with drivers from F1, GP2 and GP3 – where young drivers get very little track time to develop and hone their skills. However the team continued to make occasional British F3 race starts and took a national class win with young Mexican, Juan Carlos Sistos on his series debut at Silverstone.

The team also announced a plan to form a new joint venture with China's motorsport team, Champ Racing, to enter an additional car under the banner of "Champ Motorsport with Team West-Tec". This venture started in September 2010 with experienced driver Michael Ho racing at Brands Hatch, Monza, Jerez and Barcelona. In his second race weekend, at Monza, Ho took third place in the Copa class, fifth overall.

The team was successful in the European F3 Open in 2010, challenging at the front in both classes and winning races with more than one driver, eventually finishing as runner-up in both the driver's and teams' championships.

For 2011 the European F3 Open team featured four full-season drivers in Victor Corrêa, Fabio Gamberini, Luca Orlandi and Sam Dejonghe, plus a number of other drivers racing on part programmes during the year such as Fahmi Ilyas, Kotaro Sakurai and Tatiana Calderón.

The 2011 season was also successful. Victor Corrêa won two races and Fahmi Ilyas one in the team's newest Dallara F308s, Ilyas having made a debut at Brands Hatch in the car later used by Tatiana Calderón who scored points at Barcelona after she stepped up from Star Mazda in the USA. Fabio Gamberini also won a race outright at Spa and also won an impressive ten times in the Copa class, where he was champion as well as being third overall. Sam Dejonghe twice featured on the overall podium and took four Copa class wins to finish as Copa runner-up and Luca Orlandi, despite missing two races, secured third in Copa for an unprecedented 1-2-3 for the team. Kotaro Sakurai featured on the Brands Hatch Copa podium in Luca's place on his debut in the series. The team won the overall 2011 Teams' Championship.

For 2012, Sam Dejonghe returned with a single win before being dropped at the end of the year, to be replaced by Ed Jones. Manu Bejarano started the season but stopped with no budget after two rounds, although Roberto La Rocca, from Venezuela, joined the team. Jordan Oon and Luca Orlandi drove the team's Copa F308 entries, with Orlandi replaced by Kiwi Chris Vlok after an injury at Brands Hatch. After a much improved end to 2012, with Dejonghe and new signing Ed Jones taking second place at each of the last three meetings, Team West-Tec F3 remained the most successful team in the history of the series.

Team West-Tec had eight drivers in 2013, with Ed Jones winning the championship and Nelson Mason and finishing third. Two further F312 cars were campaigned by Orlandi and La Rocca. The team also operated four Copa F308 cars for Sean (son of Tom) Walkinshaw, South African Liam Venter, Chinaman Huan Zhu and young British driver Cameron Twynham.

Team West-Tec F3 also returned with a three-car team to the reorganised British F3 series in 2013. Ed Jones took five wins from the twelve races in the second tier National Class.

In 2014, Yarin Stern, Tanart Sathienthirakul and Wei Fung Thong raced full-time for West-Tec in the renamed Euroformula Open. Nici Pohler did all rounds bar the final at Barcelona due to illness and was replaced by Fabian Schiller. Stern managed to grab the team 5 podiums over the year.

2014 also saw the beginning of West Tec's attack on the incredibly competitive FIA European F3 Championship with Felix Serralles taking on the whole season while Hector Hurst and Macau's Andy Chang split the season between each other.

Former series results[edit]

British Formula 3[edit]

Class B
Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Points	D.C.
1991	Reynard 893 Volkswagen	Thornton Mustard	3	0	0	0	1	14th
British Formula Three Championship
2009	Mygale M-09F3 Mugen-Honda	Jay Bridger	2	0	0	0	28	15th†
National Class
2009	Dallara F306 Mugen-Honda	Max Snegirev	14	0	0	0	108	4th
		Mathieu Maurage	2	0	0	0	12	9th
		Qinghua Ma	2	0	0	0	10	10th
		Michele Faccin	2	0	0	0	20	8th
2010	Dallara F306 Mugen-Honda	Luiz Razia	3	0	0	0	23	4th
		Juan Carlos Sistos	6	1	0	0	72	3rd
Rookie Class
2011	Dallara F306 Mugen-Honda	Luca Orlandi	3	1	0	0	45	3rd
National Class
2013	Dallara F312 Toyota	Roberto La Rocca	3	0	0	0	33	7th
		Chris Vlok	12	1	0	0	121	2nd
		Huan Zhu	3	0	0	0	19	10th
		Jordan Oon	3	0	0	0	45	5th
		Ed Jones	6	5	0	0	103	3rd
	Dallara F308 Toyota	Cameron Twynham	6	0	0	0	82	4th
		William Barbosa	3	0	0	0	38	6th
		Sean Walkinshaw	3	0	0	0	20	9th
		Liam Venter	3	0	0	0	23	8th

† Shared results with Bridger Motorsport

Spanish Formula 3/European F3 Open/Euroformula Open[edit]

Spanish Formula 3 Championship
Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Points	D.C.	T.C.
2007	Dallara F300-FPT	Andy Merrick [C]	0	0	0	0	0	N/A [C]	9th
		Christian Ebbesvik [C]	16	7	0	0	118	1st [C]
	Dallara F300-FPT Dallara F306-FPT	Sean Petterson	6	0	0	0	2	19th
2008	Dallara F306-FPT	Alex Waters [C]	4	0	0	0	0	N/A [C]	7th
		Qinghua Ma [C]	11	0	0	0	24	7th [C]
	Dallara F306-FPT	Christian Ebbesvik	17	2	1	0	39	10th
	Dallara F308-FPT
	Dallara F300-FPT	Francisco Villar [C]	16	0	0	0	13	13th [C]
		Jonathan Legris [C]	17	3	0	0	76	3rd [C]
European F3 Open Championship
2009	Dallara F306-FPT	Kristján Einar [C]	12	0	0	0	20	9th [C]	5th
		Tom Tweedie [C]	2	0	0	0	0	16th [C]
		Callum MacLeod [C]	16	7	0	0	106	1st [C]
	Dallara F308-FPT	Christian Ebbesvik	16	1	1	1	63	5th
2010	Dallara F308-Toyota	Callum MacLeod	14	3	1	1	112	2nd	2nd
	Dallara F306-Toyota	Ramón Piñeiro [C]	2	0	0	0	8	10th [C]
		Kristján Einar [C]	2	0	0	0	4	11th [C]
		Michael Ho [C]	8	0	0	0	28	6th [C]
		Victor Corrêa [C]	14	2	0	0	62	5th [C]
2011	Dallara F308-Toyota	Victor Corrêa	16	2	0	0	59	6th	1st
		Fahmi Ilyas	4	1	2	1	30	12th
		Tatiana Calderón	6	0	0	0	3	21st
	Dallara F306-Toyota	Luca Orlandi [C]	16	0	0	0	62	3rd [C]
		Kotaro Sakurai [C]	2	0	0	0	6	8th [C]
		Sam Dejonghe [C]	18	4	0	0	118	2nd [C]
		Fabio Gamberini [C]	18	10	0	0	130	1st [C]
2012	Dallara F312-Toyota	Sam Dejonghe	14	1	0	1	159	5th	4th
		Ed Jones [G]	2	0	0	0	0	N/A
		Manuel Bejarano	4	0	0	0	14	16th
		Roberto La Rocca	12	0	0	0	44	10th
	Dallara F308-Toyota	Luca Orlandi [C]	9	0	0	0	10	10th [C]
		Chris Vlok [C]	2	0	0	0	3	13th [C]
		Jordan Oon [C]	16	0	0	0	50	5th [C]
2013	Dallara F312-Toyota	Roberto La Rocca	6	0	0	0	15	14th	2nd
		Emil Bernstorff	2	0	0	0	6	20th
		Jonathan Legris	2	0	0	0	1	30th
		Spencer Pigot	2	0	0	0	10	16th
		Ed Jones	14	6	4	3	256	1st
		Nelson Mason	16	3	4	4	159	3rd
		Luca Orlandi	8	0	0	0	1	29th
		Falco Wauer [G]	2	0	0	0	0	N/A
		Hector Hurst [G]	2	0	0	0	0	N/A
	Dallara F308-Toyota Dallara F312-Toyota	Huan Zhu	16	0	0	0	2	27th
	Dallara F308-Toyota	Sean Walkinshaw [C]	16	0	0	0	19	9th [C]
		Cameron Twynham [C]	16	2	0	0	19	2nd [C]
		Liam Venter [C]	13	1	0	0	31	6th [C]
		Christopher Höher [C]	2	0	0	0	0	15th [C]
Euroformula Open Championship
2014	Dallara F312-Toyota	Yarin Stern	16	0	0	0	125	5th	3rd
		Cameron Twynham	8	0	0	0	53	9th
		Igor Waliłko [G]	2	0	0	0	0	N/A
		Nicolas Pohler	14	0	0	0	38	12th
		Fabian Schiller [G]	2	0	0	0	0	N/A
		Tanart Sathienthirakul	16	0	0	0	69	7th
		Wei Fung Thong	16	0	0	0	16	18th
2015	Dallara F312-Toyota	Yarin Stern	16	0	1	0	119	5th	4th
		Mahaveer Raghunathan [G]	2	0	0	0	0	N/A
		Sam MacLeod [G]	2	0	0	0	0	N/A
		Tanart Sathienthirakul	16	0	0	0	133	4th
2016	Dallara F312-Toyota	Liang Jiatong	4	0	0	0	0	28th	9th

FIA Formula 3 European Championship[edit]

FIA Formula 3 European Championship
Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Points	D.C.	T.C.
2014	Dallara F314-Mercedes	Félix Serrallés[2]	33	0	0	0	82	12th[3]	6th[3]
	Dallara F312-Mercedes	Hector Hurst[2]	24	0	0	0	3	24th[3]
		Wing Chung Chang[2]	9	0	0	0	0	30th
2015	Dallara F312-Mercedes	Fabian Schiller[4]	33	0	0	0	2	25th[5]	9th[5]
	Dallara F314-Mercedes	Raoul Hyman[4]	33	0	0	0	14.5	21st[5]

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