- Carlin Motorsport
Motor racing team
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founded =
country = flagicon|UKUnited Kingdom
principal = flagicon|UKTrevor Carlin
current series =A1 Grand Prix
British F3
Formula BMW UKEurocup Formula Renault 2.0 Formula Renault 2.0 UK World Series by Renault
former series =Porsche Supercup
driver titles = British F3 (Sato)
British F3 (Merwe)
2005 British F3 (Parente)
team titles = Formula BMW UK
British F3
folded =Carlin Motorsport is a
motor racing team based in theUnited Kingdom . It competes in six championships —British Formula Three Championship ,Formula Three Euroseries andWorld Series by Renault .It was founded in 1996 by
Trevor Carlin andMartin Stone to operate a pit-stop challenge campaign forWilliams F1 around Europe. In 1997 the team entered theBritish Formula Three Championship and began to set up the structure to operate a race winning, 3-car team in 1999.In 1998, Carlin Motorsport was voted Team of the Year by the Formula Three Association for the high standards of their presentation and their impressive results with Indian newcomer,
Narain Karthikeyan .Trevor Carlin enjoys a history of success in International Formula 3 racing spanning over ten years. As Team Manager of
Bowman Racing , he assembled a talented group of engineers and achieved 1st, 2nd and 3rd places in the British Championship in the team's first three seasons and won the 1989Macau Grand Prix withDavid Brabham .In 1993, Carlin joined
West Surrey Racing where he oversaw the racing programmes ofMarc Gené ,Cristiano da Matta andPedro de la Rosa before negotiating the team's move into theBritish Touring Car Championship withFord Motor Company .The engineering staff at Carlin Motorsport is headed by
David Lowe who came from Arrows Grand Prix and he is supported byMark Owen , a former Benetton Formula One employee, Paul Wallace and Matt Callaghan. To oversee the commercial aspects of the Carlin team, Trevor Carlin and Martin Stone recruitedSteve Hollman in 1999, one of the original founders of Bowman Racing.In the
2005-06 A1 Grand Prix season , Carlin are contracted to run the Lebanon [ [http://a1podium.com/teamLIB.php A Team Lebanon informations] "a1podium.com"] and Portugal [ [http://a1podium.com/teamPOR.php A Team Portugal informations] "a1podium.com"] entries.In April 2006, Trevor Carlin confirmed that the team had applied for a place in the Formula One World Championship from the 2008 season, [cite news | url = http://uk.sports.yahoo.com/11042006/13/carlin-confirms-f1-entry-application.html| title = Carlin confirms F1 entry application | publisher = uk.sports.yahoo.com | date = 2006-04-11 | accessdate = 2006-04-11] although this was later rejected, in favour of the
Prodrive applicationIn November 2006, Carlin Motorsport announced that they will be entering the 2007
GP2 Series as a joint venture withDavid Price Racing . It was planned that Trevor Carlin would head the operation and Dave Price would also stay with the team, which would enter under the name ofCarlin DPR . The new team was relocating to the former Brabham F1 factory in Chessington, Surrey, which Carlin bought earlier in 2006, but it was announced in January 2007 that the merger had fell through, and Carlin would no longer be entering into the series at all in 2007. [cite news | url = http://www.crash.net/news_view~cid~7~id~142108.htm | title = Bakkerud to DPR but Carlin merger falls through. | publisher = crash.net | date = 2007-01-17 | accessdate = 2007-03-16]Series results
* [B] Drivers and classification in the B or National class inBritish F3 .
* [G] Guest drivers inBritish F3 , no points awared.
* † These drivers also drove for other teams during the season and their final positions include all team results.
* D.C. = Drivers' Championship position, T.C. = Teams' Championship position, NC = Not Classified.Timeline
References
External links
*cite web|url=http://www.carlin.co.uk/ |title=Carlin Motorsport |accessdate=2006-03-22
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