Arden International

Arden International

Full name	Arden International Motorsport
Founded	1997
Base	Banbury, United Kingdom
Founder/s	Christian Horner Garry Horner
Team principal/s	Christian Horner Garry Horner
2012 GP2 Series season
Race drivers	22. Simon Trummer 23. TBA
GP2 Series record
Debut	2005
Teams' Championships	0
Drivers' Championships	0
Race victories	10
Other Series
Current Series	GP2 Series GP3 Series
Former Series	Formula 3000 Italian Formula 3000 A1 Grand Prix
Drivers' Titles	2003 Formula 3000 (Wirdheim) 2004 Formula 3000 (Liuzzi)
Teams' Titles	2000 Italian Formula 3000 2002 Formula 3000 2003 Formula 3000 2004 Formula 3000

Arden International is an GP2 Series team, created by Christian Horner.

Initially created to raise up Horner's career, and then reliant on sponsorship from Viktor Maslov, the team began to get good results and was the best team of Formula 3000 in its last years, showing new talents to motorsport world like Darren Manning, Tomáš Enge, Björn Wirdheim and Vitantonio Liuzzi.

Yelmer Buurman driving for Arden at the Silverstone round of the 2008 GP2 Series season.

The team won two titles (2003, with Wirdheim and 2004, with Liuzzi), has scored 334 points, won 15 races and achieved 20 pole positions in Formula 3000.

In 2005, Arden stayed in the series, now rebranded as the GP2 Series and achieved second place in the Constructors' Championship with Heikki Kovalainen and Nicolas Lapierre, and second place in the Drivers' Championship with Kovalainen.

In 2006, Arden competed in GP2 with Lapierre and the rookie Michael Ammermüller (Neel Jani acted as a substitute for Lapierre when the latter was injured in the race at Monaco). This year, Arden suffered a massive drop, and had only 57 points to show, compared to the previous season's 126.

For 2007, Arden signed Bruno Senna, nephew of triple F1 champion Ayrton Senna, and A1 Team South Africa driver Adrian Zaugg.

For 2008, the team was renamed Trust Team Arden, after its Dutch title sponsor Trust. Swiss driver and Red Bull talent Sébastien Buemi and Dutchman Yelmer Buurman were its race line-up. Midseason, Buurman was replaced by ART Grand Prix outcast Luca Filippi.

For 2009, the team signed F3 frontrunners Sergio Pérez and Edoardo Mortara.

Arden also operated A1 Team Great Britain in the first season of the A1GP series.

For 2010 they will operate a GP3 Series team with Mark Webber, the team will be called MW Arden. This builds on the fact that Mark Webber races for Red Bull Racing, which is run by Arden Team Owner and Team Principal of Red Bull Christian Horner.

For 2011 GP2 Main Series and 2011 GP2 Asia Series seasons, the team signed Josef Král and Jolyon Palmer.

Complete series results

GP2 Series Results
Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	Fast laps	Points	D.C.	T.C.
2005	Dallara-Mecachrome	Heikki Kovalainen	23	5	4	1	105	2nd	2nd
		Nicolas Lapierre	23	0	1	1	21	11th
2006	Dallara-Mecachrome	Michael Ammermüller	21	1	0	0	25	11th	4th
		Nicolas Lapierre	17	0	0	1	32	9th
		Neel Jani	4	0	0	0	0	25th
2007	Dallara-Mecachrome	Bruno Senna	21	1	0	0	34	8th	7th
		Adrian Zaugg	19	0	0	0	10	18th
		Filipe Albuquerque	2	0	0	0	0	32nd
2008	Dallara-Mecachrome	Sébastien Buemi	20	2	0	0	50	6th	6th
		Yelmer Buurman	10	0	0	0	5	20th
		Luca Filippi	10	0	0	0	1	19th
2009	Dallara-Mecachrome	Sergio Pérez	20	0	0	1	22	12th	8th
		Edoardo Mortara	20	1	0	2	19	14th
2010	Dallara-Mecachrome	Charles Pic	20	1	1	0	28	10th	7th
		Rodolfo González	20	0	0	0	4	21st
2011	Dallara-Mecachrome	Josef Král	18	0	0	0	15	15th	11th
		Jolyon Palmer	18	0	0	0	0	28th
2012	Dallara-Mecachrome	Simon Trummer

GP3 Series

GP3 Series Results
Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	Fast laps	Points	D.C.	T.C.
2010	Dallara-Renault	Michael Christensen	16	0	0	0	0	31st	9th
		Miki Monrás	16	0	0	1	17	10th
		Leonardo Cordeiro	16	0	0	1	1	27th
2011	Dallara-Renault	Mitch Evans	16	1	2	0	29	9th	2nd
		Simon Trummer	16	0	0	0	9	18th
		Lewis Williamson	16	1	1	0	31	8th
2012	Dallara-Renault	Mitch Evans
		David Fumanelli

Viktor Maslov in the Arden garage, 2001

A1 Grand Prix results
Year	Car	Team	Wins	Poles	Fast laps	Points	T.C.
2005-06	Lola-Zytek	A1 Team Great Britain	0	1	0	97	3rd

International Formula 3000 Championship Results
Year	Car	Drivers	Wins	Poles	Fastest laps	Points	D.C.	T.C.
1997	Lola-Zytek Judd	Christian Horner	0	0	0	1	21st	16th
1998	Lola-Zytek Judd	Kurt Mollekens	0	0	0	19	6th	7th [1]
		Christian Horner	0	0	0	0	NC
1999	Lola-Zytek	Marc Goossens	0	0	0	0	NC	NC ‡
		Viktor Maslov	0	0	0	0	NC
2000	Lola-Zytek	Darren Manning	0	1	1	10	8th	8th †
		Viktor Maslov	0	0	0	0	NC
2001	Lola-Zytek	Darren Manning	0	0	0	9	11th	9th †
		Viktor Maslov	0	0	0	0	NC
2002	Lola-Zytek Judd	Tomáš Enge	3	4	5	50	3rd	1st
		Björn Wirdheim	1	1	0	29	4th
2003	Lola-Zytek Judd	Björn Wirdheim	3	5	7	78	1st	1st
		Townsend Bell	0	0	0	17	9th
2004	Lola-Zytek Judd	Vitantonio Liuzzi	7	9	3	86	1st	1st
		Robert Doornbos	1	0	1	44	3rd

Italian Formula 3000 results
Year	Car	Drivers	Wins	Poles	Fast laps	Points	D.C.	T.C.
1999	Lola T96/50-Zytek	Viktor Maslov	0	0	0	1	18th	11th †
2000	Lola T96/50-Zytek	Warren Hughes	2	1	3	37	2nd	1st †
		Darren Manning	1	1	1	14	6th

• D.C. = Drivers' Championship position, T.C. = Teams' Championship position.
• † Involved as Arden Team Russia
• ‡ Involved as Lukoil Arden Racing
• [1] collaboration with KTR team

Timeline

	1990s			2000s										2010s
	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11
Formulas	International Formula 3000								GP2 Series
			Italian F3000
									A1GP
														GP3

External links

• Arden-motorsport.com, official team website.
• GP2series.com, team info at GP2 Series website.