Fortec Motorsport

Fortec Motorsport
Motor racing team
Founded	1996
Country	United Kingdom
Team Principal(s)	Richard Dutton
Current series	Formula Renault 3.5 Series British Formula 3 Formula Renault 2.0 UK Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 Intersteps
Former series	International Formula 3000 Formula BMW UK Formula BMW Europe
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Drivers' titles	2002 Formula Renault 2.0 UK (Watts) 2002 Masters of Formula 3 (Carbone) 2004 Formula Renault 2.0 UK (Conway) 2004 Formula Renault 2.0 UK Winter (Hall) 2006 Formula Renault 2.0 UK (Hohenthal) 2006 Formula BMW UK (Breen) 2007 Formula Renault 2.0 UK (Tappy) 2007 Formula BMW UK (Ericsson)
Teams' titles	2005 Formula BMW UK 2006 Formula Renault 2.0 UK 2006 Formula BMW UK 2007 Formula Renault 2.0 UK 2007 Formula BMW UK 2008 Formula Renault 2.0 UK

Fortec Motorsport Ltd. is a motor-racing team that races in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series, the British Formula Three Championship, and several junior formulae categories at a British and pan-European level. The team was established in 1996 by current owner Richard Dutton.

Past drivers for the team include Juan Pablo Montoya, Gianmaria Bruni, Danny Watts, Jamie Green, James Rossiter, Mike Conway, Fabio Carbone and Heikki Kovalainen.

History

James Walker driving for Fortec at the Silverstone round of the 2008 World Series by Renaultseason.

Fortec has enjoyed great success since its inception. In 2002 Danny Watts won the British Formula Renault Championship for the team, with team-mate Jamie Green following close behind in second. In the same year, Fabio Carbone won the prestigious Marlboro Masters Formula Three race, held at Zandvoort in the Netherlands. The team's next championship win came with another British Formula Renault title in 2004, with Mike Conway finishing over 90 points clear of his nearest rival, Comtec Racing's Westley Barber. Fortec added further team championships in the Formula BMW UK championship, taking three successive titles between 2005 and 2007, also taking drivers' championship titles with Niall Breen and Marcus Ericsson.

After a barren year for the team in Formula Renault in 2005, 2006 saw the team regain both championship titles, with Sebastian Hohenthal just clinching the drivers' title on countback, after he and Team A.K.A. driver Patrick Hogan ended the season on the same number of points. Duncan Tappy and Dean Smith finished in the top two placings in 2007. Another teams' title followed in 2008. More recently, the team has seen great improvements in its Formula Renault 3.5 Series results, finishing fifth in the Teams' Championship in 2009, fourth in 2010 and finishing as runners-up in 2011 season with driver Alexander Rossi finishing third overall and best rookie.

Fortec were also crowned Team Champions in the Formula Renault 2.0 UK Championship with Alex Lynn clinching the drivers' title with a record-breaking twelve wins in one season. Oliver Rowland secured second in the Championship, as well as winning the Graduate Cup. William Buller was Fortec's top finisher in the British Formula Three Championship, as he finished fourth in the Championship. In club-level racing, the new-for-2011 InterSteps Championship saw Jake Dennis win the Championship from teammate Alex Walker with Ed Jones finishing in fourth place, while in Formula Renault BARC, Josh Webster narrowly missed out on the drivers', after a close battle with eventual champion Dino Zamparelli.

Current team drivers

In Formula Renault 3.5, Robin Frijns and Carlos Huertas will be competing with Fortec; both drivers join the team ahead of the 2012 season as part of an all-rookie line-up. In British Formula Three, Fortec has confirmed Formula Renault 2.0 UK Champion, Alex Lynn, Felix Serralles, and Pipo Derani. Oliver Rowland, Mikko Pakari and Ed Jones will be competing in the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup Series, which accompanies the Formula Renault 3.5 Series at the majority of race weekends.

Josh Hill, Jake Dennis, Dan de Zille, and Shahaan Engineer complete the line-up for the Formula Renault 2.0 UK, while Cameron Twynham and Jack Aitken have so far been confirmed for Fortec's InterSteps team, with Martin Cao competing in the Formula Renault BARC Championship with the squad.

External links

• Official website
• Team profile on World Series by Renault website
• Team profile on British Formula Three website