ByKolles Racing
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| Founded | 2000 |
|---|---|
| Team principal(s) | Colin Kolles Romulus Kolles |
| Former series | FIA World Endurance Championship German Formula Three Championship Formula 3 Euro Series Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters European Le Mans Series |
| Noted drivers |  Thomas Holzer Mirco Schultis Luca Moro Vitantonio Liuzzi Kevin Weeda Renger van der Zande James Rossiter |
| Website | ByKolles.com |
ByKolles Racing, formally known as Kodewa GmbH & Co. KG, is an auto racing team based in Greding, Germany. It was founded in 2000 by Romulus Kolles and his son Colin Kolles as Kolles Racing.
History
The company initially participated in German Formula 3 before moving to the F3 Euro Series from 2003 to 2005. Colin Kolles left the team to become director of the Jordan Grand Prix Formula One team at the start of the 2005 season, a position he held until 2009. With his son away, Romulus moved the team to the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters series with Audi under the sponsorship title Futurecom TME. The Kolles team shifted their interest to sports car racing by participating in the Le Mans Series and later the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup, again with customer Audi prototypes. Kolles returned to Formula One to helm the HRT F1 team in 2010, with Kodewa's workshop in Greding serving as a base of operations for the new team before HRT's new owners chose to release Kolles from the team and move their operations to Spain in 2012.
Kodewa participated in the 2013 FIA World Endurance Championship with the backing of Lotus Cars under the title Lotus LMP2. In 2014 they lost their Lotus backing and rebranded as ByKolles Racing with a new LMP1 prototype, the CLM P1/01.[1]
In 2017 Robert Kubica was set to return to active racing again in the ByKolles car for the WEC season.[2] Eventually in April he withdrew from the team.[3]
Former Caterham F1 boss Manfredi Ravetto will be joining the ByKolles team from 2018.[4]
On 2 April 2022, ByKolles successfully completed the roll-out of its Vanwall Le Mans Hypercar, as the team prepares for entry in the 2023 FIA World Endurance Championship[5]
Results
German Formula Three Championship results
| Year | Teamname | Car | Engine | Driver | Races | Points | Pos. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | AIL Team Kolles Racing | F300 | Mugen-Honda | Elran Nijenhuis
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14 | 18 | 18th |
| Andreas Feichtner
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4 | 4 | 24th | ||||
 Peter Sundberg
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10 | 4 | 25th | ||||
| Marc Hynes
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2 | 0 | NC | ||||
| 2001 | Team Kolles Racing | F300 | Mugen-Honda | Pierre Kaffer
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20 | 156 | 4th |
 Kimmo Liimatainen
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20 | 25 | 16th | ||||
| 2002 | Team Kolles Racing | F302 | Mugen-Honda |  João Paulo de Oliveira
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14 | 16 | 12th |
| Charles Zwolsman Jr.
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10 | 8 | 15th | ||||
| Ross Zwolsman
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10 | 0 | 21st | ||||
 Sakon Yamamoto
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6 | 0 | 22nd | ||||
| F399 | Stefano Proetto
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14 | 0 | 30th |
Formula 3 Euro Series results
| Year | Teamname | Car | Engine | Driver | Races | Points | Pos. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Kolles | F303 | Mercedes | Charles Zwolsman Jr.
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20 | 7 | 19th |
| F302 | Jamie Green
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6 | 6 | 20th | |||
 Jan Heylen
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14 | 0 | 28th | ||||
| 2004 | Team Kolles | F303 | Mercedes | Adrian Sutil
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18 | 9 | 17th |
| Maximilian Götz
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2 | 3 | 19th | ||||
| F302 | Tom Kimber-Smith
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20 | 2 | 20th | |||
| 2009 | Kolles & Heinz Union | F309 | Volkswagen |  Robert Wickens
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4 | 0 | 22nd |
 Johan Jokinen
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18 | 0 | 24th | ||||
| Nick Tandy
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16 | 0 | 28th | ||||
| Carlo van Dam
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4 | 0 | 31st | ||||
| Edoardo Mortara
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2 | 0 | NC |
Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters results
| Year | Teamname | Car | Driver | Races | Points | Pos. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Futurecom TME | Audi A4 DTM 2004 | Vanina Ickx
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10 | 0 | 19th |
| Jeroen Bleekemolen
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2 | 0 | 20th | |||
| Olivier Tielemans
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3 | 0 | 21st | |||
| Thed Björk
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2 | 0 | 22nd | |||
| Nicolas Kiesa
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3 | 0 | 23rd | |||
| 2007 | Futurecom TME | Audi A4 DTM 2005 | Adam Carroll
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5 | 0 | 18th |
| Markus Winkelhock
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5 | 0 | 19th | |||
| Vanina Ickx
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10 | 0 | 21st | |||
| 2008 | Futurecom TME | Audi A4 DTM 2006 | Christijan Albers
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11 | 0 | 19th |
| Katherine Legge
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11 | 0 | 21st | |||
| 2009 | Kolles Futurecom | Audi A4 DTM 2007 |  Tomáš Kostka
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10 | 0 | 17th |
| Christian Bakkerud
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9 | 0 | 19th | |||
| Johannes Seidlitz
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8 | 0 | 20th |
Le Mans Series results
| Year | Teamname | Car | Engine | Driver | Races | Points | Pos. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Kolles
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Audi R10 TDI | Audi TDI 5.5 L Turbo V12 (Diesel) | Charles Zwolsman Jr.
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5 | 12 | 7th |
| Andrew Meyrick
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5 | ||||||
 Narain Karthikeyan
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4 | ||||||
| Michael Krumm
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1 | ||||||
| Christijan Albers
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5 | 6 | 10th | ||||
| Christian Bakkerud
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5 | ||||||
 Giorgio Mondini
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3 |
FIA World Endurance Championship results
Le Mans 24 Hours Result
Timeline
The series in which the team competed are listed:
| Current series | |
|---|---|
| FIA World Endurance Championship | 2012–2020 |
| Former series | |
| German Formula Three Championship | 2000–2002 |
| Formula 3 Euro Series | 2003–2004, 2009 |
| Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters | 2006–2009 |
| Le Mans Series | 2009 |
References
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-04-27. Retrieved 2015-05-19.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Former F1 racer Robert Kubica gets LMP1 ride for le Mans, WEC". 5 February 2017.
- ^ Loewenberg, Gabriel. "Robert Kubica Withdraws From WEC Season". The Drive. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
- ^ "Ex-Caterham F1 boss Ravetto joins ByKolles squad". www.motorsport.com. Archived from the original on 2018-02-26.
- ^ Rachit Thukral (2 April 2022). "ByKolles-built Vanwall Le Mans Hypercar rolled out". Motorsport.com.
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