Drivex

Drivex
Founded	2005
Team principal(s)	Miguel Ángel de Castro
Current series	Euroformula Open Championship; F4 Spanish Championship; International GT Open; Formula Renault Eurocup
Former series	Spanish GT Championship
Current drivers	Rui Andrade; Petru Florescu; Brad Benavides; Callan O'Keefe; Patrick Schott; Franco Colapinto; Artem Lobanenko; Irina Sidorkova
Teams'; Championships	F4 Spanish Championship ; 2019
Drivers'; Championships	F4 Spanish Championship ; 2019: Franco Colapinto

Drivex is an auto racing team and school based in Spain. The team was founded by Pedro de la Rosa and Miguel Ángel de Castro in 2005 as a racing school. The racing team is run by Miguel Ángel de Castro.

History[]

Single-seaters[]

Since 2009, Drivex have been contesting the Euroformula Open Championship, with the likes of Celso Míguez, Ferdinand Habsburg and Nikita Troitskiy achieving top three finishes in the drivers' championships.

In November 2018, Drivex announced it would expand into the Formula Renault Eurocup championship for 2019, in collaboration with Fernando Alonso's FA Racing outfit.^[8]

Current series results[]

Euroformula Open Championship[]

Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	F.L.	Points	D.C.	T.C.
2009	Dallara-F308 Fiat	Celso Míguez	16	5	3	2	145	2nd	2nd
	Dallara-F306 Fiat	Luis Villalba	2	0	0	0	0	27th
		José Luis Abadín	10	0	0	0	16	15th
		Ryuichi Nara	2	0	0	0	0	30th
2010	Dallara-F308 Toyota	José Luis Abadín	10	0	0	0	43	7th	4th
	Dallara-F308 Toyota	Pedro Quesada	4	0	0	0	18	15th
	Dallara-F306 Toyota	Aaron Filgueira	16	1	0	1	46	6th
2011	Dallara-F308 Toyota	Fernando Monje	16	0	0	1	27	15th	8th
	Dallara-F306 Toyota	Pedro Quesada	4	0	0	0	0	25th†
		Luis Villalba	2	0	0	0	0	NC
		Cristian Serrada	6	0	0	0	0	NC
2012	Dallara-F308 Toyota	José Luis Abadín	2	0	0	0	0	NC	9th
2012	Dallara-F308 Toyota	Cristian Serrada	10	0	0	0	0	25th	9th
2013	Dallara-F308 Toyota	Richard Gonda	16	0	0	0	10	18th	NC
2014: "Drivex" did not compete.
2015	Dallara-F312 Toyota	Ferdinand Habsburg	2	0	0	0	0	NC	NC
2016	Dallara-F312 Toyota	Ferdinand Habsburg	18	2	4	1	247	2nd	2nd
		Nikita Troitskiy	4	0	1	0	36	13th
		Vasily Romanov	4	0	0	0	0	NC
2017	Dallara-F312 Toyota	Christian Hahn	16	0	0	0	11	16th	3rd
		Tarun Reddy	16	0	0	0	26	14th†
		Nikita Troitskiy	16	0	2	4	222	2nd
2018	Dallara-F312 Toyota	Jannes Fittje	6	0	0	0	22	12th	5th
		Lukas Dunner	16	0	0	0	81	7th
		Christian Hahn	12	0	0	0	29	10th
		Patrick Schott	2	0	0	0	0	NC
		Javier González	4	0	0	0	0	NC
2019	Dallara-F317 Toyota	Petru Florescu	2	0	0	0	0	26th	7th
		Franco Colapinto	2	0	0	0	0	27th
		Rui Andrade	3	0	0	0	6	22nd
	Dallara-F317 Mercedes-Benz	Rui Andrade	15	0	0	0	6	22nd
	Dallara-F317 Mercedes-Benz	Filip Kaminiarz	2	0	0	0	0	NC
2020	Dallara 320 Mercedes-Benz	Glenn van Berlo	18	0	0	0	80	9th	6th
		Shihab Al Habsi	6	0	0	0	6	17th
		Rafael Villagómez	4	0	0	0	0	NC
2021	Dallara 320-Mercedes-Benz	Enzo Trulli †	21	0	0	1	144	7th	5th
		Enzo Scionti	24	0	0	0	33	14th
			3	0	0	0	29	17th
		Branden Lee Oxley	3	0	0	0	13	19th
		Nico Pino	3	0	0	0	4	22nd
		Dexter Patterson	3	0	0	0	0	NC

^† Shared results with other teams

F4 Spanish Championship[]

Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	F.L.	Points	D.C.	T.C.
2016	Tatuus F4-T014	Nikita Volegov	20	0	1	0	188	5th	2nd
		Antolín González	8	0	0	0	0	NC
		Aleksandr Vartanyan	18	0	2	1	244	2nd
		Marta García	11	0	0	0	0	NC
2017	Tatuus F4-T014	Javier Cobián	3	0	0	0	7	17th	3rd
		Javier González	17	0	0	0	146	5th
		Ivan Berets	14	0	0	0	41	10th
		Jakes Caouette	20	0	0	0	9	16th
2018	Tatuus F4-T014	Javier González	14	6	5	0	196	3rd	2nd
		Nazim Azman†	3	0	0	0	179	4th
		Rui Andrade	14	0	0	0	43	12th
		Rafael Villanueva Jr.‡	10	0	0	0	90	6th
		Filip Kaminiarz	14	0	0	0	14	15th
		Franco Colapinto	4	1	0	0	33	9th
		Benjamín Roald Goethe	17	0	0	0	39	13th
2019	Tatuus F4-T014	Irina Sidorkova	18	0	0	0	15	18th	1st
		Manuel Espirito Santo	3	0	0	0	0	NC
		Artem Lobanenko	21	0	0	2	77	9th
		Rashed Ghanem	15	1	0	0	61	10th
		Oliver Goethe	3	0	0	0	0	NC
		Ivan Nosov	20	0	0	0	47	13th
		Franco Colapinto	21	11	10	10	325	1st
		Frederico Alfonso Peters	3	0	0	0	0	20th
2020	Tatuus F4-T014	Manuel Silva	3	0	0	0	1	24th	2nd
		Ivan Nosov	18	0	0	0	85	7th
		Léna Bühler	20	0	0	0	23	15th
		Maksim Arkhangelskii	3	0	0	0	0	27th
		Paul-Adrien Pallot	21	0	0	0	51	12th
		Augustin Callinot	9	0	0	0	20	16th
		Guilherme Oliveira	3	0	0	0	16	19th
		Nicolas Baptiste	3	0	0	0	0	26th
		Valdemar Eriksen	15	1	0	0	51	11th
2021	Tatuus F4-T014	Maksim Arkhangelskii	21	0	0	0	81	9th	4th
		Guilherme Oliveira	18	0	0	1	46	13th
		Noam Abramczyk	21	0	0	1	38	14th
		Branden Lee Oxley	21	0	0	0	12	19th
		Lola Lovinfosse	21	0	0	0	0	27th
		Lukáš Málek	6	0	0	0	0	30th
		Georgi Dimitrov	3	0	0	0	0	32nd

^† Azman raced with MP Motorsport from the second round onwards, scoring 141 of his 179 points
^‡ Villanueva raced with Fórmula de Campeones - Praga F4 for the final two rounds, scoring 30 of his 90 points

Formula Renault Eurocup[]

Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Points	D.C.	T.C.
2019	Tatuus F3-T318-Renault	Brad Benavides	13	0	23rd	8th
		Callan O'Keeffe	10	15	17th
		Rui Andrade	2	0	26th
		Patrick Schott	12	0	22nd
		Franco Colapinto	4	0	NC
		Alex Karkosik	4	1	21st
2020	Tatuus F3-T318-Renault	Amaury Cordeel	19	33	15th	7th
		Abbi Pulling	2	0	NC
		Tijmen van der Helm	18	45	12th

References[]

^ "Rui Andrade signs with Drivex for Euroformula Open debut season". euroformulaopen.net. GT Sport. January 11, 2019. Retrieved January 29, 2019.
^ Wood, Elliot (April 25, 2019). "Petru Florescu makes Euroformula Open return with Drivex". FormulaScout. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
^ ^a ^b "FA Racing by Drivex announces Brad Benavides and Patrick Schott for 2019 Formula Renault Eurocup campaign". March 1, 2019. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
^ Allen, Peter (March 21, 2019). "Callan O'Keeffe completes Alonso team's Eurocup line-up". FormulaScout. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
^ "FA RACING BY DRIVEX BETS ON YOUNG TALENT FRANCO COLAPINTO FOR F4 SPAIN PROGRAMME". April 2, 2019. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
^ "Artem Lobanenko becomes new Drivexs driver for F4 Spain season". March 28, 2019. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
^ Harris-Gardiner, Rachel (January 29, 2019). "Russian champion Irina Sidorkova to race in Spanish F4 with SMP backing". FormulaScout. Retrieved January 29, 2019.
^ Benyon, Jack (November 14, 2018). "Fernando Alonso's FA Racing team joins Formula Renault Eurocup grid". Autosport. Motorsport Network. Retrieved January 8, 2019.

External links[]

Official website
Drivex on Twitter

[1] "Rui Andrade signs with Drivex for Euroformula Open debut season". euroformulaopen.net. GT Sport. January 11, 2019. Retrieved January 29, 2019.

[2] Wood, Elliot (April 25, 2019). "Petru Florescu makes Euroformula Open return with Drivex". FormulaScout. Retrieved April 26, 2019.

[Benavides-3] "FA Racing by Drivex announces Brad Benavides and Patrick Schott for 2019 Formula Renault Eurocup campaign". March 1, 2019. Retrieved March 1, 2019.

[4] Allen, Peter (March 21, 2019). "Callan O'Keeffe completes Alonso team's Eurocup line-up". FormulaScout. Retrieved April 3, 2019.

[5] "FA RACING BY DRIVEX BETS ON YOUNG TALENT FRANCO COLAPINTO FOR F4 SPAIN PROGRAMME". April 2, 2019. Retrieved April 3, 2019.

[6] "Artem Lobanenko becomes new Drivexs driver for F4 Spain season". March 28, 2019. Retrieved April 3, 2019.

[7] Harris-Gardiner, Rachel (January 29, 2019). "Russian champion Irina Sidorkova to race in Spanish F4 with SMP backing". FormulaScout. Retrieved January 29, 2019.

[8] Benyon, Jack (November 14, 2018). "Fernando Alonso's FA Racing team joins Formula Renault Eurocup grid". Autosport. Motorsport Network. Retrieved January 8, 2019.

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