Арден Интернэшнл: Британдық жарыс командасының тарихы

British racecar team

Arden International is a multiple formula racing team created and run by Christian Horner and Garry Horner. It currently runs teams in the GB3 Championship and GB4 Championship, and formerly ran in the FIA Formula 2 Championship and the Formula Regional European Championship. It has been competing since 1997 and has raced in the Formula 3000 International Championship, the Italian Formula 3000 series, and the A1 GP series for Great Britain. Due to the Arden's strong business connections and sponsorship, the team often signs Red Bull Junior Team drivers as a way to pave forward future F1 drivers. Many drivers have been Red Bull Juniors, including Michael Ammermüller, Neel Jani, Filipe Albuquerque, Sébastien Buemi, António Félix da Costa, Daniil Kvyat, Carlos Sainz, Jr., Dan Ticktum, Jack Doohan and Dennis Hauger.

The team was initially created as a vehicle to enable Christian Horner to race in F3000 in 1997. According to Horner he set the team up with borrowed money, including a loan from his father, and persuaded P1 Motorsport founder Roly Vincini (whom Horner had driven for in his first season of F3) to take on the role of his race engineer. He bought a second hand trailer for the team from Helmut Marko, who as head of the Red Bull Junior Team was one of Horner's main rivals as a manager in F3000, and whom he later worked closely with at Red Bull. He stayed in F3000 for 1998 and was joined at Arden by Kurt Mollekens, who showed good pace and led the championship at one stage. In the winter of 1998 family friend David Richards had been approached by Russian oil company Lukoil to enable them to enter motorsports sponsorship. As entries to F3000 were restricted, Richards agreed a deal with Horner that Prodrive would take a 50% stake in Arden, in return for Horner becoming team manager. As a result, the team signed Viktor Maslov as a driver under the Lukoil deal from 1999. The team started off poorly, and didn't have the pace to qualify for many races. At the end of 1999, Richards sold a stake in Prodrive to Apax Partners, who didn't want to continue in F3000. Horner hence exercised the option to buy back the Prodrive stake. As the years went on, the team began to reap the results and was the best team of Formula 3000 in its last 3 years, showing new talents to motorsport world like Darren Manning, Tomáš Enge, Björn Wirdheim and Vitantonio Liuzzi. The team won the Teams' Championship in 2002, 2003 and 2004. During those years, Wirdheim won the drivers championship in 2003, and Liuzzi won it in 2004. During the teams 8 years in the series, it has scored 359 points, won 16 races and achieved 20 pole positions.

The team joined the Italian Formula 3000 series for 1999 and 2000. Their first season was poor with only one point to their name, but the 2000 season went significantly better, with Warren Hughes taking two wins, one pole position and three fastest laps for the team, and Darren Manning taking one win, one pole and one fastest lap too. The team finished with Hughes second in the championship, and the team winning it outright 51 points.

Arden operated A1 Team Great Britain in the first season of the A1GP series for 2005–2006. The team fared well in their first season, collecting 8 podium finishes and a single pole position, leaving the team 3rd in the championship with 97 points overall.

In 2005, the F3000 series was rebranded as the GP2 Series, Arden stayed on for the new series and achieved second place in the teams' championship with Heikki Kovalainen and Nicolas Lapierre, and second place in the Drivers' Championship with Kovalainen, who had 5 wins, 4 pole positions and a fastest lap to his name. 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 significant drop in performance, and had only 57 points to show and a single win from Ammermüller, compared to the previous season's 126. Overall the team came fourth in the championship. For 2007, Arden signed Bruno Senna, nephew of triple F1 champion Ayrton Senna, and A1 Team South Africa driver Adrian Zaugg. Zaugg was replaced for the final round of the season by Filipe Albuquerque. This season was even worse for the team compared to the previous year, only managing 42 points which resulted in a seventh placed finish in the teams' championship, with Senna finishing ninth overall in the drivers' championship. For 2008 and the newly founded Asia Series, the team was renamed Trust Team Arden, after its Dutch title sponsor Trust. The duo of Red Bull Junior Team driver Sébastien Buemi and Yelmer Buurman was its race line up for both championships. For the Asia Series, Adam Khan raced for the first two rounds before being replaced by Buurman. The overall result in the Asia Series was the team finishing second in the championship, with 50 points and one win, and Buemi finishing second in the drivers' championship. Mid season in the main series, Buurman was replaced by ART Grand Prix outcast Luca Filippi. The season went slightly better than the previous one with the team picking up 50 points, enough to take sixth place, and Buemi picked up two race victories to finish sixth overall in the drivers' championship. Arden again took part in the Asia Series for the 2008–09 season, signing Luiz Razia and Mika Mäki. For the second round of the championship, held at the Dubai Autodrome, Mäki was replaced by Renger van der Zande, who was subsequently replaced for the rest of the season by Edoardo Mortara. Razia scored the team's only win of the campaign, which allowed Arden to finish sixth in the teams' championship. For the 2009 main Series, the team signed F3 frontrunners Sergio Pérez and Mortara. This was also another poor season for the team, as it finished well down the order in eighth place overall with only Mortara managing a single win. For the 2009–10 Asia Series, Arden signed Charles Pic and Rodolfo González. After the first round, González was replaced by Javier Villa for the rest of the season. This was the team's most successful outing in the Asia Series, with an end result of 37 points and second in the teams' championship. Villa finished fourth overall in the drivers' championship with 19 points, and Pic finished fifth with a single race victory. For the 2010 main series, the team kept Pic and resigned González. However, the success from the Asia Series did not quite continue into the main series as the team eventually finished seventh with one win, courtesy of Pic. Arden finished with fewer points than in 2009, but still managed to beat the previous teams' championship result of eighth position. For the 2011 GP2 Asia Series and 2011 GP2 Main Series seasons, the team signed Josef Král and Jolyon Palmer. The year was the team's worst so far in its GP2 history, as neither driver managed a win, pole or fastest lap in either series, and the team ended up finishing tenth in the Asia series and eleventh in the main series. As the GP2 Asia Series had joined together with the GP2 main series in 2012, there were no longer two separate series. The team signed former 2008–09 Asia season driver Luiz Razia and former MW Arden GP3 sister team driver Simon Trummer for the 2012 season. Razia won the feature race of the first round in Malaysia, picked up two 2nd place finishes during the two Bahrain rounds, and won again at Catalunya, Valencia and Silverstone. He finished the season as runner up to champion Davide Valsecchi, whilst Trummer had a best race finish of seventh place to take 23rd in the drivers' championship. Arden finished third in the team's championship; its best result since 2005. From there Arden struggled in subsequent GP2 Series, their highest constructor's finish being an eighth in 2013, and went without a win till the end of the series under the GP2 moniker.

From 2010 onwards, they have operated a GP3 Series team with Mark Webber, the team was called MW Arden. The team signed Michael Christensen, Miki Monrás and Leonardo Cordeiro for their debut season. Their first venture into the new series proved difficult as they only accumulate 18 points for the whole season with 2 fastest laps, leaving them 9th in the championship. For 2011, the team completely refreshed their line up by signing Mitch Evans, Simon Trummer and Lewis Williamson. The season overshadowed the previous as the team came second overall in the constructors championship with 69 points, and both Williamson and Evans scoring 1 win each and coming 8th and 9th in the drivers championship respectively. This would also be the season where the team picked up its first pole positions with 2 from Evans and 1 from Williamson. For 2012, they retained Evans, and partnered him with David Fumanelli and Matias Laine. Evans former teammates Simon Trummer and Lewis Williamson had moved to the GP2 sister team, and the new Formula Renault team Arden Caterham respectively. At the first round in Spain, Evans won the feature race. At the third round in Valencia, Evans managed to collect pole position and went on to win another feature race. Evans went on to win the championship in the 2012 season. The team scored their second driver's championship with Daniil Kvyat the following season, with Carlos Sainz, Jr. and Robert Vișoiu finishing tenth and eleventh respectively. In the following two seasons, Arden scored fifth and third in the team's championship respectively, with the highest driver standing coming from a fourth place for Emil Bernstorff in 2015. Jake Dennis, 2015 Eurocup champion Jack Aitken and Colombian Tatiana Calderón competed with the team for the 2016 season. Calderón being the first women to compete for the team in its 19 year history. With three victories from Dennis and Aitken, the team finished as runners up to ART Grand Prix in the constructor's standings. In January 2017, Niko Kari was signed to the team for the 2017 season, making him the first Red Bull Junior to compete with the team since Kvyat and Sainz. A month later, Steijn Schothorst and Euroformula Open champion Leonardo Pulcini joined Arden. 2018 line up consisted of Gabriel Aubry, Julien Falchero and Joey Mawson The team has season without wins, with just two podiums achieved by Mawson.

For 2012, Arden International entered an agreement with Caterham to join the Formula Renault 3.5 series as a joint team known as Arden Caterham. For their first season, they signed former GP3 driver for MW Arden Lewis Williamson, and one of Caterham F1's test drivers, Alexander Rossi. Rossi scored his first podium finish with a third place finish at the one race round at Monaco. After 3 rounds, Williamson was dropped by the team and the Red Bull Junior Driver Programme for failing to score a single point and was replaced by António Félix da Costa who had also replaced him at the Junior Programme too. On his debut, Da Costa scored two points with a ninth place finish during the first race at the Nürburgring.

Jack Doohan, Dennis Hauger, Patrik Pasma and Sebastian Priaulx were Arden's drivers in the 2018 championship. Across the season, the team claimed eleven wins and claimed the teams' championship, with Doohan taking honours as rookie champion. For the 2019 season, Arden signed Australian Formula Ford racer Bart Horsten and promoted British karting champions Alex Connor and Tommy Foster from their young driver programme, with Abbie Munro joining the team for the final three rounds. In October 2019, Frederick Lubin became the team's first signing for the 2020 season, followed by Roman Bilinski and Alex Connor.

Oscar Piastri, Sami Taoufik and Aleksandr Vartanyan were 2018 Arden's drivers in Eurocup.

Arden competed in with Sean Gelael and Norman Nato, taking their first Formula 2 win at Baku Circuit with Nato. For , the team signed Nirei Fukuzumi and Maximilian Günther, changing their team name from Pertamina Arden to BWT Arden. The team had another sprint win with Günther, but decreased from seventh to ninth in the teams' championship. For the 2019 season, Arden began a technical collaboration with Mercedes affiliated FIA Formula 3 and Formula E outfit HWA RACELAB and signed Alfa Romeo racing team's Test Driver, Tatiana Calderon as their first driver and Renault junior and reigning GP3 champion, Anthoine Hubert as their second driver. However, Hubert died after a crash during the 2019 Spa Francorchamps Formula 2 feature race. On 23 September 2019 Arden announced that Artem Markelov will return to the F2 series to run at Sochi and Abu Dhabi. He would be running the 22 car since the 19 was retired for the season in honor of Hubert. However the team will not race for the 2020 season, and instead will be replaced by HWA Racelab.

Arden announced they would expand into the BRDC British F3 series for the 2021 season, with Frederick Lubin graduating from the F4 British Championship to take the first seat. Alex Connor filled the second seat for the first 3 race weekends, with Roman Bilinski taking over the seat from Spa onwards. Despite missing the first three rounds Roman Bilinski finished a respectable 7th in the drivers championship, in both his and the team's debut season in the championship. Bilinski was named 3rd in Autosport's 'Top 5 GB3 Drivers of 2021'.

Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points D. C. T. C. 2021 Tatuus Cosworth Roman Bilinski 18 3 0 1 7 313 7th 4th Frederick Lubin 18 0 0 1 2 263 11th Alex Connor 9 0 0 0 3 138 15th2022Tatuus Cosworth Alex Connor240001252.510th6th Nico Christodoulou18002016316th David Morales24001113022nd2023Tatuus Cosworth James Hedley2320033476th3rd Nico Christodoulou2300132618th Noah Ping23200320412th2024Tatuus Cosworth James Hedley Noah Ping Nikita Johnson Shawn Rashid

Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points D. C. T. C.2024Tatuus F4 T014 Leon Wilson

Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points D. C. T. C. 2015 Mygale M14 F4 Ricky Collard 30 6 0 2 13 371 2nd 2nd Sandy Mitchell 30 2 2 2 5 193 7th Enaam Ahmed 30 1 0 0 4 176 8th 2016 Mygale M14 F4 Luis Leeds 30 3 1 3 11 300 3rd 2nd Rafael Martins 30 1 0 0 2 205 9th Ayrton Simmons 24 0 0 0 1 82 11th Jack Martin 30 0 0 0 0 25 14th 2017 Mygale M14 F4 Oscar Piastri 30 6 5 4 15 376.5 2nd 2nd Alex Quinn 30 4 2 4 11 307 4th Ayrton Simmons 30 1 0 2 6 257.5 7th Olli Caldwell 15 0 0 0 1 39 14th Yves Baltas 6 0 0 0 0 4 16th 2018 Mygale M14 F4 Dennis Hauger 30 4 4 4 10 329 4th 1st Jack Doohan 30 3 0 7 12 328 5th Patrik Pasma 30 2 4 2 11 315 6th Sebastian Priaulx 30 1 2 3 8 275 7th2019Mygale M14 F4 Bart Horsten 30 1 0 1 10 275.5 5th4th Tommy Foster 30 1 1 1 2 207 8th Alex Connor 27 0 2 0 1 163 9th Abbie Munro 9 0 0 0 0 6 16th2020Mygale M14 F4 Alex Connor 26 3 2 3 8 265 4th3rd Roman Bilinski 26 0 0 1 3 156 8th Frederick Lubin 26 0 0 0 0 111 9th2021Mygale M14 F4 Zak Taylor30100510813th5th Georgi Dimitrov2130037516th David Morales2700024018th Thomas Ikin1200033919th Cameron McLeod900112320th

Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles FLaps D. C. T. C. Points Dallara GP2/11 Mecachrome Norman Nato 22 1 0 0 9th 7th 108 Sean Gelael 22 0 0 0 15th Dallara F2 2018 Mecachrome Maximilian Günther 22 1 0 0 14th 9th 58 Nirei Fukuzumi 23 0 0 0 17th Dan Ticktum 2 0 0 0 23rd Dallara F2 2018 Mecachrome Anthoine Hubert 16 2 0 0 10th 8th 77 Artem Markelov 4 0 0 0 16th Tatiana Calderón 22 0 0 0 22nd

Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F/Laps D. C. T. C. Points 2010 Dallara GP3/10 Renault Miki Monrás 16 0 0 1 10th 9th 18 Leonardo Cordeiro 16 0 0 1 27th Michael Christensen 16 0 0 0 31st 2011 Dallara GP3/10 Renault Lewis Williamson 16 1 1 0 8th 2nd 69 Mitch Evans 16 1 2 0 9th Simon Trummer 16 0 0 0 18th 2012 Dallara GP3/10 Renault Mitch Evans 16 3 4 2 1st 2nd 309.5 Matias Laine 16 1 0 1 5th David Fumanelli 14 0 0 0 11th 2013 Dallara GP3/13 AER Daniil Kvyat 16 3 2 4 1st 2nd 278 Carlos Sainz Jr. 16 0 1 2 10th Robert Vișoiu 16 2 0 0 12th 2014 Dallara GP3/13 AER Jann Mardenborough 18 1 0 2 9th 5th 162 Patric Niederhauser 18 2 0 2 10th Robert Vișoiu 18 0 0 0 13th 2015 Dallara GP3/13 AER Emil Bernstorff 22 2 0 1 4th 3rd 275 Kevin Ceccon 22 2 0 1 7th Aleksander Bosak 22 0 0 0 20th 2016 Dallara GP3/16 Mecachrome Jake Dennis 18 2 0 4 4th 2nd 297 Jack Aitken 18 1 0 2 5th Tatiana Calderón 18 0 0 0 21st 2017 Dallara GP3/16 Mecachrome Niko Kari 15 1 0 1 10th 4th 91 Leonardo Pulcini 15 0 0 1 14th Steijn Schothorst 15 0 0 0 17th 2018 Dallara GP3/16 Mecachrome Joey Mawson 18 0 0 0 13th 6th 43 Gabriel Aubry 18 0 0 0 18th Julien Falchero 14 0 0 0 22nd Sacha Fenestraz 4 0 0 0 24th

GP2 Series Results Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F/Laps D. C. T. C. Points 2005 Dallara GP2/05 Mecachrome Heikki Kovalainen 23 5 4 1 2nd2nd126 Nicolas Lapierre 23 0 1 1 12th 2006 Dallara GP2/05 Mecachrome Nicolas Lapierre 17 0 0 1 9th 4th 57 Michael Ammermüller 21 1 0 0 11th Neel Jani 4 0 0 0 25th 2007 Dallara GP2/05 Mecachrome Bruno Senna 21 1 0 0 8th 7th 44 Adrian Zaugg 19 0 0 0 18th Filipe Albuquerque 2 0 0 0 32nd 2008 Dallara GP2/08 Mecachrome Sébastien Buemi 20 2 0 0 6th 6th 56 Luca Filippi 10 0 0 0 19th Yelmer Buurman 10 0 0 0 20th 2009 Dallara GP2/08 Mecachrome Sergio Pérez 20 0 0 1 12th 8th 41 Edoardo Mortara 20 1 0 2 14th 2010 Dallara GP2/08 Mecachrome Charles Pic 20 1 1 0 10th 7th 32 Rodolfo González 20 0 0 0 21st 2011 Dallara GP2/11 Mecachrome Josef Král 18 0 0 0 15th 11th 15 Jolyon Palmer 18 0 0 0 28th 2012 Dallara GP2/11 Mecachrome Luiz Razia 24 4 0 3 2nd 3rd 226 Simon Trummer 24 0 0 0 23rd 2013 Dallara GP2/11 Mecachrome Mitch Evans 22 0 0 0 14th 8th 97 Johnny Cecotto Jr. 21 0 1 1 16th 2014 Dallara GP2/11 Mecachrome André Negrão 18 0 0 0 12th 10th 48 Tom Dillmann 8 0 0 0 19th René Binder 22 0 0 0 25th 2015 Dallara GP2/11 Mecachrome Norman Nato 21 0 0 0 18th 12th 25 André Negrão 21 0 0 0 20th 2016 Dallara GP2/11 Mecachrome Jimmy Eriksson 18 0 0 0 20th 11th 12 Nabil Jeffri 22 0 0 0 22nd Emil Bernstorff 2 0 0 0 25th

Formula Renault 3.5 Series Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums D. C. T. C. Points 2012 Dallara T12 Renault António Félix da Costa 12 4 0 2 6 4th 2nd 229 Alexander Rossi 17 0 0 4 1 11th Lewis Williamson 5 0 0 0 0 32nd 2013 Dallara T12 Renault António Félix da Costa 17 3 1 2 6 3rd 4th 186 Pietro Fantin 17 0 0 0 0 21st 2014 Dallara T12 Renault Pierre Gasly 17 0 1 3 8 2nd 3rd 222 William Buller 17 0 0 0 1 16th 2015 Dallara T12 Renault Egor Orudzhev 17 2 0 0 4 5th 5th 188 Nicholas Latifi 17 0 0 1 0 11th 2016 Dallara T12 Zytek Egor Orudzhev 18 5 1 3 8 3rd 1st 380 Aurélien Panis 18 2 1 0 2 5th

GP2 Asia Series Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F/Laps D. C. T. C. Points 2008 Dallara GP2/08 Mecachrome Sébastien Buemi 10 1 0 1 2nd 2nd 50 Yelmer Buurman 6 0 0 0 9th Adam Khan 4 0 0 0 28th 2008–09 Dallara GP2/08 Mecachrome Edoardo Mortara 8 0 0 0 11th 6th 20 Luiz Razia 11 1 1 0 13th Mika Mäki 2 0 0 0 29th Renger van der Zande 1 0 0 0 31st 2009–10 Dallara GP2/08 Mecachrome Javier Villa 6 0 0 1 4th 2nd 37 Charles Pic 4 1 1 0 5th Rodolfo González 2 0 0 0 29th 2011 Dallara GP2/11 Mecachrome Josef Král 4 0 0 0 10th 10th 8 Jolyon Palmer 4 0 0 0 19th

A1 Grand Prix results Year Car Team Drivers Wins Poles F/Laps T. C. Points 2005–06 Lola A1GP Zytek A1 Team Great Britain Robbie Kerr 0 1 0 3rd 97 Darren Manning 0 0 0

Year Car Drivers Wins Poles F/Laps D. C. T. C. Points 1997 Lola T96/50 Zytek Christian Horner 0 0 0 21st N/A N/A 1998 Lola T96/50 Zytek Judd Kurt Mollekens 0 0 0 6th N/A N/A Christian Horner 0 0 0 33rd 1999 Lola B99/50 Zytek Marc Goossens 0 0 0 NC N/A N/A Viktor Maslov 0 0 0 NC 2000 Lola B99/50 Zytek Darren Manning 0 1 1 8th 8th 10 Viktor Maslov 0 0 0 32nd 2001 Lola B99/50 Zytek Darren Manning 0 0 0 11th 9th 9 Viktor Maslov 0 0 0 25th 2002 Lola B02/50 Zytek Judd Tomáš Enge 3 4 5 3rd 1st 79 Björn Wirdheim 1 1 0 4th 2003 Lola B02/50 Zytek Judd Björn Wirdheim 3 5 7 1st 1st 95 Townsend Bell 0 0 0 9th 2004 Lola B02/50 Zytek Judd Vitantonio Liuzzi 7 9 3 1st 1st 130 Robert Doornbos 1 0 1 3rd

Italian Formula 3000 results Year Car Drivers Wins Poles F/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

Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points D. C. T. C. Points 2017 Tatuus–Renault Dan Ticktum 11 1 1 1 2 134 6th 6th 139 Zane Goddard 11 0 0 0 0 5 19th Ghislain Cordeel 11 0 0 0 0 0 24th 2018 Tatuus–Renault Oscar Piastri 20 0 0 0 3 110 8th 6th 122 Aleksandr Vartanyan 8 0 0 1 0 11 16th Sami Taoufik 20 0 0 0 0 1 22nd Nikita Volegov 12 0 0 0 0 0 26th 2019 Tatuus F3 T 318–Renault Patrik Pasma 20 0 0 0 1 65 10th 3rd 189 Frank Bird 20 0 0 0 0 14 18th Sebastián Fernández 12 0 0 1 1 68 9th Alex Quinn 6 0 0 0 2 48 12th 2020 Tatuus F3 T 318–Renault Alex Quinn 20 1 1 1 5 183 4th 4th 273.5 Reshad de Gerus 20 0 0 0 0 8 17th Ugo de Wilde 20 0 0 0 3 85.5 9th

Current series GB3 Championship 2021–presentPraga Cup2022–presentGB4 Championship2024–present Former series International Formula 3000 1997–2004 Italian Formula 3000 1999–2000 A1 Grand Prix 2005–2006 GP2 Series 2005–2016 GP2 Asia Series 2008–2011 GP3 Series 2010–2018 Formula V8 3.5 2012–2016 F4 British Championship 2015–2021Formula Renault Northern European Cup2017–2018 FIA Formula 2 Championship 2017–2019 Formula Renault Eurocup 2017–2020 Formula Regional European Championship 2021–2023