Fortec Motorsport, or Fortec Motorsport Ltd. is a motor-racing team, that races in
Formula ThreeFormula Three, also called Formula 3 or F3, is a class of open-wheel formula racing. The various championships held in Europe, Australia, South America and Asia form an important step for many prospective Formula One drivers...
,
Formula RenaultFormula Renault is a class of formula racing founded in 1971. It is popular in Europe and other countries. Regarded as an entry-level series to motor racing, it is a respected series where drivers can learn advanced racecraft before moving on to Formula Three, World Series by Renault, GP2 or...
and most recently
Formula BMWFormula BMW is a junior racing formula for single seater cars. It is positioned at the bottom of the motorsport career ladder alongside the longer established Formula Ford category...
. The team was established in 1996 by current owner Richard Dutton.
Past drivers for the team have included
Juan Pablo MontoyaJuan Pablo Montoya Roldán is a race car driver in NASCAR and a former Formula One and CART driver. He has enjoyed great success, most famously in top open wheel racing series...
,
Gianmaria BruniGianmaria "Gimmi" Bruni is an Italian racing driver who in 2004 drove in Formula One with the Minardi team, and is now racing in the FIA GT Championship....
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Danny WattsDanny Watts is a British racing driver.Danny Watts started racing in 1993, when he began karting. After five seasons of karting, he stepped up to single seater racing in 1998 in the UK Formula First championship, in which he dominated with 12 wins...
,
Jamie GreenJamie Green is a British professional racing driver. He is currently employed by Persson Motorsport in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters touring car championship.-Early career:...
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James RossiterJames Rossiter is a racing driver from England.When Rossiter was 14, he started karting in TKM and Rotax Max karts. He only competed in 20 karting events over 3 years when he graduated to single-seaters. In 2001, Rossiter tested a Formula Palmer Audi at the racetrack owned by former racing driver...
,
Mike ConwayMike Conway, born 19 August 1983 in Bromley, Kent, England, is a British racing driver. He lives in Sevenoaks, Kent and is active in the IRL IndyCar Series.-Karting to F3:...
, Fabio Carbone and perhaps most notably 2007's Renault F1 race driver
Heikki KovalainenHeikki Johannes Kovalainen is a Finnish Formula One racing driver currently racing for the McLaren Mercedes team....
.
Fortec's achievements include multiple wins in all three current championships.
Fortec Motorsport, or Fortec Motorsport Ltd. is a motor-racing team, that races in
Formula ThreeFormula Three, also called Formula 3 or F3, is a class of open-wheel formula racing. The various championships held in Europe, Australia, South America and Asia form an important step for many prospective Formula One drivers...
,
Formula RenaultFormula Renault is a class of formula racing founded in 1971. It is popular in Europe and other countries. Regarded as an entry-level series to motor racing, it is a respected series where drivers can learn advanced racecraft before moving on to Formula Three, World Series by Renault, GP2 or...
and most recently
Formula BMWFormula BMW is a junior racing formula for single seater cars. It is positioned at the bottom of the motorsport career ladder alongside the longer established Formula Ford category...
. The team was established in 1996 by current owner Richard Dutton.
Past drivers for the team have included
Juan Pablo MontoyaJuan Pablo Montoya Roldán is a race car driver in NASCAR and a former Formula One and CART driver. He has enjoyed great success, most famously in top open wheel racing series...
,
Gianmaria BruniGianmaria "Gimmi" Bruni is an Italian racing driver who in 2004 drove in Formula One with the Minardi team, and is now racing in the FIA GT Championship....
,
Danny WattsDanny Watts is a British racing driver.Danny Watts started racing in 1993, when he began karting. After five seasons of karting, he stepped up to single seater racing in 1998 in the UK Formula First championship, in which he dominated with 12 wins...
,
Jamie GreenJamie Green is a British professional racing driver. He is currently employed by Persson Motorsport in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters touring car championship.-Early career:...
,
James RossiterJames Rossiter is a racing driver from England.When Rossiter was 14, he started karting in TKM and Rotax Max karts. He only competed in 20 karting events over 3 years when he graduated to single-seaters. In 2001, Rossiter tested a Formula Palmer Audi at the racetrack owned by former racing driver...
,
Mike ConwayMike Conway, born 19 August 1983 in Bromley, Kent, England, is a British racing driver. He lives in Sevenoaks, Kent and is active in the IRL IndyCar Series.-Karting to F3:...
, Fabio Carbone and perhaps most notably 2007's Renault F1 race driver
Heikki KovalainenHeikki Johannes Kovalainen is a Finnish Formula One racing driver currently racing for the McLaren Mercedes team....
.
Fortec's achievements include multiple wins in all three current championships. In 2002 Danny Watts won the team the Formula Renault UK championship, with Jamie Green following close behind in second. In the same year Fabio Carbone won the prestigious Formula 3 Marlboro Masters at Circuit Zandvoort. The next championship win came in 2004 with Mike Conway dominating the Renault championships, a season in which
Paul di RestaPaul di Resta is a race car driver.-Karting:He started his career in karting, racing in various competitive series of karts from 1994 until 2001.-Formula Renault:...
finished third.
The team, originally based in Grantham, moved to its current location in Daventry in 1999.
In the 2006 season the team had competitors in all three championships with Yelmer Buurman and Stuart Hall competing in Formula 3.
James SuttonJames Sutton is a racing driver. He won the 2007 Porsche Carrera Cup-Early years:Before he embarked on a career in cars, Sutton raced in karting, winning the London Cup in 2000 before becoming the Junior TKM British champion in 2001, before moving onto Formula ICA and in 2003 racing in the British...
, Sam Bird, Sebastian Hohenthal and Fabio Onidi competed in the Formula Renault championships. Completing the team's line-up in Formula BMW UK is Henry Arundel, Adrian Quaiffe-Hobs, Marcus Ericsson, and finally Daniel McKenzie, who shows promising talent. For the final race in the British Formula 3 championship,
Greg MansellGreg Mansell is a British racing driver currently racing in the World Series by Renault. He is the son of Formula One world champion, Nigel Mansell, and younger brother of fellow racing driver Leo Mansell....
and
Leo MansellLeo Mansell is a British racing driver. He is the son of 1992 Formula One world champion, Nigel Mansell, and elder brother of fellow racing driver Greg Mansell....
(both sons of
Nigel MansellNigel Ernest James Mansell OBE is a British racing driver from England who won both the Formula One World Championship and CART World Series...
) competed for the Fortec Team, having spent the rest of the season racing in the Formula BMW UK championship.
In 2006 the team collected wins in all three championships with Yelmer Buurman taking two wins on his way to 4th overall in his Formula 3 campaign. Sutton, Hohenthal and Bird all have taken wins in the Formula Renault UK championships. And both Breen and Hankey have both won in Formula BMW.
Breen and Hohenthal have produced the highlight for the team's 2006 season by taking their repesctive championships. Breen taking the Formula BMW championship at the categories penultimate round at Knockhill, Fife, and Hohenthal winning the final race of the year at
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, Northampton, to take the Formula Renault UK Championship.
Alongside this, Arundel won the Rookie Championship within the Formula BMW series, and Onidi won the Graduate Championship that runs within the Formula Renault UK series.
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