ByKolles Racing

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.

ByKolles Racing
Founded2000
Team principal(s)Colin Kolles
Romulus Kolles
Current seriesFIA World Endurance Championship
Former seriesGerman 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
WebsiteByKolles.com

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]

Results

German Formula Three Championship results

Year Teamname Car Engine Driver Races Points Pos.
2000 AIL Team Kolles Racing F300 Mugen-Honda Elran Nijenhuis 14 18 18th
Andreas Feichtner 4 4 24th
Peter Sundberg 10 4 25th
Marc Hynes 2 0 NC
2001 Team Kolles Racing F300 Mugen-Honda Pierre Kaffer 20 156 4th
Kimmo Liimatainen 20 25 16th
2002 Team Kolles Racing F302 Mugen-Honda João Paulo de Oliveira 14 16 12th
Charles Zwolsman Jr. 10 8 15th
Ross Zwolsman 10 0 21st
Sakon Yamamoto 6 0 22nd
F399 Stefano Proetto 14 0 30th

Formula 3 Euro Series results

Year Teamname Car Engine Driver Races Points Pos.
2003 Kolles F303 Mercedes Charles Zwolsman Jr. 20 7 19th
F302 Jamie Green 6 6 20th
Jan Heylen 14 0 28th
2004 Team Kolles F303 Mercedes Adrian Sutil 18 9 17th
Maximilian Götz 2 3 19th
F302 Tom Kimber-Smith 20 2 20th
2009 Kolles & Heinz Union F309 Volkswagen Robert Wickens 4 0 22nd
Johan Jokinen 18 0 24th
Nick Tandy 16 0 28th
Carlo van Dam 4 0 31st
Edoardo Mortara 2 0 NC

Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters results

Year Teamname Car Driver Races Points Pos.
2006 Futurecom TME Audi A4 DTM 2004 Vanina Ickx 10 0 19th
Jeroen Bleekemolen 2 0 20th
Olivier Tielemans 3 0 21st
Thed Björk 2 0 22nd
Nicolas Kiesa 3 0 23rd
2007 Futurecom TME Audi A4 DTM 2005 Adam Carroll 5 0 18th
Markus Winkelhock 5 0 19th
Vanina Ickx 10 0 21st
2008 Futurecom TME Audi A4 DTM 2006 Christijan Albers 11 0 19th
Katherine Legge 11 0 21st
2009 Kolles Futurecom Audi A4 DTM 2007 Tomáš Kostka 10 0 17th
Christian Bakkerud 9 0 19th
Johannes Seidlitz 8 0 20th

Le Mans Series results

Year Teamname Car Engine Driver Races Points Pos.
2009 Kolles Audi R10 TDI Audi TDI 5.5 L Turbo V12 (Diesel) Charles Zwolsman Jr. 5 12 7th
Andrew Meyrick 5
Narain Karthikeyan 4
Michael Krumm 1
Christijan Albers 5 6 10h
Christian Bakkerud 5
Giorgio Mondini 3

FIA World Endurance Championship results

Year Teamname Car Engine Class Tyre Driver Races Points Pos.
2012 Lotus Lola B12/80 Lotus (Judd) 3.6 L V8 LMP2 D Thomas Holzer 8 32 8th
Mirco Schultis 7
Luca Moro 4
Renger van der Zande 1
Christijan Albers 1
Luca Moro 1 N/A NC
Kevin Weeda 6
James Rossiter 6
Vitantonio Liuzzi 4
Jan Charouz 1
2013 Lotus Lotus T128 Praga (Judd) LMP2 D Kevin Weeda 8 11 8th
Vitantonio Liuzzi 6
Christophe Bouchut 4
James Rossiter 4
Lucas Auer 8
Thomas Holzer 8 37 7th
Dominik Kraihamer 8
Jan Charouz 8
2014 Lotus CLM P1/01 AER P60 Turbo V6 LMP1-L M James Rossiter 2 33 3rd
Christophe Bouchut 2
Lucas Auer 3
Pierre Kaffer 4
Simon Trummer 1
Nathanaël Berthon 1
2015 Team ByKolles CLM P1/01 AER P60 2.4 L Turbo V6 LMP1 M Simon Trummer 8 104 3rd
Vitantonio Liuzzi 2
Christian Klien 2
Tiago Monteiro 1
Pierre Kaffer 6
2016 ByKolles Racing Team CLM P1/01 AER P60 2.4 L Turbo V6 LMP1 D Simon Trummer 9 109 2nd
Oliver Webb 9
James Rossiter 2
Pierre Kaffer 6
2017 ByKolles Racing Team ENSO CLM P1/01 Nismo VRX30A 3.0 L Turbo V6 LMP1 M Oliver Webb 4 N/A NC
Dominik Kraihamer 4
James Rossiter 2
Marco Bonanomi 4
2018-2019 ByKolles Racing Team ENSO CLM P1/01 Nismo VRX30A 3.0 L Turbo V6 LMP1 M Oliver Webb 5 22 4th
Tom Dillmann 4
Dominik Kraihamer 2
René Binder 1
James Rossiter 2

Le Mans 24 Hours Result

Year Drivers Car Qualification Result Laps
2009 Narain Karthikeyan Audi R10 TDI 14 7th 369
Charles Zwolsman Jr.
André Lotterer
Christian Bakkerud Audi R10 TDI 13 9th 360
Christijan Albers
Giorgio Mondini
2010 Scott Tucker Audi R10 TDI 12 DNF (39) 182
Manuel Rodrigues
Christophe Bouchut
Christian Bakkerud Audi R10 TDI 13 DNF (32) 331
Christijan Albers
Oliver Jarvis
2012 Thomas Holzer Lola B12/80 31 DNF 155
Mirco Schultis
Luca Moro
2013 Kevin Weeda Lotus T128 24 DNF 17
James Rossiter
Christophe Bouchut
Thomas Holzer Lotus T128 23 DNF 219
Dominik Kraihamer
Jan Charouz
2015 Simon Trummer ByKolles CLM P1/01 11 DSQ 260
Pierre Kaffer
Tiago Monteiro
2016 Simon Trummer ByKolles CLM P1/01 9 DNF 206
Pierre Kaffer
Oliver Webb
2017 Dominik Kraihamer ByKolles ENSO CLM P1/01 6 DNF 7
Oliver Webb
Marco Bonanomi
2018 Oliver Webb ByKolles ENSO CLM P1/01 8 DNF 65
Tom Dillmann
Dominik Kraihamer
2019 Tom Dillmann ByKolles ENSO CLM P1/01 8 DNF 163
Oliver Webb
Paolo Ruberti
2020 Tom Dillmann ByKolles ENSO CLM P1/01 5 DNF 97
Oliver Webb
Bruno Spengler

Timeline

The series in which the team competed are listed:

Current series
FIA World Endurance Championship 2012–2018
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

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