Drivex

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.

Drivex
Founded2005
Team principal(s)Miguel Ángel de Castro
Current seriesEuroformula Open Championship
F4 Spanish Championship
International GT Open
Formula Renault Eurocup
Former seriesSpanish GT Championship
Current drivers Rui Andrade[1]
Petru Florescu[2]
Brad Benavides[3]
Callan O'Keefe[4]
Patrick Schott[3]
Franco Colapinto[5]
Artem Lobanenko[6]
Irina Sidorkova[7]
Teams'
Championships		F4 Spanish Championship
2019
Drivers'
Championships		F4 Spanish Championship
2019: Franco Colapinto

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 FLaps 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
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
Cristian Serrada 10 0 0 0 0 25th
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
Rui Andrade 18 0 0 0 6 22nd

† Shared results with other teams

F4 Spanish Championship
Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F.L. Points D.C. T.C.
2016 Tatuus-Abarth 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-Abarth 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-Abarth 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

† 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

References
  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.
  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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