GP3
Full name | Mark Webber Arden |
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Founded | 2010 |
Base | Banbury, United Kingdom |
Founder/s | Christian Horner Mark Webber |
Team principal/s | Christian Horner Mark Webber |
Engineering Head position | Jonathan Davenport |
Technical director | Julian Rouse |
2012 GP3 Series season | |
Race drivers | 4. Mitch Evans 5. David Fumanelli 6. Matias Laine |
GP3 Series record | |
Debut | 2010 |
Races competed | 142 |
Teams' Championships | 0 |
Drivers' Championships | 1 |
Race victories | 6 |
Pole positions | 7 |
Fastest laps | 5 |
From 2010 onwards, they have operated a GP3 Series team with Mark Webber, the team is called MW Arden. This builds on the fact that Mark Webber races for Red Bull Racing, which is run by Arden Team Owner and Team Principal of Red Bull Christian Horner. They 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 team mates 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.
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