Comtec Racing

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Comtec Racing

Motor racing team
Founded	2001
Country	United Kingdom
Team Principal(s)	Pierre Moncheur
Current series	World Series by Renault UK Formula Ford
Former series	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 Formula Renault 2.0 UK Formula Ford
Drivers' titles	2006 World Series by Renault (Danielsson)
Teams' titles

Comtec Racing is a motor racing team based in the United Kingdom. It competes in two championships — Formula Renault and World Series by Renault.

1 History
2 Television appearances
3 Results
- 3.1 World Series by Renault
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

The team was launched in 2001 by Jonathan Lewis and Pierre Moncheur after Van Diemen decided to close down their works race team.

Additional recruitments to the team saw ex-Lotus F1 driver Martin Donnelly as Driver Development Manager.

The engineering staff at Comtec Racing is headed by and Roly Vincini as their engineering director who has a seasoned history in motor sport including working with Nelson Piquet and Ayrton Senna.

John Barnett is the Team Manager and Chief Engineer for the Formula Renault 2.0 division of the team. Sam Slowley is the Operations Director for the entire team.

In 2006 Comtec Racing are competing in the World Series by Renault, as well as the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 and returning to the British Formula Renault Championship after an absence of one year.

[edit] Television appearances

In June 2007, the team's WSR car was featured in the BBC television programme Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain; Marr driving the car to illustrate the political scandal in 1997 between Bernie Ecclestone and the newly-elected Labour Party. The team has also appeared in the BBC motoring programme Top Gear, where presenter Richard Hammond drove a Comtec Formula Renault and then World Series by Renault car before moving up to a Renault Formula One car.

[edit] Results

[edit] World Series by Renault

Michael Herck driving for Comtec at the Donington Park round of the 2007 World Series by Renault season.

Pasquale di Sabatino driving for Comtec at the Silverstone round of the 2008 World Series by Renault season.

World Series by Renault results^[1]
Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	Fast laps	Points	D.C.	T.C.
2006	Dallara T02-Renault	Alx Danielsson	17	4	3	2	112	1st	3rd
		Edwin Jowsey	2	0	0	0	0	N/A
		Jaap van Lagen	5	0	0	0	8	28th
		Carlos Iaconelli	2	0	0	0	0	N/A
		Celso Miguez	6	0	0	0	10	24th
2007	Dallara T02-Renault	Jaap van Lagen	2	0	0	0	0	N/A	13th
		Michael Herck	14	0	0	0	0	N/A
		Alejandro Núñez	16	1	0	0	31	18th