Double R Racing
Raikkonen Robertson Racing, also known as Double R Racing, is a British motor racing team, which was founded in November 2004 by the racers Kimi Raikkonen and Steve Robertson. The team starts in the British Formula 3 championship since 2005. 2007 was the racing team active in the UK, as well as 2008 and 2009 in the European Formula BMW. The seat of the team located in Woking.
History
Raikkonen Robertson Racing was founded by Kimi Raikkonen, who was active at this time for the Team McLaren in Formula 1, and Steve Robertson, a former race car driver who Raikkonen managed together with his father, in November 2004. The team was in Woking, where the McLaren factory is located, level. Anthony Hieatt was team manager.
In November 2010 it was announced that Hieatt took over the team and Raikkonen Robertson and again from 2010 under the name Double R Racing is launched.
British Formula 3 Championship (since 2005)
2005 Double R Racing first participated in the British Formula 3 Championship. You stepped in with the Dallara chassis and engines from Mugen- Honda. As a driver you undertook Dan Clarke, the vice-champion of the British Formula Ford, and Bruno Senna, nephew of the late Formula 1 world champion Ayrton Senna, who had participated in a few races in the British Formula BMW in the previous season.
Clarke won on the Castle Combe Circuit the first race for the new team and finished the season in fifth place overall. Senna scored two second places for the best results and was tenth in the drivers' standings. In the Formula 3 Masters at Zandvoort and the Macau Grand Prix is approached only with Senna, who did not finish in two races.
2006 Clarke left the team to North America in the Champ Car. As a new engine partner Raikkonen Robertson Racing Mercedes -Benz received. Senna was the team faithfully and received with Mike Conway, who had been in the previous year with Fortec Motorsport third in the British Formula 3, and Stephen Jelley, who had in 2005 occupies the twelfth place in the British Formula 3 for Menu F3 motor racing, two new teammates. In addition, you sat at the season finale Danny Watts, a former teammate of Raikkonen, one as a guest. Conway scored ten victories and won the champion of the British Formula 3 Senna won five races and finished third in the standings behind the runner-up Oliver Jarvis. Jelley was the only driver without a win and finished the season in seventh place overall. Watts came during his guest stint as the first pilot to the finish, but received no points. In the Formula 3 Masters was started by Conway, Jelley and Senna, who was a seventh place the best pilot of the team. To the Macau Grand Prix Räikkönen Robertson Racing entered only with Conway and Jelley. Conway won the race ahead of Richard Antinucci and thus made sure of yet another success in its second season.
In 2007, the team of eight riders in the British Formula 3 a. Jelley kept his cockpit. As more pilots for the championship were Jonathan Kennard, who had become in the last year for Alan Docking Racing twelfth in the British Formula 3, and Atte Mustonen, the Eurocup 2.0 was previously active in Formula Renault, obliged. In addition, we took off in the championship Johnny Cecotto Jr. in a race as a guest. In the national class you put an Albert Costa, Alistair Jackson, Mihai Marinescu and Ernesto Otero, with no driver completed the entire season.
In the championship Jelley two and Kennard and Mustonen won a race each. Jelley took the end of the season as the best pilot of the racing third overall. Kennard was six, Mustonen seventh. Cecotto was unable to start in his participation as a guest to both races. A second place in the ranking of the national class was by Otero the best result. In the Formula 3 Masters, which was held this season in Zolder, you stepped on with Jackson, Jelley, Kennard and Mustonen. All pilots reached the goal and Mustonen achieved with an eleventh place the best result. At the Macau Grand Prix it was also represented with four cars. The regular Raikkonen - Robertson - pilots Jelley and Kennard were reinforced by Senna and Sebastien Buemi. Jelley was a ninth place the best pilot of his team.
In 2008, the team was consistently three cars and three race weekends another car in the British Formula 3 Championship in. Mustonen remained on the team, the two other permanent cockpit went to Henry Arundel, who came from the British Formula BMW, and John Martin, who was active for Alan Docking Racing in the British Formula 3 before. The fourth car was shared by Alistair Jackson and Clemente de Faria Jr.. With Mustonen, who finished the season in sixth place, just a pilot of the teams have managed to win a race and achieve podium finishes this season. Martin was 13, Arundel 15 at the Formula 3 Masters sat Raikkonen Robertson Racing on the three regular drivers and Mustonen was a sixth place the best pilot. In Macau you sat next Mustonen, who was here with an 18th place the best pilot of the team, Michael Ho and Roberto Streit one.
In 2009, a Raikkonen Robertson Racing only two permanent race car. Regular drivers were Carlos Huertas, who represented the team in the last two seasons in Formula BMW, and Daisuke Nakajima, son of former Formula 1 driver Satoru Nakajima and smaller brother of Kazuki Nakajima, who this year for Williams in Formula 1 went. The third car was seven race weekends of Marcus Ericsson and Kevin Chen ( three times ) and Storey ( once) piloted. While the regular drivers, each with a second place as best result seventh ( Nakajima ) and aft ( Huertas ), were Ericsson won two races and finished the season in eleventh place overall. In the Formula 3 Masters you put on Huertas and Nakajima. Huertas was with space 18 of the best pilot of the team. At the Macau Grand Prix, the team with the racing stables City of Dreams and Champ Motorsport cooperated. Renger van der Zande achieved the best result with a seventh place. The other two pilots were Alexander Sims and Chen.
2010 remained Huertas and Nakajima for Raikkonen Robertson Racing. The third cockpit went for the full season to Felipe Nasr, who had ruled in the previous year the European Formula BMW for themselves. Nasr won a race and finished the season as the best pilot of the team in fifth place in the championship. The other two pilots remained without a win and occupied places ten ( Huertas ) and eleven ( Nakajima ). After you did not compete in the Formula 3 Masters, you will be represented in Macau with four cars. Sims and Ho, who had already been executed for Raikkonen Robertson Racing in Macau, as well as Nasr and Rio Haryanto to go to the start.
Formula BMW
British Formula BMW (2007)
2007 expanded Raikkonen Robertson Racing from his commitment and joined also in the British Formula BMW. Three cars were used. As pilots we undertook Josef Král, who came from the German Formula BMW, and Carlos Huertas, who was active in Formula racing for the first time. The third car was only used in some races of Dominic Storey or Doru Sechelariu. While Huertas was 13 without pedestal placement, Král won six races and was behind Marcus Ericsson runner-up. At the World Finals of the Formula BMW continued to Huertas, who was the best pilot with a fifth place, and Sam Abay one.
European Formula BMW (2008-2009)
After the merger between the German and the British Formula BMW Formula BMW Europe for Raikkonen Robertson Racing competed in this series. 2008 Huertas remained on the team. Michael Christensen made his Formula racing debut for the team and Rupert Svendsen - Cook came from Team Loctite. This season, no pilot was able to win a race. Christensen scored a second place and sixth place overall, the best result for the team. In addition, he was named best newcomer. Huertas also obtained second place and finished ninth. Svendsen - Cook finished the season in 13th place to the World Finals, the team did not appear to.
2009 we continued with Svendsen - Cook only one pilot throughout a. Gregoire Demoustier, who was active in Formula racing for the first time, was not used only in the season finale. Gary Thompson and Ollie Millroy each took part in two race weekends. While Svendsen - Cook with two third place finishes in sixth as the best results, Demoustier finished 22nd overall. With the end of the season the team's commitments ended in this championship.