Fortec Motorsport, or Fortec Motorsport Ltd. is a motor-racing team, that races in Formula Three, Formula Renault and most recently Formula BMW. The team was established in 1996 by Richard Dutton, who is still the present owner of the team. Formula Three, also called Formula 3 or, in abbreviated form, F3, is a type of formula racing and a class of open-wheeler motor racing. ... Formula Renault Cars at Donnington Park (2005) Formula Renault is a class of formula racing founded in 1971 popular in Europe and other countries. ... Race calendar and winners Championship standings (after 9 of 30 rounds) Categories: | | | ...

Past drivers for the team have included Gianmaria Bruni, Danny Watts, Jamie Green, James Rossiter, Mike Conway, Fabio Carbone and perhaps most notably 2007's Renault F1 race driver Heikki Kovalainen. Gianmaria Bruni (b. ... Danny Watts Danny Watts (born December 31, 1979 in Aylesbury) is a British racing driver. ... James Rossiter (born August 25, 1983) is a racing driver from England. ... Mike Conway is a British racing driver from Sevenoaks in Kent. ... Kovalainen testing for Renault F1 team in 2006 Heikki Kovalainen is a race car driver, born October 19, 1981 in Suomussalmi, Finland. ...

Fortec's achievements include multiple wins in all three current championships. In 2002 Danny Watts won the team the Formula Renault UK championship, with Jamie Green following close behind in second. In the same year Fabio Carbone won the prestigious Formula 3 Marlboro Masters at Circuit Zandvoort. The next championship win came in 2004 with Mike Conway dominating the Renault championships, a season in which Paul di Resta finished third. Circuit Zandvoort is a motor racing circuit located near the town of Zandvoort, in the Netherlands, near the North Sea coast line. ... Paul Di Resta is a race car driver born in West Lothian, United Kingdom on the 16th of April 1986. ...

The team, originally based in Grantham, moved to its current location in Daventry in 1999.

In the 2006 season the team had competitiors in all three championships with Yelmer Buurman and Stuart Hall competing in Formula 3. James Sutton, Sam Bird, Sebastian Hohenthal and Fabio Onidi competed in the Formula Renault championships. Completing the team's line-up in Formula BMW UK is Henry Arundel, Niall Breen, Euan Hankey. For the final race in the British Formula 3 championship, Greg Mansell and Leo Mansell (both sons of Nigel Mansell) competed for the Fortec Team, having spent the rest of the season racing in the Formula BMW UK championship. James Sutton (born October 20th, 1985 in London) is a racing driver currently competing in the Formula Renault championships for the Fortec Motorsport team. ... Greg Mansell (born 8 November 1987 on the Isle of Man, England) is an English racing driver. ... Leo Mansell (born 4 January 1985 on the Isle of Man, England) is an English racing driver. ... Nigel Mansell driving in the American CART racing series in 1993 Nigel Ernest James Mansell (born August 8, 1953) is an English former racing driver who won world championships in both Formula One (1992) and CART (1993). ...

Yelmer Buurman laps the Pau circuit in his Dallara-Mercedes HWA, in 2006

So far this year the team collected wins in all three championships with Yelmer Burrman taking two wins on his way to 4th overall in his Formula 3 campaign. Sutton, Hohenthal and Bird all have taken wins in the Formula Renault UK championships. And both Breen and Hankey have both won in Formula BMW. Image File history File links Paucircuit. ... Image File history File links Paucircuit. ... Château de Pau Pau is a town of southwestern France, préfecture (capital) of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département. ... Dallara was a Formula One constructor from 1988 through 1992. ... This page is about the Mercedes-Benz brand of automobiles and trucks from the DaimlerChrysler automobile manufacturer. ...

Breen and Hohenthal have produced the highlight for the team's 2006 season by taking their repesctive championships. Breen taking the Formula BMW championship at the categories penultimate round at Knockhill, Fife, and Hohenthal winning the final race of the year at Silverstone, Northampton, to take the Formula Renault UK Championship. Knockhill racing circuit, Fife Knockhill Racing circuit in Fife is Scotlands national Motorsport centre. ... Map sources for Silverstone at grid reference SP670440 Silverstone is a medium sized village in Northamptonshire, England. ...

Alongside this Arundel won the Rookie Championship within the Formula BMW series, and Onidi won the Graduate Championship that runs within the Formula Renault UK series.

External Links

Official Website to Fortec Motorsport

Yelmer Burrman

James Sutton

Hohenthal, Seb

Fabio Onidi

Sam Bird