EPIC Racing
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EPIC Racing[1] (Euskadi Phil Imanol Claudio Racing), formerly known as Epsilon Euskadi, was a racing team from Spain. The team's headquarters were located in Vitoria within Basque Country. Epsilon Euskadi ran teams within World Series by Renault and Formula Renault before selling the racing division to EPIC Racing in March 2011 in a bid to run the World Series by Renault with both Formula Renault 3.5 and Formula Renault 2.0.
In 2008 Epsilon Euskadi participated in sports car racing with the Epsilon Euskadi ee1 car.
Bid for Formula One
[edit]Although the team announced on 3 June 2009 that it had submitted an entry for the Formula 1 World Championship for 2010, the FIA did not list them amongst the 13 teams in the preliminary entry list released on 12 June 2009. They were however placed on the reserve list in case one of the 13 teams withdrew, but the withdrawal of USF1 took place too late for this contingency to operate.[2]
In March 2010 Epsilon Euskadi announced it applied to enter the 2011 Formula One championship, following the failure of US F1 to use the entry they had been granted.[3] This application was also unsuccessful.
Corruption
[edit]Epsilon Euskadi sponsored EPIC Racing with public funding of the Basque Country government.
In 2013 Epsilon Euskadi founder Joan Villadelprat and Mark Phillip Payne were taken to court in Vitoria under allegations of corruption. They were also alleged to have mismanaged public funds granted by the Basque Country government during the presidency of Juan Jose Ibarratxe.[4][5]
Results
[edit]World Series by Renault
[edit](Note: 2011 results are for EPIC Racing)
| World Series by Renault results[6] | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | FLaps | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
| 2005 | Dallara T05-Renault |  Félix Porteiro
|
17 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 77 | 5th | 1st |
 Robert Kubica
|
17 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 154 | 1st | |||
| 2006 | Dallara T05-Renault |  Steven Kane
|
17 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 20th | 10th |
 Davide Valsecchi
|
17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 43 | 10th | |||
| 2007 | Dallara T05-Renault |  Filipe Albuquerque
|
17 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 81 | 4th | 4th |
| Davide Valsecchi
|
17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 16th | |||
| 2008 | Dallara T08-Renault |  Alexandre Marsoin
|
17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 19th | 10th |
| Filipe Albuquerque
|
4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 21st | |||
 Mario Romancini
|
13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 29th | |||
| 2009 | Dallara T08-Renault | Adrián Vallés
|
8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 17th | 8th |
| Dani Clos
|
4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 25th | |||
 Keisuke Kunimoto
|
4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | |||
 Chris van der Drift
|
17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 11th | |||
| 2010 | Dallara T08-Renault | Albert Costa
|
17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 78 | 5th | 6th |
| Keisuke Kunimoto
|
17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 22nd | |||
| 2011 | Dallara T08-Renault |  Sten Pentus
|
17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 24th | 4th |
| Albert Costa
|
17 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 151 | 4th | |||
- D.C. = Drivers' Championship position, T.C. = Teams' Championship position.
24 Hours of Le Mans results
[edit]| 24 Hours of Le Mans results | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Class | No | Tyres | Car | Drivers | Pole | Fast lap |
Laps | Pos. | Class Pos. |
| 2008 | LMP1 | 20 | M | Epsilon Euskadi ee1 Judd GV5.5 S2 5.5L V10 |
Ángel Burgueño Miguel Ángel de Castro Adrián Vallés
|
no | no | 189 (DNF) |
41st | 17th |
| 21 | Shinji Nakano Stefan Johansson Jean-Marc Gounon
|
no | no | 158 (DNF) |
43rd | 19th | ||||
References
[edit]- ^ Mills, Peter (2011-04-08). "Epsilon Euskadi becomes EPIC". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 2011-04-08.
- ^ "Epsilon confirms F1 entry attempt". Autosport.
- ^ "Epsilon Euskadi to apply for 2011 F1 debut | F1 News". www.motorsport.com. Archived from the original on 2011-06-06.
- ^ "Hiriko, unos números de escándalo". El Correo (in European Spanish). 2013-11-02. Retrieved 2019-01-11.
- ^ "Villadelprat acusa a la crisis y al gobierno de López de la quiebra de Epsilon". El Correo (in European Spanish). 2013-10-22. Retrieved 2019-01-11.
- ^ WSbR&N complete results speedsportmag.com
External links
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