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Motopark

Founded	1998
Founder(s)	Timo Rumpfkeil
Base	Oschersleben, Germany
Team principal(s)	Timo Rumpfkeil
Current series	Euroformula Open Championship International GT Open
Former series	GP2 Series Formula 3 Euro Series European Formula 3 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 Formula Renault 2.0 NEC Porsche Supercup German Formula Three ADAC Formel Masters Japanese Formula 3 British Formula 3 ADAC Formula 4 Formula 4 UAE Championship Super Formula Super Formula Lights
Current drivers	Euroformula Open: Brad Benavides Levente Révész Fernando Barrichello Jakob Bergmeister International GT Open: Timo Rumpfkeil Heiko Neumann
Teams' Championships	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0: 2004 Formula Renault 2.0 NEC: 2007, 2008, 2009 ADAC Formel Masters: 2011, 2012 German Formula 3: 2013, 2014 GP2 Series: 2013 Formula 4 UAE Championship: 2016–17, 2017–18 Japanese Formula 3 Championship: 2019 Euroformula Open Championship: 2019
Drivers' Championships	Formula Renault 2.0 Germany: 2004: Scott Speed Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0: 2004: Scott Speed 2006: Filipe Albuquerque 2008: Valtteri Bottas Formula Renault 2.0 NEC: 2006: Filipe Albuquerque 2007: Frank Kechele 2008: Valtteri Bottas 2009: António Félix da Costa German Formula 3: 2012: Jimmy Eriksson 2013: Marvin Kirchhöfer 2014: Markus Pommer ADAC Formel Masters: 2012: Marvin Kirchhöfer Formula 4 UAE Championship: 2016–17: Jonathan Aberdein 2017–18: Charles Weerts Japanese Formula 3 Championship: 2019: Sacha Fenestraz Euroformula Open Championship: 2019: Marino Sato
Website	http://www.motopark.com/

Motopark Academy (raced under Lotus moniker from 2012 to 2014) is an auto racing team based in Oschersleben, Germany, next to the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben race track. In 2013, the team competed in the GP2 Series under the name Russian Time and have operated a satellite team called CryptoTower Racing.

History

Single-seaters

The team have competed in open-wheel racing consistently since the start of the 21st century. They have competed in the Formula 3 Euro Series since 2009.

Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0

They were teams' champions in the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 in 2004, with their American driver Scott Speed taking the drivers' title with eight wins. Motopark Academy won the drivers' title of the 2006 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season with Filipe Albuquerque, with the Portuguese driver collecting four wins in all.

Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup

Motopark Academy have won all four Drivers' Championships in Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup, since it formed in 2006. They won with Filipe Albuquerque in 2006, Frank Kechele in 2007, Valtteri Bottas in 2008 and António Félix da Costa in 2009. Motopark Academy also won the Teams' Championship of the Formula Renault 2.0 NEC three times: 2007, 2008 and 2009.

GP2 and GP3 Series

Russian Time was established by former Russian racing driver and manager Igor Mazepa and Motopark Academy team principal Timo Rumpfkeil in 2013. The team had sought an entry to the GP2 Series for two years before finally being accepted in 2013, replacing iSport International. iSport International withdrew from the series after being unable to secure a budget to compete in the upcoming season, and so its management elected to shut the team down in order to avoid bankruptcy.

The team won its first race in only its fourth appearance, when Sam Bird won the sprint race of the Bahrain round of the championship. The team took a second win on the streets of Monaco, with Bird finishing ahead of Kevin Ceccon after a fourteen-car pile-up on the opening lap forced nine drivers out of the race.

In 2014, the team was set to make their debut in GP3 Series, taking Bamboo Engineering's slot and continue to participate in GP2, German Formula Three and ADAC Formel Masters. The team's preparations for the 2014 season were disrupted by the death of Mazepa from complications relating to thrombosis in February 2014. On 18 February 2014, it was announced that Motopark had ended their partnership with Russian Time, leaving the position of all those drivers signed on for the 2014 GP2 and GP3 seasons, in limbo.

Formula 3 and Japanese single-seaters

In 2018, Motopark spent last season in the history of FIA Formula 3 European Championship with Jonathan Aberdein, Sebastián Fernández, Fabio Scherer, Marino Sato, Dan Ticktum and Jüri Vips.

Motopark is scheduled to make their debut in Japan in collaboration with the B-Max racing team, competing in Super Formula with Lucas Auer and Harrison Newey and Japanese Formula 3 with Sacha Fenestraz, Enaam Ahmed, 'Dragon' and Tairoku Yamaguchi. The team was also set to partake in the inaugural season of the Formula European Masters Championship reuniting with Sato and signing Red Bull Juniors Yuki Tsunoda and Liam Lawson, but the series ended up being cancelled due to a lack of entrants. In April 2019, it was announced Motopark would switch to the Euroformula Open Championship and retain its intended Formula European Masters line-up with Julian Hanses joining in a fourth car.

Current series results

Euroformula Open Championship

Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	D.C.	T.C.
2019	Dallara F317-Volkswagen	Marino Sato	16	9	6	5	11	307	1st	1st
		Liam Lawson	14	4	2	1	7	179	2nd
		Yuki Tsunoda	14	1	0	3	6	151	4th
		Julian Hanses	12	0	1	0	4	98	8th
		Cameron Das	10	0	0	1	0	54	12th
		Toshiki Oyu	2	2	2	0	2	52	14th
		Enaam Ahmed	2	0	0	1	2	37	15th
		Dennis Hauger	2	0	0	0	0	18	19th
		Niklas Krütten	6	0	0	0	0	14	20th
2020	Dallara 320-Volkswagen	Niklas Krütten	18	0	0	0	5	153	5th	2nd
		Manuel Maldonado	18	0	0	0	4	153	4th
		Cameron Das	14	0	0	1	2	123	6th
		Yifei Ye	18	11	12	12	16	369	1st	1st
		Lukas Dunner	14	5	5	5	10	248	2nd
		Rui Andrade	18	0	0	0	0	28	14th
2021	Dallara 320-Volkswagen	Cameron Das	24	7	1	6	16	382	1st	1st
		Jak Crawford	16	8	4	12	10	304	3rd
		Christian Mansell †	9	0	0	0	1	79	11th
		Roman Staněk	3	1	0	0	2	55	12th
		Reshad de Gerus	6	0	0	0	0	30	16th
		Vivien Keszthelyi	12	0	0	0	0	12	20th
		Matthias Lüthen	3	0	0	0	0	0	23rd
		Louis Foster	24	3	2	4	13	315	2nd	2nd
		Nazim Azman	24	1	0	0	7	270	4th
		Filip Kaminiarz	24	0	0	0	1	80	10th
2022	Dallara 320-Volkswagen	Oliver Goethe	26	11	7	12	18	499	1st	2nd
		Frederick Lubin	26	1	0	2	9	301	4th
		Alex García	26	0	0	0	1	116	7th
		Vladislav Lomko	26	6	2	5	19	434	2nd	1st
		Christian Mansell	26	3	1	3	15	381	3rd
		Josh Mason	26	3	0	1	7	278	5th
2023	Dallara 320-Volkswagen	Noel León	23	7	5	11	16	394	1st	1st
		Cian Shields	23	3	0	3	10	307	2nd
		Bryce Aron	20	3	0	1	5	238	4th
		Levente Révész	8	1	0	0	3	103	9th
		Jakob Bergmeister	14	0	0	0	2	148	5th
			3	0	0	0	1			2nd
		Charlie Wurz	11	1	1	3	5	139	6th
		Joshua Dufek	8	1	0	0	7	138	7th
		Enzo Trulli	6	2	2	0	3	98	10th
		Josh Mason	6	1	0	0	3	96	11th
		Tim Tramnitz	3	0	0	2	3	55	12th
		Vladislav Ryabov	3	0	0	0	0	24	15th
		Benjámin Berta	3	0	0	0	0	20	16th
		Attila Pénzes	3	0	0	0	0	16	17th
		Gerrard Xie	3	0	0	0	0	8	18th
2024	Dallara 320-Volkswagen	Brad Benavides	24	9	4	10	19	431	1st	1st
		Fernando Barrichello	24	1	0	1	5	264	3rd
		Jakob Bergmeister	18	1	0	0	7	243	4th
		Levente Révész	18	1	0	2	8	236	5th
		Michael Shin	12	2	1	1	6	187	6th
		José Garfias	9	0	1	1	4	99	7th
		Edward Pearson	6	0	0	1	3	80	8th
		Lorenzo Fluxá	3	1	0	1	3	59	9th
		Vladislav Ryabov	6	1	0	0	1	58	10th
		Gerrard Xie	3	1	0	1	1	36	11th
		Ricardo Escotto	3	0	0	0	0	18	13th
		Enzo Richer	3	0	0	0	0	16	14th
		Cenyu Han	0	0	0	0	0	0	NC
		Yevan David	3	2	0	0	3	0	NC

† Mansell drove for Carlin in round 3.

Former series results

GP2 Series

Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	F.L.	Points	D.C.	T.C.
2013	Dallara GP2/11-Mecachrome	Sam Bird	22	5	2	3	181	2nd	1st
		Tom Dillmann	22	0	1	2	92	10th

Formula 3 Euro Series

Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	F.Laps	Points	D.C.	T.C.
2009	Dallara F308-Mercedes	Christopher Zanella	20	0	0	0	11	13th	7th
		Renger van der Zande	8	1	0	0	7	15th
		Atte Mustonen	12	0	0	0	4	19th
2010	Dallara F308-Volkswagen	António Félix da Costa	18	3	0	1	40	7th	4th
		Kevin Magnussen	2	1	0	1	8	12th
		Adrian Quaife-Hobbs	4	0	0	0	7	13th
		Matias Laine	18	0	0	0	3	14th
		Christopher Zanella	6	0	0	0	2	15th
		Tobias Hegewald	2	0	0	0	1	16th
		Mika Mäki	6	0	0	0	0	17th
		Renger van der Zande	2	0	0	0	0	N/A
	Dallara F305-Volkswagen	Jimmy Eriksson	2	0	0	0	0	N/A
		Luís Sá Silva	2	0	0	0	0	N/A
2011	Dallara F308-Volkswagen	Jimmy Eriksson	27	0	0	0	93	9th	4th
		Kimiya Sato	27	1	0	0	86	10th
		Gianmarco Raimondo	27	0	0	0	66	11th†
		Kuba Giermaziak	18	0	0	0	29	12th
		Tom Dillmann	6	0	0	0	0	N/A†
		Artem Markelov	3	0	0	0	0	N/A

† Shared results with other teams

FIA Formula 3 International Trophy

Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	F.Laps	Points	D.C.
2011	Dallara F308-Volkswagen	Kimiya Sato	6	0	0	0	7	9th
		Tom Dillmann	3	0	0	0	0	N/A
		Jimmy Eriksson	4	0	0	0	0	N/A
		Gianmarco Raimondo	2	0	0	0	0	N/A
		Kuba Giermaziak	2	0	0	0	0	N/A

FIA European Formula 3

FIA Formula 3 European Championship
Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	F.Laps	Podiums	Points	D.C.	T.C.
2015	Dallara F315-Volkswagen	Markus Pommer	33	1	0	1	2	116.5	10th	7th
		Sam MacLeod	30	0	0	0	0	2	24th
	Dallara F314-Volkswagen	Nabil Jeffri	33	0	0	0	0	2	26th
		Mahaveer Raghunathan	27	0	0	0	0	0	39th
		Tanart Sathienthirakul	3	0	0	0	0	0	40th
2016	Dallara F315-Volkswagen	Joel Eriksson	30	1	0	2	10	252	5th	3rd
		Niko Kari	30	1	0	0	5	129	10th
	Dallara F316-Volkswagen	Sérgio Sette Câmara	30	0	0	1	2	107	11th
	Dallara F314-Volkswagen	Guanyu Zhou	30	0	0	0	2	101	13th
2017	Dallara F315-Volkswagen	Joel Eriksson	30	3	2	2	14	139	2nd	3rd
		Petru Florescu	6	0	0	0	0	0	23rd
		Jüri Vips	3	0	0	0	0	N/A	NC
	Dallara F316-Volkswagen	David Beckmann	21	0	0	0	0	45	16th†
	Dallara F314-Volkswagen	Marino Sato	30	0	0	0	0	1	17th
	Dallara F317-Volkswagen	Keyvan Andres	30	0	0	0	0	0	21st
2018	Dallara F318-Volkswagen	Dan Ticktum	30	4	4	1	8	308	2nd	2nd
	Dallara F315-Volkswagen	Jüri Vips	30	4	3	6	7	284	4th
		Jonathan Aberdein	30	0	0	1	3	108	12th
	Dallara F316-Volkswagen	Fabio Scherer	30	0	1	2	1	64	14th
	Dallara F314-Volkswagen	Marino Sato	30	0	0	0	0	31.5	16th
	Dallara F318-Volkswagen	Sebastián Fernández	30	0	0	0	0	5	21st

† Includes points scored for Van Amersfoort Racing

Japanese Formula 3 Championship

Japanese Formula 3 Championship
Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	F.Laps	Podiums	Points	D.C.	T.C.
2019	Dallara F314-Volkswagen	Sacha Fenestraz	20	8	5	9	18	162	1st	1st
		'Dragon'	20	0	0	0	0	0	14th
	Dallara F315-Volkswagen	Ameya Vaidyanathan	20	0	0	0	0	0	13th
	Dallara F312-Volkswagen	Enaam Ahmed	20	2	1	1	8	63	3rd
		Harrison Newey	3	0	0	0	0	5	11th
	Dallara F316-Volkswagen	Ukyo Sasahara	3	0	0	0	0	3	12th
		Takashi Hata	2	0	0	0	0	0	20th

ADAC Formula 4

Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	Fast laps	Points	D.C.	T.C.
2015	Tatuus F4-T014-Abarth	Joel Eriksson	24	7	3	1	299	2nd	N/A
		Jannes Fittje	24	0	0	0	22	18th
		Jonathan Cecotto	24	0	0	0	18	20th
		Michael Waldherr	24	0	0	0	83	11th
2016	Tatuus F4-T014-Abarth	Michael Waldherr	18	0	0	0	28	16th	7th
		Richard Verschoor	6	0	0	0	34	15th
		Jonathan Aberdein	24	0	0	0	49	14th
		Simo Laaksonen	24	1	0	0	88	11th
		Sophia Flörsch	24	0	0	1	25	19th
2017	Tatuus F4-T014-Abarth	Jonathan Aberdein	21	0	0	1	94	9th	6th
		Leonard Hoogenboom	21	0	0	0	10	21st
		David Malukas	18	0	0	0	20	19th
		Charles Weerts	21	0	0	0	3	22nd

Formula 4 UAE Championship

Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	Fast laps	Points	D.C.	T.C.
2016–17	Tatuus F4-T014-Abarth	Jonathan Aberdein	18	14	12	11	368	1st	1st
		Logan Sargeant	18	0	0	7	261	2nd
		Charles Weerts	11	0	0	0	84	7th	5th
		Sebastián Fernández	7	1	0	0	65	10th
		Leonard Hoogenboom	4	0	0	0	25	13th
2017–18	Tatuus F4-T014-Abarth	Charles Weerts	23	8	3	8	377	1st	1st
		Lucas Alecco Roy	23	0	0	0	131	5th
		Amaury Cordeel	17	1	0	1	120	8th

Super Formula

Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	F.L.	Points	D.C.	T.C.
2019	Dallara SF19-Honda	Lucas Auer	7	0	0	1	14	9th	8th
		Harrison Newey	7	0	0	0	6	15th
2020	Dallara SF19-Honda	Nobuharu Matsushita	4	0	0	0	16	15th	9th
		Sérgio Sette Câmara	1	0	1	0	3	20th
		Charles Milesi	3	0	0	0	0	21st
		Mitsunori Takaboshi	1	0	0	0	0	26th

Super Formula Lights

Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	F.L.	Points	D.C.
2020	Dallara 320-Volkswagen	Sena Sakaguchi	17	4	5	2	116	2nd
		Yoshiaki Katayama	5	0	0	0	10	6th
		Mitsunori Takaboshi	3	0	0	0	8	7th
		Mizuki Ishizaka	2	0	0	0	3	11th
		"Dragon"	17	0	0	0	2	12th
		Kiyoto Fujinami	3	0	0	0	2	13th
		Masami Kageyama	2	0	0	0	1	14th
		Sakon Yamamoto	3	0	0	0	0	16th
		Satoshi Motoyama	3	0	0	0	0	17th
		Nobuhiro Imada	9	0	0	0	0	18th
		Motoyoshi Yoshida	8	0	0	0	0	19th
		Takashi Hata	6	0	0	0	0	20th

Timeline

Footnotes

1. ^ Operation Team at Russian Time team
2. Entered as Cryptotower Racing
3. Entered as Cryptotower Racing
4. Entered as Cryptotower Racing
5. Entered as Cryptotower Racing
6. The entries were split into Team Motopark and Team Motopark 2.
7. The entries were split into Team Motopark and Team Motopark 2.
8. Entered as Dragon Motopark F4

References

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External links

• Motopark Academy Official Website
• Motopark Academy on Twitter

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