Charouz Racing System
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| Founded | 1985 |
|---|---|
| Base | Prague, Czech Republic |
| Team principal(s) | Antonín Charouz |
| Current series | FIA Formula 2 Championship Czech Touring Car Championship Czech Rally Championship Czech Sprintrally Championship |
| Former series | World Series Formula V8 3.5 F3000 International Masters A1 Grand Prix Auto GP FIA GT3 European Championship Formula 4 UAE Championship |
| Current drivers |  Louis Delétraz[1] Antonio Fuoco[1] |
| Teams' Championships | F3000 International Masters: 2006 F3000 International Masters FIA GT3 European Championship: 2012 World Series Formula V8 3.5: 2017 |
| Drivers' Championships | F3000 International Masters: 2006: Jan Charouz Le Mans Series: 2009: Jan Charouz, Tomáš Enge, Stefan Mücke FIA GT3 European Championship: 2012: Dominik Baumann, Maximilian Buhk World Series Formula V8 3.5: 2017: Pietro Fittipaldi |
| Website | http://racing.charouz.cz/ |
Charouz Racing System (CHRS, also was known as Lotus in World Series Formula V8 3.5) is a racing team from Czech Republic, created in 1985 by Antonín Charouz.
History
In the 1980s, Charouz participated in the European Championship of Circuit Races' 1600 cc division in a Toyota Corolla. By 1992, they prepared cars for a special cup series for Ford Fiestas, Escort RS 2000s and Pumas.
Since 1998, Charouz has competed in the European Rally Championship, Slovak Championship and European Zone series.[2]
When the A1 Grand Prix series debuted in 2005, Charouz managed the A1 Team Czech Republic.[3] The team later took over management duties for A1 Team Brazil.[4]
New for 2007 was the entrance into endurance racing with the Le Mans Series. Competing with a Lola-Judd prototype, the team finished the year fifth in their class championship, including a second-place finish at Valencia. For 2008 the team entered a cooperation with Aston Martin Racing and Prodrive, running a new Lola B08/60 coupe in the Le Mans Series and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The B07/17 from 2007 was entered at Le Mans under the Charouz banner, but the car was run by Greg Pickett's Team Cytosport with help from Sam Hignett's Jota Sport, the same organization who prepared this car for Charouz in 2007.
In 2010 Charouz ran four cars in the Auto GP series.
Former series results
A1 Grand Prix
| A1 Grand Prix results[5] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Car | Team | Races | Wins | Poles | Fast laps | Points | T.C. |
| 2005–06 | Lola-Zytek |  A1 Team Czech Republic
|
22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 56 | 12th |
| 2006–07 | Lola-Zytek | A1 Team Czech Republic
|
22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 12th |
 A1 Team Brazil
|
22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 18th | ||
| 2007–08 | Lola-Zytek | A1 Team Czech Republic
|
20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 19th |
F3000 International Masters/International Formula Master
| F3000 International Masters results | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | Fast laps | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
| 2006 | Lola B02/50-Zytek | Jan Charouz
|
15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 75 | 1st | 1st |
| Jaroslav Janiš
|
6 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 54 | 3rd | |||
| Luiz Razia
|
3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 30 | 8th | |||
| Filip Salaquarda
|
2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 12th | |||
| Tomáš Kostka
|
2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 16th | |||
 Vitaly Petrov
|
2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | NC | |||
| 2007 | Tatuus N.T07 |  Maximilian Götz
|
6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 24 | 10th | 8th |
 Nick de Bruijn
|
10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 21st | |||
| Erik Janiš
|
4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 25th | |||
| Filip Salaquarda
|
2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | |||
| 2008 | Tatuus N.T07 | Filip Salaquarda
|
16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 24th | 9th |
| Tim Sandtler
|
16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 14th | |||
| 2009 | Tatuus N.T07 |  Alexander Rossi
|
12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 4th | 3rd |
| Erik Janiš
|
12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 6th | |||
- D.C. = Drivers' Championship position, T.C. = Teams' Championship position.
24 Hours of Le Mans
| 24 Hours of Le Mans results[6] | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Class | Tyres | Car | Drivers | Pole | Fast lap |
Laps | Pos. | Class Pos. |
| 2007 | LMP1 | M | Lola B07/17-Judd GV5.5 S2 5.5L V10 | Jan Charouz Stefan Mücke Alex Yoong
|
no | no | 338 | 8th | 5th |
| 2008 | LMP1 | M | Lola B08/60-Aston Martin 6.0L V12 | Jan Charouz Tomáš Enge Stefan Mücke
|
no | no | 354 | 9th | 9th |
| LMP1 | M | Lola B07/17-Judd GV5.5 S2 5.5L V10 | Greg Pickett Klaus Graf Jan Lammers
|
no | no | 146 | DNF | DNF | |
| 2009 | LMP1 | M | Lola-Aston Martin B09/60-Aston Martin 6.0L V12 | Jan Charouz Tomáš Enge Stefan Mücke
|
no | no | 373 | 4th | 4th |
Le Mans Series
| Le Mans Series results[7] | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Class | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | Fast laps | Points | T.C. |
| 2007 | LMP1 | Lola B07/17-Judd GV5.5 S2 5.5L V10 | Jan Charouz Stefan Mücke Alex Yoong
|
6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 5th |
| 2008 | LMP1 | Lola B08/60-Aston Martin 6.0L V12 | Jan Charouz Stefan Mücke
|
5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 5th |
| 2009 | LMP1 | Lola B09/60-Aston Martin 6.0L V12 | Tomáš Enge Jan Charouz Stefan Mücke
|
5 | 2 | 1 | ? | 39 | 1st |
Formula Renault 3.5 Series
| Formula Renault 3.5 Results | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | F.L. | Points | D.C. | T.C. | |
| 2011 | Dallara T08-Renault |  Brendon Hartley
|
17 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 95 | 7th | 7th | |
| Jan Charouz
|
17 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 25th | ||||
| 2012 | Dallara FR35/12-Renault |  Marco Sørensen
|
17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 122 | 6th | 6th | |
 Kevin Korjus[N 1]
|
17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 10th | ||||
| Nigel Melker
|
2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 19th | ||||
| Richie Stanaway
|
5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 22nd | ||||
| César Ramos
|
4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30th | ||||
| 2013 | Dallara FR35/12-Renault | Marco Sørensen
|
17 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 113 | 7th | 7th | |
 Marlon Stöckinger
|
17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 18th | ||||
| 2014 | Dallara FR35/12-Renault |  Matthieu Vaxivière
|
13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 83 | 8th | 5th | |
| Marlon Stöckinger
|
17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 73 | 9th | ||||
| Richie Stanaway
|
4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 18th | ||||
| 2015 | Dallara FR35/12-Renault | Matthieu Vaxivière
|
18 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 234 | 2nd | 2nd | |
| Meindert van Buuren
|
9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 15th | ||||
| Marlon Stöckinger
|
8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 17th | ||||
 Nick Yelloly
|
2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 20th | ||||
- The team competed as Gravity–Charouz Racing in 2011 and as Lotus in 2012-2015.
World Series Formula V8 3.5
| World Series Formula V8 3.5 Results | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | F.L. | Points | D.C. | T.C. | |
| 2016 | Dallara T12-Zytek |  René Binder
|
18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161 | 7th | 2nd | |
 Roy Nissany
|
18 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 189 | 4th | ||||
| 2017 | Dallara T12-Zytek | René Binder
|
18 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 201 | 4th | 1st | |
| Pietro Fittipaldi
|
18 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 259 | 1st | ||||
- The team competed as Lotus.
Notes
- ^ Kevin Korjus joined Charouz for the last three rounds of 2012 season. At that point he had collected 49 points with Tech 1 Racing.
References
- ^ a b Allen, Peter (14 December 2017). "Fuoco and Deletraz to drive for new F2 team Charouz in 2018". formulascout.com. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
- ^ Rally racing.charouz.cz
- ^ A1 Team Czech Republic informations a1podium.com
- ^ A1 Team Brazil informations a1podium.com
- ^ A1GP complete Archived December 26, 2007, at the Wayback Machine resultsresults.a1gp.com
- ^ 24h of Le Mans complete results wsrp.ic.cz
- ^ LMS complete results wsrp.ic.cz