Fisichella Motor Sport

Fisichella Motor Sport is a motorsport team, founded by Italian Formula One driver Giancarlo Fisichella and his manager Enrico Zanarini.

Italy Fisichella Motor Sport
Founded2005
Folded2015
Team principal(s)Giancarlo Fisichella
Enrico Zanarini
Former seriesEuro Formula 3000
GP2 Series
Formula BMW Europe
Superleague Formula

Racing history

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Euroseries 3000

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Fisichella Motor Sport had a team, run by Scuderia Coloni, racing in the 2005 Italian Formula 3000 season. After a first season marked by the title of Luca Filippi, the team continued its domination of the discipline: in 2006, Giacomo Ricci won the title ahead of his teammate Marco Bonanomi, the FMS drivers having won 13 of the 18 races of the season. The 2007 season was much more difficult for the team which did not sign any victories, Luiz Razia only finishing third in the championship.

Fisichella International Racing surprisingly returned to racing via the 2014 Auto GP season, having replaced the short-lived Eurotech Engineering entry midway through the season at Round 5 in Imola.[1] Fielding an all Italian line-up of Kevin Giovesi and Salvatore de Plano for 2014, the team managed three 2nd place finishes, all achieved by Giovesi, with de Plano's best result being 6th at the Red Bull Ring sprint race. For the 2015 season, neither Giovesi or de Plano were retained, instead, FMS brought in Italian Euroformula Open Championship driver Leonardo Pulcini for Hungary, along with Argentinian GP2 refugee Facu Regalia, who won the opening feature race, with Pulcini taking second in the sprint race, ahead of Regalia, who finished in 6th place. Only one car was run for Regalia in round 2 in Silverstone, before the 2015 season was folded due to low entry numbers, marking the end of the FMS name.

GP2 Series

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Adam Carroll driving for FMSI at the 2008 Monaco GP2 Series round.

At the end of 2005, Formula One driver Giancarlo Fisichella joined forces with Coloni.[2] Luca Filippi, who moved across to GP2 with FMSI in 2006. He was joined by Turkey's Jason Tahincioglu, who brought sponsorship from Petrol Ofisi. Giorgio Pantano achieved a respectable fifth place overall. He won one of the two races in Magny-Cours and both races on his home circuit in Monza. Pantano replaced the somewhat disappointing Luca Filippi, whose best result with the team was a fifth place at Imola. Filippi moved to BCN Competición after the first three race weekends, where he replaced Timo Glock, who in turn had moved to iSport International. The second driver, the Turk Jason Tahincioğlu, had a weak year, his best finish being eleventh in Monza. In the team ranking, FSMI took fifth place overall.

At the start of the 2007 season in the GP2 series, the team expected an upward trend after last year's fifth place, especially since Antonio Pizzonia, a driver with Formula 1 experience, had been hired. However, Pizzonia proved to be a disappointment as he was only able to score a single point, at the race in Monaco. He was replaced by Adam Carroll from the fourth race weekend. Caroll won the home race at Silverstone and at the Hungaroring. Three more podium finishes followed and he finished seventh overall. Jason Tahincioglu didn't achieve a top 10 finish in any race and disappointed again. The team finished ninth overall.

In 2008 the team ran in the colours of Fisichella's F1 team Force India. The team originally planned to use Spanish drivers Andy Soucek and Adrián Vallés in the GP2 series, but both were replaced around the first race weekend in Barcelona. Roldán Rodríguez took over the cockpit from Souček before the start of the first race. A short time later, Vallés moved to the BCN Competición team and was replaced by Adam Carroll. After the race in Monaco, the team parted ways with Carroll and gave the second cockpit place to the Estonian Marko Asmer.[2] In the overall ranking of the 2008 season, it was only enough for tenth place.

Coloni buyout

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Andreas Zuber and Luiz Razia joined the team for 2009. After the sixth round of the season, the Coloni team took back full control of the team after buying out Fisichella. It also had a new sponsorship deal with PartyPokerRacing.com. The deal also applies to their Formula BMW Europe team.[3]

At the following round of the championship, Coloni's cars were impounded as a result of an injunction obtained by Soucek as part of his dispute with the team in its FMSI guise. The team missed the qualifying session and were thus ruled out of competing in either of the weekend's races.[4]

Formula BMW

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Since 2008, FMS has been active in the European Formula BMW Championship. They drive there with 3 drivers: Pedro Bianchini, Mihai Marinescu and Oliver Millroy.

Superleague Formula

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In 2008, Fisichella Motor Sport participated in the Superleague Formula by fielding a car in the colors of AS Roma entrusted to Enrico Toccacelo and Franck Perera. The team ranks 5th in the championship with three podiums.

Complete series results

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GP2 Series

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Year Team Chassis Engine Tyres Drivers Races Wins Poles F.L. Points D.C. T.C.
2006   FMS International (1–2)
  Petrol Ofisi FMS International (3–11)
Dallara
GP2/05
Mecachrome
V8108 V8
B   Luca Filippi 6 0 0 0 7 19th 5th
  Giorgio Pantano 15 3 0 0 44 5th
  Jason Tahinci 21 0 0 0 0 30th
2007   Petrol Ofisi FMS International Dallara
GP2/05
Mecachrome
V8108 V8
B   Antônio Pizzonia 5 0 0 0 1 27th 9th
  Adam Carroll 16 2 0 1 36 7th
  Jason Tahinci 20 0 0 0 0 33rd
2008   Fisichella Motor Sport International Dallara
GP2/08
Mecachrome
V8108 V8
B   Roldán Rodríguez 20 0 0 0 14 13th 10th
  Adrián Vallés 2 0 0 0 0 21st
  Adam Carroll 4 0 0 0 1 25th
  Marko Asmer 13 0 0 0 0 29th
2009   FMSI (1–6)
  Party Poker Racing.com SC (7–10)
Dallara
GP2/08
Mecachrome
V8108 V8
B   Andreas Zuber 18 0 0 0 21 13th 10th
  Luiz Razia 18 1 0 1 8 19th

In detail

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(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Chassis
Engine
Tyres
Drivers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 T.C. Points
2006 GP2/05
Renault
B
VAL
FEA
VAL
SPR
SMR
FEA
SMR
SPR
NÜR
FEA
NÜR
SPR
CAT
FEA
CAT
SPR
MON
FEA
SIL
FEA
SIL
SPR
MAG
FEA
MAG
SPR
HOC
FEA
HOC
SPR
HUN
FEA
HUN
SPR
IST
FEA
IST
SPR
MNZ
FEA
MNZ
SPR
5th 46
  Luca Filippi Ret Ret 11 5 Ret Ret
  Giorgio Pantano 9 7 Ret 5 4 6 1 4 5 3 13 Ret Ret 1 1
  Jason Tahinci DNS Ret Ret Ret DSQ 18 15 19 Ret 13 16 Ret 17 17 17 Ret 14 17 17 11 13
2007 GP2/05
Renault
B
BHR
FEA
BHR
SPR
CAT
FEA
CAT
SPR
MON
FEA
MAG
FEA
MAG
SPR
SIL
FEA
SIL
SPR
NÜR
FEA
NÜR
SPR
HUN
FEA
HUN
SPR
IST
FEA
IST
SPR
MNZ
FEA
MNZ
SPR
SPA
FEA
SPA
SPR
VAL
FEA
VAL
SPR
9th 37
  Antônio Pizzonia 16 Ret Ret 8 8
  Adam Carroll DSQ 14 6 1 Ret 14 1 2 3 3 Ret 15 Ret 6 Ret 15
  Jason Tahinci Ret 13 DNS Ret Ret 15 18 19 16 17 19 Ret 11 14 Ret 11 20 14 20 13 Ret
2008 GP2/08
Renault
B
CAT
FEA
CAT
SPR
IST
FEA
IST
SPR
MON
FEA
MON
FEA
MAG
FEA
MAG
SPR
SIL
FEA
SIL
SPR
HOC
FEA
HOC
SPR
HUN
FEA
HUN
SPR
VAL
FEA
VAL
SPR
SPA
FEA
SPA
SPR
MNZ
FEA
MNZ
SPR
10th 15
  Roldán Rodríguez Ret Ret 12 13 6 4 Ret 16 11 Ret 18 15 19 Ret Ret 10 21 Ret 6 2
  Adrián Vallés 18 11
  Adam Carroll 8 Ret Ret Ret
  Marko Asmer 17 11 20 13 14 12 18 Ret DNS Ret 16 Ret Ret Ret
2009 GP2/08
Renault
B
CAT
FEA
CAT
SPR
MON
FEA
MON
FEA
IST
FEA
IST
SPR
SIL
FEA
SIL
SPR
NÜR
FEA
NÜR
SPR
HUN
FEA
HUN
SPR
VAL
FEA
VAL
SPR
SPA
FEA
SPA
SPR
MNZ
FEA
MNZ
SPR
ALG
FEA
ALG
SPR
10th 29
  Andreas Zuber Ret Ret 3 5 9 19 8 2 3 Ret Ret 17 16 Ret 12 Ret 8 12
  Luiz Razia 16 12 13 10 Ret 20 20 Ret Ret 14 Ret Ret Ret 13 8 1 10 17

GP2 Asia Series

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(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Chassis
Engine
Tyres
Drivers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 T.C. Points
2008 GP2/05
Renault
B
DUB1
FEA
DUB1
SPR
SEN
FEA
SEN
SPR
SEP
FEA
SEP
SPR
BHR
FEA
BHR
SPR
DUB2
FEA
DUB2
SPR
7th 19
  Adrián Vallés 4 Ret 2 5 Ret 20 5 Ret Ret 10
  Michael Herck Ret 17 9 12 11 11 15 14
  Roldán Rodríguez 15 Ret
2008–09 GP2/05
Renault
B
SHI
FEA
SHI
SPR
DUB3
FEA
DUB3
SPR
BHR1
FEA
BHR1
SPR
LSL
FEA
LSL
SPR
SEP
FEA
SEP
SPR
BHR2
FEA
BHR2
SPR
12th 0
  Andreas Zuber Ret Ret Ret C
  Rodolfo González 16 Ret Ret 19 10 8 Ret Ret
  Kevin Chen Ret 15 18 C 21 21 18 23 20 Ret Ret 18

Superleague Formula

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Year Car Teams Races Wins Poles F.L. Points T.C.
2008 Panoz DP09-Menard   A.S. Roma 12 0 1 0 307 5th

References

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  1. ^ "AUTO GP - News - Auto GP returns to Imola this week-end".
  2. ^ "Confirmed: Fisichella to partner Coloni in GP2". crash.net. 2005-12-12. Retrieved 2009-08-21.
  3. ^ Glendenning, Mark (2009-08-21). "Coloni takes full control of FMS team". autosport.com. Retrieved 2009-08-21.
  4. ^ Glendenning, Mark (2009-08-28). "Legal row forces Coloni to miss Spa". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 2009-08-29.

Notes

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