Draft:Invicta Racing

Invicta Racing
Founded	2012
Founder(s)	Paul Devlin; Andy Roche; Declan Lohan
Base	Attleborough, Norfolk, England
Team principal(s)	Andy Roche
Current series	FIA Formula 2 Championship;
Former series	GP2 Series; Auto GP
Current drivers	FIA Formula 2 Championship; 9. Roman Staněk; 10. Leonardo Fornaroli;
Website	https://invictaracing.com//

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Submission declined on 13 December 2024 by Hey man im josh (talk).

Thank you for your submission, but the subject of this article already exists in Wikipedia. You can find it and improve it at Virtuosi Racing instead.

Declined by Hey man im josh 7 days ago.

Comment: This article already exists at Virtuosi Racing and was moved from that article name, originally, on 2023-12-20. You have tried to move the page to a title that includes this name twice, on 2024-10-14
T09:37:29Z and 2024-11-12 T09:42:15Z, but attempting to duplicate the article is not how we solve a dispute about what title is appropriate. Hey man im josh (talk) 13:25, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

Invicta Racing

Invicta Racing is a British racing team currently competing in FIA Formula 2. The team previously raced in the Auto GP series as Virtuosi UK, in addition to running the Russian Time outfit in Formula 2 and its predecessor GP2 Series from 2015 to 2018. With the withdrawal of Russian Time, the team assumed its new name UNI-Virtuosi Racing for the 2019 Formula 2 season. A partnership with watch company Invicta resulted in a further name change to Invicta Virtuosi Racing for the 2023 season.^[1] The Formula 2 operation was fully rebranded as Invicta Racing in 2024 after Invicta purchased an ownership stake.^[2]

History

In 2012, Paul Devlin and Andy Roche approached businessman Declan Lohan for financial backing, leading to the foundation of the Virtuosi UK team at Carleton Rode, Norfolk, to participate in Auto GP.^[3] The team signed GP2 Series driver Pål Varhaug.^[4] His teammates in the first rounds were European F3 Open driver Matteo Beretta and Formula Renault 3.5 Series driver Sten Pentus, before they were replaced by Auto GP veteran Francesco Dracone.^[5] Varhaug won the feature race at Sonoma and reverse-grid races at Monza and Hungaroring, finishing as runner-up in the drivers' standings and helping secure fourth in the teams' standings.^[6]

For 2013, the team signed FIA European Formula 3 Championship graduate Andrea Roda.^[7] He was partnered by Max Snegirev. The team also facilitated the Comtec by Virtuosi entry.^[8] Unlike the previous season, the team failed to reach the podium and dropped to seventh in the teams' standings.

Andrea Roda was retained for the 2014 campaign.^[9] For the opening two rounds, the team expanded to three cars, fielding Richard Gonda and Sam Dejonghe.^[10] At Imola, the second car was occupied by returnee Varhaug, but he was replaced at Spielberg by Tamás Pál Kiss, who had left Zele Racing.^[11] In Austria, Roda won a reverse-grid race, claiming the team’s first victory since 2012.^[12] Kiss notched another two wins for the team at the Nürburgring and Estoril.^[13] By the end of the year, the team finished as runner-up in the teams' standings.

In 2015, the team signed German Formula Three driver Nikita Zlobin.^[14] Additionally, the team took over from iSport International in managing the Russian Time entry in the GP2 Series.^[15]

On 4 December 2018, it was announced that Virtuosi would replace the outgoing Russian Time outfit in the FIA Formula 2 Championship for 2019.^[16] The following day, the team confirmed Guanyu Zhou as its first driver.^[17] The next day, Luca Ghiotto filled the remaining spot in the lineup.^[18] In its first season, the team finished second in the Teams' Championship, with Ghiotto taking four wins.

For 2020, Zhou stayed on as the team’s first driver, while the outgoing Ghiotto was replaced by Callum Ilott.^[19] The team repeated its runners-up finish in the Teams' Championship from the previous year, again scoring four victories.

In 2021, Zhou was once again retained by the team, this time joined by Felipe Drugovich in the other car.^[20] For the third year in a row, the team finished in second place in the Teams' Championship, once again with four wins, all scored by Zhou.

With Zhou graduating to Alfa Romeo’s Formula 1 team in 2022, his seat was filled by Jack Doohan, with Marino Sato replacing Drugovich.^[21] Despite Doohan taking three wins in his rookie season, the team could only finish in seventh place in the Teams' Championship.

Doohan remained with the renamed Invicta Virtuosi Racing team in 2023, this time joined by Amaury Cordeel.^[22] The Australian driver claimed another three victories, all of which came in the final five events of the season. He looked a viable threat for the title, eventually placing third in the standings, while the team jumped to fifth.

The team was reborn as Invicta Racing for 2024 and welcomed an all-new driver lineup of Gabriel Bortoleto and Kush Maini. Over the course of the season, the duo took three victories, including the Feature Race at Monza where Bortoleto became the first F2 driver to go from last on the grid to first at the flag.

Results

Year	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	T.C.	Points
2019		BHR FEA	BHR SPR	BAK FEA	BAK SPR	CAT FEA	CAT SPR	MCO FEA	MCO SPR	LEC FEA	LEC SPR	RBR FEA	RBR SPR	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	SPA FEA	SPA SPR	MNZ FEA	MNZ SPR	SOC FEA	SOC SPR	YMC FEA	YMC SPR					2nd	347
	Zhou Guanyu	10^F	4	Ret	10	3	4	5	3	4	3	6	8	3^P	8	9	9	C	C	Ret	4	10	5	3^F	8
	Luca Ghiotto	2^P	1	9	Ret^F	4^P	2	DSQ	Ret	Ret	12	2	2	1	15	4	8	C	C	2	15	4^F	1	6	1
2020		RBR FEA	RBR SPR	RBR FEA	RBR SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	CAT FEA	CAT SPR	SPA FEA	SPA SPR	MNZ FEA	MNZ SPR	MUG FEA	MUG SPR	SOC FEA	SOC SPR	BHR FEA	BHR SPR	BHR FEA	BHR SPR					2nd	352.5
	Zhou Guanyu	17^{P F}	14	3	4	10	8^F	2^F	9	9	7	3	14	7	3	5	NC	Ret^F	5	8	1	14	5	2	4
	Callum Ilott	1	9	5	5	8^P	2	5	Ret	1^P	6	5^P	8	10	Ret	6^P	1	12	6	3	7	2^P	16	5	10
2021		BHR SP1	BHR SP2	BHR FEA	MCO SP1	MCO SP2	MCO FEA	BAK SP1	BAK SP2	BAK FEA	SIL SP1	SIL SP2	SIL FEA	MNZ SP1	MNZ SP2	MNZ FEA	SOC SP1	SOC SP2	SOC FEA	JED SP1	JED SP2	JED FEA	YMC SP1	YMC SP2	YMC FEA					2nd	288
	Zhou Guanyu	7	3	1^P	1	15	5^F	3	Ret	13	Ret	11	1	2	8	2	DNS	C	6	17	8	4	8	1	2
	Felipe Drugovich	16	14	9	2	14	3	14	10	4	4	7	6	Ret	17	13	DNS	C	DNS	4	10	5	2	5	3
2022		BHR SPR	BHR FEA	JED SPR	JED FEA	IMO SPR	IMO FEA	CAT SPR	CAT FEA	MCO SPR	MCO FEA	BAK SPR	BAK FEA	SIL SPR	SIL FEA	RBR SPR	RBR FEA	LEC SPR	LEC FEA	HUN SPR	HUN FEA	SPA SPR	SPA FEA	ZAN SPR	ZAN FEA	MNZ SPR	MNZ FEA	YMC SPR	YMC FEA	7th	134
	Jack Doohan	10	10^P	Ret	9^F	11	Ret	6	2^{P F}	7^F	4	11	13	1	9	3	19^F	4	5	1	Ret	2	1	9	Ret	6	Ret^P	7	Ret
	Marino Sato	16	11	8	17	16	11	17	19	15	10	17†	8	Ret	15	Ret	16	9	Ret	15	15	12	15	19	Ret	11	11	19	15
2023		BHR SPR	BHR FEA	JED SPR	JED FEA	ALB SPR	ALB FEA	BAK SPR	BAK FEA	MCO SPR	MCO FEA	CAT SPR	CAT FEA	RBR SPR	RBR FEA	SIL SPR	SIL FEA	HUN SPR	HUN FEA	SPA SPR	SPA FEA	ZAN SPR	ZAN FEA	MNZ SPR	MNZ FEA	YMC SPR	YMC FEA			5th	176
	Jack Doohan	11	16	7	2	Ret	8	17†	15	6^F	Ret	5	6	7	4	3	4	10	1^{P F}	5	1^F	6	DNS	9	6	6	1^P
	Amaury Cordeel	21	15	19	20	12	13	9	19	Ret	NC	17	19	15	17	16	Ret	19	21	Ret	15	16	8	Ret	8	17	16
2024		BHR SPR	BHR FEA	JED SPR	JED FEA	ALB SPR	ALB FEA	IMO SPR	IMO FEA	MCO SPR	MCO FEA	CAT SPR	CAT FEA	RBR SPR	RBR FEA	SIL SPR	SIL FEA	HUN SPR	HUN FEA	SPA SPR	SPA FEA	MNZ SPR	MNZ FEA	BAK SPR	BAK FEA	LUS SPR	LUS FEA	YMC SPR	YMC FEA	1st	288.5
	Kush Maini	13	7	8	2^P	3	12	8	14	Ret	17	2	6	7	17	3	19	1	7	13	15	11	15^F	9	DSQ	20†	14	17	12
	Gabriel Bortoleto	6	5^P	10	Ret	Ret	Ret	6	2^P	2	8	5	10	4	1	4	6	16^F	4	10	2	8	1	5	4^F	5	3	2	2

Timeline

Current series
FIA Formula 2 Championship	2017–present
Former series
Auto GP	2012–2015
GP2 Series	2015–2016

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External links

Official website

Category:British auto racing teams Category:Auto GP teams Category:GP2 Series teams Category:2012 establishments in the United Kingdom Category:Auto racing teams established in 2012 Category:FIA Formula 2 Championship teams

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