Drivex Explained

Drivex is an auto racing team and school based in Spain. The team was founded by Pedro de la Rosa and Miguel Ángel de Castro in 2005 as a racing school. The racing team is run by Miguel Ángel de Castro. They compete in the F4 Spanish Championship and Eurocup-3.^[1]

History

Single-seaters

Since 2009, Drivex have been contesting the Euroformula Open Championship, with the likes of Celso Míguez, Ferdinand Habsburg and Nikita Troitskiy achieving top three finishes in the drivers' championships.

In November 2018, Drivex expanded into the Formula Renault Eurocup championship for 2019, in collaboration with Fernando Alonso's FA Racing outfit.^[2]

Current series results

F4 Spanish Championship

Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles		Points
2016	Tatuus F4-T014	Nikita Volegov	20	0	1	0	188	5th	2nd
		Antolín González	8	0	0	0	0	NC
		Aleksandr Vartanyan	18	0	2	1	244	2nd
		Marta García	11	0	0	0	0	NC
2017	Tatuus F4-T014	Javier Cobián	3	0	0	0	7	17th	3rd
		Javier González	17	0	0	0	146	5th
		Ivan Berets	14	0	0	0	41	10th
		Jakes Caouette	20	0	0	0	9	16th
2018	Tatuus F4-T014	Javier González	14	6	4	0	196	3rd	2nd
		Nazim Azman†	3	0	0	0	179	4th
		Rui Andrade	14	0	0	0	43	12th
		Rafael Villanueva Jr.†	10	0	0	0	90	6th
		Filip Kaminiarz	14	0	0	0	14	15th
		Franco Colapinto	4	1	0	0	33	9th
		Benjamin Goethe	17	0	0	0	39	13th
2019	Tatuus F4-T014	Irina Sidorkova	18	0	0	0	15	18th	1st
		Manuel Espírito Santo	3	0	0	0	0	NC
		Artem Lobanenko	21	0	0	2	77	9th
		Rashed Ghanem	15	1	0	0	61	10th
		Oliver Goethe	3	0	0	0	0	NC
		Ivan Nosov	20	0	0	0	47	13th
		Franco Colapinto	21	11	10	10	325	1st
		Frederico Alfonso Peters	3	0	0	0	0	20th
2020	Tatuus F4-T014	Manuel Silva	3	0	0	0	1	24th	2nd
		Ivan Nosov	18	0	0	0	85	7th
		Léna Bühler	20	0	0	0	23	15th
		Maksim Arkhangelskiy	3	0	0	0	0	27th
		Paul-Adrien Pallot	21	0	0	0	51	12th
		Augustin Callinot	9	0	0	0	20	16th
		Guilherme Oliveira	3	0	0	0	16	19th
		Nicolás Baptiste	3	0	0	0	0	26th
		Valdemar Eriksen	15	1	0	0	51	11th
2021	Tatuus F4-T014	Maksim Arkhangelskiy	21	0	0	0	81	9th	4th
		Guilherme Oliveira	18	0	0	1	46	13th
		Noam Abramczyk	21	0	0	1	38	14th
		Branden Lee Oxley	21	0	0	0	12	19th
		Lola Lovinfosse	21	0	0	0	0	27th
		Lukáš Málek	6	0	0	0	0	30th
		Georgi Dimitrov	3	0	0	0	0	32nd
2022	Tatuus F4-T421	Gaël Julien	21	0	0	0	60	11th	4th
		Daniel Nogales	21	0	0	0	26	14th
		Bruno del Pino	21	0	0	0	24	16th
		Maksim Arkhangelskiy	21	0	0	0	0	24th
		Noah Lisle	9	0	0	0	0	29th
		Victoria Blokhina	3	0	0	0	0	NC
2023	Tatuus F4-T421	Juan Cota	21	0	0	0	14	15th	8th
		Daniel Nogales	9	0	0	0	5	18th
		Alexander Abkhazava	21	0	0	0	2	24th
		Joao Paulo Diaz Balesteiro	3	0	0	0	0	NC
		Alexander Bolduev	3	0	0	0	0	29th	12th
		Georgy Zhuravskiy	15	0	0	0	0	34th
		Maximiliano Restrepo	20	0	0	0	0	37th
2024	Tatuus F4-T421	Juan Cota	21	4	1	4	186	4th	6th
		Mikkel Pedersen	12	0	0	0	3	23rd
		Matúš Ryba	21	0	0	0	0	28th
		Oscar Wurz†	5	0	0	0	0	29th
		Christopher El Feghali	6	0	0	0	0	NC
		Francisco Macedo	20	0	0	0	9	21st	10th
		Daniel Nogales	3	0	0	0	0	26th
		Gino Trappa	3	0	0	0	0	42nd
		Eloi González†	4	0	0	0	0	44th
		Pacôme Weisenburger	0	0	0	0	0	NC
		Joanne Ciconte	6	0	0	0	0	NC

^† Shared results with other teams

Formula Winter Series

Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles		Points
2023	Tatuus F4-T421	Juan Cota	4	0	0	0	36	8th	N/A
		Maximiliano Restrepo	4	0	0	0	6	17th
2024	Tatuus F4-T421	Juan Cota	9	1	0	1	64	6th	4th
		Mikkel Gaarde Pedersen	11	0	1	0	55	8th
		Francisco Macedo	11	0	0	0	0	35th

Eurocup-3

Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles		Points		T.C.
2023	Tatuus F3 T-318	Nick Gilkes	16	0	0	0	37	11th	4th
		Daniel Nogales	12	0	0	0	36	12th
		Pierre-Louis Chovet	2	0	0	0	14	16th
		William Karlsson	6	0	0	0	6	17th
		David Morales	2	0	0	0	0	21st
		Georgy Zhuravskiy	4	0	0	0	0	24th
2024	Tatuus F3 T-318	Daniel Nogales†	16	0	0	1	23	15th	7th
		Georgy Zhuravskiy‡	16	0	0	0	2	22nd
		Nick Gilkes	12	0	0	0	1	23rd
		Victoria Blokhina	15	0	0	0	0	27th
		Gaspard Le Gallais	16	0	0	0	0	28th
		Nikita Bedrin	2	0	0	0	0	NC
		Michael Belov	2	0	0	0	0	NC
		Preston Lambert	2	0	0	0	0	NC
		Joao Paulo Diaz Balesteiro	2	0	0	0	0	26th
			9	0	0	0			6th
		Hadrien David	2	0	0	0	8	18th
		Linus Hellberg	6	0	0	0	0	NC
		Emil Hellberg	6	0	0	0	0	NC

† Nogales drove for Saintéloc Racing from round 6 onwards.

‡ Zhuravskiy drove for MP Motorsport from round 7 onwards.

Former Series Results

Formula Renault Eurocup

Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles		Points
2019	Tatuus F3 T-318-Renault	Brad Benavides	13	0	0	0	0	23rd	8th
		Callan O'Keeffe	10	0	0	0	15	17th
		Rui Andrade	2	0	0	0	0	26th
		Patrick Schott	12	0	0	0	0	22nd
		Franco Colapinto	4	0	0	0	0	NC
		Alex Karkosik	4	0	0	0	1	21st
2020	Tatuus F3 T-318-Renault	Amaury Cordeel	19	0	0	0	33	15th	7th
		Abbi Pulling	2	0	0	0	0	NC
		Tijmen van der Helm	18	0	0	0	45	12th

Euroformula Open Championship

Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles		Points
2009	Dallara F308 Fiat	Celso Míguez	16	5	3	2	145	2nd	2nd
	Dallara F306 Fiat	Luis Villalba	2	0	0	0	0	27th
		José Luis Abadín	10	0	0	0	16	15th
		Ryuichi Nara	2	0	0	0	0	30th
2010	Dallara F308 Toyota	José Luis Abadín	10	0	0	0	43	7th	4th
		Pedro Quesada	4	0	0	0	18	15th
	Dallara F306 Toyota	Aaron Filgueira	16	1	0	1	46	6th
2011	Dallara F308 Toyota	Fernando Monje	16	0	0	1	27	15th	8th
	Dallara F306 Toyota	Pedro Quesada	4	0	0	0	0	25th†
		Luis Villalba	2	0	0	0	0	NC
		Cristian Serrada	6	0	0	0	0	NC
2012	Dallara F308 Toyota	José Luis Abadín	2	0	0	0	0	NC	9th
		Cristian Serrada	10	0	0	0	0	25th
2013	Dallara F308 Toyota	Richard Gonda	16	0	0	0	10	18th	NC
2014 "Drivex" did not compete.
2015	Dallara F312 Toyota	Ferdinand Habsburg	2	0	0	0	0	NC	NC
2016	Dallara F312 Toyota	Ferdinand Habsburg	16	2	4	1	247	2nd	2nd
		Nikita Troitskiy	4	0	1	0	36	13th
		Vasily Romanov	4	0	0	0	0	NC
2017	Dallara F312 Toyota	Christian Hahn	16	0	0	0	11	16th	3rd
		Tarun Reddy	16	0	0	0	26	14th†
		Nikita Troitskiy	16	0	2	4	222	2nd
2018	Dallara F312 Toyota	Jannes Fittje	6	0	0	0	22	12th	5th
		Lukas Dunner	16	0	0	0	81	7th
		Christian Hahn	12	0	0	0	29	10th
		Patrick Schott	2	0	0	0	0	NC
		Javier González	4	0	0	0	0	NC
2019	Dallara F317 Toyota	Petru Florescu	2	0	0	0	0	26th	7th
		Franco Colapinto	2	0	0	0	0	27th
		Rui Andrade	3	0	0	0	6	22nd
	Dallara F317 Mercedes-Benz		15	0	0	0
		Filip Kaminiarz	2	0	0	0	0	NC
2020	Dallara 320 Mercedes-Benz	Glenn van Berlo	18	0	0	0	80	9th	6th
		Shihab Al Habsi	6	0	0	0	6	17th
		Rafael Villagómez	4	0	0	0	0	NC
2021	Dallara 320 Mercedes-Benz	Enzo Trulli †	21	0	0	1	144	7th	5th
		Enzo Scionti	24	0	0	0	33	14th
		Joshua Dürksen	3	0	0	0	29	17th
		Branden Lee Oxley	3	0	0	0	13	19th
		Nico Pino	3	0	0	0	4	22nd
		Dexter Patterson	3	0	0	0	0	NC
2022	Dallara 320 Mercedes-Benz	Ayrton Simmons	9	0	0	1	85	10th	5th
		Alex Peroni	3	0	0	0	23	13th
		Nico Pino	8	0	0	0	20	14th
		Benjámin Berta	3	0	0	0	14	15th
		Daniel Nogales	3	0	0	0	4	16th

^† Shared results with other teams

Timeline

Current Series
F4 Spanish Championship	2016–present
Formula Winter Series	2023–present
Eurocup-3	2023–present
Former Series
Spanish GT Championship	2008–2009, 2011
Euroformula Open Championship	2009–2013, 2015–2022
International GT Open	2010, 2012–2018
Formula Renault Eurocup	2019

Notes and References

1. Web site: Wood . Ida . 18 Feb 2023 . Drivex announces exit from Euroformula as it joins new Eurocup-3 series . 2023-05-25. Formula Scout . en-US.
2. Web site: Fernando Alonso's FA Racing team joins Formula Renault Eurocup grid. Benyon. Jack. Autosport. Motorsport Network. November 14, 2018. January 8, 2019.