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.[1]
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.
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.
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.
Russian Time was established by former Russian racing driver and manager Igor Mazepa and Motopark Academy team principal Timo Rumpfkeil in 2013.[2] [3] The team had sought an entry to the GP2 Series for two years before finally being accepted in 2013, replacing iSport International.[3] 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.[4]
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.[5] 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.[6]
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.[7] [8] 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.[9]
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.[10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]
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.[16] [17] [18] [19] 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.[20] [21] [22] [23] 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.[24] [25]
| 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 | Cenyu Han | ||||||||
 Lorenzo Fluxá | ||||||||||
| Levente Révész | ||||||||||
| Jakob Bergmeister | ||||||||||
| Fernando Barrichello | ||||||||||
| Brad Benavides | ||||||||||
| Michael Shin | ||||||||||
| Gerrard Xie | ||||||||||
| Enzo Richer |
| Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Dallara GP2/11-Mecachrome | Sam Bird | 22 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 181 | 2nd | 1st |
 Tom Dillmann | 22 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 92 | 10th |
| Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | F.Laps | Points | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 [G] | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | |||
| Dallara F305-Volkswagen |  Jimmy Eriksson [G] | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | ||
| Luís Sá Silva [G] | 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 [G] | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A† | |||
 Artem Markelov [G] | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
† Shared results with other teams
| Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | F.Laps | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Dallara F308-Volkswagen | Kimiya Sato | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 9th |
| Tom Dillmann [G] | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | ||
| Jimmy Eriksson [G] | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | ||
| Gianmarco Raimondo [G] | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | ||
| Kuba Giermaziak [G] | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
| 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 | |||
| -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 | ||
| -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 | ||
| -Volkswagen | Sebastián Fernández | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 21st | ||
† Includes points scored for Van Amersfoort Racing
| 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 | ||||
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | Points | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Current series | ||
|---|---|---|
| Euroformula Open Championship | 2019–present | |
| International GT Open | 2022–present | |
| Asian Le Mans Series | 2023–present | |
| Le Mans Cup | 2024–present | |
| Former series | ||
| Formula König | 1999–2000 | |
| Formula Renault 2.0 Germany | 2001–2005 | |
| Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 | 2001–2009 | |
| Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup | 2006–2009 | |
| Formula 3 Euro Series | 2009–2011 | |
| German Formula Three Championship | 2010–2014 | |
| Porsche Supercup | 2011 | |
| British Formula Three Championship | 2011, 2014 | |
| ADAC Formel Masters | 2011–2014 | |
| GP2 Series | 2013 | |
| Porsche Carrera Cup Germany | 2013 | |
| ADAC Formula 4 | 2015–2017 | |
| FIA Formula 3 European Championship | 2015–2018 | |
| Formula 4 UAE Championship | 2016–2018 | |
| Japanese Formula 3 Championship | 2019 | |
| Super Formula | 2019–2020 | |
| Super Formula Lights | 2020 | |
