Addax, or Barwa Addax was a Spanish motorsport team owned by the bank Addax Capital, which competed in the GP2, GP3 and GP2 Asia Series.

Spain Addax Team
Founded2009
Folded2013
Team principal(s)Alejandro Agag
Ignacio Muñoz-Alonso
Former seriesGP2 Series
GP2 Asia Series
GP3 Series
Noted driversVenezuela Johnny Cecotto Jr.
France Romain Grosjean
Mexico Sergio Pérez
Russia Vitaly Petrov
France Charles Pic
Netherlands Giedo van der Garde
Teams'
Championships
GP2 Series:
2011

Team history

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GP2 Series

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Vitaly Petrov driving for Campos Racing at the 2008 Silverstone GP2 Series round.

Barwa Addax was formed as a result of Alejandro Agag purchase of the Campos Racing GP2 team. Campos Racing was started by former Formula One driver Adrián Campos in 1998, and competed in the GP2 Series since its inaugural season in 2005. After the 2008 season, in which Campos won the teams' championship, he elected to step down and pass control of the GP2 team to Agag, a businessman with motorsport interests. Campos Racing continues to compete in the European F3 Open Championship, and in 2010 they entered Formula One as Campos Meta 1 before being taken over and renamed Hispania Racing. Agag renamed the team Addax after the eponymous species of antelope, and retained the name of team sponsor Barwa International, a Qatari real estate company, for the 2009 season.

Addax signed 2008 GP2 Asia Series season champion Romain Grosjean and existing Campos driver Vitaly Petrov for its 2009 campaign. Grosjean took the team's first pole position during the opening qualifying session of the season, in Barcelona.[1] He also took the team's first win, leading home Petrov in a 1–2 finish.[2] Both drivers quickly established themselves as championship contenders.

 
Vitaly Petrov driving for Barwa Addax at the 2009 Istanbul Park GP2 Series round.

Following Nelson Piquet Jr.'s departure from the Renault F1 team, Grosjean, who was the team's third driver, was drafted in to replace him from the 2009 European Grand Prix onwards. Grosjean's seat was taken by Durango driver Davide Valsecchi. Despite his absence from the final eight races of the season, Grosjean finished fourth in the championship with two wins, a tally matched by Petrov, who was Nico Hülkenberg's main rival for the championship and eventually finished runner-up. Addax had the consolation of winning the teams' championship in the first season competing with its new name.

For the 2010 season, Petrov graduated to Formula One, also with Renault, and Valsecchi moved to the iSport International team, so Addax signed second-year drivers Giedo van der Garde and Sergio Pérez.[3] Pérez quickly assumed the role of team leader, winning five races and establishing himself as eventual champion Pastor Maldonado's main rival, whilst Van der Garde finished seventh overall with three podium finishes. Addax was narrowly beaten to the teams' championship by Rapax, which scored five more points.

 
Giedo van der Garde driving for Addax at the 2011 Monza GP2 Series round.

Van der Garde remained with the team for the 2011 season, and the F1-bound Pérez was replaced by Charles Pic, now also in his second year in GP2. Although he did not win a race, Van der Garde scored a consistent string of podium finishes in the first half of the season which established him in second place in the championship behind runaway leader Grosjean, now back in the series and driving for DAMS. However, he slipped back to fifth in the standings after a poor end to the season and was pipped by Pic, who impressed with three pole positions and two race victories. Despite finishing fourth and fifth in the drivers' standings, Addax won its second teams' championship by virtue of the fact that the top three—Grosjean, Luca Filippi and Jules Bianchi—had all been partnered with teammates who scored much fewer points by comparison.

For the 2012 season, Pic graduated to F1 with Marussia and Van der Garde moved to the Caterham Racing team as part of his deal to become the Caterham F1 team's reserve driver; Addax signed the unfancied pairing of Johnny Cecotto Jr. and Josef Král to replace them. Having previously scored a meagre four points over more than two years of GP2, Cecotto made a breakthrough with Addax, winning the feature races at Monaco (from pole position) and Hockenheim. However, his inconsistency limited him to ninth overall in the drivers' championship. On the other side of the garage, Král was replaced by HRT F1 third driver Dani Clos for four races after the first round of the championship, and then endured a run of twelve races without scoring, before taking his own first series victory in the sprint race at Monza. He was then replaced for the final two races of the championship by rookie Jake Rosenzweig, who, like Clos before him, failed to score. As a result of this inconsistent season, Addax dropped to eighth place in the teams' standings.

GP2 Asia Series

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Addax also took over Campos Racing's entry in the GP2 Asia Series. In the 2008–09 season, Petrov and Pérez finished fifth and seventh respectively in the drivers' standings, with three wins between them, whilst Addax finished third in the teams' standings. For the 2009–10 season, the team ran the drivers it would employ for the main series (Pérez and Van der Garde) at some rounds, but also fielded Max Chilton, Luiz Razia and Rodolfo González at others; the changes restricted the team to tenth in the championship. For the final GP2 Asia season in 2011, Addax reverted to running its main series drivers (Van der Garde and Pic) throughout. Van der Garde took two podium finishes to finish third overall, but Pic failed to score any points.

GP3 Series

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Addax was one of ten teams granted entries for the inaugural GP3 Series championship in 2010. It was one of only two existing GP2 teams to compete in GP3 as well, the other being ART Grand Prix. The team's three drivers were Felipe Guimarães, Pablo Sánchez López and Mirko Bortolotti. None of the three featured strongly, with two podium finishes between them the team's best results, and they finished 16th, 30th and 11th in the championship respectively. Addax finished eighth in the teams' championship.

For the 2011 season, Addax recruited Dominic Storey, Gabriel Chaves and Dean Smith. Chaves was the only driver to complete the season, as Storey was replaced by Tom Dillmann after two rounds of the championship, and Vittorio Ghirelli took Smith's seat for the final round. On this occasion, Smith was the best of the five, scoring two podium finishes and setting a fastest lap to take 12th overall; Chaves was 19th and Storey 37th; Dillman and Ghirelli were 14th and 25th having also competed for other teams. Addax again finished eighth in the teams' championship, but with eight more points than in 2010. Addax elected to withdraw from the GP3 Series following the conclusion of the 2011 season.

Staff (2009)

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  • Founder Adrián Campos Suñer
  • Team Principal & Owner Alejandro Agag
  • Team Manager Alberto Longo Álvarez de Sotomayor
  • Chief Financial Officer Jose Julio Rosell
  • Technical Director Chris Murphy
  • Chief Logistic Caterina Sarrión
  • Press Officer Antonio Moralejo
  • RRPP Marta Viscasillas
  • Track Engineer Emilio Lozano
  • Track Engineer Peter Wyss
  • Track Engineer Phillip Gautheron
  • Chief Mechanic Enrique Colomina
  • Mechanics: Vicente Andreu, Daniel Lluch, Miguél Angel Rovira, Javier López & Gustavo Pochetino

Results

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GP2 Series

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Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F.L. Points D.C. T.C.
2009 Dallara GP2/08-Mecachrome   Vitaly Petrov 20 2 2 2 75 2nd 2nd
  Romain Grosjean 12 2 3 2 45 4th
  Davide Valsecchi[a] 8 0 0 0 12 17th
2010 Dallara GP2/08-Mecachrome   Giedo van der Garde 20 0 0 0 39 7th 2nd
  Sergio Pérez 20 5 1 5 71 2nd
2011 Dallara GP2/11-Mecachrome   Charles Pic 18 2 3 0 52 4th 1st
  Giedo van der Garde 18 0 1 1 49 5th
2012 Dallara GP2/11-Mecachrome   Johnny Cecotto Jr. 24 2 1 1 104 9th 8th
  Josef Král 16 1 0 0 27 17th
  Dani Clos 4 0 0 0 0 28th
  Jake Rosenzweig 4 0 0 0 0 32nd
2013 Dallara GP2/11-Mecachrome   Rio Haryanto 22 0 0 0 22 19th 12th
  Jake Rosenzweig 22 0 0 0 0 28th

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 22 23 24 T.C. Points
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
2nd 122
  Vitaly Petrov 2 9 2 6 1 3 15 10 4 4 Ret 12 1 3 Ret 6 2 5 4 Ret
  Romain Grosjean 1 2 1 17† Ret 12 5 4 18† 5 10 4
  Davide Valsecchi 10 Ret Ret 8 14 9 7 14
2010 GP2/08
Renault
B
CAT
FEA
CAT
SPR
MON
FEA
MON
SPR
IST
FEA
IST
SPR
VAL
FEA
VAL
SPR
SIL
FEA
SIL
SPR
HOC
FEA
HOC
SPR
HUN
FEA
HUN
SPR
SPA
FEA
SPA
SPR
MNZ
FEA
MNZ
SPR
YMC
FEA
YMC
SPR
2nd 110
  Giedo van der Garde 20 9 6 2 4 3 4 2 9 7 12 9 5 4 9 2 Ret Ret Ret 19
  Sergio Pérez 4 Ret 1 6 DSQ 7 11 16 5 1 2 1 3 Ret 7 1 Ret 13 1 Ret
2011 GP2/11
Mecachrome
P
IST
FEA
IST
SPR
CAT
FEA
CAT
SPR
MON
FEA
MON
SPR
VAL
FEA
VAL
SPR
SIL
FEA
SIL
SPR
NÜR
FEA
NÜR
SPR
HUN
FEA
HUN
SPR
SPA
FEA
SPA
SPR
MNZ
FEA
MNZ
SPR
1st 101
  Charles Pic 7 4 1 19 8 1 Ret Ret 11 10 2 DSQ 2 13 Ret 19 2 Ret
  Giedo van der Garde 4 2 2 Ret Ret 9 2 3 8 3 6 Ret 4 4 Ret 20 21 13
2012 GP2/11
Mecachrome
P
SEP
FEA
SEP
SPR
BHR1
FEA
BHR1
SPR
BHR2
FEA
BHR2
SPR
CAT
FEA
CAT
SPR
MON
FEA
MON
SPR
VAL
FEA
VAL
SPR
SIL
FEA
SIL
SPR
HOC
FEA
HOC
SPR
HUN
FEA
HUN
SPR
SPA
FEA
SPA
SPR
MNZ
FEA
MNZ
SPR
MRN
FEA
MRN
SPR
8th 131
  Johnny Cecotto Jr. Ret 22 Ret 22† 9 Ret 18 13 1 Ret DSQ Ret 2 18† 1 6 Ret Ret 17 Ret 2 5 Ret 9
  Josef Král 14 9 20 16 Ret 10 DSQ 11 16 10 12 13 24† 17 4 1
  Dani Clos 19† 11 Ret Ret
  Jake Rosenzweig 18 19 15 17
2013 GP2/11
Mecachrome
P
SEP
FEA
SEP
SPR
BHR
FEA
BHR
SPR
CAT
FEA
CAT
SPR
MON
FEA
MON
SPR
SIL
FEA
SIL
SPR
NÜR
FEA
NÜR
SPR
HUN
FEA
HUN
SPR
SPA
FEA
SPA
SPR
MNZ
FEA
MNZ
SPR
MRN
FEA
MRN
SPR
YMC
FEA
YMC
SPR
12th 22
  Jake Rosenzweig 18 20 16 19 14 22 14 10 14 21 23 20 25† 15 17 21 Ret 18 15 18 21† 11
  Rio Haryanto 20 18 15 24 9 24 Ret 16 7 2 18 14 11 10 19 25 14 7 20 11 14 12

GP2 Final

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

Year Chassis
Engine
Tyres
Drivers 1 2 T.C. Points
2011 GP2/11
Mecachrome
P
YMC
FEA
YMC
SPR
5th 9
  Jake Rosenzweig Ret 14
  Jolyon Palmer 3 4

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
2008–09 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
3rd 54
  Vitaly Petrov 5 Ret 5 C 10 12 3 2 6 1 19 11
  Sergio Pérez Ret 7 6 C 8 1 2 1 Ret 6 12 9
2009–10 GP2/05
Renault
B
YMC1
FEA
YMC1
SPR
YMC2
FEA
YMC2
SPR
BHR1
FEA
BHR1
SPR
BHR2
FEA
BHR2
SPR
10th 5
  Max Chilton 16 17 18 12 19 15
  Giedo van der Garde Ret 19
  Luiz Razia Ret 11
  Sergio Pérez 12 4 7 17
  Rodolfo González Ret Ret
2011 GP2/11
Mecachrome
P
YMC
FEA
YMC
SPR
IMO
FEA
IMO
SPR
3rd 16
  Charles Pic 9 21 20 11
  Giedo van der Garde 5 23 2 3

GP3 Series

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Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles Fast laps Points D.C. T.C.
2010 Dallara GP3/10-Renault   Felipe Guimarães 16 0 0 0 9 16th 8th
  Pablo Sánchez López 16 0 0 0 0 30th
  Mirko Bortolotti 16 0 0 0 16 11th
2011 Dallara GP3/10-Renault   Dominic Storey 4 0 0 0 0 37th 8th
  Tom Dillmann 12 0 0 0 15[b] 14th
  Gabriel Chaves 16 0 0 0 8 19th
  Dean Smith 14 0 0 1 18 12th
  Vittorio Ghirelli 2 0 0 0 0 25th[c]

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 T.C. Points
2010 GP3/10
Renault
P
CAT
FEA
CAT
SPR
IST
FEA
IST
SPR
VAL
FEA
VAL
SPR
SIL
FEA
SIL
SPR
HOC
FEA
HOC
SPR
HUN
FEA
HUN
SPR
SPA
FEA
SPA
SPR
MNZ
FEA
MNZ
SPR
8th 25
  Felipe Guimarães Ret 20 3 6 Ret 18 Ret 23 7 7 13 Ret Ret 9 Ret 17
  Pablo Sánchez López Ret 15 21 16 14 9 21 14 Ret 11 Ret 16 Ret 25 18 12
  Mirko Bortolotti 16 Ret 25 12 18 10 8 13 6 4 11 8 Ret 14 5 2
2011 GP3/10
Renault
P
IST
FEA
IST
SPR
CAT
FEA
CAT
SPR
VAL
FEA
VAL
SPR
SIL
FEA
SIL
SPR
NÜR
FEA
NÜR
SPR
HUN
FEA
HUN
SPR
SPA
FEA
SPA
SPR
MNZ
FEA
MNZ
SPR
8th 33
  Dominic Storey 20 Ret Ret 27
  Tom Dillmann 20 Ret Ret 25 22 5 7 22 6 Ret Ret 9
  Gabriel Chaves 10 12 13 6 4 5 Ret 14 27 17 23 Ret 16 16 17 7
  Dean Smith 9 6 7 3 5 11 8 2 24 Ret 24 19 20 20
  Vittorio Ghirelli Ret 18

Notes

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  1. ^ Davide Valsecchi also raced for Durango, for whom he scored 10 points.
  2. ^ Tom Dillmann scored 8 of his 15 points in 2 races for Carlin.
  3. ^ Vittorio Ghirelli also took part in 12 races for Jenzer Motorsport.

References

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  1. ^ Glendenning, Mark (2009-05-08). "Grosjean takes pole for GP2 opener". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Archived from the original on 11 May 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-08.
  2. ^ Glendenning, Mark (2009-05-09). "Grosjean starts GP2 season with win". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Archived from the original on 12 May 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
  3. ^ O'Leary, Jamie (2009-11-18). "Van der Garde joins Addax for 2010". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Archived from the original on 21 November 2009. Retrieved 2009-11-18.
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Achievements
Preceded by GP2 Series Teams' Champion
2011
Succeeded by