Status GP squad shows improved form in second Barcelona GP3 Series race
Status Grand Prix made headway with all-important tyre management in the second race of the GP3 Series season opener at the Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona. At this, the first GP3 race weekend with the brand-new, 400bhp, second-generation cars, all the teams found it a big challenge to maintain tyre performance throughout the races thanks to the... [Read more...]
Status Grand Prix joins forces with Swedish ace Eriksson for GP3 Series
January 28, 2013 by Status Grand Prix
Eriksson joins Silverstone based Irish Motorsport Team Status Grand Prix after winning the German Formula 3 title in 2012.
Status Grand Prix has recruited highly-rated Swedish racer Jimmy Eriksson for the 2013 GP3 Series season. Eriksson, who will be 22 years old in March, joins the Silverstone-based team after an extremely successful 2012 season, during which he won the German Formula 3 Cup, taking eight victories and six pole positions on his way to the title with the... [Read more...]
HVM Status GP commits to the 2013 FIA World Endurance Championship
January 24, 2013 by Status Grand Prix
Status Grand Prix and HVM Racing are pleased to confirm they have this week filed a formal entry application for the 2013 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC).
Status Grand Prix and HVM Racing are pleased to confirm they have this week filed a formal entry application for the 2013 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC). The HVM Status GP entry marks the first stage of the collaboration between two successful teams, the Silverstone and Indianapolis-based organizations committed to running a latest-specification... [Read more...]
Status GP and HVM Racing join forces for FIA WEC Campaign
December 13, 2012 by Tony Gregory
Anglo-Irish sportscar team Status Grand Prix has forged an alliance with IndyCar Series team HVM Racing to field a joint entry in next year’s FIA World Endurance Championship
Anglo-Irish sportscar team Status Grand Prix has forged an alliance with IndyCar Series team HVM Racing to field a joint entry in next year’s FIA World Endurance Championship. Following on from a successful two-day test of Status GP’s Lola-Judd B12/80 Coupe in Spain last week, HVM and Status GP will combine their technical and commercial resources... [Read more...]
Venturini joins Cullen and Weckstrom in Status GP Estoril GP3 test line-up
November 6, 2012 by Status Grand Prix
Ryan Cullen is looking to increase his mileage with StatusGP
Italian Giovanni Venturini will join Miki Weckstrom and Ryan Cullen in Status Grand Prix’s line-up for this week’s two days of GP3 Series post-season testing at the Estoril circuit. The two days of running at the Portuguese circuit will represent the first time that Venturini, who twice finished on the podium this season with Trident Racing, has... [Read more...]
Cassidy among the leading runners for Status GP in two-day GP3 Jerez test
October 26, 2012 by Status Grand Prix
Ryan Cullen was amongst the drivers to also test with Status GP in Jerez
Status Grand Prix enjoyed a good GP3 Series post-season test at Jerez, with category debutant Nick Cassidy featuring among the fastest eight drivers in three of the four sessions. New Zealander Cassidy, a Formula Renault 2.0 graduate, was seventh fastest on the opening morning of the two-day test, which was the only fully dry session. He was second... [Read more...]
Status GP to test Cullen in Spain and Portugal
October 23, 2012 by Status Grand Prix
Irish Team Status Grand Prix will test Somerset driver Ryan Cullen ahead of a planned GP3 move in 2013
Status Grand Prix is to test Formula Ford graduate Ryan Cullen as he prepares for a planned move into the GP3 Series next season. The 21-year-old from Somerset, who is sixth in the British Formula Ford Championship, will drive at the four days of official post-season GP3 tests with Status GP – at Jerez in Spain on the 24th and 25th October and Estoril... [Read more...]
iSport and Status GP create Driver Development Scheme
September 24, 2012 by Status Grand Prix
Title-winning GP2 Series team iSport International and leading GP3 Series team Status Grand Prix have forged an alliance to promote driver talent on the Formula One™ support series ladder.
Title-winning GP2 Series team iSport International and leading GP3 Series team Status Grand Prix have forged an alliance to promote driver talent on the Formula One™ support series ladder. The two UK-based teams have established the iSport / Status GP Performance Partnership which will see the leading GP3 Series driver from Status GP’s team in the... [Read more...]
Status GP set for Silverstone 6 Hours as Jousse brothers rejoin Sims
August 24, 2012 by Status Grand Prix
Jousse brothers link up with Sims in LMP2 Lola. Photo: statusgp.com
Status Grand Prix is all set for this weekend’s 6 Hours of Silverstone round of the FIA World Endurance Championship, with French brothers Julien and Maxime Jousse once again joining Britain’s Alexander Sims on the driving strength. On a track that is within earshot of its Silverstone base, Status GP is confident of returning to the form that carried... [Read more...]
Status GP forced to retire its Lola from Le Mans 24 Hours with battery failure
Status Grand Prix has been forced to retire from the Le Mans 24 Hours due to a battery failure that left the car stranded out on the circuit. The fault, the legacy of an alternator problem a couple of hours earlier, forced Yelmer Buurman to stop the Status GP Lola-Judd B12/80 Coupe on the inside of the circuit just before Mulsanne Corner, just as he... [Read more...]
