Ocean Racing Technology

Ocean Racing Technology

Founded	2008
Folded	2012
Base	Perafita, Portugal
Team principal(s)	Tiago Monteiro José Guedes
Former series	GP2 Asia Series GP2 Series GP3 Series
Noted drivers	Kevin Ceccon Álvaro Parente
Website	http://www.oceanracingtech.com/

Ocean Racing Technology (ORT) was a racing team that took part in both the GP2 Main Series and the GP2 Asia Series Championships. The team, owned by Tiago Monteiro and José Guedes, was formed at the end of the 2008 season after being purchased from BCN Competición. The driver and the entrepreneur created a structure based on recognized professionals and quickly started to secure first-class results, making it possible for the Portuguese Racing team to fight with the more advanced teams in the FIA accredited championship that is the main feeder series for Formula One.

History

BCN Competición was bought by the Portuguese former F1 (and current WTCC) driver Tiago Monteiro and José Guedes in November 2008, in a move that relocated the team to the Algarve circuit, being renamed Ocean Racing Technology. The change to ORT meant a full transformation the team kept only the frames, discarding all the rest, and hiring new staff.

Racing history

GP2 Series

Karun Chandhok driving for Ocean Racing Technology at the 2009 Monaco GP2 Series round.

In the 2009 season, drivers were Álvaro Parente and Karun Chandhok. Parente won the first race for the team at the 2009 Belgian Feature Race, in a round where he also got pole position and fastest lap and was 8th in the final Championship standings. Ocean finished the Teams' Championship in 9th, but only two points behind 5th-place finisher iSport International.

For 2010, Ocean recruited Max Chilton and Fabio Leimer, with Leimer taking the team's second win, but the team slipped back to twelfth overall in the standings.

The following year, Ocean hired Kevin Mirocha (who was later replaced by Brendon Hartley) and Johnny Cecotto Jr.: Hartley scored the team's only points with a fifth-place finish at Spa-Francorchamps, this poor showing again resulting in a twelfth-place teams' championship result.

For the 2012 season, Ocean signed Nigel Melker, and Jon Lancaster, the latter of whom was swiftly dropped when he ran out of money. He was replaced by Hartley for two rounds of the championship, before Victor Guerin took the seat for the remainder of the season. Melker scored 25 points under the revised system, raising Ocean's performance to eleventh overall following the Coloni team's exclusion from the championship.

At the end of 2012, its owner Tiago Monteiro reported that the Government of Portugal owed the project around €6 million and that without that money they would not be able to continue in the competition. On January 16, 2013, Hilmer Motorsport was announced as a replacement of the team in the GP2 Series.

GP2 Asia Series

Yelmer Buurman and Fabrizio Crestani drove for the team in the 2008-09 GP2 Asia Series season, replacing BCN drivers Yoshimoto and Luca Filippi who competed in the first round of the championship.

GP3 Series

In 2012 they entered the GP3 Series shortly before the start of the season, replacing Tech 1 Racing, they finished seventh in the championship with 56 points thanks to the results of Kevin Ceccon.

Complete series results

GP2 Series

Year	Chassis	Engine	Tyres	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	F.L.	Points	D.C.	T.C.
2009	Dallara GP2/08	Mecachrome V8108 V8	B	Karun Chandhok	20	0	0	0	10	18th	9th
				Álvaro Parente	20	1	1	1	30	8th
2010	Dallara GP2/08	Mecachrome V8108 V8	B	Max Chilton	20	0	0	0	3	25th	12th
				Fabio Leimer	19	1	0	1	8	19th
2011	Dallara GP2/11	Mecachrome V8108 V8	P	Kevin Mirocha	12	0	0	0	0	22nd	12th
				Brendon Hartley	4	0	0	0	4	19th
				Johnny Cecotto Jr.	18	0	0	0	0	24th
2012	Dallara GP2/11	Mecachrome V8108 V8	P	Jon Lancaster	2	0	0	0	0	34th	11th
				Brendon Hartley	4	0	0	0	1	25th
				Victor Guerin	17	0	0	0	0	30th
				Nigel Melker	23	0	0	0	25	19th

In detail

(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					9th	40
		Karun Chandhok	Ret	Ret	7	Ret	13	14	6	3	11	Ret	17†	10	Ret	6	Ret	7	19†	12	Ret	13
		Álvaro Parente	Ret	11	Ret	Ret	Ret	10	Ret	11	6	2	9	6	4	Ret	1	Ret	11	Ret	Ret	4
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					12th	11
		Max Chilton	18	16	Ret	14	9	11	Ret	11	19	19	19	16	17	16	17	11	8	5	12	12
		Fabio Leimer	8	1	Ret	17	13	15	Ret	Ret	17	13	21†	Ret	Ret	11	12	Ret	Ret	DNS	Ret	15
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							12th	4
		Kevin Mirocha	15†	19	21†	16	10	Ret	12	8	DNS	DNS	Ret	13	14	8
		Brendon Hartley															5	9	22	20
		Johnny Cecotto Jr.	Ret	13	14	13	Ret	17	14	17	12	Ret	10	Ret	Ret	Ret	11	8	17	15
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	11th	26
		Jon Lancaster	Ret	17
		Brendon Hartley			10	Ret	13	16
		Victor Guerin							19	21	16	Ret	17	18	17	DNS	Ret	23	21	23	Ret	18	23	Ret	Ret	13
		Nigel Melker	16	14	20†	18	19	11	14	24	Ret	12	Ret	13	4	6	6	8	14	18	Ret	DNS	11	Ret	12	12

GP2 Final

(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	7th	2
		Nicolas Marroc	14	22
		António Félix da Costa	7	13

GP2 Asia Series

GP2 Asia Series Results
Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	F.L.	Points	D.C.	T.C.
2008	Dallara GP2/08-Mecachrome	Miloš Pavlović	10	0	0	0	6	16th	12th
		Jason Tahincioglu	10	0	0	0	0	22nd
2008-09	Dallara GP2/08-Mecachrome	Yelmer Buurman	6	0	0	0	4	19th	11th
		Karun Chandhok	2	0	0	0	0	26th
		Fabrizio Crestani	9	0	0	0	0	28th
2009-10	Dallara GP2/08-Mecachrome	Alexander Rossi†	2	0	0	0	8	9th†	9th
		Max Chilton†	2	0	0	0	2	18th†
		Yelmer Buurman	4	0	0	0	0	21st
		Fabio Leimer	7	0	0	0	0	31st
2011	Dallara GP2/11-Mecachrome	Andrea Caldarelli	4	0	0	0	0	21st	12th
		Oliver Turvey	4	0	0	0	0	16th

† These drivers raced for more than one team during the season. Their final position includes results for all teams.

In detail

(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	11th	4
		Yelmer Buurman			Ret	C	Ret	13	Ret	DNS	5	11
		Karun Chandhok											9	Ret
		Fabrizio Crestani			14	C	Ret	17	10	21	15	16	18	15
2009–10	GP2/05 Renault B		YMC1 FEA	YMC1 SPR	YMC2 FEA	YMC2 SPR	BHR1 FEA	BHR1 SPR	BHR2 FEA	BHR2 SPR					9th	9
		Alexander Rossi	4	5
		Max Chilton			8	6
		Yelmer Buurman					12	10	13	7
		Fabio Leimer	17	Ret	Ret	Ret	20	15	Ret	DNS
2011	GP2/11 Mecachrome P		YMC FEA	YMC SPR	IMO FEA	IMO SPR									12th	0
		Oliver Turvey	18	19	14	8
		Andrea Caldarelli	16	11	17	12

• * Team was known as BCN Competición at round one in Shanghai, before Tiago Monteiro bought over the team's assets and renamed it as Ocean Racing Technology.

GP3 Series

GP3 Series Results
Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	F.L.	Points	D.C.	T.C.
2012	GP3/10-Renault	Carmen Jordá	16	0	0	0	0	28th	7th
		Kevin Ceccon	16	0	0	2	56	9th
		Robert Cregan	16	0	0	0	0	22nd

In detail

(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
2012	GP3/10 Renault P		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	7th	56
		Carmen Jordá	20	21	Ret	22	13	Ret	DNQ	DNQ	20	Ret	24†	Ret	26	23	21	19
		Kevin Ceccon	Ret	10	3	6	7	4	8	7	17	15	4	8	12	20	13	9
		Robert Cregan	15	Ret	18	11	15	13	20	15	11	NC	21	14	21	DNS	20	17

External links

• Official Ocean Racing Technology website