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Arden International
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| Arden International | |
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| Motor racing team | |
| Founded | 1997 |
| Country |  United Kingdom |
| Team Principal(s) | Christian Horner |
| Current series | GP2, A1 Grand Prix |
| Former series | Formula 3000 Italian Formula 3000 |
| Drivers' titles | 2003 Formula 3000 (Wirdheim) 2004 Formula 3000 (Liuzzi) |
| Teams' titles | 2000 Italian Formula 3000 2002 Formula 3000 2003 Formula 3000 2004 Formula 3000 |
Arden International is an international Formula 3000/GP2 Series team, created by Christian Horner.
Initially created to raise up Horner's career, and then reliant on sponsorship from Viktor Maslov, the team began to get good results and was the best team of Formula 3000 in its last years, showing new talents to motorsport world like Darren Manning, Tomáš Enge, Björn Wirdheim and Vitantonio Liuzzi.
The team won two titles (2003, with Wirdheim and 2004, with Liuzzi), has scored 334 points, won 15 races and achieved 20 pole positions in Formula 3000.
In 2005, Arden stayed in the series, now rebranded as the GP2 Series and achieved second place in the Constructors' Championship with Heikki Kovalainen and Nicolas Lapierre, and second place in the Drivers' Championship with Kovalainen.
In 2006, Arden competed in GP2 with Lapierre and the rookie Michael Ammermüller (Neel Jani acted as a substitute for Lapierre when the latter was injured in the race at Monaco). This year, Arden suffered a massive drop, and had only 57 points to show, compared to the previous season's 126.
For 2007, Arden have signed Bruno Senna, nephew of triple F1 champion Ayrton Senna, and A1 Team South Africa driver Adrian Zaugg.
Arden also operate A1 Team Great Britain[1] in the A1GP series.
| GP2 Series Results[2] | ||||||||
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| Year | Car | Drivers | Wins | Poles | Fast laps | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
| 2005 | Dallara-Mecachrome |  Heikki Kovalainen |
5 | 4 | 105 | 2nd | 2nd | |
 Nicolas Lapierre |
0 | 1 | 21 | 11th | ||||
| 2006 | Dallara-Mecachrome | Nicolas Lapierre |
0 | 0 | 1 | 32 | 9th | 4th |
 Michael Ammermüller |
1 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 11th | |||
 Neel Jani |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25th | |||
| 2007 | Dallara-Mecachrome |  Bruno Senna |
1 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 8th | 7th |
 Adrian Zaugg |
0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 18th | |||
 Filipe Albuquerque |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32th | |||
| A1 Grand Prix results[3] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Car | Team | Wins | Poles | Fast laps | Points | T.C. |
| 2005-06 | Lola-Zytek | A1 Team Great Britain |
0 | 1 | 0 | 97 | 3rd |
| 2006-07 | Lola-Zytek | A1 Team Great Britain |
3 | 2 | 2 | 92 | 3rd |
| 2007-08 | Lola-Zytek | A1 Team Great Britain |
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- 2007-08 is the current season.
| International Formula 3000 Championship Results[2] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Car | Drivers | Wins | Poles | Fastest laps | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
| 1997 | Lola-Zytek Judd | Christian Horner |
1 | 21th | 16th | |||
| 1998 | Lola-Zytek Judd |  Kurt Mollekens |
0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 6th | 7th [1] |
| Christian Horner |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | |||
| 1999 | Lola-Zytek | Marc Goossens |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | NC ‡ |
 Viktor Maslov |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | |||
| 2000 | Lola-Zytek | Darren Manning |
0 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 8th | 8th † |
| Viktor Maslov |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | |||
| 2001 | Lola-Zytek | Darren Manning |
0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 11th | 9th † |
| Viktor Maslov |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | |||
| 2002 | Lola-Zytek Judd |  Tomáš Enge |
3 | 4 | 5 | 50 | 3rd | 1st † |
 Björn Wirdheim |
1 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 4th | |||
| 2003 | Lola-Zytek Judd | Björn Wirdheim |
3 | 5 | 7 | 78 | 1st | 1st |
 Townsend Bell |
0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 9th | |||
| 2004 | Lola-Zytek Judd |  Vitantonio Liuzzi |
7 | 9 | 3 | 86 | 1st | 1st |
 Robert Doornbos |
1 | 0 | 1 | 44 | 3rd | |||
| Italian Formula 3000 results[4] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Car | Drivers | Wins | Poles | Fast laps | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
| 1999 | Lola T96/50-Zytek | Viktor Maslov |
0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18th | 11th † |
| 2000 | Lola T96/50-Zytek | Warren Hughes |
2 | 1 | 3 | 37 | 2nd | 1st † |
| Darren Manning |
1 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 6th | |||
- D.C. = Drivers' Championship position, T.C. = Teams' Championship position.
- † Involved as Arden Team Russia
- ‡ Involved as Lukoil Arden Racing
- [1] collaboration with KTR team
- ^ A1 Team Great Britain informations a1podium.com
- ^ a b GP2 and Formula 3000 entrylist and complete results speedsportmag.com
- ^ A1GP complete resultsresults.a1gp.com
- ^ Italian Formula 3000 complete results speedsportmag.com
- arden-motorsport.com, official team website.
- gp2series.com, team info at GP2 Series website.