Draco Racing


International Draco Racing was a motorsport team with Brazilian roots based in Italy. It was most well-known for operating in the World Series by Renault, but had also taken part in Formula Opel Lotus, International Formula 3000 and Euro Formula 3000.

Career

Formula Opel Lotus Euroseries

Draco was founded in 1989 by Adriano and Nadia Morini, and entered the Formula Opel Lotus Euroseries. In its first year, the Italian takes Brazilian driver Eduar Neto to second place in F. Opel, with five wins. The team continued to be one of the most competitive in the series for the following years, winning the F. Opel championship in 1990 with Rubens Barrichello, 1991 with Pedro Lamy, 1993 with Patrick Crinelli and 1994 with Marco Campos.

International Formula 3000

Draco stayed in Formula Opel until the championship's demise in 1996, but the year before Adriano Morini took his team to Formula 3000, creating the outfit specifically for Marco Campos. Morini took a gamble on the Brazilian driver's talent, but he ultimately lost it when 18-year-old Campos died in the race at Magny-Cours. Draco was never so successful in F3000, even with drivers such as Ricardo Zonta and Bruno Junqueira and left the series after the 1999 season.

Euro Formula 3000

In 2000, Draco moved down to the Italian F3000 Championship, for older 1996 cars. This proved to be the wisest move, as Felipe Massa completely dominated the series in 2001, taking the championship title, a performance repeated in 2003 with Augusto Farfus and 2004 with Nicky Pastorelli.

Formula Renault 3.5 Series

In 2005, Draco changed series, again, to the World Series by Renault, where their lead drivers Pastor Maldonado and Miloš Pavlović finished third in the 2006 and 2007 seasons. In 2008 the drivers was Bertrand Baguette and Marco Barba. In 2009 the Draco Team won the Formula Renault 3.5 Championship with the Team Title and the Driver Title with Bertrand Baguette. Following funding issues midway through the 2015 Formula Renault 3.5 Series season, the team closed down at the end of the year, selling their cars to dual Swiss-Russian entry Spirit of Race, who later debuted as SMP Racing.

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results

YearDrivers1234567891011121314151617Pts.WCC
2005ZOLZOLMONVALVALBUGBUGBILBILOSCOSCDONDONESTESTMNZMNZ2nd167
2005 Markus WinkelhockRet3DNS111215Ret7Ret35142312nd167
2005 Christian Montanari7DNS112151266101117215851292nd167
2006ZOLZOLMONISTISTMISMISSPASPANÜRNÜRDONDONBUGBUGCATCAT2nd132
2006 Pastor Maldonado83111RetDSQRet126228RetRet11022nd132
2006 Tomas Kostka14148Ret1520Ret209Ret172nd132
2006 Miloš Pavlović382RetRet182nd132
2007MNZMNZNÜRNÜRMONHUNHUNSPASPADONDONMAGMAGESTESTCATCAT2nd160
2007 Miloš Pavlović6215244727111Ret4Ret91442nd160
2007 Álvaro BarbaRetRet4519RetRetRet171Ret12113618Ret2nd160
2008MNZMNZSPASPAMONSILSILHUNHUNNÜRNÜRBUGBUGESTESTCATCAT6th93
2008 Bertrand BaguetteRetRet11156164455Ret16Ret4Ret46th93
2008 Marco Barba128Ret20Ret127107Ret1010861016Ret6th93
2009CATCATSPASPAMONHUNHUNSILSILBUGBUGALGALGNÜRNÜRALCALC1st205
2009 Bertrand Baguette2Ret2253685112515111st205
2009 Marco BarbaRetRet71216221010571611871461st205
2010ALCALCSPASPAMONBRNBRNMAGMAGHUNHUNHOCHOCSILSILCATCAT7th71
2010 Nathanaël BerthonRet3Ret10Ret8291Ret1393RetRet6127th71
2010 Omar LealRetRet111216413Ret19Ret16139Ret10RetRet7th71
2011ALCALCSPASPAMNZMNZMONNÜRNÜRHUNHUNSILSILLECLECCATCAT12th26
2011 Stéphane Richelmi16Ret17Ret715161313152019201713RetRet12th26
2011 André Negrão149DNS111010Ret61220RetRet1615612th26
2011 Adrien TambayDNSRet12th26
2012ALCALCMONSPASPANÜRNÜRMOSMOSSILSILHUNHUNLECLECCATCAT8th114
2012 Nico MüllerRetRet5542Ret8RetRet76Ret8712158th114
2012 André Negrão810Ret1212193134Ret1615RetRet221488th114

Complete former series results

3000 Pro Series

Italian/Euro Formula 3000

International Formula 3000

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