 Super Nova Racing | |
| Founded: | 1991 |
| Base: | Griston, Norfolk, England |
| Principal: | David Sears |
| Founders: | Nozomu Saruhashi David Sears |
| Former Series: | Auto GP Formula E Formula 3000 A1 Grand Prix GP2 Series GP2 Asia Series |
| Website: | http://www.supernovainternational.com/ |
| Driver Titles: | International Formula 3000
Vincenzo Sospiri |
| Team Titles: | International Formula 3000 |
| Folded: | 2015 |
Super Nova Racing was a British racing team that has competed in Formula 3000/GP2 and the A1 Grand Prix series.
Super Nova first entered racing in 1991. Super Nova was a new incarnation of the pre-existing David Sears Motorsport, sponsored by the Nova chain of Japanese English schools and also ran the Danish Den Blå Avis outfit.
In July 2007, naming sponsor Nova's legal problems became the subject of intense media coverage in Japan, and by the end of September 2007 the company was reported to be unable to pay staff salaries or rent, being declared bankrupt in November 2007 amidst a widening scandal about business improprieties, but SuperNova continued to list Nova as a sponsor.[1] On 24 June 2008, President Saruhashi of the Nova chain of English schools was taken into police custody and faced charges of embezzlement.[2] In August 2009, Saruhashi was convicted and sentenced to a 42-month jail term.
Super Nova Racing but he made the international leap in 1994 when he appeared in the European Formula 3000. From that moment on he remained in that championship, managing to win the following year with the drivers Vincenzo Sospiri and Ricardo Rosset who obtained first and second place in the championship respectively. Between 1997 and 1998 Super Nova Racing had two of the most outstanding drivers in motorsports, Ricardo Zonta and Juan Pablo Montoya, while in the 2001 season they would have the Australian Mark Webber with whom they would achieve the runner-up position.
They have competed for all seasons in A1 Grand Prix since series debuts in 2005-06, fielding entries for both A1 Team Germany[3] and A1 Team Pakistan[4] and later for A1 Team New Zealand.[5] In 2006-07, the both managed team, Germany and New Zealand finishing 1st and 2nd in the Championship overall.
With the arrival of GP2 it had the drivers Giorgio Pantano and Adam Carroll who would achieve two victories that would leave the team in third place in the constructors' table in the 2005 season. For the 2006 season they hired the Argentine José María López and the Malaysian Fairuz Fauzy, leaving Super Nova Racing in ninth place at the end of the championship. For the 2007 season its drivers were the British Mike Conway and the Italian Luca Filippi, achieving fourth position in the constructors' championship.
In 2008 he hired the services of the Portuguese Álvaro Parente and the Danish Christian Bakkerud but in the first round of the championship Bakkerud was injured, which caused them to hire the Spanish driver Andy Soucek as a replacement, who continued until the end of the season. With these two drivers they finished the constructors' championship in seventh position. In 2009 they had the Italian Luca Filippi, who had already been on the team previously, and the Spanish Javier Villa. They finished in the championship in 3rd place with 67 points. In 2010 they will participate with the Czech Josef Král and the Swede Marcus Ericsson. In 2011 they finished ninth with 20 points.
In February 2012, it was announced that Super Nova would withdraw from the GP2 Series due to not being able to cope with its economic situation and is replaced by the Team Lazarus team.[6]
In 2010 they competed in the Auto GP and in the following season (2011) they managed to finish fourth in the championship, despite only competing half of the season with a single car. In 2012, they are declared winners of the team championship thanks to Adrian Quaiffe-Hobbs, who also takes the drivers' championship.
On 1 July 2014 Super Nova announced that it will be competing in the FIA Formula E Championship under the Trulli GP name.
| Auto GP Results | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | Points | |||
| 2010 | Lola B05/52–Zytek |  Jonny Reid | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 10th | 3rd |
 Giorgio Pantano | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 13th | |||
 Jake Rosenzweig | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 17th | |||
| Luca Filippi | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 5th | |||
| 2011 | Lola B05/52–Zytek |  Adrian Zaugg | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 19th | 4th |
| Jon Lancaster | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 51 | 11th | |||
| Luca Filippi | 12 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 127 | 2nd | |||
| 2012 | Lola B05/52–Zytek | Adrian Quaife-Hobbs | 14 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 221 | 1st | 1st |
 Victor Guerin | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 8th | |||
| Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Dallara GP2/05–Mecachrome | Giorgio Pantano | 23 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 49 | 6th | 3rd |
| Adam Carroll | 23 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 53 | 5th | |||
| 2006 | Dallara GP2/05–Mecachrome |  José María López | 21 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 30 | 10th | 8th |
| Fairuz Fauzy | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24th | |||
| 2007 | Dallara GP2/05–Mecachrome | Luca Filippi | 21 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 59 | 4th | 4th |
| Mike Conway | 21 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 14th | |||
| 2008 | Dallara GP2/08–Mecachrome |  Christian Bakkerud | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27th | 7th |
 Andy Soucek | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 14th | |||
 Álvaro Parente | 20 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 34 | 8th | |||
| 2009 | Dallara GP2/08–Mecachrome | Luca Filippi | 20 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 40 | 5th | 3rd |
| Javier Villa | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 10th | |||
| 2010 | Dallara GP2/08–Mecachrome |  Josef Král | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 24th | 9th |
| Luca Filippi | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 20th | |||
 Marcus Ericsson | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 17th | |||
| 2011 | Dallara GP2/11–Mecachrome | Fairuz Fauzy | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 18th | 9th |
| Luca Filippi | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2nd | |||
| Adam Carroll | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 17th |
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Chassis Engine Tyres | Drivers | 1 | 2 | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | GP2/11 Mecachrome | YMC FEA | YMC SPR | 9th | 0 | |
| Giacomo Ricci | 11 | 23 | ||||
| Fabio Onidi | 18 | 11 |
| Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Dallara GP2/08–Mecachrome | Christian Bakkerud | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27th | 6th |
 Fairuz Fauzy | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 4th | |||
| 2008-09 | Dallara GP2/08–Mecachrome | Javier Villa | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 10th | 7th |
| James Jakes | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 16th | |||
| 2009-10 | Dallara GP2/08–Mecachrome | James Jakes | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 14th | 6th |
| Marcus Ericsson | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24th | |||
| Jake Rosenzweig | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30th | |||
| Josef Král | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 11th | |||
| 2011 | Dallara GP2/11–Mecachrome | Fairuz Fauzy | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14th | 11th |
 Johnny Cecotto Jr. | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15th |
(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 | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | GP2/05 Renault | DUB1 FEA | DUB1 SPR | SEN FEA | SEN SPR | SEP FEA | SEP SPR | BHR FEA | BHR SPR | DUB2 FEA | DUB2 SPR | 6th | 24 | |||
| Christian Bakkerud | Ret | 11 | Ret | 14 | Ret | DNS | Ret | Ret | Ret | 9 | ||||||
| Fairuz Fauzy | 8 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 6 | Ret | Ret | 11 | 6 | ||||||
| 2008–09 | GP2/05 Renault | SHI FEA | SHI SPR | DUB3 FEA | DUB3 SPR | BHR1 FEA | BHR1 SPR | LSL FEA | LSL SPR | SEP FEA | SEP SPR | BHR2 FEA | BHR2 SPR | 7th | 19 | |
| Javier Villa | 4 | 3 | 9 | C | 9 | 5 | 13 | 10 | 19 | 18 | 15 | 12 | ||||
| James Jakes | Ret | 11 | 12 | C | 22 | Ret | 9 | 9 | 3 | Ret | 10 | 14 | ||||
| 2009–10 | GP2/05 Renault | YMC1 FEA | YMC1 SPR | YMC2 FEA | YMC2 SPR | BHR1 FEA | BHR1 SPR | BHR2 FEA | BHR2 SPR | 6th | 14 | |||||
| James Jakes | 3 | 10 | ||||||||||||||
| Marcus Ericsson | 17† | 12 | ||||||||||||||
| Jake Rosenzweig | 19 | 14 | 17 | 17 | ||||||||||||
| Josef Král | Ret | Ret | 16 | 20 | 22 | 16 | Ret | 18 | ||||||||
| 2011 | GP2/11 Mecachrome | YMC FEA | YMC SPR | IMO FEA | IMO SPR | 11th | 1 | |||||||||
| Fairuz Fauzy | Ret | 15 | 8 | Ret | ||||||||||||
| Johnny Cecotto Jr. | 15 | 7 | 15 | 19† |
| A1 Grand Prix results[8] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Car | Team | Races | Wins | Poles | Points | ||
| 2005–06 | Lola B05/52–Zytek |  A1 Team Germany | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 15th |
 A1 Team Pakistan | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 20th | ||
| 2006–07 | Lola B05/52–Zytek | A1 Team Germany | 22 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 128 | 1st |
| A1 Team New Zealand | 22 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 93 | 2nd | ||
| 2007–08 | Lola B05/52–Zytek | A1 Team Germany | 20 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 83 | 8th |
| A1 Team New Zealand | 20 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 127 | 2nd | ||
| 2008–09 | Ferrari A1 08 | A1 Team Brazil | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 15th |
| A1 Team New Zealand | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 7th | ||
| Former series | ||
|---|---|---|
| All-Japan Formula Three Championship | 1992–1993 | |
| International Formula 3000 | 1994–2004 | |
| GP2 Series | 2005–2011 | |
| A1 Grand Prix | 2005–2009 | |
| GP2 Asia Series | 2008–2011 | |
| Auto GP | 2010–2014 | |
| Formula E | 2014–2015 | |
