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Founded in 1981, West Surrey Racing is a UK-based motorsport team run by New Zealander Dick Bennetts. He is responsible for masterminding the careers of such names as Ayrton Senna, Mika Häkkinen, Jonathan Palmer, Rubens Barrichello, Maurício Gugelmin and Eddie Irvine with his involvement in F3 and a racing academy in the 80s and 90s. WSR has won more than 70 races in Formula 3 and more than 20 class and outright wins in the BTCC.
[edit] BTCC[edit] FordWSR moved to the BTCC in 1996 having been chosen to run the works Ford team, with Andy Rouse having left running the team to attempt to establish his own Nissan team. The 1996 season was one of limited success, with Ford stalward Paul Radisich partnered by Steve Robertson, (The man who is now the manager of Kimi Räikkönen). The Mondeo had never really lived up to it's hype since it's inception in 1993, and Radisich ended the season 13th with 23 points, and Robertson 20th, with a paltry 2 points, even finishing lower than Independants Gary Ayles, Owen McAuley, Lee Brookes and Richard Kaye. The peak of this disappointment was possibly achieved at Round 1, when Radisich, who was running well down the order, crashed into teammate Robertson at turn 1, after Robertson had spun the car. WSR Ford finished 7th in the Team's Championship, just ahead of the factory Peugeots of Tim Harvey and Patrick Watts. For 1997, Radisich was partnered by departing Renault no.2 Will Hoy, the 1991 British Touring Car Champion. Initally, an improved Mondeo was far from competitive. However, as the year continued, Hoy and Radisich were consistently fighting for points, and Radisich ended with 41 points to finish 13th, and Hoy 15th with 27 points in a competitive season. The team finished 7th in the Manufacturer's Championship, with 113 points. Paul Radisich left the team at the end of 1997, to join MSD Peugeot. The man who filled the vacant seat was fellow New Zealander Craig Baird, but after poor performances, Baird was occasionally replaced by Nigel Mansell, who at round 12 at a rain soaked Donington, provided one of the best races the Championship had ever witnessed. Having crashed off in race 1, and languishing at the back in race 2, Mansell gained his focus and charged through the field, and thanks to a safety car, was briefly leading. Eventually, Mansell finished 4th having allowed Derek Warwick through at the final corner, but was subsequentialy demoted to 5th, having passed under waved yellows. For Will Hoy, 1998 was a much improved year. In the still unfancied Mondeo, Hoy managed to finish in the top 10 of the Championship with 69 points, which included a brillaint race win at round 4, which was to be his last before his semi-retirement at the end of the season, and shock death in 2002. Mansell and Baird finished 18th (7 points) and 20th (6 points) respectively, with WSR rounding off their 3 year stint running the Ford team with their best ever season. [edit] Honda1999 and 2000 saw WSR running works Honda Accords, and while they failed to win any championships the team obtained numerous victories, including the last ever Super Touring BTCC race (won by Tom Kristensen). [edit] MG After a brief hiatus WSR returned to the BTCC late in the 2001 season running the works MG team. 2000 runner-up Anthony Reid and Warren Hughes were signed to drive for the British marque, and despite only contesting six races Reid took a victory in the penultimate race of the year (the only non-Vauxhall win of 2001). 2002 saw the team continue with Reid and Hughes in addition to running Colin Turkington and Gareth Howell in a 'satellite' independent MG squad backed by the pop group Atomic Kitten. MG finished second in the manufacturers and teams' championships, and Reid was the top driver, coming 4th overall. In 2003 "Team Atomic Kitten" was dropped, and the MG works team expanded to 3 cars to accommodate Turkington, although MG slipped to 3rd at the end of the season behind Vauxhall and Honda. 2004 saw the team lose official MG backing but they continued running Reid and Turkington to some success: the drivers finished 4th and 6th respectively overall, Reid took the Independent's title and WSR claimed 3rd in the team's championship. A single car was entered for Rob Collard in 2005, in which he took his first win at Knockhill. In 2006 WSR ran two MG ZSs in the BTCC having secured title sponsorship from the RAC. Collard remained with the team, and Colin Turkington rejoined after a year driving for Vauxhall. The team switched to bio-ethanol fuel for the final 9 races of the 2006 season. [edit] BMW In 2007 the team ran BMW E90 320si with Colin Turkington and 2006 Clio Cup champion Tom Onslow-Cole employed as drivers, using the name Team RAC following a continued sponsorship deal with The RAC. Onslow-Cole left the team at the end of the 2007 season to join rivals VX Racing and in doing-so made reference to the difficulties he had driving the rear-wheel drive BMW [1]. A possible replacement for Onslow-Cole was Duncan Huisman who raced for WSR alongside Turkington in the 2007 World Touring Car Championship event in Macau as part of Team Aviva [2]. However, in March 2008, Stephen Jelley was announced as Turkington's partner at WSR for the 2008 BTCC[3] Jelley and Turkington have continued with the team for 2009. A third car was entered at the final few rounds of the season, driven by the returning Anthony Reid. In the final race of the season, Turkington clinched the Driver's Championship, the first BTCC Driver's title for the team. [edit] A1 Grand PrixWSR were selected by A1 Team New Zealand to run their car for the inaugural 2005-06 A1 Grand Prix season, taking the "Black Beauty" machine to 4th overall. Despite New Zealand contracting SuperNova to run their car for the 2006-07 A1 Grand Prix season WSR remained in A1GP running A1 Team USA[4] and the new Singapore team[5].
[edit] Formula 3000West Surrey Racing competed in International Formula 3000 in 1986, running a single car for Maurício Gugelmin. Although performances improved throughout the year, results were unspectacular and the team returned to Formula 3 for 1987.[7] [edit] References
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