Koiranen GP

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Finland Koiranen GP
Koiranen GP.png
Founded 1997
Base Barcelona, Spain
Team principal(s) Afa Heikkinen
Founder(s) Marko Koiranen
Current series GP3 Series
Former series Formula Renault 2.0 Italia
Nordic Formula Three Masters
Formula Renault 2.0 Alps
Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0
Formula Renault 2.0 NEC
Current drivers Russia Matevos Isaakyan
United Kingdom Matt Parry
India Mahaveer Raghunathan
Switzerland Ralph Boschung
Website http://koiranengp.com/
Teams'
Championships		 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0:
2011, 2014
Formula Renault 2.0 NEC:
2011
Formula Renault 2.0 Alps:
2014, 2015
Drivers'
Championships		 Italian Formula Renault 2.0 Winter Series:
2005: Atte Mustonen
Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0:
2010: Kevin Korjus
2014: Nyck de Vries
Formula Renault 2.0 NEC:
2011: Carlos Sainz Jr.
Formula Renault 2.0 Alps:
2012: Daniil Kvyat
2014: Nyck de Vries
2015: Jack Aitken

Koiranen GP, also known as Koiranen bros. Motorsport, is a Finnish auto racing team based in Barcelona, Spain. The team currently competes in the GP3 Series.[1] It is also a promoter of the SMP F4 Championship and Spanish Formula 4 Championship.

History

Finnish Junior Formulas

The team was founded in 1997 by brothers Marko and Jari Koiranen. They joined the Finnish Formula 4 championship the same year, and also competed in Nordic and Finnish Formula Three championships until 2005.[2]

Formula Renault

2003 saw Koiranen Motorsport join the German Formula Renault Championship, before expanding their Formula Renault programme to include a Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 campaign.[2] They experienced their first real success when Valtteri Bottas finished third in the Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup in 2007.[3] The team won their first title in 2010, when Kevin Korjus won the Eurocup title.[4]

In 2011, Red Bull Junior Team started collaboration with the Finnish team. Daniil Kvyat and Carlos Sainz Jr. joined the team for Eurocup and NEC campaign. In Northern European Cup Sainz, Jr. achieved drivers' title and with help of Kvyat they both claimed teams' championship. They also claimed teams' trophy in Eurocup. Kvyat remained with the team for the next year and brought drivers' title in new Formula Renault 2.0 Alps series for the team .

In 2012, Koiranen Motorsport was one of eighteen teams to make a bid for one of the vacant grid positions in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series, the highest tier of the Formula Renault championships.[5] The team was unsuccessful, losing out to DAMS and Arden Caterham, but were placed on a reserve list, granting them automatic entry to the grid in the event that any of the existing thirteen teams failed to be ready in time.[6]

2015 was the team's last season with Formula Renault. From 2016 onwards Koiranen will focus on GP3 and running two F4 series. [7]

GP3 Series

Koiranen GP replaced Ocean Racing Technology in the GP3 Series, starting in 2013.[1] Their drivers at the start of the season were Patrick Kujala and Aaro Vainio from Finland and Kevin Korjus from Estonia.[8] Vainio was replaced by former FIA F2-champion Dean Stoneman for the last two races of the 2013 season.[9] Koiranen GP finished their inaugural season with third place in the team's championship.

For their second season in the GP3 Series Koiranen changed their whole driver line-up. New drivers were Carmen Jordá from Spain, Jimmy Eriksson from Sweden and Santiago Urrutia from Uruguay.[10] Dean Stoneman was once again brought in mid-season after Marussia Manor Racing folded before the race weekend in Sochi. Stoneman replaced Jordá for the remaining four races of the season.[11] Koiranen GP placed 4th in the team's championship.

Koiranen retained Eriksson for the 2015 season and paired him with Adderly Fong and Formula Renault graduate Matt Parry. Koiranen borught in russian Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup driver Matevos Isaakyan to replace Fong for last four races of the season.[12] Koiranen repeated last season's results finishing fourth in the teams championship.

Koiranen will retain Parry[13] and Isaakyan [7] for the 2016 season. They will be teamed up with Mahaveer Raghunathan [14] and Ralph Boschung.[15]

Complete series results

GP3 Series

(Key)

Year Chassis Engine No. Drivers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 DP DC TP TC
2013 Dallara GP3/13 AER 3.4L ESP
FEA		 ESP
SPR		 VAL
FEA		 VAL
SPR		 GBR
FEA		 GBR
SPR		 GER
FEA		 GER
SPR		 HUN
FEA		 HUN
SPR		 BEL
FEA		 BEL
SPR		 ITA
FEA		 ITA
SPR		 ABU
FEA		 ABU
SPR		 207 3rd
26 Finland Patrick Kujala Ret 16 21 15 Ret EX 13 13 14 11 13 20 10 12 8 19 5 20th
27 Finland Aaro Vainio 5 1 7 2 11 8 14 11 1 9 20 22 16 13 75 9th
United Kingdom Dean Stoneman 6 2 20 16th
28 Estonia Kevin Korjus 8 2 3 6 2 9 20 15 7 3 4 5 6 5 12 12 107 7th
2014 Dallara GP3/13 AER 3.4L ESP
FEA		 ESP
SPR		 AUT
FEA		 AUT
SPR		 GBR
FEA		 GBR
SPR		 GER
FEA		 GER
SPR		 HUN
FEA		 HUN
SPR		 BEL
FEA		 BEL
SPR		 ITA
FEA		 ITA
SPR		 RUS
FEA		 RUS
SPR		 ABU
FEA		 ABU
SPR		 200 4th
7 Spain Carmen Jordá Ret Ret 20 21 24 17 Ret 22 25 25 17 Ret 20 21 0 29th
United Kingdom Dean Stoneman [nb 1] 1 2 1 Ret 163 2nd
8 Sweden Jimmy Eriksson 2 6 3 2 1 Ret 7 15 10 16 Ret 19 1 8 4 16 10 6 132 5th
9 Uruguay Santiago Urrutia 21 13 16 12 Ret 14 22 18 12 Ret 13 18 Ret 15 14 12 11 12 0 23rd
2015 Dallara GP3/13 AER 3.4L ESP
FEA		 ESP
SPR		 AUT
FEA		 AUT
SPR		 GBR
FEA		 GBR
SPR		 HUN
FEA		 HUN
SPR		 BEL
FEA		 BEL
SPR		 ITA
FEA		 ITA
SPR		 RUS
FEA		 RUS
SPR		 BHR
FEA		 BHR
SPR		 ABU
FEA		 ABU
SPR		 195 4th
10 Hong Kong Adderly Fong 17 21 17 12 12 14 15 11 15 9 15 18 0 22nd
Russia Matevos Isaakyan Ret 14 9 14 2 21st
11 Sweden Jimmy Eriksson 6 2 20 10 5 4 6 6 13 16 5 5 8 1 5 7 3 5 118 5th
12 United Kingdom Matt Parry 13 9 13 7 3 5 5 3 Ret Ret DSQ Ret 7 Ret 11 3 6 24 67 8th
2016 Dallara GP3/16 AER 3.4L ESP
FEA		 ESP
SPR		 AUT
FEA		 AUT
SPR		 GBR
FEA		 GBR
SPR		 HUN
FEA		 HUN
SPR		 GER
FEA		 GER
SPR		 BEL
FEA		 BEL
SPR		 ITA
FEA		 ITA
SPR		 MAL
FEA		 MAL
SPR		 ABU
FEA		 ABU
SPR		 0
14 United Kingdom Matt Parry
15 India Mahaveer Raghunathan
16 Russia Matevos Isaakyan
17 Switzerland Ralph Boschung

* Season still in progress.

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Timeline

Current series
GP3 Series 2013–present
Former series
Finnish Formula 4 Championship 1997–1998
Finnish Formula 3 Championship 1999–2007
Nordic Formula Renault 2009–2010
Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 2004, 2006, 2010-2015
Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup 2006–2011, 2015
Formula Renault 2.0 Alps 2012–2015

References

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External links

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