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39-467: After a rapid formation, Trident secured a place on the 2006 GP2 entry list, represented by former Formula One driver Gianmaria Bruni and rookie Andreas Zuber . It was one of three teams that had lodged requests for the thirteenth entry that was made available for that season onwards. GP2's organiser Bruno Michel commented: "Trident Racing put forward a proposal which promised strong sporting and engineering excellence." Trident's first year of competition

78-487: A Trident one-two in the sprint race. Both drivers were unable to replicate this performance elsewhere, but Trident improved to ninth in the teams' championship. For 2009 , the team changed its driver line-up to Ricardo Teixeira and Davide Rigon , with Rodolfo González deputising for Rigon for a single round of the championship. The trio scored a mere three points between them, resulting in Trident finishing twelfth and last in

117-519: A biplane rear wing , with the triplane rear wing used in 2005 only to be used at the Monaco race. The front upper and lower wishbones were reinforced, as were the front and rear suspension uprights. The 4 litre V8 engine featured internal, cartographic and software upgrades designed to improve performance and fuel consumption. The 2006 gearbox was manufactured by GearTek , and featured an 8 position barrel, with ratchet body and software upgrades, as well as

156-464: A new transverse shafts fixing system designed to facilitate improved gear selection. The tyres supplied by Bridgestone for the 2006 season were full-slick, not featuring the four-line grooved slick seen in the 2005 season. Bridgestone supplied a soft, medium, and hard compound tyre, with the tyre choice being made by Bridgestone and the GP2 Series prior to each event. The wet specification tyre remained

195-559: A perfect weekend at Hungary, taking pole, two wins and two fastest laps. Hamilton spun in qualifying and started the feature race from back of the grid. He failed to score there but took second place in the wet Sunday sprint. Piquet's form continued in Turkey, where he won the feature race from pole. Hamilton was second, and in the sprint, he recovered from an early spin to take second place, while Piquet had to settle for fifth. Andreas Zuber took advantage of his front row starting position and won

234-528: A point to Hamilton who now clinched the title. Pantano made a fantastic start in the sprint and went from 8th to 1st before first corner, and went on to win the race. Hamilton followed and took 2nd, beating Piquet by 12 points in the end. All of the teams used the Dallara GP2/05 chassis with Renault -badged 4.0 litre (244 cu in) naturally-aspirated Mecachrome V8 engines order and with tyres supplied by Bridgestone . The following rounds were included on

273-487: A race had been run. 2019 saw the introduction of the Macau Grand Prix as a non-championship event run to FIA Formula 3 car specifications after the season has ended. The 2019 Macau Grand Prix will be Trident's debut in the race. They are running Olli Caldwell, David Beckmann and Alessio Lorandi meaning they are running a completely changed lineup from the 2019 FIA Formula 3 Championship . The drivers qualified in

312-535: A race. In October 2007, he tested a Trident GP2 car. It was announced at December 2 that he will drive in International Formula Master with Trident in 2008. He has been linked to possible GP2 or World Series by Renault drives in 2009, and drove for Comtec Racing in place of Alexandre Marsoin at the opening rounds in Montmeló . Marsoin returned for round two however, leaving Schlegelmilch without

351-428: A single point for fastest lap in a race, rather than the two points that were awarded in 2005. The driver also had to start the race from his allocated grid position to be eligible to claim the fastest lap. Nelson Piquet Jr. won the first race at Valencia ahead of two rookies, Lewis Hamilton and Adrián Vallés . The latter failed to score in the rest of the season apart from one point for fastest lap at Barcelona. In

390-401: A sprint race, Vallés was involved in a collision with Adam Carroll who rolled multiple times. The sprint race was won by Michael Ammermüller who had promising start to the season but failed to score during last six weekends. Gianmaria Bruni and Ernesto Viso then shared victories at Imola, where Hamilton failed to score, after being black-flagged in the feature race and therefore starting

429-596: A training injury mid-season and was replaced by Ricardo Risatti and then Sergio Hernández . Before his injury, Maldonado secured pole position and the race victory in the series' single race at Monaco , and secured eleventh place in the drivers' championship despite missing the final eight races of the season. His team-mates struggled, however, dropping Trident to tenth in the teams' championship. Trident's 2008 drivers were Mike Conway and Ho-Pin Tung . The team's best result again came at Monaco, with Conway leading Tung home for

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468-618: Is a Latvian racing driver. He started racing at the age of 8. He raced in karting championships for seven years. In 2003, Harald participated in Formula BMW testing and in 2004 he drove in the Austrian - Swiss Formula BMW championship. Simultaneously, he was a driver in Formula Renault 2000 Scandinavia . The results were high, as the young driver became the Austrian-Swiss champion and was

507-486: Is given to the driver who set the fastest lap in the feature and sprint races. The driver also had to start the race from his allocated grid position to be eligible to claim the fastest lap and has to drive 90% of race laps. No extra points are awarded to the pole-sitter in the sprint race. Points are awarded to the top 6 classified finishers. Notes: Harald Schlegelmilch Haralds Šlēgelmilhs , known internationally as Harald Schlegelmilch (born December 6, 1987)

546-483: The 2008-09 season , Trident employed an unusually high number of seven drivers to share its two race seats: Giacomo Ricci , Alberto Valerio , Frankie Provenzano , Ricardo Teixeira , Chris van der Drift , Adrián Vallés and Davide Rigon all shared driving duties at some stage, propelling Trident to ninth in the teams' championship between them. In the 2009-10 season , the team reduced is roster two four drivers, with gentleman driver Plamen Kralev buying one seat for

585-631: The GP3 Series; the latter moved to Formula 2 midway through the 2018 season, and Pedro Piquet , who raced for them in GP3. Piquet finished 5th on 98 points in the championship with a win at the first race at Spa being the highlight of his season. Devlin DeFrancesco finished in 25th with no points with a 9th place at the Red Bull Ring's Race 2 being the closest he got. Niko Kari finished 12th with 36 points and

624-466: The Hungaroring round, David Beckmann was signed as his replacement. In 2018 the team was represented by Haas F1 test drivers Arjun Maini , Santino Ferrucci and Alessio Lorandi who switched from GP3 mid season after Ferrucci was banned for two rounds following a collision with teammate Arjun Maini at Silverstone, then had his contract terminated citing sponsorship issues. For the 2019 season ,

663-484: The best Rookie of F-Renault 2000. He continued with German Formula BMW in 2005. Schlegelmilch was good enough to promote in German Formula Three , scoring a few wins. His team, HS Technik decided to go to Formula Three Euroseries taking Harald with them. They started testing very late, so results of the first races were poor. But as time wore on, Harald was showing better and better pace each race, until he won

702-453: The drivers' championship, despite suffering a back injury at the penultimate round of the season at Spa-Francorchamps which saw him ruled out of the finale; he was replaced by Monegasque compatriot Stéphane Richelmi . In the other car, the returning González failed to score. For the 2012 season , Richelmi was retained and joined by Julián Leal : the duo scored 31 points between them under the new scoring system, but Trident slipped to tenth in

741-427: The entirety of the championship, and the other shared between Johnny Cecotto Jr. , Dani Clos and Adrian Zaugg . This campaign was less successful, as the team slipped back to eleventh in the standings. The truncated 2011 season was Trident's best, as lead driver Stefano Coletti put in a strong showing to finish fourth in the drivers' table, with one win, a position replicated by the team in its own championship. In

780-496: The feature race and battled for the race lead with Dan Ticktum in the sprint race, until the pair collided. He scored five points throughout the season, four more than teammate Sato, who finished eighth in the Mugello Sprint Race. The pair finished 19th and 22nd in the standings respectively, leading to Trident finishing last in the teams' championship. In 2021, F3 graduate Bent Viscaal partnered with Sato, his best finish

819-488: The fourth round of the championship at Silverstone , it expanded briefly to three cars for Giovanni Venturini , but Spavone's ride disappeared thereafter and the team once again returned to a two car set-up. Venturini was the most successful of the Italian trio, finishing on the podium twice and finishing thirteenth in the drivers' championship, in contrast to Piria and Spavone, who did not score. Trident finished ninth and last in

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858-471: The highlights of his season were a third-place at Catalunya Race 2 and Sochi Race 1. For the 2020 season, Trident signed ADAC Formula 4 champion Lirim Zendeli who moved from the Sauber Junior Team by Charouz where he finished 18th in 2019. David Beckmann replaced Devlin DeFrancesco ahead of the latter's move to the 2020 Indy Pro 2000 Championship with Andretti Autosport in late June before

897-1143: The middle of the pack with Caldwell qualifying 17th, Beckmann in 19th and Lorandi in 14th. In the qualifying race, Beckmann and Lorandi were able to make it through the Lap 1 incident at Lisboa which got Beckmann 9th and Lorandi 7th with Caldwell being blocked by the incident to finish 23rd. Caldwell retired in the early stages of the Main Race to finish 29th whereas Beckmann retained his starting spot to finish 9th and Lorandi moved up to 5th from 7th. ( key ) ( key ) * Season still in progress. ( 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) ( 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) ( key ) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) 2006 GP2 Series The 2006 GP2 Series season

936-472: The other car, Rodolfo González failed to score. Trident joined the GP3 Series for its third year of competition in 2012 , replacing the departing Barwa Addax team. It became the first GP3 team to intentionally field two drivers instead of the usual three (although several other teams later dropped down to two-car entries for certain rounds), beginning the season with Vicky Piria and Antonio Spavone . For

975-519: The previous year, Ghiotto scored a victory at the sprint race in Malaysia bringing them to eighth in the standings. Trident also competed in the GP2 Asia Series from its inception in 2008 to its cancellation in 2011. In the series' inaugural championship , the team fielded Harald Schlegelmilch and Ho-Pin Tung for a total of four points, finishing thirteenth and last in the teams' championship. For

1014-758: The provisional calendars published by the FIA but were cancelled: February 2006, the FIA announced the GP2 Spa round would not be part of the 2006 GP2 Season, since the local authorities had started major repair work in Spa-Francorchamps. Points are awarded to the top 8 classified finishers in the Feature race, and to the top 6 classified finishers in the Sprint race. The pole-sitter in the feature race will also receive two points, and one point

1053-458: The race. Hamilton led by ten points before final weekend in Monza. Piquet cut the lead to eight by taking pole. Pantano beat both of them in the feature race and set the fastest lap as well. Piquet finished second and Hamilton third, meaning that the championship would be decided in final race. However, Pantano was deemed to have ignored yellow flags on his fastest lap so that time was disallowed, giving

1092-435: The same as 2005. Brembo supplied a new development of monobloc brake calipers and disc bells, which were exclusive to GP2. The car also featured internal cooling upgrades, a new water radiator, radiator duct, oil and water heat exchanger, modified oil degasser, new oil and water pipes and new heat exchanger fixing brackets. The only change to the sporting regulations for the 2006 season was that drivers would only be awarded

1131-459: The season by winning the sprint. Hamilton then won three races in a row, including at Monaco where Nicolas Lapierre and Olivier Pla were injured and did not start. At his home circuit in Silverstone, Hamilton won the feature and then the sprint, where he overtook Clivio Piccione and Piquet in one move. There were few notable driver changes during the early season. Giorgio Pantano returned to

1170-524: The series with after missing the first three rounds and Timo Glock moved from BCN to iSport between the Monaco and British rounds. Both were serious contenders for race wins for the rest of the season and they shared victories at Magny-Cours. Glock also won at Hockenheim after overtaking José María López on the final lap. At this point, Hamilton had a 26-point lead over Piquet, but the Brazilian bounced back with

1209-478: The sole car. Boschung returned for Sochi before being replaced by Christian Lundgaard at Abu Dhabi. For the 2020 season , the team hired new Williams development driver Roy Nissany who had not raced in 2019 due to a pre-season testing injury. He was joined by 2019 Euroformula Open Champion Marino Sato who raced for Campos Racing from Spa onwards where he failed to score a point. Nissany's best result came at Spa-Francorchamps , where he finished eighth in

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1248-424: The sprint race from back of the grid. Hamilton won both races at Nürburgring, after Piquet took pole position but had a big crash following car failure in the feature race. He also failed to score in the sprint. Hamilton was on course to win feature race at Barcelona, but he collided with his teammate Alexandre Prémat on the last lap. The Frenchman went on to win with Hamilton second. Viso took his second victory of

1287-414: The team promoted Giuliano Alesi from their defunct GP3 division. On 11 March 2019, Ralph Boschung was confirmed as his teammate. Ryan Tveter replaced Boschung at the Red Bull Ring before being replaced by Dorian Boccolacci , who had previously raced for Campos, for Silverstone . Boschung returned for Hungary before stepping aside to relieve sponsorship issues at Monza for Giuliano Alesi who ran

1326-463: The teams' championship, having finished eighth the season before. For the 2015 season , Raffaele Marciello , of the Ferrari Driver Academy , and René Binder joined the team from Racing Engineering and Arden International respectively. The team finished seventh overall. The team entered 2016 with Philo Paz Armand and Luca Ghiotto being promoted from GP3. After a winless season

1365-407: The teams' championship. The team enjoyed an upturn in performance in the following two seasons, with performances from Luca Ghiotto in 2015 and Antonio Fuoco in 2016 , allowing them to finish second and third in the respective constructors championships. In 2018, the team was represented by Giuliano Alesi , Ryan Tveter and Alessio Lorandi . After Lorandi was promoted to Formula 2 prior to

1404-401: The teams' championship. The 2010 season saw a slight improvement as the team improved to eleventh overall; the drivers for the year were Adrian Zaugg and Johnny Cecotto Jr. , the latter of whom was replaced first by Edoardo Piscopo and then Federico Leo . Trident enjoyed something of a renaissance in 2011 , with new lead driver Stefano Coletti winning two races en route to eleventh in

1443-538: Was 2nd at the second Monza sprint race bringing Trident their best ever result in F2. In 2022, Trident would take their first win in Formula 2 with Richard Verschoor in the opening race of the season. In October 2018, Trident was listed among ten teams to compete in the inaugural FIA Formula 3 Championship . Their drivers were Devlin DeFrancesco , Niko Kari , both of whom switched from MP Motorsport after competing with them in

1482-458: Was competitive against more experienced opposition. Bruni provided two race wins, together with three pole positions and two fastest race laps, whilst Zuber secured a single race win. In the teams' championship standings, Trident ended the year in sixth place overall. For the 2007 season, Trident chose F3 Euro Series race winner Kohei Hirate from Japan and World Series by Renault front-runner Pastor Maldonado from Venezuela , who suffered

1521-510: Was the second season of the Formula One feeder championship GP2 Series . The season began at Circuit de Valencia , Spain on 8 April 2006 and ended in Monza , Italy on 10 September 2006. The championship was won by ART Grand Prix driver Lewis Hamilton , over Piquet Sports driver Nelson Piquet Jr. The 2006 specification GP2 Car was designed by Dallara Automobili . The 2006 GP2 car featured

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