SG Formula

SG Formula

Founded	2004
Team principal(s)	Stephane Guerin
Current series	Formula Renault WEC
Former series	World Series by Renault Formula Renault Eurocup Formula Renault France Formula 3 Euro Series
Teams' Championships	FRenault France 2005, 2006, 2007 FRenault Eurocup 2005, 2007, 2008 Formula Renault WEC 2008
Drivers' Championships	FRenault France 2005 (Grosjean) FRenault France 2007 (Bianchi) Formula Renault WEC 2008 (Ricciardo)

SG Formula is a French auto racing team which participated in the junior categories of open wheel racing: Formula Renault and Formula Three. The team was founded in 2004 by Frenchman Stephane Guerin.

History

After its foundation in 2004, SG Formula began racing in a number of Formula Renault championships with their drivers Yann Clairay, Guillaume Moreau and Romain Grosjean, with the team's concentrating mostly on the French championship with a handful of participations in the European and Swiss championships. The team enjoyed some success in its inaugural year of motorsport with Clairay and Moreau finishing second and third respectively in the French Drivers' Championship and Grosjean finished as runner-up rookie. The team finished second in that year's Team's Championship with 649 points; 27 points off champions Graff Racing. Wins were also present in SG Formula's other championships, including a win for Clairay at Magny-Cours in the European series and a win in the single entry they had in the Swiss championship.

2005 spread their wings into a number of other championships: While still remaining in the French and European series, with intentions to run a full championship campaign in both, they entered a selected number of events in the Dutch championship while dropping their involvement in the Swiss series. The team retained its drivers, bar Moreau who had moved to fellow French team Signature-Plus; Carlo van Dam, Johan Charpilienne and Julien Jousse were added at the team's roster. The team enjoyed far more success than the previous year, with Grosjean winning the Drivers' Championship in France and the team picked up the Team's Championship in the Eurocup as well as in the French series. The Dutchman van Dam also managed to score three podiums in the Dutch championship as well. At the end of the year, after partnering with Dyna Ten Motorsport, the team entered a Support Race for the Macau Grand Prix where the team finished twelfth and thirteenth.

Like Moreau before him, Grosjean jumped ship to Signature-Plus for a campaign in Formula Three, which is what SG Formula could not offer the French driver at the time. Clairay also entered a limited amount of races for the team as he was concentrating on his Le Mans Series campaign with Paul Belmondo Racing; Charpilienne also left the team at the end of 2005. Van Dam and Jousse stayed with SG Formula for 2006 with Red Bull-backed Tom Dillmann joining the Dutch driver for the Eurocup team and rookie Jean Karl Vernay joining Jousse for the French championship. The two entries did well in their respective championships, with the Eurocup team finishing second in the Team's Championship, with Van Dam finishing third in the Drivers' Championship, and Vernay finished the year as both runner-up in the Drivers' and Rookie championship in the French Championship with a Team Championship for a second year in a row as well.

The team ran two Eurocup teams in 2007 named SG Formula and SG Driver's Project and hired a number of new drivers to their roster. Brit Jon Lancaster finished the season as runner-up to New Zealander Brendon Hartley with Charles Pic finishing behind him in third. The team also claimed that year's Team title in the Eurocup. In the French championship, incidentally the last championship before the series became the West European Cup, the team enjoyed their best season with Jules Bianchi taking home the Drivers' Title and the team won the Team's championship for the third year in succession.

SG Formula stepped up to Formula Three in 2008 by entering a team for the Formula Three Euroseries with a three-man team of former driver Clairay, Dutch driver Henkie Waldschmidt and Tom Dillmann, and ended up 6th in the teams' championship – mainly thanks to Clairay's solid finishing – which led him to 9th overall.

The team will return in 2009, with Lancaster returning to the team along with Waldschmidt, with Andrea Caldarelli moving up from the Eurocup.^[1]

At the beginning of 2010, the team withdrew from the Formula Renault 3.5 Series, Formula Three Euroseries and Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0.

Complete motor racing results

Formula Renault

Formula Renault
Year	Championship	Drivers	Wins	Poles	Fast laps	Points	D.C.	T.C. (Points)
2004	Formula Renault France	Yann Clairay	2	1	1	264	2nd	2nd
		Guillaume Moreau	3	4	4	227	3rd
		Romain Grosjean	1	2	1	130	7th
	Formula Renault Eurocup	Yann Clairay	1	1	0	82	10th	4th
		Guillaume Moreau	0	1	1	148	7th
2005	Formula Renault France	Romain Grosjean	10	20	11	211	1st	1st
		Johan Charpilienne	1	0	1	100	4th
		Franck Mailleux	1	0	0	81	5th
		Julien Jousse	1	1	0	70	6th
	Formula Renault Eurocup	Yann Clairay	3	5	1	125	3rd	1st
		Carlo van Dam	0	0	0	100	4th
	Formula Renault Netherlands	Yann Clairay	0	0	0	37	15th	?
		Carlo van Dam	0	0	0	74	7th
2006	Formula Renault France	Jean-Karl Vernay	2	3	3	108	2nd	1st
		Julien Jousse	1	1	2	89	3rd
	Formula Renault Eurocup	Carlo van Dam	1	2	1	90	3rd	2nd
		Tom Dillmann	0	0	2	61	8th
2007	Formula Renault France	Nelson Panciatici	0	0	0	19	14th	1st
		Charles Pic	0	1	0	69	4th
		Jon Lancaster	2	1	1	64	6th
		Alexandre Marsoin	2	0	1	84	3rd
		Edouard Texte	0	0	0	8	16th
		Jules Bianchi	5	5	10	172	1st
	Formula Renault Eurocup	Nelson Panciatici	0	0	0	44	10th	1st
		Edouard Texte	0	0	0	0	—
		Fabio Onidi	0	0	0	6	20th
		Charles Pic	1	2	1	88	3rd
		Jules Bianchi	0	1	1	4	21st
		Jon Lancaster	5	4	3	102	2nd
		Alexandre Marsoin	0	0	0	25	14th
		Anton Nebylitskiy	0	0	0	0	—
2008	Formula Renault Eurocup	Ramez Azzam	0	0	0	0	37th	1st
		Anton Nebylitskiy	0	0	0	7	20th
		Jean-Éric Vergne	0	0	0	53	6th
		Daniel Ricciardo	6	5	6	136	2nd
		Andrea Caldarelli	0	0	0	123	3rd
		Nelson Lukes	0	0	0	0	54th
		Alexander Sims	0	0	0	7	19th
		Miquel Monrás	0	0	0	6	21st
	Formula Renault WEC	Ramez Azzam	0	0	0	5	22nd	1st
		Anton Nebylitskiy	0	0	0	41	7th
		Jean-Éric Vergne	0	0	0	95	4th
		Daniel Ricciardo	8	9	7	192	1st
		Andrea Caldarelli	3	0	1	129	3rd
		Tristan Vautier	0	0	0	79	6th

• D.C. = Drivers' Championship position, T.C. = Teams' Championship position.

Formula Three

Formula Three
Year	Championship	Drivers	Wins	Poles	Fast laps	Points	D.C.	T.C. (Points)
2008	Formula Three Euroseries	Tom Dillmann	0	0	0	8	18th	6th
		Henkie Waldschmidt	0	0	0	0	26th
		Yann Clairay	0	0	1	33	9th
		Daniel Ricciardo	0	0	0	0	—†
2009	Formula Three Euroseries	Jon Lancaster	0	0	0	0	—	6th
		Henkie Waldschmidt	0	0	0	13	12th
		Andrea Caldarelli	0	0	1	11	14th

† - Ricciardo was ineligible to score points.
* - Season still in progress

D.C. = Drivers' Championship position, T.C. = Teams' Championship position.

References

1. "Lancaster to lead SG line-up". autosport.com. 2009-01-23. Retrieved 2009-01-23.

External links

• Official website