| HWA Racelab | ||
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| Team Information | ||
| Nationality |  German
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| Based | Affalterbach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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| Founder | Hans Werner Aufrecht | |
| Founded | c.1998 | |
| Key People | Ulrich Fritz (C.E.O.); Thomaz Aufrecht (T.P.) | |
| Début |  2020 Red Bull Ring Feature Race
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| Driver(s) |  Artem Markelov (No. 16) Giuliano Alesi (No. 17)
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| Car | Dallara-Mecachrome F2 2018 | |
| Website | HWA Racelab | |
| Team Stats | ||
| Title(s) | N/A | |
| Last Season | N/A | |
| Entries | 0 (0 Starts) | |
| Wins | 0 | |
| Points | 0 | |
| Poles | 0 | |
| Podiums | 0 | |
| Fastest Laps | 0 | |
| Titles | N/A | |
| Current Season | ||
| Entrant | BWT HWA Racelab | |
| Artem Markelov
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Giuliano Alesi
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| File:.png | File:.png | |
| 18th (5 Pt(s)) | 17th (12 Pt(s)) | |
| Team Standings | ||
| 10th (13 Pt(s)) | ||
HWA Racelab (otherwise known as HWA Team or simply HWA), officially entered as BWT HWA Racelab, is a German based racing team, that competes in the 2020 FIA Formula 2 Championship with Artem Markelov and Giuliano Alesi.[1] Making their debut in the series as an official entrant, HWA, named for their founder Hans Werner Aufrecht, took over the entry of Arden International in F2, having partnered with them throughout the 2019 season.[2]
Background[]
HWA's history can be traced back beyond its foundation, for its founder Hans Werner Aufrecht, in partnership with Erhard Melcher, had a history of building engines as early as 1967.[3] Those two, together, would create AMG Motorenbau und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Aufrecht Melcher Großaspach), which specialised in the tuning Mercedes engines for racing.[3] AMG's success would ultimately draw the attention of Mercedes' owners Daimler AG, which bought a controlling share of the engine and tuning side of the company on 1 January 1999.[3]
HWA Heroics[]
Aufrecht would retain ownership of most of the racing team, and duly founded HWA AG on 30 October 1998 as a means to continue his desire to go racing.[3] HWA would retain AMG's close ties to Mercedes, however, with Aufrecht's firm duly winning a contract to run Mercedes cars in the revived DTM in 2000.[4] It was incredibly successful period for HWA, with themselves and Mercedes claiming five of the first six DTM titles between 2000 and 2006.[4]
Because of that success, HWA would become the de facto factory team of Mercedes in a variety of series, building race engines for Formula 3 and race cars for V8 Supercars.[4] The German firm were then commissioned to run Mercedes new sportscar campaign with the SLS and Mercedes-AMG GT3s, culminating in a clean sweep of the podium in the 2016 Nürburgring 24 Hours.[4] Indeed, the only significant Mercedes project that HWA would not be involved in was Mercedes' Formula One return in 2010, which was instead developed "in-house" by AMG.
Electric Energy[]
In 2018 HWA would move into the FIA Formula E Championship as an entrant, forming the foundation for Mercedes-Benz move into the series ahead of the 2019/20 season.[5] They duly signed ex-F1 and GP2 Series Champion Stoffel Vandoorne to race for them alongside Gary Paffett, with the team ultimately replaced by a factory Mercedes team in 2019.[5] After the end of their FE programme HWA announced that they would move into the junior single-seater ladder, signing up to the FIA Formula 3 Championship.[6]
Formula 2 History[]
HWA's first venture in the FIA Formula 2 Championship came during the 2019 season, with the German squad partnering with Arden International as a research project with a view to a future entry.[2] That partnership went well, resulting in HWA formally buying Arden's entry into the Championship when the British effort announced their withdrawal from the competition at the end of 2019.[1] HWA quickly signed a deal with BWT as their title sponsor, before signing Artem Markelov and Giuliano Alesi to be their drivers for their debut season in 2020.[1][7][8]
Formula 2 Record[]
The tables below show HWA Racelab's full record in the FIA Formula 2 Championship.
Formula 2 Entries[]
The table below gives an overview of HWA Racelab's entries in Formula 2:
| HWA Racelab's overall Formula 2 Record | ||||||||
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| Season | Official name | No. | Drivers | DC Pos. | DC Pts. | Car | TC Pos. | TC Pts. |
| 2020 | BWT HWA Racelab[1]
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16 | Artem Markelov[7]
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Dallara-Mecachrome F2 2018 | ||||
| 17 | Giuliano Alesi[8]
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Career Results[]
Listed below are the full career results of HWA Racelab:
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| Year | Driver | Rounds | Pos. | Pts. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | ||||
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10th | 13 | |||||||||||||
| F | S | F | S | F | S | F | S | F | S | F | S | F | S | F | S | F | S | F | S | F | S | F | S | ||||
| MAR | Ret | 18th | DNS | 16th | Ret | 14th | 18th | 11th | 19th | 11th | 12th | 16th | 16th | 8th | 17th | 16th | 8th | 20th | 15th | 12th | 22nd | 10th | 13th | 20th | |||
| ALE | 6th | Ret | 21st | 15th | 11th | 10th | 19th | 18th | 16th | 20th | Ret | 19th | 18th | 14th | 18th | 12th | Ret | Ret | |||||||||
| HUG | 12th | Ret | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| POU | 18th | Ret | 18th | 21st | |||||||||||||||||||||||
References[]
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References:
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Haydn Cobb, 'HWA takes over Arden’s Formula 2 entry from 2020', crash.net, (Crash Media Group, 16/10/2019), https://www.crash.net/f2/news/931359/1/hwa-takes-over-arden-s-formula-2-entry-2020, (Accessed 17/03/2020)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 'Arden International Motorsport and HWA RACELAB to initiate Formula 2 co-operation', arden-motorsport.com, (Arden Motorsport, 21/01/2019), https://www.arden-motorsport.com/press/arden-international-motorsport-and-hwa-racelab-to-initiate-formula-2-co-operation, (Accessed 17/03/2020)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 'HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPANY HWA AG', hwaag.com, (HWA AG, 2018), http://www.hwaag.com/en/company-en.html, (Accessed 24/05/2018)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 'MILESTONES', hwaag.com, (HWA AG, 2018), http://www.hwaag.com/en/company-en/meilensteine-hwa-ag-en.html, (Accessed 24/05/2018)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 'Paffett to drive for HWA Racelab', fiaformulae.com, (FIA Formula E, 08/10/2018), http://www.fiaformulae.com/en/news/2018/october/paffett-to-drive-for-hwa-racelab/, (Accessed 08/10/2018)
- ↑ Marcus Simmons, 'FIA Formula 3 2019 team list revealed, including Mercedes ally HWA', autosport.com, (Motorsport Network, 12/10/2018), https://www.autosport.com/f3/news/139333/mercedes-partner-hwa-for-new-fia-f3-series, (Accessed 17/03/2020)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Aaron Gillard, 'ARTEM MARKELOV AGREES TO RACE IN FIA FORMULA 2 FOR SEVENTH SEASON', thecheckeredflag.co.uk, (The Checkered Flag, 26/11/2019), https://www.thecheckeredflag.co.uk/2019/11/artem-markelov-agrees-to-race-in-fia-formula-2-for-seventh-season/, (Accessed 04/03/2020)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 'ALESI COMPLETES HWA LINE-UP FOR 2020', fiaformula2.com, (FIA Formula Two, 28/11/2019), http://www.fiaformula2.com/News-Room/News/2019/11_November/Alesi-completes-HWA-line-up-for-2020/, (Accessed 04/03/2020)