M2 Competition (team)
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New Zealand-based auto-racing team
| Founded | 2010 |
|---|---|
| Founder(s) | Jonathan Moury Mark Pilcher |
| Team principal(s) | Elise Moury (co-owner) Jonathan Moury (co-owner) Mark Pilcher(co-owner) |
| Current series | Formula Regional Oceania Championship |
| Former series | Formula Renault Eurocup F4 Spanish Championship Toyota Finance 86 Championship British GT Championship |
| Current drivers | Austria Charlie Wurz New Zealand Callum Hedge New Zealand Liam Sceats United States David Morales Australia Ryder Quinn |
| Drivers' Championships | Toyota Racing Series: 2013: Nick Cassidy 2015: Lance Stroll 2016: Lando Norris 2018: Robert Shwartzman 2019: Liam Lawson 2020: Igor Fraga 2021: Matthew Payne 2023: Charlie Wurz 2024: Roman Bilinski |
| Website | m2-automotive |
M2 Competition are a motorsport team based in New Zealand and Belgium.
History
[edit ]Founded in 2010, M2 Competition began partaking in the New Zealand-based single-seater championship the Castrol Toyota Racing Series in 2011, with Ivan Lukashevich taking the team's first win at Manfield. The following year, the team achieved their second victory and first pole position from Jordan King at Taupo.[1] In 2013, the team saw their first champion crowned with Nick Cassidy claiming his second successive title.[2] Since then, the team has taken Lance Stroll, Lando Norris, Robert Shwartzman and Liam Lawson to the TRS title as well as fielding the likes of Earl Bamber, Alex Lynn, Raffaele Marciello, Marcus Armstrong and Richard Verschoor.
In November 2018, it was announced M2 would expand into Europe by competing in the 2019 Formula Renault Eurocup championship under a Belgian license.[3]
Current series results
[edit ]Toyota Racing Series / Formula Regional Oceania Championship
[edit ]| Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | F.L. | Podiums | Points | D.C. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Tatuus-Toyota | Russia Ivan Lukashevich | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 531 | 7th |
| Australia Jordan Skinner | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 410 | 11th | ||
| Japan Kotaro Sakurai | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 325 | 14th | ||
| New Zealand Earl Bamber | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164 | 15th | ||
| New Zealand Ken Smith | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 78 | 17th | ||
| 2012 | Tatuus-Toyota | United Kingdom Jordan King | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 591 | 5th |
| France Nathanaël Berthon | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 555 | 7th | ||
| Italy Raffaele Marciello | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 535 | 9th | ||
| Thailand Tanart Sathienthirakul | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 383 | 14th | ||
| India Sheban Siddiqi | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 212 | 20th | ||
| 2013 | Tatuus-Toyota | New Zealand Nick Cassidy | 15 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 915 | 1st |
| United Kingdom Alex Lynn | 15 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 803 | 2nd | ||
| Netherlands Steijn Schothorst | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 754 | 4th | ||
| Norway Dennis Olsen | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 410 | 13th | ||
| Australia Spike Goddard | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 262 | 17th | ||
| Republic of Ireland Ryan Cullen | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 122 | 20th | ||
| Netherlands Pieter Schothorst | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 21st | ||
| 2014 | Tatuus-Toyota | Netherlands Steijn Schothorst | 15 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 630 | 4th |
| Russia Egor Orudzhev | 15 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 595 | 6th | ||
| Switzerland Levin Amweg | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 409 | 11th | ||
| Brazil Gustavo Lima | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 405 | 12th | ||
| Australia Macauley Jones | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 340 | 18th | ||
| Brazil Pedro Piquet | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 140 | 23rd | ||
| 2015 | Tatuus FT-50-Toyota | Canada Lance Stroll | 15 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 906 | 1st |
| France Brandon Maïsano | 15 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 798 | 2nd | ||
| India Arjun Maini | 15 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 750 | 4th | ||
| Republic of Ireland Charlie Eastwood | 15 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 535 | 7th | ||
| Denmark Mathias Kristensen | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 502 | 11th | ||
| New Zealand Jamie Conroy | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 446 | 15th | ||
| 2016 | Tatuus FT-50-Toyota | United Kingdom Lando Norris | 15 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 924 | 1st |
| India Jehan Daruvala | 15 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 789 | 2nd | ||
| Brazil Pedro Piquet | 15 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 710 | 5th | ||
| China Guanyu Zhou | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 685 | 6th | ||
| Russia Artem Markelov | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 588 | 8th | ||
| Canada Kami Laliberté | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 386 | 13th | ||
| 2017 | Tatuus FT-50-Toyota | Brazil Pedro Piquet | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 850 | 2nd |
| New Zealand Marcus Armstrong | 15 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 792 | 4th | ||
| India Jehan Daruvala | 15 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 781 | 5th | ||
| Austria Ferdinand Habsburg | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 552 | 8th | ||
| Canada Kami Laliberté | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 498 | 10th | ||
| France Jean Baptiste Simmenauer | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 248 | 19th | ||
| 2018 | Tatuus FT-50-Toyota | Russia Robert Shwartzman | 15 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 916 | 1st |
| Netherlands Richard Verschoor | 15 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 911 | 2nd | ||
| New Zealand Marcus Armstrong | 15 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 901 | 3rd | ||
| United States Juan Manuel Correa | 15 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 756 | 4th | ||
| United Kingdom James Pull | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 692 | 6th | ||
| 2019 | Tatuus FT-50-Toyota | New Zealand Liam Lawson | 15 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 356 | 1st |
| New Zealand Marcus Armstrong | 15 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 346 | 2nd | ||
| Austria Lucas Auer | 15 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 270 | 3rd | ||
| Belgium Esteban Muth | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 263 | 5th | ||
| United States Cameron Das | 15 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 205 | 7th | ||
| Russia Artem Petrov | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 181 | 9th | ||
| 2020 | Tatuus FT-60-Toyota | Brazil Igor Fraga | 15 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 362 | 1st |
| New Zealand Liam Lawson | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 356 | 2nd | ||
| Japan Yuki Tsunoda | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 257 | 4th | ||
| Israel Ido Cohen | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164 | 9th | ||
| France Émilien Denner | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 72 | 15th | ||
| Angola Rui Andrade | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 70 | 16th | ||
| 2021 | Tatuus FT-60-Toyota | New Zealand Matthew Payne | 9 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 287 | 1st |
| New Zealand Kaleb Ngatoa | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 229 | 2nd | ||
| New Zealand Billy Frazer | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 201 | 3rd | ||
| New Zealand Chris Vlok | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149 | 6th | ||
| New Zealand Shane van Gisbergen | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 105 | 7th | ||
| New Zealand Josh Bethune | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 14th | ||
| 2023 | Tatuus FT-60-Toyota | Austria Charlie Wurz | 15 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 343 | 1st |
| New Zealand Callum Hedge | 15 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 329 | 2nd | ||
| New Zealand Liam Sceats | 15 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 245 | 4th | ||
| United States David Morales | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 200 | 6th | ||
| Australia Ryder Quinn | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 199 | 7th | ||
| Netherlands Laurens van Hoepen | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 154 | 11th | ||
| 2024 | Tatuus FT-60-Toyota | Poland Roman Bilinski | 15 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 385 | 1st |
| New Zealand Liam Sceats | 15 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 342 | 2nd | ||
| South Korea Michael Shin | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 245 | 4th | ||
| Hong Kong Gerrard Xie | 14 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 206 | 6th | ||
| Italy Nicola Lacorte | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 130 | 10th | ||
| United States Bryce Aron | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 99 | 15th | ||
| Australia Ryder Quinn | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 21st | ||
| 2025 | Tatuus FT-60-Toyota | United Kingdom Arvid Lindblad | 15 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 370 | 1st |
| United States Nikita Johnson | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 305 | 3rd | ||
| Peru Matías Zagazeta | 15 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 244 | 5th | ||
| New Zealand Sebastian Manson | 15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 225 | 6th | ||
| South Korea Michael Shin | 15 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 197 | 8th | ||
| Chinese Taipei Enzo Yeh | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149 | 11th |
Former series results
[edit ]Formula Renault Eurocup
[edit ]| Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | F.L. | Podiums | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Tatuus F3 T-318 | India Kush Maini | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 74 | 6th | 5th |
| United States Yves Baltas | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 19th | |||
| Belgium Esteban Muth | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25th | |||
| Germany Lucas Alecco Roy | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 20th | |||
| South Africa Callan O'Keeffe | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17th | |||
| Switzerland Patrick Schott | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22nd | |||
| 2020 | Tatuus F3 T-318 | Russia Michael Belov | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 13th | 8th |
F4 Spanish Championship
[edit ]| Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | F/Laps | Podiums | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Tatuus F4-T014 | France Émilien Denner | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28th | NC |
Toyota Finance 86 Championship
[edit ]| Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | F/Laps | Podiums | Points | D.C. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-18 | Toyota 86 | New Zealand Peter Vodanovich | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 422 | 9th |
| 2018-19 | Toyota 86 | New Zealand Connor Davison | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 541 | 12th |
| 2019-20 | Toyota 86 | New Zealand Connor Davison | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 246 | 15th |
| New Zealand Campbell Stewart | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 567 | 5th |
British GT Championship
[edit ]| Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | F/Laps | Podiums | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 | United Kingdom Tony Quinn United Kingdom Darren Turner |
1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | NC |
Timeline
[edit ]| Current series | |
|---|---|
| Formula Regional Oceania Championship | 2011–2021, 2023–present |
| Former series | |
| Toyota Finance 86 Championship | 2017–2020 |
| British GT Championship | 2019 |
| Formula Renault Eurocup | 2019–2020 |
| F4 Spanish Championship | 2020 |
References
[edit ]- ^ "Jordan King 'stronger' for New Zealand experience". February 21, 2012. Archived from the original on November 14, 2018. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
- ^ "Kiwi Nick Cassidy prepares for second crack at Japan Super GT Series". February 6, 2017. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
- ^ "Ten teams pre-selected for the 2019 Formula Renault Eurocup". November 14, 2018. Retrieved November 14, 2018.