TF Sport
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| Founded | 2014 |
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| Base | Slinfold, West Sussex |
| Team principal(s) | Tom Ferrier |
| Current series | FIA World Endurance Championship European Le Mans Series Asian Le Mans Series |
| Current drivers |  Charlie Eastwood Rui Andrade Tom van Rompuy Sébastien Baud Daniel Juncadella Hiroshi Koizumi Michael Dinan Salih Yoluç Jonathan Adam John Hartshorne Ben Tuck Louis Delétraz Jonny Edgar Robert Kubica Martin Berry Lorcan Hanafin |
| Teams' Championships | British GT Championship: 2016, 2017, 2018 (GT3), 2019 (GT4) Le Mans Cup: 2017 |
| Drivers' Championships | British GT Championship: 2016: Jonathan Adam & Derek Johnston: 2019 (GT3): Jonathan Adam & Graham Davidson 2019 (GT4): Tom Canning & Ash Hand Blancpain GT Series: 2017: Ahmad Al Harthy & Jonathan Adam |
TF Sport is an auto racing team founded by Tom Ferrier and headquartered in Slinfold, West Sussex, England, United Kingdom. It will compete in the 2024 FIA World Endurance Championship with a Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R, with support from Corvette Racing. The team was previously supported by Aston Martin Racing.
Overview
[edit]Founded in 2014 by former British Touring Car and British GT driver, Tom Ferrier, TF Sport dovetailed a third British GT campaign with a strong European competition programme in the newly established GT3 Le Mans Cup and International GT Open.
Having successfully competed in 2015 in the Blancpain Series, the GT cup[1] and the International GT Open, TF Sport launched an additional campaign for the Michelin GT3 Le Mans Cup title in the 2016 season.[2]
Championship titles at home and abroad turned 2016 into a breakthrough year for TF Sport, but 2017 was even more momentous, as the official Aston Martin Racing Partner Team stepped over to GTE-spec machinery for a dream assault on the European Le Mans Series and the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans.[peacock prose][3]
TF Sport also provide racing team operations for a number of entries in different competitions, such as the 2023 Racing Team Turkey LMP2[4] entry to Le Mans and support for the Team TGM entry to the 2023 24 Hours of Daytona.[5]
On 28 June 2023, it was announced that TF Sport would be aiming to run 2 Corvette Z06 GT3.Rs in the WEC in 2024, competing in the new LMGT3 class.[6]
Racing record
[edit]24 Hours of Le Mans results
[edit]Complete British GT results
[edit]| British GT results | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Car | Class | Drivers | Wins | Podiums | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
| 2014 | Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT4 | GT4 | Andrew Jarman Devon Modell | 2 | 7 | 190 | 2nd | 3rd |
| 2015 | Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 | GT3 | Andrew Jarman Jody Fannin | 0 | 2 | 60 | 7th | 3rd |
| Matt Bell Derek Johnston | 1 | 3 | 107 | 5th | ||||
| 2016 | Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 | GT3 | Jonathan Adam Derek Johnston | 2 | 2 | 106 | 1st | 1st |
| John Barnes Mark Farmer | 1 | 1 | 79.5 | 5th | ||||
| 2017 | Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 | GT3 | Jonathan Adam Derek Johnston | 2 | 4 | 142.5 | 3rd | 1st |
| John Barnes Mark Farmer | 0 | 4 | 128.5 | 5th | ||||
| 2018 | Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 | GT3 |  Marco Sorensen Derek Johnston | 1 | 4 | 98 | 6th | 1st |
| Nicki Thiim Mark Farmer | 2 | 6 | 148 | 3rd | ||||
| 2019 | Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 | GT3 | Jonathan Adam Graham Davidson | 2 | 3 | 131 | 1st | 2nd |
| Nicki Thiim Mark Farmer | 0 | 1 | 72.5 | 8th | ||||
| 2019 | Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT4 | GT4 | Tom Canning Ash Hand | 1 | 5 | 140 | 1st | 1st |
| Patrick Kibble Josh Price | 0 | 1 | 44.5 | 12th | ||||
| 2020 | Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT4 | GT4 | Connor O'Brien Patrick Kibble | 2 | 6 | 158.5 | 3rd | 1st |
| Jamie Caroline Daniel Vaughan | 1 | 6 | 170 | 1st | ||||
| 2020 | Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 | GT3 | Tom Canning Giacomo Petrobelli | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/C | N/C |
Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results
[edit]| Year | Entrant | Class | No | Chassis | Engine | Drivers | Rounds | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Pos. | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SPA | LMS | SIL | FUJ |  SHA | SEB | SPA | LMS | ||||||||||
| 2018–19 | TF Sport | LMGTE Am | 90 | Aston Martin Vantage GTE | Aston Martin 4.5 L V8 | Charlie Eastwood Salih Yoluç Euan Hankey Jonathan Adam | All All 1-2, 7-8 3-6 | 22 (2nd) | Ret | 18 (2nd) | 24 (2nd) | 29 (8th) | 25 (6th) | 26 (2nd) | 42 (6th) | 3rd | 99 |
SIL | FUJ | SHA |  BHR | COA | SPA | LMS | BHR | Pos. | Pts | ||||||||
| 2019–20 | TF Sport | LMGTE Am | 90 | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | Mercedes-Benz M177 4.0 L Turbo V8 | Jonathan Adam Charlie Eastwood Salih Yoluç | All All All | 24 (7th) | 19 (1st) | 19 (1st) | Ret | 19 (1st) | 17 (3rd) | 24 (1st) | 21 (8th) | 2nd | 154 |
SPA |  POR | MNZ | LMS | BHR | BHR | Pos. | Pts | ||||||||||
| 2021 | TF Sport | LMGTE Am | 33 | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | Aston Martin 4.0 L Turbo V8 |  Felipe Fraga Ben Keating Dylan Pereira | All All All | 21 (2nd) | 25 (7th) | 32 (12th) | 26 (2nd) | 17 (1st) | Ret | 2nd | 90.5 | ||
| D'Station Racing | 777 | Tomonobu Fujii Satoshi Hoshino Andrew Watson | All All All | 26 (7th) | Ret | 21 (3rd) | 33 (5th) | 28 (10th) | 26 (7th) | 9th | 51 | ||||||
SEB | SPA | LMS | MNZ | FUJ | BHR | Pos. | Pts | ||||||||||
| 2022 | TF Sport | LMGTE Am | 33 | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | Aston Martin 4.0 L Turbo V8 | Ben Keating Marco Sørensen Florian Latorre Henrique Chaves | All All 1 2-6 | 23 (2nd) | 22 (2nd) | 34 (1st) | Ret | 23 (1st) | 26 (4th) | 1st | 141 | ||
| D'Station Racing | 777 | Tomonobu Fujii Satoshi Hoshino Charlie Fagg | All All All | 27 (6th) | 27 (7th) | Ret | 32 (11th) | 25 (3rd) | 32 (10th) | 10th | 35 | ||||||
SEB | POR | SPA | LMS | MNZ | FUJ | BHR | Pos. | Pts | |||||||||
| 2023 |  ORT by TF | LMGTE Am | 25 | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | Aston Martin 4.0 L Turbo V8 | Ahmad Al Harthy Michael Dinan Charlie Eastwood | 1-4 1-4 1-4 | 26 (9th) | 28 (8th) | 22 (3rd) | 28 (2nd) | 28 (7th) | 35 (13th) | N/C | 5th | 65 | |
| D'Station Racing | 777 | Tomonobu Fujii Satoshi Hoshino Casper Stevenson | 1-4 1-4 1-4 | 27 (10th) | Ret | 29 (10th) | Ret | Ret | 32 (10th) | 23 (2nd) | 14th | 31 | |||||
 LUS | IMO | SPA | LMS | INT | COA | FUJ | BHR | Pos. | Pts | ||||||||
| 2024 | TF Sport | LMGT3 | 81 | Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R | Chevrolet LT6.R 5.5 L V8 | Rui Andrade Charlie Eastwood Tom van Rompuy | |||||||||||
| 82 | Sébastien Baud Daniel Juncadella Hiroshi Koizumi | ||||||||||||||||
- * Season still in progress.
European Le Mans Series results
[edit]| ELMS results | ||||||||
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| Year | Car | Class | Drivers | Wins | Podiums | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
| 2017 | Aston Martin V8 Vantage GTE | LMGTE | Nicki Thiim Salih Yoluc Euan Hankey | 1 | 5 | 102 | 2nd | 2nd |
Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup results
[edit]| Blancpain GT Series results | ||||||||
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| Year | Car | Class | Drivers | Wins | Podiums | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
| 2017 | Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 | Pro-AM | Ahmad Al Harthy Jonathan Adam | 2 | 6 | 116 | 1st | 1st |
| 2018 | Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 | Silver | Charlie Eastwood Ahmad Al Harthy Euan McKay | 0 | 0 | 47 | 7th | 7th |
Complete Michelin Le Mans Cup results
[edit]| Michelin Le Mans Cup results | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Car | Class | Drivers | Races | Wins | Podiums | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
| 2016 | Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 | GT3 | Salih Yoluc Euan Hankey | 6 | 2 | 5 | 107 | 2nd | 1st |
| 2017 | Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 | GT3 | Ahmad Al Harthy Tom Jackson | 2 | 2 | 2 | 30 | 7th | 6th |
Complete International GT Open results
[edit]| International GT Open results | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Car | Class | Drivers | Wins | Podiums | Points | D.C. | |
| 2014 | Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 | Super GT | Darren Turner Jody Fannin | 1 | 2 | 40 | 20th | |
| 2015 | Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 | GT Am | Euan Hankey Salih Yoluc | 3 | 4 | 19 | 5th | |
| 2016 | Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 | Pro-Am | Euan Hankey Salih Yoluc | 2 | 3 | 102 | 5th | |
| 2016 | Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 | Pro-Am (Guest) | Jon Barnes Mark Farmer | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/C | |
| 2020 | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | Pro | Charlie Eastwood Salih Yoluc | 3 | 8 | 112 | 2nd[8] | |
| 2020 | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | Pro-Am | Tom Canning Ahmad Al Harthy | 0 | 1 | 11 | 17th | |
External links
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "GT CUP TITLE WITHIN PAUL BAILEY AND ANDY SCHULZ'S REACH AT DONINGTON PARK". 16 September 2015.
- ^ "TF Sport welcomes back Devon Modell and Andrew Jarman for 'Road to Le Mans'".
- ^ "ASTON MARTIN RACING SET FOR 24 HOURS OF LE MANS FIGHT".
- ^ "Vanthoor Completes Racing Team Turkey Lineup". at Le Mans
- ^ Dagys, John (16 November 2022). "TGM Joins Forces With TF Sport for Aston Martin Rolex 24 Effort – Sportscar365". sportscar365.com. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
- ^ "TF Sport To Race With Corvette In WEC LMGT3 | dailysportscar.com". www.dailysportscar.com. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
- ^ Lloyd, Daniel (19 January 2021). "D'station to Make GTE-Am Debut with TF Sport". Sportscar365. John Dagys Media. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
- ^ "2020 International GT Open Vice Champions".