09/06/2016- Fairuz Fauzy (Mofaz Fortec Motorsport) scored the teams first win of the season with a lights to flag victory in Race 1 of the Formula Renault 3.5 Series at Hungaroring. Benefitting from the reverse grid procedure, the Malaysian driver led into the first corner and successfully contained Marco Barba (Draco) and Bertrand Baguette (Draco) all the way to the chequered flag. The only threat to Fauzy’s first win in the series was a safety car period brought about by Filip Salaquarda (Prema) spinning off the track. Fauzy timed the re-start to perfection, taking a lead of over one-second from Barba as he crossed the start/finish line. Fauzy then controlled the race, ultimately taking the win from Barba, Baguette, Walker (P1 Motorsport), Alguersuari (Carlin), and Martinez (Pons). Race 2 would see Fauzy start from 8th position on the grid with team-mate Sten Pentus in 18th position. Both cars made good starts before the safety-car was brought out to neutralize the race after incidents on lap 1 and 9. With Fairuz and Sten making their mandatory pit-stops for tyres on laps 12 and 13 respectively, the continued to take the chequered flag in 7th and 15th positions. Taking valuable points from the weekend, Mofaz Fortec now moves into 7th place in the teams championship with Fairuz 10th and Sten 15th in the drivers championship.
17/05/2009- The Formula Renault UK event at Donington Park was host to another good race weekend for the Fortec team with a win for James Calado in Race 2 and a 3rd place for Oli Webb. Calado missed out on pole for Race 1 by 1/1000 second but would finish the race at the bottom of the order after being pushed wide in the fight for 2nd place. Oli Webb qualified 4th and 8th for the two races, finishing 3rd in Race 1 and 5th in Race 2 promoting him to 2nd in the drivers championship ahead of James Calado in 3rd. Fredrik Blomstedt had a successful Race 1, qualifying 11th and racing his way to 6th. After qualifying 14th for Race 2, a first-corner incident would see the Swede demoted to the back of the field before recovering to take 17th place. Will Stevens had a solid weekend qualifying 11th and 12th and finishing both races in 11th position.
26/04/2009- The Formula Renault UK team continued their success with strong pace throughout the super-fast Thruxton event. Qualifying 1 took place on a damp, drying track with Will Stevens setting an impressive 2nd fastest lap followed by Fredrik Blomstedt in 3rd position, both on wet tyres. James Calado, on slick tyres, managed a respectable 5th place grid-slot with Oli Webb over-heating his wet tyres to finish the session in 9th place. A dry but windy Qualifying 2 saw Calado put his car on pole-position for Race 2 with Webb 6th, Blomstedt 9th, and Will Stevens 19th, all within 8/10 second of the pole-time of Calado. Race 1 started ideally for Calado, taking the lead from the start and ensuring a significant gap with Will Stevens 3rd behind Krohn. Oli Webb progressed from 6th on the grid to 9th in the race but a battle with Josh Scott would see him pushed wide at Church corner and finishing the race in 12th position. Race 2 saw a series of unfortunate events for the Fortec team with Calado retiring with a gear-cable failure, Webb suffering a puncture before finishing 5th, and spin for Stevens seeing him complete the race in 21st position after holding P10 on the track for much of the distance.
07/04/2009- The Formula Renault UK team made a great start to the 2009 season with two fantastic wins and a very well deserved second place at Brands Hatch. Qualifying 1 started wet but dried out right at the end of the session with Oli Webb making the best of the difficult conditions with second on the grid. Although setting the fastest second sector, James Calado could only manage 5th due to being held up at Paddock and Druids.
Will Stevens and Fredrik Blomstedt were the first to get the flag, taking 9th and 12th slots on the grid respectively. A dry Qualifying 2 session saw James Calado on pole and Fredrik Blomstedt second beside him. Oli Webb and Will Stevens qualified 10th and 11th, a result of small mistakes on their best flying laps. Oli Webb made a reasonable start to Race 1 but could not keep Oakes from passing him, however a dive up the inside of a battling Oakes and Tinknell for the lead at Druids saw Webb take the lead and was never challenged again, taking his first UK win and setting a new lap record in the process. Calado drove a very conservative race, coming home in 5th position and taking valuable points. Blomstedt, starting from 12th on the grid but suffered a spin while in 11th place before recovering to finish 12th. Will Stevens drove a solid race to finish where he started the race in 9th position. A lights to flag victory for Calado in Race 2 was only slowed temporarily by a safety-car period with Fredrik Blomstedt takinjg a solid 2nd place behind him, holding off a strong Jesse Krohn thoughout the the race.
09/03/2009- Fortec Motorsport is pleased to announce that Spanish Rookie Antonio Martinez has joined the team to contest the 2009 Formula BMW Europe Championship.
The 17 year-old will complete a three-car strong team in the Formula BMW this year with team-mates William Buller and Jack Harvey.
Having impressed during winter testing in Portimao and Barcelona, stepping up for the first time into Formula racing from International karting in 2008, Fortec Formula BMW Team Manager Julian Rouse commented "Antonio has already shown a lot of promise in the initial tests we have done and with an intensive official test programme before the first race, he has the potential to be among the most competitive rookies in the championship.
