CM-Tech Racing

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Netherlands CM-Tech
CM-Tech logo
Full name CM-Tech Racing
Owner/s Netherlands Wopke Hoekstra
Base Netherlands Schoonhoven, Netherlands
Key staff Netherlands Wopke Hoekstra
Year Joined 2015
Series Entered 2019 Superleague Lights
Associated Teams None
Website [1]

CM-Tech Racing is a Dutch team competing in the GPVWC, managed by Wopke Hoekstra.

2015

CM-Tech Racing made their GPVWC debut in the 2015 World Sport Series season. Their vision was to allow young talented drivers a chance of racing with the big guys. Unfortunately, due to a lack of committed drivers, the team scored only 10 points, which Tomeu Cabrer being their highest placed driver.

2018

After spending 2016 and 2017 only racing in the Masters Series without much success, CM-Tech successfully applied for a spot in the GPVWC Career Ladder. The 2018 Formula Challenge season would prove to be their best so far. Sandeep Chodha and Daniele Brambilla initially formed the driver line-up. Both drivers managed to score podium(s), with Brambilla having the honour of scoring CM-Tech's first podium in GPVWC as he scored second place in the second race of the Monaco Grand Prix. However, Chodha moved up to Supercup and Brambilla struggled with retirements and the line up was changed to Alari Algpeus and Danny van der Niet. Algpeus would go into the books as the first winner for CM-Tech Racing, taking victory during the second race of his first round with the team. He scored two more wins in the remainder of the season. Van der Niet also scored good points, meaning CM-Tech Racing would end up in a solid 7th place in the constructors' standings.

The team also entered the 2018 International Touring Cup season, but failed to leave a good impression there as they struggled to find drivers who were committed for the full season.

2019

For 2019, CM-Tech Racing would see their strong end of the 2018 season rewarded with a promotion to the newly formed Superleague Lights.

Trivia

  • CM-Tech's base (Schoonhoven, the Netherlands) was also where the unrelated YTF1 outfit was founded.