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Revision as of 14:34, 23 May 2016

England YTF1
YTF1 logo whitebg.jpg
Full name YTF1 sim-racing team
Owner/s England Matthew Allington
Base England Bath, England
Website teamytf1.wix.com/ytf1
Competitions
Superleague Team 13. Sweden Johan Lindberg
24. Netherlands Hansko Mebius
Début France 2013 Challenge French Grand Prix
Supercup Team TBC
Début San Marino 2013/14 San Marino Touring Cup
Formula Challenge Team None
Début United States 2014 Daytona 500 Masters
International Touring Cup Team 14. Belgium Bart de Vos
15. Peru Nico Barclay
Début Spain 2015 Spanish Sport Series
Masters Series Team TBC
Début United States 2015 Grand Prix of Alabama
World Sport Series Team 14. England Philip Morby
15. Spain Edgar Ruiz
Début Brazil 2016 Brazilian GT Cup
Atlantic Series Team None
Début -
World GT Team None
Début -


YTF1 is a British team who have competed in the Atlantic Series, Formula Challenge, International Touring Cup, Masters Series, World GT and World Sport Series. In 2016, YTF1 will continue in the Formula Challenge, becoming the second most-experienced team to compete in the 2016 season, and the World Sport Series. They also making their debutin the World GT series. At the GPVWC, YTF1 have taken 14 podium finishes, including 2 race wins. The team have also achieved 1 pole position and 3 fastest laps.

The team, in it's original from, was founded in Schoonhoven, the Netherlands, in 2010 and participated in a private series with friends of the original owner, using Grand Prix 3. After hearing about the intention of the original owner to shut the team down, Matthew Allington took over the team in December 2011 and continued to run it in the aforementioned series. After the series fizzled out, Allington decided to reorganize the team and enter it into the GPVWC.

Hall of Fame

Race wins

United Kingdom 2014 British Touring Cup (Race 1) - Sweden Eric Stranne
Hungary 2015 Hungarian Sport Series (Race 2) - Belgium Bart de Vos

Podium finishes

New Zealand 2nd, 2014 New Zealand Touring Cup (Race 1) - Sweden Eric Stranne
Australia 2nd, 2014 Australian Touring Cup (Race 1) - Sweden Eric Stranne
Canada 2nd, 2014 Challenge Canadian Grand Prix (Race 2) - Netherlands Wopke Hoekstra
Austria 2nd, 2014 Austrian Touring Cup (Race 1) - Sweden Eric Stranne
United Kingdom 1st, 2014 British Touring Cup (Race 1) - Sweden Eric Stranne
Germany 2nd, 2014 German Touring Cup (Race 2) - Sweden Eric Stranne
United Kingdom 3rd, 2015 British Sport Series (Race 2) - England Matthew Allington
United States 3rd, 2015 GPVWC Indy Classic - Sweden Eric Stranne
Austria 3rd, 2015 Austrian Sport Series (Race 2) - Belgium Bart de Vos
United States 2nd, 2015 Vegas Grand Prix - Germany Maurice Brackhahn
Hungary 1st, 2015 Hungarian Sport Series (Race 2) - Belgium Bart de Vos
Belgium 3rd, 2015 Belgian Touring Cup (Race 3) - England Matthew Allington
Monaco 3rd, 2016 Challenge Monaco Grand Prix (Race 2) - Netherlands Hansko Mebius
Canada 2nd, 2016 Challenge Canadian Grand Prix (Race 2) - Netherlands Hansko Mebius

Pole positions

Austria 2014 Austrian Touring Cup - Sweden Eric Stranne

Fastest laps

New Zealand 2014 New Zealand Touring Cup (Race 1) - Sweden Eric Stranne
United States 2015 GPVWC Indy Classic - Sweden Eric Stranne
Australia 2016 Challenge Australian Grand Prix (Race 1) - Sweden Johan Lindberg

Team History

2013: YTF1 arrives at the GPVWC

YTF1 made it's GPVWC début at the 2013 Challenge French Grand Prix, the 13th round of the season. It's main drivers were Romanian Florea Calin and Englishman Scott Berrisford. The team's original lineup featured Joshua Anderson and Mikael Tuomaala. However, both drivers left the team after the French round, resulting in the team's reserve driver, Berrisford, being promoted to 'Primary driver' status and the other seat being handed to Calin. Perry Vink deputized for Calin at the 2013 Challenge United States Grand Prix.

Berrisford scored the team's first points in the German round and continued to score points in every round thereafter. The team's best result of the season was a 5th place at Suzuka.

On 9th October, YTF1's application to join the 2013/14 International Touring Cup season was accepted. Shortly afterwards it was announced that Tuomaala would be returning to the team, driving alongside fellow Finn Tommi Koivunen in BMW machinery. Koivunen was later replaced by Morten Wernersen.

Tuomaala scored YTF1's best result to date at Snetterton, scoring a 4th-place finish in the third race. Wernersen later made history at the Watkins Glen round by becoming the first driver to lead a race for YTF1, having been granted reversed-grid pole for race 3.

2014: A year of varying fortunes

In 2014, YTF1 entered their first full season of Formula Challenge. With their lead driver of 2013, Berrisford, moving to Enterprise GP, YTF1 hired race-winning Dutchman Wopke Hoekstra to spearhead their 2014 lineup. YTF1 later announced that Adam Ozgur would join the team for their FC campaign. Unfortunately, YTF1 had a season that fell below expectations and rarely had the opportunity to shine. Even the addition of highly-rated Open Series racer Rob Mason to the team, as reserve driver, failed to gain ground for the team. YTF1 ultimately finished 16th out of 21 teams in the final standings, with their only result of note being a solitary podium for Hoekstra in the Canadian round.

YTF1 also returned to the International Touring Cup, fielding Anderson and team owner Allington for the first round, before giving up the seats to Ben Hackeson and Mason for the remainder of the season. However, personal issues for Mason forced the team to seek a substitute - this came in the form of Eric Stranne. The Swede made history for the team - first came a podium in the Australian round, then a pole position in the Austrian round, followed by YTF1's first victory in GPVWC competition at the 2014 British Touring Cup.

Having put himself in a position to challenge for the Drivers Championship, Stranne defected to THR prior to the Czech round. Thereafter, the two YTF1 cars were shared by Hackeson, Mason and another Swedish talent, Tobias Olsson. All showed encouraging improved pace even in Stranne's absence from the team, thus YTF1 secured a top-10 finish in the teams standings.

YTF1 were later rewarded by Stranne, who elected to put the name of YTF1 on his championship trophy.

The team also participated in all three rounds of the Masters Series, entering a single car for Allington at the Daytona 500, collaborating with Cosmo Autosport to field an entry into the 24 Hours of Le Mans and fielding five "Itashas" at the Indy 500.

2015: Another year of varying fortunes

In 2015, YTF1 returned to the Formula Challenge series with an all-new driver lineup; the team's hopes in the series were initially carried by Teemu Toikka and Teemu Valkeejärvi. They raced with the numbers 36 and 72 (respectively) in accordance with the new numbering system introduced into the Career Ladder for 2015. Valkeejärvi gave the team a great start with a pair of top-10 finishes in Melbourne, though as of the Turkish round, the team is yet to repeat this performance. Following the Portuguese round, Toikka and the team parted ways: Johan Lindberg was brought in as the team's reserve driver, serving as an immediate replacement for the Finn and a valued one at that: Lindberg scored many points finishes during remainder the season.

YTF1 also secured an entry into the World Sport Series for the first time, teaming up with Dutch Superleague outfit Edonis Engineering and running Sandeep Chodha and Roy Schroten. Internet issues for Chodha resulted in Bart de Vos driving for the team in Portugal and achieving YTF1's best result of the year up to that point: 4th place in the reversed-grid race 2. All of YTF1's drivers seemed to suffer dismal luck during the course of the season, but morale was boosted by a tremendous drive by Schroten in Monaco; netting 7th place in race 2 having started from the back (though he was later demoted to 13th thanks to a penalty). Allington and de Vos would share the #40 car from the Canadian event onwards: Allington taking the team's first podium of the season at Silverstone, followed by a podium for de Vos in Austria, whilst Schroten stepped up his game with a series of strong points finishes. To add to the team's good run of form, de Vos took YTF1's first victory of 2015 at the Hungaroring.

YTF1 also returns to the International Touring Cup, retaining Ben Hackeson, Rob Mason and Tobias Olsson in the driver lineup, the former two sharing one car. YTF1 switched from Vauxhall machinery to initially become the only team on the grid to use a Ford Focus in the 2015 season, however this changed from the British round onwards with the arrival of Apex Racing. Olsson, Hackeson and Mason would all leave the team for varying reasons, leaving vacancies in the team's lineup, which would be filled by Thomas Hinss and Matthew Allington, the latter scoring the team's first ITC podium of the season at Zolder. The podium was merely the icing on top of the cake: the new driver lineup coincided with a resurgence of good form and several points finishes for YTF1.

YTF1 secured entry into a fourth different series, becoming one of only three teams to do so in 2015 thus far: the Cheshire-based squad was announced as one of 17 teams competing in the inaugural running of the Atlantic Series. Highly-rated German driver, Maurice Brackhahn spearheaded the team's lineup, with Rob Mason, a familiar face within the team, taking the role of reserve driver. After a dreadful first round where neither car made it past the start line, Maurice opened up his account with a 5th-place finish at Indianapolis. Eric Stranne took part in the GPVWC Indy Classic and sensationally took the chequered flag, havig started in last place, only to be demoted to 3rd place for a technical infringment! Brackhahn returned for the Las Vegas round and took his first podium of the season. Sadly, Brackhahn would encounter repeated technical issues. Dewald Nel and, later, Pashalis Gergis would both drive for the team during the season, in addition to team owner Allington making an unexpected Atlantic debut at Sebring.

2016: A year of better fortune (...we hope!)

YTF1 would continue competing in the Formula Challenge into the 2016 season, retaining Johan Lindberg and signing Hansko Mebius to partner him. James Kirk also joined as test driver. The team elected to change their career ladder numbers to 13 and 24. The season started well with a fastest lap for Lindberg and strong points finishes from both drivers, but the team plummeted down the order with no points scored for the next two rounds. However, the trend would be reversed for Mebius in Monaco as he took YTF1's first podium finish in the series for nearly two years.

YTF1 also secured a continuation in the World Sport Series, retaining race-winner Bart de Vos and adding Nico Barclay to the driver lineup. The team started the season spectacularly, taking an early top-3 placing in the championship table. Since then, the team have shown strong pace but have been held back by misfortune, slipping down to 5th in the standings.

YTF1 would compete in the World GT series for the first time in 2016 (having applied for entries in the 2013, 2014 and 2015 seasons, but never making it onto the entry list), joining part-way through the season with a pair of Corvette C7.Rs. Matthew Allington, Edgar Ruiz and Philip Morby were among the team's drivers, with every car entered by the team scoring points in each race.

Complete results

Formula Challenge

Year Car Engine Tyre No. Drivers Races Wins Poles Fastest Laps Podiums Points D.C. T.C.
2013 GPVWC FC-013 GPVWC G 70 England Joshua Anderson 2 0 0 0 0 0 123rd 24th
England Scott Berrisford 10 0 0 0 0 36 37th
71 Finland Mikael Tuomaala * 2 0 0 0 0 14 53rd
Romania Florea Calin 6 0 0 0 0 0 99th
Netherlands Perry Vink 1 0 0 0 0 0 127th
2014 GPVWC FC-014 GPVWC G 14 Netherlands Wopke Hoekstra 23 0 0 0 1 41 29th 16th
England Rob Mason * 11 0 0 0 0 2 60th
15 Turkey Adam Ozgur 30 0 0 0 0 27 34th
England Rob Mason * 4 0 0 0 0 2 60th
2015 GPVWC FC-015 Valiant G 36 Finland Teemu Toikka 8 0 0 0 0 2 55th 13th
Sweden Johan Lindberg 24 0 0 0 0 57 23rd
Norway Scott Sovik * 2 0 0 0 0 1 60th
72 Finland Teemu Valkeejärvi 12 0 0 0 0 18 40th
Portugal Joel Pereira * 2 0 0 0 0 0 77th
Germany Philipp Konig * 2 0 0 0 0 69 19th
England Matthew Allington 4 0 0 0 0 0 82nd
Australia Jarrod Vanderwiede * 2 0 0 0 0 0 73rd
Sweden Simon Wattman 4 0 0 0 0 0 89th
Norway Scott Sovik * 4 0 0 0 0 1 60th
2016 GPVWC FC-016 Valiant G 13 Sweden Johan Lindberg Season to be completed 11th
24 Netherlands Hansko Mebius
England Matthew Allington
  • * These drivers drove for other teams in addition to racing for YTF1 during the season. Their final points totals and positions in the Drivers' Championship represents their time at all teams.

International Touring Cup

Year Car Tyre No. Drivers Races Wins Poles Fastest Laps Podiums Points D.C. T.C.
2013/14 BMW 320si G 40 Finland Mikael Tuomaala 23 0 0 0 0 73 19th 14th
41 Finland Tommi Koivunen 6 0 0 0 0 0 63rd
Netherlands Sven Smits 1 0 0 0 0 0 69th
England Matthew Allington 1 0 0 0 0 0 67th
Denmark Morten Wernersen * 14 0 0 0 0 7 45th
2014 Vauxhall Astra G 24 England Joshua Anderson * 3 0 0 0 0 0 - 7th
Guernsey Ben Hackeson * 19 0 0 0 0 38 30th
Sweden Eric Stranne * 6 1 0 0 2 435 1st
Sweden Tobias Olsson * 8 0 0 0 0 81 22nd
25 England Matthew Allington * 3 0 0 0 0 3 -
Sweden Eric Stranne * 9 0 1 1 3 435 1st
England Joshua Anderson * 3 0 0 0 0 0 -
England Rob Mason 15 0 0 0 0 29 31st
Sweden Tobias Olsson * 6 0 0 0 0 81 22nd
2015 Ford Focus G 14 Guernsey Ben Hackeson * 12 0 0 0 0 53 25th 9th
England James Ross * 3 0 0 0 0 4 44th
England Matthew Allington 9 0 0 0 1 28 34th
Australia Thomas Hinss 3 0 0 0 0 62 23rd
Netherlands Alexander van der Woude * 6 0 0 0 0 11 42nd
15 Sweden Tobias Olsson * 11 0 0 0 0 109 15th
England Rob Mason 5 0 0 0 0 0 53rd
Australia Thomas Hinss 20 0 0 0 0 62 23rd
Belgium Bart de Vos * 3 0 0 0 0 149 12th
India Sandeep Chodha * 3 0 0 0 0 25 36th
  • * These drivers drove for other teams in addition to racing for YTF1 during the season. Their final points totals and positions in the Drivers' Championship represents their time at all teams.

Masters Series

Year Car Tyre No. Drivers Races Wins Poles Fastest Laps Podiums Points D.C. T.C.
2014 Enduracers Flat 6 G 1 England Joshua Anderson 1, 2 1 0 0 0 0 5 47th N/A*
United States Nick Dawson-Lathan 1 1 0 0 0 0 5 47th
United States Matteo Juliano 1 1 0 0 0 0 5 47th
England Quintin Plane 1 1 0 0 0 0 5 47th
Netherlands Alexander van der Woude 1 1 0 0 0 0 5 47th
Toyota Camry G 6 England Matthew Allington 1 0 0 0 0 6 43rd
Dallara IR03 F 46 India Sandeep Chodha 1 0 0 0 0 0 67th
53 England Joshua Anderson 2 1 0 0 0 0 5 47th
93 Germany Florian Engel 1 0 0 0 0 9 35th
94 Canada William Neron 2 1 0 0 0 0 4 52nd
  • 1 The number 1 car was entered into the 2014 running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans by Cosmo Autosport, in partnership with YTF1.
  • 2 These drivers drove for other teams in addition to racing for YTF1 during the season. Their final points totals and positions in the Drivers' Championship represents their time at all teams.
  • * The 2014 Masters Series did not feature a Teams' Championship.

World Sport Series

Year Car Tyre No. Drivers Races Wins Poles Fastest Laps Podiums Points D.C. T.C.
2015 Enduracers Flat 6 G 40 India Sandeep Chodha * 6 0 0 0 0 4 44th 9th
Belgium Bart de Vos * 6 1 0 0 2 58 14th
England Matthew Allington 8 0 0 0 1 21 31st
41 Netherlands Roy Schroten 16 0 0 0 0 44 19th
2016 Enduracers Flat 6 G 14 Belgium Bart de Vos Season to be completed 5th
15 Peru Nico Barclay
  • * These drivers drove for other teams in addition to racing for YTF1 during the season. Their final points totals and positions in the Drivers' Championship represents their time at all teams.

Atlantic Series

Year Car Engine Tyre No. Drivers Races Wins Poles Fastest Laps Podiums Points D.C. T.C.
2015 Dallara DW12 Honda F 22 England Rob Mason 2 0 0 0 0 9 45th 9th
Sweden Eric Stranne * 1 0 0 1 1 35 26th
South Africa Dewald Nel 1 0 0 0 0 0 49th
Greece Pashalis Gergis 1 0 0 0 0 28 30th
23 Germany Maurice Brackhahn 4 0 0 0 1 70 16th
South Africa Dewald Nel 1 0 0 0 0 0 49th
England Matthew Allington 2 0 0 0 0 13 43rd
  • * These drivers drove for other teams in addition to racing for YTF1 during the season. Their final points totals and positions in the Drivers' Championship represents their time at all teams.

World GT

Year Car Tyre No. Drivers Races Wins Poles Fastest Laps Podiums Points D.C. T.C.
2016 Chevrolet Corvette C7.R G 14 England Matthew Allington Season to be completed 11th
England Philip Morby
15 Spain Edgar Ruiz
  • * These drivers drove for other teams in addition to racing for YTF1 during the season. Their final points totals and positions in the Drivers' Championship represents their time at all teams.

Liveries

Career Ladder

Independent Series