Garry Rogers Motorsport

GRM
Full Name	Garry Rogers Motorsport
Base	Melbourne, Australia
Founder(s)	Frank Zimmer, Garry Rogers
Team Principal(s)	Garry Rogers
Technical Director	John Zimmer
Current Drivers	None
Other Noted Drivers	Rhys Davies Ashley Watkinson Frank Zimmer
Debut	2013 German Grand Prix
Races	25
Constructors' Championships	0
Drivers' Championships	0
Race Wins	0
Podiums	3
Points	29
Pole Positions	0
Fastest Laps	0

Garry Rogers Motorsport is a former F1RWRS team that competed since the second half of 2013 until the end of 2014. The team was run by Garry Rogers, who operated it out of the same workshop as his V8 Supercar team, and John Zimmer, who built the cars and helped in the operation of the team.

F1RWRS entry

The team originally planned on entering for the 2014 F1RWRS season, but when Frank Zimmer was sacked part way through the season, Garry and John entered immediately to provide him with a drive. At the time they only had one car built, and hurriedly built a second one. They missed the British GP, but finished it in time to enter Germany.
This meant that they had one race to escape pre-qualifying. Zimmer and teammate Nathan Scott, a protege of Chris Dagnall, managed to pass pre-qualifying, and Zimmer finished the race in second place. The 6 points meant that the team skipped out of pre-qualifying for the remainder of the season. Scott finished fourth at Spa and Zimmer took two more points at the following race. Then the Holden Racing Team's moneymaking plan stepped in. John Zimmer decided to drive for HRT, while Scott was demoted to Team Calinetic, which started a feud with Dagnall, as his plan was to get Scott some experience on F1RWRS tracks, and didn't want him to race for a pre-qualifying team. However, he backed down. At Akrotiri Bay, Frank took another podium, while Ashley Watkinson stepped into the second car from HRT. Rhys Davies drove it at Macau, and finished third, and decided to spend the next two races with the team, as he felt that it would be his best chance at scoring more points. However, the car's pace dropped off dramatically, with neither Zimmer nor Davies coming close to points. For the finale in Brazil, Davies returned to HRT in the place of John, and Zimmer needed a replacement too because he was not allowed to enter Brazil. Scott was promoted back to GRM, as was newly signed F2RWRS driver Tommy Nash.

In 2014, Scott left for DGNgineering, and the team promoted Poppy Whitechapel from a test driver role. The car was an upgrade from the previous season's, and Zimmer scored a few points, while Whitechapel came close but the car failed whenever she had a good chance. Zimmer was replaced at Brazil by Ben Fleet, and after he caused several incidents at the Norisring in a spectacle dubbed "Zimsanity" by the media, Nash was again promoted for the next two events when Zimmer was banned. At the end of the season, after complaints from some teams that they and HRT were taking up two perfectly good entries, the two teams merged. They will continue to race as Holden, but GRM will take over the running of the HRT Young Lions F2RWRS team. Both teams are now owned by John Zimmer.

Complete F1RWRS Results

Year	Chassis	Engine	#	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Points	CC
2013	ZimSport GRM1	HSV L12-1			TAS	AUS	MEX	USA	MON	FRA	GBR	GER	NED	BEL	POR	MED	MAC	CHN	JPN	BRA	21	8th
			42	Frank Zimmer								2	7	Ret	5	2	Ret	12	20*
				Tommy Nash																13
			43	Nathan Scott								Ret	Ret	4	Ret					10
				Ashley Watkinson												9
				Rhys Davies													3	16	14
2014	ZimSport GRM2	HSV L12-2			TAS	AUS	BRA	MEX	USA	MON	FRA	GBR	GER	BEL	ITA	MED	SEA	MAC	CHN	JPN	8	10th
			16	Frank Zimmer	Ret	4		7	Ret	5	4	9	16	EX	EX	Ret	11	Ret	9	17
				Ben Fleet			Ret
				Tommy Nash										Ret	Ret
			17	Poppy Whitechapel	Ret	7	Ret	11	Ret	Ret	Ret	8	12	9	Ret	Ret	Ret	9	Ret	Ret

Complete F2RWRS Results

Year	#	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Points	CC
2015			TAS	RSA	TUR	MON	FRA	GBR	GER	BEL	AUT	ITA	NED	SIN	JPN	USA	100		40	7th
	11	Tommy Nash	15	Ret	11
		Daniel Melville				Ret	DNPQ	DNPQ	12	5	11	DNPQ	9	2			DNPQ
		Ryan Zimmer													12	5	EX
	12	Carter Simpson	13	Ret	7	2	DNPQ	DNPQ	Ret	Ret	8	DNPQ	Ret	5	8	2	DNPQ
2016			AUS	PAC	GBR	ITA	AUT	TUR	USA	GER	SEA	MON	BEL	MEX	CHN	JPN	TR1	TR2	57*	5th*
	14	Carter Simpson	4	2	Ret	Ret	5	4	12	14	Ret	Ret	6	5	Ret	2
	15	Daniel Melville	2	Ret	Ret	9	12	7	Ret	12	EX	Ret	14†		Ret
		Dean Melville									Ret
		Ryan Zimmer												6
		Jordan Davies														3