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{{Racing team
|Short_name         = Boxtel
|Logo               = File:Boxtel3.png
|Long_name          = Boxtel Engineering
|Base               = Boxtel, North Brabant, Netherlands
|Founders           = Peter de Jong, Nigel Wechsler
|Team Principals    = [[Kollin Holles]]
|Technical Director = Peter de Jong
|Drivers            = 
|Noted Drivers      = [[Andrea Battani]]<br>[[Jari Kekkonen]]<br>[[Benoît Voeckler]]<br>[[Nathanael Spencer]]<br>[[Daniel Melrose]]
|Debut              = [[2015 F1RWRS Tasman Grand Prix]]
|Races              = 22 (96 entries)
|Cons_champ         = 0 
|Drivers_champ      = 0
|Wins               = 0
|Podiums            = 0 
|Points             = 13
|Poles              = 0
|Fastest_laps       = 0
|}}

'''Boxtel Engineering''' is a Dutch [[F1RWRS]] team that will compete in the [[2015 F1RWRS season]]. They have signed [[Andrea Battani]] as their lead driver and [[2011 F1RWRS season|2011 F1RWRS]] champion [[Nathanael Spencer]] for the season. They have also signed [[Johannes Rueckert]] as their test driver and [[Jari Kekkonen]] as reserve driver. Spencer was sacked after just four races and Kekkonen took over the second driver's spot.

==Formation and pre-2015 Changes==
After a disappointing year for [[American Racing Conglomerate]], the team were besotted by financial problems and pull-outs. Boxtel stepped in with an answer; financial stability for the ailing team, but only on the promise of a complete takeover. The deal was finalised, with Boxtel not being counted as a new constructor. The team immediately relocated the main base to the town of Boxtel in the southern Netherlands (the site of the Duke of Wellington's first battle in 1794). Compared to the previous ownership, Boxtel instantly exuded an air of professionalism. Boxtel severed all ties with ARC by sacking Jesus Plaza. In a shrewd decision, Boxtel refused to release Plaza to another team until January thirty-first which prevented another team from snapping him up. He was hired as the test driver to [[Kamaha]]. Boxtel also performed well in the chassis war, ditching ARC's old chassis for a far more reliabile design. The team immediately applied pressure on Spencer by holding a new driver [[4th February 2015 Zandvoort Test|test at Zandvoort on February 4th]]. The team then hired Jari Kekkonen as their second reserve driver as Rueckert was unable to do the job full-time. In preseason testing, Battani performed well but Spencer was miles off the pace.

Sega, which had originally sponsored ARC since 2013, returned as team's major sponsor.

==2015 F1RWRS season==
The season started well as Battani and Spencer got the team into the main qualifying session at the [[2015 F1RWRS Tasman Grand Prix]]. Battani and Spencer respectively qualified 12th and 17th on Saturday. The team's debut race went even better as Battani drove brilliantly to finish in fifth, scoring his and Boxtel's first points in the F1RWRS. Spencer drove an anonymous race en route to a ninth place finish. Battani's two points was enough to surpass ARC's entire point total from 2014. Unfortunately, the team couldn't continue their massive progress at the next round in [[2015 F1RWRS Australian Grand Prix|Australia]] as Battani and Spencer were unable to make it out of pre-qualifying. Much of the blame went to Battani who was several seconds behind the session-leading [[Scuderia Alitalia|Alitalia]] car. Battani was better at the [[2015 F1RWRS Mediterranean Grand Prix]] and both cars slipped into the main qualifying session. Battani started eleventh and made his way up to eighth during the race (despite an early mechanical) while Spencer anonymously retired with five laps to go.

In [[2015 F1RWRS Monaco Grand Prix|Monaco]], Battani was nearly a full second slower than Spencer but the team again escaped pre-qualifying. Spencer's pre-qualifying pace did not translate to qualifying as he did not qualify. Battani put in a sterling effort and qualified ninth, finishing in a competent seventh in the race. 
At this point, Kollin Holles was fed up with Spencer's ineptitude and he brought in reserve driver [[Jari Kekkonen]] for the next race. Kekkonen was immediately effective, topping the pre-qualifying session in [[2015 F1RWRS Mexican Grand Prix|Mexico]], and beating Battani by one second. Battani had a disappointing race and retired with a water leak. Kekkonen drove well and finished eighth, two laps down on winner [[Mark Dagnall]]. Battani's poor run in pre-qualifying reached its zenith at the [[2015 F1RWRS United States Grand Prix]]. Kekkonen was again effective and placed second but Battani could only manage eighteenth, sending the team home early on Friday. Battani made up for it in [[2015 F1RWRS Canadian Grand Prix|Canada]] and the team easily made it into qualifying. However, Kekkonen failed to qualify and Battani was collected in a first-lap pileup after starting twenty-fourth. With one race to go before the pre-qualifying cut, Boxtel had to score points at the next round in [[2015 F1RWRS British Grand Prix|Great Britain]] or they would remain in pre-qualifying. 

Luckily, the British Grand Prix turned out to be the best weekend of the team's short existence; both drivers made it past pre-quali. Then, Andrea stunned the field by qualifying sixth, Boxtel's best grid position of the season. He was able to convert his high grid position into a brilliant fourth place finish. Kekkonen also finished the race. The result lifted Boxtel out of pre-qualifying over [[Holden F1RWRS Racing Team|Holden]] and [[ArrowTech]].

==F1RWRS Results==

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! Year
! Constructor
! Chassis
!width=90px| Engine
! #
! Driver
! 1
! 2
! 3
! 4
! 5
! 6
! 7
! 8
! 9
! 10
! 11
! 12
! 13
! 14
! 15
! 16
! CC
! Pts
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!rowspan=4 | [[2015 F1RWRS season|2015]]
!rowspan=4 | Boxtel Engineering
!rowspan=4 | Boxtel BOX-015
!rowspan=4 | Ford HBD VI
| <!-- Car Number -->
| <!-- Driver -->
| [[2015 F1RWRS Tasman Grand Prix|TAS]]
| [[2015 F1RWRS Australian Grand Prix|AUS]]
| [[2015 F1RWRS Mediterranean Grand Prix|MED]]
| [[2015 F1RWRS Monaco Grand Prix|MON]]
| [[2015 F1RWRS Mexican Grand Prix|MEX]]
| [[2015 F1RWRS United States Grand Prix|USA]]
| [[2015 F1RWRS Canadian Grand Prix|CAN]]
| [[2015 F1RWRS British Grand Prix|GBR]]
| [[2015 F1RWRS German Grand Prix|GER]]
| [[2015 F1RWRS Belgian Grand Prix|BEL]]
| [[2015 F1RWRS Austrian Grand Prix|AUT]]
| [[2015 F1RWRS Italian Grand Prix|ITA]]
| [[2015 F1RWRS North Sea Grand Prix|NDS]]
| [[2015 F1RWRS Chinese Grand Prix|CHI]]
| [[2015 F1RWRS Japanese Grand Prix|JPN]]
| [[2015 F1RWRS Brazilian Grand Prix|BRA]]
!rowspan=4 | 11
!rowspan=4 | 10th
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| 23
| [[File:Flag of Italy svg.png]] [[Andrea Battani]]
|bgcolor="#dfffdf"| 5
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#cfcfff"| 8
|bgcolor="#cfcfff"| 7
|bgcolor="#efcfff"| Ret
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#efcfff"| Ret
|bgcolor="#dfffdf"| 4
|bgcolor="#cfcfff"| 11
|bgcolor="#dfffdf"| 4
|bgcolor="#efcfff"| Ret
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#cfcfff"| 12
|bgcolor="#cfcfff"| 12
|-
|rowspan=2| 24
| [[File:Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png]] [[Nathanael Spencer]]
|bgcolor="#cfcfff"| 9
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#cfcfff"| 19
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNQ
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| [[File:Flag of Finland.svg.png]] [[Jari Kekkonen]]
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|bgcolor="#cfcfff"| 8
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNQ
|bgcolor="#cfcfff"| 9
|bgcolor="#efcfff"| Ret
|bgcolor="#dfffdf"| 6
|bgcolor="#cfcfff"| 9
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#efcfff"| Ret
|bgcolor="#dfffdf"| 5
|-
!rowspan=5| [[2016 Formula 1 Rejects World Race Series season|2016]]
!rowspan=5| Boxtel Engineering
!rowspan=5| Boxtel BOX-016
!rowspan=5| Ford XR8B 
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| [[2016 F1RWRS Australian Grand Prix|AUS]]
| [[2016 F1RWRS New South Wales Grand Prix|NSW]]
| [[2016 F1RWRS British Grand Prix|GBR]]
| [[2016 F1RWRS Italian Grand Prix|ITA]]
| [[2016 F1RWRS Austrian Grand Prix|AUT]]
| [[2016 F1RWRS Canadian Grand Prix|CAN]]
| [[2016 F1RWRS Southern US Grand Prix|SUS]]
| [[2016 F1RWRS Northern US Grand Prix|NUS]]
| [[2016 F1RWRS German Grand Prix|GER]]
| [[2016 F1RWRS North Sea Grand Prix|NED]]
| [[2016 F1RWRS Monaco Grand Prix|MON]]
| [[2016 F1RWRS Belgian Grand Prix|BEL]]
| [[2016 F1RWRS Mexican Grand Prix|MEX]]
| [[2016 F1RWRS Argentine Grand Prix|ARG]]
| [[2016 F1RWRS Chinese Grand Prix|CHN]]
| [[2016 F1RWRS Japanese Grand Prix|JPN]]
!rowspan=5 | 2
!rowspan=5 | 14th
|-
|rowspan=2| 17
|align=left| {{ITA}} [[Andrea Battani]]
|bgcolor="#efcfff"| Ret
|bgcolor="#cfcfff"| 14
|bgcolor="#cfcfff"| 7
|bgcolor="#efcfff"| Ret
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#dfffdf"| 6
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#dfffdf"| 6
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#efcfff"| Ret
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNQ
|bgcolor="#efcfff"| Ret
|bgcolor="#cfcfff"| 11
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|align=left| {{BEL}} [[Wouter Lamberigts]]
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|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
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|rowspan=2| 18
|align=left| {{FIN}} [[Jari Kekkonen]]
|bgcolor="#cfcfff"| 11† 
|bgcolor="#cfcfff"| 15
|bgcolor="#cfcfff"| 10
|bgcolor="#cfcfff"| 10
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#cfcfff"| 8
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#cfcfff"| 7
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#efcfff"| Ret
|bgcolor="#cfcfff"| 11
|bgcolor="#efcfff"| Ret
|bgcolor="#cfcfff"| 10
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|align=left| {{FRA}} [[Benoît Voeckler]]
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|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
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!rowspan=5| [[2017 Formula 1 Rejects World Race Series season|2017]]
!rowspan=5| Boxtel Engineering
!rowspan=5| Boxtel BOX-017
!rowspan=5| Ford XR8C 
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| [[2017 F1RWRS Australian Grand Prix|AUS]]
| [[2017 F1RWRS New South Wales Grand Prix|NSW]]
| [[2017 F1RWRS British Grand Prix|GBR]]
| [[2017 F1RWRS Italian Grand Prix|ITA]]
| [[2017 F1RWRS Austrian Grand Prix|AUT]]
| [[2017 F1RWRS Canadian Grand Prix|CAN]]
| [[2017 F1RWRS Southern US Grand Prix|SUS]]
| [[2017 F1RWRS Northern US Grand Prix|NUS]]
| [[2017 F1RWRS German Grand Prix|GER]]
| [[2017 F1RWRS North Sea Grand Prix|NED]]
| [[2017 F1RWRS Monaco Grand Prix|MON]]
| [[2017 F1RWRS Belgian Grand Prix|BEL]]
| [[2017 F1RWRS Moroccan Grand Prix|MOR]]
| [[2017 F1RWRS Argentine Grand Prix|ARG]]
| [[2017 F1RWRS Japanese Grand Prix|JPN]]
| [[2017 F1RWRS Chinese Grand Prix|CHN]]
!rowspan=5 | 0
!rowspan=5 | 20th
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|rowspan=2| 27
|align=left| {{FRA}} [[Benoît Voeckler]]
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
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|align=left| {{AUS}} [[Daniel Melrose]]
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|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|-
|rowspan=2| 28
|align=left| {{IRL}} [[Connor O'Heagan]]
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
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|align=left| {{GBR}} [[Nathanael Spencer]]
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|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#efcfff"| Ret
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
|bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| DNPQ
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