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{{Infobox Active Driver
{{Infobox Active Driver
| name          = Phillippe Nicolas
| name          = Phillippe Nicolas
| nationality    = {{FRA}} French
| nationality    = {{FR}} French
| birth date    = 11 April, 1990
| birth date    = 11 April, 1990
| birth place    = Marseilles, France
| birth place    = Marseilles, France
| current team  = {{FRA}} [[Voeckler GPE]]
| dec            = [[User:NickyDustyOwl|NickyDustyOwl]] (formerly [[User:Wizzie|Wizzie]])
| car number    = 9
| current team  = {{US}} [[Holiday Racing Team|Atlas Air Holiday Racing Team]]
| former teams  = {{GBR}} [[Plus One Kingfisher Racing|Kingfisher Racing]] <br>{{CAN}} [[ArrowTech]]<br>{{AUS}} [[Simpson Motorsports|Dacia]] <br>{{AUS}}/{{GER}} [[Melrose Racing Team]]
| car number    = 1
| races          = 96 (89 starts)
| former teams  = {{GB}} [[Plus One Kingfisher Racing|Kingfisher Racing]] <br>{{CA}} [[ArrowTech]]<br>{{AU}} [[Simpson Motorsports|Dacia]] <br>{{AU}}/{{DE}} [[Melrose Racing Team]] <br> {{FR}} [[Voeckler GPE|Voeckler Renault]]
| championships  = 0
| races          = 127 (117 starts)
| wins          = 9
| championships  = 1
| podiums        = 22
| wins          = 11
| points        = 197
| podiums        = 29
| points        = 710
| poles          = 11
| poles          = 11
| fastest laps  = 4
| fastest laps  = 4
| first race    = [[2012 F1RWRS Indianapolis 500|2012 Indianapolis 500]]
| first race    = 2012 F1RWRS Indianapolis 500
| first win      = [[2014 F1RWRS Tasman Grand Prix|2014 Tasman Grand Prix]]
| first win      = 2014 Tasman Grand Prix
| last win      = [[2018 ARWS Brazilian Grand Prix|2018 Brazilian Grand Prix]]
| last win      = 2019 Austrian Grand Prix
| last race      = [[2018 ARWS Chinese Grand Prix|2018 Argentine Grand Prix]] (Ongoing)
| last race      = 70th Macau Grand Prix (2023, Ongoing)
| best finish    = 2nd ([[2014 F1RWRS season|2014]])
| best finish    = 1st ([[2023 AutoReject World Series season|2023]])
|}}
|}}


'''Phillippe Nicolas''' (Born 11th April 1990 in Marseilles, France) is a French racing driver most famous for his time in the [[Formula 1 Rejects World Race Series]] driving for [[Melrose Racing Team]] which is run by Former Formula One World Champion [[Daniel Melrose]].
'''Phillippe Nicolas''' (born 11th April 1990 in Marseilles, France) is a French racing driver most famous for his time in the [[AutoReject World Series]] driving for many different storied organisations, including [[Melrose Racing Team]], [[Voeckler Grand Prix Engineering]], and [[Holiday Racing Team]] - the latter of which he won the Drivers Championship with.


==F1RWRS Career==
==ARWS Career==
===Melrose Racing Team===
====2012====
Nicolas was initially signed on as MRT's test and development driver in the ARWS and was touted as a possible replacement for outgoing MRT driver [[Jeroen Krautmeir]] before the team signed on 2011 champion [[Nathanael Spencer]]. Nicolas got his debut at the season ending [[2012 F1RWRS Indianapolis 500|Budweiser 500]], deputising for the injured team boss Melrose. Whilst he got involved in a mid-race pileup, the Frenchman was consistent around the Brickyard and ended up finishing 18th on the road but 5 laps down.


===2012-Present - Melrose Racing Team===  
====2013====
2013 was Nicolas' first full season for the team, replacing Melrose on a full time basis as he joined the [[ArrowTech ART]] outfit. Whilst the MRT M4 was a fundamentally good chassis, the all new BMW powerplant that went with it proved to be a disaster and Nicolas only scored 2 points all year from a pair of 6th places at Bathurst, where MRT scored 3 of their 4 points of the year, and Monaco where the MRT was genuinely competitive. While he may have ultimately been beaten by teammate [[Nathanael Spencer]], another new MRT driver, he was often fairly close to the former ARWS champion and received praise as a result. Nicolas was rested for the United States Grand Prix when he made way for the money from Spanish-American debutant [[Vidal Reyna-Sanchez]] came knocking on the door of MRT.


Nicolas was initially signed on as MRT's test and development driver in the F1RWRS and was touted as a possible replacement for outgoing MRT driver [[Jeroen Krautmeir]] before the team signed on 2011 champion [[Nathanael Spencer]]. Nicolas got his debut at the season ending [[2012 F1RWRS Indianapolis 500|Budweiser 500]], deputising for the injured team boss Melrose. Whilst he got involved in a mid-race pileup, the Frenchman was consistent around the Brickyard and ended up finishing 18th on the road but 5 laps down.
====2014====
Nicolas stayed on for a third season at the team for 2014 alongside Spencer while MRT gave both drivers a much better car than the previous season. So good in fact that it turned out to be the best car in the field and Nicolas found a new level in his driving to consistently take his highly rated teammate to the cleaners. Whilst he qualified behind Spencer in Adelaide for the Tasman Grand Prix, Nicolas picked up the pieces when Spencer's engine expired, giving the Frenchman his first race victory. This didn't last however as multiple engine failures from the new BMW powerplant meant that Nicolas didn't finish any of the next 4 races, losing vital ground to leader [[Mark Dagnall]] and teammate Spencer, who had found his feet again and taken home 2 more victories for MRT. While Nicolas' fortunes turned towards the end of the season, as a long string of retirements ended with his second win in Germany, followed up by two more in Italy and the Netherlands, it was ultimately not enough as MRT's unreliability scuppered any hopes of either driver stopping the young Dagnall from claiming his second successive title.


2013 was Nicolas' first full season for the team, replacing Melrose on a full time basis as he joined the [[ArrowTech ART]] outfit. Whilst the MRT M4 was a fundamentally good chassis, the all new BMW powerplant that went with it proved to be a disaster and Nicolas only scored 2 points all year from a pair of 6th places at Bathurst, where MRT scored 3 of their 4 points of the year, and Monaco where the MRT was genuinely competitive. While he may have ultimately been beaten by teammate [[Nathanael Spencer]], another new MRT driver, he was often fairly close to the former F1RWRS champion and received praise as a result. Nicolas was rested for the United States Grand Prix when he made way for the money from Spanish-American debutant [[Vidal Reyna-Sanchez]] came knocking on the door of MRT.
====2015====
2015 saw Nicolas' championship ambitions suffer a setback, as Australian [[Rhys Davies]] joined MRT for the season, and immediately win his first two races of the team. This left the Frenchman on the hotseat, and a relatively difficult start to the season led to him falling out of favour, and his seat handed over to German [[David Neuberg]] for the North American leg of the season, in a driver trade with the less competitive [[Mitie Aviation Racing|Kingfisher Racing]]. While part of the arrangement was due to financial considerations, Nicolas was none too pleased to be treated so callously, and answered with his lone win of the season at the British Grand Prix. Poor reliability again saw both MRT drivers well short of preventing Dagnall from taking an unprecedented third-straight ARWS championship, and, disillusioned with the team, Nicolas opted to part ways with them at the end of the year - even after helping the team win their first Constructors Championship.


Nicolas stayed on for a third season at the team for 2014 alongside Spencer while MRT gave both drivers a much better car than the previous season. So good in fact that it turned out to be the best car in the field and Nicolas found a new level in his driving to consistently take his highly rated teammate to the cleaners. Whilst he qualified behind Spencer in Adelaide for the Tasman Grand Prix, Nicolas picked up the pieces when Spencer's engine expired, giving the Frenchman his first race victory. This didn't last however as multiple engine failures from the new BMW powerplant meant that Nicolas didn't finish any of the next 4 races, losing vital ground to leader [[Mark Dagnall]] and teammate Spencer, who had found his feet again and taken home 2 more victories for MRT.
===ArrowTech-Acuri===
Intrigued by the rising stock of [[ArrowTech-Acuri Autosport]] since Arrowtech merged with [[Acuri Autosport|Acuri]] in the 2014-15 off-season, Nicolas was signed to be the team's lead driver for 2016 and 2017. His teammate for 2016 would be Croatian [[Mirko Bosevic]], who had taken the team's first two podiums in their new guise towards the end of 2015. Together, they would start the season with a bang, with Nicolas winning at Bathurst and in Italy, and Bosevic adding two podiums of his own to establish ArrowTech-Acuri as a serious title contender. Nicolas himself led the title after Italy, but ArrowTech-Acuri's performance faded over the remainder of the season, with both drivers only finishing on the podium once more all year, seeing the team drop to 4th in the Constructors Championship, and Nicolas to 5th in the Drivers.


==Complete F1RWRS Results==
2017 would not see Nicolas or the team's performance improve, either, as the Frenchman endured his first winless season since 2013. [[Hansuke Shioya]] replaced the retiring Bosevic as Nicolas' teammate, in a seeming blunder as team owner The Fox seemed mystified that the Japanese driver did not bring sponsorship with him, but retained him for the season regardless. Nicolas wound up able to wrangle 3 podiums from the recalcitrant AT-07, but Shioya only contributed 2 points all year to the team's total, and his poor qualifying performances resulted in the team DNPQ'ing 4 times during the season. The third was the final strike for Nicolas, as he and his agent negotiated for him to move to the [[Simpson Motorsports|Dacia]] works team for the final 3 rounds of the championship. Although he did not gain another podium, and Dacia would be pulling their support, Nicolas was enthused with the team's future prospects, with ownership falling back to the team's original founder (and the man whose seat he graciously allowed Nicolas to fill), [[Dave Simpson]].
 
===Return to MRT===
Nicolas was all set to remain with Simpson Motorsports for 2018, but a trade offer for the highly-rated Swiss paydriver [[Jean-Luc Schiller]] was too good for Simpson to pass up. As a result, he was forced to swallow his pride and return to MRT for the year, but Nicolas made the most of the situation, and paired with Tropican hot prospect [[Alberto Cara]], saw the team secure their second Constructors Championship. His consistency in the first stretch of the season saw Nicolas lead in the early stages of the season, but as it wore on, it became clear that Cara and [[Fusion Motorsports|Fusion]] driver [[Terry Hawkin]] were the quicker drivers. This was further cemented by 6 retirements in the final 8 races, and ultimately he came 15 points short of the title, despite winning twice.
 
===Voeckler GPE===
For 2019, Nicolas departed MRT once again, as the [[Voeckler Grand Prix Engineering|Voeckler]] appeared to be his best chance to finally claim that maiden championship. However, in spite of tallying another pair of wins for the French marque, [[Kjellerup by Écurie Prenois|Kjellerup]]'s package for the season was utterly dominant. Still, Nicolas established himself as the best of the rest, handily defeating American teammate [[Dan Greenlaw]], as well as the MRT duo of Cara and [[Salvatore Miccoli]]. Nicolas was set to remain with Voeckler for 2020, however, the cancellation of the season in the wake of the [[Leonhard von Gottorp scandal]] saw him finish a season pointless for the first time since his one-off debut in 2012.
 
===Holiday===
Although the fate of ARWS would be in question over the following couple of years, Nicolas remained fully committed to the series, and with his long tenure, had gained many connections through the paddock. As many of these individuals would be called on to oversee the rebirth of the ARWS from 2023 onwards, Nicolas used these connections to his advantage and had some foreknowledge of the series format, which led to his signing with the rookie [[Holiday Racing Team]] organisation. Although Holiday would be using the very underpowered Mugen Honda powerplants in 2023, consistency was key in the new points format, and the more powerful W12 and I3 turbo engines were extremely unreliable in comparison. As points were only awarded to classified finishers, this enabled Nicolas to finally claim that long-awaited ARWS Drivers Championship, despite only standing on the podium once, at an attrition-struck Kinki Grand Prix.
 
Naturally, this led to Nicolas resigning with the team, as they chose to move to Ford I3 power for 2024, banking on the assumption that they would be more reliable after the teething issues of 2023.
 
==Complete ARWS Results==


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|bgcolor="#efcfff"| [[2019 ARWS Italian Grand Prix|ITA]]<br /><small>Ret</small>
|bgcolor="#ffffbf"| [[2019 ARWS Moroccan Grand Prix|MAR]]<br /><small>1</small>
|bgcolor="#dfdfdf"| [[2019 ARWS Canadian US Grand Prix|CAN]]<br /><small>2</small>
|bgcolor="#efcfff"| [[2019 ARWS United States Grand Prix|500]]<br /><small>Ret</small>
|bgcolor="#dfffdf"| [[2019 ARWS British US Grand Prix|GBR]]<br /><small>6</small>
|bgcolor="#ffffbf"| [[2019 ARWS Austrian Grand Prix|AUT]]<br /><small>1</small>
|bgcolor="#cfcfff"| [[2019 ARWS German Grand Prix|GER]]<br /><small>7</small>
|bgcolor="#efcfff"| [[2019 ARWS Scandinavian Grand Prix|SCA]]<br /><small>Ret</small>
| [[2019 ARWS Belgian Grand Prix|BEL]]<br /><small>INJ</small>
| [[2019 ARWS Monaco Grand Prix|MON]]<br /><small>INJ</small>
|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"| [[2019 ARWS South African Grand Prix|RSA]]<br /><small>3</small>
|bgcolor="#dfffdf"| [[2019 ARWS Brazilian Grand Prix|BRA]]<br /><small>4†</small>
|bgcolor="#dfffdf"| [[2019 ARWS Argentine Grand Prix|ARG]]<br /><small>6</small>
|bgcolor="#cfcfff"| [[2019 ARWS Japanese Grand Prix|JPN]]<br /><small>18†</small>
| [[2019 ARWS Chinese Grand Prix|CHN]]<br /><small>INJ</small>
|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"| '''3rd'''
|bgcolor="#ffdf9f"| '''51'''
|-
! [[2020 AutoReject World Series season|2020]]
! [[Voeckler GPE|Voeckler Renault]]
! Voeckler VGP4
! Renault RSXXII-20
|bgcolor="#efcfff"| [[ARWS Australian Grand Prix|AUS]]<br/><small>Ret</small>
|bgcolor="#cfcfff"| [[ARWS New South Wales Grand Prix|NSW]]<br/><small>7</small>
| ARG<br/><small>C</small>
| BRA<br/><small>C</small>
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| CAN<br/><small>C</small>
| GBR<br/><small>C</small>
| BEL<br/><small>C</small>
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| AUT<br/><small>C</small>
| GER<br/><small>C</small>
| SAF<br/><small>C</small>
| IND<br/><small>C</small>
| MAL<br/><small>C</small>
| PAC<br/><small>C</small>
| JPN<br/><small>C</small>
| CHN<br/><small>C</small>
! 13th
! 0
|-
! [[2023 AutoReject World Series season|2023]]
! [[Holiday Racing Team]]
! Holiday H-2K23
! Mugen Honda MF-24A HA
| bgcolor="#dfffdf" | MON<br/><small>6</small>
| bgcolor="#dfffdf" | LUX<br/><small>4</small>
| bgcolor="#dfffdf" | GER<br/><small>8</small>
| bgcolor="#cfeaff" | CZE<br/><small>13</small>
| bgcolor="#cfeaff" | NUS<br/><small>12</small>
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| bgcolor="#dfffdf" | SCA<br/><small>5</small>
| bgcolor="#cfeaff" | SUS<br/><small>14</small>
| bgcolor="#dfffdf" | MAL<br/><small>9</small>
| bgcolor="#dfffdf" | AUS<br/><small>7</small>
| bgcolor="#dfffdf" | JPN<br/><small>8</small>
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| bgcolor="#dfffdf" | MAC<br/><small>5</small>
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|bgcolor="#ffffbf"| '''1st'''
|bgcolor="#ffffbf"| '''462'''
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! [[2024 AutoReject World Series season|2024]]
! [[Holiday Racing Team|Atlas Air Holiday Racing Team]]
! Holiday Speedbird-24
! Ford Ecoboost 2.0 ARWS/24
| MON<br /><small></small>
| MED<br /><small></small>
| LUX<br /><small></small>
| GER<br/><small></small>
| CRI<br/><small></small>
| GRS<br/><small></small>
| NUS<br/><small></small>
| ITA<br/><small></small>
| GBR<br/><small></small>
| CAN<br/><small></small>
| RNO<br/><small></small>
| SUS<br/><small></small>
| MAL<br/><small></small>
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Latest revision as of 10:26, 7 July 2025

Phillippe Nicolas
Nationality Flag of France svg.png French
Born 11 April, 1990
Marseilles, France
DEC Holder NickyDustyOwl (formerly Wizzie)
Current Team Flag of the United States svg.png Atlas Air Holiday Racing Team
Car Number 1
Former Teams Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Kingfisher Racing
Flag of Canada svg.png ArrowTech
Flag of Australia svg.png Dacia
Flag of Australia svg.png/Flag of Germany svg.png Melrose Racing Team
Flag of France svg.png Voeckler Renault
Races 127 (117 starts)
Championships 1
Victories 11
Podiums 29
Points 710
Pole Positions 11
Fastest Laps 4
First Race 2012 F1RWRS Indianapolis 500
First Victory 2014 Tasman Grand Prix
Last Victory 2019 Austrian Grand Prix
Last Race 70th Macau Grand Prix (2023, Ongoing)
Best Finish 1st (2023)


Phillippe Nicolas (born 11th April 1990 in Marseilles, France) is a French racing driver most famous for his time in the AutoReject World Series driving for many different storied organisations, including Melrose Racing Team, Voeckler Grand Prix Engineering, and Holiday Racing Team - the latter of which he won the Drivers Championship with.

ARWS Career

Melrose Racing Team

2012

Nicolas was initially signed on as MRT's test and development driver in the ARWS and was touted as a possible replacement for outgoing MRT driver Jeroen Krautmeir before the team signed on 2011 champion Nathanael Spencer. Nicolas got his debut at the season ending Budweiser 500, deputising for the injured team boss Melrose. Whilst he got involved in a mid-race pileup, the Frenchman was consistent around the Brickyard and ended up finishing 18th on the road but 5 laps down.

2013

2013 was Nicolas' first full season for the team, replacing Melrose on a full time basis as he joined the ArrowTech ART outfit. Whilst the MRT M4 was a fundamentally good chassis, the all new BMW powerplant that went with it proved to be a disaster and Nicolas only scored 2 points all year from a pair of 6th places at Bathurst, where MRT scored 3 of their 4 points of the year, and Monaco where the MRT was genuinely competitive. While he may have ultimately been beaten by teammate Nathanael Spencer, another new MRT driver, he was often fairly close to the former ARWS champion and received praise as a result. Nicolas was rested for the United States Grand Prix when he made way for the money from Spanish-American debutant Vidal Reyna-Sanchez came knocking on the door of MRT.

2014

Nicolas stayed on for a third season at the team for 2014 alongside Spencer while MRT gave both drivers a much better car than the previous season. So good in fact that it turned out to be the best car in the field and Nicolas found a new level in his driving to consistently take his highly rated teammate to the cleaners. Whilst he qualified behind Spencer in Adelaide for the Tasman Grand Prix, Nicolas picked up the pieces when Spencer's engine expired, giving the Frenchman his first race victory. This didn't last however as multiple engine failures from the new BMW powerplant meant that Nicolas didn't finish any of the next 4 races, losing vital ground to leader Mark Dagnall and teammate Spencer, who had found his feet again and taken home 2 more victories for MRT. While Nicolas' fortunes turned towards the end of the season, as a long string of retirements ended with his second win in Germany, followed up by two more in Italy and the Netherlands, it was ultimately not enough as MRT's unreliability scuppered any hopes of either driver stopping the young Dagnall from claiming his second successive title.

2015

2015 saw Nicolas' championship ambitions suffer a setback, as Australian Rhys Davies joined MRT for the season, and immediately win his first two races of the team. This left the Frenchman on the hotseat, and a relatively difficult start to the season led to him falling out of favour, and his seat handed over to German David Neuberg for the North American leg of the season, in a driver trade with the less competitive Kingfisher Racing. While part of the arrangement was due to financial considerations, Nicolas was none too pleased to be treated so callously, and answered with his lone win of the season at the British Grand Prix. Poor reliability again saw both MRT drivers well short of preventing Dagnall from taking an unprecedented third-straight ARWS championship, and, disillusioned with the team, Nicolas opted to part ways with them at the end of the year - even after helping the team win their first Constructors Championship.

ArrowTech-Acuri

Intrigued by the rising stock of ArrowTech-Acuri Autosport since Arrowtech merged with Acuri in the 2014-15 off-season, Nicolas was signed to be the team's lead driver for 2016 and 2017. His teammate for 2016 would be Croatian Mirko Bosevic, who had taken the team's first two podiums in their new guise towards the end of 2015. Together, they would start the season with a bang, with Nicolas winning at Bathurst and in Italy, and Bosevic adding two podiums of his own to establish ArrowTech-Acuri as a serious title contender. Nicolas himself led the title after Italy, but ArrowTech-Acuri's performance faded over the remainder of the season, with both drivers only finishing on the podium once more all year, seeing the team drop to 4th in the Constructors Championship, and Nicolas to 5th in the Drivers.

2017 would not see Nicolas or the team's performance improve, either, as the Frenchman endured his first winless season since 2013. Hansuke Shioya replaced the retiring Bosevic as Nicolas' teammate, in a seeming blunder as team owner The Fox seemed mystified that the Japanese driver did not bring sponsorship with him, but retained him for the season regardless. Nicolas wound up able to wrangle 3 podiums from the recalcitrant AT-07, but Shioya only contributed 2 points all year to the team's total, and his poor qualifying performances resulted in the team DNPQ'ing 4 times during the season. The third was the final strike for Nicolas, as he and his agent negotiated for him to move to the Dacia works team for the final 3 rounds of the championship. Although he did not gain another podium, and Dacia would be pulling their support, Nicolas was enthused with the team's future prospects, with ownership falling back to the team's original founder (and the man whose seat he graciously allowed Nicolas to fill), Dave Simpson.

Return to MRT

Nicolas was all set to remain with Simpson Motorsports for 2018, but a trade offer for the highly-rated Swiss paydriver Jean-Luc Schiller was too good for Simpson to pass up. As a result, he was forced to swallow his pride and return to MRT for the year, but Nicolas made the most of the situation, and paired with Tropican hot prospect Alberto Cara, saw the team secure their second Constructors Championship. His consistency in the first stretch of the season saw Nicolas lead in the early stages of the season, but as it wore on, it became clear that Cara and Fusion driver Terry Hawkin were the quicker drivers. This was further cemented by 6 retirements in the final 8 races, and ultimately he came 15 points short of the title, despite winning twice.

Voeckler GPE

For 2019, Nicolas departed MRT once again, as the Voeckler appeared to be his best chance to finally claim that maiden championship. However, in spite of tallying another pair of wins for the French marque, Kjellerup's package for the season was utterly dominant. Still, Nicolas established himself as the best of the rest, handily defeating American teammate Dan Greenlaw, as well as the MRT duo of Cara and Salvatore Miccoli. Nicolas was set to remain with Voeckler for 2020, however, the cancellation of the season in the wake of the Leonhard von Gottorp scandal saw him finish a season pointless for the first time since his one-off debut in 2012.

Holiday

Although the fate of ARWS would be in question over the following couple of years, Nicolas remained fully committed to the series, and with his long tenure, had gained many connections through the paddock. As many of these individuals would be called on to oversee the rebirth of the ARWS from 2023 onwards, Nicolas used these connections to his advantage and had some foreknowledge of the series format, which led to his signing with the rookie Holiday Racing Team organisation. Although Holiday would be using the very underpowered Mugen Honda powerplants in 2023, consistency was key in the new points format, and the more powerful W12 and I3 turbo engines were extremely unreliable in comparison. As points were only awarded to classified finishers, this enabled Nicolas to finally claim that long-awaited ARWS Drivers Championship, despite only standing on the podium once, at an attrition-struck Kinki Grand Prix.

Naturally, this led to Nicolas resigning with the team, as they chose to move to Ford I3 power for 2024, banking on the assumption that they would be more reliable after the teething issues of 2023.

Complete ARWS Results

Year Team Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 DC Pts
2012 Qantas Melrose Racing Team MRT M3B BMW P86/12 BAV SAX GER LUX BEL NED GBR KEN ENG TAS SUR NSW AUS CHN USA 500
18
27th 0
2013 Qantas Melrose Racing Team MRT M4 BMW P88 TAS
Ret
AUS
6
MEX
10
USA MON
6
FRA
Ret
GBR
Ret
GER
Ret
NED
DNQ
BEL
DNQ
POR
Ret
MED
DNQ
MAC
DNQ
CHN
DNQ
JPN
16
BRA
DNQ
=24th 2
2014 Virgin Melrose Racing Team MRT M5 BMW P89 TAS
1
AUS
Ret
BRA
Ret
MEX
Ret
USA
Ret
MON FRA
Ret
GBR
Ret
GER
1
BEL
Ret
ITA
1
MED
Ret
NED
1
MAC
2
CHN
Ret
JPN
Ret
2nd 46
2015 Virgin Melrose Racing Team MRT M6 BMW P90 TAS
Ret
AUS
Ret
MED
2
MON
Ret
GBR
1
GER
Ret
BEL
Ret
AUT
Ret
ITA
Ret
NED
2
CHN
4
JPN
7
BRA
2
5th 31
Kingfisher Racing Kingfisher KR-002 Peugeot A7 MEX
DNQ
USA
Ret
CAN
Ret
2016 ArrowTech-Acuri Autosport ArrowTech AT-06 Gillet GV11 AUS
4
NSW
1
GBR
Ret
ITA
1
AUT
Ret
CAN
3
SUS
Ret
NUS
Ret
GER
5
NSE
5
MON
Ret
BEL
Ret
MEX
Ret
ARG
4
CHN
Ret
JPN
Ret
5th 35
2017 ArrowTech-Acuri Autosport ArrowTech AT-07 Gillet GV11B AUS
Ret
NSW
2
GBR
Ret
ITA
6
AUT
Ret
CAN
Ret
SUS
DNPQ
NUS
DNPQ
GER
3
NSE
3
BEL
Ret
MON
7
MOR
DNPQ
7th 22
Dacia F1RWRS Team Simpson DSM-030 Dacia RSXXI-17 ARG
4
JPN
6
CHN
Ret
2018 Dunlop Melrose Racing Team MRT M9 BMW P92 AUS
1
NSW
2
ITA
4
MAR
2
CAL
4
USA
Ret
CAN
5
GBR
3
AUT
EX
GER
2
SCA
Ret
BEL
Ret
MON
Ret
RSA
Ret
BRA
1
ARG
Ret
JPN
2
CHN
Ret
3rd 61
2019 Voeckler Renault Voeckler VGP3
Voeckler VGP3B
Renault RSXXII-19 AUS
2
NSW
Ret
KIN
2
ITA
Ret
MAR
1
CAN
2
500
Ret
GBR
6
AUT
1
GER
7
SCA
Ret
BEL
INJ
MON
INJ
RSA
3
BRA
4†
ARG
6
JPN
18†
CHN
INJ
3rd 51
2020 Voeckler Renault Voeckler VGP4 Renault RSXXII-20 AUS
Ret
NSW
7
ARG
C
BRA
C
500
C
CAN
C
GBR
C
BEL
C
MON
C
ITA
C
AUT
C
GER
C
SAF
C
IND
C
MAL
C
PAC
C
JPN
C
CHN
C
13th 0
2023 Holiday Racing Team Holiday H-2K23 Mugen Honda MF-24A HA MON
6
LUX
4
GER
8
CZE
13
NUS
12
GBR
13
SCA
5
SUS
14
MAL
9
AUS
7
JPN
8
KIN
3
MAC
5
1st 462
2024 Atlas Air Holiday Racing Team Holiday Speedbird-24 Ford Ecoboost 2.0 ARWS/24 MON
MED
LUX
GER
CRI
GRS
NUS
ITA
GBR
CAN
RNO
SUS
MAL
KIN
JPN
AUS
NC 0