Good Call Racing

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Good Call Racing, often known as Foster's Good Call Racing or FGC, is the racing team owned and run by the Plus One Group. FGC rose from the ashes of the now defunct Pole Star Racing operation after the legal threat from Polestar Racing, Volvo's racing arm. The team currently participate in the F3RWRS, the F1RDS, and the F1RMGP Women's European Cup, and have intentions of entering the F1RWRS and F2RWRS in years to come.

F3RWRS

2015 - A midfield campaign

Foster's Good Call Racing

Full Name	Foster's Good Call Racing Lancia
Base	Romford, Essex, England
Founder(s)	Luke Knight
Team Principal(s)	Luke Knight
Technical Director	John Allsford
Current Drivers	#45 - Thomas Yorke #46 - Franc Piscine
Other Noted Drivers	None
Debut	2015 Round of Australia
Races	4 (8 entries)
Constructors' Championships	0
Drivers' Championships	0
Race Wins	0
Podiums	1
Points	7
Pole Positions	0
Fastest Laps	0

After forcefully trying to persue an entry, and even going so far as to trying to buy out Takagi Racing Enterprises, FGC were finally allowed in after series management allowed several new teams to join the series for 2015. FGC gave two new drivers their debuts in the F3RWRS : Franc Piscine and Marcos Marcia.

The pre-season tests had established that FGC would be strong midfield contenders, and team boss Luke Knight hexpected the team to do well, but without any sparklings. The Round of Australia was a mediocre performance from the team, with a chance of points in Race 1 gone begging courtesy of Piscine, while Race 2 saw both drivers finish 9th and 10th. Although the car appearedto be slightly slower in the following Round of Turkey, Piscine was able to drive from 9th to 8th in Race 1, scoring his and the team's first points. This fantastic result was topped in Race 2 by Piscine's stunning drive to finish 3rd, after starting 9th. Marcos Marcia, meanwhile, had been putting in consistently poor qualifying and race performances and had failed to score a single point or qualify within 5 places of his team mate. This lacklustre performance earnt him the sack before the Monaco SuperPrix, being replaced by British rookie Thomas Yorke.

With wildcard entries allowed for the SuperPrix events, FGC fielded Scuderia Vittore RoLFS driver Martyn Rietacher to prepare him for his debut top-line campaign.

With 62 cars on the track for qualifying, it was always going to be tough to get a lap in unblocked. Thomas Yorke managed to do just that, setting the 13th fastest time, but Rietacher and Piscine lost time around the twisty streets and eneded up 44th and 46th respectively. The race was to go horribly wrong - Yorke was denied a top 20 finish due to shoddy pitwork, and Piscine and Rietacer were unable to carve their way through the field at all.

The rounds to come were to see a string of frustrating results. In America, Yorke and Piscine came away with a 9th place finish each, just missing out on points, and good drives from both drivers in Britain recorded a couple of high-teen finishes, but again, no points. Piscine ended the points drought with a solid 6th place in the first German race, with things again not quite going to plan in race two, with Piscine coming home in 27th position after suffering electrical problems, while Yorke's transmission gave up the ghost.

For the Spa SuperPrix, the third entry was taken up by promising F1RDS driver Tommi Hamalainen. Qualifying proved that the team was off the pace a little, and the race brought no suprises. Yorke was taken out by Takuma Taki and Stefan Kuntz, Hamailainen had his race ruined in a similar crash at Les Combes, whereas Piscine was able to haul the car up to 12th in the race dspite being involved in a collison himself

F1RDS

2015 - Success, sort of from the start

Foster's Good Call Racing

Full Name	Foster's Good Call Racing Opel
Base	Romford, Essex, England
Founder(s)	Luke Knight
Team Principal(s)	Luke Knight
Technical Director	Martin John
Current Drivers	#24 - Gary Pacer #25 - Alexis Tantovich
Other Noted Drivers	None
Debut	2015 Winter Cup
Races	7 (14 entries)
Constructors' Championships	0
Drivers' Championships	0
Race Wins	2
Podiums	4
Points	66
Pole Positions	0
Fastest Laps	0

Plus One have always been about promoting young talent, so to have a team in the first ever young driver only series in RWRS history was a must. FGC was one of the first entries to the series, and was immeadiately accepted. The age limit in F1RDS is 21 years of age, and with no other younger driver either ready for the challenge of commitment -free, FGC and Plus One were forced into entering two older - but by no means less talented - drivers, Gary Pacer and Alexis Tantovich. Pacer was part of the Canadian talent explosion, along with other drivers such as Tommy Nash. Despite being a spec chassis series, teams are free to choose from one of 4 engine manufacturers, wih each manufacturer's engine offering different characteristics. FGC signed a contract with Opel, whose Spiess tuned machines had a greater emphasis on qualifying eprformance, but didn't lack any power during the race

The Winter Cup was orginised to keep the young drivers active during the winter off season, and thanks to popular vote, all teamns in the F1RDS were off to Japan. However, FGC were to have a reletively dissapointing Cup, with both drivers generally near the rear of the Opel powered cars in qualifying, an going backwards in the races. Things were made even worse by a huge crash for Tantovich in Round One, where he was clipped by another dirver and sent rolling into the gravel at turn one. He managed to walk away, albeit with minor injuries, and was replaced by RoLFS Scuderia Vittore driver Andrea Bianchi for Round 2. FGC cars did not finish above 17th in any of the 3 rounds, except for Gary Pacer managing to pick up two points with a ninth place finish in the first round, sparing FGC from total misery. Surprisngly, FGC did not manage to win reject of the Cup.

The main season campaign soon proved to be a completely different kettle of fish to the Winter Cup. Pacer and Tantovich would line up 3rd and 7th respectively, FGC's best qualifying positions to that date. Pacer was able to get into the lead and hold off much faster cars for the entirety of the race, holding on to take FGC's first win in the F1RDS. Amid the celebration, Tantovich put in a great performance to stealithly take 3rd position, ensuring that FGC walked away with 3 bottles of champagne on their championship debut. Team boss Luke Knight described his pleasure at winning the first championship race in the F1RDS, and announced "we'll be partying tonight!"

San Marino would see stron performances from both drivers, but the rewards were not as fantastic as in Australia. Pacer put in another good performance to take 3rd place in race 1, but in Race 2 both drivers struggled for pace a little, coming home 9th and 10th

Pacer extended his championship lead with a superb race in Monaco, jumping polesitter Tuomas Suomanen from 2nd position off the line to take the lead, which he never lost. Tantovich could only manage 8th positon.

France marked the beginning of a mid-season slump from the team. Despite coming home 7th and 6th, with Tantovich 10th in race 2, the car was clearly not as fast as it was at the start of the season, a fact that was confirmed in the Czech Republic. Only a sterling drive from Pacer could secure a podium from the team, with rookie team mate Angel Jose Castaneda recording two strong points finishes.

What started off as a one-off for the Peruvian youngster evolve

F1RMGP Women's European Cup - A mixed effort

F1R Indy Championship Series - The story of the long distance racing team

Despite the Pole Star name being dead in Europe since the start of the 2015 season, the old name lingered on across the pond in America for the first quater of the season. By the time Luke Knight decided to take over the American arm of Pole Star, the team had just scored it's first win, and was coming off the back of a promising run of form. The team's main drivers were Andrea Bianchi, who had won in Milwaukee, Martin van der Meyde, not to be confused with RWRS driver Martin van der Maeyede, and Pastor Maldonado. The fourth seat was revolved around several different drivers.

However, the first Plus One race would be a huge disappointment. Poor qualifying coupled with a quadruple retirement in the race started a lean period of points for Maldonado and van der Meyede.

Comprehensive Table of Results

F3RWRS Results

Year	Chassis	Engine	#	Drivers	1		2		3	4		5		6	7	8	9	10	Points	CC
2015	Plus One GC-01	Lancia 015/3 JTS			AUS		TUR		MON	USA		GBR		GER	BEL	ITA	JPN	SUR	7*	=7*
			33	Marcos Marcia	11	9	20	Ret
			33	Thomas Yorke
			34	Franc Piscine	Ret	10	8	3	33	9	10	14	14
			101	Martyn Rietacher
				Tommi Hämäläinen

A pink background represents driver(s) that were ineligible for championship points

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F1RDS Results

Year	Engine	#	Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	TC	Pts
2015	Opel-Spiess 2.0L L4 DOHC			AUS	SM1	SM2	MON	FR1	FR2	CZ1	CZ2	GB1	GB2	GER	BEL	ITA	NE1	NE2	1st*	113*
		24	Gary Pacer	1	3	10	1	7	6	11	2	24	9
		25	Alexis Tantovich	3	16	9	8	17	10
		25	Angel Jose Castañeda							9	8	22	3

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Indy Championship Series

Year	Chassis	Engine	#	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	Points	CC
2015	Swift 026.c	Chevrolet			SAO	WDW	GAT	KAN	TEX	INDY	MIL	ROA	MIC	MON	EUR	NHA	WGI	NAS	KEN	POC	SUZ	SUR	VAN	POR	LAG	FON	864	N/A**
			2	Martin van der Meyde	3*	12*†	6*	23*	21*	19*†	2*	2*	23	7	15	24	3	14	20	32	38	10	36	34	14	1
			4	Andrea Bianchi	15*	35*	33*	15*†	12*†	3*	1*	34*	35	14	2	3	9	10	15	3	12	21	32	36	11	6
			16	Pastor Maldonado	24*	22*	24*	2*	32*	2*	26*	37*	13	28	17	18	17	38	7	36	22	41	21	4	15	38
			55	Gordon Martin		DNQ*	9*					36					36		33	23	27	28	42	24	31	DNQ
				Helio Hernandez						DNQ*	Ret*
				Takuma Taki									25
				Gary Pacer										21		DNQ		29
				Nico Kochberg											27