Team Calinetic

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Flag of Jamaica svg.png Calinetic
Calinetic logo.png
Full Name Team Calinetic
Base Kingston, Jamaica
Founder(s) Joseph Calinetic
Team Principal(s) Andrew Caine
Technical Director
Current Drivers Template:AUS Daniel Ricciardo
Flag of the Netherlands svg.png Max Verstappen
Other Noted Drivers Template:GBR Gary Cameron
Template:BEL Thomas De Bock
Flag of Russia svg.png Evgeny Restov
Debut 2010 F1RWRS German Grand Prix
Races 40 (112 entries)
Constructors' Championships 0
Drivers' Championships 1
Race Wins 1
Podiums 10
Points 164
Pole Positions 7
Fastest Laps 4


Team Calinetic (sometimes shortened to simply Calinetic) is a Jamaican race car constructor currently owned by Andrew Caine, founded by Joseph Calinetic and known for winning the inaugural 2010 F1RWRS season drivers' championship with Gary Cameron. Despite this, the team never won a constructors' title and and thereafter struggled in the F1RWRS.

History

Early Years (2005-2009)

The team was founded by Jamaican businessman Joseph Calinetic in 2005, who secured funding from America, engineers from the UK and a pit crew from Spain. They had the most success in the GT Tuning Cup, with their Koenig GT always up the front. They also enjoyed mild success in the Global GT Lights, and ran a US Speedtruck, winning the 2005 championship, both for drivers and teams, despite neither driver scoring a win, a pattern that would continue in the future.

F1RWRS Years (2010-2013)

When the announcement of the creation of the F1RWRS was made in late 2009, Calinetic immediately built a chassis. As one of the ten founding teams competing in the 2010 season, Calinetic hired drivers Gary Cameron and Phoenix McAllister. They would race the season without winning, yet Cameron still took the championship, on sheer consistency alone. Unfortunately, McAllister was not as fast as his teammate, and Calinetic lost the constructors' title to Prospec.

The CAL2, the car driven by Thomas De Bock and reigning Drivers' Champion Gary Cameron for the 2011 season.

2011 was not as successful, although Cameron still managed to finish third in the championship, winning the team's first (and only) race at the Dutch GP. Shortly before the season, the team sacked McAllister and hired Thomas De Bock, who finished 9th overall. The team was third in the constructors' standings, but well behind Prospec and JLD Motorsport.

Team Calinetic's decline began in 2012. De Bock had been replaced at the end of 2011 by David Koczo, who they'd stolen from Prospec and whilst Cameron stayed on for another season with the team, he subsequently left after the sixth race of the year at the Dutch Grand Prix, the site of his win for the team a year previously. He'd become unhappy at the team's performance, the Briton having only qualified for three races at that point in the year. Nicolas Steele was hired to replace Cameron, but he would only qualify for 3 out of the 10 races he entered. Koczo meanwhile stayed put for the whole season, but the only highlight was taking pole at the German GP, finishing fourth.

Following their poor 2012 season, the decline continued as Calinetic were relegated to pre-qualifying for 2013, and only started two races, failing to pre-qualify for the rest. Steele and Koczo both stayed with the team, but Steele left for Kamaha after just two races. The team convinced John Zimmer to return from retirement, and he managed to convince a number of sponsors to join them. He and Koczo qualified for the Mexican GP, with Zimmer finishing 6th and scoring a point. It wasn't enough to get them out of pre-qualifying, and it was the team's only point all year. Both Zimmer and Koczo also qualified for the Belgian GP, with Koczo the best of the two drivers, finishing in 9th. Thereafter from the Portuguese GP, Zimmer left the team, initially replaced by rookie Nathan Scott, though for the final race of the year at Brazil, Koczo was paired with Poppy Whitechapel. Neither passed pre-qualifying in what turned out to be the team's final race, though the decision to pull the plug on the team's F1RWRS operation had already been made by team boss Joseph Calinetic at the Chinese GP. The Jamaican stated that their lack of results had induced a low return on investment, and as a result the team was lacking the funds necessary for competing at the top level of motor racing.

Formula One (2016-

In 2016, Calinetic was announced as one of the new team's joining the grid. But soon problems struck, as the team was left with the expensive Mercedes engines, and with a dull chassis, which led to the owner of the team to resign. The team was bought by Andrew Caine, who tried to fix the issues by hiring proven man Evgeny Restov, and ex-talent, Giorgio Pantano. The team faced a difficult season, and eventually finished in 10th in the constructor champioship, with Restov taking a podium place in the German Grand Prix. For 2017, the team kept the Petronas sponsorship, and hired the young dutch talent Max Verstapen and Jazeman Jaafar, to replace the departuring drivers, while Dean Stoneman was kept as the team's test driver. And before the start of the season, it was already clear that 2017 was going to be another year fighting for minor point. The team went on to finish 10th in the constructors, with 2 points obtained from 2 10th places. One for Max Verstappen, and one for Dean Stoneman. For 2018, the team switched from Mercedes power to Holden power, and kept Max Verstappen as a driver, while also signing Daniel Ricciardo to partner the dutch driver. In the second race of 2018, Daniel Ricciardo came home in 8th place, scoring the first points of the season for the team. He followed by finishing 3rd in the first race of the Japan weekend, taking the team's second podium in Formula One. Verstappen scored his first points of the season with an 8th place in the second race at Suzuka.

Legacy

Team Calinetic remain as one of the most successful of the original ten founding teams of the F1RWRS, and the most successful of those no longer competing. They helped establish the career of the now well known Gary Cameron, one of the most successful drivers in the series, whilst Nathan Scott has gone on to drive for front-running team DGNgineering. They remain as one of only a select group of teams to have won a championship title, and are the only Jamaican team to have ever competed in the F1RWRS. For a while after closure of their F1RWRS team, the Calinetic racing team continued to compete in other motorsport categories, with varying degrees of success.

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
2010 Calinetic CAL1 Ford V8 GER LUX SAX CHN TAS BHR BEL GBR AUS 75 3rd
8 Flag of Spain svg.png Phoenix McAllister 8 16 8 8 7 15 Ret 11 4
9 Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Gary Cameron 4 3 5 15 4 3 4 2 10
2011 Calinetic CAL2 Ford V8 BAV GER SAX LUX BEL GBR ENG KEN NED TAS AUS NSW SUR CHN USA 78 3rd
1 Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Gary Cameron 3 8 DNPQ 4 NC 13 2 10 1 17 10 8 Ret 7 18
2 Flag of Belgium svg.png Thomas De Bock 2 DNPQ 14 Ret 3 DNPQ 10 13 14 9 2 7 8* 8 Ret
2012 Calinetic CAL3 Ford V8 BAV SAX GER LUX BEL NED GBR KEN ENG TAS SUR NSW AUS CHN USA 500 10 17th
5 Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Gary Cameron DNPQ 6 DNPQ Ret DNPQ 18
Flag of the United States svg.png Nicolas Steele 11 DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ 26 DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ 25
6 Flag of Hungary svg.png David Koczo DNPQ DNPQ 4 DNPQ 13 DNPQ DNPQ 18 DNPQ Ret 8 16 Ret 17 19 20
2013 Calinetic CAL4 Ford HB I TAS AUS MEX USA MON FRA GBR GER NED BEL POR MED MAC CHN JPN BRA 1 16th
28 Flag of Hungary svg.png David Koczo DNPQ DNPQ Ret DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ 9 DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ
29 Flag of the United States svg.png Nicolas Steele DNPQ DNPQ
Flag of Australia svg.png John Zimmer 6 DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ 13* DNPQ
Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Nathan Scott DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ
Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Poppy Whitechapel DNPQ

Complete Formula One Results

Year Entrant Chassis Engine # Drivers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 WCC Points
2016 Team Calinetic Petronas F1-CAL1 Mercedes PU104B BAH IND BRA MEX PAC CYP HUN GER GBR RUS AUT ITA EUR ESP USA ABU SIN JPN CHI 10th 27 (43)
90 Flag of Russia svg.png Evgeny Restov 10 18 Ret 20 19 15 15 21 Ret Ret Ret 18 Ret 3 17 18 17 12 15 14 Ret 9 15 12 Ret 13 19 Ret Ret Ret 13 Ret 18 18 5
Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Dean Stoneman 12 21 Ret
91 Flag of Italy svg.png Giorgio Pantano Ret 17 13 13 12 14 21 Ret 13 Ret 8 15 10 13 13 5 22 13 19 22 17 17 15 12 14 16 14 18 22 12 17 13 15 Ret 17 19 21
Flag of Italy svg.png Salvatore de Plano Ret
2017 Team Calinetic Petronas F1-CAL2 Mercedes PU104B USA JPN IND BAH CYP HUN GER GBR AUS PAC MEX AUT ITA EUR ESP ABU RUS BRA CHI 12th 2
90 Flag of the Netherlands svg.png Max Verstappen Ret 20 Ret 17 21 13 11 13 13 Ret 11 12 10 Ret Ret 22 14 16 Ret Ret Ret 16 13 14 C C 18 22
Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Dean Stoneman Ret 20 Ret 16 10 15 13 20 C C
Flag of Brazil svg.png João Paulo de Oliveira C C 18 20
91 Flag of Malaysia svg.png Jazeman Jaafar Ret 14 15 19 18 17 15 Ret 16 Ret 19 22 14 Ret 19 15 15 Ret 15 16 Ret 18 Ret 18 20 Ret Ret 20 Ret 14 14 22 C C Ret 22 19 25
2018 Team Calinetic Shionogi F1-CAL3 Holden LSF1-18 USA JPN BAH TUR CYP MED GER FIN RUS SIN AUS GBR FRA NED HUN ABU CHI MEX BRA 8th* 16*
90 Template:AUS Daniel Ricciardo 15 8 3 11
91 Flag of the Netherlands svg.png Max Verstappen 11 19 18 8
ARWS Constructors
2019 Season ARWS Constructors
Aeroracing Blokkmonsta Euromotor Fusion Gillet ENB Jones Kamaha Kjellerup Lomas
Mecha MRT Nurminen Simpson USD Venturi Voeckler Vincent
Former ARWS Constructors
Acuri - AMR - ARC - ArrowTech - Autodynamics - Bangelia - Boxtel - Calinetic - CR - DGNgineering - Dofasco - FAT - Flying Fish - Foxdale - Gauthier - Hemogoblin - HRT - Horizon
IBR - JLD - Kingfisher - KQ - Lotus - MAN - Minardi - Mitie - Pacchia - Phoenix - Prospec - Revolution - Rosenforth - SOTL - Sunshine - Tassie - Tropico - Trueba - Virgin - West Cliff - ZimSport