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Formula Community
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Inaugural Season TBA
Engine supplier(s) Ace, Auricom, BMW, Cosworth, Empire, Equipe Gauthier, Honda, JLD, Johnny Cab Racing, Judd, Mercedes-Benz, Renault, Subaru
Tyre supplier(s) Nokian
Records


Formula Community is an upcoming team-funded series built from the ground up solely on the team owner's voting power. Initially each of the entering teams were able to invest up to £500,000 to buy in to the series, which bought a share of the voting power. Teams then had to use their remaining cash to purchase vehicles and hire drivers.

List of Teams

Current Teams

Team Owner Ownership of Series
Flag of Bulgaria svg.png DSR Racing Deyan Rangelov 8.43%
Flag of Germany svg.png/Flag of the Netherlands.svg.png Blokkmonsta Motorsport Andrea Schnass 7.22%
Flag of Austria svg.png Loyer Racing Technologies Herbert Loyer and sons 6.15%
Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Great British Racing Team Ryan Cole 6.02%
Flag of the United States svg.png Outterridge Motorsports Frederick Outterridge 6.02%
Flag of Germany svg.png Renntechnologie GmbH Ralf Schneider 6.02%
Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Rob Lomas Racing Rob Lomas 6.02%
Flag of Australia svg.png Australian Racing Academy Mark Webber 4.82%
Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Empire Racing Thomas Travers 4.82%
Flag of Ireland svg.png Pegasus Racing Group Dr. Ciaran Gallagher 4.82%
Flag of Canada svg.png Auricom Industries Paul Belmondo 4.61%
Flag of Spain svg.png AeroCraft Racing Marc Pujolar 3.61%
Flag of Bolivia svg.png El Cártel Suramérica Paulo Pinto & Cristian Carmona 3.61%
Flag of Russia svg.png Restov Racing Edward Restov 3.61%
Flag of Peru svg.png Vasquez Racing Team Luis Vasquez & Rafael Antezana 3.61%
Flag of Indonesia svg.png NKRI Jaya Garuda Axel Putra 3.37%
Flag of Japan svg.png TechCraft Asuka Kuwashima 3.09%
Flag of France svg.png Equipe Gauthier Guillaume Gauthier 3.01%
Flag of Germany svg.png JLD Motorsport Pierre Depault 2.71%
Flag of the United States svg.png Riverside Racing Julius Wood 2.41%
Flag of Australia svg.png Tassie Racing Academy Matthew Saoea 2.41%
Flag of Mars svg.png Johnny Cab Racing Vilos Cohaagen 2.12%
Flag of Jamaica svg.png Sanka Sports Sanka Coffie 1.04%
Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Aston Martin Racing Brett Johnson 0.46%

Previous Teams

Team Owner
Flag of France svg.png Alstom GPE Jean-Francois Voeckler
Flag of Spain svg.png Escalona Racing Inigo Escalona
Flag of Japan svg.png Ocean Motorsport Technology Yusaku Higashiyama

Voting Process

A unique draw-card for Formula Community is that almost every aspect of the competition has been decided by voting. As each team's voting power is dependent on the share owned of the competition, it is not necessarily number of votes that decides each ballot. For a decision to be made, a >50% majority must be achieved (unless down to two options), meaning that if no option has a majority second preferences come into play.

Issue 1 - Location of Series

Teams voted on which continent to base the series, although the decision did not preclude races from being held on other continents, if voted on later. The following options were available:

  • Europe
  • North America
  • Asia - including Australia and New Zealand
  • South America
  • Africa

Asia took an early lead following the first round of voting, but did not achieve the required majority. As North America, South America and Africa did not have the required votes to achieve a majority, they were eliminated from the voting process and the second round began. In a surprising turnaround, it was Europe that took some late preferences to edge out Asia.

Option Votes
Round 1 Round 2
Europe 29.50% 52.09%