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'''João Lagos Sport''' is a motorsport organisation founded and run by Portuguese businessman João Lagos. Lagos, in partnership with '''DPT Asset Management''' currently fields the Licor Beirão Portugal Racing team in the [[FIA F2 World Championship]].
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'''João Lagos Sport''' is a motorsport organisation founded and run by Portuguese businessman João Lagos. Lagos, in partnership with '''DPT Asset Management''' currently fields the '''Licor Beirão Portugal Racing''' team in the [[FIA F2 World Championship]].
  
Previous ventures for the organisation include the Porto Wine Motorsport F3RWRS team, but it is best known for the takeover of the [[Sunshine Motorsports]] team in F1RWRS which it ran with support from Daihatsu for three seasons from 2015 to 2017.
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Previous ventures for the organisation include the '''Porto Wine Motorsport''' F3RWRS team, but it is best known for the takeover of the [[Sunshine Motorsports]] team in F1RWRS which it ran with support from Daihatsu for three seasons from 2015 to 2017.
  
 
João Lagos Sport have enjoyed considerable support from the Portuguese beverage industry, most notably through the title sponsorship deals secured by Licor Beirão and Porto Wine, as well as other minor sponsorship deals.
 
João Lagos Sport have enjoyed considerable support from the Portuguese beverage industry, most notably through the title sponsorship deals secured by Licor Beirão and Porto Wine, as well as other minor sponsorship deals.

Latest revision as of 21:38, 4 August 2016

João Lagos Sport is a motorsport organisation founded and run by Portuguese businessman João Lagos. Lagos, in partnership with DPT Asset Management currently fields the Licor Beirão Portugal Racing team in the FIA F2 World Championship.

Previous ventures for the organisation include the Porto Wine Motorsport F3RWRS team, but it is best known for the takeover of the Sunshine Motorsports team in F1RWRS which it ran with support from Daihatsu for three seasons from 2015 to 2017.

João Lagos Sport have enjoyed considerable support from the Portuguese beverage industry, most notably through the title sponsorship deals secured by Licor Beirão and Porto Wine, as well as other minor sponsorship deals.

Sunshine Motorsports

See Sunshine Motorsports

Licor Beirão Portugal Racing

Licor Beirão Portugal Racing are an FIA F2 team run by João Lagos Sport that also competed in the series' previous iteration, the F2RWRS from its inaugural 2014 season. The team's manager is Manuel João.

Licor Beirão have had mixed success in the championship, having initially been competitive, with Alberto Cara showing great promise in his early career with three wins and five other podiums over the two years he was at the team. Away from this however the team and the drivers it has employed have seen much poorer results, with the 2016 season being the team's nadir. A merry-go-round of drivers and a notoriously difficult pre-qualifying process meant Licor Beirão finished bottom of the standings. Since then, driver decisions have been more stable, and following the category's evolution into FIA F2, the team sampled the podium champagne once more as Samora Mondlane finished second in the first Bahrain race. Both Mondlane and João António Soares have come into the team via promotion from the junior Porto Wine F3RWRS team.

Despite the inconsistent results, Licor Beirão are currently João Lagos Sport's only remaining motorsport team following the sale of Sunshine Motorsports and the closure of Porto Wine Motorsport.

Complete F2RWRS & FIA F2 results

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 23 24 25 26 TC Points
2014 Lola
F2-14
BMW P87 TUR MON FRA GBR AUT GER NED BEL HUN CZE ITA POR ESP CAN USA 4th 56
5 Flag of Tropico svg.png Alberto Cara 3 2 Ret Ret 1 2 Ret 1 5 15† Ret 6 Ret Ret Ret
6 Flag of Portugal svg.png Catarina Lopes 9 14 12 10 13 12 Ret Ret 16 11 11 10 11 15 Ret
2015 Lola
F2-15
BMW
P87/15
TAS RSA TUR MON FRA GBR GER BEL AUT ITA NED SIN JPN USA 100 10th 33
7 Flag of Tropico svg.png Alberto Cara 3 9 1 EX Ret Ret 14† 9 EX EX Ret Ret Ret 3 Ret
Flag of Mozambique svg.png Samora Mondlane 13 Ret 10
8 Flag of Portugal svg.png Catarina Lopes 18 Ret 12 6 11 6 Ret Ret 15 Ret Ret 12 14 9 Ret
2016 Lola
F2-16
BMW
P87/16
AUS PAC GBR ITA AUT TUR USA GER NED MON BEL MEX CHN JPN 100 15th 6
20 Flag of Austria svg.png Marko Jantscher DNPQ DNPQ
Flag of Canada svg.png Calvin Brooks DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ
Flag of Canada svg.png Justin Case DNPQ
Flag of Belgium svg.png Laurent Seron DNPQ Ret Ret DNPQ DNPQ 12 Ret 6 Ret
Flag of Kazakhstan svg.png Nikov Time Ret
21 Ret Ret EX 17 15 11 11
Flag of Portugal svg.png João António Soares DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ DNPQ Ret
2017 Lola
B17/50
Daihatsu
Zeetec-R2/16
AUS MAL GBR ITA AUT CAN QUE USA FRA GER NED RSA BEL MON MAR JPN MAC 13th 2
25 Flag of Germany svg.png Johannes Rueckert 12 27 Ret 18 15 22 Ret 29 11 Ret 8 24 18 19 15 23 20
26 Flag of Portugal svg.png João António Soares 14 20 Ret 23 22 14 23 26 19 Ret 27 14 Ret 26 18 16 14
FIA Formula 2
2018 Lola
B17/50
Judd VI JPN BAH GER BEL SIN FIN GBR FRA NED AUS ABU CHN BRA 11th* 21*
91 Flag of Portugal svg.png João António Soares 29 18 23 Ret 29 23 23 16 Ret 16 19 18 26 21
92 Flag of Mozambique svg.png Samora Mondlane 19 23 2 12 11 21 Ret 10 6 Ret Ret 8 16 28

* Season still in progress.
† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.

Porto Wine Motorsport

Porto Wine Motorsport were an F3RWRS team run by João Lagos Sport from 2014 to 2017. After the series' collapse mid-way through 2017, the team elected not to return to the re-formed FIA F3 Eurasian Championship which replaced F3RWRS. Throughout their existence, the team were consistently towards the rear of the field, with their most successful season the truncated 2017 edition. None of the team's drivers ever finished on the podium.

With title sponsorship from Porto Wine, the team specifically supported young Portuguese drivers, but it was Samora Mondlane from the former Portuguese colony of Mozambique who drove for the team in every year of its existence. João António Soares who graduated to F2RWRS was another notable Porto Wine driver.

After using customer Dallara chassis in 2014, the team opted to use the open chassis formula to build their own cars from 2015 onwards. These were in fact heavily based upon the Dallara design used in 2014 and as other chassis builders introduced new concepts, the Porto Wine team were left with a base which began to show its age. Despite this, an improved Daihatsu engine and a neat new design in 2017 made the team much more competitive, but with the series' cancellation, the full potential of that year's car was never realised.

Complete F3RWRS results

Year Chassis Engine # Drivers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 TC Points
2014 Dallara F314 Ford Zetec R AUS USA GBR GER BEL CHN SUR 15th 6
13 Flag of Portugal svg.png João António Soares 17 17 15 24 7 12 Ret X X Ret Ret Ret 24
Flag of Mozambique svg.png Samora Mondlane 23 4 14 19 11 15
66 21
77 Flag of Portugal svg.png José Maria Cabral 33 X X 20 Ret X 24 4 9 Ret Ret Ret 21 22 23 34 X X Ret
2015 Porto Wine
PortW-01
Daihatsu DH-01 AUS TUR MON USA GBR GER SPA ITA JPN SUR 17th 3
13 Flag of Mozambique svg.png Samora Mondlane 18 Ret 21 19 32 36 30 22 20 20 Ret Ret 28 17 19 18 Ret
77 Flag of Portugal svg.png José Maria Cabral Ret Ret 32 27 40 40 35 EX EX
Flag of Portugal svg.png João António Soares 15 36 26 29 24 7 21 Ret 12 Ret
2016 Porto Wine
PortW-02
Daihatsu DH-02 AUS GBR ITA PAU CAN GER ZAN BEL SMR JPN SUR 17th 32
45 Flag of Mozambique svg.png Samora Mondlane 20 13 13 20 28 32 19 14 C 16 DNQ 7 27 23 DNQ Ret 17 C 10
46 Flag of Portugal svg.png Carlinho Ret 14 32 22 26 29 33 31 C DNQ DNQ 9 28 DNQ 30 26 Ret C 18†
2017 Porto Wine
PortW-03
Daihatsu DH-03 HIG AUS GBR AUT USA ATP NED GER BEL MOR SUR 9th 53
68 Flag of Mozambique svg.png Samora Mondlane Ret 7 12 14 9 13 C 19 C C C C C C C C C C C
69 Flag of Portugal svg.png Carlinho Ret 4 5 24† 13 15 C 21 C C C C C C C C C C C

† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.