Astro Racing Group

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The Astro Racing Group are the holding company that runs Fusion Motorsports, Nebula Grand Prix and Pulsar Racing Team. Each team represents a different arm of the company.


Formation

Initially, Fusion Motorsports was formed in late 2014 by Jake Legge and raced in the 2015 seasons of F3RWRS and RoLFS. Having become good friends with Frenchman Jacques Couteau, Legge decided to hand over his entries in the respective series to concentrate on making Fusion a team that would enter the higher categories in RWRS-sanctioned motorsports.

When the Siemens Ausdauer Reject Series was opened up, neither Fusion or Nebula had the space to accommodate an endurance-series car. Couteau and Legge therefore decided to open up Pulsar Racing Team with the explicit purpose of becoming their endurance racing and sportscar team. All three teams were assimilated into the newly formed Astro Racing Group, in deference to the team names being related to various astrophysical phenomena.

Astro Racing Stars

The Astro Racing Stars is Astro's main single-seater management scheme. Initially the "Fusion Management Group", the company followed its parent company into the Astro circle. The scheme aims to promote some of Europe's greatest talents (although outstanding drivers from other nations have been signed to the scheme), and although the initial signings picked up unsigned drivers in lower formulae, Jerry de Boer was the first driver to be picked up from a RWRS-sanctioned competition, having been the runner-up in the 2015 F1RDS season.

Driver Current Team Series
Flag of Spain svg.png Diego Álvarez Torrente National Jones Ford Team F1RWRS
Flag of Austria svg.png Marko Jantscher Nurminen Racing Engineering F1RWRS
Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Nathanael Cameron Nebula Grand Prix AR3.5
Flag of the United States svg.png Jerry de Boer - ARIA
Flag of Finland svg.png Jari Lappalainen ICE-3 Racing AR3.5
Flag of Italy svg.png Nino Barlini Nebula Grand Prix AR3.5

Astro ProtoStars

The Astro ProtoStars scheme was formed to provide the younger drivers under Astro's management with a greater focus towards developing their racing skills and knowledge ready for the future. The ProtoStars program has been devised for drivers under the age of twenty, and includes lessons with the Fusion and Nebula technical staff to improve their driver feedback.

Driver Current Team Series
Flag of Spain svg.png Jorge Álvarez Torrente - AR3.5
Flag of Venezuela svg.png Ricardo Velázquez Nebula Grand Prix FIA F3
Flag of Spain svg.png Carmen Álvarez Torrente Venturi Racing AR2.0E
Flag of Canada svg.png James Wilmington Falik Arrows -
Flag of Belgium svg.png Kevin van Kerckhoven Nismo Academy Voeckler AR2.0E
Flag of Switzerland svg.png Thibault Stadelmann Álvarez Competición SEAT
Flag of Romania svg.png Constantin Florescu Álvarez Competición SEAT

Divisions

Astro Racing Group have a number of divisions which have different purposes within motorsport. In series with free number selection, the Astro-led teams are characterised with the numbers 19 and 20. Fusion was formed in late 2014, with Nebula and Pulsar being created in 2015 ready for the following year's competitions. Although Álvarez Competición do not have any scheduled entries until 2017, they entered a one-off car in the 2016 Indy 500 piloted by Jiri Komárek. Cosmo Yanagawa Racing was also created in 2016 to be the group's focal point for Asian motorsports, namely the Formula Rejects Nippon Championship.

Driver Purpose Series
Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Fusion Motorsports High-performance open-wheel racing team. F1RWRS
Flag of France svg.png Nebula Grand Prix Junior open-wheel racing team. F2RWRS, F3RWRS, AR3.5
Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Pulsar Racing Team High-performance sportscar team. RTCC, LMC, GT-RWC
Flag of Spain svg.png Álvarez Competición Indy-car and junior sportscar team. ARIWC, ARIWC, ARGTi, RWMT
Flag of Japan svg.png Yanagawa Racing Asian open-wheel racing team. FRENCH, F5000