ma-con is a German motor racing team. It was founded in 2001 by Marian Hamprecht. The team started racing in the Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup and Formula Renault 2000 Germany in 2002. Currently the team competes in the FIA Formula 3 European Championship. The team always focussed on regional and continental championships in Germany and Europe.

Over time, the team entered using different names, namely ma-con Motorsport, ma-con Racing and ma-con Engineering alongside the common ma-con name. For the 2011 ADAC Formel Masters season the team run a second entry named Krafft Walzen.

History Founded in 2001 by successful German F3 team manager Marian Hamprecht, the team run in multiple Formula 1 feeder series and gained multiple success in the lower categories of open-wheel racing. After an early campaign in the 2002 and 2003 Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup seasons, the team bought out the Den Blå Avis outfit and thus appeared on the grid of the 2004 FIA F3000 Championship. Despite finishing third in the team's standings in their rookie season and pushing series veteran Tomáš Enge to fourth in the driver's championship, the team discontinued their entry and rather supported Enge's 2005 IRL entry, while joining the Italian F3000 grid with an all-Czech team. Despite even more success in the Italian F3000, the team took a break from racing after 2005.

In 2008 the team joined the ADAC Formel Masters to build up a junior team spanning different tiers of feeder series, leading into the graduation of André Rudersdorf and Sven Müller within their team onto higher levels of open-wheel racing.

In order to re-gain momentum of their 2012 FIA Formula 3 European Championship campaign the team closed down their ADAC Formel Masters operation despite one driver's and one team's title. The team signed British drivers Emil Bernstorff and Tom Blomqvist. Blomqvist had two podiums, while Bernstorff had only one. The team finished fourth in the teams' championship of 2012 Formula 3 Euro Series. The team also participated with Rudersdorf in Austrian Formula 3 Cup and in the Trophy Class of the German Formula Three Championship. He won both titles.

This, however, didn't bring the success the team hoped for and stopped operating after the 2013 season. The team operated Christopher Höher's car in the Most round of the 2015 Remus F3 Cup in order to test Oreca F3 engine in the race conditions. He took one podium, but it was the only weekend for the ma-con crew, as in the Brno round Höher returned to Franz Wöss Racing's Dallara F308 Opel-Spiess.

In 2018 ma-con made the announcement to re-join FIA Formula 3 European Championship with German driver Julian Hanses after four-year break.

Former series results FIA European Formula 3 Championship FIA Formula 3 European Championship Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F/Laps Points 2012 Dallara F312-Volkswagen Tom Blomqvist 20 0 0 0 117 7th N/A Emil Bernstorff 20 0 0 0 66 10th 2013 Dallara F312-Volkswagen Sven Müller 21 0 0 0 122 9th† 8th André Rudersdorf 30 0 0 0 3 24th Stefano Coletti 3 0 0 0 0 36th 2018 Dallara F312-Volkswagen Julian Hanses 15 0 0 0 6 19th† 6th † Shared results with Van Amersfoort Racing

* Season still in progress.

Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup/Masters Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F/Laps Points 2002 Tatuus-Renault Hannes Lachinger 9 0 0 1 20 14th 10th Jos Menten 2 0 0 0 0 NC Alexandros Margaritis 2 0 0 0 0 NC Andre Nicastro 2 0 0 0 0 NC Ross Zwolsman 2 0 0 0 0 NC Formula Renault 2000 Masters 2003 Tatuus-Renault Ross Zwolsman 4 0 0 0 16 16th 11th Marcel Engels 3 0 0 1 4 25th Takuya Izawa 8 0 0 0 0 27th Thomas Weiss 2 0 0 0 0 52nd

Formula Renault 2000 Germany Formula Renault 2000 Germany Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F/Laps Points 2002 Tatuus-Renault Ross Zwolsman 12 1 0 2 199 4th Hannes Lachinger 14 1 1 0 159 6th Thomas Westarp 12 0 0 0 64 20th Jos Menten 14 0 0 0 71 18th Takuya Izawa 2 0 0 0 2 37th Benjamin Leuenberger 2 0 0 0 2 38th 2003 Tatuus-Renault Ross Zwolsman 8 0 0 0 76 15th Takuya Izawa 14 0 0 2 145 7th

International Formula 3000 Series

International Formula 3000 Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F/Laps Points 2004 Lola B02/50-Zytek Judd Tomáš Enge 10 0 0 2 38 4th 3rd Tony Schmidt 9 0 0 0 11 10th

Italian Formula 3000 Championship Italian Formula 3000 Championship Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F/Laps Points 2005 Lola B99/50-Zytek Judd Jarek Janis 7 1 2 0 43 2nd 2nd Jan Charouz 6 0 0 0 10 11th Michael Vorba 2 0 0 0 1 22nd†

† Shared results with Sighinolfi

ADAC Formel Masters ADAC Formel Masters Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F/Laps Points 2008 Dallara Formulino-Volkswagen Marco Sørensen 8 4 5 3 125 4th 5th Liam Kenney 1 0 0 0 4 20th Ashwin Sundar 14 0 0 0 3 22nd 2009 Dallara Formulino-Volkswagen Adrian Campfield 16 4 3 2 187 3rd 2nd Richie Stanaway 6 0 1 0 52 8th Liam Kenney 10 0 2 0 44 9th 2010 Dallara Formulino-Volkswagen Richie Stanaway 18 12 2 8 315 1st 1st Mario Farnbacher 21 3 1 1 231 3rd William Vermont 21 0 1 1 165 4th Christina Nielsen 6 0 0 0 1 17th 2011 Dallara Formulino-Volkswagen Sven Müller 24 4 1 1 296 3rd 2nd Mario Farnbacher 24 1 0 3 173 6th† Maximilian Buhk 24 0 0 1 87 9th† Dennis Lind 10 0 0 0 83 10th André Rudersdorf 24 0 0 0 12 19th Niklas Brinkmann 12 0 0 0 9 21st Nick Cassidy 3 0 0 0 8 22nd Christina Nielsen 24 0 0 0 4 24th Notes: Brinkmann, Rudersdorf and Nielsen competed for ma-con's second entry, Krafft Walzen. However, they had to switch to ma-con's main team for the Austrian round, as the deal with Krafft Walzen didn't include races in another country and thus are all included in ma-con's statistics. † Shared results with other teams

Formula 3 Euro Series Formula 3 Euro Series Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F/Laps Points 2012 Dallara F312-Volkswagen Tom Blomqvist 24 0 0 0 157.5 7th 4th Emil Bernstorff 24 0 0 0 91 10th

German Formula 3 Trophy Class German Formula Three Championship Trophy Class Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F/Laps Points 2012 Dallara F305-Volkswagen André Rudersdorf 24 14 0 0 377 1st

Austria Formula 3 Cup/Remus F3 Cup Austria Formula 3 Cup Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F/Laps Points 2012 Dallara F305-Volkswagen André Rudersdorf 12 7 7 0 212 1st Remus F3 Cup 2015 Dallara F312-Oreca Christopher Höher 8 2 1 1 113 5th† † Shared results with the other team

Timeline Former series Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup 2002–2003 Formula Renault 2.0 Germany 2002–2003 International Formula 3000 2004 Italian Formula 3000 2005 ADAC Formel Masters 2008–2011 Formula 3 Euro Series 2012 German Formula Three Championship 2012 Austria Formula 3 Cup 2012, 2015 FIA Formula 3 European Championship 2012–2013, 2018

References

External links

ma-con Motorsport at Speedsport Magazine