Russian Time

Founded	2013
Founder(s)	Igor Mazepa Timo Rumpfkeil
Folded	2018
Base	Norwich,Norfolk, England
Teamprincipal(s)	Svetlana Strelnikova
Former series	FIA Formula 2 Championship GP2 Series
Noted drivers	Sam Bird Mitch Evans Luca Ghiotto Raffaele Marciello Artem Markelov
Teams' Championships	GP2 Series: 2013 FIA Formula 2 Championship: 2017
Website	http://www.rus-time.com

Russian Time (previously known asRT Russian Time) was a Russianmotor racing team founded byIgor Mazepa to compete in theGP2 Series, a category ofopen-wheelracing cars designed to prepare drivers forFormula One.

The team was managed byMotopark in 2013,iSport International in 2014 andVirtuosi Racing from 2015 to 2018.^[1]

Russian Time was established by former Russian racing driver and managerIgor Mazepa andMotopark Academy team principalTimo Rumpfkeil in 2013.^[2][3] The team had sought an entry to theGP2 Series for two years before finally being accepted in2013, replacingiSport International.^[3] iSport International withdrew from the series after being unable to secure a budget to compete in the upcoming season, and so its management elected to shut the team down in order to avoid bankruptcy.^[4]

The team won its first race in only its fourth appearance, whenSam Bird won the sprint race of theBahrain round of the championship.^[5] The team took a second win on thestreets of Monaco, with Bird finishing ahead ofKevin Ceccon after a fourteen-car pile-up on the opening lap forced nine drivers out of the race.^[6] In 2014, the team made their debut inGP3 Series, takingBamboo Engineering's slot and continue to participate in GP2, German Formula Three and ADAC Formel Masters.^[7][8]

The team's preparations for the 2014 season were disrupted by the death of Mazepa from complications relating tothrombosis in February 2014.^[9] Following this, Motopark Academy ended their partnership with team, leaving their participation in the2014 GP2 andGP3 seasons in limbo.^[10] The team reunited with iSport International to continue their GP2 programme, signingMitch Evans andArtem Markelov, but chose to abandon their plans for their GP3 entry, selling it on toHilmer Motorsport.

Evans and Markelov were retained for the2015 season, the first time a GP2 team has entered back to back seasons with the same lineup sinceDAMS retainedKamui Kobayashi andJérôme d'Ambrosio in2009. But the team changed the management from iSport toVirtuosi Racing.^[11] The team finished fifth in the team's championship, with two sprint race wins for Evans.

For the2016 season, Markelov was retained for a third season withRaffaele Marciello joining the team. Markelov achieved his maiden victory at the Monaco feature race, having started fifteenth on the grid. Marciello finished fourth in the standings and Markelov tenth with the team taking third in the constructor's championship.

In2017, Markelov remained with the team for a fourth season withLuca Ghiotto joining the team, moving fromTrident.^[12] Their combination brought six wins—five for Markelov and one for Ghiotto—and the first teams' title in the history ofFIA Formula 2 Championship.^[13] The team was omitted from the preliminary entry list for the2018 championship,^[14] but later confirmed their participation,^[15] retaining Markelov and hiringEuropean Formula 3 driverTadasuke Makino to replace Ghiotto.^[16][17] The team was not able to repeat their success with the new F2 car, finishing the season fourth in the teams' standings, while Markelov downgraded to fifth in the drivers' championship with three wins. Makino won a feature race at Monza, but finished outside the top-ten in the drivers' standings. The team were sold before the 2018 finale and becameUNI-Virtuosi Racing.^[18]

Year	Car	Run by	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	F.L.	Points	D.C.	T.C.
2013	Dallara GP2/11-Mecachrome	Motopark Academy	Sam Bird	22	5	2	3	181	2nd	1st
			Tom Dillmann	22	0	1	2	92	10th
2014	Dallara GP2/11-Mecachrome	iSport International	Mitch Evans	22	2	0	1	174	4th	5th
			Artem Markelov	22	0	0	0	6	24th
2015	Dallara GP2/11-Mecachrome	Virtuosi Racing	Mitch Evans	21	2	0	3	135	5th	5th
			Artem Markelov	21	0	0	0	48	13th
2016	Dallara GP2/11-Mecachrome	Virtuosi Racing	Raffaele Marciello	22	0	0	0	159	4th	3rd
			Artem Markelov	22	1	0	3	97	10th

Year	Car	Run by	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	F.L.	Points	D.C.	T.C.
2017	Dallara GP2/11-Mecachrome	Virtuosi Racing	Artem Markelov	22	5	1	6	210	2nd	1st
			Luca Ghiotto	22	1	0	0	185	4th
2018	Dallara F2 2018-Mecachrome	Virtuosi Racing	Artem Markelov	24	3	0	5	186	5th	4th
			Tadasuke Makino	24	1	0	0	48	13th

(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position) (Races initalics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Chassis Engine Tyres	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	T.C.	Points
2013	GP2/11 Mecachrome P		SEP FEA	SEP SPR	BHR FEA	BHR SPR	CAT FEA	CAT SPR	MON FEA	MON SPR	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	NÜR FEA	NÜR SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	SPA FEA	SPA SPR	MNZ FEA	MNZ SPR	MRN FEA	MRN SPR	YMC FEA	YMC SPR	1st	273
		Sam Bird	7	Ret	6	1	21†	12	1	24	1	5	13	8	10	8	1	14	2	4	8	1	10	4
		Tom Dillmann	14	11	8	4	5	26	11	25	3	6	8	Ret	20	11	5	9	3	5	6	14	Ret	DNS
2014	GP2/11 Mecachrome P		BHR FEA	BHR SPR	CAT FEA	CAT SPR	MON FEA	MON SPR	RBR FEA	RBR SPR	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	HOC FEA	HOC SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	SPA FEA	SPA SPR	MNZ FEA	MNZ SPR	SOC FEA	SOC SPR	YMC FEA	YMC SPR	5th	180
		Mitch Evans	14	7	14	20†	2	6	7	4	1	7	1	11	12	9	5	4	3	20†	2	4	3	5
		Artem Markelov	15	10	11	Ret	Ret	Ret	21	16	18	17	Ret	12	16	20†	7	Ret	21	Ret	16	12	Ret	19
2015	GP2/11 Mecachrome P		BHR FEA	BHR SPR	CAT FEA	CAT SPR	MON FEA	MON SPR	RBR FEA	RBR SPR	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	SPA FEA	SPA SPR	MNZ FEA	MNZ SPR	SOC FEA	SOC SPR	BHR FEA	BHR SPR	YMC FEA	YMC SPR	5th	183
		Mitch Evans	6	17	2	DNS	Ret	DNS	10	5	Ret	20	17	22	5	3	3	1	11	8	3	1	3	C
		Artem Markelov	13	12	12	5	Ret	14	5	DSQ	21	14	22	18	3	5	5	14	Ret	12	16	8	Ret	C
2016	GP2/11 Mecachrome P		CAT FEA	CAT SPR	MON FEA	MON SPR	BAK FEA	BAK SPR	RBR FEA	RBR SPR	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	HOC FEA	HOC SPR	SPA FEA	SPA SPR	MNZ FEA	MNZ SPR	SEP FEA	SEP SPR	YMC FEA	YMC SPR	3rd	256
		Raffaele Marciello	8	5	6	3	3	11	3	4	9	6	4	8	3	7	4	5	2	14	6	2	10	13
		Artem Markelov	4	4	1	8	Ret	5	Ret	11	10	12	9	4	Ret	9	5	21†	10	10	DNS	13	3	7

Year	Chassis Engine Tyres	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	T.C.	Points
2017	GP2/11 Mecachrome P		BHR FEA	BHR SPR	CAT FEA	CAT SPR	MON FEA	MON SPR	BAK FEA	BAK SPR	RBR FEA	RBR SPR	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	SPA FEA	SPA SPR	MNZ FEA	MNZ SPR	JER FEA	JER SPR	YMC FEA	YMC SPR			1st	395
		Luca Ghiotto	7	2	2	7	5	4	16	7	14	4	6	2	6	8	2	3	4	1	7	4	3	5
		Artem Markelov	1	8	8	9	2	5	4	5	8	1	4	3	17†	9	1	Ret	9	15	5	1	1	6
2018	F2 2018 Mecachrome P		BHR FEA	BHR SPR	BAK FEA	BAK SPR	CAT FEA	CAT SPR	MON FEA	MON SPR	LEC FEA	LEC SPR	RBR FEA	RBR SPR	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	SPA FEA	SPA SPR	MNZ FEA	MNZ SPR	SOC FEA	SOC SPR	YMC FEA	YMC SPR	4th	234
		Artem Markelov	3	1	Ret	Ret	8	9	1	4	14	14†	8	1	6	4	8	13	6	5	2	2	11	5	2	7
		Tadasuke Makino	19	17	9	9	9	Ret	14†	Ret	8	Ret	7	6	12	11	9	12	12	11	1	14	10	11	9	Ret

Wikimedia Commons has media related toRussian Time.

• Official website(in English and Russian)

• GP2 Series teams
• Russian auto racing teams
• FIA Formula 2 Championship teams
• Auto racing teams established in 2013
• 2013 establishments in Russia
• 2018 disestablishments in Russia
• Auto racing teams disestablished in 2018

• CS1 uses Russian-language script (ru)
• CS1 Russian-language sources (ru)
• Articles with short description
• Short description is different from Wikidata
• Commons category link from Wikidata
• Articles with Russian-language sources (ru)