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, a

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racing team based in

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, England. The company was established in August 2018 to buy the Formula One racing assets of the financially stricken

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. Following its acquisition of the team assets just before the

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, it competed in that race, and for the rest of the 2018 season, as the Racing Point Force India Formula One Team, continuing to use the constructor's title of ''Force India''. For the 2019 season the team was renamed to

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and went onwards competing with ''Racing Point'' as its constructor's title, until the rebranding of the team into

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in .

History

Pre-Racing Point UK

On 27 July 2018, after running

for eleven seasons, ''Force India Formula One Team Limited'' was placed into

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. By 2 August 2018 an investment consortium led by

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, the father of former Williams driver

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, and which included

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, Jonathan Dudman,

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, John McCaw Jr., Michael de Picciotto and

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, and supported by the team's senior management personnel, had set up a new company, ''Racing Point UK Limited'', to use as a vehicle to save the team. By 23 August 2018, the new company had reached an agreement with the administrators to buy the team's motor racing assets and to secure the jobs of the 400 employees who worked in the team. The new company created a new constructor with the assets and entered the sport prior to the

, taking the vacated entry of the original Force India team. The personnel roles remained largely unchanged in the new team, other than that of Robert Fernley, who stood down from his Force India role of deputy team principal, and

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who became team principal and CEO after being chief operating officer with Force India since 2010.

Racing Point Force India F1 Team (2018)

On 23 August 2018, the F1 governing body, the

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(FIA) reached an agreement with Racing Point UK that they could take over the Force India 2018 season championship entry, but they would not inherit any of Force India's 59 points or the prize money that they had accrued so far in the season. So, as the ''Racing Point Force India Formula One Team'' and using the constructor name ''Force India'', the team entered its first Grand Prix, the

which took place on 26 August 2018, with zero points. The original Force India's two drivers,

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and

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, remained with the team and were able to continue their challenge for the drivers' championship, keeping all the points that they had already won in the season. The ''Racing Point Force India Formula One Team'' competed in the last nine Grands Prix of the season, amassing 52 points, and finishing seventh overall in the 2018 constructors' championship.

Racing Point F1 Team (2019–2020)

In November 2018, the company changed the name of its team to ''Racing Point F1 Team'' and the constructor name to ''Racing Point'' when it registered its 2019 entries with the FIA.''

Aston Martin F1 Team (2021–)

Racing Point UK was renamed AMR GP and entered into the 2021 F1 season through its operation of

's Formula One team with Sebastian Vettel and Lance Stroll as their drivers.

Results

Formula One

References

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