ArtLine Engineering (russian: АртЛайн Инжиниринг) is a
racing
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team and race car manufacturer based in
Russia
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and
Georgia
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and specialized on design and production of
single seater
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race car
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s named ArtTech.
![Arttech-f24](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Arttech-f24.jpg)
The team was established in 1998 by motorsport engineer
Shota Abkhazava
Shota Abkhazava (russian: Шота Абхазава, born 12 August 1971) is a Georgian-Russian Auto racing, racing driver, race car designer, businessman, and owner of three race track, race tracks in Russia, Georgia (country), Georgia and Latvi ...
getting its first name “Pilot F3 Engineering”. From the date of foundation, the chief designer is Sergei Piskunov, formerly Abkhazava's fellow worker in famous Russian sport car laboratory LSA MADI.
In the region of
Eastern Europe
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and
post-Soviet states
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, ArtLine Engineering is the first and the only engineering company which produces Formula 3 chassis.
History
1998—2008
For its first racing season the team bought the most modern Italian-made race car
Dallara
Dallara is an Italian race car manufacturer, founded by its current President, Gian Paolo Dallara. After working for Ferrari, Maserati, Lamborghini and De Tomaso, in 1972 in his native village of Varano de' Melegari (Parma), Italy he created "D ...
F399. Team's first driver
Fabio Babini
Fabio Babini (born 3 November 1969) is an Italian professional racing driver.
Born in Faenza, Babini competed in the FIA GT Championship from 2000 until 2004 and in one race of the American Le Mans Series each year from 2001 to 2003.
From 1990 ...
already had experience of participating in Russian Formula 3 series at the wheel of Russian-made open-wheeler Astrada, a car with a tubular
space-frame chassis
A chassis (, ; plural ''chassis'' from French châssis ) is the load-bearing framework of an artificial object, which structurally supports the object in its construction and function. An example of a chassis is a vehicle frame, the underpart ...
. Rally driver from St-Petersburg Alexander Antonov became Babini's teammate, after 2-years driving of Formula 3 car “JAK-26” for Rothmans-ASPAS team. On the 4th stage of Russian Championship, Babini got the first
pole
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and won the race, thus interrupting series of wins of his compatriot Alberto Pedemonte from
Lukoil Racing
Lukoil Racing team is the leading Russian motorsport organization; its operations including management, driver training and support, engineering expertise and a quality technical environment, which enables continuous development, building, testing ...
.
In the 2000th season Babini gave his place to Maurizio Mediani. The team's name was changed to “ArtLine Engineering”. For the next several years, competition between Mediani and Pedemonte became the main feature of the Russian circuit racing. With 5 poles, 4 wins and 3 second places, Mediani became Russian vice-champion passing Pedemonte. Antonov was not successful at the wheel of older model Dallara F393, however the team still managed to finish 3rd in the teams’ championship.
A year after Mediani went top of drivers’ championship as early as on the 3rd stage of the Russian F3 series and kept his lead till the end of the season, bringing the first champion's title in the ArtLine's history. The team was enforced with the second Italian, 23-year-old
Enrico Toccacelo
Enrico Toccacelo (born 14 December 1978 in Rome) is an Italian auto racer with karting, GT and Formula 3000 experience. He won three F3000 events and briefly led Vitantonio Liuzzi in the 2004 championship before Liuzzi went on to win the next thr ...
, and the other Dallara F399. The result was that the team drivers came first in all eight qualifyings of the season and won 6 races, enabled ArtLine to finish second in the teams’ championship, still passing Lukoil.
In 2002 ArtLine focused on chassis design named ArtTech. After a years of stagnancy, Russian Formula 3 fell to crisis. One of the biggest teams, Club Racing, left the series, and a number of cars on the grid reduced to 6. The team participated in 4 of 6 championship races getting 3 victories.
![Artline 2005](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Artline_2005.jpg)
Since 2003 ArtLine moved to fast-growing national Formula 1600 class. Dallara chassis adjusted to fit to the Russian-made
VAZ engine boosted to 167 hp, and in the second half of the season ArtLine went top of the championship standings.
Alexander Tyuryumin and Nikolai Bolshikh-jr drove their Dallaras to remarkable 4 wins, 4 poles and 5 fastest laps, rewriting track records of all the Russian circuits. For the first time in history of Russian closed circuit racing, one team made 3 doubles (first and second places). Tyuryumin won the drivers’ championship with ArtLine winning the team's title. In the Cup of Russia the team got the maximum possible result, 74 points.
In 2004 the team started to test ArtTech chassis of its own design. In the Championship the team still participated with 4 Italian-made cars. Oleg Kazakov and Viktor Antonov, both 19 years old, drove under ArtLine brand, while their older teammates Viktor Shaitar and David Markozov entered the series under the name of “UNIT ArtLine”. Due to the contest between two teammates, Kazakov and Antonov, the team was not very successful, passing their main rival Lukoil again. Nevertheless, the team came second both in drivers’ and teams’ championship.
![Artline 2006](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Artline_2006.jpg)
In the next season Shaitar moved to newly built ArtTech F1605 chassis.
Daniil Move
Daniil Yuryevich Move ( rus, Дании́л Ю́рьевич Мове́ , p=dənʲɪˈil ˈjʉrʲjɪvʲɪtɕ mɐˈvʲɛ, born on 11 December 1985, in Moscow, Russia) is a Russian race car driver. Daniil holds the title "master of sport on interna ...
became the second ArtTech test-driver. In the first team Kazakov was replaced with
Vitaly Petrov
Vitaly Aleksandrovich Petrov ( rus, Вита́лий Алекса́ндрович Петро́в, p=vʲɪˈtalʲɪj ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ pʲɪˈtrof; born 8 September 1984) is a Russian racing driver who drove in Formula One for Renault F1 ...
, the future Formula 1 driver, who won the title. For the first time since Soviet times, one of national championship stages ran abroad, at the
Pärnu
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circuit. The team came second in the Championship.
In 2006 the team found two new sponsors, Russian electronics manufacturer
Sitronics
Sitronics (russian: Ситро́никс) is a microelectronics company based in Moscow, Russia and controlled by Sistema holding, that also manufactures mobile phones. Its main assets are the electronics fabs, research and development facilities ...
and Istok group of companies. Viktor Shaitar and
Mikhail Kozlovskiy
Mikhail Kozlovskiy (Russian: Михаил Сергеевич Козловский, born 17 October 1989 in Leningrad) is a Russian auto racing driver. He won the Russian Touring Car Championship in 2010 ( RTCC – Touring-Light). He currently ra ...
drove ArtTech cars under Sitronics brand, while
Ivan Samarin and Artiom Barkhiyan sat at the wheel of Dallaras F399 (later Barkhiyan was replaced with A.Tiuriumin). Experienced karting driver Tatiana Chuvaeva became a test pilot for the Sitronics Racing. In this guise she appeared, the first of Russian drivers, in printed commercial. Season started with the first ArtTech victory on the
ADM race circuit. Istok ArtLine took the second place in the teams’ championship and Sitronics came third. Samarin and Shaitar got 1st and 3rd places.
The year 2007 was the most successful in the history of Russian performances of ArtLine. Since the middle of season, the team replaced both Dallaras with new ArtTech F1607 and won teams’ championship while Samarin and Shaiter got 1 and 2 places on the drivers’ scoreboard. At the wheel of ArtTech, in Finland Shaitar went top of the 26 rivals from both countries.
The 2008th became the last team's season in Russia. The main event of the year was the North Europe Zone F3 Cup, for the first time held in the country, with 16 cars on the starting grid. Shaitar finished second on the ArtTech car, passing another Russian V.Semionov. This year the team won Russian Formula 3 Light series, held in Russia and Finland.
2009—2013
![Artline 2009](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Artline_2009.jpg)
Since 2009 ArtLine moved to the
Deutsche Formel-3-ATS-Cup which succeeded the German F3 Championship, one of the most prestigious European series. As ArtTech model chosen for German Cup was designed and built in 2004, the team, following the Cup regulations, had entered to Trophy League of the series where only old cars were permitted. However, from the middle of season the team leader Sergei Chukanov competed within the top 10 rivals, leaving other Trophy cars far behind. Another fast driver
Jesse Krohn
Jesse Kurki-Suonio (born 3 September 1990), more commonly known as Jesse Krohn, is a Finnish professional racing driver, and BMW Motorsport works driver.
He is notable for winning the Finnish, Northern European Zone (NEZ) and Estonian Formula Re ...
was invited to the team, and on the 11th stage in
Assen
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ArtTech cars qualified 2nd and 3rd overall. Finished 5th and 7th, ArtLine drivers brought the first points to the team in the “League A” scoring. In Trophy scoreboard S.Chukanov occupied first position till the season's end and won with a gap of 43 points from the nearest rival, Finnish F3 champion Mika Vähämäki.
![Artline shota jari](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Artline_shota_jari.jpg)
In 2010 ArtLine continued to dominate in Trophy league, at the same time working on old car improvement and new chassis design. When season started, the team participated with 3 cars, driven by Riccardo Brutschin, Aleksi Tuukkanen and Alexei Karachev. Brutschin finished within the top 9 twice (9th lap -
Nürburgring
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, 14th lap -
EuroSpeedway Lausitz
The Lausitzring (formally known as the Dekra Lausitzring for ownership reasons) is a race track located near Klettwitz (a civil parish of Schipkau, Oberspreewald-Lausitz district) in the state of Brandenburg in northeast Germany, near the bor ...
); in
Oschersleben
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History
On November 23, 994 Oschersleben was first mentioned in a document by the Emperor Otto III. In 1235 ...
Renault Word Series champion
Mikhail Aleshin
Mikhail Petrovich Aleshin ( rus, Михаи́л Петро́вич Алёшин, p=mʲɪxɐˈil pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ɐˈlʲɵʂɨn, born 22 May 1987 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Russian professional racing driver and the 2010 champion of the For ...
joined the team as a guest star and finished on 11th place. In the 2010th Trophy Cup ArtLine took 1st and 2nd positions.
![Motor show in Sokolniki Park Moscow Russia 2019 Mar 31 (4968)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Motor_show_in_Sokolniki_Park_Moscow_Russia_2019_Mar_31_%284968%29.jpg)
In 2011 the team again declared new chassis design as a priority and missed some German events.
Mikhail Aleshin
Mikhail Petrovich Aleshin ( rus, Михаи́л Петро́вич Алёшин, p=mʲɪxɐˈil pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ɐˈlʲɵʂɨn, born 22 May 1987 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Russian professional racing driver and the 2010 champion of the For ...
and Antti Ramo didn't finish better than 9th;
Tom Dillmann
Tom Dillmann (born 6 April 1989 in Mulhouse) is a French racing driver, formerly competing for Nio Formula E Team, in Formula E. He is probably best known for winning the German Formula Three Championship in the 2010 season and the Formula V8 ...
and
Ivan Samarin joined the team for a couple of races. The team was mostly busy testing new technical solutions; as a result, it took positions from 3 to 6 in the Trophy scoreboard.
In 2013th season the team continued with on the German ATS Cup.
2015
In December 2014, the team announced that it would again be building its own chassis to compete in the
2015 F3 European Championship and the
2015 German ATS Cup, with an undisclosed number of entries.
The chassis will be designated ArtTech P315 and is intended to use engines from Neil Brown Engineering and
Oreca
ORECA (Organisation Exploitation Compétition Automobiles) is a French racing team and race car constructor, founded in 1973 and run by Hugues de Chaunac, former team manager of F1 team AGS. Oreca has had success in many areas of motorsport. ...
before working on installation kits for Mercedes and Volkswagen engines later in 2015. The car has an unusual feature in that it has a central-exhaust system, a feature not seen in Formula 3 cars since the
Dallara
Dallara is an Italian race car manufacturer, founded by its current President, Gian Paolo Dallara. After working for Ferrari, Maserati, Lamborghini and De Tomaso, in 1972 in his native village of Varano de' Melegari (Parma), Italy he created "D ...
cars of the mid-to-late 1990s.
Championship Results
References
External links
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ArtLine on ATS Formel 3 Cup website*
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Russian auto racing teams
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