EPIC Racing (Euskadi Phil Imanol Claudio Racing) was a

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team from

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. The team's headquarters were located in

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( Alava). It was the second major motorsport team from the Basque Country, (Euskadi). Epsilon Euskadi was the biggest one and ran their own team in

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and

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before selling the racing division to EPIC Racing in March 2011 in a bid to run the World Series by Renault with both FR3.5 and FR2.0 when Epsilon Euskadi ran into financial trouble and allowed all personnel involved to maintain their jobs. Epic Racing was born from a sell out of Epsilon Euskadi and not a name change as it mistakenly written in several places. Nevertheless, Epsilon Euskadi continued non-racing activities until 2013 when administrators took the lead of the operations. In 2008 Epsilon Euskadi participated in

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for the first time with their

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car.

Bid for Formula One

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World Championship for 2010, the

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did not list them amongst the 13 teams in the preliminary entry list released on June 12, 2009. They were however placed on the reserve list in case one of the 13 teams withdrew, but the withdrawal of USF1 took place too late for this contingency to operate. In March 2010 Epsilon Euskadi announced it applied to enter the 2011 Formula One championship, following the failure of

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to use the entry they had been granted. This application was also unsuccessful.

Corruption

Epsilon Euskadi sponsored EPIC Racing with public funding of the Basque Country government. In 2013 Epsilon Euskadi ee1 founder

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and Mark Phillip Payne were taken to court in Vitoria (Spain) under allegations of corruption and negligent management of public funding granted by the Basque Country government when Juan Jose Ibarratxe was president of the Basque Country.

Results

The results of EPIC Racing are only the ones during 2011 season. Previous seasons are Epsilon Euskadi results only

World Series by Renault

* D.C. = Drivers' Championship position, T.C. = Teams' Championship position.

Sports car

Again this chapter is only Epsilon Euskadi. EPIC Racing also purchased the LMP section of Epsilon Euskadi but never competed or ran the cars again.

References

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