FFF Racing Team by ACM (known as Rexal FFF Racing Team for sponsorships reasons) is a Chinese

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team that currently competes in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe.

History

Founding

Founded in 2014, the team came about as a result of a partnership between Chinese businessman Fu Songyang and Italian racing driver

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, branded as FFF Racing Team by ACM. The team began competition the following season, taking delivery of three

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models ahead of the 2015 GT Asia Series season. The team claimed their inaugural victory at

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that season, as full-time driver Hiroshi Hamaguchi finished 10th in the driver's championship.

Lamborghini transition

For the 2016

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season, FFF Racing shifted to competing with the recently introduced

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, with

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's factory junior driver pairing of

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and Andrea Amici joining the team's effort. The team would take two overall victories and seven podiums that season, with Liberati and Amici claiming the driver's title. 2016 also marked the team's first foray into European competition, fielding two entries in the GT3 Le Mans Cup and another at the

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round of the

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The following season, the team entered the inaugural season of the

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with support from Squadra Corse. The #1 car featured the season-long duo of Alberto di Folco and Aidan Read, while the #2 featured a slew of drivers across the Pro-Am and Am classes. The 2018 season proved successful for the team, claiming the overall team's championship alongside multiple driver's titles.

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and

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claimed the overall and Silver Class championships, while Hiroshi Hamaguchi and

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took the Pro-Am Cup championship.

Full factory support

For 2019, the team launched a renewed three car effort with full factory support for the

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. Success followed the team into 2019, as drivers

and

made series history by becoming the first set of drivers to win the Sprint, Endurance, and Overall championships in the Pro category. Furthermore, the team claimed the Pro class Overall and Endurance team's championship titles, while Hiroshi Hamaguchi and

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helped the team to the Pro-Am class team's and driver's titles in the Sprint series. In 2021, the team announced their intentions to compete at the

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for the first time in team history. Following the 2021 season, the team paused their GT3 program, electing to focus on their

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efforts.

eSports

In April 2020, the team announced the creation of their eSports arm, dubbed FFF eSports, to compete in the 2020 SRO E-sport GT Series. For their inaugural season, the team competed in the Silver Class designed for sim racers, signing drivers Jaroslav Honzik and Kamil Franczak.

References

External links

Official Website
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