Zele Racing is an Austrian motor racing team currently competing in the

BOSS GP The BOSS GP Series is a motor racing series in Europe. The category originated in 1995 as the BOSS Formula series and evolved into the EuroBOSS Series. BOSS is an acronym that stands for ''Big Open Single Seaters''. History The BOSS series w ...

series via a partnership with

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. The team has raced in

Auto GP Auto GP, sometimes referred to as the Auto GP World Series and formerly known as both Euro Formula 3000 and the Euroseries 3000, was a European formula racing series. The series' roots can be traced back to 1999 and the Italian Formula 3000 serie ...

claiming the series' final stand-alone championship in 2015, along with having previously supported

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teams

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and

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, and B-Quik Absolute Racing in the Thailand Super Series.

History

Early history

The team was founded by father and son duo Hermann and Michael Zele to compete in the regional

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. The team ran

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cars for Peter Milavec and Christoph Hingartner finishing first and second in the championship standings. The team made its professional racing debut in the 2002 World Series by Nissan season. Argentine racer

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scored the best results for the team. Filiberti's best result was a fourth place at Circuito del Jarama and ended twelfth in the series championship. Receiving sponsorship from Austrian asset management firm

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the team returned in the series for 2003. The team scored mixed results with one podium finish for

Norbert Siedler Norbert Siedler (born 29 December 1982 in Wildschönau) is an Austrian racing driver. Career Siedler began his career in motorsport in karts. In 1992 he began at the age of ten years in the German Kartszene and in 1997, won the junior class. In 1 ...

. Siedler finished fifteenth in the series standings as the best Zele Racing driver. Christiano Rocha scored podium finishes in the

Euro Formula 3000 Auto GP, sometimes referred to as the Auto GP World Series and formerly known as both Euro Formula 3000 and the Euroseries 3000, was a European formula racing series. The series' roots can be traced back to 1999 and the Italian Formula 3000 serie ...

series, the later Auto GP, in 2004. Zele Racing was in charge developing the stillborn Formula Superfund series. The series was intended to start for the 2005 season racing the Force 10 SF01 car replacing the Italian Formula 3000 championship.

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tested the car at

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. Lemarié had a heavy crash and the series was therefore suspended indefinitely. Between 2007 and 2012 the team focused on the Interserie,

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and

series. In 2010 the team won the final season of the original EuroBOSS series. The team's drivers

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and

Andreas Zuber Andreas "Andi" Zuber (born 9 October 1983 in Judenburg, Austria) is a motor racing driver. An Austrian by birth, he is based in Dubai and once raced under a licence issued by the United Arab Emirates. Career Formula König Despite beginning his ...

each won two races of the season that was canceled after four races. The drivers ran

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GP2/05 chassis, previously used in the

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until 2008.

Motopark Academy

Zele Racing and Motopark Academy entered a partnership for the 2008 Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup and the

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. Michael Zele supported Motopark Academy with race engineering services. In the Northern European Cup Motopark Academy drivers

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and

António Félix da Costa António Maria de Mello Breyner Félix da Costa (born 31 August 1991) is a Portuguese professional racing driver for the Porsche Formula E Team and the 2019–20 Formula E Drivers' Champion. He won the Macau Grand Prix invitational Formula Thre ...

finished first and second in the championship standings. The Eurocup drivers were less successful.

Epsilon Euskadi

Michael Zele was the race engineer for

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in the 2009 British Formula Three Championship racing with Barazi-Epsilon. Richelmis best result were two twelfth-place finishes. Zele also supported the team at the

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, the second round of the 2009 Le Mans Series. The team finished the race fourth in the LMP2 class with their

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07S/2. However the car did not comply with technical regulations and was disqualified.

Auto GP

The Austrian racing team returned to the professional racing circuit in 2012 entering the

series. During their inaugural, 2012, season the team entered seven different drivers over their two cars.

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and Sergio Campana scored the best results for the team, both with a third-place finish. Ricci scored the podium finish at

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while Campana scored his podium finish at Sonoma. In 2013 the team started the season with reigning FIA Formula Two champion

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and former

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driver

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. Bacheta delivered the first race win, at Marrakech. Karthikeyan left the team after the Hungarian round. Karthikeyan felt frustrated with mistakes by the team during pitstops and technical preparation. Bacheta left the team after four rounds to focus on a possible GP2 Series move.

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replaced Bacheta for Mugello, along with

Tamás Pál Kiss Tamás Pál Kiss (born 19 May 1991 in Miskolc) is a Hungarian auto racing driver. Career Karting Kiss made his karting début in 1998 when he was seven years old. During ten years he scored three titles in Hungarian Championships Formula Ren ...

. The team did not race until the final round at Brno. Tamás Pál Kiss remained for the majority of the 2014 season, winning at Paul Ricard. At Imola Kiss came in for a pit stop without the team knowing, this cost the Hungarian valuable points. After the difficult Imola weekend Kiss did not return with the team. The team stated financial difficulties as the reason for his absence. The creation of the

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, which uses the same car as the Auto GP, caused both racing grids to shrink. This continued for the 2015 Auto GP season. At the start of the season the two championships had the intention to merge, but this did not come to fruition. The 2015 season opener fielded only eight cars, three of which entered by Zele Racing. With only seven cars at the second round of the championship, the remainder of the season was canceled.

Antônio Pizzonia Antônio Reginaldo Pizzonia Júnior (born 11 September 1980) is a Brazilian professional racing driver who has raced in Formula One and the Champ Car World Series. Born in Manaus, he started his car racing career in the Formula Vauxhall Junior s ...

had the best results and was unofficially crowned champion. The series was revived for 2016, but again with very small grids. After the first round of the season the championship merged with

Motorsports results

Complete World Series by Nissan results

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) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

Complete Italian F3000/Auto GP results

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) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

Complete TCR International Series results

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References

{{reflist Austrian auto racing teams Auto GP teams TCR International Series teams World Series Formula V8 3.5 teams Auto racing teams established in 2001