Double R Racing, formerly Räikkönen Robertson Racing, is a British motor racing team founded in 2004 by then McLaren Formula One driver and future World Champion with Ferrari, Kimi Räikkönen, and his race manager Steve Robertson, a former Formula Three driver. The team currently competes in Eurocup-3. It is based in Woking, site of the McLaren manufacturing facility, and it is managed by Anthony "Boyo" Hieatt.
History
When the team was announced, it was confirmed that Räikkönen Robertson would compete in the British F3 International Series, in the Championship Class (the first of two different classes) from the 2005 season. In this first season, the two Dallara F305 Mugen-Hondas were driven by British driver Dan Clarke, and Brazilian Bruno Senna. This saw the team fare well, with Clarke taking the team's maiden win at Castle Combe, as well as five other podium finishes, and going on to finish 5th in the Championship, while Senna scored three podium finishes, and finished in 10th position in the standings.
At the BP Ultimate Masters at Zandvoort, Räikkönen Robertson only entered Senna, who qualified 18th but failed to finish, while at the Macau Grand Prix, Räikkönen Robertson again only entered one car, with Clarke appearing for Formula Three Euroseries team Prema Racing, instead. Senna qualified 22nd around the tight, twisty Circuito da Guia, although he failed to finish in either the qualifying race or the Grand Prix itself.
For the 2006 season, Räikkönen Robertson changed their engine supplier to Mercedes HWA, upgraded to Dallara's F306 chassis, and replaced Champ Car-bound Clarke with Mike Conway, who finished 3rd in British F3 in 2005 and Stephen Jelley, to team up with Senna, as they looked to make a serious assault on the overall Series title.
The season started well, with Senna winning both races at Oulton Park. After winning the next race at Donington Park as well, the Brazilian had a useful lead at the championship. However a serious crash at Snetterton left the car unable to be raced in race 2 at the event and seemingly halted his progress. This coincided with a dramatic improvement in Conway's results and he overtook Senna in the race for the title. Conway continued on his way and his impressive results saw him take a seemingly unassailable lead, while Senna's inconsistent form saw slip behind Carlin's Oliver Jarvis, in the race for the runner-up's spot, despite an impressive win in the wet at Mugello. At Silverstone, Conway claimed the title with another weekend to spare. In that final weekend at Thruxton, Räikkönen Robertson also ran their fourth car (the one damaged in Senna's crash at Snetterton, now rebuilt) in the Invitation Class, a category for drivers making a guest appearance. British Porsche Carrera Cup driver Danny Watts, who had been in British F3 two years before, made a return, and won the penultimate race at Thruxton. In just their second season, Räikkönen Robertson were champions, winning thirteen races from the twenty-two that took place.
In F3's international meetings, Räikkönen Robertson had far more luck than they had in 2005. At the BP Ultimate Masters, the team entered all three drivers, qualifying 7th (Senna), 12th (Conway), and 22nd (Jelley), with Senna finishing 7th, Jelley 18th, and Conway retiring. At the Macau Grand Prix, Räikkönen Robertson only entered two cars, with Senna not being able to appear. After Conway's accident in the second qualifying session, the pair ended up in 11th (Conway) and 16th (Jelley) respectively, while in the qualifying race they finished 7th (Conway) and 13th (Jelley). In the Grand Prix itself, Conway jumped from 7th to 4th at the start and as the three cars in front him collided on the first lap, he took a lead he was never to relinquish, to become the first British winner of the Grand Prix since Darren Manning in 1999, and the first winner from the British F3 International Series since Takuma Sato in 2001. Jelley, meanwhile, finished in 11th place.
For the 2007 season, Räikkönen Robertson upgraded to Dallara's latest F307 chassis, and were again powered by the Mercedes-HWA engine. Conway and Senna made the leap to the GP2 Series, whilst Jelley continued with Räikkönen Robertson, partnered by Jonathan Kennard and Finn Atte Mustonen. Meanwhile, Räikkönen Robertson also entered a team in the National Class, their two cars being driven by British driver Alistair Jackson and Spain's Albert Costa. The team claimed 4 pole positions and won 4 races, scoring 5 fastest laps.
In January 2020, the team partnered up with Argenti Motorsport for the 2020 F4 British Championship.
Starting from 2026, Double R Racing will join the Eurocup-3.
Success
In 2008 the team won one race with Finn Atte Mustonen. The team continued with its supply of Mercedes' engines.
In 2009 the team kept the Mercedes Supply of engine. But changed the driver line-up completely by using Daisuke Nakajima and Carlos Huertas these two spent the full season with the team and Marcus Ericsson spent 6 races with the team scoring two wins and a second place. Nakajima and Ericsson both claimed one pole position each.
In 2010 the team fielded Brazilian Driver Felipe Nasr, Daisuke Nakajima and Carlos Huertas. For the first race of the season with Nakajima scoring points in the first race of the season.
For this year's 2016 season the team is contesting both the BRDC British Formula 3 Championship and the MSA Formula Championship. Finn Aleksanteri Huovinen, Brazilian Enzo Bortoleto and his compatriot Matheus Leist are competing in F3 whilst Zane Goddard from Australia and Carrie Schreiner from Germany are competing in the MSA championship.
Matheus Leist is currently lying second in the British Formula 3 Championship, just four points behind the current leader Ricky Collard with two rounds remaining to close the gap. His teammates Huovinen and Bortoleto are also inside the top ten lying tenth and eighth respectively.
In the MSA Formula Championship, Australian Zane Goddard is currently in tenth position with 102 points but is set to rise through the rankings after a sensational weekend at Croft where he achieved his maiden victory alongside 61 points over the weekend thanks to three fastest laps and two second-place finishes in the other two rounds. German Carrie Schreiner is lying in 14th position having only contested two race weekends.
Current series results Eurocup-3 Eurocup-3 results Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points 2026Dallara 326-TOM'S Linus Lundqvist Bart Harrison Lorenzo Campos Yuanpu Cui James Hedley Tommy Harfield
Former series results F4 British Championship F4 British Championship results Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points 2015Mygale M14-F4 Matheus Leist 30 2 1 1 7 273 5th3rd Tarun Reddy 30 0 0 0 1 77 15th Gustavo Myasava 6 0 0 0 1 19 20th2016Mygale M14-F4 Zane Goddard 30 4 2 4 8 239 8th5th Carrie Schreiner 12 0 0 0 0 14 17th 2017 Mygale M14-F4 Karl Massaad 30 0 0 0 2 83 9th 3rd Linus Lundqvist 30 5 5 9 11 306.5 5th Daniel Cao 14 0 0 0 0 7 18th 2018 Mygale M14-F4 Paavo Tonteri 30 1 0 1 11 266 8th 2nd Kiern Jewiss 30 6 2 7 16 445 1st Sebastián Álvarez 30 0 0 0 0 38 12th 2019 Mygale M14-F4 Reema Juffali 30 0 0 0 0 20 13th 1st Louis Foster 30 6 5 8 12 353 3rd Sebastián Álvarez 30 5 3 5 19 407 2nd2020Mygale M14-F4 Casper Stevenson26223143283rd5th Reema Juffali2600002713th Nico Pino1200001414th2023Tatuus F4-T421 Freddie Slater600105217th8th
Euroformula Open Championship Euroformula Open Championship Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points 2019 Dallara F317-Mercedes-Benz Jack Doohan 16 0 0 0 2 79 11th 3rd Linus Lundqvist 18 0 1 1 2 144 5th 2020 Dallara 320-Mercedes-Benz Benjamin Pedersen 3 0 0 0 0 14 15th 5th Matthias Lüthen 4 0 0 0 0 0 18th Ayrton Simmons 9 0 0 0 0 62 11th Louis Foster 7 1 0 0 2 57 12th2021Dallara 320-Mercedes-Benz Josh Mason240000899th6th Zdenek Chovanec1800003315th Sebastián Álvarez300000NC British Formula Three Championship British Formula Three Championship results Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points D.C. 2005 Dallara F305-Mugen Honda Dan Clarke 22 1 0 1 7 160 5th Bruno Senna 22 0 1 0 2 75 10th 2006 Dallara F306-Mercedes HWA Bruno Senna 22 5 3 5 10 229 3rd Stephen Jelley 22 0 0 2 5 126 7th Mike Conway 22 8 8 5 16 321 1st 2007 Dallara F307-Mercedes HWA Stephen Jelley 22 2 2 1 8 183 3rd Jonathan Kennard 22 1 2 3 5 130 6th Atte Mustonen 22 1 2 1 5 126 7th 2008 Dallara F308-Mercedes HWA Henry Arundel 22 0 0 0 0 21 15th John Martin 22 0 0 1 0 45 13th Alistair Jackson 16 0 0 0 0 9 17th Clemente de Faria Jr. 4 0 0 0 0 0 22nd Atte Mustonen 22 1 0 0 5 138 6th 2009 Dallara F309-Mercedes HWA Marcus Ericsson 6 2 1 0 4 65 11th Dominic Storey 2 0 0 0 0 0 21st Kevin Chen 6 0 0 0 0 2 20th Carlos Huertas 22 0 0 1 2 95 8th Daisuke Nakajima 22 0 1 0 2 95 7th 2010 Dallara F308-Mercedes HWA Daisuke Nakajima 30 0 0 0 4 97 11th Carlos Huertas 30 0 0 1 4 104 10th Felipe Nasr 30 1 0 3 4 136 5th 2011 Dallara F308-Mercedes HWA Pipo Derani 30 0 0 0 1 36 15th Scott Pye 30 1 0 0 2 81 10th Valtteri Bottas 3 1 0 1 1 17 17th Mitch Evans 3 0 0 0 0 10 20th 2012 Dallara F312-Mercedes HWA Geoff Uhrhane 29 0 0 0 0 35 12th Fahmi Ilyas 23 0 0 0 0 48 11th Rupert Svendsen-Cook 6 0 0 0 0 24 13th 2013 Dallara F312-Mercedes HWA Sean Gelael 12 0 0 1 3 78 8th Antonio Giovinazzi 12 2 0 0 7 135 2nd Tatiana Calderón 12 0 0 0 1 79 7th 2014 Dallara F312-Mercedes HWA Andy Chang 12 0 0 0 4 103 6th Roberto Merhi 3 0 0 2 2 39 11th Dan Wells 3 0 0 0 3 41 10th Camren Kaminsky 21 0 0 0 3 161 3rd Max Marshall 9 0 0 0 2 93 7th Dallara F308-Mercedes HWA
Formula 3 Euro Series Formula 3 Euro Series results Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points D.C. T.C. 2012 Dallara F312-Mercedes Geoff Uhrhane 6 0 0 0 0 0 NC‡ NC Fahmi Ilyas 6 0 0 0 0 0 NC‡ Dallara F308-Mugen-Honda Duvashen Padayachee 3 0 0 0 0 0 NC‡ ‡ – Guest driver – ineligible for points.
FIA Formula 3 European Championships FIA Formula 3 European Championship results Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points D.C. T.C. 2012 Dallara F312-Mercedes Geoff Uhrhane 8 0 0 0 0 0 NC‡ N/A Fahmi Ilyas 8 0 0 0 0 0 NC‡ Dallara F308-Mugen-Honda Duvashen Padayachee 6 0 0 0 0 0 NC‡ 2013 Dallara F312-Mercedes Tatiana Calderón 30 0 0 0 0 0 32nd 9th Antonio Giovinazzi 29 0 0 0 0 31 17th Sean Gelael 30 0 0 0 0 0 28th 2014 Dallara F313-Mercedes Felipe Guimarães 18 0 0 0 0 5 22nd 11th 2015 Dallara F312-Mercedes Nicolas Pohler 27 0 0 0 0 0 32nd 10th Matheus Leist 3 0 0 0 0 0 41st Dallara F313-Mercedes Matt Solomon 33 0 0 0 0 0 28th ‡ – Guest driver – ineligible for points.
F4 Spanish Championship F4 Spanish Championship results Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points D.C. T.C. 2016 Tatuus F4-T014 Tuomas Tujula 20 1 0 1 6 189 3rd 3rd Tuomas Haapalainen 15 0 1 1 2 85 6th Juho Valtanen 6 0 0 1 3 47 11th Roope Markkanen 3 1 0 0 2 45 12th Juuso Puhakka 9 0 0 0 1 44 13th Konsta Lappalainen 5 0 0 0 0 22 15th Rasmus Markkanen 3 0 0 0 0 8 16th Elias Niskanen 3 0 0 0 0 6 17th Harry Hayek 3 0 0 0 0 0 NC
BRDC British Formula 3 Championship BRDC British Formula 3 Championship results Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points D.C. 2016 Tatuus-Cosworth F4-016 Matheus Leist 23 4 2 6 11 493 1st Aleksanteri Huovinen 23 0 0 0 1 245 9th Enzo Bortoleto 23 0 0 0 2 220 11th 2017 Tatuus-Cosworth F4-016 Guilherme Samaia 24 0 0 0 2 195 13th Jamie Chadwick 24 0 0 0 1 264 9th Harry Hayek 6 0 0 0 0 51 19th Krishnaraaj Mahadik 6 1 0 0 1 104 17th Linus Lundqvist 3 0 0 0 0 32 21st Pavan Ravishankar 3 0 0 0 0 31 22nd 2018 Tatuus-Cosworth F4-016 Krishnaraaj Mahadik 23 0 0 0 5 358 4th Linus Lundqvist 23 7 3 4 13 531 1st Pavan Ravishankar 23 1 0 0 2 153 15th 2019 Tatuus-Cosworth F4-016 Hampus Ericsson 24 1 0 1 1 284 10th Neil Verhagen 24 0 1 0 7 357 5th Pavan Ravishankar 24 0 0 0 2 182 15th 2020 Tatuus-Cosworth BF3-020 Benjamin Pedersen 24 1 0 0 3 299 9th Louis Foster 24 3 5 1 6 388 4th
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