Euromotor International

Euromotor

Full Name	Euromotor International
Base	Mönchengladbach, Germany
Founder(s)
Team Principal(s)	Hildegarde Schewtschenko-Neumann
Technical Director	Dean O'Lauchlan
Current Lineup
#25 - Marko Jantscher #26 - Bradley Dagnall	AutoReject World Series
Noted Former Drivers
Takuma Taki Benoît Voeckler Timmy O'Toole	AutoReject World Series

Euromotor International, often shortened as Euromotor (or using several other monikers) is a German-based racing team, which operates at several levels of automobile racing (mostly at open-wheel and touring car levels). The city of Mönchengladbach, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, has housed their main headquarters since the late 1950s. In 2019, it made its debut in the AutoReject World Series.

History

Euromotor gained notoriety in 1989 when they made Mario Hytten the WTCM's highest paid driver at the time - taking home over DM 2,200,000 over the course of the season, with teammate Maurizio Sandro Sala also pocketing just under DM 2 million as well. A combination of a lack of effort following his newly found riches and a hideously outclassed car saw Hytten fail to qualify for any races in 1989.

ARWS (2019-present)

2019

Euromotor was granted entry into the ARWS for 2019, however the team appeared hideously unprepared and their car was atrociously off the pace. A driving lineup of journeywoman paydriver Du Lon and mediocre prospect Takuma Taki failed to turn any heads, with the team only passing pre-qualifying once, for the season-ending Chinese Grand Prix. Both cars would fail to qualify.

2020

Entering 2020, the team signed Benoît Voeckler to replace Lon, but confusingly did not have a second driver signed to start the season. They attempted to run Timmy O'Toole, triggering the Timmy O'Toole scandal when it turned out that O'Toole was not actually a real person - though this in turn was overshadowed by the Leonhard von Gottorp scandal which curtailed the season after just two rounds of the championship.

2023

As the ARWS was gearing up for its return for 2023, Euromotor planned to resume their participation. The team chose to run the powerful but unreliable Koenigsegg engines, which initially paid dividends as the team scored a double-podium finish at the German Grand Prix. However, the unreliability of the Koenigseggs, and the relative poor performance of their car caused no end of frustration for team management, who promptly sacked Alexis Tantovich in favour of V-Tuber Riku Sokudo. Although Sokudo was able to get more performance out of the car than Tantovich, the unreliability remained, causing the team to shockingly tear up their agreement with Koenigsegg and run Ford engines for the rest of the season.

However, the Fords would also prove more unreliable, with the team classified only 3 times with Ford power, while they earned classified finishes 6 times with Koenigseggs. Most of these failures seemed to be occurring on Kenan Ardaoglu's car, which led to his sacking just before practice for the Japanese Grand Prix. This meant an all-new driver lineup at that race, as Koyomi Setou had been signed to replace Sokudo once Sokudo's sponsorship dried up. Astonishingly, the team chose disgraced former ARST driver Edward McWilliams - now a delivery rider under the pseudonym "Eduardo McWilliams" - to fill in for Ardaoglu. None of these changes made any difference to Euromotor's on-track fortunes, and this included ditching McWilliams for Jorge Álvarez Torrente for the season-closing round at Macau.

As a result of their various erratic managment decisions, the AutoReject International commission elected to fine Euromotor and warn the team to operate on a more professional basis in 2024.

2024

Seeking to turn over a new page, the team continued their association with Ford, and signed Marko Jantscher to be their new lead driver, with F1 veteran Bradley Dagnall partnering him in the other car. The team also welcomed Rheinmetall aboard as their new primary sponsor, with their livery featuring a unique "Earth" design as a result.

ARWS Results

Year	Chassis	Engine	#	Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	CC	Pts
2019	Euromotor EU1	Audi AF1-5B			AUS	NSW	KIN	ITA	MAR	CAN	500	GBR	AUT	GER	SCA	BEL	MON	SAF	BRA	ARG	JPN	CHN	17th	0
			33	Du Lon	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNQ
			34	Takuma Taki	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNQ
2020	Euromotor EU2	Holden LSW-19B			AUS	NSW	ARG	BRA	500	CAN	GBR	BEL	MON	ITA	AUT	GER	SAF	IND	MAL	PAC	JPN	CHN	17th	0
			27	Benoît Voeckler	DNPQ	DNPQ	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C
			28	Takuma Taki	DNPQ	DNPQ	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C
				Timmy O'Toole	DNA	DNA	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C	C
2023	Euromotor EU3	Koenigsegg ATFG			MON	LUX	GER	CZE	NUS	GBR	SCA	SUS	MAL	AUS	JPN	KIN	MAC						13th	218
			25	Alexis Tantovich	Ret	Ret	2	8	Ret
				Riku Sokudo						Ret	Ret
			26	Kenan Ardaoglu	Ret	Ret	3	6	10†	18†	Ret
		Ford EcoBoost 2.0 L ARWS	25	Riku Sokudo								8	5	Ret									14th	120
				Koyomi Setou											5	Ret	Ret
			26	Kenan Ardaoglu								Ret	Ret	Ret
				"Eduardo McWilliams"											Ret	Ret
				Jorge Álvarez Torrente													Ret
2024	Euromotor EU4	Ford Ecoboost 2.0 ARWS/24			MON	MED	LUX	GER	CRI	GRS	NUS	ITA	GBR	CAN	RNO	SUS	MAL	KIN	JPN	AUS			NC	0
			25	Marko Jantscher
			26	Bradley Dagnall