O'Connell Racing
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O'Connell Racing are a virtual motor racing team that competed in FV2. They were formed at the start of 2018.
Background
After having a large interest in motor racing, Ahmed Cheema formed O'Connell Racing. He entered the FV2 series, and entered another team called Scuderia Stars in IndyVirtual. He signed 2017 FV2 rookie champion Otso Toivonen and Pietro Silvestri.
2018
The team fared well in their first season of competition. Silvestri took the teams first points in their first race, and backed that up with a podium in the sprint in second. Toivinen struggled in his first weekend with the team, with 13th and a DNF. Two pointless rounds followed, but in Austria both drivers finished in the points for the first race, and Toivonen took the team's first win in the second with a fine drive. Over the rest of the season, the team had some good races with top ten finishes, but quite a few pointless weekends were mixed with them. Toivonen took pole in Slovakia and managed to come second after losing the lead at the start. Silvestri put in a storming performance in the sprint race in USA, after stalling at the start he flew back up the grid to take second after countless overtakes. It was to be his last points of the season. Toivonen took third at Italy in the feature race to end the season on a high. O'Connell Racing ended the year with 131 points, and finished ninth in the constructors ahead of other established teams including American Engineering.
2018 turned out to be the team's only year of existence. Towards the end of the season it was announced that the FV2 series along with FV3 would be discontinued. Later on team principal Cheema was granted a spot in FV, and so the team folded. Most of the employees moved to FV to Cheema's team while Cheema FV Racing took over the base in Dublin.
Complete FV2 Results
(results in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)
Season | Chassis | Engine | Driver | No. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Pos. | Points | ||||||||||||
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Fea | Spr | Fea | Spr | Fea | Spr | Fea | Spr | Fea | Spr | Fea | Spr | Fea | Spr | Fea | Spr | Fea | Spr | Fea | Spr | Fea | Spr | Fea | Spr | |||||||
2018 | Ford FV2/1 | Ford | GBR | FRA | ESP | AUT | GER | SVK | CAN | USA | SWE | TUR | BEL | ITA | 9th | 131 | ||||||||||||||
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25 | 13 | Ret | Ret | 18 | 18 | 13 | 12 | 1 | Ret | Ret | 2 | 8 | 14 | Ret | 15 | 11 | 6 | Ret | 4 | 13 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 13 | |||||
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26 | 11 | 2 | 16 | 11 | Ret | 14 | 6 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 6 | Ret | 9 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 16 | 14 | 15 | 14 | Ret | 17 | Ret | Ret |