Apex Racing Team

Apex Racing Team

Full name Apex Racing Team Base Monte Carlo, Monaco Founder(s) Milos Ancevski, Joel Rautavaara Noted staff Milos Ancevski, Joel Rautavaara Noted drivers Milos Ancevski Joel Rautavaara Daniel Harvey Formula FG Championship Debut S1 Australian FFG Grand Prix Races competed 51 Total Points 566 Constructors' Championships 1 (Season 3) Race victories 7 Pole positions 12 Fastest laps 2 Epsilon Euskadi Championship Debut RFS2 Race of Austria Races competed 28 Race victories 3 Pole positions 3 Touring Car Championship Debut GPTCC S2 Zandvoort Races competed 18 Race victories 3 Fastest laps 1

Apex Racing Team (ART) is a Monaco-based sim-racing team with a rich history of competing in various championships on RaceDepartment. It was formed by Milos Ancevski and Joel Rautavaara, and is operated by Milos Ancevski.

The team is known for it's extensive driver programme, yielding many talents and achieving reasonable success in various Championships.

rFactor Simulated Career

Season 2

The team entered the series with the driver Joel Rautavaara at the Lienz GP, after buying out Last Resort Racing. The team was really fast, considering they entered mid-season.

Season 3

The team signed a new star driver, Milos Ancevski, who left Smokers Paradise due to many DNF's in that season. With some briliant drives, Milos managed to win 3 races that season, one being his home race at Serbia. He also won the Finnish Grand Prix, to cheer the Finnish fans with their home driver's teammate winning the race. Eventually he finished 3rd in the drivers championship. Rautavaara on the other hand, had a nice start to the season, but had a bit of bad luck which put him in no man's land - not close to the top, but not close to the midfield either. The Finn finished the season 8th overall.

Season 4

ART kept both of the drivers as from last year and the team made chose Hart as their engine supplier, with their rival team, Red Bull Endurance Racing, having Mugen-Honda engines as their supplier. After the test race, Ancevski and Black made hashtagging wars.

The season started off poorly, the Hart engine was lacking in power which made the team fight for podiums. Rautavaara by suprise was the first one to get one, and right after that came Milos to equal his teammate's 3rd place in the very next race. Milos aimed high for his home race - a race win. But no matter how much he was pushing, he wasn't able to keep up with the pace of the Martini cars, finishing behind his teammate in the end, as the last points scorer. The fans were very disappointed at this result by their home hero. Later there was an oval race announced as the last race of the season, because the RDFIA agreed that replacing a circuit with some corners with a circuit with no corners is a completely full idea. This resulted in the team retiring due to protest, and lack of money.

Formula FG Series

Season 1

Apex Racing had one of the unluckiest seasons ever seen in a simulation game in season 1

Already at the start, it looked like a hard season for the team, as they weren't supplied a good engine that underperformed massively in qualifying. To add to that, Andrea Dovizioso breached the contract and the team was left with minus 1 driver for the start of the season. Complete newcomer, Daniel Harvey was put to the spot, to bring glory to the team. These things left the team having to fight themselves for positions in the races, and it proved decent, as both Joel and Daniel were leading the race at the season opener, but Daniel got taken out, and Joel had a car problem. In Malaysia, even worse things for the team, a decent qualy, but Joel's car failed in the race from P4, while Daniel struggled to get points. Even though the team tried to fix the reliability, the issues continued in Brazil, this time Daniel had a problem while Joel was on the wrong strategy. Finally, Imola could bring a nice double points finish with no car failures. Spain and Austria were renember as points thrown away, especially in Spain where Harvey was running for a podium, maybe even a race win, but understeered wide into turn 3. In Austria, the team had a bad quali session, but Rautavaara climbed up to points, only to get taken out by an unpatient Pablo Diehl when the latter was recovering from his mistake. Monaco saw the team score some points again, while Canada saw the first touch of the 2 Apex cars, with Joel stuck in the gravel into last place. The Finn did a briliant recovery to finish 11th place in the end, while his teammate outscored him for the 2nd time this season, finishing in his grid position - 7th. At this point, rival team Speedy Racing signed rival driver, Andy Black, to what the team manager Ancevski wasn't looking forward to. And indeed, to spice things up, in the very next race at Nurburgring, rookie Tim Engberink has barrel rolled Apex Racing driver Daniel Harvey while fighting for position. This resulted in the Brit retiring, while Tim could peacefully continue his race with no harm done to the car. Rautavaara saved the weekend with a 5th place, but Harvey's crash also left a bitter taste for the team aswell. Rautavaara had a nice points streak after that, until he retired with gearbox issues in Monza, the first race in a while where the team scored no points. Indianapolis was good, Rautavaara held off Diehl in the much faster BRT, but Suzuka brought some tough luck to both drivers, with both of them crashing, which made Harvey's 4th place on the grid useless. The team dropped one constructors's position due to that, and will have the exact same numbers they had in season 1.

GPTCC Series

Apex Racing Team

Season 2

The newcomer team had a very good debut season.

The team missed out season 1 due to not finding any drivers to drive the car. Therefore, the team was relieved after Milos Ancevski announced that he will leave Forza Turismo GP, and took it as a chance to try and enter the sport. Alongside Milos was a rookie driver, Daniel Harvey. The debut race went fairly good as Milos got up to 5th in quali and 4th in the 1st race. Fighting for the podium in the 2nd race, his engine decided to blow up, repeating the 2nd race retirement from last season, making it a streak. Daniel showed great form in the 3rd race, but only fast enough for 4th. The team is still looking for it's first podium in the series. In Austria, the tables have turned. Harvey went flying into turn 1, and took the lead. He was unseen for the rest of the race and won. Teammate Ancevski got a failure right to the finish line, just holding off rival Andy Black for 5th place after what looked like a double podium for the Monaco squad. In the 2nd race though, the team got their biscuit with a double podium, domination by Harvey and holding off by Ancevski managed to get them a good result. At Nordscheife, Harvey struggled a lot, but Ancevski was able to take the podium at one event. Harvey came close to the drivers championship lead at this race - as a rookie driver. Interlagos saw a wet quali in which Apex's didn't show the pace they were expected to, and saw them having to fight for positions in races. Harvey retired in race 2, losing a chance of starting from pole in race 3. In Adelaide the team badly struggled for race pace, but still got some mediocre results in all 3 races. Their home race was a big success, with the team bringing massive qualifying speed improvements, which meant that they were able to qualify up high, and get another double podium for the home fans, though they weren't able to beat the OMR of Utzer for a victory, or their first 1-2 finish.

Season 3

The team's second season turned into disaster, the team never won a race.

Season 3, after a promising start to the year, ended up as a massive dissappointment. The Monaco-squad took a front row lockout on the opening round at Suzuka, their first ever, outqualifying both title favourite OMR cars. The race ended up as a disaster, even though the car, unlike last season, showed supreme reliability, Harvey had no pace and barely held onto a podium finish, while his teammate had pace, but spun the car in the esses which lost him any chance of a good result. In the next race, even worse luck strikes. In rainy qualifying, which came quite unexpectedly, Harvey was able to only get the car up to 4th place, with Ancevski starting outside of the top 6. Harvey had another dismal Portugese GP, retiring 2 out of 3 times. Next race saw yet another wet qualifying, and both drivers failed to qualify within the top 6, which killed the team's any hopes of winning a world championship. In later races, their luck has finally stabilised, but at this point it was too late. The team struggled to get into the top 6 in both qualifying, and races. Best result was a 2-4 at the Australian GP in the reversed grid race, after Harvey couldn't hold on to what would be the team's first victory that season. Harvey also got a podium in their home race at Monaco, with a 3rd place. After this set of races their luck dropped again, as the team got robbed off two podiums in Austria with two exact same driver errors, and a really unexpected failure for Ancevski at his worst track, Spa.

Season 4

New manufacter, new livery, new tyres for the brand new season

Season 4 was a well start to the season at the season opener. The team returned to victory at Japan, when Daniel Harvey won it. The team scored a total of 2 wins, both secured by Harvey. Ancevski did not won a race this season. The team bounced back to 2nd in the Teams' Championship thanks to the large gap between the team and Online Martini Racing.

Season 5

Season 5 was a decent start to the team, but through the whole season, their form was a little better than before. Harvey secured 2 wins meanwhile Ancevski secured only one victory. Due to the short gap between 2KF1, Eipekkusu and Falcon, they finished 5th in the Teams' Championship, with 405 points.

Season 6

Season 6 did not went out well for the team at the first 3 races, but at the fourth round of the season, the team started to be very competitive, securing the Constructors' Championship at the end of the season, with 519 points.

Eipekkusu Racing

Season 4

Despite some financial issues, the team has still managed to buy the struggling Team Haiburiddo team, and get them on their side.

Complete Results

Formula FG Results

(key) (results in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Chassis	Engine(s)	Tyres	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Points	WCC
FFG Season 1	ARFG01F	Yamaha V10	B		AUS	MAL	BRA	SMR	ESP	AUT	MON	CAN	EUR	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	USA	JPN	76	8th
				Joel Rautavaara	6	Ret	15	8	14	Ret	6	11	5	8	8	8	6	8	Ret	8	Ret
				Daniel Harvey	10	10	Ret	9	19	Ret	15	7	Ret	Ret	6	Ret	17	Ret	11	11	Ret
FFG Season 2	Lucky Bertha	Playlife FB01 V10	M		AUS	SIN	ZAF	TUR	MEX	USA	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	HUN	BEL	ITA	PAC	JPN	BRA	131	5th
				Joel Rautavaara	5	10	Ret	14	13	2	2	10	8	6	10	9	Ret	5	1	11	5
				Daniel Harvey	14	1	Ret	18	Ret	Ret	Ret	18	14	8	Ret	8	15	Ret	18	6	6
Formula FG Season 3	Jeff	Playlife FB01 V10	P		AUS	CHN	RSA	USA	CAN	EUR	FRA	GBR	GER	NED	AUT	HUN	BEL	ITA	JPN	PAC	BRA	333	1st
				Ben Utzer	Ret	8	13	Ret	1	Ret	Ret	Ret	13	Ret	Ret	2	3	3	Ret	2	4
				Joel Rautavaara	4	6	4	2	Ret	Ret	Ret	1	3	3	Ret	5	2	1	1	1	2

GPTCC Results

Apex Racing Team

Year	Chassis	Engine	Tyres	No.	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	Points	WCC
Season 2	ARTC01A	Mercedes C-Class	D			NED	NED	NED	AUT	AUT	AUT	GER	GER	GER	BRA	BRA	BRA	AUS	AUS	AUS	MON	MON	MON	UAE	UAE	UAE	POR	POR	POR	AUS	AUS	AUS	BEL	BEL	BEL	505	3rd
				2	Daniel Harvey	11	9	4	1	1	Ret	8	8	4	9	Ret	Ret	5	5	8	2	2	13	2	3	9	Ret	Ret	14	Ret	14	4	8	11	Ret
				69	Milos Ancevski	4	Ret	12	5	3	10	4	3	7	11	11	1	6	7	13	4	3	12	5	5	12	5	4	Ret	6	4	Ret	11	5	Ret
Season 3	ARTC02A	Opel Vectra	D			JAP	JAP	JAP	POR	POR	POR	RSA	RSA	RSA	GER	GER	GER	NED	NED	NED	AUS	AUS	AUS	GBR	GBR	GBR	MON	MON	MON	AUT	AUT	AUT	BEL	BEL	BEL	386	5th
				69	Milos Ancevski	Ret	15	6	8	9	8	11	11	9	8	5	7	5	5	Ret	13	10	4	4	Ret	11	10	7	10	Ret	Ret	16	6	Ret	17
				2	Daniel Harvey	3	3	17	Ret	Ret	11	14	8	Ret	7	11	6	11	10	5	7	15	2	9	Ret	12	5	3	11	6	Ret	10	7	7	9
Season 4	ARTC03A	BMW M3 DTM	Y			MEX	MEX	MEX	GBR	GBR	GBR	JAP	JAP	JAP	AUS	USA	USA	USA	ITA	ITA	ITA	AUT	AUT	AUT	BEL	BEL	BEL									401	2nd
				2	Daniel Harvey	4	2	19	Ret	18	3	1	16	Ret	7	10	6	14	4	5	Ret	Ret	15	1	3	2	4
				69	Milos Ancevski	8	6	15	9	11	7	4	2	9	Ret	6	5	Ret	9	9	3	2	6	9	5	6	5

Complete Touring Car Championship results

(key) (results in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)

Season	Chassis	Tyres	No.	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	Points	WCC
Season 4	Audi RS5 DTM	Y			MEX	MEX	MEX	GBR	GBR	GBR	JPN	JPN	JPN	AUS	USA	USA	USA	ITA	ITA	ITA	AUT	AUT	AUT	BEL	BEL	BEL									157*	11th*
			61	Andy Black							9	4	Ret	9	19	13	5	Ret	Ret	15	9	Ret	16	19	Ret	15
			78	Pablo Diehl							11	5	Ret	Ret	17	10	9	18	Ret	16	10	8	12	Ret	12	17
Season 5	Audi RS5 DTM	Y			NED	NED	NED	SIN	SIN	SIN	CAN	CAN	CAN	JPN	JPN	JPN	AUS	TUR	TUR	TUR	HUN	HUN	HUN	GBR	GBR	GBR	AUS	AUS	AUS	BEL	BEL	BEL			467	2nd
			61	Andy Black	12	6	16	Ret	Ret	Ret	1	Ret	14	4	9	19	Ret	1	15	1	4	13	6	4	15	9	4	10	4	2	18	13
			78	Pablo Diehl	13	8	14	2	8	2	3	12	7	11	7	5	2	5	14	8	1	11	5	19	2	8	2	Ret	Ret	1	16	3

* = 46 points scored as Team Haiburiddo

rFactor Endurance Results

Season	Engine(s)	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	Points	WCC
Epsilon Euskadi Season 2	Judd		AUS	GRE	TUR	LEB	NED	GBR	FRA	3HR	USA	CAN	ALA	AUT	GER	SWI	ROM	EUR	ITA	FIN	WAL	43	8th
		Jonny Kane	8	2	2	17	3	8	17	Ret	Ret	12	Ret	15	Ret	16	9	16	20	Ret	Ret
		Kazuki Nakajima Joel Rautavaara	15	12	Ret	7	6	17	Ret	6	17	Ret	8	13	Ret	18	4	11	Ret	12	19
Epsilon Euskadi Season 3	Judd		AUS	GRE	NED	CAN	WAL	ITA	SER	3HR	GBR	USA	GER	ROM	EUR	TUR	FIN					219	3rd
		Joel Rautavaara	14	3	3	16	Ret	5	Ret	Ret	7	Ret	16	7	10	6	8
		Milos Ancevski	10	1	7	3	16	3	1	15	16	Ret	4	4	6	5	1
Epsilon Euskadi Season 4	Hart		AUS	TUR	GRE	SER	ESP	FRA	CAN	GBR	FIN	SCO	SWI	ENG	EUR	NED	GER	ITA	LEB	USA
		Milos Ancevski	Ret	3	10	10	15	17	14	8	9	15
		Joel Rautavaara	3	Ret	Ret	9	Ret	16	17	17	10	Ret
	Judd		AUS	TUR	GRE	SER	ESP	FRA	CAN	GBR	FIN	SCO	SWI	ENG	EUR	NED	GER	ITA	LEB	USA		8th	88
		Milos Ancevski											13	6	13	Ret	5	9	7	14
		Joel Rautavaara											Ret	8	7	8	11	11	10	7