# Russian Time

Russian Time (previously known as RT Russian Time) was a Russian motor racing team founded by Igor Mazepa to compete in the GP2 Series, a category of open-wheel racing cars designed to prepare drivers for Formula One.
From 2015 to 2018, the team was managed by Virtuosi Racing.

## Racing history
### GP2 Series

Russian Time was established by former Russian racing driver and manager Igor Mazepa and Motopark Academy team principal Timo Rumpfkeil in 2013. The team had sought an entry to the GP2 Series for two years before finally being accepted in 2013, replacing iSport International. iSport International withdrew from the series after being unable to secure a budget to compete in the upcoming season, and so its management elected to shut the team down in order to avoid bankruptcy.
The team won its first race in only its fourth appearance, when Sam Bird won the sprint race of the Bahrain round of the championship. The team took a second win on the streets of Monaco, with Bird finishing ahead of Kevin Ceccon after a fourteen-car pile-up on the opening lap forced nine drivers out of the race. In 2014, the team made their debut in GP3 Series, taking Bamboo Engineering's slot and continue to participate in GP2, German Formula Three and ADAC Formel Masters.
The team's preparations for the 2014 season were disrupted by the death of Mazepa from complications relating to thrombosis in February 2014. Following this, Motopark Academy ended their partnership with team, leaving their participation in the 2014 GP2 and GP3 seasons in limbo. The team reunited with iSport International to continue their GP2 programme, signing Mitch Evans and Artem Markelov, but chose to abandon their plans for their GP3 entry, selling it on to Hilmer Motorsport.
Evans and Markelov were retained for the 2015 season, the first time a GP2 team has entered back to back seasons with the same lineup since DAMS retained Kamui Kobayashi and Jérôme d'Ambrosio in 2009. But the team changed the management from iSport to Virtuosi Racing. The team finished fifth in the team's championship, with two sprint race wins for Evans.
For the 2016 season, Markelov was retained for a third season with Raffaele Marciello joining the team. Markelov achieved his maiden victory at the Monaco feature race, having started fifteenth on the grid. Marciello finished fourth in the standings and Markelov tenth with the team taking third in the constructor's championship.

### FIA Formula 2 Championship

In 2017, Markelov remained with the team for a fourth season with Luca Ghiotto joining the team, moving from Trident. Their combination brought six wins—five for Markelov and one for Ghiotto—and the first teams' title in the history of FIA Formula 2 Championship. The team was omitted from the preliminary entry list for the 2018 championship, but later confirmed their participation, retaining Markelov and hiring European Formula 3 driver Tadasuke Makino to replace Ghiotto. The team was not able to repeat their success with the new F2 car, finishing the season fourth in the teams' standings, while Markelov downgraded to fifth in the drivers' championship with three wins. Makino won a feature race at Monza, but finished outside the top-ten in the drivers' standings. The team were sold before the 2018 finale and became UNI-Virtuosi Racing.

## Results
### GP2 Series

| Year | Car | Run by | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | F.L. | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
| 2013 | Dallara GP2/11-Mecachrome | Motopark Academy | Sam Bird | 22 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 181 | 2nd | 1st |
| 2013 | Dallara GP2/11-Mecachrome | Motopark Academy | Tom Dillmann | 22 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 92 | 10th | 1st |
| 2014 | Dallara GP2/11-Mecachrome | iSport International | Mitch Evans | 22 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 174 | 4th | 5th |
| 2014 | Dallara GP2/11-Mecachrome | iSport International | Artem Markelov | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 24th | 5th |
| 2015 | Dallara GP2/11-Mecachrome | Virtuosi Racing | Mitch Evans | 21 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 135 | 5th | 5th |
| 2015 | Dallara GP2/11-Mecachrome | Virtuosi Racing | Artem Markelov | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 13th | 5th |
| 2016 | Dallara GP2/11-Mecachrome | Virtuosi Racing | Raffaele Marciello | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159 | 4th | 3rd |
| 2016 | Dallara GP2/11-Mecachrome | Virtuosi Racing | Artem Markelov | 22 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 97 | 10th | 3rd |

### FIA Formula 2 Championship

| Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | F.L. | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
| 2017 | Dallara GP2/11-Mecachrome | Artem Markelov | 22 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 210 | 2nd | 1st |
| 2017 | Dallara GP2/11-Mecachrome | Luca Ghiotto | 22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 185 | 4th | 1st |
| 2018 | Dallara F2 2018-Mecachrome | Artem Markelov | 24 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 186 | 5th | 4th |
| 2018 | Dallara F2 2018-Mecachrome | Tadasuke Makino | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 13th | 4th |

### GP2 Series

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Chassis Engine Tyres | Drivers | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | T.C. | Points |
| 2013 | GP2/11 Mecachrome P | | SEP FEA | SEP SPR | BHR FEA | BHR SPR | CAT FEA | CAT SPR | MON FEA | MON SPR | SIL FEA | SIL SPR | NÜR FEA | NÜR SPR | HUN FEA | HUN SPR | SPA FEA | SPA SPR | MNZ FEA | MNZ SPR | MRN FEA | MRN SPR | YMC FEA | YMC SPR | 1st | 273 |
| 2013 | GP2/11 Mecachrome P | Sam Bird | 7 | Ret | 6 | 1 | 21$^†$ | 12 | 1 | 24 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 1st | 273 |
| 2013 | GP2/11 Mecachrome P | Tom Dillmann | 14 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 26 | 11 | 25 | 3 | 6 | 8 | Ret | 20 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 14 | Ret | DNS | 1st | 273 |
| 2014 | GP2/11 Mecachrome P | | BHR FEA | BHR SPR | CAT FEA | CAT SPR | MON FEA | MON SPR | RBR FEA | RBR SPR | SIL FEA | SIL SPR | HOC FEA | HOC SPR | HUN FEA | HUN SPR | SPA FEA | SPA SPR | MNZ FEA | MNZ SPR | SOC FEA | SOC SPR | YMC FEA | YMC SPR | 5th | 180 |
| 2014 | GP2/11 Mecachrome P | Mitch Evans | 14 | 7 | 14 | 20$^†$ | 2 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 20$^†$ | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5th | 180 |
| 2014 | GP2/11 Mecachrome P | Artem Markelov | 15 | 10 | 11 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 21 | 16 | 18 | 17 | Ret | 12 | 16 | 20$^†$ | 7 | Ret | 21 | Ret | 16 | 12 | Ret | 19 | 5th | 180 |
| 2015 | GP2/11 Mecachrome P | | BHR FEA | BHR SPR | CAT FEA | CAT SPR | MON FEA | MON SPR | RBR FEA | RBR SPR | SIL FEA | SIL SPR | HUN FEA | HUN SPR | SPA FEA | SPA SPR | MNZ FEA | MNZ SPR | SOC FEA | SOC SPR | BHR FEA | BHR SPR | YMC FEA | YMC SPR | 5th | 183 |
| 2015 | GP2/11 Mecachrome P | Mitch Evans | 6 | 17 | 2 | DNS | Ret | DNS | 10 | 5 | Ret | 20 | 17 | 22 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 3 | C | 5th | 183 |
| 2015 | GP2/11 Mecachrome P | Artem Markelov | 13 | 12 | 12 | 5 | Ret | 14 | 5 | DSQ | 21 | 14 | 22 | 18 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 14 | Ret | 12 | 16 | 8 | Ret | C | 5th | 183 |
| 2016 | GP2/11 Mecachrome P | | CAT FEA | CAT SPR | MON FEA | MON SPR | BAK FEA | BAK SPR | RBR FEA | RBR SPR | SIL FEA | SIL SPR | HUN FEA | HUN SPR | HOC FEA | HOC SPR | SPA FEA | SPA SPR | MNZ FEA | MNZ SPR | SEP FEA | SEP SPR | YMC FEA | YMC SPR | 3rd | 256 |
| 2016 | GP2/11 Mecachrome P | Raffaele Marciello | 8 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 13 | 3rd | 256 |
| 2016 | GP2/11 Mecachrome P | Artem Markelov | 4 | 4 | 1 | 8 | Ret | 5 | Ret | 11 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 4 | Ret | 9 | 5 | 21$^†$ | 10 | 10 | DNS | 13 | 3 | 7 | 3rd | 256 |

### FIA Formula 2 Championship

| Year | Chassis Engine Tyres | 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 | T.C. | Points |
| 2017 | GP2/11 Mecachrome P | | BHR FEA | BHR SPR | CAT FEA | CAT SPR | MON FEA | MON SPR | BAK FEA | BAK SPR | RBR FEA | RBR SPR | SIL FEA | SIL SPR | HUN FEA | HUN SPR | SPA FEA | SPA SPR | MNZ FEA | MNZ SPR | JER FEA | JER SPR | YMC FEA | YMC SPR | | | 1st | 395 |
| 2017 | GP2/11 Mecachrome P | Luca Ghiotto | 7 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 16 | 7 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 5 | | | 1st | 395 |
| 2017 | GP2/11 Mecachrome P | Artem Markelov | 1 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 17$^†$ | 9 | 1 | Ret | 9 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 6 | | | 1st | 395 |
| 2018 | F2 2018 Mecachrome P | | BHR FEA | BHR SPR | BAK FEA | BAK SPR | CAT FEA | CAT SPR | MON FEA | MON SPR | LEC FEA | LEC SPR | RBR FEA | RBR SPR | SIL FEA | SIL SPR | HUN FEA | HUN SPR | SPA FEA | SPA SPR | MNZ FEA | MNZ SPR | SOC FEA | SOC SPR | YMC FEA | YMC SPR | 4th | 234 |
| 2018 | F2 2018 Mecachrome P | Artem Markelov | 3 | 1 | Ret | Ret | 8 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 14$^†$ | 8 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 4th | 234 |
| 2018 | F2 2018 Mecachrome P | Tadasuke Makino | 19 | 17 | 9 | 9 | 9 | Ret | 14$^†$ | Ret | 8 | Ret | 7 | 6 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 14 | 10 | 11 | 9 | Ret | 4th | 234 |