Formula 3000 The team was initially created as a vehicle to enable Christian Horner to race in F3000 in
1997. According to Horner he set the team up with borrowed money, including a loan from his father, and persuaded
P1 Motorsport founder Roly Vincini (whom Horner had driven for in his first season of F3) to take on the role of his race engineer. He bought a second-hand trailer for the team from
Helmut Marko, who as head of the
Red Bull Junior Team was one of Horner's main rivals as a manager in F3000, and whom he later worked closely with at Red Bull. He stayed in F3000 for 1998 and was joined at Arden by
Kurt Mollekens, who showed good pace and led the championship at one stage. In the winter of 1998 family friend
David Richards had been approached by Russian oil company
Lukoil to enable them to enter motorsports sponsorship. As entries to F3000 were restricted, Richards agreed a deal with Horner that
Prodrive would take a 50% stake in Arden, in return for Horner becoming team manager. As a result, the team signed
Viktor Maslov as a driver under the Lukoil deal from
1999. The team started off poorly, and didn't have the pace to qualify for many races. At the end of 1999, Richards sold a stake in Prodrive to
Apax Partners, who didn't want to continue in F3000. Horner hence exercised the option to buy back the Prodrive stake. As the years went on, the team began to reap the results and was the best team of Formula 3000 in its last 3 years, showing new talents to motorsport world like
Darren Manning,
Tomáš Enge,
Björn Wirdheim and
Vitantonio Liuzzi. in 2003 racing at Hungary The team won the Teams' Championship in
2002,
2003 and
2004. During those years, Wirdheim won the drivers championship in 2003, and Liuzzi won it in 2004. During the teams 8 years in the series, it has scored 359 points, won 16 races and achieved 20
pole positions.
Italian Formula 3000 The team joined the Italian Formula 3000 series for
1999 and
2000. Their first season was poor with only one point to their name, but the 2000 season went significantly better, with
Warren Hughes taking two wins, one pole position and three fastest laps for the team, and
Darren Manning taking one win, one pole and one fastest lap too. The team finished with Hughes second in the championship, and the team winning it outright 51 points.
A1 GP Arden operated
A1 Team Great Britain in the first season of the
A1GP series for
2005–2006. The team fared well in their first season, collecting 8 podium finishes and a single pole position, leaving the team 3rd in the championship with 97 points overall.
GP2 In
2005, the F3000 series was rebranded as the GP2 Series, Arden stayed on for the new series and achieved second place in the teams' championship with
Heikki Kovalainen and
Nicolas Lapierre, and second place in the Drivers' Championship with Kovalainen, who had 5 wins, 4 pole positions and a fastest lap to his name. driving at
Silverstone. In
2006, Arden competed in GP2 with Lapierre and the rookie
Michael Ammermüller (
Neel Jani acted as a substitute for Lapierre when the latter was injured in the race at
Monaco). This year, Arden suffered a significant drop in performance, and had only 57 points to show and a single win from Ammermüller, compared to the previous season's 126. Overall the team came fourth in the championship. For
2007, Arden signed
Bruno Senna, nephew of triple F1 champion
Ayrton Senna, and
A1 Team South Africa driver
Adrian Zaugg. Zaugg was replaced for the final round of the season by
Filipe Albuquerque. This season was even worse for the team compared to the previous year, only managing 42 points which resulted in a seventh-placed finish in the teams' championship, with Senna finishing ninth overall in the drivers' championship. For
2008 and the newly founded
Asia Series, the team was renamed Trust Team Arden, after its
Dutch title sponsor
Trust. The duo of
Red Bull Junior Team driver
Sébastien Buemi and
Yelmer Buurman was its race line-up for both championships. For the Asia Series,
Adam Khan raced for the first two rounds before being replaced by Buurman. The overall result in the Asia Series was the team finishing second in the championship, with 50 points and one win, and Buemi finishing second in the drivers' championship. Mid-season in the main series, Buurman was replaced by
ART Grand Prix outcast
Luca Filippi. The season went slightly better than the previous one with the team picking up 50 points, enough to take sixth place, and Buemi picked up two race victories to finish sixth overall in the drivers' championship. leading at the race in Turkey Arden again took part in the Asia Series for the
2008–09 season, signing
Luiz Razia and
Mika Mäki. For the second round of the championship, held at the
Dubai Autodrome, Mäki was replaced by
Renger van der Zande, who was subsequently replaced for the rest of the season by
Edoardo Mortara. Razia scored the team's only win of the campaign, which allowed Arden to finish sixth in the teams' championship. For the
2009 main Series, the team signed F3 frontrunners
Sergio Pérez and Mortara. This was also another poor season for the team, as it finished well down the order in eighth place overall with only Mortara managing a single win. For the
2009–10 Asia Series, Arden signed
Charles Pic and
Rodolfo González. After the first round, González was replaced by
Javier Villa for the rest of the season. This was the team's most successful outing in the Asia Series, with an end result of 37 points and second in the teams' championship. Villa finished fourth overall in the drivers' championship with 19 points, and Pic finished fifth with a single race victory. For the
2010 main series, the team kept Pic and resigned González. However, the success from the Asia Series did not quite continue into the main series as the team eventually finished seventh with one win, courtesy of Pic. Arden finished with fewer points than in
2009, but still managed to beat the previous teams' championship result of eighth position. driving at
Monza in
2011. For the
2011 GP2 Asia Series and
2011 GP2 Main Series seasons, the team signed
Josef Král and
Jolyon Palmer. The year was the team's worst so far in its GP2 history, as neither driver managed a win, pole or fastest lap in either series, and the team ended up finishing tenth in the Asia series and eleventh in the main series. As the
GP2 Asia Series had joined together with the
GP2 main series in 2012, there were no longer two separate series. The team signed former
2008–09 Asia season driver Luiz Razia and former MW Arden GP3 sister team driver
Simon Trummer for the
2012 season. Razia won the feature race of the first round in
Malaysia, picked up two 2nd-place finishes during the two
Bahrain rounds, and won again at
Catalunya,
Valencia and
Silverstone. He finished the season as runner-up to champion
Davide Valsecchi, whilst Trummer had a best race finish of seventh place to take 23rd in the drivers' championship. Arden finished third in the team's championship; its best result since 2005. From there Arden struggled in subsequent GP2 Series, their highest constructor's finish being an eighth in
2013, and went without a win till the end of the series under the GP2 moniker.
GP3 From
2010 onwards, they have operated a
GP3 Series team with
Mark Webber, the team was called MW Arden. The team signed
Michael Christensen,
Miki Monrás and Leonardo Cordeiro for their debut season. Their first venture into the new series proved difficult as they only accumulate 18 points for the whole season with 2 fastest laps, leaving them 9th in the championship. For
2011, the team completely refreshed their line up by signing
Mitch Evans,
Simon Trummer and
Lewis Williamson. The season overshadowed the previous as the team came second overall in the constructors championship with 69 points, and both Williamson and Evans scoring 1 win each and coming 8th and 9th in the drivers championship respectively. This would also be the season where the team picked up its first pole positions with 2 from Evans and 1 from Williamson. For
2012, they retained Evans, and partnered him with
David Fumanelli and
Matias Laine. Evans former teammates
Simon Trummer and
Lewis Williamson had moved to the GP2 sister team, and the new Formula Renault team
Arden Caterham respectively. At the first round in
Spain, Evans won the feature race. At the third round in Valencia, Evans managed to collect pole position and went on to win another feature race. Evans went on to win the championship in the 2012 season. The team scored their second driver's championship with
Daniil Kvyat the following season, with
Carlos Sainz, Jr. and
Robert Vișoiu finishing tenth and eleventh respectively. In the following two seasons, Arden scored fifth and third in the team's championship respectively, with the highest driver standing coming from a fourth place for
Emil Bernstorff in
2015.
Jake Dennis,
2015 Eurocup champion
Jack Aitken and Colombian
Tatiana Calderón competed with the team for the
2016 season. Calderón being the first women to compete for the team in its 19-year history. With three victories from Dennis and Aitken, the team finished as runners-up to
ART Grand Prix in the constructor's standings. In January 2017,
Niko Kari was signed to the team for the
2017 season, making him the first
Red Bull Junior to compete with the team since Kvyat and Sainz. A month later,
Steijn Schothorst and
Euroformula Open champion
Leonardo Pulcini joined Arden. 2018 line-up consisted of
Gabriel Aubry,
Julien Falchero and
Joey Mawson The team has season without wins, with just two podiums achieved by Mawson.
Formula Renault 3.5 For
2012, Arden International entered an agreement with
Caterham to join the Formula Renault 3.5 series as a joint team known as
Arden Caterham. For their first season, they signed former GP3 driver for
MW Arden Lewis Williamson, and one of
Caterham F1's test drivers,
Alexander Rossi. Rossi scored his first podium finish with a third-place finish at the one race round at Monaco. After 3 rounds, Williamson was dropped by the team and the
Red Bull Junior Driver Programme for failing to score a single point and was replaced by
António Félix da Costa who had also replaced him at the Junior Programme too. On his debut, Da Costa scored two points with a ninth-place finish during the first race at the
Nürburgring.
F4 British Championship Jack Doohan,
Dennis Hauger, Patrik Pasma and
Sebastian Priaulx were Arden's drivers in the
2018 championship. Across the season, the team claimed eleven wins and claimed the teams' championship, with Doohan taking honours as rookie champion. For the
2019 season, Arden signed Australian Formula Ford racer Bart Horsten and promoted British karting champions Alex Connor and Tommy Foster from their young driver programme, with Abbie Munro joining the team for the final three rounds. In October 2019, Frederick Lubin became the team's first signing for the
2020 season, followed by Roman Bilinski and Alex Connor.
Formula Renault Eurocup Oscar Piastri,
Sami Taoufik and Aleksandr Vartanyan were 2018 Arden's drivers in Eurocup.
FIA Formula 2 Championship Arden competed in with
Sean Gelael and
Norman Nato, taking their first Formula 2 win at Baku Circuit with Nato. For , the team signed
Nirei Fukuzumi and
Maximilian Günther, changing their team name from Pertamina Arden to BWT Arden. The team had another sprint win with Günther, but decreased from seventh to ninth in the teams' championship. For the
2019 season, Arden began a technical collaboration with Mercedes-affiliated
FIA Formula 3 and
Formula E outfit
HWA RACELAB and signed
Alfa Romeo racing team's Test Driver,
Tatiana Calderon as their first driver and
Renault junior and reigning
GP3 champion,
Anthoine Hubert as their second driver. However, Hubert died after a crash during the
2019 Spa-Francorchamps Formula 2 feature race. On 23 September 2019 Arden announced that
Artem Markelov will return to the F2 series to run at Sochi and Abu Dhabi. He would be running the 22 car since the 19 was retired for the season in honor of Hubert. However the team will not race for the
2020 season, and instead will be replaced by
HWA Racelab.
BRDC Formula 3 Arden announced they would expand into the
BRDC British F3 series for the
2021 season, with Frederick Lubin graduating from the
F4 British Championship to take the first seat. Alex Connor filled the second seat for the first 3 race weekends, with Roman Bilinski taking over the seat from Spa onwards. Despite missing the first three rounds Roman Bilinski finished a respectable 7th in the drivers championship, in both his and the team's debut season in the championship. Bilinski was named 3rd in Autosport's 'Top 5 GB3 Drivers of 2021'. ==Current series results==