During 2009, the team was sold and all remaining ties with part-owner Nelson Piquet were severed. The team was rebranded "Rapax" (Latin for "predator") at the beginning of
2010, after the
Legio XXI Rapax Roman legion.
Pastor Maldonado rejoined the team, alongside
Luiz Razia. Maldonado won six races on his way to the drivers' championship, and Razia backed him up with 11th place overall, allowing Rapax to win the teams' championship for the first time, and in the first year of its new identity. For
2011, Maldonado graduated to Formula One with the
Williams team and Razia moved to the new
Caterham Team AirAsia; Rapax signed
Fabio Leimer and
Julián Leal to replace them. Leimer won a single race but was unable build on it, restricting him to fourteenth place in the drivers' championship, whilst Leal did not score at all; Rapax dropped to tenth in the teams' championship. In
2012, the team improved to ninth overall through the combined efforts of
Tom Dillmann,
Stefano Coletti,
Ricardo Teixeira and
Daniël de Jong. Dillmann was the most successful with a single victory, but was dropped for budgetary reasons mid-season and replaced by De Jong. De Jong's
Auto GP racing commitments also resulted in him missing the final two races of the championship, for which he was replaced by
Scuderia Coloni refugee Coletti. By contrast, Teixeira competed in all but one round of the season, but failed to score any points. For
2013 the team kept Coletti and signed with
Simon Trummer. Coletti took three race wins and improved to the fifth place in the standings. While Trummer had six point-scoring finishes on his way to the 20th place in the driver standings. Trummer was retained for the
2014 GP2 Series. He was joined by
Adrian Quaife-Hobbs. The team had suffered a weak season, with just one podium that Quaife-Hobbs had collected. The team had completely changed their line-up for the
2015 GP2 Series, signing with
Sergey Sirotkin and
Robert Vișoiu. The team had scored its first win since
2013 Monaco round with Sirotkin in the
2015 Silverstone round. Sirotkin was also the first Rapax driver since Maldonado who had finished in the top-three in the driver standings with the team. For the last two rounds of the season Visoiu was replaced by
Gustav Malja. Malja remained with the team for the full
2016 GP2 Series campaign.
Arthur Pic completed the team line-up. Malja had podiums at Spa and Monza, while Pic finished on podium at
Hockenheimring. Pic was replaced by
Johnny Cecotto Jr. in the two final rounds. Rapax ended ninth in the team standings. In , the GP2 Series was rebranded to
FIA Formula 2 Championship. The team had started the season with Cecotto and
Nyck de Vries. De Vries won the Sprint Monaco F2 race — the first race win for the Rapax since Sirotkin in 2015. At Spielberg Cecotto was replaced by
Sergio Canamasas.
René Binder had a one-off round appearance for Rapax at Jerez. Despite not having a permanent driver line-up, results shown by De Vries helped the team to achieve fifth place in the teams standings — the highest position since they took the teams' championship back in 2010. But the team decided to stop their racing activity and leave the FIA Formula 2 Championship. ==Results==