The team were formed in 2007 and was headed by Barry Walsh. He enlisted 2 ex McLaren personnel, Jonny Ostrowski and Colin Morgan to set up and run the team in the 2007
British Formula 3 Championship. At the end of the year they joined forces with the French outfit
Signature-Plus to create Ultimate Signature, to run in the
World Series by Renault in 2008. The team had considerable financial backing from the Angolan oil company
Sonangol, who have helped to create the Ultimate Motorsport Academy, which aims to take young drivers from
karting up to
Formula One, passing through various formulae such as
Formula BMW, Formula Three and World Series by Renault.
2008 The team began the season with two Brazilian drivers, long-time Formula Three racer
Fabio Carbone and
Claudio Cantelli, who graduated from the
International Formula Master series. After a slow start to the season, which saw the team take one point from the first three rounds, Cantelli was replaced by Argentine
Esteban Guerrieri, who was promoted from the Ultimate Motorsport
British Formula 3 team. At the fifth round of the season in Hungary, Carbone took the team's first podium position with third place in the sprint race, and the following day he won their first race after starting from
Pole position. Carbone took two further victories at the
Nürburgring and
Estoril to finish third in the standings behind
Julien Jousse and champion
Giedo van der Garde. After starting the feature race at
Le Mans on pole, Guerrieri finished in third place to claim his first podium position before going on to win the final race of the season at
Barcelona. He finished eighth in the championship despite missing the first five races of the season. After securing eight podiums over the course of the year, Ultimate Signature finished their début season in a superb second place in the Teams' championship.
2009 For the 2009 the team signed Spanish driver
Miguel Molina and British driver
Greg Mansell son of former
Formula One world champion,
Nigel Mansell, Molina scored 3 podium finishes during the season, while Mansell scored only 4 points. Just before the Nürburgring rounds, the team lost its Sonangol backing and Mansell also decided to leave the team, and as a result the team were forced to withdraw from the Championship.
World Series by Renault results • Cantelli's points were scored with the
RC Motorsport team ==References==