| Trade name | Supertec |
|---|---|
| Foundation | Netherlands 1998 (age 28) |
| Fate | Assets bought by Renault Sport |
| Defunct | 2001 (age 25) |
| Location | Netherlands |
| Industry | Automotive automobile racing (motorsport) |
| Key people | Bruno Michel and Flavio Briatore |
| Products | Internal combustion engines and car engine assembly |
| Services | Performance engineering, Precision manufacturing |
Supertec was a brand of Formula One engines supplied by Dutch company Super Performance Competition Engineering BV,[1] managed by Flavio Briatore and Bruno Michel.[2] Supertec engines were updated 1997 Renault RS9 units, built by Mecachrome.
In May 1998 Super Performance Competition Engineering signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Mecachrome to begin in the 1999 season. The engines were purchased and rebadged as Supertec. Supertecs powered Williams, Benetton and BAR in 1999, and Benetton and Arrows in 2000. The Benetton team rebadged the engines as Playlife.
After the 2000 season, Supertec collapsed due to financial problems and Renault Sport F1 bought back Supertec's assets in 2001.[citation needed]
Complete Formula One World Championship results
| Debut | 1999 Australian Grand Prix |
|---|---|
| Final race | 2000 Malaysian Grand Prix |
| Races | 82 |
| Chassis | British American Racing, Benetton, Williams, Arrows |
| Cons champ | 0 |
| Drivers champ | 0 |
| Wins | 0 |
| Podiums | 7 |
| Points | 78 |
| Poles | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 1 |
(key) (results in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Entrant | Chassis | Engine | Tyres | Drivers | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | Points | WCC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British American Racing | BAR 01 | FB01 3.0 V10 | AUS | BRA | SMR | MON | ESP | CAN | FRA | GBR | AUT | GER | HUN | BEL | ITA | EUR | MAL | JPN | 0 | NC | ||||
| Jacques Villeneuve | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 15 | 8 | 10 | Ret | 9 | ||||||||
| Ricardo Zonta | Ret | DNQ | Ret | 9 | Ret | 15 | Ret | 13 | Ret | Ret | 8 | Ret | 12 | |||||||||||
| Mika Salo | 7 | Ret | 8 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Mild Seven Benetton Playlife | Benetton B199 | Playlife FB01 3.0 V10 | Giancarlo Fisichella | 4 | Ret | 5 | 5 | 9 | 2 | Ret | 7 | 12 | Ret | Ret | 11 | Ret | Ret | 11 | 14 | 16 | 6th | |||
| Alexander Wurz | Ret | 7 | Ret | 6 | 10 | Ret | Ret | 10 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 14 | Ret | Ret | 8 | 10 | ||||||||
| Winfield Williams | Williams FW21 | FB01 3.0 V10 | Ralf Schumacher | 3 | 4 | Ret | Ret | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | Ret | 4 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 4 | Ret | 5 | 35 | 5th | |||
| Alessandro Zanardi | Ret | Ret | 11 | 8 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 11 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 8 | 7 | Ret | 10 | Ret | ||||||||
| Arrows F1 Team | Arrows A21 | FB02 3.0 V10 | AUS | BRA | SMR | GBR | ESP | EUR | MON | CAN | FRA | AUT | GER | HUN | BEL | ITA | USA | JPN | MAL | 7 | 7th | |||
| Pedro de la Rosa | Ret | 8 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 6 | DNS | Ret | Ret | Ret | 6 | 16 | 16 | Ret | Ret | 12 | Ret | |||||||
| Jos Verstappen | Ret | 7 | 14 | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 5 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 13 | 15 | 4 | Ret | Ret | 10 | |||||||
| Mild Seven Benetton Playlife | Benetton B200 | Playlife FB02 3.0 V10 | Giancarlo Fisichella | 5 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 9 | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 11 | Ret | 14 | 9 | 20 | 4th | ||
| Alexander Wurz | 7 | Ret | 9 | 9 | 10 | 12 | Ret | 9 | Ret | 10 | Ret | 11 | 13 | 5 | 10 | Ret | 7 |
References
- ^ "Trademarks owned by Super Performance Competition Engineering BV". Inventively Inc. Retrieved 9 February 2016.[dead link]
- ^ "Who owns Mecachrome?". Grandprix.com. Inside F1, Inc. 25 May 1998. Retrieved 10 February 2016.