Jaguar Espirit GP Racing

Jaguar Espirit GP Racing is a racing team which competes in the ION Formula One Championship. The team was founded by bguyss in the first season of ION Formula 1, and is still currently owned by him.

History
Jaguar Espirit GP Racing has existed since the beginning of the first season of Formula 1. Their owner, bguyss, founded the team, basing the name off of an existing team in the game Motorsport Manager. The team signed both KundayiMuskwe6time as well as ILordSkiesI. Their team owner has not been changed since the beginning of ION, and have managed to finish within the top 5 in each season of Formula 1.

Season 1
The first season of ION Formula 1 for Espirit GP had not started the best, as in the Australian Grand Prix, only ILordSkiesI was able to finish at P10. The next races did not go to plan for the team until the Canadian Grand Prix. KundayiMuskwe6time was released from the team and Kastrionx was signed. Though he was unable to attend the race, ILordSkiesI got their highest points finish by far, finishing in 6th position. The races following the Canadian GP proved that the new signing was successful, gaining multiple high point finishes within the top 10. The team got their first ever podium in the Season 1 French Grand Prix, finishing in both 2nd and 3rd positions. They finished off the season in P5, with a total of 116 points.

Season 2
The second season of ION Formula 1 started off strong for the Espirit GP team, now partnered with a new main sponsor, Jaguar. Kastrionx finished in P3 at the Australian Grand Prix, and many more podiums followed throughout the season.

The team suffered a major loss at the Japanese Grand Prix, where Kastrionx had not shown up and the reserve driver TDMFAN_1903 had to race in his place. ILordSkiesI and TDMFAN_1903 scored P13 and P14 respectively. However from there, they continued to show multiple points finishes and achieved their first ever pole position by Kastrionx in the Mexican Grand Prix qualifying, with a time only 0.009 seconds in front of P2.

When the Puerto Rican Grand Prix approached, the team moved ILordSkiesI into a reserve spot and signed SengStam, their GT3 driver, who had shown pace in the Formula 1 cars. He was able to get P7 on his debut, and did not score much higher after that, but he slowly started to find his rhythm in scoring within the top 5.

SengStam's first ever podium only came at the last race of the season, the Qatar Grand Prix, where he secured P2 for the team. However, at the offseason of Season 2, SengStam was demoted to reserve driver and pdxs2000, Espirit's reserve who subbed for him from the start of season 3, took his spot due to inactivity

Season 3.
Espirit had a lot of hope coming into the third season of F1, with the same roster from the same season of Kastrionx and SengStam. But, because of Seng's scheduling issues for Seng and Kast. Reserve Drivers RealMiggykulit97 and pdxs2000 stepped up to replace the two. The race was grueling to say the least. But then reserve pdxs clings on for a p9 finish, starting the team's season off with a points finish. The team had higher hopes coming into the race in Suwon. With main driver Kastrionx qualifying second and reserve pdxs2000 stepping in once again to replace Seng, qualifying 8th on the grid. But, the race didn't go smooth sailing though, as pd got caught out by a tyre glitch, and Kastrionx crucially crashing out in the last laps of the race. Leaving the team with no points to bring home as pdxs finished 15th.

The team had slightly better fortunes in the Greece race where the other teams struggled though, with pd managing to return back to the grid and finishing 8th, his best finish yet. Though Kast, in the first dry race of the season, had to retire due to real life complications that forced him to go from the severely delayed race, denying Espirit another potential points finish. Not the same thing could be said in the France race, though. As pdxs crashed out on the second lap of the race, and reserve driver Criticalnoob321 following suit in the few laps after.

Great Britain, though not the most disastrous race for Espirit on paper, was the most heartbreaking. As Kastrionx put too much throttle on the pits and crashed out after a masterful fuel saving strategy throughout the race. pdxs2000 was also caught out by the rain mid track after a poorly-timed pitstop call, which brought him down the pecking order to P13. Canada was the next race, which marks another race where both drivers failed to finish. With Kastrionx being not classified for what would have been his first points finish in the season. Relegating the team to last place in the teams standings.

However, in the next race in Italy. A seemingly normal race with Criticalnoob321 and pdxs2000 starting from P15 and P17 in the back quickly turned out to be a race for the ages. As this race became one of attrition, Criticalnoob's masterful tyre management allowed the Swedish team to score their first, and highest double points finish coming from both drivers. With Criticalnoob's first classified finish being an impressive and amazing P4 as his first classified finish, while pdxs smashes his old record of his finish in Greece, and finishes P5. And, The team more than not doubled, not tripled, but almost quadrupled their points with the help of Critical and pdxs' finish result. Making them 10th in front of Lotus and Redstar.

The next race in Mexico was the breakthrough race for Espirit. With the new hire, KapitanBo driving the first seat, the Espirit car rocketed to the top times on the standings sheets consistently throughout every session. With Kapitan showing true pace throughout practice. He managed to pull one of the first grand chelem done in a race with dakair2 finishing, which is a race where someone qualified pole, got the fastest lap, and won the race. The win that Kapitan had was the saving grace that Espirit needed in the standing. Which had a terrible season, but managed to claw their way back to their first ION win in F1 after seasons of unfulfilled promise.

After a strong form in Mexico, hopes were high for Espirit as they were running a special white and red Japanese GP livery. Though, the tricky track claimed both drivers as they clouted with the wall, with Kastrionx crushingly close to claiming a podium place as he crashed out in P4. Marking the third double DNF of the team. With the disappointment of Japan, Espirit pushed itself to go higher in the next race, which is the UAE. And the drivers delivered on it. As KapitanBo pulled another grand chelem by starting in pole, getting fastest lap, and finishing first. And Kastrionx finishing a strong 7th place after a not-so ideal season, beating former teammate SengStam in a drag race that was separated by four tenths.