Arden International
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| Founded | 1997 |
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| Founder(s) |
Christian Horner Garry Horner |
| Base | Banbury, Oxfordshire, England |
| Team principal(s) | Richard Dent Kenny Kirwan Ben Bloomfield |
| Current series |
GP2 Series GP3 Series Formula V8 3.5 F4 British Championship |
| Former series |
GP2 Asia Series Formula 3000 Italian Formula 3000 A1 Grand Prix |
| Current drivers |
 Sean Gelael Norman Nato Niko Kari Dan Ticktum
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| Teams' Championships |
Italian Formula 3000: 2000 International Formula 3000: 2002, 2003, 2004 Formula V8 3.5: 2016 |
| Drivers' Championships |
International Formula 3000: 2003: Björn Wirdheim 2004: Vitantonio Liuzzi GP3 Series: 2012: Mitch Evans 2013: Daniil Kvyat |
| Website | http://www.arden-motorsport.com/ |
Arden International is a multiple formula racing team created and run by Christian Horner, Red Bull Racing's F1 team principal. It currently runs teams in the GP2 Series, GP3 Series and the Formula Renault 3.5 series.
It has been competing since 1997 and has raced in the Formula 3000 International Championship, the Italian Formula 3000 series, and the A1 GP series for Great Britain.
Due to the Arden's strong business connections and sponsorship, and because Horner is team principal at Red Bull Racing, the team often signs Red Bull Junior Team drivers as a way to pave forward future F1 drivers. Many drivers have been Red Bull Juniors, including Michael Ammermüller, Neel Jani, Adrian Zaugg, Filipe Albuquerque, Sébastien Buemi, Lewis Williamson, António Félix da Costa, Daniil Kvyat, Carlos Sainz, Jr., Niko Kari and Dan Ticktum.
The team was initially created as a vehicle to enable 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 (who 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 who 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.
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