YTF1

YTF1

Full name	YTF1 sim-racing team
Owner/s	Matthew Allington
Base	Cheshire, England
Key staff	Team principal: Matthew Allington Current drivers: Mikael Tuomaala Morten Wernersen Wopke Hoekstra Adam Ozgur Former drivers: Scott Berrisford Florea Calin Joshua Anderson Tommi Koivunen
Year Joined	2013
Series Entered	2013 Formula Challenge 2013/14 International Touring Cup 2014 Formula Challenge
Associated Teams	None
Website	[1]

YTF1 is a British team currently competing in the International Touring Cup and Formula Challenge. The team, in it's original from, was founded in Schoonhoven, the Netherlands, in 2010 and participated in a private series with friends of the original owner, using Grand Prix 3. After hearing about the intention of the original owner to shut the team down, Matthew Allington took over the team in December 2011 and continued to run it in the aforementioned series. After the series fizzled out, Allington decided to reorganize the team and enter it into the GPVWC.

History

2013

YTF1 made it's GPVWC début at the 2013 Challenge French Grand Prix, the 13th round of the season. It's main drivers were Romanian Florea Calin and Englishman Scott Berrisford. The team's original lineup featured Joshua Anderson and Mikael Tuomaala. However, both drivers left the team after the French round, resulting in the team's reserve driver, Berrisford, being promoted to 'Primary driver' status and the other seat being handed to Calin. Perry Vink deputized for Calin at the 2013 Challenge United States Grand Prix.

Berrisford scored the team's first points in the German round and continued to score points in every round thereafter. The team's best result of the season was a 5th place at Suzuka.

On 9th October, YTF1's application to join the 2013/14 International Touring Cup season was accepted. Shortly afterwards it was announced that Tuomaala would be returning to the team, driving alongside fellow Finn Tommi Koivunen in BMW machinery. Koivunen was later replaced by Morten Wernersen.

Tuomaala scored YTF1's best result to date at Snetterton, scoring a 4th-place finish in the third race. Wernersen later made history at the Watkins Glen round by becoming the first driver to lead a race for YTF1, having been granted reversed-grid pole for race 3.

2014

In 2014, YTF1 will return to the Formula Challenge. With their lead driver of 2013, Berrisford, moving to Enterprise GP, YTF1 hired race-winning Dutchman Wopke Hoekstra to spearhead their 2014 lineup. YTF1 later announced that Adam Ozgur would join the team for their FC campaign.

The team also collaborated with Cosmo Autosport to field an entry into the GPVWC 24 Hours of Le Mans. Their entry finished 11th out of 13.