News

2015

January

Squadra Corse enteres its first endurance race with the 24H Dubai and the pilots; Thomas Loefflad, Yoshiki Ohmura, Andreas Segler and Thomas Stockinger. The team qualifyed the car on P88 and succusfuly completed the race moving up to P52 (overall) and P10 in class.

2014

December	Thomas Loefflad finishes his first racing season with the big success of taking 2nd place in Ferrari Challenge Coppa Shell World Finals in Abu Dhabi. [click for full press release]
October	Andreas Segler makes his debut with the Ferrari 458 Challenge in the Ferrari Challenge Coppa Shell driving for Squadra Corse at the Istanbul race weekend. He impressed with a P8 (R1) and P6 (R2) classification in his championship premier.
August	Abarth team driver and coach Yoshiki Ohmura will be the official pace car driver at the Lignieres Historique event, driving the new Abarth 695 Biposto. www.lignieres-historique.ch
July	Squadra Corse expands it's racing activity by teaming up with Birel to launch SC's karting squad with drivers Ryan Tveter, Marlon Stockinger, Alex Joensson and Yoshiki Ohmura and more in the pipeline.
June	Yoshiki Ohmura returns to the seat of the team's Formula Abarth to compete in the Italian F2 championship. The race weekend was a success with a P4 and P2 finish in the class.
June	Brno saw the next round of the Ferrari Challenge, with Thomas Loefflad producing his best result of the season with a P4 in R1. The 2nd race was action packed with a grueling duel with Thomas fighting to take third place, but an unfortunate spin meant that he finsihed P7 in the race.
May	Auto Pierre Sudan, the official Ferrari dealer of Zug, Switzerland held their annual client event in Monza. As official racing partner of the dealership, Squadra Corse managed the race cars at the event.
May	Squadra Corse returned to the European Ferrari Championship with driver Thomas Loefflad in Mugello. After an unfortunate incident in R1, resulting in Thomas's race prematurely ending (and a penalty for the driver who crashed into Thomas), Thomas had a strong rebound in the second race, finishing in P5.
April	Squadra Corse's driver Thomas Loefflad had a strong start to the Ferrari Challenge Championship, finishing P8 and P7 in the first two races in Monza. Even more impressive was his P2 starting position in Race 2, considering this was the drivers first race weekend ever.
February	Squadra Corse will enter select races in the 2014 Ferrari Challenge Championship with the new F458 Challenge Evo car driven by Thomas Loefflad. The first round of the championship will be held at Monza on the weekend of April 4-6.
February	Squadra Corse's pilots start the winter season testing at Ascari Race Resort in Spain. The drivers will complete 3 x 2 test day sessions in Feb/Mar. Squadra Corse has setup a temporary base in Spain to support the drivers and cars during the time.

2013

May	Auto Pierre Sudan (official Ferrari dealer from Zug, Switzerland) appoints Squadra Corse to support their Ferrari Challenge clients at the event in Monza, Italy. The Squadra Corse Team are responsible for the mechanical and engineering work on the race cars and also supports the drivers with professional instructors.
May	Yoshiki Ohmura drives for the Abarth works team in Dijon in the Abarth Trofeo Benelux with the Abarth 500 Asseto Corse and places 4th for the weekend, behind Christian Menzel and Arturo Merzario.
April	Yoshiki Ohmura continues his work as Driver, Coach & Brand Ambassador for Abarth Switzerland. As part of this, Squadra Corse has been retained for the Make it Your Race 2013 project after the succesfull conclusion and global TV release of last years TV show.
March	Squadra Corse begins the new season with a test session in Barcelona in the teams Ferrari F430 GT3 followed by the testing program in the Formula Abarth.

2012

November	Squadra Corse becomes the offical franchise partner for Stand 21 in Switzerland. Stand 21 has been a leader in race safety equipment for over 40 years and the official supplier to Porsche Motorsports in addition to many other top racing teams.
October	After 6 race weekends and 12 races, Squadra Corse/Tomcat Racing succesfully defend the Formula 2000 Light Championship, securing the constructurs title in the championship as well as 1st and 2nd place in the drivers championship.
July	Squadra Corse completed the first on track test with the Lola F3000 in Franciacorta with Yoshiki Ohmura. Here are some highlights of the test: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGoGrqTCRkw
June	Yoshiki Ohmura returns to Formula Medicine for the periodic check up and training. During this stay he set the new standard for the concentration test.
April	As part of the collaboration between the Squadra Corse team and Abarth Switzerland, Yoshiki Ohmura has been chosen to Coach the Swiss team of drivers in "Make It Your Race 2012", the talent show organized by Abarth devoted to aspiring pilots aged between 18 and 40 from Germany, United Kingdom, France , Switzerland and Belgium-Luxembourg (in a reality TV format).
April 13-15	Squadra Corse and Tomcat join forces again to compete in the Formula 2000 Light Championship. First race weekend of season in Imola proves to be very challenging due to heavey rain. The team scores 1, 2 and 3 position in the 2000 Top Category.
March 26-30	Yoshiki Ohmura visits Formula Medicine to submit to one of the periodic check-ups with the aim of evaluating his mental and physical condition.
January	The worldchampion of car painting Joao Goncalves personally executes the paint work and finishing for the F3000 car thanks to support from DuPont paints, SATA, 3M and Luxury Car Clinic.
January	Evolve completes preliminary design work for the Formula 3000 car.

2011

November 12-13	Squadra Corse finishes the racing season with an overall 3rd place finish in the Formula 2000 Winter Trophy held in Varano, Italy. Driver Yoshiki Ohmura placed 4th in the first race and clinched 2nd in the second race.
October 24	Squadra Corse takes delivery of the Lancia Delta Integrale Evo2 'Martini Racing' after a complete rebuild project taking 9 months.
October 10-12	Yoshiki Ohmura visits Formula Medicine to submit to one of the periodic check-ups with the aim of evaluating his mental and physical condition.	www.formulamedicine.com
October 1-2	Yoshiki Ohmura concluded the Italian Formula 2000 Championship in Monza. Despite some bad luck and our first DNF for the season we carried enough points into this race weekend to secure the second place in the F. 2000 Top Class for 2011 Championship in addition to the first place in the team championship with our partner Tomcat Racing.