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| Founded | 2004 (as Team AKA) 2007 (as CR Scuderia) |
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| Team principal(s) | Chris Niarchos Andrew Kirkaldy |
| Former series | European Championship GP3 Series British Formula Renault Championship |
| Teams' Championships | 1 (2008 British GT) |
| Drivers' Championships | 1 (2008 British F. Renault) |
CRS Racing is a British auto racing team founded by British driver Andrew Kirkaldy and Canadian-Greek driver and entrepreneur Chris Niarchos. The team was founded in 2007, but is based on the former team of Kirkaldy known as Team AKA which competed in the British Formula Renault Championship starting in 2004. Niarchos, founder of the Cobra Group, sponsored and then partnered with Kirkaldy's team before it was reformed in 2007 in order to expand beyond Formula Renault to enter the European FIA GT Championship and British GT Championship.
In 2010 CRS Racing partnered with McLaren Automotive to develop their sports car program, eventually rebranding as McLaren GT to build and maintain their customer cars.[1] CRS Racing concentrated solely on McLaren GT after 2012.
- ^ Watkins, Gary (21 November 2017). "McLaren developing new 720S GT3 car in-house for 2019". Autosport. Retrieved 13 December 2020.