Team Azhaar Pro Racing

Team Azhaar Pro Racing
Founded	IOWCC 1
Founder(s)	Amy Graad, Filipe Sagnier
Base	Azhaar, Lisander
Team principal(s)	Filipe Sagnier
Former series	IOWCC
Noted drivers	Lukas Horsch; Arturia Nero
Current drivers	Lianna Rasianoara; Filipe Brava

Team Azhaar Pro Racing is an Azhaari-Lisanderian motor racing team that competes in formula single-seaters with a license from Team Azhaar Pro Cycling, a Cycling team based in Cidade de Lisander, Lisander, Both teams are partly held by HRMN Capital. The team was founded after WGPC Season 4, as a spin-off project of Bitten Heroes Grand Prix Engineering, focused on lower divisions of Motorsport.

International Open Wheel Car Championship

Led by Amy Granier, one of the engineers from Bitten Heroes, the team developed HPR01, a car based in WGPC-spec, but with its technologies much downscaled, to join the International Open Wheel Car Championship on its first season. For the seats, Lianna Rasianoara was kept from the team that finished WGP2, while Athan Lille moved to Astyrian F1. Another Academy Driver, Lukas Horsch, was promoted from Formula 3. The team was run by Bitten Heroes factory personnel while the upper echelon was devoted to Anneliese at WGPC. Horsch finished the season third, with a win in Kasandora and five podiums. Rasianoara finished twelfth, with her best race finish being a seventh place in Mathorn. The result was deemed satisfactory, and the project was renewed for another season.

For the second season, IOWCC deemed the HPR1 as "too strong" and required them to down the spec once more, which raised suspicions of IOWCC officials favouring a specific rival team. Upset, but unable to cancel the contract, Bitten Heroes developed a new HPR2, that was in fact even cheaper and slower than the HPR1. The discomfort was so great that even the HRMN decided to withdraw its sponsorship of the team. WinBets, a betting company looking to improve its corporate image, took its place. With Horsch refusing to keep for another season due to the imbroglio, and Rasianoara moving out to Camden, to race in the Aurunan Endurance Championship, the team had no one to accept such "inconvenient" seats. Ultimately, the first seat was handed to Arturia Nero, a protegée of Kimi Nasunen and its Saber Ironworks' TEAM-MOON, who had just returned from Formula Hinode. The second seat was offered to F3 Drivers, and accepted by João Valentim Dias, a veteran driver pushing for a last season.

During the season, the team struggled with distrust in the organization, but regardless of this Nero was always at the best of her level. However, a strange series of incidents involving the young pilot turned on the yellow light. When at Krbustan, Arturia Nero was knocked off the track by Luca Armstrong, she was still leading the championship. Her abandonment was enough to knock her out of the top spot. In the next and final race of the season, in Lisander (officially in Azhaar), again Nero was pressured off the track in the dangerous beach chicane of Kasandora and crashed. Once again she was out of the points, and the opponent to whom the rumours pointed took the drivers' championship. Disgusted by what the media called "veiled favouritism", the team decided to drop from the series permanently. Coincidence or not, the IOWCC seems to have folded after that exact race.

AOGP

Team Azhaar Pro Racing made a return for the AOGP Season 2, once more with Lianna Rasianoara in the first seat. For the second seat, Filipe Brava, promoted from Formula 3, sponsored by Vetinari Group, joined the team. Rasianoara is set to take part in Aurun Endurance Championship, concurrently with AOGP.

To join the new series, the team started with partly-ready cars, as the AOGP spec shared visible similarities to the FH170 that had been used in Formula Endurance by Bitten Heroes. Team Azhaar acquired the original cars and projects from its predecessor and used them as the starting point for the project of the new one. Updates were made, and the car also got a new engine, a Camden SC-i4X, the test version of a new Inline-Four 2.0, which the Sirenia factory has been trialling for use by Formula 2.0, the FSA's upcoming single-seater category. The finished car was named C70 and used Superia HS2 tyres for testing, before changing for the AOGP-mandatory Tropicorp Sifaka.

The combination of young drivers and an irregular, Frankenstein-ish car, generated equally irregular results. Despite a good result in Lopinka with 5th and 6th places, it was not enough to make the team develop some continuity. Before the two final races of the season, Team Azhaar was the penultimate in the general classification.