Eminent WGPC Team

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EthaneLisander Eminent
FoundedWGPC 19
Founder(s)Fireline Motorsports
Bitten Heroes
BaseProtectorate of Neomaris, Lisander
Team principal(s)Callum Ascander
Current seriesWorld Grand Prix Championship
Noted drivers40.Valentine Z Adriana Ela Kowalski Lillian (WGPC 19-20)
7.Lisander Anneliese Devereux (WGPC 19-20)

Fireline + Heroes Eminent WGPC Team, usually resumed as Eminent, is an Ethanian-Lisanderian World Grand Prix Championship racing team established by Bitten Heroes Grand Prix Engineering and Fireline Motorsports, to compete in World Grand Prix Championship 19. This new relationship sees the two teams combine their expertise and car research and development programmes for at least this season in an effort to stay within the rapidly advancing competitive grid in WGPC. For the past two seasons, Team Bitten Heroes have been "renting" their licence and have had some mediocre results, but were hoping with government backing to reenter the WGPC under their own power. Fireline Motorsports are another team not well-established in the WGPC with a string of relatively mediocre season finishes and a lack of the level of financial backing needed to reach the top of the grid in WGPC. With the two teams now working together in a bid to reach the grid for the season, the two teams will be hoping that their collaboration will allow for a more competitive season for both.

WGPC Seasons

WGPC 19: the foundation

The team was founded as a joint venture, a partnership between two teams that have had a strong shared history together, both having started their WGPC journeys in season 15. In the first season, the team saw collaboration across the board, especially in areas such as research and development, strategy, and publicity. However, inside the paddock, Fireline and Bitten Heroes each had their own space and each team predominantly managed one side of the garage. Fireline kept the contract of Valentian driver Adriana Ela Kowalski Lillian, while Bitten Heroes opted to keep Anneliese Devereux, previously in team TAS-Alliance. The name Eminent itself emerged from the depths of collaboration between these two teams. Two teams coming together was a noteworthy event, with the goal of being prominent in the WGPC season with lofty goals. Also, both teams already shared the same colours. The WGP2 Academy Teams remained separate institutions.

The season was plagued by inconsistency, with only one race win by Kowalski, and other two podiums in Abovelandian Grand Prix, where Devereux finished at position 2 and Kowalski in position 3. By the enf of the season, they were acknowledged as the seventh-best team in the grid.

WGPC 20: Bitten Heroes pull the support, Anneliese keeps with new sponsors

The E20 was the challenger of the team for the WGPC20 season.

For the following season, Bitten Heroes GPE ended its international operations, transferring structure and personnel to Eminent, as well as releasing Devereux. Despite that, Callum Ascander, team director, advanced to the media that "this disruption has not impacted the competitiveness of the car for this season."[1] Ascander also confirmed the interest of the team to retain the same drivers from the previous season. Anneliese Devereux accepted to return to the team, however, this time backed by a pair different sponsors. Wishes Foundation, a charity that supports orphans, and Vetinari Racing. Vetinari is a racing team from Lisander, a longtime customer team of Camden Motorsport. One of its key figures, Ricardo Vetinari, son of the founder, Paolo Vetinari, was among those leading TAS-Alliance Racing project in WGPC 18.

The season started on a good note, with Devereux and Kowalski managing a double podium in Liventia, Kowalski ending Nimbus Grand Prix in fifth place and Anneliese scoring a third place in Diarcesia. However, the car proven itself somewhat unreliable, with Devereux spending most of the season outside the points zone, and Kowalski retiring multiple times. In the end, despite getting more updates from Sidus, the team wasn't able to get many points, and could not climb further in the constructors table, repeating the seventh place.

WGPC 21: Fireline takes a break

Before the start of the World Grand Prix Championship 21, Eminent signed up with WGPO for a new season without their original pretitle of F+H (that stood for Fireline + Heroes). It was also announced the team had successfully moved Ethanian part of the operation to Neomaris, the Lisanderian protectorate in Esportiva, at least for the duration of the season, in case they are awarded the spot, implying that after Bitten Heroes, Fireline also parted ways with its successor.

Complete WGPC Results

Season Chassis Engine Tyres Drivers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Points WCC
19 Eminent E19 Official
1.6 V6 t
Official Liventia
LEN
Hodori
HDR
Nexus Wardship of Former Citizens of the Nimbus_System
NIM
Turori
TUR
Aboveland
ABL
SPR
Aboveland
ABL
FEA
Nekoni
NEK
Filindostan
FID
Auruna
AUR
Siovanija and Teusland
STL
SPR
Siovanija and Teusland
STL
FEA
Hapilopper
HAP
Vilita
VIL
84 7th
Valentine Z Adriana Kowalski Ela Lillian 14 21 15 22 17 3 1 17 7 16 18 15 12
Lisander Anneliese Devereux 7 18 6 11 10 2 7 19 14 17 21 19 17
20 Eminent E20 Sidus
1.6 V6 t
Phoenician-InMotion Liventia
LEN
Togonistan
TGN
Tropicorp
TRP
Diarcesia
DCS
Nexus Wardship of Former Citizens of the Nimbus_System
NIM
Auruna
AUR
Hapilopper
HAP
Tumbra
TMB
Aboveland
ABL
Esmerel
ESM
73 7th
Valentine Z Adriana Kowalski Ela Lillian 3 21 5 Ret Ret 21 Ret 12 6 20
Lisander Anneliese Devereux 1 27 13 3 8 19 17 22 8 22

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