Eminent WGPC Team
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| Founded | WGPC 19 |
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| Founder(s) | Fireline Motorsports Bitten Heroes |
| Base | Protectorate of Neomaris, Lisander |
| Team principal(s) | Callum Ascander |
| Current series | World Grand Prix Championship |
| Noted drivers | 40. Adriana Ela Kowalski Lillian (WGPC 19-20)7.  Anneliese Devereux (WGPC 19-20) |
Eminent WGPC Team, (formerly 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. The new relationship saw 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 two seasons before, Team Bitten Heroes had 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 midtable 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 then working together in a bid to reach the grid for the season, the two teams hoped that their collaboration will allow for a more competitive season for both.
However, as the seasons unfolded, both Bitten Heroes and Fireline ended up pulling of the plug of the project, that started, little by little, to move as a privateer team, from its second season.
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
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 |
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| 19 | Eminent E19 | Official 1.6 V6 t |
Official |  LEN |
 HDR |
 NIM |
 TUR |
 ABL SPR |
ABL FEA |
 NEK |
 FID |
 AUR |
 STL SPR |
STL FEA |
 HAP |
 VIL |
84 | 7th | |
| Adriana Kowalski Ela Lillian
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14 | 21 | 15 | 22 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 16 | 18 | 15 | 12 | ||||||
| Anneliese Devereux
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7 | 18 | 6 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 19 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 19 | 17 | ||||||
| 20 | Eminent E20 | Sidus 1.6 V6 t |
Phoenician-InMotion | LEN |
 TGN |
 TRP |
 DCS |
NIM |
AUR |
HAP |
 TMB |
ABL |
 ESM |
73 | 7th | ||||
| Adriana Kowalski Ela Lillian
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3 | 21 | 5 | Ret | Ret | 21 | Ret | 12 | 6 | 20 | |||||||||
| Anneliese Devereux
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1 | 27 | 13 | 3 | 8 | 19 | 17 | 22 | 8 | 22 |