21 Facts About Virgin Racing

Virgin Racing was a Formula One racing team which was under management of Manor Motorsport, Wirth Research and Richard Branson's Virgin Group and competed in 2010 with a British licence and in 2011 with a Russian licence.

The team's original car, the Virgin Racing VR-01, was the first in Formula One to be developed using only computational fluid dynamics, and was driven by Timo Glock and Lucas di Grassi.

Marussia Virgin Racing was renamed to Marussia F1 Team at the end of 2011.

Virgin Racing retained its base in Dinnington, South Yorkshire as well as setting up the technical base in Banbury, Oxfordshire for the construction of the racing cars.

In February 2009, Richard Branson's Virgin organisation was reportedly bidding for the former Honda Racing F1 Team.

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Less than one month after the Virgin Racing partnership was officially launched, Tai left his position and Booth took over as team principal, with Lowdon becoming the CEO.

Virgin Racing were based on a three-way partnership between Manor Motorsport, which ran the cars, Wirth Research, which designed them and Virgin which handled commercial operations.

Virgin Racing was partnered by Brazilian GP2 Series regular Lucas di Grassi.

Virgin Racing modified the front wing mounting of the VR-01 ahead of the third day's running in Jerez, where di Grassi ran the Virgin Racing for the first time.

Australian Grand Prix, Virgin Racing were granted permission from the FIA to change the size of their car's fuel tanks because their capacity was not large enough for their drivers to complete a Grand Prix at full speed.

Virgin Racing had yet to finish a race, while Hispania scooped up a 14th, which would become costly for Virgin Racing at the end of the season.

In practice, Virgin Racing were given a penalty after the team failed to notify the FIA of changes to their gear ratios before the deadline.

Glock and di Grassi qualified 22nd and 23rd, and Virgin Racing scored their first ever double finish with 18th and 19th, the last of the finishers, although di Grassi battled with car setup and was the last driver to finish the race.

Virgin Racing finally brought a big update to the car for the Britain.

Virgin Racing left the track at the entrance to 130R, fishtailing wildly, spinning out across the run-off area and hitting the wall.

Virgin Racing'spania managed to pick up some 15th places in Singapore and Japan, and along with Virgin's unreliability at the start and not finishing 12th in Korea meant Virgin Racing'spania finished ahead of them in the constructors championship, despite having a slower car.

Virgin Racing MVR-02 followed the VR-01's design principle of exclusively using CFD instead of the more traditional windtunnel approach.

Virgin Racing first entered the MVR-02 at the 2011 Australian Grand Prix.

In November 2011, Virgin Racing applied to the Formula One commission to formally change their constructor name for 2012 from Virgin Racing to Marussia, to reflect their new ownership.

Virgin Racing announced that they would be staying with the team, its logos would feature on the 2012 car.

On 7 May 2010, Virgin Racing announced that it had reached a sponsorship deal with Full Tilt Poker.