Porsche

TAG Heuer Porsche FI Team was the works team of Porsche in Formula International. Having expressed an interest to enter the series in 2020, Porsche started well in 2020 thanks to the efforts of underdog John Cida, but later fell into financial troubles, regressing rapidly to backmarker terriroty and lastly finishing without points in 2022. After this, the Stroll family, who own Aston Martin, took over the team and created Racing Point, who went on to become the most succesful team in the series.

Origins
Porsche have a rich motorsport history, establishing themselves in sportscars mostly, winning lots of Le Mans races in the 1970s and 1980s and then in their return in the late 2010s with the 919 Hybrid. Also, they have won the 1986 24H of Daytona and the Dakar Rally with the succesful 959 4WD. Lastly, the team had supplied McLaren in the 1980s with TAG-rebadged engines and later made a return as a supplier by giving engines to Arrows in 1991, although this was much less succesful than the stint with McLaren. After their success in Le Mans in recent times and failing to enter F1 as a works team despite lots of rumours, Porsche shut down their Le Mans venture and decided to run a works team in Formula E/International from 2020 onwards with sponsorship from loyal sponsors TAG Heuer, thus making their debut at single seaters.

2020: Strong start
The team had a bit of a questionable transfer window, signing John Cida, who is the son of a rich Finnish banker and British prospect Emilia Leblanc. Despite being tipped for a poor season, Cida defied all odds in his only FI season by finishing 6th and scoring two podiums in the weak car. Leblanc on the other hand struggled and scored only 8 points.

2021-2022: Rapid decline and Stroll takeover
Cida left for Sauber after just a single year and Leblanc was ousted. For 2021, the team signed two rookies, Lucas Lovis and Fransesco Virgolini. With Cida gone, the team fell down to the backmarker group and scored a total of 16 points, finishing in last place. Things went even worse in 2022, with financial problems and Porsche's increasing lack of interest making the team the worst of the grid. Jarvan Lightshield and Mamadou Wang failed to score a single point as the team was cut adrift from the start. It was clear that the team would not continue without any form of takeover, and in 2033, the Stroll family bought the team and rebranded them into Racing Point, the previous name of the current Aston Martin team and the feeder team of them. Racing Point has went on to become the most succesful team in the history of Formula International, with 5 driver and team titles.

Notable Drivers

 * John Cida (2020)
 * Emilia LeBlanc (2020)
 * Lucas Lovis (2021)
 * Francesco Virgolini (2021)
 * Jarvan Lightshield (2022)
 * Mamadou Wang (2022)