Chris Dittmann Racing
Chris Dittmann Racing is a British motorsport team, based in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. The team currently participates in the F4 British Championship and formerly competed in multiple motor racing series, including GB3 Championship, MotorSport Vision Formula Three Cup and Ginetta G50 Cup.
Notable past drivers for the team include Ayrton Simmons, Nazim Azman, Sebastian Murray, Alice Powell, Tommy Harfield and McKenzy Cresswell.
Chris Dittmann
Chris Dittmann is the founder of Chris Dittmann Racing. He formerly competed in Formula Renault BARC Championship for Hillspeed in 2007 and also raced in Ginetta G50 Cup between 2008 and 2010.History
Early years and success in MSV F3 Cup
The team was founded in 2010 by Chris Dittmann. In 2012, Chris Dittmann Racing expanded to MSV F3 Cup. The founder, Chris Dittmann, won the first driver' title. CDR won its first ever teams' title in the MSV F3 Cup in 2015, and later, a second teams' title in 2018.GB3 Championship
2013–2016
In 2013 the team expanded to GB3 Championship, but only contested five rounds, with Luke Williams, Max Cornelius and Dylon Phibbs driving for the team.Tom Jackson, Tom Bale and Piers Hickin were signed for CDR in the 2014 BRDC Formula 4 Championship.
In 2015, the team signed Omar Ismail, Paul Sieljes and Michael O'Brien, while retaining Tom Jackson for the 2015 BRDC F4.
In the 2016 season of the newly-renamed BRDC F3, Chris Dittmann Racing signed Jeremy Wahome, Krishnaraaj Mahadik and Quinlan Lall. However, Paul Sieljes replaced Mahadik in the first round, while Omar Ismail also representing the team in the final round.
2017–2021
For the 2017 season, Jeremy Wahome and Omar Ismail remained with the team. CDR also signed a new driver, Tristan Charpentier.Throughout the 2018 season, CDR signed Harry Webb, Chia Wing Hoong, Ayrton Simmons and Cian Carey.
In 2019, the team fielded two cars for Ayrton Simmons and Nazim Azman.
For the 2020 BRDC F3 season, Chris Dittmann Racing signed five drivers throughout the season: Nicolás Varrone, Josh Skelton, Max Marzorati, Ayrton Simmons and Alex Fores.
2021 saw the team fielded cars for four drivers competing in GB3, with returnees Ayrton Simmons, Max Marzorati and Alex Fores, as well as a newly-signed driver, Branden Lee Oxley.
2022–2025
For the 2022 season, Chris Dittmann Racing remanined with Branden Lee Oxley and signed McKenzy Cresswell, while Ayrton Ori and Zak Taylor joined the team mid-season.In 2023, Chris Dittmann Racing signed Arthur Rogeon and Zak Taylor. Later, Jack Sherwood was promoted from CDR's British F4 outfit to its GB3 squad.
2024 saw the team signed Sebastian Murray and Flynn Jackes as its two full-time entries. Chris Dittmann Racing also fielded seven one- or two-race entries in this season: Rishab Jain, Martinius Stenshorne, Kanato Le, Javier Sagrera, Jacob Douglas and Tom Mills.
While the team signed Rashid Al Dhaheri for a part-time entry but did not race for the team in 2025, CDR scaled back its GB3 program to part-time, with Divy Nandan, Nicolas Stati and Rodrigo González driving for the team for the first and fifth rounds.
The GB3's website omitted the team from its list of 2026 teams, suggesting closure of Chris Dittmann Racing's GB3 program.
F4 British Championship
In September 2021, the team announced expansion to F4 British Championship from 2022.In 2023, a CDR driver, Gustav Jonsson, won the Rookie Cup. Two years later, the team achieved its first ever race win in British F4 with Tommy Harfield.