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Cosmo Autosport

Full name	Cosmo Autosport International
Owner/s	Joshua Anderson
Base	Simonside, England
Competitions
Superleague Team	None
Team principal/s	-
Début	-
Supercup Team	None
Team principal/s	-
Début	-
Formula Challenge Team	Cosmo Autosport FC
Team principal/s	Joshua Anderson
Début	2014 Challenge Canadian Grand Prix
Masters Series Team	YTF1 Team Cosmo
Team principal/s	Joshua Anderson Matthew Allington
Début	2014 24 Hours of Le Mans
World Sport Series Team	Cosmo Team Porsche
Team principal/s	Joshua Anderson
Début	2014 Bahrain Sport Series

Cosmo Autosport are a British sim-racing team, led by Joshua Anderson. They are competing in the 2015 Formula Challenge season in GPVWC, with numbers #39 and #53 - their designated numbers for all future Career Ladder competition. The team are possibly famous for their rather garish car liveries and supremely kawaii team mascot, but more likely well known for bringing new or unknown promising talent in GPVWC a chance to shine whilst also giving existing talent a new background to enjoy themselves within.

World Sports Series

2014

Cosmo Autosport's GPVWC debut would come in the 2014 WSS season, where they would take car numbers 38 and 39. They would field GPVWC newcomer Rob Mason and TheSixthAxis Racing stalwart Cameron Brewster, the latter driving for a team other than a TSA-associated one for only the second time in his GPVWC career (after his 2013 Formula Challenge stint with United Racers Motosport). The team's debut at Bahrain went exceedingly well, with Mason having finished 20th and 14th - scoring points in his debut round - and Brewster finishing 13th and 4th. In doing so, the team gained their first points, and first top-5 in their history - and Brewster also gave the team their first laps in the lead, having taken the lead on lap 1 of race 2 and holding it until lap 3 before being overtaken by David Jundt.

Strong, surprising finishes would be the theme of the team's WSS season - Brewster went on to score points in all but two of the races he participated in, including the team's first podium in Spain (Brewster finished 2nd in race 2) and Mason continued to perform well and score occasional points, both drivers having never experienced WSS before. Brewster eventually finished 10th in the Drivers' Championship, and Mason's points would aid Cosmo to 9th in the Teams' championship. The team boss himself, Joshua Anderson, alongside Alexander van der Woude, would both step in for Mason and Brewster at the Austrian round. van der Woude would not finish race 1 but scored 28th in race 2; Anderson managed 29th and 25th. This would be the only 2-race weekend of the season where the team did not score points.

2015

After their strong 2014 season, Cosmo were granted the sixth space in the roster, with car numbers #TBA and #TBA.

International Touring Cup

2014

Cosmo also made the grid for the 2014 ITC season, where they would field a BMW 1-series. Their drivers were David Nannen and Superleague veteran Tom van der Voort. The season was to be a disaster for the team, with Nannen having consistent issues with the car in Bahrain to begin with. Nannen left the team, still on good terms with the team however, after the first round. He would soon be replaced by newcomer Max Spooner, the team returning to their idea of new talent. However, after taking part in the round at Pukekohe, Spooner would fail to show for any further rounds, and was eventualy replaced by another new driver, Thomas Hinss. Hinss would drive for the team until Laguna Seca, where he would leave the team of his own accord to pursue a FWD seat at Nijo Racing.

This led to the signing of Todor Pangev, who would drive at the USA round (missing the first race), but would not show up for the Japanese round. For the final round at Interlagos, Pangev was replaced with Spaniard Tomeu Cabrer, again new to GPVWC. The team finished almost last in the Teams' championship, having scored only 4 points, all by van der Voort. The team had a total of 8 drivers during the season (Matthew Allington stood in for van der Voort at the Czech round of the championship and team boss Anderson had a stint at Adelaide, where neither car showed up after van der Voort reported his absence in advance, but Anderson was unable to find a reserve in time).

Formula Challenge

2014

Cosmo would apply for the 2014 FC season, but ultimately be unsuccessful. However, they would get their chance, taking the vacancy left when Airastream Motorsport withdrew from the series. Inheriting the #7 and #8 cars (their lowest numbers in any GPVWC series to date), the team quickly snapped up ex-Airastream recruit Scott Sovik as a reserve driver, and Superleague reserve Ben Horrill and newcomer Richard Coxon in the race seats, Coxon making his GPVWC debut after much success in historics. The team would score some solid points in what was to be a learning season for them, with Coxon learing to drive the modern open-wheelers and Horrill experiencing an extended FC seat for the first time, having completed a brief stint for nFinity eSports Racing in 2013.

The team saw considerable success, with four 6th places - two by Horrill and one by Coxon. The other 6th was taken by TouringProSeries legend Tim Heinemann, making a one-off appearance for the team on his GPWVC debut. Ironically, Anderson was completely unaware of the German's previous success when he hired Heinemann and was rather shocked to find out how well he'd done in TPS. Heinemann would later see drives for Aurora Motorsports and Supercup outfit Edonis Engineering. The team finished 18th in the Teams' championship. Having only done 3/4 of the season however, it remained to be seen how they would fare in a full season.

2015

Cosmo were granted entry into the 2015 Formula Challenge season, and signed the returning Coxon alongside ex-EGP driver Hansko Mebius. They were initially to take car numbers #18 and #19, before the introduction of a Ladder-wide numbering system. The team eventually chose car numbers #39 and #53 as their numbers, the #39 returning to the team after Cameron Brewster's success with it in the team's WSS 2014 campaign - and the #53 being one of team owner Anderson's several lucky numbers.