Ecurie Fabron

Ecurie Fabron is a French racing team, led by former French F3 and F3000 driver Sophie Fabron. The team is taking part in the 2016 Rejects Touring Car Championship season after buying out the entry and garage of Nurminen Racing Engineering. Because of this the team's current base is in the UK, despite having strong roots in France.

History
The team was originally founded as a small karting operation by Alphonse Fabron, a wealthy businessman with good connections to the French government, under the name AFMS. Once his niece Sophie started showing interest in racing, Alphonse provided all the backing she needed to progress on her career, with the ultimate goal set at becoming a Formula One driver. However, her career stalled in Formula 3000 where she failed to impress with no points finishes at all in two and a half seasons. Alphonse and Sophie then agreed to set their sights at closed-cockpit cars, where Sophie found more success and eventually became a multi-time French Supertouring champion in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Starting from 1990 Alphonse also supported his nephew (and Sophie's younger brother) Sylvain's career, although after learning from the past experience he never even considered supporting an expensive single-seater campaign, opting for Sylvain to participate in Renault Clio and Mégane Cups instead. In 2011 Sophie retired from driving and soon became the team principal of AFMS, with the now-aging Alphonse opting to handle the team's finances. The team was then renamed to Fabron Motorsports to reflect the new management, and they focused on Sylvain's career in FFSA GT where he had become a force to be reckoned with in the mid-to-late 00s.

RTCC
In late 2015 the team set up plans to join the world of RWRS motorsport, which had grown to a multi-series franchise since its inception in 2010. As all of the main categories were already full and had long waiting lists for an entry, the team decided to instead buy out Nurminen Racing Engineering's RTCC division after the Finnish team had struggled to find enough funds for the next season due to losing their factory Volvo contract because of poor results. However the price was more expensive as the Fabrons expected, and with the additional requirement of honoring Ryan Carlton's contract for the 2016 season taking a considerable amount of funds as well, Alphonse decided to save money by using one of the cheapest (and slowest) RTCC-approved cars, the Peugeot 405 Mi16. With Carlton's salary taking up all of their driver budget they had Sylvain drive the second car for free as he was without a drive at the time.

In the first race of the season at Bathurst, Carlton retired early on with suspension problems but Sylvain finished 18th, a position generally considered to be way outside the 405's capabilities. With this performance he had impressed the management of Davies Racing Team and moved there to replace the underperforming and uncooperative Tomasz Gabrysiak. This left the #89 car without a driver for the next round at Brands Hatch, where Carlton finished 27th in both of the starts. Just before the Austrian round it was announced that James Douglas had joined the team and would drive their second car for the rest of the season. Douglas would eventually finish far ahead of his more experienced team mate in 19th, as Carlton was a distant 30th. At Knockhill both cars sensationally made it to the points in the first start with Douglas 13th and Carlton 15th, but the second race was back to ground level for them as Carlton only managed an 18th place finish while Douglas retired with suspension problems.

Rejects Touring Car Championship
* Season in progress