BCN Competición was bought by the Portuguese former F1 (and current WTCC) driver Tiago Monteiro and José Guedes in November 2008, in a move that relocated the team to the Algarve circuit, being renamed Ocean Racing Technology.

Melker scored 25 points under the revised system, raising Ocean's performance to eleventh overall following the Coloni team's exclusion from the championship.

At the end of 2012, its owner Tiago Monteiro reported that the Government of Portugal owed the project around €6 million and that without that money they would not be able to continue in the competition.

[2] Yelmer Buurman[3] and Fabrizio Crestani drove for the team in the 2008-09 GP2 Asia Series season, replacing BCN drivers Yoshimoto and Luca Filippi who competed in the first round of the championship.

[4] In 2012 they entered the GP3 Series shortly before the start of the season, replacing Tech 1 Racing, they finished seventh in the championship with 56 points thanks to the results of Kevin Ceccon.