Formula V8-3.5 season 2016

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The 2016 Formula V8 3.5 season was the 19th season of the Formula V8 3.5 . It was the first season after the championship's name change, which was previously called Formula Renault 3.5 . After Renault Sport left , RPM Racing was the sole organizer of the racing series. It started on April 16 in Alcañiz and ended on November 6 in Barcelona . Tom Dillmann won the drivers' championship title.

Teams and drivers

All teams used the Dallara T12 chassis , engines from Gibson Technology and tires from Michelin .

team Automobile # driver Race weekend
United KingdomUnited Kingdom Fortec Motorsport 01 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Louis Delétraz 1-9
02 BrazilBrazil Pietro Fittipaldi 1-9
Czech RepublicCzech Republic lotus 03 AustriaAustria René Binder 1-9
04th IsraelIsrael Roy Nissany 1-9
United KingdomUnited Kingdom Strakka Racing 05 NN
06th NN
United KingdomUnited Kingdom Arden Motorsport 07th RussiaRussia Yegor Orudschew 1-9
08th FranceFrance Aurélien Panis 1-9
SpainSpain AVF 15th MexicoMexico Alfonso Celis Jr. 1-9
16 FranceFrance Tom Dillmann 1-9
United KingdomUnited Kingdom Comtec Racing 17th United KingdomUnited Kingdom Thomas Randle 8, 9
18th NN
ItalyItaly Durango Racing Team 19th NN
20th ItalyItaly Giuseppe Cipriani 1-9
ItalyItaly RP Motorsport 21st VenezuelaVenezuela Johnny cecotto jr. 1-3
PolandPoland Artur Janosz 4th
ItalyItaly Marco Bonanomi 6th
United KingdomUnited Kingdom William Buller 7th
United KingdomUnited Kingdom Jack Aitken 8, 9
22nd BrazilBrazil Vitor Baptista 1-9
RussiaRussia SMP Racing 23 FranceFrance Matthieu Vaxivière 1-9
24 RussiaRussia Matewos Issaakjan 1-4, 6, 8, 9
SpainSpain Teo Martín Motorsport 25th JapanJapan Yū Kanamaru 1-9
26th NetherlandsNetherlands Beitske Visser 1-9
Remarks
  1. ↑ Strakka Racing did not find any drivers for the season and therefore did not participate in any races. However, the team stayed on the registration list.

Changes in the teams

There were some changes in the teams compared to the previous season: five racing teams withdrew from the championship, four new ones entered the championship.

Exits

  • DAMS got out of the championship after four years in which it won the team championship twice and relocated the resources freed up to the GP3 series . The team announced the exit in October 2015.
  • Carlin Motorsport ended its involvement in March 2016 after the racing team had not found any drivers for involvement in the series. Carlin entered the racing series in 2003. Carlin wanted to focus more on his involvement in the GP2 series .
  • Tech 1 Racing withdrew from the racing series a month before the start of the season.
  • International Draco Racing dropped out of the racing series at the end of the 2015 season and completely stopped racing.
  • About a month before the start of the season, Pons Racing announced its withdrawal from the championship in order to concentrate more on its Moto2 appearances . Pons had already signed two drivers for the season with Aleksander Bosak and Beitske Visser .
  • Zeta Corse did not report for the new season. The racing team had not completed any races in the previous season, but was on the entry list.

Entrances

  • The Durango Racing Team moved up into the series for Tech 1 Racing.
  • RP Motorsport expanded its motorsport involvement with a racing team in the Formula V8 3.5.
  • AF Corse took over the equipment from Draco and registered his team under the name SMP Racing .
  • The Spanish businessman Teo Martín entered formula racing with his racing team Teo Martín Motorsport and took over the vehicles from DAMS. At the end of 2012, Martín bought the remains of the HRT F1 Team , which had previously ceased racing, and entered GT racing in 2015 with his team . For the 2016 season he integrated Emilio de Villota Motorsport into his racing team.

Racing calendar

The racing calendar for the 2016 season comprised nine race weekends, each with two races. The event in Alcañiz was part of the Renault Sport Series , the event in Mogyoród part of the World Touring Car Championship and the Le Castellet event part of the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup . All other events were held together with the racing series Euroformula Open and International GT Open organized by Jesús Pareja .

Compared to the previous year, the races in Le Mans , Monte Carlo and the Nürburgring were replaced by Le Castellet, Monza and Barcelona .

No. date Racetrack winner Second Third
01. April 16 SpainSpain Alcañiz SwitzerlandSwitzerland Louis Delétraz FranceFrance Matthieu Vaxivière FranceFrance Tom Dillmann
02. 17th April FranceFrance Aurélien Panis FranceFrance Tom Dillmann AustriaAustria René Binder
03. April 23 HungaryHungary Mogyoród VenezuelaVenezuela Johnny cecotto jr. FranceFrance Tom Dillmann SwitzerlandSwitzerland Louis Delétraz
04th April 24th FranceFrance Tom Dillmann IsraelIsrael Roy Nissany FranceFrance Aurélien Panis
05. May 21 BelgiumBelgium Spa Francorchamps RussiaRussia Yegor Orudschew FranceFrance Tom Dillmann SwitzerlandSwitzerland Louis Delétraz
06th May 22 FranceFrance Matthieu Vaxivière FranceFrance Tom Dillmann MexicoMexico Alfonso Celis Jr.
07th 25th June FranceFrance Le Castellet RussiaRussia Yegor Orudschew IsraelIsrael Roy Nissany AustriaAustria René Binder
08th. June 26th SwitzerlandSwitzerland Louis Delétraz IsraelIsrael Roy Nissany RussiaRussia Yegor Orudschew
09. July 23 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Silverstone IsraelIsrael Roy Nissany FranceFrance Matthieu Vaxivière AustriaAustria René Binder
10. 24th July IsraelIsrael Roy Nissany AustriaAustria René Binder RussiaRussia Yegor Orudschew
11. September 10 AustriaAustria Spielberg FranceFrance Matthieu Vaxivière SwitzerlandSwitzerland Louis Delétraz FranceFrance Tom Dillmann
12. September 11 FranceFrance Aurélien Panis FranceFrance Tom Dillmann RussiaRussia Matewos Issaakjan
13. 0October 1 ItalyItaly Monza IsraelIsrael Roy Nissany SwitzerlandSwitzerland Louis Delétraz FranceFrance Matthieu Vaxivière
14th 0October 2nd RussiaRussia Yegor Orudschew AustriaAustria René Binder SwitzerlandSwitzerland Louis Delétraz
15th October 29th SpainSpain Jerez RussiaRussia Matewos Issaakjan RussiaRussia Yegor Orudschew FranceFrance Matthieu Vaxivière
16. 30th of October RussiaRussia Yegor Orudschew SwitzerlandSwitzerland Louis Delétraz FranceFrance Matthieu Vaxivière
17th 0November 5th SpainSpain Barcelona RussiaRussia Yegor Orudschew SwitzerlandSwitzerland Louis Delétraz FranceFrance Tom Dillmann
18th 0November 6th FranceFrance Tom Dillmann IsraelIsrael Roy Nissany BrazilBrazil Pietro Fittipaldi

Ratings

Point system

The points were awarded in all races according to the following scheme:

Distribution of points
space 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10
Points 25th 18th 15th 12 10 8th 6th 4th 2 1

Driver ranking

Item driver SpainSpain ALC HungaryHungary HUN BelgiumBelgium SPA FranceFrance LEC United KingdomUnited Kingdom SIL AustriaAustria SPI ItalyItaly MNZ SpainSpain JER SpainSpain CAT Points
R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2
01 FranceFrance T. Dillmann 3 2 2 1 2 2 4th 6th 4th 4th 3 2 12 8th DNF 8th 3 1 237
02 SwitzerlandSwitzerland L. Delétraz 1 5 3 4th 3 DNF 6th 1 10 6th 2 4th 2 3 11 2 2 4th 230
03 RussiaRussia J. Orudschew DNF 14 * DNF 9 1 DNF 1 3 DNF 3 DNF 5 7th 1 2 1 1 7th 197
04th IsraelIsrael R. Nissany 7th 7th 6th 2 DNF DNF 2 2 1 1 6th 13 1 6th 8th 14th 9 2 189
05 FranceFrance A. Panis 5 1 4th 3 8th 5 8th 4th 5 5 5 1 4th DNF 4th DNF 4th 12 183
06th FranceFrance M. Vaxivière 2 DNF 5 5 DNF 1 5 DNF 2 7th 1 6th 3 DNF 3 3 DNF DNF 175
07th AustriaAustria R. Binder 4th 3 11 7th 5 6th 3 5 3 2 DNF 12 5 2 5 7th DNF 6th 161
08th JapanJapan Y. Kanamaru DNF 4th 9 10 4th 7th 7th 11 7th 9 7th DNF 6th 5 6th 10 8th 10 85
09 RussiaRussia M. Issaakjan 12 10 DNF DNF DNS DNF 10 12     12 3     1 6th 5 5 70
10 BrazilBrazil P. Fittipaldi 11 9 8th 8th 11 * DNF DNF 7th 6th DNF 11 11 11 4th 9 12 7th 3 59
11 MexicoMexico A. Celis 6th 8th DNF DNF 10 3 11 8th DNF 11 4th 7th 9 10 DNF 9 DNF 13 55
12 BrazilBrazil V. Baptista 8th 11 10 DNF 6th 4th DNF DNF 8th 8th 10 8th 8th DNF 10 11 6th DNF 51
13 NetherlandsNetherlands B. Visser 10 12 7th DNS 7th DNF 9 10 9 10 8th 9 14 * 9 7th 5 10 8th 48
14th VenezuelaVenezuela J. Cecotto 9 6th 1 6th 12 * DNF                         43
15th United KingdomUnited Kingdom J. Aitken                             DSQ 4th 11 9 14th
16 United KingdomUnited Kingdom W. Buller                         10 7th         7th
17th ItalyItaly G. Cipriani 13 13 DNF DNF 9 8th 13 13 11 12 13 DNF 13 11 DNF 15th 12 14th 6th
18th ItalyItaly M. Bonanomi                     9 10             3
19th PolandPoland A. Janosz             12 9                     2
20th United KingdomUnited Kingdom T. Randle                             DNF 13 DNF 11 0
Item driver R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 Points
SpainSpain ALC HungaryHungary HUN BelgiumBelgium SPA FranceFrance LEC United KingdomUnited Kingdom SIL AustriaAustria SPI ItalyItaly MNZ SpainSpain JER SpainSpain CAT
colour meaning
gold winner
silver 2nd place
bronze 3rd place
green Placement in the points
blue Classified outside the point ranks
violet Race not finished ( DNF )
not classified (NC)
red not qualified (DNQ)
black disqualified (DSQ)
White not at the start ( DNS )
withdrawn (WD)
Race canceled (C)
colourless not participated in the training (DNP)
injured or sick (INJ)
excluded (EX)
did not appear (DNA)
  • Bold - pole position
  • Italic - fastest race lap
  • * - not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Mills: Tom Dillmann wins 2016 Formula V8 3.5 title with win in finale. autosport.com, November 6, 2016, accessed November 6, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Peter Mills: Formula Renault 2.0 standout Deletraz joins Fortec for F3.5 V8. autosport.com, November 16, 2015, accessed November 5, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Valentin Khorounzhiy: Fittipaldi makes Formula V8 3.5 switch with Fortec. Motorsport.com, January 26, 2016, accessed November 5, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b Peter Allen: Lotus team to run Binder and Nissany in Formula V8 3.5. paddockscout.com, March 21, 2016, accessed November 5, 2016 .
  5. ↑ "Revelation" Egor Orudzhev remains with Arden for Formula 3.5 V8. autosport.com, December 22, 2015, accessed November 5, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Valentin Khorounzhiy: Panis completes Arden Formula V8 3.5 line-up. Motorsport.com, February 2, 2016, accessed November 5, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Peter Mills: Alfonso Celis Jr commits to 2016 Formula 3.5 V8 with AVF. autosport.com, October 26, 2015, accessed November 5, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Tom Dillmann to race for AVF in Formula 3.5 V8 in 2016. autosport.com, November 9, 2015, accessed on November 5, 2016 (English).
  9. ^ Peter Mills: Comtec to make FV8 3.5 return with British F3 racer Randle. autosport.com, September 30, 2016, accessed November 6, 2016 .
  10. ↑ a b c d Pons and Tech 1 teams pulled out of 2016 Formula V8 3.5 season. autosport.com, March 29, 2016, accessed November 5, 2016 .
  11. ↑ a b David Gruz: Cecotto, Baptista enter Formula V8 3.5 with RP Motorsport. Motorsport.com, April 7, 2016, accessed November 5, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Peter Mills: Cecotto splits with Formula V8 3.5 outfit RP Motorsport. autosport.com, June 24, 2016, accessed November 6, 2016 .
  13. ↑ David Gruz: http://www.motorsport.com/f3.5/news/audi-driver-bonanomi-to-make-f3-5-return-816279/. Motorsport.com, September 6, 2016, accessed November 6, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Peter Mills: Buller returns to Formula V8 3.5 at Monza. autosport.com, September 27, 2016, accessed November 6, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Peter Mills: Renault protege and GP3 race winner Aitken joins Formula V8 3.5. autosport.com, October 17, 2016, accessed November 6, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Peter Mills: Matthieu Vaxiviere and Vladimir Atoev join F3.5 V8's Spirit of Race. autosport.com, December 29, 2015, accessed November 5, 2016 .
  17. ↑ Valentin Khorounzhiy: Isaakyan replaces injured Atoev in SMP's F3.5 line-up. Motorsport.com, April 12, 2016, accessed November 5, 2016 .
  18. ↑ Peter Mills: Beitske Visser joins Pons as one of three additions to F3.5 V8 grid. autosport.com, January 25, 2016, accessed November 5, 2016 .
  19. ↑ David Gruz: Visser makes Teo Martin switch in Formula 3.5. Motorsport.com, April 14, 2016, accessed November 5, 2016 .
  20. ↑ Peter Mills: DAMS switches from Formula Renault 3.5 to GP3 for 2016. autosport.com, October 1, 2015, accessed on November 5, 2016 (English).
  21. ↑ Carlin pulls out of Formula V8 3.5 to focus on GP2. autosport.com, March 10, 2016, accessed November 5, 2016 .
  22. ↑ a b Peter Mills: Draco sells Formula Renault 3.5 cars to new Spirit of Race outfit. autosport.com, October 15, 2015, accessed November 5, 2016 .
  23. ↑ RP Motorsport bets on Formula 3.5 V8. (No longer available online.) Rpmotorsport.net, October 20, 2015, archived from the original on October 23, 2015 ; accessed on November 5, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rpmotorsport.net
  24. ^ Pablo Elizalde: DAMS 'Formula 3.5 entry bought out by Spanish businessman. Motorsport.com, October 19, 2015, accessed November 5, 2016 .
  25. ^ Teo Martin and Emilio de Villota squads unite for 2016 campaigns. thecheckeredflag.co.uk, December 21, 2015, accessed November 5, 2016 .