2010 Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup

2010 Formula Renault 2.0 NEC season
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The 2010 Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup was the fifth Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup season. The season began at Hockenheim on 17 April and finished on 17 October at Nürburgring, after nineteen races. Making its début in the series in 2010 was the new-specification car, designed by Barazi-Epsilon. It replaced the Tatuus chassis that had been in the series since 2000, but the Tatuus cars were still used in the secondary Formula Renault 2000 Class.

KEO Racing driver Ludwig Ghidi won the main NEC championship title, having won two races during the season – the season-opening rounds at Hockenheim – but eleven further podiums helped him to claim his first ever car racing title. Mikkel Mac of the KTR team finished the season as runner-up, winning three races at Zandvoort and two at Oschersleben, but only featured three further times on the podium. Van Amersfoort Racing duo Jeroen Mul and Liroy Stuart took the next two placings in the final championship standings, with Mul taking two victories at Zandvoort and Oschersleben, while Stuart took four second places including one behind Mul. Team Astromega driver Sam Dejonghe completed the top five. Other drivers to win races were Eurocup champion Kevin Korjus, who won each of his five starts in the series for Koiranen Bros. Motorsport, Karl-Oscar Liiv won a pair of races for MP Motorsport at Assen, with Kevin Mirocha (SL Formula Racing, Nürburgring), Daniël de Jong (MP Motorsport, Nürburgring), Genís Olivé (Epsilon Euskadi, Spa-Francorchamps), Robin Frijns (Josef Kaufmann Racing, Spa-Francorchamps) and Will Stevens (MP Motorsport, Spa-Francorchamps) all winning a race each. One race was cancelled due to poor weather conditions.

In the Formula Renault 2000 class, five victories for Dear Schilling allowed KEO Racing to claim the FR2000 title along with Ghidi's success in the main class. Dear Schilling finished 15 points clear of runner-up Johann Ledermair, a four-time class winner running for his own Ledermair Motorsport team, who in turn finished 13 points clear of Daniel Schilling, the younger brother of Dear and his team-mate at KEO Racing, a three-time winner on the season. Tony Kowalewski took two wins en route to fourth place for TKP Racing, while Frank Suntjens was winless for the Speedlover team in fifth place. Other victories were claimed by Alessio Picariello, who took wins at Most and two at Spa for SL Formula Racing, with one each for Leopold Ringbom (P1 Motorsport, Nürburgring) and Amir Mesny (Josef Kaufmann Racing, Spa-Francorchamps) in late season outings.

Teams and drivers

2010 Formula Renault 2.0 NEC Entry List[1] Team No Driver Class Rounds Cram Competition 4 André Negrão 2 KEO Racing 5 Ludwig Ghidi All 6 Robert Siska 2, 6–7 46 FR2000 3 8 Kelvin Snoeks 3 36 Dear Schilling FR2000 All 37 Daniel Schilling FR2000 All Kochanski Motorsport 7 Jakub Śmiechowski All 33 Sewerin Tobiasz Szczepanik FR2000 1 39 Maurycy Kochanski FR2000 5, 7–8 MP Motorsport 9 Karl-Oscar Liiv 2, 5, 8 10 Daniël de Jong 2, 5, 8 22 Will Stevens 7 30 Kalle Kulmanen 2, 7 Krenek Motorsport 11 Adam Kout 2 14 Jakub Knoll 3 15 Petř Vlček 6 Van Amersfoort Racing 13 Jeroen Mul All 17 Liroy Stuart All Team Astromega 16 Sam Dejonghe All Interwetten Junior Team 18 Luciano Bacheta 2 19 Craig Reiff 2 SL Formula Racing 20 Kevin Mirocha 4–5, 8 21 Julian Eisenreich 1–3 38 Michèle Di Martino FR2000 1–2, 4–5, 8 44 Sebastian von Gartzen G 8 47 Alessio Picariello FR2000 6–7 KTR 23 Rogier de Wit 1–6 24 Mikkel Mac All Koiranen Bros. Motorsport 25 Jesse Laine 6 26 Bart Hylkema 2, 6 27 Miki Weckström 2 28 Kevin Korjus 2, 6 29 John Bryant-Meisner 6 Speedlover 31 Frank Suntjens FR2000 All TKP Racing 32 Tony Kowalewski FR2000 All Ledermair Motorsport 34 Johann Ledermair FR2000 All Boller 36 Kai Boller FR2000 1, 3–8 Sophidea 40 Richard Gonda FR2000 1–2, 4, 6 P1 Motorsport 42 Antti Rammo FR2000 3 43 Leopold Ringbom FR2000 6–8 Palmi Racing 50 David Palmi FR2000 2, 4, 6 51 Petř Vlček FR2000 4 ACS Motorsport SE 52 Norbert Kiss FR2000 6 53 Attila Barta FR2000 6 55 István Rácz FR2000 7 ARTA Engineering 54 Amir Mesny FR2000 8 67 Côme Ledogar 8 Epsilon Euskadi 61 Genís Olivé 7 62 Javier Tarancón 7 63 Giovanni Venturini 7 64 Alex Riberas 7 Josef Kaufmann Racing 66 Robin Frijns 7 67 Côme Ledogar 7

Icon Class FR2000 Formula Renault 2000 Class G Guest

Race calendar and results

Round		Circuit	Country	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team
1	R1	Hockenheimring	Germany	17 April	Julian Eisenreich	Ludwig Ghidi	Ludwig Ghidi	KEO Racing
	R2			18 April	Ludwig Ghidi	Ludwig Ghidi	Ludwig Ghidi	KEO Racing
2	R1	Masaryk Circuit, Brno	Czech Republic	25 April	Kevin Korjus	Daniël de Jong	Kevin Korjus	Koiranen Bros. Motorsport
	R2				Kevin Korjus	Daniël de Jong	Kevin Korjus	Koiranen Bros. Motorsport
3	R1	Circuit Park Zandvoort	Netherlands	5 June	Jeroen Mul	Jeroen Mul	Jeroen Mul	Van Amersfoort Racing
	R2			6 June	Ludwig Ghidi	Jeroen Mul	Mikkel Mac	KTR
4	R1	Motorsport Arena Oschersleben	Germany	10 July	Mikkel Mac	Jeroen Mul	Mikkel Mac	KTR
	R2				Jeroen Mul	Mikkel Mac	Jeroen Mul	Van Amersfoort Racing
	R3			11 July	Mikkel Mac	Mikkel Mac	Mikkel Mac	KTR
5	R1	TT Circuit Assen	Netherlands	7 August	Jeroen Mul	Kevin Mirocha	Karl-Oscar Liiv	MP Motorsport
	R2			8 August	Karl-Oscar Liiv	Kevin Mirocha	Karl-Oscar Liiv	MP Motorsport
6	R1	Autodrom Most	Czech Republic	28 August	Kevin Korjus	Kevin Korjus	Kevin Korjus	Koiranen Bros. Motorsport
	R2			29 August		Kevin Korjus	Kevin Korjus	Koiranen Bros. Motorsport
	R3					Kevin Korjus	Kevin Korjus	Koiranen Bros. Motorsport
7	R1	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	Belgium	2 October	Alex Riberas	Genís Olivé	Genís Olivé	Epsilon Euskadi
	R2			3 October	Giovanni Venturini	Will Stevens	Will Stevens	MP Motorsport
	R3				Genís Olivé	Robin Frijns	Robin Frijns	Josef Kaufmann Racing
8	R1	Nürburgring	Germany	16 October	Daniël de Jong	Karl-Oscar Liiv	Daniël de Jong	MP Motorsport
	R2			17 October	Kevin Mirocha	Daniël de Jong	Kevin Mirocha	SL Formula Racing
	R3				Daniël de Jong	race cancelled

Standings

Drivers' championship

• Championship points were awarded on a 30, 24, 20, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 to the top 20 classified finishers in each race.

Pos Driver HOC BRN ZAN OSC ASS MST SPA NÜR Total Drop Points 1 Ludwig Ghidi 1 1 5 4 3 2 3 3 3 5 3 3 3 3 3 8 2 6 5 C 381 13 368 2 Mikkel Mac 4 2 12 11 11 1 1 4 1 6 6 4 5 2 5 6 11 5 2 C 349 9 340 3 Jeroen Mul 3 Ret 2 9 1 8 8 1 5 3 7 10 2 Ret 4 7 17 4 6 C 304 304 4 Liroy Stuart Ret 14 9 6 2 4 2 8 2 7 2 5 15 17 21 11 Ret 8 8 C 267 267 5 Sam Dejonghe 16 Ret 10 13 5 12 7 5 7 9 11 6 7 10 6 10 Ret 13 10 C 223 223 6 Rogier de Wit 5 6 7 12 6 15 4 2 6 8 13 7 12 4 207 207 7 Jakub Śmiechowski 7 4 20 20 7 9 6 6 8 11 9 Ret 17 22 Ret Ret 16 9 9 C 193 193 8 Kevin Korjus 1 1 1 1 1 150 150 9 Kevin Mirocha 5 7 4 2 5 3 1 C 137 137 10 Karl-Oscar Liiv 11 8 1 1 2 7 C 121 121 11 Daniël de Jong Ret 2 4 4 1 4 C 105 105 12 Julian Eisenreich 2 Ret 4 7 4 Ret 72 72 13 Genís Olivé 1 2 4 71 71 14 Robin Frijns 2 5 1 70 70 15 Robert Siska 22 24 21 20 15 18 21 22 66 66 16 Côme Ledogar 10 Ret 9 7 3 C 59 59 17 Will Stevens 9 1 6 58 58 18 Bart Hylkema 6 10 Ret 4 18 54 54 19 Jakub Knoll 13 15 53 53 20 Jesse Laine 2 6 20 49 49 21 Alex Riberas 8 9 3 46 46 22 John Bryant-Meisner 13 8 5 41 41 23 André Negrão 3 5 36 36 24 Javier Tarancón Ret 3 5 36 36 25 Kalle Kulmanen Ret 17 16 Ret 10 35 35 26 Giovanni Venturini Ret 4 8 31 31 27 Petř Vlček 18 21 21 27 27 28 Miki Weckström 8 14 20 20 29 Adam Kout Ret 3 20 20 30 Kelvin Snoeks Ret 3 20 20 31 Craig Reiff Ret 16 5 5 32 Luciano Bacheta Ret 26 1 1 FR2000 Class 1 Dear Schilling 6 5 15 18 12 6 17 9 Ret 15 14 9 9 6 13 16 Ret 16 16 C 371 371 2 Johann Ledermair 11 3 14 19 Ret 7 10 15 9 18 8 14 Ret Ret 11 19 12 11 12 C 356 356 3 Daniel Schilling 9 9 16 21 8 13 9 12 10 10 10 11 10 Ret Ret Ret 19 17 17 C 343 343 4 Tony Kowalewski 10 8 17 Ret 9 5 11 14 15 12 12 15 Ret 19 17 Ret 15 10 13 C 305 305 5 Frank Suntjens 8 7 19 25 Ret 11 12 13 12 13 15 19 Ret 7 12 13 Ret 18 DNS C 269 269 6 Kai Boller 12 11 Ret 14 14 17 11 14 18 20 13 8 Ret 18 20 DNS Ret C 205 205 7 Michèle Di Martino 13 10 18 Ret 15 10 13 17 17 20 18 C 151 151 8 Alessio Picariello 8 11 12 7 15 7 142 142 9 Leopold Ringbom Ret 14 11 14 14 13 12 11 C 138 138 10 David Palmi Ret 22 13 11 14 12 16 9 117 117 11 Richard Gonda 14 13 21 23 16 16 16 Ret Ret 16 107 107 12 Maurycy Kochanski 16 16 18 17 18 19 19 C 97 97 13 Amir Mesny 15 12 14 15 15 C 94 94 14 Attila Barta 17 19 13 41 41 15 Antti Rammo 10 10 37 37 16 István Rácz 20 20 21 36 36 17 Sewerin Tobiasz Szczepanik 15 12 25 25 18 Norbert Kiss 16 Ret 23 25 25 19 Robert Siska Ret 16 13 13 20 Petř Vlček Ret Ret 17 12 12 guest drivers ineligible for points Sebastian von Gartzen 14 14 C 0 0 Pos Driver HOC BRN ZAN OSC ASS MST SPA NÜR Total Drop Points

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not participate (DNP) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

References

1. "Teams & drivers". necup.com. Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup. Retrieved 4 January 2011.

External links

• Official website of the Formula Renault 2.0 NEC championship