2010 German Formula Three Championship

2010 German Formula Three Championship
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The 2010 ATS F3 Cup was the eighth edition of the German F3 Cup. The season consisted of nine race weekends, totalling eighteen races,^[1] beginning on 10 April at Oschersleben and ending on 3 October at the same venue.

HS Technik driver Tom Dillmann became the first French driver to win the championship title after a title battle with Van Amersfoort Racing's Daniel Abt. Dillmann, who won six races during the season had held a seven-point championship lead into the final race over Abt, who won the opening race at Oschersleben to go with his other win at Assen, which meant that Abt had to finish in the top two placings to have a mathematical chance of overhauling Dillmann, but a broken lambda sensor eliminated Abt from challenging Dillmann.^[2] Also resolved at the final round was the battle for third place between Motopark Academy rookie and three-time race winner Kevin Magnussen and Abt's Van Amersfoort team-mate Stef Dusseldorp, who won races at Oschersleben and Assen. Magnussen had led Dusseldorp by two points with one race to run, but Dusseldorp lost the opportunity for third place after failing to start the final race; he stalled at the first start and was rammed from behind by Magnussen's team-mate Jimmy Eriksson and accident damage prevented from restarting. Despite finishing behind Abt in the overall championship, Magnussen's consistent finishing won him the rookie championship.

Felix Rosenqvist finished best of the rest for Performance Racing, winning two races at Assen along with six second place finishes for a fifth place championship finish. Eriksson at EuroSpeedway Lausitz, the third Van Amersfoort car of Willi Steindl in the final Oschersleben race and Brandl Racing's Nico Monien in a one-off appearance at Hockenheim also won races during the season. In the secondary Trophy class, twelve class wins in sixteen races enabled Riccardo Brutschin to take a dominant championship win, as he finished 21 points clear of Alexey Karachev, who took his only class win at the final race of the season in which Brutschin was absent as he competed in the Cup class. Aki Sandberg also won at Oschersleben as he finished third in class. Aleksi Tuukkanen and Daniel Aho both took two victories in part-seasons, while Formula Renault 3.5 Series champion Mikhail Aleshin made a guest appearance in the class at Oschersleben, taking two on-the-road victories but was ineligible for championship points.

Teams and drivers

• Guest drivers are listed in italics.

Team No Driver Class Chassis[3] Engine Status Rounds Van Amersfoort Racing 1 Stef Dusseldorp[4] C Dallara F306 Volkswagen[4] All 2 Daniel Abt[5] C Dallara F306 Volkswagen[4] R All 7 Willi Steindl[4] C Dallara F305 Volkswagen[4] All Performance Racing 5 Alon Day[6] C Dallara F305 Volkswagen[7] R All 6 Felix Rosenqvist[8] C Dallara F305 Volkswagen[7] R All Jo Zeller Racing[9] 8 Sandro Zeller[10] C Dallara F306 Mercedes[9] R 1–5, 7–9 9 Nigel Melker[11] C Dallara F305[9] Mercedes[9] 9 HS Technik[7] 10 Tom Dillmann[12] C Dallara F305 Volkswagen[7] All 11 Kevin Friesacher [12] C Dallara F306 Volkswagen[7] R 1 Racing Experience[13] 15 Gary Hauser[13] C Dallara F305 Mercedes[13] All 16 Philip Forsman[14] C Dallara F306 Mercedes[14] 2 Brandl Motorsport[10] 17 Markus Pommer[10] C Dallara F306 Mercedes[15] All 18 Marco Sørensen[16] C Dallara F305 Mercedes[15] R 1–3, 8 Bernd Herndlhofer[17] C Dallara F305 Mercedes[15] 6–7, 9 Motopark Academy[18] 20 Kevin Magnussen[18] C Dallara F306 Volkswagen[19] R All 21 Luís Felipe Derani[18] C Dallara F305 Volkswagen[19] R All 22 Jimmy Eriksson[18] C Dallara F305 Volkswagen[19] R All 23 René Binder[20] C Dallara F305 Volkswagen[19] R All URD Rennsport[21] 24 Klaus Bachler[21] C Dallara F305 Mercedes[21] R 9 25 Nico Monien C Dallara F306 Mercedes 3 China Sonangol[22] 26 Luís Sá Silva[23] C Dallara F305 Volkswagen[23] R 1–3 Kleveros Racing Kevin Kleveros[24] C Dallara F305 Volkswagen R 8 Max Travin Racing Team[23] 30 Nikolay Martsenko[23] C Dallara F306 OPC Challenge[23] All 60 Maxim Travin[23] T Dallara F303 OPC Challenge[23] All Stromos ArtLine[25] 33 Riccardo Brutschin[26] C Dallara F305 OPC Challenge R 9 50 Aleksi Tuukkanen[27] T ArtTech F24 OPC Challenge R 1–4 Daniel Aho[28] T ArtTech F24 OPC Challenge R 5–7 51 Alexey Karachev[12] T ArtTech F24 OPC Challenge R All 63 Riccardo Brutschin[29] T ArtTech F24 OPC Challenge R 1–8 Mikhail Aleshin[30] T ArtTech F24 OPC Challenge R 9 Rhino's Leipert Motorsport[23] 55 Luca Iannaccone[23] T Dallara F304 Opel[23] All Sandberg Motorsport 61 Aki Sandberg[12] T Dallara F302 Opel All

Icon Class C Cup T Trophy Icon Status R Rookie

Calendar

Championship was part of the ADAC Masters Weekend at the seven rounds with Nürburgring round in July supporting ADAC Truck Grand Prix and Assen round in August as part of the Rizla Racing Day.

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning driver	Winning team	Trophy winner	Rookie winner
1	R1	Motorsport Arena Oschersleben	10 April	Daniel Abt	Daniel Abt	Kevin Magnussen	Motopark Academy	Riccardo Brutschin	Kevin Magnussen
	R2		11 April	Tom Dillmann	Tom Dillmann	Stef Dusseldorp	Van Amersfoort Racing	Aleksi Tuukkanen	Kevin Magnussen
2	R1	Sachsenring	8 May	Tom Dillmann	Tom Dillmann	Tom Dillmann	HS Technik	Riccardo Brutschin	Felix Rosenqvist
	R2		9 May	Stef Dusseldorp	Stef Dusseldorp	Tom Dillmann	HS Technik	Riccardo Brutschin	Daniel Abt
3	R1	Hockenheimring	29 May	Daniel Abt	Daniel Abt	Nico Monien	URD Rennsport	Aleksi Tuukkanen	Kevin Magnussen
	R2		30 May	Tom Dillmann	Tom Dillmann	Tom Dillmann	HS Technik	Riccardo Brutschin	Daniel Abt
4	R1	TT Circuit Assen	17 July	Daniel Abt	Tom Dillmann	Felix Rosenqvist	Performance Racing	Riccardo Brutschin	Felix Rosenqvist
	R2		18 July	Daniel Abt	Daniel Abt	Daniel Abt	Van Amersfoort Racing	Riccardo Brutschin	Daniel Abt
5	R1	Nürburgring	24 July	Daniel Abt	Tom Dillmann	Tom Dillmann	HS Technik	Riccardo Brutschin	Felix Rosenqvist
	R2		25 July	Tom Dillmann	Tom Dillmann	Tom Dillmann	HS Technik	Riccardo Brutschin	Felix Rosenqvist
6	R1	TT Circuit Assen	7 August	Stef Dusseldorp	Stef Dusseldorp	Stef Dusseldorp	Van Amersfoort Racing	Riccardo Brutschin	Daniel Abt
	R2		8 August	Felix Rosenqvist	Tom Dillmann	Felix Rosenqvist	Performance Racing	Daniel Aho	Felix Rosenqvist
7	R1	EuroSpeedway Lausitz	14 August	Daniel Abt	Stef Dusseldorp	Kevin Magnussen	Motopark Academy	Daniel Aho	Kevin Magnussen
	R2		15 August	Tom Dillmann	Daniel Abt	Jimmy Eriksson	Motopark Academy	Riccardo Brutschin	Jimmy Eriksson
8	R1	Nürburgring	28 August	Marco Sørensen	Tom Dillmann	Kevin Magnussen	Motopark Academy	Riccardo Brutschin	Kevin Magnussen
	R2		29 August	Tom Dillmann	Tom Dillmann	Tom Dillmann	HS Technik	Riccardo Brutschin	Daniel Abt
9	R1	Motorsport Arena Oschersleben	2 October	Stef Dusseldorp	Daniel Abt	Daniel Abt	Van Amersfoort Racing	Aki Sandberg	Daniel Abt
	R2		3 October	Tom Dillmann	Tom Dillmann	Willi Steindl	Van Amersfoort Racing	Alexey Karachev	Felix Rosenqvist

Standings

Cup

• Points were awarded as follows:

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	PP	FL
10	8	6	5	4	3	2	1	1	1

Pos Driver OSC SAC HOC ASS NÜR ASS LAU NÜR OSC Pts 1 Tom Dillmann 3 7 1 1 3 1 8 4 1 1 4 5 5 8 9 1 2 19 120 2 Daniel Abt 2 3 4 2 5 3 2 1 5 3 10 15 4 4 2 2 1 16 112 3 Kevin Magnussen 1 2 5 3 2 5 7 5 Ret 7 2 4 1 9 1 5 4 3 96 4 Stef Dusseldorp 4 1 3 17 Ret 2 3 3 Ret 4 1 Ret 3 6 4 3 3 DNS 88 5 Felix Rosenqvist Ret 11 2 Ret Ret 8 1 2 2 2 6 1 8 2 5 4 11 2 83 6 Jimmy Eriksson 8 4 Ret 6 6 7 10 11 7 9 3 9 2 1 Ret 6 Ret DNS 43 7 Willi Steindl 7 9 7 7 DNS 12 5 6 3 5 Ret 8 6 18 7 8 7 1 43 8 Markus Pommer 5 6 10 8 8 Ret 6 7 6 8 7 2 20 3 11 13 6 7 40 9 Alon Day 13 10 11 10 10 4 4 12 8 6 Ret 7 10 5 8 7 8 9 26 10 Luís Felipe Derani 16 8 9 9 4 6 Ret 10 Ret 11 5 12 7 DSQ Ret 9 9 4 20 11 Marco Sørensen 20 5 21 4 7 10 3 12 18 12 René Binder 10 Ret 13 12 12 14 12 Ret 4 10 8 3 16 16 Ret 16 Ret 13 12 13 Gary Hauser 6 Ret 6 5 Ret 15 9 9 11 17 12 10 9 7 10 DNS 15 DNS 12 14 Nico Monien 1 16 10 15 Klaus Bachler 5 5 8 16 Bernd Herndlhofer 9 6 12 Ret 10 DNS 3 17 Sandro Zeller 14 Ret 20 Ret 11 Ret 14 8 14 13 14 12 16 11 16 8 3 18 Nikolay Martsenko 11 Ret 8 11 9 11 11 Ret 10 12 11 11 11 11 12 10 13 10 1 19 Luís Sá Silva 12 Ret 14 19 DNS 9 0 20 Kevin Friesacher 9 12 0 21 Riccardo Brutschin 12 12 0 22 Philip Forsman 12 13 0 Guest drivers ineligible for points Kevin Kleveros 6 15 0 Nigel Melker 21 6 0 Pos Driver OSC SAC HOC ASS NÜR ASS LAU NÜR OSC Pts

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

Trophy

• Points were awarded as follows:

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
10	8	6	5	4	3	2	1

Pos	Driver	OSC		SAC		HOC		ASS		NÜR		ASS		LAU		NÜR		OSC		Pts
1	Riccardo Brutschin	15	14	15	14	15	13	13	13	9	14	13	14	DNS	10	13	14			142
2	Alexey Karachev	17	16	16	16	14	18	16	15	13	16	15	16	18	13	14	17	20	14	121
3	Aki Sandberg	18	15	17	18	17	20	Ret	17	16	18	16	18	17	14	17	19	17	15	93
4	Maxim Travin	19	17	18	DNS	16	19	17	16	15	19	Ret	17	15	15	15	18	18	17	87
5	Luca Iannaccone	DNS	DNS	22	20	18	21	18	18	17	20	17	NC	19	17	18	20	19	18	57
6	Aleksi Tuukkanen	Ret	13	19	15	13	17	15	14											56
7	Daniel Aho									12	15	14	13	13	DSQ					44
Guest driver ineligible for points
	Mikhail Aleshin																	14	11	0
Pos	Driver	OSC		SAC		HOC		ASS		NÜR		ASS		LAU		NÜR		OSC		Pts

SONAX Rookie-Pokal

• Points were awarded as follows:

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
10	8	6	5	4	3	2	1

Pos Driver OSC SAC HOC ASS NÜR ASS LAU NÜR OSC Pts 1 Kevin Magnussen 1 2 5 3 2 5 7 5 Ret 7 2 4 1 9 1 5 4 3 128 2 Daniel Abt 2 3 4 2 5 3 2 1 5 3 10 15 4 4 2 2 1 16 125 3 Felix Rosenqvist Ret 11 2 Ret Ret 8 1 2 2 2 6 1 8 2 5 4 11 2 106 4 Jimmy Eriksson 8 4 Ret 6 6 7 10 11 7 9 3 9 2 1 Ret 6 Ret DNS 77 5 Alon Day 13 10 11 10 10 4 4 12 8 6 Ret 7 10 5 8 7 8 9 70 6 Luís Felipe Derani 16 8 9 9 4 6 Ret 10 Ret 11 5 12 7 DSQ Ret 9 9 4 59 7 René Binder 10 Ret 13 12 12 14 12 Ret 4 10 8 3 16 16 Ret 16 Ret 13 37 8 Marco Sørensen 20 5 21 4 7 10 3 12 23 9 Sandro Zeller 14 Ret 20 Ret 11 Ret 14 8 14 13 14 12 16 11 16 8 21 10 Riccardo Brutschin 15 14 15 14 15 13 13 13 9 14 13 14 DNS 10 13 14 12 12 21 11 Klaus Bachler 5 5 11 12 Luís Sá Silva 12 Ret 14 19 DNS 9 7 13 Daniel Aho 12 15 14 13 13 DSQ 7 14 Kevin Friesacher 9 12 6 15 Alexey Karachev 17 16 16 16 14 18 16 15 13 16 15 16 18 13 14 17 20 14 4 16 Aleksi Tuukkanen Ret 13 19 15 13 17 15 14 0 Guest drivers ineligible for points Kevin Kleveros 6 15 0 Mikhail Aleshin 14 11 0 Pos Driver OSC SAC HOC ASS NÜR ASS LAU NÜR OSC Pts

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)

See also

• 2010 Formula 3 Euro Series season
• 2010 Masters of Formula 3

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External links

• Official website (English) (German)