2011 Formula 3 Euro Series

2011 Formula 3 Euro Series season
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The 2011 Formula 3 Euro Series season was the ninth championship year of the Formula 3 Euro Series. It began on 2 April at Circuit Paul Ricard and finished on 23 October at Hockenheim after 21 races at nine meetings.

Roberto Merhi, who participated his third season in series clinched title after home win at Valencia with a round to spare, bringing first Drivers' Championship for Prema Powerteam since 2003 and first title in the Teams' Standings. Second place for the second year in row went to Signature's Marco Wittmann, who took five wins. Merhi's compatriot and teammate Daniel Juncadella scored four races victories and managed third in drivers' standing. Also Juncadella and Merhi won Nations Cup.

Best rookie of the season Nigel Melker took fourth place with four victories despite missing round Silverstone due to commitments in GP3 Series. His teammate Felix Rosenqvist finished fifth, winning penultimate race of the season at Hockenheim. Places six through eight went to Signature's drivers Laurens Vanthoor, Daniel Abt and Carlos Muñoz. Motopark's drivers Jimmy Eriksson and Kimiya Sato finished on ninth and tenth positions respectively.

Drivers and teams

Competition numbers 30 and higher are single-race entrants and are ineligible to score championship points.

Team No. Driver Class Chassis[N 1] Engine Rounds Signature[1] 1 Marco Wittmann[2] FIA F308/011 Volkswagen All 2 Laurens Vanthoor[3] FIA F309/023 All 9 Carlos Muñoz[4] FIA F308/005 All 10 Daniel Abt[5] FIA F308/057 All 38 Carlos Sainz Jr.[6] R F309/001 9 Mücke Motorsport[1] 3 Nigel Melker[7] R F308/005 Mercedes 1–6, 8–9 4 Felix Rosenqvist[8] F308/042 All 35 Marco Sørensen[9] F308/005 7 37 Facu Regalia[10] F308/050 9 Motopark[1] 5 Jimmy Eriksson[11] F308/099 Volkswagen All 6 Kimiya Sato[2] FIA F308/098 All 11 Gianmarco Raimondo[12] F308/006 1–3 31 Tom Dillmann[13] 4 36 Artem Markelov[10] R F308/096 9 Prema Powerteam[1] 7 Daniel Juncadella[14] FIA F309/014 Mercedes All 8 Roberto Merhi[15] FIA F308/047 All 11 Gianmarco Raimondo[13] F308/031 4–9 STAR Racing Team[16] 12 Kuba Giermaziak[16] R F308/096 Volkswagen 1–6 Carlin 30 Jazeman Jaafar[17] FIA F308/018 Volkswagen 2 31 Tom Dillmann[18] F308/056 2 32 Carlos Huertas[18] FIA F308/055 2 HS Engineering 33 Alon Day[19] F308/071 Volkswagen 5, 7 Jo Zeller Racing 34 Sandro Zeller[20] F306/014 Mercedes 2, 5 F308/044 9

Icon Legend R Rookie Cup FIA FIA Formula 3 International Trophy

Notes

1. All drivers competed in Dallara chassis; model listed.

Driver changes

Changed Teams

• Roberto Merhi and Carlos Muñoz both switched from Mücke Motorsport to Prema Powerteam and Signature respectively.

Entering/Re-Entering Formula 3 Euro Series

• After finishing runner-up to Tom Dillmann in German Formula Three, Daniel Abt moved to Signature. Dillmann competed as a guest driver at Hockenheim for Carlin along with British series regulars Carlos Huertas and Jazeman Jaafar, and then moved to Motopark for the Red Bull Ring round.
• Alon Day made his series début as a guest driver for his German Formula Three team HS Engineering, at the Norisring.
• Jimmy Eriksson moved up from German Formula Three full-time, competing for Motopark. He was joined by Gianmarco Raimondo who moves from Italian Formula Three and Kimiya Sato, who moves from Japanese Formula Three. Raimondo later moved to a third car at Prema Powerteam
• Kuba Giermaziak débuted in the series with the STAR Racing Team, dovetailing with commitments in the Porsche Supercup.
• Nigel Melker competed for Mücke Motorsport, alongside his GP3 commitments with the team. Felix Rosenqvist joined him, stepping up from German Formula Three.

Leaving Formula 3 Euro Series

• With his ART Grand Prix team leaving the championship after the 2010 season, Valtteri Bottas moved into one of the team's GP3 Series seats, while his 2010 teammate Alexander Sims join edStatus Grand Prix.
• 2010 champion Edoardo Mortara moved into the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters with Audi.

Team changes

• ART Grand Prix, who won six drivers' titles and seven teams' titles, exited the championship to concentrate on other series.^[21]
• STAR Racing Team débuted in the series, with Kuba Giermaziak driving the team's sole entry.^[1]

Race calendar and results

• A provisional nine-round calendar was announced on 16 October 2010.^[22] Seven of the nine rounds will support Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters events, with additional rounds at Le Castellet and Silverstone in support of the Le Mans Series. The series will adopt a format introduced in the 2010 British Formula 3 Championship, with three races a weekend, two of which held on the Saturday and the final race on the Sunday. The first and third races at the first Hockenheim round were also points-scoring for the FIA Formula 3 International Trophy.

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team
1	R1	Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet	2 April	Roberto Merhi	Marco Wittmann	Nigel Melker	Mücke Motorsport
	R2				Daniel Juncadella	Roberto Merhi	Prema Powerteam
	R3		3 April	Roberto Merhi	Daniel Abt	Daniel Juncadella	Prema Powerteam
2	R1	Hockenheimring	30 April	Roberto Merhi	Roberto Merhi	Roberto Merhi	Prema Powerteam
	R2				Roberto Merhi	Daniel Juncadella	Prema Powerteam
	R3		1 May	Marco Wittmann	Roberto Merhi	Roberto Merhi	Prema Powerteam
3	R1	Circuit Park Zandvoort	14 May	Nigel Melker	Marco Wittmann	Nigel Melker	Mücke Motorsport
	R2				Felix Rosenqvist	Kimiya Sato	Motopark
	R3		15 May	Marco Wittmann	Marco Wittmann	Marco Wittmann	Signature
4	R1	Red Bull Ring, Spielberg	4 June	Daniel Juncadella	Felix Rosenqvist	Roberto Merhi	Prema Powerteam
	R2				Roberto Merhi	Roberto Merhi	Prema Powerteam
	R3		5 June	Daniel Juncadella	Nigel Melker	Daniel Juncadella	Prema Powerteam
5	R1	Norisring, Nuremberg	2 July	Marco Wittmann	Marco Wittmann	Nigel Melker	Mücke Motorsport
	R2				Roberto Merhi	Marco Wittmann	Signature
	R3		3 July	Marco Wittmann	Roberto Merhi	Marco Wittmann	Signature
6	R1	Nürburgring	6 August	Daniel Juncadella	Roberto Merhi	Roberto Merhi	Prema Powerteam
	R2				Daniel Juncadella	Roberto Merhi	Prema Powerteam
	R3		7 August	Daniel Juncadella	Daniel Juncadella	Daniel Juncadella	Prema Powerteam
7	R1	Silverstone Circuit	10 September	Roberto Merhi	Roberto Merhi	Roberto Merhi	Prema Powerteam
	R2				Marco Sørensen	Marco Sørensen	Mücke Motorsport
	R3		11 September	Roberto Merhi	Roberto Merhi	Marco Wittmann	Signature
8	R1	Circuit Ricardo Tormo, Valencia	1 October	Nigel Melker	Nigel Melker	Nigel Melker	Mücke Motorsport
	R2				Marco Wittmann	Marco Wittmann	Signature
	R3		2 October	Roberto Merhi	Roberto Merhi	Roberto Merhi	Prema Powerteam
9	R1	Hockenheimring	22 October	Roberto Merhi	Felix Rosenqvist	Roberto Merhi	Prema Powerteam
	R2				Felix Rosenqvist	Felix Rosenqvist	Mücke Motorsport
	R3		23 October	Roberto Merhi	Felix Rosenqvist	Roberto Merhi	Prema Powerteam

Standings

• Points are awarded as follows:

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Race 1 & 3	25	18	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1
Race 2	10	8	6	5	4	3	2	1	0

Drivers' Championship

Pos Driver LEC HOC ZAN RBR NOR NÜR SIL VAL HOC Pts 1 Roberto Merhi 4 1 2 1 4 1 3 4 4 1 1 Ret 4 2 2 1 1 2 1 3 2 3 5 1 1 2 1 406 2 Marco Wittmann 5 2 3 2 3 2 10 6 1 3 11 Ret 3 1 1 6 11 6 2 10 1 6 1 5 4 4 4 285 3 Daniel Juncadella 3 3 1 6 1 4 5 7 12† 2 6 1 Ret 3 11 2 4 1 3 2 8 4 3 2 7 6 3 280 4 Nigel Melker 1 12 4 7 11 5 1 11 3 5 Ret 2 1 11 10 4 6 3 1 8 3 6 5 2 251 5 Felix Rosenqvist 2 4 Ret 5 5 3 2 3 2 Ret 10 Ret DSQ 5 5 3 2 4 4 7 Ret 2 6 4 2 1 Ret 219 6 Laurens Vanthoor 8 7 5 3 6 15 4 5 6 7 2 7 2 8 4 5 3 5 6 6 4 11 11† 6 3 9 12 189 7 Daniel Abt Ret 11 9 4 7 6 Ret 8 5 6 3 4 10† 10 3 12 7 7 5 5 5 10 10 7 5 3 6 150 8 Carlos Muñoz 6 5 7 8 2 9 6 12 8 10 9 5 9 Ret 13 9 8 8 10 11 3 5 7 10 8 14† Ret 105 9 Jimmy Eriksson 10 9 6 9 8 7 9 9 7 9 5 6 5 4 7 10 Ret 10 9 9 6 9 9 11 9 8 7 93 10 Kimiya Sato Ret 6 8 Ret 12 10 7 1 10 11 4 10 6 Ret 8 8 5 12 8 4 DSQ 8 2 9 Ret 7 9 86 11 Gianmarco Raimondo 9 10 10 Ret 13 14 8 2 11 8 7 8 Ret 6 Ret 7 9 9 12† 8 Ret 7 4 8 13† 13 8 66 12 Kuba Giermaziak 7 8 Ret 14 14 Ret Ret 10 9 12 8 9 7 Ret 6 11 10 11 29 Guest drivers ineligible for points Marco Sørensen 7 1 Ret 0 Tom Dillmann 12 10 8 4 12† 3 0 Carlos Sainz Jr. Ret Ret 5 0 Alon Day 8 7 12 11 Ret 7 0 Sandro Zeller 13 15 13 Ret 9 9 11 12 10 0 Jazeman Jaafar 10 9 11 0 Facu Regalia 10 10 Ret 0 Artem Markelov 12 11 11 0 Carlos Huertas 11 Ret 12 0 Pos Driver LEC HOC ZAN RBR NOR NÜR SIL VAL HOC 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

† — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.

Teams' Championship

Pos	Team	LEC			HOC			ZAN			RBR			NOR			NÜR			SIL			VAL			HOC			Pts
1	Prema Powerteam	3	1	1	1	1	1	3	4	4	1	1	1	4	2	2	1	1	1	1	2	2	3	3	1	1	2	1	693
		4	3	2	6	4	4	5	7	12	2	6	8	Ret	3	11	2	4	2	3	3	8	4	4	2	7	6	3
2	Signature	5	2	3	2	2	2	4	5	1	3	2	4	2	1	1	5	3	5	2	5	1	5	1	5	3	3	4	570
		6	5	5	3	3	6	6	6	5	6	3	5	3	8	3	6	7	6	6	6	3	6	7	6	4	4	6
3	Mücke Motorsport	1	4	4	5	5	3	1	3	2	5	10	2	1	5	5	3	2	3	4	1	Ret	1	6	3	2	1	2	470
		2	12	Ret	7	11	5	2	11	3	Ret	Ret	Ret	DSQ	11	10	4	6	4	7	7	Ret	2	8	4	6	5	Ret
4	Motopark STAR Racing Team	7	6	6	9	8	7	7	1	7	9	4	6	5	4	6	8	5	10	8	4	6	8	2	9	9	7	7	205
		9	8	8	14	12	10	8	2	9	11	5	9	6	Ret	7	10	10	11	9	9	DSQ	9	9	11	Ret	8	9
Guest teams ineligible for points
	HS Engineering													8	7	12				11	Ret	7							0
	Carlin				10	9	8																						0
					11	10	11
	Jo Zeller Racing				13	15	13							Ret	9	9										11	12	10	0
Pos	Team	LEC			HOC			ZAN			RBR			NOR			NÜR			SIL			VAL			HOC			Pts

Nations Cup

Pos	Nation	LEC			HOC			ZAN			RBR			NOR			NÜR			SIL			VAL			HOC			Pts
1	Spain	3	1	1	1	1	1	3	4	4	1	1	1	4	2	2	1	1	1	1	2	2	3	3	1	1	2	1	686
		4	3	2	6	4	4	5	7	12	2	6	Ret	Ret	3	11	2	4	2	3	3	8	4	5	2	7	6	3
2	Germany	5	2	3	2	3	2	10	6	1	3	3	4	3	1	1	6	7	6	2	5	1	6	1	5	4	3	4	435
		Ret	11	9	4	7	6	Ret	8	5	6	11	Ret	10	10	3	12	11	7	5	10	5	10	10	7	5	4	6
3	Sweden	2	4	6	5	5	3	2	3	2	9	5	6	5	4	5	3	2	4	4	7	6	2	6	4	2	1	7	312
		10	9	Ret	9	5	7	9	9	7	Ret	10	Ret	DSQ	5	7	10	Ret	10	9	9	Ret	9	9	11	9	8	Ret
4	Netherlands	1	12	4	7	11	5	1	11	3	5	Ret	2	1	11	10	4	6	3				1	8	3	6	5	2	251
5	Belgium	8	7	5	3	6	15	4	5	6	7	2	7	2	8	4	5	3	5	6	6	4	11	11	6	3	9	12	189
6	Colombia	6	5	7	8	2	9	6	12	8	10	9	5	9	Ret	13	9	8	8	10	11	3	5	7	10	8	14	Ret	105
					11	Ret	12
7	Japan	Ret	6	8	Ret	12	10	7	1	10	11	4	10	6	Ret	8	8	5	12	8	4	DSQ	8	2	9	Ret	7	9	86
8	Canada	9	10	10	Ret	13	14	8	2	11	8	7	8	Ret	6	Ret	7	9	9	12	8	Ret	7	4	8	13	13	8	66
9	Poland	7	8	Ret	14	14	Ret	Ret	10	9	12	8	9	7	Ret	6	11	10	11										29
Guest nations ineligible for points
	Denmark																			7	1	Ret							0
	France				12	10	8				4	12	3																0
	Israel													8	7	12				11	Ret	7							0
	Switzerland				13	15	13							Ret	9	9										11	12	10	0
	Malaysia				10	9	11																						0
	Argentina																									10	10	Ret	0
	Russia																									12	11	11	0
Pos	Nation	LEC			HOC			ZAN			RBR			NOR			NÜR			SIL			VAL			HOC			Pts

References

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External links

• The official website of the Formula 3 Euro Series