2012 JK Racing Asia Series season

2012 JK Racing Asia Series season
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The 2012 JK Racing Asia Series season is the ninth season of the former Formula BMW Pacific series, and the second under its new name of the JK Racing Asia Series. The championship began on 27 May at Sepang and will finish on 28 October in New Delhi^[1] after sixteen races held at five meetings.

Teams and drivers

• All cars are BMW-engined Mygale FB02 chassis. Guest drivers in italics.

Team No. Driver Class Rounds EuroInternational 1 Nabil Jeffri[2] All 2 Weiron Tan[3] 1–4 Hiqmar Danial 5 Aditya Patel 6 3 Irfan Ilyas[4] 1–4 Akhil Khushlani 5 4 Aston Hare[5] R 1–3, 5–6 10 Hiqmar Danial 4 49 Akhil Khushlani 6 Atlantic Racing Team 5 Raj Bharath 1 6 Vishnu Prasad 1 7 Sandeep Kumar 1 12 Calvin Seibl 1 Meco Racing 5 Raj Bharath 5 6 Vishnu Prasad 5–6 14 Chetan Korada 5 15 Mahveer Raghunathan 6 17 Diego Duez 6 19 Akhil Rabindra 5–6 US Formula Project 9 Chris Vlok 2 10 Calvin Wong 5 Amer Beg 6 11 Aditya Patel[4] 2–3, 5 33 Sean Walkinshaw[4] 2 37 Ashraff Dewal 5–6 49 Akhil Khushlani 4 Eurasia Motorsport 10 Danial Hidzir[4] 1–3 37 Josh Raneri[4] R 1–3 45 Alexis van de Poele 3 SWB Motorsport 24 Tommy Ostgaard 4 27 Jack Dex 4 www.Meritus.GP 29 Akash Nandy 1 38 Aidan Wright[4] R 1–3, 5–6 68 Toby Earle[4] R 1–3, 5 88 Afiq Ikhwan[4] All 95 Ernie van der Walt[4] 2–3 Earl Bamber 5 Mahara 45 Ollie Millroy 2 79 Charly Bizalion 2 Earl Bamber 3 Karmnder Pal Singh 5

Icon Class R Rookie Driver

Race calendar and results

• The series schedule was released on 2 February 2012.^[1] The series visited European circuits for the first time, adding races at Le Castellet and Spa-Francorchamps. On 15 August 2012, it was announced that the series would visit Silverstone for a round supporting the British Formula 3 and British GT championships, instead of being part of the support package for the Singapore Grand Prix.^[6]

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning driver	Winning team	Supporting
1	R1	Sepang International Circuit	26 May	Nabil Jeffri	Nabil Jeffri	Nabil Jeffri	EuroInternational	Asian Festival of Speed
	R2			Afiq Ikhwan	Nabil Jeffri	Aston Hare	EuroInternational
	R3		27 May		Aston Hare	Nabil Jeffri	EuroInternational
	R4				Aston Hare	Aston Hare	EuroInternational
2	R1	Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet	1 July	Afiq Ikhwan	Ernie van der Walt	Nabil Jeffri	EuroInternational	Blancpain Endurance Series
	R2			Aston Hare	Aston Hare	Afiq Ikhwan	www.Meritus.GP
3	R1	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	27 July	Nabil Jeffri	Aston Hare	Nabil Jeffri	EuroInternational	Spa 24 Hours
	R2		28 July	Nabil Jeffri	Weiron Tan	Aston Hare	EuroInternational
4	R1	Silverstone Circuit	8 September	Afiq Ikhwan	Afiq Ikhwan	Afiq Ikhwan	www.Meritus.GP	British GT / British Formula 3
	R2		9 September	Afiq Ikhwan	Akhil Khushlani	Afiq Ikhwan	www.Meritus.GP
5	R1	Buddh International Circuit	27 October	Afiq Ikhwan	Aditya Patel	Afiq Ikhwan	www.Meritus.GP	Indian Grand Prix
	R2		28 October	Nabil Jeffri	Nabil Jeffri	Aston Hare	EuroInternational
6	R1	Buddh International Circuit	1 December	Aston Hare	Aston Hare	Aston Hare	EuroInternational	stand-alone round
	R2			Aston Hare	Nabil Jeffri	Aston Hare	EuroInternational
	R3		2 December		Nabil Jeffri	Aston Hare	EuroInternational
	R4				Nabil Jeffri	Aditya Patel	EuroInternational

Championship standings

• Points were awarded as follows:

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	PP
All Race	20	15	12	10	8	6	4	3	2	1	1

Pos Driver SEP LEC SPA SIL IND IND Pts 1 Aston Hare 3 1 2 1 4 3 3 1 5 1 1 1 1 2 236 2 Nabil Jeffri 1 6 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 3 2 8 10 7 3 Ret 223 3 Afiq Ikhwan 2 Ret 4 11 9 1 Ret 6 1 1 1 4 3 2 6 Ret 174 4 Aidan Wright 7 4 10 5 7 7 9 5 6 5 5 5 5 3 120 5 Irfan Ilyas 9 3 6 4 5 4 2 4 7 4 93 6 Hiqmar Danial 5 10 3 7 11 14 4 7 3 5 7 3 89 7 Weiron Tan 6 5 13 6 3 8 Ret 3 4 6 67 8 Akash Nandy 4 2 5 3 45 9 Ernie van der Walt 2 5 7 8 34 10 Toby Earle 10 8 11 12 12 11 10 12 9 11 27 11 Josh Raneri 8 7 7 8 Ret 10 8 10 25 guest drivers ineligible for points Aditya Patel 8 6 6 9 3 2 4 3 4 1 0 Akhil Khushlani 8 2 4 7 2 4 2 4 0 Vishnu Prasad 13 11 12 10 Ret 10 6 6 10 5 0 Tommy Ostgaard 5 7 0 Earl Bamber 5 Ret Ret Ret 0 Amer Beg 9 11 8 6 0 Jack Dex 6 8 0 Calvin Wong 8 6 0 Sean Walkinshaw 6 12 0 Akhil Rabindra 12 13 7 9 7 7 0 Diego Duez 8 8 11 9 0 Raj Bharath 11 12 8 9 10 9 0 Ashraff Dewal 13 14 Ret 10 9 8 0 Calvin Seibl 12 9 9 Ret 0 Chris Vlok 10 9 0 Mahaveer Raghunathan Ret Ret 12 10 0 Alexis van de Poele 11 11 0 Karminder Pal Singh 11 12 0 Charly Bizalion 13 13 0 Chetan Korada 14 15 0 Sandeep Kumar DNS DNS DNS DNS 0 Ollie Millroy DNS DNS 0 Pos Driver SEP LEC SPA SIL IND IND 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

References

1. "JK Racing Asia Series heads to Europe for 2012". JK Racing Asia Series (Asian Festival of Speed). 3 February 2012. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
2. "Nabil Jeffri aim for Title in JK Racing Asia Series 2012". JK Racing Asia Series (Asian Festival of Speed). 11 April 2012. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
3. "Weiron Tan confirms 2012 race program". JK Racing Asia Series (Asian Festival of Speed). 29 March 2012. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
4. "PROVISIONAL ENTRY LIST" (PDF). 24 Hours of Spa. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
5. "Aston Hare joins Eurointernational for JK Racing Asia Series 2012". JK Racing Asia Series (Asian Festival of Speed). 8 May 2012. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
6. "Silverstone confirmed as third European venue for JK Racing Asia Series". afos.com (Asian Festival of Speed). 15 August 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2012.

External links

• Asian Festival Of Speed