2014 Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup

2014 Formula Renault 2.0 NEC season
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The 2014 Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup was the ninth Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup season, an open-wheel motor racing series for emerging young racing drivers based in Europe. It was contested over 7 race meetings and a total of 15 races – 17 scheduled races, with 2 cancelled due to weather conditions – commencing on 12 April at Monza and concluding on 20 September at the Nürburgring.

The championship title was won by British driver Ben Barnicoat, a member of McLaren's young driver programme, after recording top-ten finishes in all but two of the season's races. Barnicoat, who won races at Hockenheim and Most, finished 16 points clear of his closest rival, Louis Delétraz, who was the winner of the opening race of the season, at Monza. Third place in the championship was settled via a tie-break, as Meb Sorris and Steijn Schothorst finished level on points; the tie was settled in favour of Morris, as his two wins – at Silverstone and Assen – gave him the advantage over Schothorst's sole win, at Spa.

Over the course of the season, 11 different drivers won a race. Aside from Barnicoat and Morris, other drivers to win twice were Gustav Malja, who finished fifth in the championship, and Kevin Jörg, who only contested four meetings during the season. Single race victories were taken by full-time series competitor Callan O'Keeffe, Andrea Pizzitola, Levin Amweg, Alexander Albon and Aurélien Panis, however none of the quintet finished higher than O'Keeffe's seventh place in the final championship standings. The teams' championship was won by Josef Kaufmann Racing, thanks to the results of Delétraz, Malja, Jörg and Ryan Tveter.

Drivers and teams

Team	No.	Driver	Rounds
Inter Europol[1]	2	David Richert[2]	1–2, 4, 6
	3	Max Biedermann[3]	1
		Robert Siska[4]	2–3, 7
	47	Max Biedermann[3]	2
	52	Phillip Hamprecht	5, 7
ART Junior Team[3]	4	Aurélien Panis[5]	1–3
	5	Jake Hughes[6]	6–7
	35	Levin Amweg[5]	1–3
	36	Callan O'Keeffe[5]	1–6
	38	James Allen[3]	1
Mark Burdett Racing	5	Jake Hughes[7]	1–5
	6	Raoul Owens[8]	All
Speedfish Racing[1]	7	Stefan Riener[3]	All
Fragus BR Motorsport[3]	8	Robin Hansson[3]	All
	49	Cédric Freiburghaus	6
Manor MP Motorsport[1]	9	Philip Morin[9]	1–3
	10	Julio Moreno[3]	All
	11	Steijn Schothorst[3]	All
	12	Andrea Pizzitola[3]	1–2, 6–7
Josef Kaufmann Racing[1]	14	Gustav Malja[10]	All
	15	Kevin Jörg[11]	1, 4, 6–7
	16	Ryan Tveter[12]	All
	17	Louis Delétraz[11]	All
AVF[1]	18	Roy Geerts[13]	All
	19	Josef Záruba[14]	All
	20	Matthew Graham[15]	All
	21	Nicholas Surguladze[15]	1–2
	22	Inigo Bikuna[16]	4–7
	25	Jules Gounon[3]	4–7
KTR[3]			1
	23	Alexander Albon[3]	1, 5–6
	24	Gregor Ramsay[3]	1, 5–6
	36	Callan O'Keeffe	7
KEO Racing	26	Fabian Welter[17]	1
Fortec Motorsports	31	Seb Morris[18]	All
	32	Jorge Cevallos[19]	1–3
	33	Ben Barnicoat[20]	All
	34	Martin Kodrić[21]	All
Brixia Horse Power[3]	39	Andrea Baiguera[3]	1, 4
AS Motorsport by GSK[3]	40	Danyil Pronenko[22]	1
	48	Matteo Cairoli[22]	1
PositiOne[3]	41	Leopold Ringbom[3]	1–3
	42	Lassi Halminen[4]	2
	50	Harri Salminen[5]	3–7
Euronova[22]	43	Salvatore De Plano[23]	3
	44	Sennan Fielding[24]	2
	45	Jakub Dalewski[22]	1
	46	Ukyo Sasahara[22]	All
	51	Michele La Rosa[16]	4–5
	53	Ivan Matveev[25]	6–7
SL Formula Racing	49	Cédric Freiburghaus[4]	2, 4

Race calendar and results

The seven-event calendar for the 2014 season was announced on 12 December 2013.^[26]

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team	Event
1	R1	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	12 April	Louis Delétraz	Ukyo Sasahara	Louis Delétraz	Josef Kaufmann Racing	Blancpain Endurance Series
	R2		13 April	Kevin Jörg	Kevin Jörg	Kevin Jörg	Josef Kaufmann Racing
2	R1	Silverstone Circuit	24 May	Aurélien Panis	Levin Amweg	Levin Amweg	ART Junior Team	Blancpain Endurance Series
	R2		25 May	Seb Morris	Ben Barnicoat	Seb Morris	Fortec Motorsports
3	R1	Hockenheimring	14 June	Gustav Malja	Levin Amweg	Gustav Malja	Josef Kaufmann Racing	Stuttgarter Rössle Hockenheimring
	R2		15 June	Ben Barnicoat	Callan O'Keeffe	Ben Barnicoat	Fortec Motorsports
	R3			Aurélien Panis	Callan O'Keeffe	Aurélien Panis	ART Junior Team
4	R1	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	25 July	Kevin Jörg	Kevin Jörg	Kevin Jörg	Josef Kaufmann Racing	Blancpain Endurance Series (Spa 24 Hours)
	R2		26 July	Kevin Jörg	Kevin Jörg	Steijn Schothorst	Manor MP Motorsport
5	R1	TT Circuit Assen	2 August	Callan O'Keeffe	Callan O'Keeffe	Callan O'Keeffe	ART Junior Team	Gamma Racing Day
	R2		3 August	Seb Morris	Seb Morris	Seb Morris	Fortec Motorsports
6	R1	Autodrom Most	30 August	Seb Morris	Gustav Malja	Ben Barnicoat	Fortec Motorsports	ADAC Truck Grand Prix
	R2		31 August	Raoul Owens	Alexander Albon	Alexander Albon	KTR
	R3			Race postponed due to heavy rain
7	R1	Nürburgring	19 September	Andrea Pizzitola	Andrea Pizzitola	Andrea Pizzitola	Manor MP Motorsport	Blancpain Endurance Series (1000 km Nürburgring)
	R2		20 September	Josef Záruba	Gustav Malja	Gustav Malja	Josef Kaufmann Racing
	R3		21 September	Andrea Pizzitola	Race cancelled due to fog

Championship 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 MNZ SIL HOC SPA ASS MST NÜR Points 1 Ben Barnicoat 9 4 6 18 2 1 6 2 5 2 Ret 1 7 C 4 4 C 258 2 Louis Delétraz 1 2 13 21 4 6 8 3 2 8 3 4 10 C 7 5 C 242 3 Seb Morris 15 7 14 1 21 5 9 8 Ret 4 1 3 3 C 2 6 C 224 4 Steijn Schothorst 5 3 5 3 9 2 7 4 1 Ret 7 Ret 4 C 11 7 C 224 5 Gustav Malja Ret Ret 4 DNS 1 9 4 6 3 3 5 21 6 C 20 1 C 193 6 Ukyo Sasahara 2 Ret 10 7 8 18 5 7 4 9 4 8 9 C 5 12 C 191 7 Callan O'Keeffe Ret 25 8 2 5 4 2 Ret 14 1 8 9 5 C 16 11 C 187 8 Jake Hughes Ret 26 3 5 7 8 10 10 9 16 11 7 22 C 6 10 C 152 9 Ryan Tveter Ret 15 15 6 12 11 11 5 15 6 2 12 11 C 15 13 C 150 10 Raoul Owens 8 9 7 20 NC 10 12 11 Ret Ret 12 15 2 C 12 14 C 125 11 Stefan Riener 22 24 11 9 10 7 Ret 9 7 10 6 10 Ret C 8 24 C 123 12 Matthew Graham 19 6 9 4 Ret 23 19 13 6 7 DSQ 13 16 C 13 8 C 119 13 Kevin Jörg 7 1 1 20 5 14 C 3 DNS C 118 14 Andrea Pizzitola 3 5 WD WD 6 8 C 1 3 C 114 15 Levin Amweg 4 27 1 Ret 3 3 3 107 16 Josef Záruba 14 10 21 12 13 16 Ret 17 21† 12 Ret 11 13 C 9 2 C 107 17 Alexander Albon 6 18 5 Ret 2 1 C 88 18 Martin Kodrić 12 28 WD WD 11 12 Ret 18 13 18 9 16 12 C 14 16 C 80 19 Aurélien Panis Ret Ret 2 Ret 6 13 1 77 20 Robin Hansson Ret 21 19 8 15 15 13 16 8 13 14 Ret 18 C Ret 17 C 75 21 Roy Geerts Ret 13 12 Ret 14 22 Ret 14 10 11 10 Ret 17 C Ret 15 C 73 22 Julio Moreno 17 17 16 13 20 17 16 12 16 17 16 Ret 15 C 19 21 C 62 23 Jules Gounon Ret 14 15 11 14 DSQ 20 25 C 10 9 C 54 24 Gregor Ramsay 10 8 15 15 14 24 C 43 25 Jorge Cevallos Ret 22 17 10 17 14 15 32 26 Leopold Ringbom 13 12 Ret 16 Ret 19 14 31 27 Philip Morin 21 16 20 11 16 Ret 17 25 28 Cédric Freiburghaus 18 15 22 12 17 19 C 24 29 Jakub Dalewski 11 11 20 30 Phillip Hamprecht 19 13 17 20 C 15 31 Ivan Matveev 18 20 C 18 18 C 10 32 Robert Siska DNS 19 18 21 18 DNS 23 C 8 33 Lassi Halminen 22 14 7 34 Danyil Pronenko 16 19 7 35 Andrea Baiguera Ret Ret 19 17 6 36 Harri Salminen 22 20 Ret 21 19 21 18 DNS 21 C 22 22 C 6 37 David Richert 20 23 WD WD 24 18 19 23 C 6 38 Michele la Rosa 20 Ret 22 17 5 39 Inigo Bikuna 23 DNS 20 19 Ret Ret C 21 19 C 5 40 Max Biedermann WD WD 24 17 4 41 Nicholas Surguladze 18 20 23 22 4 42 Salvatore De Plano 19 Ret 20 3 Sennan Fielding DNS DNS 0 Fabian Welter WD WD 0 James Allen WD WD 0 Matteo Cairoli WD WD 0 Pos Driver MNZ SIL HOC SPA ASS MST NÜR 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

Teams' championship

Pos Team MNZ SIL HOC SPA ASS MST NÜR Points 1 Josef Kaufmann Racing 1 1 4 6 1 6 4 1 2 3 2 4 6 C 3 1 C 334 2 Fortec Motorsports 9 4 6 1 2 1 6 2 5 2 1 1 3 C 2 4 C 328 3 Manor MP Motorsport 3 3 5 3 9 2 7 4 1 17 7 6 4 C 1 3 C 273 4 ART Junior Team 4 25 1 2 3 3 1 Ret 17 1 8 7 5 C 6 10 C 255 5 Euronova 2 11 10 7 8 18 5 7 4 9 4 8 9 C 5 12 C 201 6 Mark Burdett Motorsport 8 9 3 5 7 8 10 10 9 16 11 15 2 C 12 14 C 185 7 AVF 14 6 9 4 13 16 19 13 6 7 19 11 13 C 9 2 C 167 8 Speedfish Racing 22 24 11 9 10 7 Ret 9 7 10 6 10 Ret C 8 24 C 132 9 KTR 6 8 5 15 1 2 C 16 11 C 119 10 Fragus BR Motorsport Ret 21 19 8 15 15 13 16 8 13 14 17 18 C Ret 17 C 78 11 PositiOne 13 12 Ret 14 22 19 14 21 19 21 18 DNS 21 C 22 22 C 38 12 Inter Europol 20 23 24 17 18 21 18 24 18 19 13 19 23 C 17 20 C 29 13 SL Formula Racing 18 15 22 13 19 14 AS Motorsport by GSK 16 19 7 15 Brixia Horse Power Ret Ret 19 17 4 KEO Racing WD WD 0 Pos Team MNZ SIL HOC SPA ASS MST NÜR 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

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External links

• Official website of the Formula Renault 2.0 NEC championship