2009 Formula BMW Pacific season

The 2009 Formula BMW Pacific season was the eighth Formula BMW Pacific season. It began on May 2 in Sepang and ended on November 22 in Macau after 15 rounds in five countries. Rio Haryanto became champion with one race to spare, having won the title at Okayama.

Teams and drivers edit

All cars are powered by BMW engines, and Mygale FB02 chassis. Guest drivers in italics.

Team	No	Driver	Class	Rounds
Team Holzer PFX	2	Dominic Ang		All
	3	Calvin Wong	R	All
	4	Alif Jafri	R	All
Asia Racing Team	5	Suriya Kerisnan	R	4, 6
Asia Racing Team	9	Alon Day		6
Atlantic Racing Team	6	Aditya Patel		1
Atlantic Racing Team	8	Steel Guiliana	J R	5–6
Motaworld Racing	8	Steel Guiliana	J R	1–4
E-Rain Racing	7	Gary Thompson	R	All
	17	Fahmi Ilyas	R	All
	27	Fahad Algosaibi	R	1–2, 4–5
	49	Akhil Dinesh Khushlani		All
Eurasia Motorsport	10	Antonio Martínez	R	2
	11	Chris Wootton		All
	12	Jack Harvey		4
	22	Axcil Jefferies	J R	All
	26	Paul Lau		4, 6
	30	James Cole		6
	33	Daiki Sasaki		5
Ao's Racing	16	Hong Wei Cao		1–2, 4, 6
EuroInternational	18	Jim Pla		6
	19	William Buller		6
	20	James Kovacic		4–5
	21	Felipe Nasr		4, 6
	23	Facundo Regalia		5–6
	42	Michael Lewis		4–5
Räikkönen Robertson Racing	28	Jazeman Jaafar		6
Questnet Team Qi-Meritus	28	Huan Zhu		1
	38	Dustin Sofyan	R	All
	88	Rio Haryanto		All
Champ Motorsport	29	Jim Ka To		6
TopSpeed Racing Shanghai	34	Tomoki Nojiri		6

Icon	Class
R	Rookie Driver
J	Junior Driver

Calendar edit

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning driver	Winning team	Supporting
1	R1	Sepang	4 April	Gary Thompson	Gary Thompson	Gary Thompson	E-Rain Racing	Malaysian Grand Prix
1	R2	Sepang	5 April	Gary Thompson	Rio Haryanto	Rio Haryanto	Questnet Team Qi-Meritus	Malaysian Grand Prix
2	R1	Sepang	30 May	Chris Wootton	Gary Thompson	Axcil Jefferies	Eurasia Motorsport	Asian Festival of Speed
	R2		30 May	Chris Wootton	Rio Haryanto	Fahmi Ilyas	E-Rain Racing
	R3		31 May	Axcil Jefferies	Akhil Dinesh Khushlani	Axcil Jefferies	Eurasia Motorsport
	R4		31 May	Fahmi Ilyas	Gary Thompson	Rio Haryanto	Questnet Team Qi-Meritus
3	R1	Sentul	15 August	Rio Haryanto	Rio Haryanto	Rio Haryanto	Questnet Team Qi-Meritus	Asian Festival of Speed
	R2		15 August	Rio Haryanto	Rio Haryanto	Rio Haryanto	Questnet Team Qi-Meritus
	R3		16 August	Rio Haryanto	Rio Haryanto	Rio Haryanto	Questnet Team Qi-Meritus
	R4		16 August	Rio Haryanto	Rio Haryanto	Rio Haryanto	Questnet Team Qi-Meritus
4	R1	Singapore	26 September	Rio Haryanto*	Gary Thompson*	Rio Haryanto*	Questnet Team Qi-Meritus*	Singapore Grand Prix
4	R2	Singapore	27 September	Fahmi Ilyas*	Axcil Jefferies*	Rio Haryanto*	Questnet Team Qi-Meritus*	Singapore Grand Prix
5	R1	Okayama	31 October	Axcil Jefferies*	Rio Haryanto*	Rio Haryanto*	Questnet Team Qi-Meritus*	World Touring Car Championship
5	R2	Okayama	1 November	Rio Haryanto*	Rio Haryanto*	Rio Haryanto*	Questnet Team Qi-Meritus*	World Touring Car Championship
6	R1	Macau	22 November	Rio Haryanto*	Rio Haryanto*	Rio Haryanto*	Questnet Team Qi-Meritus*	Macau Grand Prix

* At the last three rounds, guest drivers started from pole position, setting the fastest lap before winning the race. In Singapore, Felipe Nasr achieved that before Facundo Regalia (Okayama) and William Buller did so in Macau.

Standings edit

Points are awarded as follows:

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

Pos	Driver	SEP1 1	SEP1 2	SEP2 1	SEP2 2	SEP2 3	SEP2 4	SEN 1	SEN 2	SEN 3	SEN 4	SIN 1	SIN 2	OKA 1	OKA 2	MAC 1	Pts
1	Rio Haryanto	3	1	Ret	3	4	1	1	1	1	1	2	4	2	2	3	250
2	Gary Thompson	1	3	2	2	2	4	3	3	2	3	5	9	3	6	Ret	180
3	Axcil Jefferies	4	Ret	1	4	1	3	4	2	3	2	Ret	5	Ret	7	5	163
4	Fahmi Ilyas	7	Ret	11	1	8	2	2	6	6	7	9	Ret	Ret	5	8	102
5	Dustin Sofyan	5	Ret	4	5	5	7	6	5	5	4	14	11	13	13	6	89
6	Akhil Dinesh Khushlani	8	Ret	3	Ret	3	5	7	4	4	5	Ret	12	6	11	Ret	82
7	Chris Wootton	2	2	12	Ret	Ret	6	Ret	Ret	7	6	6	6	9	8	Ret	78.5
8	Calvin Wong	6	4	5	Ret	7	9	Ret	8	Ret	8	8	8	10	4	Ret	69
9	Dominic Ang	11	7	8	7	6	10	5	9	9	9	17	7	Ret	12	Ret	46
10	Steel Guiliana	14	9	10	9	12	14	8	Ret	8	10	13	10	5	10	Ret	35
11	Fahad Algosaibi	13	8	6	8	11	12					10	16	12	Ret		19.5
12	Hong Wei Cao	10	5	Ret	DNS	9	11					7	14			Ret	19
13	Alif Jafri	Ret	11	9	Ret	13	13	9	7	10	11	12	Ret	11	14	Ret	17
14	Aditya Patel	9	6														5
15	Huan Zhu	12	10														0.5
16	Suriya Kerisnan											15	Ret			7	0
guest drivers ineligible for points
	Felipe Nasr											1	1			DSQ	0
	Facundo Regalia													1	1	Ret	0
	William Buller															1	0
	Michael Lewis											11	2	4	Ret		0
	Jim Pla															2	0
	James Kovacic											3	3	7	3		0
	Jack Harvey											4	13				0
	Jim Ka To															4	0
	Antonio Martínez			7	6	10	8										0
	Daiki Sasaki													8	9		0
	Paul Lau											16	15			Ret	0
	James Cole															Ret	0
	Alon Day															Ret	0
	Jazeman Jaafar															Ret	0
	Tomoki Nojiri															Ret	0
Pos	Driver	SEP1 1	SEP1 2	SEP2 1	SEP2 2	SEP2 3	SEP2 4	SEN 1	SEN 2	SEN 3	SEN 4	SIN 1	SIN 2	OKA 1	OKA 2	MAC 1	Pts

Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	Second place
Bronze	Third place
Green	Points finish
Blue	Non-points finish
Blue	Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple	Retired (Ret)
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Red	Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did not start (DNS)
	Withdrew (WD)
	Race cancelled (C)
Blank	Did not practice (DNP)
	Did not arrive (DNA)
	Excluded (EX)

Bold – Pole
Italics – Fastest Lap
W – Wet Race

Note: In the second race at the Sepang F1 support event, due to insufficient distance covered, half points were awarded.

2009 Formula BMW Pacific season

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Teams and drivers edit

Calendar edit

Standings edit

References edit

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