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2014 Formula Masters China

The 2014 Formula Masters China season was the fourth season of the Formula Pilota China series, and the second under the Formula Masters China branding. The championship commenced on 10 May at Zhuhai in China and finished on 21 October at Shanghai in China after eighteen races held at six meetings.

Driving for Cebu Pacific Air by KCMG, James Munro of New Zealand finished the season as the drivers' champion, finishing 28 points clear of his closest rival, Hong Kong's Matthew Solomon, driving for Eurasia Motorsport. Munro started the season strongly, taking six successive wins at the first Zhuhai meeting and the first Shanghai meeting, as well as the opening race at Inje Speedium. Solomon hit back with a streak of his own, with four wins at Inje and Sepang; Munro finished behind him in three of the races, and ultimately went on to win eight races to Solomon's five at the end of the season. Dan Wells of Great Britain – and team-mate to Munro – finished third in the championship, ten points in arrears of Solomon, taking a total of twelve podiums during the season, but it took him until the final four races to take his two wins for the seasons; these wins came at the second Zhuhai and Shanghai meetings.

The only other driver to take a victory during the season was Meritus.GP driver Jake Parsons, who took three victories en route to fourth place in the championship despite only competing in the second half of the season. He took seven podium finishes in his ten starts in the 2014 season. In the teams' championship, Cebu Pacific Air by KCMG were comfortable winners of the title, due to the results of Munro, Wells and Matthew Swanepoel.

Teams and drivers edit

Team No. Drive Rounds
  Zen-Motorsport 6   Bao Jin Long[1] 1–4, 6
7   Ronald Wu[1] All
11   Hua Miao[1] 1–3
29   Yin Hai Tao[1] All
  Humpuss Junior Racing Team 8   Darma Mangkuluhur Hutomo[1] All
36   Yasuo Senna Iriawan[1] All
  Super License Team 9   Philip Hamprecht[2] 4, 6
15   Yuya Motojima[1] 1, 6
39   Tomoki Takahashi 5
55   Takashi Hata[2] 4–5
75   Zou Chen Yu[3] 2
  Meco Motorsports 10   Akhil Rabindra[1] 1–3
  Eurasia Motorsport 11   Hua Miao[2] 4–6
12   Aidan Read 6
17   Pu Jun Jin[4] All
18   Yuan Bo[4] All
19   Matthew Solomon[5] All
20   Sean Hudspeth[1] 1–2, 5
24   Dominic Tjia[2] 4
  Cebu Pacific Air by KCMG 16   Dan Wells[6] All
30   Ryuji Kumita 6
40   James Munro[7] All
49   Matthew Swanepoel[8] 1–3
  Meritus.GP 21   Mandla Mdakane[9] 3–4
68 1–2
27   Jake Parsons[2] 4–6
33   Daniel Woodroof[2] 4–5
38   Aston Hare[1] 1–2
88   Andersen Martono[10] All

Race calendar and results edit

A provisional race calendar was released on 25 October 2013.[11] An updated race calendar was released on 29 January 2014, which dropped the round at Penbay and rescheduled the Sepang round to August as a support round to GT Asia.[12]

Round Circuit Date Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning team
1 R1   Zhuhai International Circuit 10 May   Matthew Swanepoel   James Munro   James Munro   Cebu Pacific Air by KCMG
R2   James Munro   James Munro   Cebu Pacific Air by KCMG
R3 11 May Race postponed[13]
2 R1   Shanghai International Circuit 24 May   James Munro   James Munro   James Munro   Cebu Pacific Air by KCMG
R2   Aston Hare   James Munro   Cebu Pacific Air by KCMG
R3 25 May   James Munro   Matthew Solomon   James Munro   Cebu Pacific Air by KCMG
3 R1   Inje Speedium 19 July   Matthew Solomon   James Munro   James Munro   Cebu Pacific Air by KCMG
R2   James Munro   Matthew Solomon   Eurasia Motorsport
R3 20 July   James Munro   Dan Wells   Matthew Solomon   Eurasia Motorsport
R4 Race postponed
4 R1   Sepang International Circuit 16 August   Jake Parsons   Matthew Solomon   Matthew Solomon   Eurasia Motorsport
R2   Matthew Solomon   Matthew Solomon   Eurasia Motorsport
R3 17 August   Matthew Solomon   Jake Parsons   Jake Parsons   Meritus.GP
5 R1   Zhuhai International Circuit 19 September   Jake Parsons   Yin Hai Tao   James Munro   Cebu Pacific Air by KCMG
R2 20 September   Matthew Solomon   Jake Parsons   Meritus.GP
R3   Yuan Bo   Matthew Solomon   Matthew Solomon   Eurasia Motorsport
R4[14] 21 September   James Munro[N 1]   Yuan Bo   Dan Wells   Cebu Pacific Air by KCMG
6 R1   Shanghai International Circuit 18 October   James Munro   James Munro   James Munro   Cebu Pacific Air by KCMG
R2   Jake Parsons   Jake Parsons   Meritus.GP
R3 19 October   Jake Parsons   Matthew Solomon   Dan Wells   Cebu Pacific Air by KCMG
Notes
  1. ^ At the May Zhuhai meeting, Matthew Swanepoel qualified on pole position. As Swanepoel was not entered for the rescheduled race, all drivers that originally qualified behind him, moved up the order.

Championship standings edit

Drivers' championship edit

  • Points for both championships were awarded as follows:
Position  1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th   7th   8th   9th   10th   PP 
Races 1 & 3 20 15 12 10 8 6 4 3 2 1 1
Race 2 12 10 8 6 4 3 2 1 0 0 1
Pos. Driver ZHU
  		SHI
  		INJ
  		SEP
  		ZHU
  		SHI
  		Pts
1   James Munro 1 1 C 1 1 1 1 2 Ret C 2 2 4 1 Ret 13 7 1 5 4 215
2   Matthew Solomon 7 3 C 3 3 2 3 1 1 C 1 1 2 Ret Ret 1 3 14 4 5 187
3   Dan Wells 3 5 C 2 2 4 2 3 8 C 3 Ret 3 Ret 5 3 1 3 3 1 177
4   Jake Parsons 4 3 1 11 1 2 6 2 1 2 116
5   Ronald Wu 6 Ret C Ret 14 13 7 4 5 C 10 10 9 2 3 5 11 8 7 7 67
6   Andersen Martono 11 Ret C 16 8 8 9 6 2 C Ret Ret 10 4 7 7 4 5 Ret 8 62
7   Darma Mangkuluhur Hutomo 4 DNS C 14 13 7 5 5 3 C 5 4 11 Ret Ret Ret 8 7 6 11 62
8   Yuan Bo 5 4 C 11 12 12 Ret 7 4 C 6 9 13 12 8 8 2 10 13 Ret 53
9   Yin Hai Tao Ret 9 C 5 5 14 11 Ret 6 C Ret Ret 7 3 2 12 10 6 Ret 14† 52
10   Yasuo Senna Iriawan 10 6 C 7 7 9 6 8 7 C Ret 5 Ret 7 6 14 5 9 Ret 9 46
11   Philip Hamprecht 9 6 5 4 2 6 39
12   Yuya Motojima 2 2 C Ret 9 3 37
13   Aston Hare Ret 7 C 4 4 3 30
14   Pu Jun Jin NC Ret C 6 10 5 8 13† NC C Ret Ret 8 9 9 6 12 11 8 12 29
15   Sean Hudspeth Ret DNS C 8 11 11 5 11 4 9 23
16   Tomoki Takahashi 6 4 9 13 14
17   Akhil Rabindra 8 8 C 15 16 16 4 Ret Ret C 14
18   Bao Jin Long 9 Ret C 9 15 17 13† 10 9 C Ret 8 6 Ret 12 10 14
19   Matthew Swanepoel 12 Ret C 10 6 6 Ret 9 Ret C 12
20   Mandla Mdakane Ret 10 C NC 9 10 10 11 10 C 7 7 14 9
21   Hua Miao Ret Ret C 13 17 15 12 12 11 C 11 11 15 8 13 10 14 13 11 13 4
22   Daniel Woodroof 8 Ret Ret Ret 10 11 16 3
23   Takashi Hata Ret 13 12 10 12 15 15 1
24   Aidan Read 12 10 Ret 0
25   Dominic Tjia 12 12 16 0
  Ryuji Kumita Ret DNS DNS 0
Guest drivers ineligible for points
  Zou Chen Yu 12 Ret 18 0
Pos. Driver ZHU
  		SHI
  		INJ
  		SEP
  		ZHU
  		SHI
  		Pts
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver Second place
Bronze Third 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 practice (DNP)
Did not arrive (DNA)
Excluded (EX)

Bold – Pole
Italics – Fastest Lap

† – Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.

Teams' championship edit

Pos. Team Pts
1   Cebu Pacific Air by KCMG 384
2   Eurasia Motorsport 274
3   Meritus.GP 215
4   Zen–Motorsport 124
5   Humpuss Junior Racing Team 108
6   Super License Team 91
7   Meco Motorsports 14

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Banerjee, Aditya (30 April 2014). "Aston Hare and Ronald Wu lead several new additions to 2014 FMCS grid". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 30 April 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Khorounzhiy, Valentin (15 August 2014). "Jake Parsons and Matt Solomon share FMCS poles at Sepang". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
  3. ^ Banerjee, Aditya (23 May 2014). "Munro leads the way at free practice in Shanghai". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 23 May 2014.
  4. ^ a b Banerjee, Aditya (11 March 2014). "Eurasia sign Bo Yuan and Kevin Jun Jin Pu for 2014 FMCS campaign". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
  5. ^ Goddard, Stephen (13 February 2014). "Solomon returns for sophomore Formula Masters China campaign". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
  6. ^ Banerjee, Aditya (28 April 2014). "Dan Wells lands FMCS return with KCMG". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
  7. ^ Banerjee, Aditya (1 April 2014). "James Munro secures KCMG drive for 2014 FMCS campaign". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
  8. ^ Banerjee, Aditya (20 March 2014). "Matthew Swanepoel lands KCMG drive for 2014 FMCS season". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  9. ^ Banerjee, Aditya (7 April 2014). "Mandla Mdakane secures Meritus drive for 2014 FMCS season". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  10. ^ Banerjee, Aditya (3 April 2014). "Meritus sign Andersen Martono for full 2014 FMCS campaign". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
  11. ^ "Formula Masters China Series Announces 2014 Season". lmd.lk. LMD. 25 October 2013. Archived from the original on 13 November 2013. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
  12. ^ "Formula Masters China Series Announces 2014 Season". FormulaMastersChina.com. 29 January 2014. Archived from the original on 24 June 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  13. ^ "@danwellsracing: 11 May". Twitter. Twitter Inc. 11 May 2014. Retrieved 11 May 2014.
  14. ^ "2014 Pan Delta Super Racing Festival (Autumn Race) Official Timetable". Zhuhai International Circuit. ZIC Group. Retrieved 29 September 2014.

External links edit

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