2017 Euroformula Open Championship

The 2017 Euroformula Open Championship was a multi-event motor racing championship for single-seat open wheel formula racing cars that held across Europe. The championship will feature drivers competing in two-litre Formula Three racing cars built by Italian constructor Dallara which conform to the technical regulations, or formula, for the championship. It was the fourth Euroformula Open Championship season.

The season was dominated by Harrison Scott, who holds the record for most wins, poles and fastest laps in a rookie season of the Euroformula Open Championship (but he wasn't eligible to the rookie's championship due to his 2016 Masters of Formula 3 experience).[1] He clinched drivers' title at Monza with two rounds to spare and mostly by his race results was granted teams' title to RP Motorsport. Drivex driver Nikita Troitskiy finished as runner-up, losing to Scott by 118 points. Troitkiy won the rookies' championship. Devlin DeFrancesco won race at Circuito de Jerez and completed the top-three in the driver standings. DeFrancesco became the Spanish Formula 3 champion.

Teams and drivers edit

Team No. Driver Status Rounds
  Campos Racing[2] 1   Petru Florescu[2] R 1–3
  Raoul Hyman[3] 4
  Cameron Das[4] 5–8
2   Thiago Vivacqua[2] All
3   Simo Laaksonen[5] R All
4   Lorenzo Colombo[6] G 8
34   Matheus Iorio[2] All
  RP Motorsport 7   Jannes Fittje[7] R 6–8
8   Lodovico Laurini[8] R All
9   Felipe Drugovich[9] G 8
10   Harrison Scott[8] 1–7
11   Alex Karkosik[8] R All
  Drivex School[10] 12   Christian Hahn[10] All
14   Tarun Reddy[11] R 5–8
16   Nikita Troitskiy[12] R All
  Carlin Motorsport[13] 14   Tarun Reddy[8] R 1–4
17   Devlin DeFrancesco[13] R All
24   Ameya Vaidyanathan[14] All
77   Guilherme Samaia[15] 5–8
  Fortec Motorsports 18   Jannes Fittje[16] R 1–5
  Yan Leon Shlom[17] R 6
19   Yan Leon Shlom[18] R 1
  Ben Hingeley[19] 5–8
20   Najiy Razak[20] R 1
  Petru Florescu[3] R 4–8
21   Aleksey Chuklin[21] 2–3
  BVM Racing 22   Daniil Pronenko[8] All
55   Daniel Lu[22] 6–7
  Joey Mawson[23] G 8
  Teo Martín Motorsport[24] 42   Eliseo Martínez[25] R All
43   Pedro Cardoso[24] All
44   Javier Cobián[26] R 1
Icon Legend
G Guest driver
R Rookie Trophy

Race calendar and results edit

An eight-round calendar was confirmed on 15 February 2017.[27] All rounds will support the International GT Open, except for Jerez, which will be headlined by both Formula 2 and GP3 Series. Rounds denoted with a blue background are part of the Spanish Formula Three Championship.

Round Circuit Date Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning team Rookie Winner
1 R1   Autódromo do Estoril 29 April   Harrison Scott   Ameya Vaidyanathan   Harrison Scott   RP Motorsport   Jannes Fittje
R2 30 April   Nikita Troitskiy   Harrison Scott   Harrison Scott   RP Motorsport   Nikita Troitskiy
2 R1   Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps 27 May   Harrison Scott   Thiago Vivacqua   Ameya Vaidyanathan   Carlin Motorsport   Devlin DeFrancesco
R2 28 May   Nikita Troitskiy   Harrison Scott   Harrison Scott   RP Motorsport   Devlin DeFrancesco
3 R1   Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet 10 June   Harrison Scott   Harrison Scott   Harrison Scott   RP Motorsport   Nikita Troitskiy
R2 11 June   Harrison Scott   Harrison Scott   Harrison Scott   RP Motorsport   Nikita Troitskiy
4 R1   Hungaroring 1 July   Raoul Hyman   Nikita Troitskiy   Thiago Vivacqua   Campos Racing   Simo Laaksonen
R2 2 July   Harrison Scott   Nikita Troitskiy   Harrison Scott   RP Motorsport   Nikita Troitskiy
5 R1   Silverstone Circuit 2 September   Harrison Scott   Harrison Scott   Harrison Scott   RP Motorsport   Devlin DeFrancesco
R2 3 September   Harrison Scott   Harrison Scott   Harrison Scott   RP Motorsport   Devlin DeFrancesco
6 R1   Autodromo Nazionale Monza 30 September   Harrison Scott   Harrison Scott   Harrison Scott   RP Motorsport   Nikita Troitskiy
R2 1 October   Harrison Scott   Nikita Troitskiy   Harrison Scott   RP Motorsport   Jannes Fittje
7 R1   Circuito de Jerez 7 October   Harrison Scott   Harrison Scott   Harrison Scott   RP Motorsport   Devlin DeFrancesco
R2 8 October   Harrison Scott   Harrison Scott   Harrison Scott   RP Motorsport   Nikita Troitskiy
8 R1   Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya 28 October   Felipe Drugovich[N 1]   Alex Karkosik   Devlin DeFrancesco   Carlin Motorsport   Devlin DeFrancesco
R2 29 October   Ameya Vaidyanathan   Nikita Troitskiy   Felipe Drugovich   RP Motorsport   Nikita Troitskiy

Euroformula Open Championship edit

Drivers' championship edit

  • Points were awarded as follows:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 PP FL
25 18 15 12 10 8 6 4 2 1 1 1
Pos Driver EST
 
SPA
 
LEC
 
HUN
 
SIL
 
MNZ
 
JER
 
CAT
 
Pts
1   Harrison Scott 1 1 2 1 1 1 9 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 340
2   Nikita Troitskiy Ret 2 4 6 2 2 3 2 5 5 2 6 3 2 4 2 222
3   Devlin DeFrancesco 12 5 3 2 Ret 5 8 Ret 2 2 7 Ret 2 3 1 5 172
4   Ameya Vaidyanathan 2 10 1 4 3 4 Ret 6 4 8 5 Ret 4 19 2 3 169
5   Jannes Fittje 4 4 12 7 4 3 5 Ret 11 3 3 2 5 4 7 7 159
6   Simo Laaksonen Ret 6 7 14 14 10 2 4 Ret 11 4 3 6 6 11 8 100
7   Thiago Vivacqua Ret 3 5 3 8 7 1 7 10 7 18 Ret Ret 12 10 10 98
8   Alex Karkosik 10 Ret 8 Ret 6 8 13 5 3 6 11 4 7 7 3 9 98
9   Matheus Iorio 3 9 Ret 5 9 Ret Ret 9 7 Ret 15 7 10 18 8 Ret 52
10   Petru Florescu 6 7 9 8 7 6 7 Ret Ret 12 Ret 13 Ret 10 13 11 45
11   Ben Hingeley 6 4 6 5 8 17 Ret 12 44
12   Eliseo Martinez 5 12 10 15 5 9 11 11 9 14 8 9 9 5 14 13 44
13   Raoul Hyman 4 3 28
14   Tarun Reddy Ret 8 6 9 Ret 11 6 10 Ret 15 9 Ret 13 9 Ret Ret 26
15   Cameron Das 8 Ret 10 8 11 8 Ret 14 13
16   Christian Hahn 7 11 14 12 15 12 12 8 Ret 10 14 11 15 11 15 18 11
17   Guilherme Samaia 14 Ret Ret 10 12 13 9 16 7
18   Lodovico Laurini 8 Ret 16 13 13 16 14 12 13 9 Ret Ret Ret 14 17 17 6
19   Pedro Cardoso Ret 13 11 Ret 10 14 10 14 12 13 17 16 Ret 20 12 15 3
20   Javier Cobián 9 15 2
21   Aleksey Chuklin 15 10 12 15 1
22   Daniil Pronenko Ret Ret 13 11 11 13 15 13 WD WD 13 14 14 15 16 19 0
23   Yan Leon Shlom 11 Ret 12 12 0
24   Najiy Razak Ret 14 0
25   Daniel Lu 16 15 Ret 16 0
Guest drivers ineligible to score points
  Felipe Drugovich 6 1 0
  Joey Mawson Ret 4 0
  Lorenzo Colombo 5 6 0
Pos Driver EST
 
SPA
 
LEC
 
HUN
 
SIL
 
MNZ
 
JER
 
CAT
 
Pts

Rookies' championship edit

  • Points were awarded as follows:
1 2 3 4 5
10 8 6 4 3
Pos Driver EST
 
SPA
 
LEC
 
HUN
 
SIL
 
MNZ
 
JER
 
CAT
 
Pts
1   Nikita Troitskiy Ret 2 4 6 2 2 3 2 5 5 2 6 3 2 4 2 124
2   Jannes Fittje 4 4 12 7 4 3 5 Ret 11 3 3 2 5 4 7 7 95
3   Devlin DeFrancesco 12 5 3 2 Ret 5 8 Ret 2 2 7 Ret 2 3 1 5 92
4   Simo Laaksonen Ret 6 7 14 14 10 2 4 Ret 11 4 3 6 6 11 8 54
5   Alex Karkosik 10 Ret 8 Ret 6 8 13 5 3 6 11 4 7 7 3 9 37
6   Eliseo Martinez 5 12 10 15 5 9 11 11 9 14 8 9 9 5 14 13 31
7   Petru Florescu 6 7 9 8 7 6 7 Ret Ret 12 Ret 13 Ret 10 13 11 22
8   Tarun Reddy Ret 8 6 9 Ret 11 6 10 Ret 15 9 Ret 13 9 Ret Ret 17
9   Lodovico Laurini 8 Ret 16 13 13 16 14 12 13 9 Ret Ret Ret 14 17 17 7
10   Javier Cobián 9 15 3
11   Yan Leon Shlom 11 Ret 12 12 0
12   Najiy Razak Ret 14 0
13   Daniel Lu 16 15 Ret 16 0

Teams' championship edit

  • Points were awarded as follows:
1 2 3 4 5
10 8 6 4 3
Pos Team EST
 
SPA
 
LEC
 
HUN
 
SIL
 
MNZ
 
JER
 
CAT
 
Pts
1   RP Motorsport 1 1 2 1 1 1 9 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 7 134
2   Carlin Motorsport 2 5 1 2 3 4 6 6 2 2 5 10 2 3 1 3 90
3   Drivex School 7 2 4 6 2 2 3 2 5 5 2 6 3 2 4 2 84
4   Campos Racing 3 3 5 3 7 6 1 3 7 7 4 3 6 6 8 8 50
5   Fortec Motorsports 4 4 12 7 4 3 5 Ret 6 3 6 5 8 10 13 11 30
6   Teo Martín Motorsport 5 12 10 15 5 9 10 11 9 13 8 9 9 5 12 13 9
7   BVM Racing Ret Ret 13 11 11 13 15 13 WD WD 13 14 14 15 16 19 0

Spanish Formula 3 Championship edit

Drivers' championship edit

  • Points were awarded as follows:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
25 18 15 12 10 8 6 4 2 1
Pos Driver EST
 
JER
 
CAT
 
Pts
1   Devlin DeFrancesco 12 5 2 3 1 5 119
2   Ameya Vaidyanathan 2 10 4 19 2 3 97
3   Simo Laaksonen Ret 6 6 6 11 8 70
4   Eliseo Martínez 5 12 9 5 14 13 61
5   Thiago Vivacqua Ret 3 Ret 12 10 10 57
6   Matheus Iorio 3 9 10 18 8 20 57
7   Petru Florescu 6 7 Ret 10 13 11 50
8   Tarun Reddy Ret 8 13 9 Ret 21 31
9   Daniil Pronenko Ret Ret 14 15 16 19 18
10   Pedro Cardoso Ret 13 Ret 20 12 15 17
11   Javier Cobián 9 15 11
Guest drivers ineligible to score points
  Harrison Scott 1 1 1 1 0
  Felipe Drugovich 6 1 0
  Nikita Troitskiy Ret 2 3 2 4 2 0
  Alex Karkosik 10 Ret 7 7 3 9 0
  Jannes Fittje 4 4 5 4 7 7 0
  Joey Mawson Ret 4 0
  Lorenzo Colombo 5 6 0
  Christian Hahn 7 11 15 11 15 18 0
  Cameron Das 11 8 Ret 14 0
  Lodovico Laurini 8 Ret Ret 14 17 17 0
  Ben Hingeley 8 17 Ret 12 0
  Yan Leon Shlom 11 Ret 0
  Guilherme Samaia 12 13 9 16 0
  Najiy Razak Ret 14 0
  Daniel Lu Ret 16 0
Pos Driver EST
 
JER
 
CAT
 
Pts

Teams' championship edit

  • Points were awarded as follows:
1 2 3 4 5
10 8 6 4 3
Pos Team EST
 
JER
 
CAT
 
Pts
1   RP Motorsport 1 1 1 1 3 7 50
2   Carlin 2 5 2 3 1 3 43
3   Drivex School 7 2 3 2 4 2 36
4   Campos Racing 3 3 6 6 8 8 15
5   Fortec Motorsports 4 4 8 10 13 11 8
6   Teo Martín Motorsport 5 12 9 5 12 13 6
7   BVM Racing Ret Ret 14 15 16 19 0

Footnotes edit

  1. ^ Drugovich set the fastest time in the qualifying and actually started from the pole position, but he was guest driver, so the point for pole was given to Nikita Troitskiy.

References edit

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