Formula Renault Eurocup was a Formula Renault motor racing championship. Eurocup raced only on European circuits.
It served as a support series to the Formula Renault 3.5 Series as part of the World Series by Renault from 2005 to 2015. Renault Sport offered a prize of €500,000 to the winner of the Eurocup until 2015. Following the 2020 season, the Formula Renault Eurocup merged with the Formula Regional European Championship due to COVID-19 pandemic.
History The series was established in 1991, as the "Rencontres Internationales de Formule Renault", before switching to the "Eurocup Formula Renault" name in 1993.
In 2000, renamed to Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup and Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 since 2005 used up to now, excludes the 2003 season named Formula Renault 2000 Masters.
While a support series of the Formula Renault 3.5 many drivers stepped up to the senior category, for example the 2006 champion Filipe Albuquerque, fourth-place finisher Bertrand Baguette and 13th-place finisher Xavier Maassen being the first to do so that on the full-time basis for the 2007 season. 2007 champion Brendon Hartley did not follow suit however, and instead moved firstly to British Formula Three Championship. Meanwhile, Charles Pic and Alexandre Marsoin joined FR 3.5 for the 2008. 2008 champion Valtteri Bottas moved to the Formula 3 Euro Series, and only Anton Nebylitskiy who was placed 20th, made his debut in FR 3.5 in 2009. 2009 was the first season when the champion received money to graduate to FR 3.5 and Albert Costa used this opportunity. He was joined in the 2010 Formula Renault 3.5 Series season by sixth-place finisher Nathanaël Berthon. Like Costa, 2010 champion Kevin Korjus and his rivals Arthur Pic, Daniël de Jong and André Negrão moved to FR 3.5 in 2011. 2011 champion Robin Frijns not only graduated to FR 3.5 in 2012, he also became the first driver, who won both Eurocup and FR 3.5 Series consecutively. Other 2011 Eurocup graduates, who moved to FR 3.5 were Will Stevens and Vittorio Ghirelli. 2012 champion Stoffel Vandoorne and his contender Norman Nato headed to FR 3.5 in 2013. Pierre Gasly and Oliver Rowland, who fought till the last race for the 2013 Eurocup title, both graduated to FR 3.5 in 2014. They was joined by Luca Ghiotto, Matthieu Vaxivière and Roman Mavlanov. Nyck de Vries dominated the 2014 championship and moved to FR 3.5 in 2015. Egor Orudzhev, Aurélien Panis and Gustav Malja moved to Formula Renault 3.5 as well.
Car specifications
The chassis was built at Alpine's Dieppe plant, a Renault subsidiary. The aerodynamic kit was designed by Tatuus. All Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 cars use the same specifications. Chassis: FR2.0/13. Carbon-fibre bodywork Engine: Renault F4R 832 – 4-cylinder – 16 valve – 1998cc. 210 bhp at 7,500rpm. 220Nm at 5,500rpm Transmission: SADEV seven-speed sequential + reverse gear. XAP electric control gearshift, semi-automatic steering-wheel mounted Front suspension: ZF Race Engineering single damper, two-way adjustable Rear suspension: ZF Race Engineering double damper, two-way adjustable Brakes: Four-piston calipers with 278 x 18 mm steel discs Rims: Aluminium one-piece 9 x 13 (front) and 10 x 13 (rear) Tyres: Michelin 20-54 x 13 (front) and 24-57 x 13 (rear) Length/width/height: 4270 / 1740 / 950mm Front and rear track: 1502 / 1440mm Fuel tank: 50 litres Unloaded weight: 506 kg
Champions Prior Formula Renault Eurocup + Rencontres Internationales de Formule RenaultSeasonChampion 1991 Jason Plato Duckhams Van Diemen 1992 Pedro de la Rosa Racing for Spain + Eurocup Formula RenaultSeasonChampion 1993 Olivier Couvreur Synergie 1994 James Matthews Manor Motorsport 1995 Cyrille Sauvage Mygale 1996 Enrique Bernoldi Tatuus JD Motorsport 1997 Jeffrey van Hooydonk Tatuus JD Motorsport 1998 Bruno Besson Tatuus JD Motorsport 1999 Gianmaria Bruni JD Motorsport
+ Formula Renault 2000 EurocupSeasonChampion 2000 Felipe Massa JD Motorsport 2001 Augusto Farfus RC Motorsport 2002 Eric Salignon Graff Racing 2004 Scott Speed Motopark Academy
+ Formula Renault 2000 MastersSeasonChampion 2003 Esteban Guerrieri JD Motorsport
+ Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0SeasonChampionSecondary Class Champion 2005 Kamui Kobayashi SG Formulanot awarded 2006 Filipe Albuquerque JD Motorsport 2007 Brendon Hartley Epsilon RedBull : Brendon Hartley 2008 Valtteri Bottas SG Formula : Andrea Caldarelli 2009 Albert Costa Epsilon Euskadi : António Félix da Costa 2010 Kevin Korjus Tech 1 Racing : Kevin Korjus 2011 Robin Frijns Koiranen Motorsport : Carlos Sainz Jr. 2012 Stoffel Vandoorne Josef Kaufmann Racing : Daniil Kvyat 2013 Pierre Gasly Tech 1 Racing : Pierre Gasly 2014 Nyck de Vries Koiranen GP : Dennis Olsen 2015 Jack Aitken Josef Kaufmann Racing : Harrison Scott 2016 Lando Norris Josef Kaufmann Racing : Lando Norris
Formula Renault Eurocup SeasonChampionSecondary Class Champion 2017 Sacha Fenestraz R-ace GP : Max Fewtrell 2018 Max Fewtrell R-ace GP : Christian Lundgaard 2019 Oscar Piastri R-ace GP : Caio Collet 2020 Victor Martins ART Grand Prix : Alex Quinn
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