The 2010 Formula Palmer Audi season was the thirteenth and final Formula Palmer Audi season. It began at Brands Hatch on 8 May and finished at Silverstone Circuit on 17 October. It consisted of twenty rounds, all held in England. The champion driver received a £100,000 scholarship prize, double last year's prize money, towards a drive in the 2011 FIA Formula Two Championship. On top of that, the top six finishers in the final drivers' standings were all granted an official Formula Two test.
The scholarship prize went to Nigel Moore, as he overhauled the long-time leader of the championship Maxime Jousse on dropped scores; Jousse having scored four more points than Moore on overall scores. Whereas Moore could drop two retirements for no points loss, Jousse had to drop a finish of seventh place along with a retirement and turned a four-point advantage into a nine-point deficit to Moore, having won six races to Moore's three. Third place went to Spanish driver Ramón Piñeiro, having taken four wins in the last seven races of the season to enable him to move him up from sixth to his eventual placing of third. Kieran Vernon and José Alonso Liste battled over fourth place, with Vernon coming out on top by two points after his third win of the season – to go with his double at the second Brands Hatch meeting – in the series' final race at Silverstone, ahead of Alonso Liste. Other winners during the season were Melroy Heemskerk at the first Brands Hatch meeting, Max Snegirev at Croft and Jordan Williams, who won at Snetterton before an accident with Jousse in the next race left him without funds to complete the season.
In November 2010, series boss Jonathan Palmer announced the end of the series with the series' chassis being dismantled for use in other areas of the MotorSport Vision organisation.
Driver lineup Car # Driver Sponsor(s) Rounds 2 Howard Fuller Powerchex All 3 Vincent Beltoise Pole Mechanique All 4 Tommaso Menchini AMP 1–2, 4 5 Maxime Jousse Warson Motors All 6 Nigel Moore Ginetta All 7 Melroy Heemskerk ORANJEDAK 1–5 8 James Thorp ARCOROC 1–4 9 Giuseppe Cipriani 1–5, 7 10 Luca Orlandi Super 5 Wipes All 11 Ash Davies H2O Networks All 12 Thiemo Storz 4 14 Jorge Pescador Luis Pescador 1 15 Ramón Piñeiro Caja Madrid All 16 Aaron Steele 1 17 Jordan Williams Willy's Ice Cream / Lanhydrock Golf Club 1–2 18 Callum Holland Irisguard 2–7 19 Tom Ashton R Ashton & Son Ltd 2 20 Max Snegirev Klaxon 6–7 21 Florian Le Roux 2wcl 7 24 Toni Alarcon Santander 7 25 Victor Jiménez 4–7 26 José Alonso Liste Kentes All 28 Kieran Vernon All 39 Matt Bell AES 1 42 Jordan King Hugo Boss 7 44 Mark Powell FutureWorld 3, 5
Race calendar and results All races were held in the United Kingdom. Round Circuit Date Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver 1 R1 Brands Hatch Indy 9 May Jorge Pescador José Alonso Liste Melroy Heemskerk R2 Maxime Jousse José Alonso Liste Maxime Jousse R3 Maxime Jousse Maxime Jousse Maxime Jousse 2 R1 Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit 26 June Nigel Moore Melroy Heemskerk Jordan Williams R2 Nigel Moore Maxime Jousse Maxime Jousse R3 27 June Maxime Jousse Maxime Jousse Maxime Jousse R4 Maxime Jousse Maxime Jousse Maxime Jousse 3 R1 Oulton Park 24 July Nigel Moore Maxime Jousse Nigel Moore R2 Nigel Moore Maxime Jousse Maxime Jousse 4 R1 Rockingham Motor Speedway 28 August José Alonso Liste Thiemo Storz Nigel Moore R2 José Alonso Liste José Alonso Liste José Alonso Liste 5 R1 Brands Hatch GP 26 September Kieran Vernon Kieran Vernon Kieran Vernon R2 Kieran Vernon Kieran Vernon Kieran Vernon 6 R1 Croft Circuit 9 October Ramón Piñeiro Callum Holland Ramón Piñeiro R2 10 October José Alonso Liste José Alonso Liste Ramón Piñeiro R3 Callum Holland Callum Holland Max Snegirev 7 R1 Silverstone National 16 October Jordan King Ramón Piñeiro Ramón Piñeiro R2 Ramón Piñeiro Ramón Piñeiro Ramón Piñeiro R3 17 October Nigel Moore José Alonso Liste Nigel Moore R4 José Alonso Liste José Alonso Liste Kieran Vernon
Championship standings Pos Driver BRH SNE OUL ROC BRH CRO SIL Total Drop 1 Nigel Moore 3 2 2 2 2 4 Ret 1 Ret 1 2 6 4 2 4 4 2 2 1 4 344 344 2 Maxime Jousse 5 1 1 3 1 1 1 2 1 6 6 3 6 7 3 6 5 4 5 Ret 348 13 335 3 Ramón Piñeiro 2 3 8 5 3 11 4 Ret 2 Ret 7 2 3 1 1 7 1 1 3 6 320 320 4 Kieran Vernon 6 7 6 8 7 Ret 5 4 4 3 3 1 1 3 6 9 4 5 4 1 311 11 300 5 11 4 4 6 8 3 3 5 3 7 1 8 5 5 2 2 6 3 Ret 2 307 9 298 6 Vincent Beltoise NC 5 13 4 4 5 7 3 6 5 4 5 10 4 7 5 7 Ret 9 8 250 250 7 Howard Fuller 8 10 9 14 6 7 14 7 12 8 8 9 8 Ret 8 10 12 6 7 7 210 6 204 8 Melroy Heemskerk 1 Ret 5 7 5 2 2 6 5 4 5 4 2 203 203 9 Callum Holland 9 14 8 6 11 9 10 11 7 7 6 Ret 3 8 8 6 5 193 193 10 Ash Davies Ret 11 10 13 11 12 12 8 8 12 Ret 10 9 9 9 8 10 9 11 10 178 178 11 Giuseppe Cipriani Ret 16 Ret 11 9 6 11 9 7 14 9 12 12 9 7 8 11 149 149 12 Luca Orlandi Ret 14 14 16 12 14 13 12 Ret 15 13 11 Ret 8 10 11 14 13 13 13 124 124 13 Max Snegirev 10 5 1 3 11 10 3 104 104 14 James Thorp 10 13 15 10 Ret 10 8 10 10 11 10 93 93 15 Jordan Williams 4 8 7 1 DNS 9 10 86 86 16 Victor Jiménez 13 12 13 13 Ret 11 12 13 10 14 12 77 77 17 Aaron Steele 7 6 3 45 45 18 Ret 15 Ret 15 13 13 Ret 9 14 41 41 19 Toni Alarcon 11 14 12 9 34 34 20 Matt Bell 9 9 11 31 31 21 Mark Powell 13 11 14 11 31 31 22 Tom Ashton 12 10 Ret 9 29 29 23 Jordan King NC Ret 2 Ret 20 20 24 Thiemo Storz 2 Ret 20 20 25 Florian Le Roux Ret 12 15 14 19 19 26 Jorge Pescador Ret 12 12 16 16 Pos Driver BRH SNE OUL ROC BRH CRO SIL Total Drop PointsBold – Pole Italics – Fastest lap
Position1st2nd3rd4th5th6th7th8th9th10th11th12th13th14th15th16th17th18th19thPoints24201816151413121110987654321
References
External links Official Formula Palmer Audi Website