The 2014 Protyre Formula Renault Championship was a multi-event motor racing championship for open wheel, formula racing cars held across England. The championship featured a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded drivers competing in 2 litre Formula Renault single seat race cars that conformed to the technical regulations for the championship. The 2014 season was the 20th British Formula Renault Championship organised by the British Automobile Racing Club and the third season as the premier Formula Renault 2.0 championship in the United Kingdom. The season began at Rockingham Motor Speedway on 4 May and ended on 28 September at Silverstone Circuit. The series formed part of the BARC club racing meetings at six events all held in England, with three triple header events.
The championship was won by Pietro Fittipaldi, the grandson of two-time Formula One world champion Emerson Fittipaldi, for the MGR Motorsport team. Fittipaldi won 10 of the season's 15 races, including a streak of 8 successive wins over a trio of meetings between May and August. Fittipaldi won the championship by 65 points (on dropped scores) from Scorpio Motorsport's Piers Hickin, who won a pair of races, and like Fittipaldi, recorded 12 podium finishes. Fittipaldi's team-mate Matteo Ferrer finished third in the championship, edging out Fortec Motorsport driver Alex Gill, by five points; both drivers recorded a single win during the season. The only other winner during the season was a third MGR Motorsport driver, as Colin Noble won one of the two races in support of the British Touring Car Championship, at Silverstone.
Teams and drivers All teams were British-registered. 2014 Entry List Team Driver name Rounds Fortec Motorsports 7 Alex Gill All 14 Ben Barnicoat 1 88 Wolfgang Reip 1 Circulation Motorsport 8 Niklas Tiihonen 1 Scorpio Motorsport 9 Piers Hickin All SWB Motorsport 18 Samuel Oram-Jones 2 27 Atte Lehtonen 1–3 44 Michael Epps 6 96 Jack Butel All MGR Motorsport 20 Matteo Ferrer All 21 Pietro Fittipaldi All 22 Tarun Reddy 1–5 45 Colin Noble All Cliff Dempsey Racing 23 Patrick Dussault All 28 Travis Jordan Fischer All Hillspeed 33 Dimitris Papanastasiou 1–3 Gold Wolf Racing 37 Yudai Jinkawa 2 MTECH Lite 89 Hayden Edmonds 2–4
Race calendar and results The series formed part of the BARC club racing meetings and at six events, with three triple header events. A championship calendar was released on 20 November 2013, with the final round once again in support of the 2014 British Touring Car Championship. All rounds were held in the United Kingdom.
Round Circuit Date Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning team 1 R1 Rockingham Motor Speedway(International Super Sports Car Circuit, Northamptonshire) 5 April Matteo Ferrer Matteo Ferrer Pietro Fittipaldi MGR Motorsport R2 6 April Matteo Ferrer Alex Gill Matteo Ferrer MGR Motorsport R3 Matteo Ferrer Matteo Ferrer Alex Gill Fortec Motorsports 2 R4 Donington Park(National Circuit, Leicestershire) 31 May Alex Gill Pietro Fittipaldi Pietro Fittipaldi MGR Motorsport R5 Alex Gill Piers Hickin Pietro Fittipaldi MGR Motorsport R6 1 June Piers Hickin Matteo Ferrer Pietro Fittipaldi MGR Motorsport 3 R7 Brands Hatch(Kent) 27 July Matteo Ferrer Matteo Ferrer Pietro Fittipaldi MGR Motorsport R8 Pietro Fittipaldi Piers Hickin Pietro Fittipaldi MGR Motorsport 4 R9 Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit(300 Circuit, Norfolk) 30 August Alex Gill Pietro Fittipaldi Pietro Fittipaldi MGR Motorsport R10 31 August Alex Gill Pietro Fittipaldi Pietro Fittipaldi MGR Motorsport R11 Pietro Fittipaldi Alex Gill Pietro Fittipaldi MGR Motorsport 5 R12 Croft Circuit(North Yorkshire) 21 September Matteo Ferrer Pietro Fittipaldi Piers Hickin Scorpio Motorsport R13 Alex Gill Pietro Fittipaldi Pietro Fittipaldi MGR Motorsport 6 R14 Silverstone Circuit(National Circuit, Northamptonshire) 27 September Colin Noble Pietro Fittipaldi Colin Noble MGR Motorsport R15 28 September Pietro Fittipaldi Pietro Fittipaldi Piers Hickin Scorpio Motorsport
Championship standings A driver's best 14 scores counted towards the championship, with any other points being discarded.
Pos Driver ROC DON BRH SNE CRO SIL Points 1 Pietro Fittipaldi 1 4 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 4 3 2 Piers Hickin 2 3 3 2 6 3 Ret 3 6 2 3 1 3 2 1 366 3 Matteo Ferrer 3 1 2 5 10 4 2 2 3 6 7 3 5 3 5 4 Alex Gill Ret 2 1 3 2 5 3 4 4 4 2 4 2 6 9 342 5 Colin Noble 4 9 7 4 5 2 Ret 8 10 7 6 6 4 1 2 286 6 Travis Jordan Fischer Ret 7 13 6 Ret 8 6 7 5 5 5 5 6 5 4 240 7 Patrick Dussault 8 10 9 9 4 6 5 5 9 8 10 Ret Ret 7 8 203 8 Jack Butel 11 14 12 13 12 12 9 10 8 10 8 7 8 9 7 9 Hayden Edmonds 11 8 10 8 9 7 9 9 111 10 Tarun ReddyTarun Reddy was ineligible for points from the Brands Hatch round onwards, due to him competing with an Indian international licence. 6 8 6 7 3 9 4 6 2 3 4 Ret 7 103 11 Dimitris Papanastasiou 12 13 8 8 6 7 7 Ret 97 12 Atte Lehtonen 9 11 10 10 11 11 DNS 11 75 13 Ben Barnicoat 5 5 5 60 14 Wolfgang Reip 7 6 14 41 15 Michael Epps 8 6 32 16 Niklas Tiihonen 10 12 11 30 17 Samuel Oram-Jones 12 9 Ret 21 Pos Driver ROC DON BRH SNE CRO SIL Points Notes
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