Race details Date 6 July 2014 Official name Masters of Formula 3 Location Circuit Park Zandvoort, Netherlands Course Distance 25 laps, Pole Driver Max Verstappen Motopark Time 1:32.628 Fastest Lap Driver Indy Dontje Motopark Time 1:34.228 (on lap 8 of 25) Podium First Max Verstappen Motopark Second Steijn Schothorst Performance Racing Third Nabil Jeffri Motopark

The 2014 Zandvoort Masters was the 24th edition of the Masters of Formula 3 event, a non-championship race for cars that conform to Formula Three regulations. The event was held on 6 July 2014 at Circuit Park Zandvoort, in Zandvoort, North Holland; it was the 22nd time that the circuit held the event.

Motopark driver Max Verstappen – the son of 1993 winner and former Formula One driver, Jos Verstappen – started from pole position, and led every lap en route to becoming the youngest winner in the race's history, aged 16. Verstappen won by six seconds on the road from Jules Szymkowiak, his Van Amersfoort Racing teammate in the FIA European Formula 3 Championship. However, Szymkowiak was given a 20-second penalty post-race after a first-corner incident with Sam MacLeod, the team's German Formula Three Championship driver, which dropped him to fifth place. This promoted Performance Racing's Steijn Schothorst, on his Formula Three début, into second place, and Motopark's Nabil Jeffri into third place.

Drivers and teams Eleven drivers from seven countries contested the 2014 Zandvoort Masters; four drivers represented the German Formula Three Championship, with three each from the FIA European Formula 3 Championship and the British Formula 3 Championship. Steijn Schothorst completed the field, competing in his first Formula Three race with Performance Racing, stepping up from the Formula Renault Eurocup.

The Zandvoort Masters was first contested in 1991 as a one-off international meeting with drivers from all the major national Formula Three championships invited to compete. The race was considered a stepping stone to higher racing categories such as Formula One and it returned the Circuit Zandvoort to international recognition after the series stopped holding events at the track at the end of the 1985 season. It later took over from the Monaco Grand Prix Formula Three support race as the most prestigious meeting in European Formula Three. Circuit Zolder hosted the 2007 and 2008 editions due to noise restrictions imposed by the Supreme Court of the Netherlands in the Zandvoort area. The Masters of Formula 3 returned to Zandvoort in 2009 and it continued to hold it until its last iteration in 2016 due to calendar changes for the track and FIA Formula Three European Championship regulations probiting any racing activity prior the round in the same area.

Team No Driver Chassis Engine Main series Motopark 1 Max Verstappen Dallara F311 Volkswagen FIA European Formula 3 Championship 2 Indy Dontje German Formula Three Championship 3 Nabil Jeffri Van Amersfoort Racing 5 Jules Szymkowiak Dallara F308 Volkswagen FIA European Formula 3 Championship 6 Sam MacLeod German Formula Three Championship Double R Racing 7 Dennis van de Laar Dallara F308 Mercedes FIA European Formula 3 Championship 8 Andy Chang Dallara F312 British Formula 3 Championship 9 Camren Kaminsky Fortec Motorsports 10 Martin Cao Dallara F312 Mercedes British Formula 3 Championship ADM Motorsport 17 Nikita Zlobin Dallara F311 Volkswagen German Formula Three Championship Performance Racing 20 Steijn Schothorst Dallara F310 Volkswagen Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0

Classification

Qualifying Two qualifying sessions were held for the event, with the driver's fastest lap from either session, counting towards their respective grid position.

Pos No Driver Team Q1 Q2 1 1 Max Verstappen Motopark 1:48.219 1:32.628 2 6 Sam MacLeod Van Amersfoort Racing 1:49.329 1:33.248 3 3 Nabil Jeffri Motopark 1:49.627 1:33.412 4 20 Steijn Schothorst Performance Racing 1:50.636 1:33.481 5 5 Jules Szymkowiak Van Amersfoort Racing 1:47.495 1:33.553 6 2 Indy Dontje Motopark 1:48.607 1:33.691 7 8 Andy Chang Double R Racing 1:51.248 1:33.834 8 7 Dennis van de Laar Double R Racing 1:49.461 1:33.992 9 10 Martin Cao Fortec Motorsports 1:51.223 1:34.108 10 9 Camren Kaminsky Double R Racing 1:50.379 1:34.831 11 17 Nikita Zlobin ADM Motorsport 4:48.374 1:34.909

Race

Pos No Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid 1 1 Max Verstappen Motopark 25 39:49.252 1 2 20 Steijn Schothorst Performance Racing 25 +9.779 4 3 4 Nabil Jeffri Motopark 25 +10.979 3 4 9 Indy Dontje Motopark 25 +11.666 6 5 6 Jules Szymkowiak Van Amersfoort Racing 25 +26.330 5 6 10 Martin Cao Fortec Motorsports 25 +28.602 9 7 17 Nikita Zlobin ADM Motorsport 25 +29.345 11 8 7 Dennis van de Laar Double R Racing 25 +29.488 8 9 9 Camren Kaminsky Double R Racing 25 +32.521 10 10 8 Andy Chang Double R Racing 25 +35.030 7 Ret 5 Sam MacLeod Van Amersfoort Racing 0 Retired 2Fastest lap: Indy Dontje, 1:34.228, on lap 8

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