The 2015 Euroformula Open Championship was a multi-event motor racing championship for single-seat open wheel formula racing cars that was held across Europe. The championship featured drivers competing in two-litre Formula Three racing cars built by Italian constructor Dallara which conformed to the technical regulations, or formula, for the championship. The series changed tyre supplier from Dunlop to Michelin. It was the second Euroformula Open Championship season.
RP Motorsport driver Vitor Baptista claimed the championship title by five points (on dropped scores), winning six races during the 2015 campaign, including four consecutive victories during the second half of the season. The runner-up position in the championship went to Konstantin Tereshchenko for Campos Racing, who like Baptista, took six victories during the season. The championship top-three was completed by Yu Kanamaru, who took a single race victory at Silverstone for Emilio de Villota's team. Other drivers to win races were DAV Racing's Alessio Rovera (Jerez) and Leonardo Pulcini (Red Bull Ring), while Baptista's teammate Damiano Fioravanti won at Monza. These seven wins for RP Motorsport enabled them to win the teams' championship by ten points ahead of Campos Racing.
In the Spanish Formula Three sub-classification, Tereshchenko and Campos Racing snared their respective titles. Over the three meetings at Jerez, Estoril and Barcelona, Tereshchenko won four of the six races to best Baptista by thirty-seven points, who only won once, at Estoril. Kanamaru finished a further nine points in arrears in third place. With Tereshchenko's four wins, Campos Racing finished nine points clear of RP Motorsport in the teams' championship.
Teams and drivers All cars were powered by Toyota engines.
Team Driver Status Rounds RP Motorsport 1 Andrés Saravia NC, All 3 Vitor Baptista NC, All 4 Antoni Ptak Jr. NC, All 5 Damiano Fioravanti NC, All 37 Igor Waliłko NC, All MKTG 2 John Simonyan NC, 1–3 Kantadhee Kusiri 6–8 Campos Racing 6 Konstantin Tereshchenko NC, All 7 Diego Menchaca NC, All 8 Henrique Baptista NC, All 9 All Motul Team West-Tec F3 10 Yarin Stern NC, All 12 Mahaveer Raghunathan 7 Sam MacLeod 8 15 Tanart Sathienthirakul NC, All EmiliodeVillota Motorsport 16 Yu Kanamaru NC, All 17 José Manuel Vilalta NC, All18 Aleksey Chuklin NC Luis Michael Dörrbecker 1–3 22 Daniel Juncadella 8 27 Otto Sánchez 1 BVM Racing 19 William Barbosa NC, 1–4, 6–720 Alessio Rovera NC Javier Cobián 130 Alessio Rovera 2–4 DAV Racing 21 Alessio Rovera 1, 6–7 23 Kang Ling 7–8 70 Parth Ghorpade 5–7 77 Leonardo Pulcini NC, All Corbetta Competizioni24 Edi Haxhiu NC Aleksey Chuklin 3–5 Drivex School 28 Ferdinand Habsburg 8 Icon Legend Rookie Trophy Guest drivers ineligible to score points
Race calendar and results An eight-round provisional calendar was revealed on 5 November 2014. On 2 December 2014, it was confirmed, that the third round would take place at Estoril. All rounds, except for Jerez, supported the International GT Open series, with rounds denoted with a blue background being part of the Spanish Formula Three Championship.
Round Circuit Date Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning team NC R1 Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet 7 March Yu Kanamaru Alessio Rovera Yu Kanamaru Alessio Rovera R2 Alessio Rovera Alessio Rovera BVM Racing Alessio Rovera 1 R1 Circuito de Jerez 11 April Yarin Stern Vitor Baptista Alessio Rovera DAV Racing Alessio Rovera R2 12 April Campos Racing Alessio Rovera 2 R1 25 April Vitor Baptista Vitor Baptista Vitor Baptista RP Motorsport Alessio Rovera R2 26 April Konstantin Tereshchenko Konstantin Tereshchenko Konstantin Tereshchenko Campos Racing Alessio Rovera 3 R1 Autódromo do Estoril 9 May Konstantin Tereshchenko Konstantin Tereshchenko Konstantin Tereshchenko Campos Racing Igor Waliłko R2 10 May Konstantin Tereshchenko Vitor Baptista Vitor Baptista RP Motorsport Leonardo Pulcini 4 R1 Silverstone Circuit 6 June Vitor Baptista Vitor Baptista Yu Kanamaru Alessio Rovera R2 7 June Yu Kanamaru Konstantin Tereshchenko Konstantin Tereshchenko Campos Racing Leonardo Pulcini 5 R1 Red Bull Ring, Spielberg 4 July Vitor Baptista Konstantin Tereshchenko Leonardo Pulcini DAV Racing Leonardo Pulcini R2 5 July Vitor Baptista Vitor Baptista Vitor Baptista RP Motorsport Leonardo Pulcini 6 R1 Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps 5 September Konstantin Tereshchenko Vitor Baptista Vitor Baptista RP Motorsport Leonardo Pulcini R2 Vitor Baptista Kantadhee Kusiri Vitor Baptista RP Motorsport Igor Waliłko 7 R1 Autodromo Nazionale Monza 3 October Yu Kanamaru Damiano Fioravanti Vitor Baptista RP Motorsport Diego Menchaca R2 4 October Konstantin Tereshchenko Vitor Baptista Damiano Fioravanti RP Motorsport Igor Waliłko 8 R1 Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya 31 October Konstantin Tereshchenko Yu Kanamaru Konstantin Tereshchenko Campos Racing Diego Menchaca R2 1 November Konstantin Tereshchenko Konstantin Tereshchenko Konstantin Tereshchenko Campos Racing
Championship standings
Euroformula Open Championship
Drivers' championship Only the fourteen best results counted towards the championship. 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 LEC1 JER LEC2 EST SIL RBR SPA MNZ CAT Pts 1 Vitor Baptista 4 2 2 5 1 2 4 1 2 3 Ret 1 1 1 1 2 3 5 2 Konstantin Tereshchenko Ret 12 6 1 3 1 1 2 7 1 2 4 2 2 3 Ret 1 1 3 Yu Kanamaru 1 3 4 2 4 7 3 4 1 2 Ret 3 4 11 2 5 2 6 206 4 Tanart Sathienthirakul 5 6 3 8 5 8 5 3 8 6 3 6 5 4 Ret 4 8 10 5 Yarin Stern Ret Ret Ret 3 6 9 2 Ret 4 10 4 2 8 6 Ret 8 7 8 119 6 Alessio Rovera 3 1 1 6 2 3 13 10 3 5 6 Ret Ret 11 100 7 Damiano Fioravanti 9 Ret 7 15 8 4 6 6 6 12 7 8 17 Ret Ret 1 9 7 96 8 Diego Menchaca 6 4 8 10 12 Ret 10 7 5 8 5 7 15 9 4 6 5 2 94 9 Leonardo Pulcini 10 9 Ret Ret 18 11 9 5 Ret 4 1 5 3 Ret 10 7 6 DNS 91 10 Igor Waliłko 7 7 Ret 11 7 Ret 7 9 14 17 6 9 18 3 7 3 11 Ret 62 11 William Barbosa 16 DNS 5 9 11 6 Ret 11 9 9 10 7 5 Ret 41 12 Andrés Saravia 11 5 Ret 7 10 5 8 8 16 7 9 Ret 9 13 8 14 13 13 41 13 Antoni Ptak Jr. 14 11 12 17 16 13 16 13 10 13 Ret Ret 7 5 Ret 12 16 11 19 14 Dzhon Simonyan 2 DNS 14 4 9 Ret Ret DNS 14 15 Henrique Baptista 8 Ret Ret Ret 13 10 14 16 15 11 8 11 16 15 6 10 Ret 16 14 16 Kantadhee Kusiri 13 8 Ret 9 Ret 9 13 17 Ahmad Al Ghanem 9 18 15 15 15 Ret 12 15 12 13 11 14 9 15 14 15 4 18 Parth Ghorpade 10 12 12 10 11 Ret 2 19 José Manuel Vilalta 15 13 Ret 16 17 14 Ret 15 13 16 11 10 14 12 13 17 15 Ret 1 20 Luis Michael Dörrbecker 10 12 14 12 12 14 1 21 Aleksey Chuklin 13 10 11 12 11 14 Ret NC 0 22 Javier Cobián 11 14 0 23 Otto Sánchez 13 13 0 Guest drivers ineligible to score points Daniel Juncadella 4 3 0 Ferdinand Habsburg 10 4 0 Kang Ling 12 13 Ret 12 0 Sam MacLeod 12 14 0 Mahaveer Raghunathan 14 16 0 Non-championship round-only drivers Edi Haxhiu 12 8 0 Pos Driver LEC1 JER LEC2 EST SIL RBR SPA MNZ CAT PtsBold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap
Teams' championship Points were awarded as follows: 1 2 3 4 5 10 8 6 4 3
Pos Team LEC1 JER LEC2 EST SIL RBR SPA MNZ CAT Pts 1 RP Motorsport 2 2 2 5 1 2 3 1 2 3 6 1 1 1 1 1 3 5 121 2 Campos Racing 6 4 6 1 3 1 1 2 5 1 2 4 2 2 3 6 1 1 111 3 EmiliodeVillota Motorsport 1 3 4 2 4 7 2 4 1 2 11 3 4 11 2 5 2 6 79 4 Motul Team West-Tec F3 5 6 3 3 5 8 4 3 4 6 3 2 5 4 14 4 7 8 54 5 DAV Racing 10 9 1 6 18 11 8 5 Ret 4 1 5 3 10 10 7 6 DNS 39 6 BVM Racing 3 1 5 9 2 3 12 10 3 5 10 7 5 Ret 29 7 MKTG 2 DNS 14 4 9 Ret Ret DNS 13 8 Ret 9 Ret 9 4 8 Corbetta Competizioni 12 8 10 12 11 14 Ret NC 0 Guest teams ineligible to score points Drivex School 10 4 0 Pos Team LEC1 JER LEC2 EST SIL RBR SPA MNZ CAT Pts
Spanish Formula Three Championship
Drivers' championship 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 JER EST CAT Pts 1 Konstantin Tereshchenko 6 1 1 2 1 1 134 2 Vitor Baptista 2 5 4 1 3 5 97 3 Yu Kanamaru 4 2 3 4 2 6 88 4 Tanart Sathienthirakul 3 8 5 3 8 10 56 5 Yarin Stern Ret 3 2 Ret 7 8 50 6 Diego Menchaca 8 10 10 7 5 2 42 7 Damiano Fioravanti 7 15 6 6 9 7 36 8 Alessio Rovera 1 6 13 10 34 9 Leonardo Pulcini Ret Ret 9 5 6 DNS 22 10 Andres Saravia Ret 7 8 8 13 13 17 11 Dzhon Simonyan 14 4 Ret DNS 12 12 William Barbosa 5 9 Ret 11 12 13 Igor Waliłko Ret 11 7 9 11 Ret 10 14 Antoni Ptak 12 17 16 13 16 11 4 15 Ahmad Al Ghanem 9 18 15 Ret 14 15 3 16 Luis Michael Dörrbecker 10 12 12 14 1 17 Aleksey Chuklin 11 12 0 18 Javier Cobián 11 14 0 19 Otto Sánchez 13 13 0 20 Henrique Baptista Ret Ret 14 16 Ret 16 0 21 Jose Manuel Vilalta Ret 16 Ret 15 15 Ret 0 Guest drivers ineligible to score points Daniel Juncadella 4 3 0 Ferdinand Habsburg 10 4 0 Kantadhee Kusiri Ret 9 0 Sam MacLeod 12 14 0 Kang Ling Ret 12 0 Pos Driver JER EST CAT Pts
Teams' championship Points were awarded as follows: 1 2 3 4 5 10 8 6 4 3
Pos Team JER EST CAT Pts 1 Campos Racing 6 1 1 2 1 1 48 2 RP Motorsport 2 5 4 1 3 5 39 3 EmiliodeVillota Motorsport 4 2 3 4 2 6 36 4 Motul Team West-Tec F3 3 3 5 3 7 8 22 5 DAV Racing 1 6 9 5 6 DNS 16 6 MKTG 14 4 Ret DNS Ret 9 4 7 BVM Racing 5 9 13 10 3 8 Corbetta Competizioni 11 12 0 Guest teams ineligible to score points Drivex School 10 4 0 Pos Team JER EST CAT Pts
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