2018 Formula Renault Eurocup

The 2018 Formula Renault Eurocup is a multi-event motor racing championship for open wheel, formula racing cars held across Europe. The championship features drivers competing in 2 litre Formula Renault single seat race cars that conform to the technical regulations for the championship. The 2018 season is the 28th Formula Renault Eurocup season organized by the Renault Sport and the third season as the main category of the World Series by Renault. The series will visit ten circuits around the Europe, including Monaco.

Teams and drivers In 2018 the series was scheduled to feature the same nine teams as in previous year. But Mark Burdett Motorsport wasn't able to appear on the grid. Team Driver name Status Rounds R-ace GP 1 Max Fewtrell All 2 Logan Sargeant All 3 Charles Milesi All 4 Victor Martins All 5 Gabriel Gandulia 6–9 Josef Kaufmann Racing 11 Clément Novalak 1–5, 7–10 12 Richard Verschoor 1–6 16 Yifei Ye All Tech 1 Racing 21 Neil Verhagen All 22 Aleksandr Smolyar All 23 Thomas Neubauer All 24 Frank Bird All MP Motorsport 31 Christian Lundgaard All 32 Alex Peroni All 33 Max Defourny 1–4 Jarno Opmeer 5–6 Freek Schothorst 7–10 Arden 41 Oscar Piastri All 42 Aleksandr Vartanyan 1–4 Nikita Volegov 5–10 43 Sami Taoufik All AVF by Adrián Vallés 51 Axel Matus All 52 Xavier Lloveras 1–6 53 Eliseo Martínez All 54 Christian Muñoz All JD Motorsport 61 Lorenzo Colombo All 62 Thomas Maxwell All 63 Najiy Razak All Fortec Motorsports 84 Vladimiros Tziortzis 1–7, 9–10 85 Raúl Guzmán All 86 Christian Hahn 2–4 87 Arthur Rougier All Anders Motorsport 90 Phil Hill 6–9 91 Doureid Ghattas 6–8 Scorace Team 91 Doureid Ghattas 9 92 Sharon Scolari 6, 8–9 Icon Status Rookie Guest

Driver changes French F4 Championship champion Arthur Rougier and SMP F4 Championship driver Vladimiros Tziortzis joined Fortec Motorsports. BRDC British Formula 3 Championship driver Jordan Cane was expected to make his Eurocup debut with Fortec but later he aborted this plan. While Raúl Guzmán made his switch to Fortec from R-ace GP. Aleksey Korneev left the team to join 2018 Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup. Euroformula Open Championship driver Eliseo Martínez and French F4 Championship driver Christian Muñoz joined AVF by Adrián Vallés. Henrique Chaves moved to the 2018 European Le Mans Series. Gregoire Saucy and Thomas Randle left the team. Richard Verschoor, who raced with MP Motorsport switched to Josef Kaufmann Racing and was joined by karting champion and Toyota Racing Series race winner Clément Novalak. Aleksandr Smolyar made his racing debut with Tech 1 Racing. He was joined by former Fortec Motorsports and MP Motorsport drivers Frank Bird and Neil Verhagen respectively. Gabriel Aubry graduated to the 2018 GP3 Series, leaving his Tech 1 seat vacant. F4 British Championship runner-up Oscar Piastri made his Eurocup debut with Arden Motorsport. He was joined by Aleksandr Vartanyan, who made his switch from JD Motorsport, and 2017 CIK-FIA European OK karting champion Sami Taoufik. Christian Lundgaard graduated from Spanish F4 Championship and SMP F4 Championship as champion in both championships with MP Motorsport. Alex Peroni switched to MP Motorsport for his second Eurocup campaign after leaving Fortec Motorsports. They were joined by Max Defourny, who raced two seasons with R-ace GP. French F4 Championship runner-up Victor Martins joined R-ace GP. He was joined by former Tech 1 Racing driver Max Fewtrell. Charles Milesi, who raced with R-ace GP in the 2017 Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup and in the four rounds of the Eurocup made his full-time switch to the series. Logan Sargeant moved from ADAC Formula 4 Championship to R-ace GP. Italian F4 Championship driver Lorenzo Colombo raced with JD Motorsport. Thomas Maxwell and Najiy Razak switched from Tech 1 and Fortec respectively to join JD Motorsport.

Calendar The provisional calendar for the 2018 season was announced on 25 September 2017. The series will return to Hockenheimring in its schedule. While Pau Grand Prix will be not present in the 2018 calendar. On 29 October the calendar was slightly altered, but featured the same ten circuits.

Round Circuit Date Supporting 1 R1 Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet 14 April European Le Mans Series R2 15 April 2 R1 Autodromo Nazionale Monza 21 April Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup R2 22 April 3 R1 Silverstone Circuit 19 May R2 20 May 4 R1 Circuit de Monaco 26 May R2 27 May 5 R1 Red Bull Ring, Spielberg 21 July European Le Mans Series R2 22 July 6 R1 Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Spa 27 July Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup R2 28 July 7 R1 Hungaroring 1 September Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup R2 2 September 8 R1 Nürburgring 14 September R2 15 September 9 R1 Hockenheimring 22 September ADAC GT Masters R2 23 September 10 R1 Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya 20 October International GT Open R2 21 October

Results

Round Circuit Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning team 1 1 Paul Ricard Max Fewtrell Logan Sargeant Logan Sargeant R-ace GP Logan Sargeant R2 Max Fewtrell Yifei Ye Max Fewtrell R-ace GP Christian Lundgaard 2 R1 Monza Yifei Ye Max Fewtrell Yifei Ye Josef Kaufmann Racing Christian Lundgaard R2 Lorenzo Colombo Yifei Ye Christian Lundgaard MP Motorsport Christian Lundgaard 3 R1 Silverstone Max Fewtrell Max Fewtrell Max Fewtrell R-ace GP Logan Sargeant R2 Charles Milesi Aleksandr Vartanyan Charles Milesi R-ace GP Charles Milesi 4 R1 Monaco Alex Peroni Charles Milesi Alex Peroni MP Motorsport Charles Milesi R2 Charles Milesi Alex Peroni Charles Milesi R-ace GP Charles Milesi 5 R1 Red Bull Ring Max Fewtrell Max Fewtrell Max Fewtrell R-ace GP Lorenzo Colombo R2 Victor Martins Yifei Ye Victor Martins R-ace GP Victor Martins 6 R1 Spa-Francorchamps Lorenzo Colombo Victor Martins Christian Lundgaard MP Motorsport Christian Lundgaard R2 Logan Sargeant Victor Martins Victor Martins R-ace GP Victor Martins 7 R1 Hungaroring Christian Lundgaard Christian Lundgaard Yifei Ye Josef Kaufmann Racing Christian Lundgaard R2 Christian Lundgaard Christian Lundgaard Christian Lundgaard MP Motorsport Christian Lundgaard 8 R1 Nürburgring Logan Sargeant Max Fewtrell Logan Sargeant R-ace GP Logan Sargeant R2 Max Fewtrell Max Fewtrell Max Fewtrell R-ace GP Victor Martins 9 R1 Hockenheim Max Fewtrell Max Fewtrell Max Fewtrell R-ace GP Oscar Piastri R2 Christian Lundgaard Logan Sargeant Max Fewtrell R-ace GP Oscar Piastri 10 R1 Catalunya Christian Lundgaard Christian Lundgaard Christian Lundgaard MP Motorsport Christian Lundgaard R2 Victor Martins Logan Sargeant Logan Sargeant R-ace GP Logan Sargeant

Championship standings Drivers' championship Driver LEC MNZ SIL MON RBR SPA HUN NÜR HOC CAT Points1234567891011121314151617181920 1 Max Fewtrell 2 1 22 10 1 Ret 7 8 1 2 5 7 3 2 2 1 1 1 4 4 275.5 2 Christian Lundgaard 5 3 2 1 Ret 5 5 5 5 3 1 8 2 1 3 5 Ret Ret 1 2 258 3 Yifei Ye 3 2 1 15 3 3 4 4 8 5 2 3 1 11 6 6 2 3 8 8 239 4 Logan Sargeant 1 Ret 8 4 2 2 10 9 Ret Ret 9 2 5 7 1 4 4 5 2 1 218 5 Victor Martins 11 4 6 5 6 6 3 3 9 1 Ret 1 4 9 4 2 Ret Ret Ret 3 186 6 Lorenzo Colombo 4 21 3 2 4 8 12 Ret 3 6 6 5 6 3 11 22 Ret 4 3 6 152.5 7 Charles Milesi 9 12 7 19 7 1 2 1 10 13 10 13 9 12 7 3 10 8 5 10 122.5 8 Oscar Piastri 6 5 12 Ret 11 4 13 12 6 9 3 9 7 4 15 7 3 2 16 11 110 9 Alex Peroni Ret 7 5 Ret Ret 15 1 2 12 7 Ret 25 13 5 9 9 6 Ret 9 14 89 10 Thomas Maxwell 10 6 10 7 8 16 8 10 7 23 7 4 11 25 8 11 5 7 Ret 5 76 11 Neil Verhagen 7 9 11 Ret 10 12 6 7 4 8 25 22 14 14 13 12 7 6 7 7 59 12 Aleksandr Smolyar 8 23 4 Ret Ret 7 15 11 Ret 15 11 16 10 6 5 8 8 Ret 6 12 57 13 Richard Verschoor Ret 8 24 9 9 11 14 13 2 4 8 10 34 14 Max Defourny Ret 10 9 3 16 14 9 6 28 15 Arthur Rougier Ret 15 18 20 15 Ret 27 14 11 14 4 6 Ret 8 10 13 12 10 WD WD 26 16 Aleksandr Vartanyan 19 11 Ret 12 5 10 11 15 11 17 Thomas Neubauer 12 17 14 6 18 24 26 23 DNS DNS WD WD Ret Ret 21 10 Ret Ret 14 23 9 18 Frank Bird 17 18 13 8 Ret 21 22 20 13 10 14 11 12 13 Ret 21 20 13 10 17 6 19 Axel Matus 20 16 Ret Ret 14 Ret 18 Ret 16 11 Ret 26 8 15 16 Ret Ret 14 Ret Ret 4 20 Eliseo Martínez 16 20 15 11 17 17 23 18 21 17 15 12 15 21 12 Ret 14 9 11 9 4 21 Raúl Guzmán 13 22 19 21 Ret 9 20 16 15 12 13 23 Ret Ret 25 18 9 11 15 16 4 22 Sami Taoufik 23 13 17 13 13 13 Ret Ret Ret 16 17 Ret 16 10 17 14 19 12 Ret 15 1 23 Clément Novalak 15 Ret 16 Ret 12 Ret 25 22 Ret DNS 18 22 14 16 11 22 Ret 13 0 24 Christian Muñoz 22 14 23 14 20 23 21 25 19 21 21 17 Ret Ret 19 19 17 16 12 22 0 25 Jarno Opmeer 18 Ret 12 24 0 26 Nikita Volegov 17 18 16 Ret 19 17 18 15 13 24 Ret 19 0 27 Vladimiros Tziortzis 21 19 25 Ret 21 18 24 21 22 22 20 19 Ret 16 18 18 13 21 0 28 Najiy Razak 14 Ret Ret 17 22 20 19 19 14 19 18 15 23 18 Ret Ret Ret 23 Ret 20 0 29 Xavier Lloveras 18 Ret 20 16 19 22 16 17 20 20 22 14 0 30 Freek Schothorst 17 24 20 17 15 19 Ret 18 0 31 Christian Hahn 21 18 23 19 17 24 0 guest drivers ineligible to score points — Phil Hill 19 18 21 23 23 DNS 21 15 — — Doureid Ghattas 23 20 20 19 22 20 16 20 — — Gabriel Gandulia 24 21 22 20 24 24 22 17 — — Sharon Scolari 26 DNS 26 23 23 21 — Driver LEC MNZ SIL MON RBR SPA HUN NÜR HOC CAT Points

Teams' championship Only two-best cars are eligible to score points in the teams' championship. Team LEC MNZ SIL MON RBR SPA HUN NÜR HOC CAT Points1234567891011121314151617181920 1 R-ace GP 1 1 6 4 1 1 2 1 1 1 5 1 3 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 662.5 2 4 8 5 2 2 3 3 9 2 9 2 4 7 2 2 4 5 4 3 2 MP Motorsport 5 3 2 1 16 5 1 2 5 3 1 8 2 1 3 5 6 19 1 2 362 Ret 7 5 3 Ret 14 5 5 12 7 12 24 13 5 9 9 15 Ret 9 14 3 Josef Kaufmann Racing 3 2 1 9 3 3 4 4 2 4 2 3 1 11 6 6 2 3 8 8 273 15 8 16 15 9 11 14 13 8 5 8 10 18 22 14 16 11 22 Ret 13 4 JD Motorsport 4 6 3 2 4 8 8 10 3 6 6 4 6 3 8 11 5 4 3 5 228.5 10 21 10 7 8 16 12 9 7 19 7 5 11 18 11 22 Ret 7 Ret 6 5 Tech 1 Racing 7 9 4 6 10 7 6 7 4 8 11 11 10 6 5 8 7 6 6 7 130 8 17 11 8 18 12 15 11 13 15 14 16 12 13 13 10 8 13 7 12 6 Arden 6 5 12 12 5 4 11 12 6 9 3 9 7 4 15 7 3 2 16 11 122 19 11 17 13 11 10 13 15 17 16 16 Ret 16 10 17 14 13 12 Ret 15 7 Fortec Motorsports 13 15 18 18 15 9 17 14 11 12 4 6 Ret 8 10 13 9 10 13 16 30 21 19 19 20 21 18 20 16 15 14 13 19 Ret 17 18 18 12 11 15 21 8 AVF by Adrián Vallés 16 14 15 11 14 17 16 17 16 11 15 12 8 15 12 19 14 9 11 9 8 18 16 20 14 17 22 18 18 19 17 21 14 15 21 16 Ret 17 14 12 22 guest teams ineligible to score points — Anders Motorsport 19 18 20 19 22 20 16 15 — 23 20 21 23 23 DNS 21 20 — — Scorace Team 26 DNS 26 23 23 21 — Team LEC MNZ SIL MON RBR SPA HUN NÜR HOC CAT Points

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