2012 Formula Renault 2.0 Alps Series

2012 Formula Renault 2.0 Alps Series
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The 2012 Formula Renault 2.0 Alps Series is the second year of the Formula Renault 2.0 Alps series, and the eleventh season of the former Swiss Formula Renault Championship. The championship began on 24 March at Monza and will finish on 21 October at Barcelona after fourteen races held at seven meetings.

The second-year drivers shined in the opening weekend at Monza. The first pole position of the season was claimed by Tech 1's Paul-Loup Chatin, but in the first race he was passed by Red Bull-backed Koiranen's Daniil Kvyat and 2011 Junior champion Melville McKee.^[1] Kvyat, who set the second fastest time in qualifying, dominated in both races and left Monza with 53 of 54 possible points.^[2]

Drivers and teams

Team	No.	Driver	Rounds
Koiranen Motorsport	1	Patrick Kujala[3]	All
	2	Esteban Ocon[3]	1, 3–7
	3	Daniil Kvyat[3]	All
	4	Stefan Wackerbauer[3]	All
	5	Hans Villemi[3]	1, 5–7
	6	Gustavo Lima[3]	All
	7	Victor Franzoni[4]	1–3, 5–7
	51	Saud Al Faisal	4
GSK Grand Prix[5]	8	Nicola De Val[6]	All
	9	Stefano De Val[6]	All
ARTA Engineering[5]	10	Alex Loan[3]	All
	29	William Vermont[3]	All
	30	Leo Roussel[3]	All
	31	Paul Petit[7]	2
	54	Tristan Papavoine[3]	All
RC Formula[5]	11	Aurélien Panis[3]	1–3, 5–7
	36	Norman Nato[3]	All
	39	Edolo Ghirelli[8]	2–3
	49	Benjamin Bailly	4
Tech 1 Racing[5]	12	Matthieu Vaxivière[9]	1–3, 7
	14	Óscar Tunjo[9]	1, 3–7
	15	Roman Mavlanov[10]	All
	80	Felipe Fraga[11]	All
	111	Paul-Loup Chatin[10]	All
BVM Racing	19	Michael Heche[12]	6–7
EPIC Racing[5]	20	Alexander Albon[13]	All
Prema Powerteam	21	Luca Ghiotto[14]	6–7
	22	Bruno Bonifacio[14]	6–7
Interwetten.com Racing Team[5]	23	Konstantin Tereshchenko[9]	All
	24	Melville McKee	1–2, 5
	25	Guilherme Silva[9]	All
Cram Competition	27	Giorgio Roda[15]	7
One Racing[5]	28	Thomas Jäger[16]	1–2
	32	Alex Bosak[16]	All
AV Formula	35	Emanuele Zonzini[17]	6–7
	37	Tatiana Calderón[18]	6–7
	40	Egor Orudzhev[18]	6
	41	Denis Nagulin[19]	7
Atech Reid GP	38	Alessandro Latif[9]	1, 4
	39	Edolo Ghirelli[9]	1
Fortec Motorsports	57	Dan de Zille[20]	7
Mark Burdett Motorsport	60	Gabriel Casagrande	3–4, 6–7
Brixia Horse Power by Facondini Racing[5]	73	Andrea Baiguera[3]	1–4, 6–7
Team Torino Motorsport[5]	81	Alejandro Abogado[21]	All
	82	Luis Michael Dörrbecker[22]	1–4
	83	Simone Iaquinta[23]	1–4, 6
	85	Alexey Chuklin[24]	7

Race calendar and results

The seven-event calendar for the 2012 season was announced on 22 November 2011.^[25] The series supported Italian Renault Clio Cup events at all Italian circuits in the schedule and on the Red Bull Ring with Pau Grand Prix, FIA Formula Two Championship round at Spa and World Series by Renault round at Barcelona.

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team	Junior Winner
1	R1	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	24 March	Paul-Loup Chatin	Daniil Kvyat	Daniil Kvyat	Koiranen Motorsport	Óscar Tunjo
	R2		25 March	Daniil Kvyat	Daniil Kvyat	Daniil Kvyat	Koiranen Motorsport	Esteban Ocon
2	R1	Pau Circuit	12 May	Norman Nato^1	Norman Nato	Norman Nato	RC Formula	Felipe Fraga
	R2		13 May	Paul-Loup Chatin^1	Norman Nato	Paul-Loup Chatin	Tech 1 Racing	Patrick Kujala
3	R1	Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola	26 May	Norman Nato	Norman Nato	Norman Nato	RC Formula	Óscar Tunjo
	R2		27 May	Norman Nato	Norman Nato	Norman Nato	RC Formula	Stefan Wackerbauer
4	R1	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	23 June	Norman Nato	Guilherme Silva	Daniil Kvyat	Koiranen Motorsport	Óscar Tunjo
	R2		24 June	Óscar Tunjo	Óscar Tunjo	Óscar Tunjo	Tech 1 Racing	Óscar Tunjo
5	R1	Red Bull Ring, Spielberg	1 September	Victor Franzoni	Esteban Ocon	Daniil Kvyat	Koiranen Motorsport	Esteban Ocon
	R2		2 September	Victor Franzoni	Daniil Kvyat	Daniil Kvyat	Koiranen Motorsport	Esteban Ocon
6	R1	Mugello Circuit	6 October	Daniil Kvyat	Daniil Kvyat	Daniil Kvyat	Koiranen Motorsport	Patrick Kujala
	R2		7 October	Daniil Kvyat	Norman Nato	Daniil Kvyat	Koiranen Motorsport	Patrick Kujala
7	R1	Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona	21 October	Norman Nato	Paul-Loup Chatin	Norman Nato	RC Formula	Hans Villemi
	R2			Daniil Kvyat	Óscar Tunjo	Óscar Tunjo	Tech 1 Racing	Óscar Tunjo

• ¹ In the qualifying session at Pau, drivers were divided in two groups. Paul-Loup Chatin and Norman Nato both scored an additional point for the fastest time in each of the split qualifying groups.

Championship standings

Drivers' Championship

Pos Driver MNZ PAU IMO SPA RBR MUG CAT Points 1 Daniil Kvyat 1 1 7 Ret 4 Ret 1 10 1 1 1 1 3 Ret 217 2 Norman Nato 5 4 1 2 1 1 23 2 10 6 2 2 1 Ret 214 3 Paul-Loup Chatin 3 2 2 1 3 Ret 2 3 14 12 3 3 2 2 194 4 Óscar Tunjo 4 Ret 5 13 4 1 12 Ret 5 1 97 5 William Vermont 16 3 16 4 2 2 13 8 2 7 10 12 10 10 93 6 Patrick Kujala 17 13 5 5 12 Ret 5 Ret 6 5 5 5 12 5 78 7 Esteban Ocon 8 5 7 4 25 7 3 3 11 DNS 69 8 Guilherme Silva 7 6 Ret 7 13 7 3 5 9 10 8 Ret Ret Ret 59 9 Felipe Fraga 24 Ret 3 Ret 11 Ret 6 4 15 9 12 13 15 3 52 10 Melville McKee 2 Ret 6 13 8 2 48 11 Victor Franzoni Ret 16 23 19 Ret 16 4 4 9 8 6 8 44 12 Stefan Wackerbauer 15 25 8 24 Ret 3 9 6 7 14 7 14 Ret 20 41 13 Simone Iaquinta 6 23 19 22 6 5 Ret Ret 4 10 39 14 Matthieu Vaxivière Ret 12 4 3 Ret 14 18 9 29 15 Roman Mavlanov 9 7 22 14 Ret 12 7 17 Ret 17 20 11 9 4 28 16 Alexander Albon Ret Ret Ret 10 10 6 8 Ret 5 11 17 9 14 Ret 26 17 Aurélien Panis Ret 10 10 6 8 Ret 11 15 11 7 7 11 26 18 Hans Villemi 14 8 18 13 13 15 4 6 24 19 Luca Ghiotto 6 6 13 7 22 20 Bruno Bonifacio Ret 4 8 Ret 16 21 Leo Roussel 12 11 9 8 9 22 10 22 Ret 8 23 25 Ret DNS 13 22 Alex Loan 21 Ret DNS DNS 16 8 15 11 Ret 21 22 21 Ret DNS 4 23 Thomas Jäger 10 9 14 23 3 24 Tristan Papavoine Ret Ret 11 9 Ret 11 11 21 13 16 Ret 18 Ret DNS 2 25 Luis Michael Dörrbecker 11 19 13 11 21 9 14 16 2 26 Gabriel Casagrande Ret Ret Ret 9 18 Ret 25 12 2 27 Stefano De Val 18 14 Ret DNS 15 10 12 12 21 Ret 15 27 19 23 1 28 Edolo Ghirelli 13 15 12 20 14 Ret 0 29 Gustavo Lima 25 17 17 12 19 15 19 Ret Ret 20 21 22 21 15 0 30 Emanuele Zonzini 19 17 26 13 0 31 Benjamin Bailly 17 13 0 32 Konstantin Tereshchenko 22 21 Ret 16 17 18 16 14 Ret 18 Ret 19 16 DNS 0 33 Tatiana Calderón 16 20 20 14 0 34 Michael Heche 14 Ret 17 21 0 35 Andrea Baiguera 19 DSQ 18 15 Ret 20 20 15 17 19 Ret Ret 28 17 0 36 Nicola De Val 27 18 15 Ret 18 17 18 19 16 Ret Ret 16 23 18 0 37 Denis Nagulin 21 16 0 38 Paul Petit 24 17 0 39 Alex Bosak 26 22 21 18 20 19 Ret 20 19 Ret 25 23 29 24 0 40 Saud Al Faisal 22 18 0 41 Alejandro Abogado 23 20 20 21 Ret 21 21 Ret 20 22 24 24 27 Ret 0 42 Giorgio Roda 24 19 0 43 Alessandro Latif 20 24 24 Ret 0 44 Alexey Chuklin Ret 22 0 45 Egor Orudzhev Ret 26 0 Pos Driver MNZ PAU IMO SPA RBR MUG CAT Points

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not participate (DNP) Excluded (EX)

Juniors' championship

Pos	Driver	MNZ		PAU		IMO		SPA		RBR		MUG		CAT		Points
1	Patrick Kujala	17	13	5	5	12	Ret	5	Ret	6	5	5	5	12	5	191
2	Óscar Tunjo	4	Ret			5	13	4	1	12	Ret			5	1	161
3	Esteban Ocon	8	5			7	4	25	7	3	3			11	DNS	154
4	Felipe Fraga	24	Ret	3	Ret	11	Ret	6	4	15	9	12	13	15	3	128
5	Stefan Wackerbauer	15	25	8	24	Ret	3	9	6	7	14	7	14	Ret	20	126
6	Victor Franzoni	Ret	16	23	19	Ret	16			4	4	9	8	6	8	120
7	Leo Roussel	12	11	9	8	9	22	10	22	Ret	8	23	25	Ret	DNS	106
8	Alexander Albon	Ret	Ret	Ret	10	10	6	8	Ret	5	11	17	9	14	Ret	101
9	Hans Villemi	14	8							18	13	13	15	4	6	91
10	Gustavo Lima	25	17	17	12	19	15	19	Ret	Ret	20	21	22	21	15	59
11	Luca Ghiotto											6	6	13	7	54
12	Alex Loan	21	Ret	DNS	DNS	16	8	15	11	Ret	21	22	21	Ret	DNS	42
13	Gabriel Casagrande					Ret	Ret	Ret	9			18	Ret	25	12	21
14	Alessandro Latif	20	24					24	Ret							14
15	Egor Orudzhev											Ret	26			0
Pos	Driver	MNZ		PAU		IMO		SPA		RBR		MUG		CAT		Points

Teams' championship

Prior to each round of the championship, two drivers from each team – if applicable – are nominated to score teams' championship points.^[26]

Pos	Team	Points
1	Tech 1 Racing	318
2	Koiranen Motorsport	312
3	RC Formula	240
4	Interwetten.com Racing Team	107
5	ARTA Engineering	107
6	Team Torino Motorsport	41
7	Prema Powerteam	38
8	EPIC Racing	26
9	One Racing	3
10	Mark Burdett Motorsport	2
11	GSK Grand Prix	1
12	Atech Reid GP	0
13	Brixia Horse Power by Facondini Racing	0
14	AV Formula	0
15	BVM Racing	0

References

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External links

• Official website of the Formula Renault 2.0 Alps championship