2014 Florida Winter Series

2014 Florida Winter Series
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The 2014 Florida Winter Series season was the inaugural season for the Florida Winter Series, a non-championship racing series organised by the Ferrari Driver Academy in Florida. The season started with a collective test on 22 January 2014 at Homestead-Miami Speedway,^[1] before a total of 12 races were held over 4 race meetings at Sebring International Raceway, Palm Beach International Raceway and Homestead-Miami Speedway.

One of the Academy's driver roster, Formula Renault 2.0 Alps competitor Antonio Fuoco, was one of two drivers to win four races along with Nicholas Latifi, who had contested the FIA European Formula Three Championship in 2013. KZ1 karting world champion Max Verstappen won races at Palm Beach and Homestead, as he contested his first single-seater races prior to a campaign in the FIA European Formula Three Championship with Van Amersfoort Racing, while Dennis van de Laar and Tatiana Calderón each won races at Sebring, as they also prepared for their respective FIA European Formula Three Championship campaigns.

The series used the Tatuus FA010B chassis. This car is also used in Formula Abarth and other regional championships. The car is built to Formula 3 safety regulations to ensure the drivers safety. The car is powered by a 1400cc Fiat-FPT engine producing 190hp.

Drivers

No.	Driver	Previous series	Rounds
2	Ed Jones[2]	British Formula 3 Championship National Class	All
3	Max Verstappen[2]	Karting KZ1	All
4	Dennis van de Laar[2]	FIA European Formula Three Championship	All
5	Lance Stroll[2]	Karting KF1	All
6	Antonio Fuoco[2]	Formula Renault 2.0 Alps	All
7	Tatiana Calderón[2]	FIA European Formula Three Championship	All
9	Ben Anderson	Formula Ford 1600	1
	Will Buxton	none	2
	Oliver Marriage	none	4
11	Alex Bosak[2]	Formula Renault 2.0 Alps	All
17	Vasily Romanov[2]	Karting KF1	All
18	Nicholas Latifi[2]	FIA European Formula Three Championship	All
23	Takashi Kasai[2]	Karting KF1	All
53	Raffaele Marciello[2]	FIA European Formula Three Championship	All

Race calendar and results

All rounds were held in Florida, United States.

Round		Circuit	Location	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver
1	R1	Sebring Raceway	Sebring, Florida	January 26	Antonio Fuoco	Max Verstappen	Dennis van de Laar
	R2			January 27		Nicholas Latifi	Tatiana Calderón
	R3				Max Verstappen	Antonio Fuoco	Antonio Fuoco
2	R4	Palm Beach International Raceway	Jupiter, Florida	February 4	Antonio Fuoco	Max Verstappen	Antonio Fuoco
	R5			February 5		Dennis van de Laar	Nicholas Latifi
	R6				Max Verstappen	Tatiana Calderón	Max Verstappen
3	R7	Homestead-Miami Speedway RC	Homestead, Florida	February 13	Antonio Fuoco	Nicholas Latifi	Antonio Fuoco
	R8			February 14		Ed Jones	Nicholas Latifi
	R9				Max Verstappen	Antonio Fuoco	Antonio Fuoco
4	R10	Homestead-Miami Speedway RC Mod	Homestead, Florida	February 18	Lance Stroll	Antonio Fuoco	Nicholas Latifi
	R11			February 19		Ed Jones	Nicholas Latifi
	R12				Ed Jones[N 1]	Max Verstappen	Max Verstappen

Results

All races were non-championship, with no points awarded.

Driver SEB PAL HMS1 HMS2 Antonio Fuoco 2 2 1 1 11 5 1 5 1 2 4 5 Nicholas Latifi 3 NC 5 7 1 12 4 1 2 1 1 2 Max Verstappen 4 Ret 8 2 7 1 3 Ret 3 4 5 1 Dennis van de Laar 1 Ret 3 4 4 3 Ret 4 5 Ret 3 Ret Tatiana Calderón Ret 1 6 5 5 6 6 6 6 9 10† Ret Ed Jones 6 3 2 3 6 2 5 3 8 3 2 3 Raffaele Marciello 5 Ret Ret 8 2 11 2 7 4 5 Ret 4 Lance Stroll 7 4 4 6 3 4 Ret 2 7 Ret DNS DNS Alex Bosak 10 5 7 10 Ret 7 Ret 10 11 6 9† 7 Vasily Romanov 9 6 10 10 8 8 7 8 9 Ret 6 8 Takashi Kasai 11 7 11 11 9 9 8 9 10 7 8 6 Oliver Marriage 8 7 9 Ben Anderson 8 Ret 9 Will Buxton 12 10 10 Driver SEB PAL HMS1 HMS2

Color Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green 4th & 5th place (Top 5) Light Blue 6th–10th place (Top 10) Dark Blue Finished (Outside Top 10) Purple Did not finish (DNF) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Brown Withdrew (WD) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Race abandoned (C) Blank Did not participate (DNP) Driver replacement (Rpl) Injured (Inj) Race not held (NH) Not competing In-Line Notation Bold Pole position Italics Ran fastest race lap * Led most race laps miscellaneous notation Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

† — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.

Notes

1. Antonio Fuoco took pole position, but was dropped five places because of an earlier jump start. Therefore, Ed Jones was handed the pole position.

References

1. "Series info". Florida Winter Series. Retrieved 19 December 2013.
2. "FWS drivers" (PDF). ferrari.com. Retrieved 22 January 2014.

External links

• Official website