2010 World Series by Renault

2010 World Series by Renault 2009 2011 The 2010 World Series by Renault was the sixth season of Renault Sport's series of events, with four different championships racing under one banner. Consisting of the Formula Renault 3.5 Series, Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0, the Eurocup Mégane Trophy and F4 Eurocup 1.6, the World Series by Renault ran at eight different venues, http://www.automobilsport.com/formula-renault-2-0-calendar-2010-sporting-innovations-winner-finance-participation---72050.html https://web.archive.org/web/20121211034632/https://www.automobilsport.com/formula-renault-2-0-calendar-2010-sporting-innovations-winner-finance-participation---72050.html usurped 2012-12-11 Calendar 2010 and sporting innovations automobilsport.com MaP Blanca de Foronda 2010-01-15 2009-10-25 http://www.automobilsport.com/renault-megane-trophy-calendar-2010-sporting-innovations-eurocup-saturday-sunday---72051.html https://web.archive.org/web/20100116055655/http://automobilsport.com/renault-megane-trophy-calendar-2010-sporting-innovations-eurocup-saturday-sunday---72051.html usurped January 16, 2010 Sporting innovations and calendar 2010 automobilsport.com MaP Blanca de Foronda 2010-01-15 2009-10-25 where fans could get into the meetings for no cost whatsoever, such is the uniqueness of the series. The series began on 17 April at the Ciudad del Motor de Aragón in Alcañiz, and finished on 10 October at the Circuit de Catalunya, just outside Barcelona. 2010 saw the season-opening and season-closing rounds from 2009 reverse, with Catalunya hosting the season finale rather than the season opener, with the opposite occurring for Aragón. The series also visited Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Germany and the United Kingdom during the season, while Formula Renault 3.5 had an extra race on its own, in support of the 2010 Monaco in May. http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/79756 FR 3.5 calendar announced Peter Mills autosport.com Haymarket Publications 2009-10-25 2010-01-12 The F4 Eurocup – making its debut on the World Series by Renault programme in 2010 – did not visit Brno, and thus that championship's calendar was only seven rounds. http://www.autosportacademy.com/index.php?page=sais05&&ssPage=saisinfos&&codeL=gb&&id=20821 Join us! autosportacademy.com F4 Eurocup 1.6 2010-01-05 2010-01-12 2012-03-01 https://web.archive.org/web/20120301182320/http://www.autosportacademy.com/index.php?page=sais05&&ssPage=saisinfos&&codeL=gb&&id=20821 dead The Eurocup Mégane Trophy began at Spa-Francorchamps. Review Formula Renault 3.5 Series The 2010 season began with a race of attrition at Motorland Aragón, with just nine of the 24 starters running at the race's conclusion. Russian driver Mikhail Aleshin, returning to the series from a year in the FIA Formula Two Championship took the spoils ahead of rookie Daniel Zampieri and pole-sitter Daniel Ricciardo. In race two, Sten Pentus took his first victory, ahead of Jan Charouz and Ricciardo. However, Charouz was disqualified after the race due to a technical irregularity, http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/83042 Charouz excluded from second place autosport.com Haymarket Publications Peter Mills 2010-04-20 2010-04-18 which promoted Ricciardo to second place and Nathanaël Berthon to third. Aleshin took a second win in the first race at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps ahead of Pentus and Stefano Coletti. In the second race, Esteban Guerrieri took the first win for ISR Racing in the series, after taking advantage of drive-through penalties for several of his rivals. Zampieri took his second runner-up placing with Coletti again finishing third. Ricciardo took his first victory in the 2010 Monaco-supporting round, ahead of Aleshin and Epsilon Euskadi rookie Albert Costa, while Guerrieri missed the round due to budgetary concerns and was replaced by GP3 frontrunner Alexander Rossi,http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/83375 Rossi to race at Monaco in FR3.5 Autosport Haymarket Publications Peter Mills 7 May 2010 14 February 2011 who retired from the race. Guerrieri returned to the series at the next round at Brno, which hosted its first event. Guerrieri's team-mate Filip Salaquarda had qualified on pole for both races, but it was Guerrieri who led the field to the flag each time, taking his victory total for the season to three and moved himself back in the running for the championship as he lay seven points behind Aleshin. Aleshin took his third victory of the season at Magny-Cours, while Berthon picked up his only win of the season in the second race, and thus Aleshin extended his championship lead at the halfway stage, leading with 75 points to Ricciardo's 66 and Guerrieri's 59. Guerrieri's title chances hit a snag, after ISR elected to miss the meeting due to damaged chassis; Ricciardo and Aleshin took advantage scoring 20 and 22 points respectively,http://www.gpupdate.net/en/world-series-renault-news/238170/ricciardo-dominates-first-hungaroring-race/ Ricciardo dominates first Hungaroring race GPUpdate.net GPUpdate 3 July 2010 14 February 2011 while Pentus took his first victory since Aragón to move ahead of Guerrieri in the championship standings. After a two-month summer break, Hockenheim held the next round of the championship, in which Ricciardo and Guerrieri claimed the victories with Aleshin's championship lead cut to ten points over Ricciardo with Guerrieri a further sixteen behind. At Silverstone, Guerrieri took his fifth victory on the road in the opening race, but was disqualified on a technical infringement, giving victory to Ricciardo's team-mate Jean-Éric Vergne.http://www.gpupdate.net/en/world-series-renault-news/242879/vergne-wins-as-guerrieri-is-disqualified/ Vergne wins as Guerrieri is disqualified GPUpdate.net GPUpdate 18 September 2010 14 February 2011 Vergne was making only his third start in the series after replacing Brendon Hartley at Tech 1 Racing, having already secured the British Formula 3 Championship in dominant fashion. Ricciardo himself was in the wars after rolling his car just yards after the start of the race, due to a collision with Fortec Motorsport's Jon Lancaster. Guerrieri did secure his fifth win at Silverstone, taking the second race ahead of Ricciardo and Vergne and moved within 16 points of Aleshin with a round to go. In Barcelona, Ricciardo won the opening race with Aleshin second to leave both drivers going into the final race with 128 points apiece and mathematically eliminated Guerrieri from title contention. While Guerrieri won the final race ahead of Vergne, Ricciardo and Aleshin did battle over third position and the championship, with Aleshin prevailing thanks to a move with three laps to go, giving Aleshin his first major championship title. Tech 1 easily claimed the teams' championship, 72 points ahead of closest rivals ISR. Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 The series had a new look for 2010, with the introduction of the Barazi-Epsilon chassis to replace the original Tatuus chassis which had been the mainstay of Formula Renault 2.0 during the 2000s. Both season-opening races at Motorland Aragón were won by Eurocup debutant Kevin Korjus, who had moved up from the Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup over the off-season. Four other drivers appeared on the podium over the weekend, as Korjus left Spain with a 12-point championship lead. Arthur Pic took his first Eurocup win at Spa, but Korjus finished second in order to extend his championship lead over Luciano Bacheta. He extended this further, with his third win of the season at Spa. Pic dominated at Brno winning both races from pole position, as Korjus finished off the podium in both races, losing eight points to Bacheta who finished third in each race. Korjus returned to form at Magny-Cours taking his fourth win as well as a third place finish, giving him a 30-point lead over Bacheta at the midway point with Pic two points behind in third. Giovanni Venturini claimed the other race win, for his only victory of the season. Pic and Bacheta shared the wins at the Hungaroring with Pic moving into second place behind Korjus after Bacheta's 18th in the opening race, after being involved in an accident with Korjus,http://www.racecar.com/Motorsport/News/Eurocup-FR2.0-Hungaroring---Race-1/35518.htm Eurocup FR2.0 Hungaroring Race 1 Racecar Racecar New Media Services Ltd. 4 July 2010 14 February 2011 who suffered his only retirement of the season. He finished the other race in sixth – fifth-placed points due to guest driver Will Stevens finishing in fourth – and thus still held an 11-point lead over Pic, with Bacheta a further ten behind in third. It would be as close as the pair would get as Korjus unleashed a dominating finish to the championship, amassing a tally of 87 points out of a possible 90 at the final three meetings, with five wins and a second place. Bacheta took the other victory – although second on the road behind guest Javier Tarancón – but it was not until the final race before the runner-up placing was decided. Pic held a five-point advantage over Bacheta before the final race, but was decided in Bacheta's favour after Pic was disqualified for failing to observe a drive-through penalty for short-cutting a chicane while attempting to pass team-mate Carlos Sainz Jr. who was competing as a guest.http://www.renault-sport.com/en/world_series/eurocup_2000/news.php?news=138707.html Kevin Korjus finishes in style World Series by Renault Renault Sport 10 October 2010 14 February 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110206195921/http://www.renault-sport.com/en/world_series/eurocup_2000/news.php?news=138707.html 6 February 2011 dead dmy-all Eurocup Mégane Trophy The opening race of the series was cancelled after a technical problem during the start procedure. http://www.renault-sport.com/en/world_series/megane_trophy/news.php?news=128159.html First race cancelled World Series by Renault Renault Sport 2010-05-02 2010-05-01 April 2019 InternetArchiveBot yes The race was not made up, thus reducing the calendar to 13 races. Dimitri Enjalbert, the driver with the most wins in 2009, claimed the victory in the single race to be held, which was ultimately his only victory of the entire season. At Brno, Stefano Comini added a first and a second to his third from Spa, and moved into an early championship lead ahead of Pierre Thiriet and Nick Catsburg, who won the other race. Thiriet and Catsburg each won a race at Magny-Cours and the Hungaroring to move themselves ahead of Comini in the championship, who struggled to keep with the pair, amassing just ten points over the two meetings. Catsburg then dominated the rest of the season, winning four of the remaining six races with two second places to take TDS Racing's first title since Michaël Rossi in 2008. Thiriet finished second, 27 points behind Catsburg with four further podiums in the same period. Comini finished third taking the two victories that Catsburg did not take over the final three meetings. TDS easily won the teams' title, amassing nearly double the points tally of the second-placed Oregon Team. F4 Eurocup 1.6 In its only season on the World Series package, 1600cc Formula Renault cars provided two wet races in Spain, with Stoffel Vandoorne and Norman Nato sharing the race victories. Vandoorne took two wins at Spa, as he extended his championship lead yet further. Franck Matelli took his only victory of the season at Magny-Cours, while Vandoorne took his fourth win in six races to leave the meeting with a comfortable 35-point lead over Matelli. Mathieu Jaminet took both wins at the Hungaroring, as Vandoorne suffered his worst weekend of the season, amassing just eight points but with Matelli only scoring two more, Vandoorne still had a 28-point lead over Nato by the time the series returned after its summer break. A double win for Vandoorne at Hockenheim moved him within sight of the championship, which he ultimately clinched with a meeting to spare, thanks to a second place finish in the second Silverstone race, where both races were won by Paul-Loup Chatin, moving into third place in the championship in the process. Nato and Jaminet clinched second and third in the championship by each taking a win in Barcelona. Race calendar Event in light blue is not part of the World Series, but is a championship round for the Formula Renault 3.5 Series. Circuit Location Date Series Winning driver Winning team ESP Ciudad del Motor de Aragón Alcañiz, Spain 17 April FR3.5 1 RUS Mikhail Aleshin GBR Carlin FR2.0 1 EST Kevin Korjus FIN Koiranen Bros. Motorsport F4 1 FRA Norman Nato FRA Autosport Academy 18 April FR3.5 2 EST Sten Pentus GBR Fortec Motorsport FR2.0 2 EST Kevin Korjus FIN Koiranen Bros. Motorsport F4 2 BEL Stoffel Vandoorne FRA Autosport Academy BEL Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps Spa, Belgium 1 May FR3.5 3 RUS Mikhail Aleshin GBR Carlin FR2.0 3 FRA Arthur Pic FRA Tech 1 Racing EMT 1 race cancelled F4 3 BEL Stoffel Vandoorne FRA Autosport Academy 2 May FR3.5 4 ARG Esteban Guerrieri CZE ISR Racing FR2.0 4 EST Kevin Korjus FIN Koiranen Bros. Motorsport EMT 2 FRA Dimitri Enjalbert BEL Boutsen Energy Racing F4 4 BEL Stoffel Vandoorne FRA Autosport Academy MCO Circuit de Monaco Monte Carlo, Monaco 16 May FR3.5 5 AUS Daniel Ricciardo FRA Tech 1 Racing CZE Masaryk Circuit Brno, Czech Republic 5 June FR3.5 6 ARG Esteban Guerrieri CZE ISR Racing FR2.0 5 FRA Arthur Pic FRA Tech 1 Racing EMT 3 CHE Stefano Comini ITA Oregon Team 6 June FR3.5 7 ARG Esteban Guerrieri CZE ISR Racing FR2.0 6 FRA Arthur Pic FRA Tech 1 Racing EMT 4 NLD Nick Catsburg FRA TDS Racing FRA Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours Magny-Cours, France 19 June FR3.5 8 RUS Mikhail Aleshin GBR Carlin FR2.0 7 EST Kevin Korjus FIN Koiranen Bros. Motorsport EMT 5 NLD Nick Catsburg FRA TDS Racing F4 5 FRA Franck Matelli FRA Autosport Academy 20 June FR3.5 9 FRA Nathanaël Berthon ESP International DracoRacing FR2.0 8 ITA Giovanni Venturini ESP Epsilon Euskadi EMT 6 FRA Pierre Thiriet FRA TDS Racing F4 6 BEL Stoffel Vandoorne FRA Autosport Academy HUN Hungaroring Mogyoród, Hungary 3 July FR3.5 10 AUS Daniel Ricciardo FRA Tech 1 Racing FR2.0 9 FRA Arthur Pic FRA Tech 1 Racing EMT 7 FRA Pierre Thiriet FRA TDS Racing F4 7 FRA Mathieu Jaminet FRA Autosport Academy 4 July FR3.5 11 EST Sten Pentus GBR Fortec Motorsport FR2.0 10 GBR Luciano Bacheta AUT Interwetten Junior Team EMT 8 NLD Nick Catsburg FRA TDS Racing F4 8 FRA Mathieu Jaminet FRA Autosport Academy DEU Hockenheimring Hockenheim, Germany 4 September FR3.5 12 AUS Daniel Ricciardo FRA Tech 1 Racing FR2.0 11 EST Kevin Korjus FIN Koiranen Bros. Motorsport EMT 9 NLD Nick Catsburg FRA TDS Racing F4 9 BEL Stoffel Vandoorne FRA Autosport Academy 5 September FR3.5 13 ARG Esteban Guerrieri CZE ISR Racing FR2.0 12 EST Kevin Korjus FIN Koiranen Bros. Motorsport EMT 10 CHE Stefano Comini ITA Oregon Racing F4 10 BEL Stoffel Vandoorne FRA Autosport Academy GBR Silverstone Circuit Silverstone, United Kingdom 18 September FR3.5 14 FRA Jean-Éric Vergne FRA Tech 1 Racing FR2.0 13 EST Kevin Korjus FIN Koiranen Bros. Motorsport EMT 11 CHE Stefano Comini ITA Oregon Racing F4 11 FRA Paul-Loup Chatin FRA Autosport Academy 19 September FR3.5 15 ARG Esteban Guerrieri CZE ISR Racing FR2.0 14 ESP Javier Tarancón ESP Epsilon Euskadi EMT 12 NLD Nick Catsburg FRA TDS Racing F4 12 FRA Paul-Loup Chatin FRA Autosport Academy ESP Circuit de Catalunya Montmeló, Spain 9 October FR3.5 16 AUS Daniel Ricciardo FRA Tech 1 Racing FR2.0 15 EST Kevin Korjus FIN Koiranen Bros. Motorsport EMT 13 NLD Nick Catsburg FRA TDS Racing F4 13 FRA Mathieu Jaminet FRA Autosport Academy 10 October FR3.5 17 ARG Esteban Guerrieri CZE ISR Racing FR2.0 16 EST Kevin Korjus FIN Koiranen Bros. Motorsport EMT 14 NLD Nick Catsburg FRA TDS Racing F4 14 FRA Norman Nato FRA Autosport Academy Icon Championship FR3.5 Formula Renault 3.5 Series FR2.0 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 EMT Eurocup Mégane Trophy F4 F4 Eurocup 1.6 Championships Formula Renault 3.5 Series 2010 Formula Renault 3.5 Series season Pos. Driver Team Points 1 RUS Mikhail Aleshin GBR Carlin 138 2 AUS Daniel Ricciardo FRA Tech 1 Racing 136 3 ARG Esteban Guerrieri CZE ISR Racing 123 4 EST Sten Pentus GBR Fortec Motorsport 78 5 ESP Albert Costa ESP Epsilon Euskadi 78 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 2010 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season Pos. Driver Team Points 1 EST Kevin Korjus FIN Koiranen Bros. Motorsport 187 2 GBR Luciano Bacheta AUT Interwetten Junior Team 124 3 FRA Arthur Pic FRA Tech 1 Racing 123 4 FIN Aaro Vainio FRA Tech 1 Racing 101 5 ITA Giovanni Venturini ESP Epsilon Euskadi 76 Eurocup Mégane Trophy 2010 Eurocup Mégane Trophy season Pos. Driver Team Points 1 NLD Nick Catsburg FRA TDS Racing 161 2 FRA Pierre Thiriet FRA TDS Racing 134 3 CHE Stefano Comini ITA Oregon Team 107 4 NLD Bas Schothorst NLD McGregor by Equipe Verschuur 88 5 FRA Dimitri Enjalbert BEL Boutsen Energy Racing 67 F4 Eurocup 1.6 2010 F4 Eurocup 1.6 season Pos. Driver Team Points 1 BEL Stoffel Vandoorne FRA Autosport Academy 159 2 FRA Norman Nato FRA Autosport Academy 123 3 FRA Mathieu Jaminet FRA Autosport Academy 112 4 FRA Paul-Loup Chatin FRA Autosport Academy 103 5 FRA Franck Matelli FRA Autosport Academy 96 References Linked articles contain additional references. External links Official website of the World Series by Renault Category:Renault Sport Series seasons