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Euroformula Open Championship

Logo Euroformula Open.png
Euroformula Open logo

CategorySingle seaters
CountryEurope
Inaugural season2001
Drivers42 (2013)
Teams10 (2013)
ConstructorsDallara
Engine suppliers
Toyota[1]
Tyre suppliers
Michelin[2]
Drivers' champion
Brazil Felipe Drugovich
Teams' champion
Italy RP Motorsport
Official websitehttp://www.euroformulaopen.net/

Motorsport current event.svgCurrent season

The Euroformula Open Championship (formerly the Spanish Formula Three Championship, European F3 Open Championship) is a junior formula racing series based in Spain. It is one of six national and international Formula Three championships in Europe and Scandinavia that together form an important part of the established "career ladder" below Formula One. The championship's first season was held in 2001. In 2006, it was branded as the Spanish F3 Championship by Toyota, in deference to its sole engine supplier.




Contents





  • 1 Profile


  • 2 Sub-divisions


  • 3 Equipment


  • 4 F1 tests


  • 5 Venues


  • 6 Results

    • 6.1 Spanish Formula Three


    • 6.2 European F3 Open


    • 6.3 Euroformula Open



  • 7 References


  • 8 External links




Profile[edit]


The Spanish Formula Three Championship was formed during Spain's recent growth period in motor racing that began with the Euro Open Movistar by Nissan, which eventually became the World Series by Renault when the two companies' motor racing programs were reorganised. The new championship replaced the previously existing Super Formula Toyota, a one-make series with performance similar to F3.


The European F3 Open championship has become successful by actively taking measures to control budget requirements. This provides a more achievable option for drivers who lack the major sponsorship portfolio that is required by leading Euroseries teams, and would otherwise have to look elsewhere for their next step up the career ladder.


With Renault's backing, the World Series has developed into a championship from which drivers can reach Formula One, and three major Spanish teams are established in GP2.[3] This has fostered new opportunities for the graduates of Spanish F3, which has, in turn, made the championship itself a success.[4]


In recent years the Championship has become much less centred in Spain, with races across Europe, and has successfully attracted famous non-Spanish teams to take part. The first was the British outfit Team West-Tec who went on to win two Driver's Championship titles in their first three seasons, and which were followed a year later by Italy's RP Motorsport who have won races each year since joining.


The championship was renamed to Euroformula Open Championship for 2014, after the FIA restricted the use of the Formula Three name to championships that do not follow the current engine regulations.[5]



Sub-divisions[edit]


Like British Formula Three, the series incorporates a second championship class for chassis specifications from the previous generation. The Copa was created in 2005, and provides an opportunity for drivers without competitive budgets, who would otherwise be left unable to progress from cheaper formulae. The name is derived from the chassis specification that all Copa entrants must use: the Dallara F308.



Equipment[edit]


The European F3 Open Championship employs an approach to chassis and engine choice that is also used in Asian F3, in which the open Formula Three system of multiple chassis and engine manufacturers is rejected in favour of a single choice of supplier. All competitors must use Toyota's F3 engine upgraded by the Spanish motorsport Engineering Company Piedrafita Sport, and chassis from the ubiquitous Italian constructor, Dallara. Championship-class competitors generally use a chassis specification from the current generation, the Dallara F312. Copa Class competitors use the previous version, the Dallara F308.[6]



F1 tests[edit]


The exclusive use of the Toyota engine prompted Toyota to offer a Formula One test to each year's champion. The first driver to benefit from this was 2004 champion Borja García, who later graduated to GP2.[7] The F1 prize test is likely to be revived for the 2010 Champion.



Venues[edit]


Between 2001 and 2005, the Spanish F3 Championship had seven rounds, each with two races. Exceptions to this included the Valencia round in 2002 and the Jerez round in 2003, each of which had only one race, and Albacete, which held a single-race event in addition to its regular two-race event in 2005.


In every season from its inception until 2007, the championship made a regular visit to Estoril in Portugal. The 2006 season, which was expanded to eight rounds, included the championship's first visit to Magny-Cours in France.[8]


Since 2008 many circuits from further afield have been added to the schedule including visits to Magny Cours, Donnington Park and Brands Hatch with major European motorsport venues including Spa, Monza, Silverstone and Hungaroring hosting rounds of the 2014 season as the series expands further into Europe.



Results[edit]



Spanish Formula Three[edit]



















































































Season
Champion
Second
Third
Team Champion
Secondary Class Champion

2001

Spain Ander Vilariño

Spain Daniel Martin

Spain José Manuel Pérez-Aicart

Spain Racing Engineering

J: Spain Juan Antonio del Pino

2002

Spain Marcel Costa

France Lucas Lasserre

Spain Borja García

Spain Racing Engineering

J: Spain Andy Soucek

2003

Brazil Ricardo Maurício

Spain Daniel Martin

Spain Borja García

Spain Racing Engineering

J: Argentina Ricardo Risatti
TI: Spain Borja García

2004

Spain Borja García

Portugal Manuel Gião

United Kingdom Steven Kane

Spain Racing Engineering

J: Spain Javier Villa
TI: Spain Borja García

2005

Spain Andy Soucek

Spain José Manuel Pérez-Aicart

Argentina Ricardo Risatti

Spain Racing Engineering

C: Spain Arturo Llobell
TI: Spain Andy Soucek

2006

Argentina Ricardo Risatti

Spain Roldán Rodríguez

Spain Máximo Cortés

Spain Racing Engineering

C: Spain Germán Sánchez
TI: Spain Roldán Rodríguez

2007

Spain Máximo Cortés

Spain Marco Barba

France Nicolas Prost

Spain Escuderia TEC-Auto

C: Norway Christian Ebbesvik

2008

Spain Germán Sánchez

France Nelson Panciatici

Switzerland Natacha Gachnang

Spain Campos F3 Racing

C: Switzerland Natacha Gachnang
not held in 2009-2013, restored in 2014 as different standings of the Euroformula Open

2014

Thailand Sandy Stuvik

Spain Álex Palou

Poland Artur Janosz

Italy RP Motorsport

C: Italy Costantino Peroni

2015

Russia Konstantin Tereshchenko

Brazil Vitor Baptista

Japan Yu Kanamaru

Spain Campos Racing

not awarded

2016

Italy Leonardo Pulcini

United States Colton Herta

Austria Ferdinand Habsburg

Spain Campos Racing

2017

Canada Devlin DeFrancesco

India Ameya Vaidyanathan

Finland Simo Laaksonen

Italy RP Motorsport

2018

Brazil Felipe Drugovich

Netherlands Bent Viscaal

United States Cameron Das

Italy RP Motorsport


European F3 Open[edit]






































Season
Champion
Second
Third
Team Champion
Secondary Class Champion

2009

Spain Bruno Méndez

Spain Celso Míguez

Italy Stefano Bizzarri

Spain Campos Racing

C: United Kingdom Callum MacLeod

2010

Spain Marco Barba

United Kingdom Callum MacLeod

Italy David Fumanelli

Lebanon Cedars Motorsport

C: Lebanon Noel Jammal

2011

Switzerland Alex Fontana

Italy David Fumanelli

Brazil Fabio Gamberini

United Kingdom Team West-Tec

C: Brazil Fabio Gamberini

2012

Italy Niccolò Schirò

Canada Gianmarco Raimondo

Sweden Måns Grenhagen

Italy RP Motorsport

C: Italy Kevin Giovesi

2013

United Arab Emirates Ed Jones

Thailand Sandy Stuvik

Canada Nelson Mason

Italy RP Motorsport

C: Slovakia Richard Gonda


Euroformula Open[edit]






































Season
Champion
Second
Third
Team Champion
Secondary Class Champion

2014

Thailand Sandy Stuvik

Poland Artur Janosz

Spain Álex Palou

Italy RP Motorsport

C: Italy Costantino Peroni

2015

Brazil Vitor Baptista

Russia Konstantin Tereshchenko

Japan Yu Kanamaru

Italy RP Motorsport

not awarded

2016

Italy Leonardo Pulcini

Austria Ferdinand Habsburg

United States Colton Herta

Spain Campos Racing

R: Austria Ferdinand Habsburg

2017

United Kingdom Harrison Scott

Russia Nikita Troitskiy

Canada Devlin DeFrancesco

Italy RP Motorsport

R: Russia Nikita Troitskiy

2018

Brazil Felipe Drugovich

Netherlands Bent Viscaal

Argentina Marcos Siebert

Italy RP Motorsport

R: Netherlands Bent Viscaal


References[edit]




  1. ^ http://www.gtsport.es/resources/uploads/Documents/EuropeanF3Open/2010%20%20TR%20%20European%20F3%20Open%20-%20revisado%2005.01.10%20RFEA.pdf


  2. ^ "Michelin becomes the new tire supplier of the Euroformula Open". automobilsport.com. 2 February 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2015..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em


  3. ^ Racing Engineering Season Preview F1prospects.com, April 8, 2006. Retrieved on February 2, 2007.


  4. ^ Over the Weekend – April 29–30, 2006 Archived 2007-03-01 at the Wayback Machine. F1prospects.com, May 1, 2006. Retrieved on February 2, 2007.


  5. ^ "The Euroformula Open is born!". Euroformula Open Championship. GT Sport. 14 February 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2014.


  6. ^ 2004 Spanish F3 Entry List, Speedsportmag.com. Retrieved on February 2, 2007.


  7. ^ Toyota F1 test for Spanish champ Autosport-atlas.com, January 28, 2005. Retrieved on February 2, 2007.


  8. ^ 2006 Spanish F3 Calendar Archived 2007-03-24 at the Wayback Machine. Formula3.cc, November 26, 2005. Retrieved on February 2, 2007.




External links[edit]


  • Euruformula Open Official Website

  • Speedsport on Spanish F3

  • Formula3.cc

  • European F3 Open Championship at forix.com









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