2003 Formula Renault UK season

The 2003 Formula Renault UK season was the 15th British Formula Renault Championship. The season began at Snetterton on 19 April and ended on 21 September at Oulton Park, after seventeen rounds held in England, with 5 events only staging one race and the rest staging two.

Main Series

Teams and drivers

Team	No	Driver	Rounds
Fortec Motorsport	1	Robert Scott	All
	26	Mike Conway	All
	38	Ronayne O'Mahoney	1–2, 5–11
	43	James Murphy	1–8
		Fulvio Mussi	9
		Luca Filippi	10
	46	James Rossiter	All
	83	Tom Tremayne	3
Team DFR	2	Barry Sime	1
		Aaron Stroud	6, 10
		Jonathan Adam	7, 9, 11
	10	Stefan Söderberg	All
Manor Motorsport	3	Lewis Hamilton	1–10
	4	Sérgio Jimenez	1–10
		Allam Khodair	11
	5	Matthew Wilson	All
	66	Fabian Coulthard	1–8
		Ryan Lewis	9, 11
		Andrew Ranger	10
Team JVA	6	Charles Hollings	All
	7	Phil Glew	1–4
		Paul di Resta	8–11
	8	Vasilije Calasan	1–9
	18	Juan Manuel Polar	1–4, 8–11
Jensen Motorsport	9	Paul Lau	1
		Wayne Clarke	2–5
		Jensen Lunn	6
		Jamie Morrow	7, 10
		Neil Doran	8–9
		Shane Kelly	11
	19	Fulvio Mussi	2–8, 10
Eurotek Motorsport	10	Tim Sisley	1–9
	11	Paul di Resta	1–7
	24	Mark McLoughlin	8
		Vitaly Petrov	10
Paston Racing	12	Brandon Thomas	2–11
	20	Ben Reeves	2–11
Motaworld Racing	14	Matteo Meneghello	2–10
	15	Susie Stoddart	All
	16	Brandon Thomas	All
	17	Alex Lloyd	All
Mark Burdett Motorsport	21	Jason Tahinci	All
	22	Alexander Storckenfeldt	All
Hill Speed Racing	23	Cheng Congfu	6–11
Scorpio Motorsport	25	David Epton	All
	88	James Gornall	5
Falcon Motorsport	27	Nik Goodfellow	1–2
		John Byrne	4, 6–11
Welch Motorsport	34	Daniel Welch	2–5, 7–11
Status Motorsport	55	Phillip Kershaw	1–10

Race calendar and results

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning driver	Winning team
1	R1	Snetterton Circuit, Norfolk	19 April	Lewis Hamilton	Mike Conway	Mike Conway	Fortec Motorsport
	R2		20 April		Mike Conway	Alex Lloyd	Motaworld Racing
2	R3	Brands Hatch (Indy), Kent	5 May	Tom Sisley	Mike Conway	Tom Sisley	Eurotek Motorsport
3	R4	Thruxton Circuit, Hampshire	26 May	James Rossiter	Lewis Hamilton	James Rossiter	Fortec Motorsport
4	R5	Silverstone Circuit (International), Northamptonshire	8 June	Tom Sisley	Tom Sisley	Lewis Hamilton	Manor Motorsport
5	R6	Rockingham Motor Speedway, Northamptonshire	22 June	Lewis Hamilton	Lewis Hamilton	Lewis Hamilton	Manor Motorsport
6	R7	Croft Circuit, North Yorkshire	12 July	Lewis Hamilton	Brandon Thomas	Lewis Hamilton	Manor Motorsport
	R8		13 July		Lewis Hamilton	Lewis Hamilton	Manor Motorsport
7	R9	Donington Park (GP), Leicestershire	26 July	Lewis Hamilton	Brandon Thomas	Tom Sisley	Eurotek Motorsport
	R10		27 July		Lewis Hamilton	Lewis Hamilton	Manor Motorsport
8	R11	Snetterton Circuit, Norfolk	9 August	Lewis Hamilton	Lewis Hamilton	Lewis Hamilton	Manor Motorsport
9	R12	Brands Hatch (Indy), Kent	24 August	Lewis Hamilton	Lewis Hamilton	Lewis Hamilton	Manor Motorsport
	R13		25 August		Lewis Hamilton	Lewis Hamilton	Manor Motorsport
10	R14	Donington Park (National), Leicestershire	9 September	Lewis Hamilton	Lewis Hamilton	Lewis Hamilton	Manor Motorsport
	R15		10 September		Lewis Hamilton	Lewis Hamilton	Manor Motorsport
11	R16	Oulton Park (Island), Cheshire	20 September	Paul di Resta	Mike Conway	Paul di Resta	Eurotek Motorsport
	R17		21 September		Paul di Resta	Alex Lloyd	Motaworld Racing

Drivers' Championship

• Points were awarded on a 32-28-25-22-20-18-16-14-12-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis, with 1 point for fastest lap. A driver's 15 best results counted towards the championship.

Pos Driver SNE BRH THR SIL ROC CRO DON SNE BRH DON OUL Pts 1 Lewis Hamilton 2 3 Ret 2 1 1 1 1 Ret 1 1 1 1 1 1 419 2 Alex Lloyd 4 1 2 5 4 3 3 4 2 4 Ret 2 3 7 5 5 1 371 3 James Rossiter 3 4 5 1 3 2 Ret 2 3 3 2 3 4 2 24 DNS 8 347 4 Mike Conway 1 2 3 4 11 8 7 7 11 5 23 5 5 6 23 2 3 312 5 Tom Sisley 5 7 1 7 2 4 6 5 1 2 4 17 2 288 6 Stefan Söderberg 6 6 8 3 12 6 12 10 5 12 5 10 8 5 3 11 4 255 7 Paul di Resta 8 22 6 13 13 Ret 10 9 6 9 6 8 6 19 6 1 2 233 8 Brandon Thomas 9 10 Ret 6 7 5 2 3 7 11 12 7 Ret 3 Ret Ret 10 221 9 Susie Stoddart 10 9 12 11 Ret 7 13 11 9 10 3 4 7 Ret 4 10 5 215 10 Alexander Storckenfeldt 18 15 7 Ret 6 11 8 12 15 14 14 9 17 4 2 3 Ret 187 11 Sérgio Jimenez 13 12 Ret 12 8 Ret 4 6 4 8 7 6 Ret DNS DNS 150 12 Robert Scott 11 13 10 8 5 17 9 Ret Ret 13 Ret Ret Ret 9 7 Ret 6 133 13 Charles Hollings 16 Ret 11 14 14 9 18 15 10 15 Ret 14 15 16 13 4 12 124 14 Matteo Meneghello 14 9 Ret 24 11 14 8 7 9 11 9 10 11 121 15 Fabian Coulthard 7 8 9 Ret 9 10 14 13 Ret 6 25 98 16 James Murphy Ret 5 Ret 15 10 12 5 8 Ret 16 10 96 17 David Epton 14 17 13 18 Ret 16 Ret 21 13 Ret 20 18 10 11 12 Ret 7 85 18 Matthew Wilson 19 16 Ret 16 17 13 16 17 12 21 13 12 11 Ret 22 Ret 13 77 19 John Byrne 23 24 22 17 24 18 13 16 8 9 7 Ret 62 20 Phil Glew 12 11 4 10 Ret 52 21 Jason Tahinci 20 14 Ret Ret 22 19 15 16 18 18 16 Ret 22 Ret 17 15 14 49 22 Daniel Welch Ret 17 Ret Ret NC 17 11 15 23 Ret 16 6 Ret 47 23 Juan Manuel Polar 15 Ret Ret 23 19 Ret 24 12 Ret 14 16 11 39 24 Phillip Kershaw Ret 19 Ret 20 Ret Ret 17 Ret 16 Ret 17 16 13 15 Ret 35 25 Brandon Thomas 18 22 21 23 19 18 14 19 Ret 22 21 Ret 18 8 Ret 34 26 Ben Reeves Ret Ret 16 15 23 19 Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret 17 19 9 Ret 31 27 Ronayne O'Mahony 22 23 DNS 20 20 23 20 23 15 20 20 13 Ret 14 Ret 26 28 Vitaly Petrov 12 8 23 29 Allam Khodair 13 9 20 30 Cheng Congfu Ret Ret 21 21 18 21 15 17 15 19 31 Andrew Ranger 14 10 18 32 Mark McLoughlin 8 14 33 Jonathan Adam 21 22 19 19 12 Ret 13 34 Wayne Clarke 16 24 15 22 11 35 Vasilije Calasan 21 21 17 21 20 18 22 20 Ret 20 22 DNS DNS 10 36 Fulvio Mussi DNS 19 18 21 21 Ret 19 Ret 24 DNS DNS 22 20 8 37 James Gornall 14 7 38 Ryan Lewis Ret 14 Ret Ret 7 39 Nik Goodfellow 23 20 15 7 40 Barry Sime 17 18 7 41 Aaron Stroud 25 Ret 18 Ret 3 42 Neil Doran 19 23 Ret 2 43 Shane Kelly 20 21 1  – Jamie Morrow Ret Ret DNS DNS 0  – Paul Lau Ret DNS 0  – Jensen Lunn Ret DNS 0  – Luca Filippi Ret DNS 0  – Tom Tremayne DNS 0 Pos Driver SNE BRH THR SIL ROC CRO DON SNE BRH DON OUL Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Did not finish (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 Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

Winter Series

Teams and drivers

Team	No	Driver	Rounds
Manor Motorsport	1	Rodolfo González	All
	2	Jonathan Kennard	All
	3	John Byrne	All
	5	Pippa Mann	All
Fortec Motorsport	4	Mike Conway	All
	16	Danny Bleek	1
		James Gornall	2
	19	Yelmer Buurman	All
	27	Stuart Hall	All
Team Nasamax	6	Dean Stirling	All
Falcon Motorsport	7	Paul Rees	All
	29	Alex Buncombe	All
Comtec Racing	8	Westley Barber	All
Team JLR	9	James Jakes	All
	10	Tom Kimber-Smith	All
Team JVA	11	Matt Harris	All
	12	Brandon Thomas	All
	14	Sean Edwards	All
Team Firstair	15	James Murphy	All
	24	Sean McIntosh	All
Team DFR	17	Patrick Hogan	All
	20	Stefan Söderberg	All
Eurotek Motorsport	18	Jay Howard	All
	43	Vitaly Petrov	1
		Ruben Carrapatoso	2
	44	Luca Filippi	1
		Marc McLoughlin	2
Motaworld Racing	21	Joey Foster	All
	25	Susie Stoddart	All
	26	Tim Bridgman	All
	28	Oliver Jarvis	All
Mark Burdett Motorsport	22	Oliver Turvey	All
	30	Juan Manuel Polar	All
2Win	23	Stephanie Boden	1
Welch Motorsport	33	Matt Nicoll-Jones	All
Hillspeed Racing	39	Josh Weber	All
tatus Motorsport	55	Mauricio Godanez	All
Virtulli Racing	88	Michael Virtulli	All

Race calendar and results

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning driver	Winning team
1	H1	Donington Park (GP), Leicestershire	25 October	Mike Conway	Mike Conway	Mike Conway	Fortec Motorsport
	H2			Joey Foster	John Byrne	Jay Howard	Eurotek Motorsport
	LC		26 October	James Jakes	Joey Foster	Joey Foster	Motaworld Racing
	F			Mike Conway	Vitaly Petrov	Vitaly Petrov	Eurotek Motorsport
2	H1	Croft Circuit, North Yorkshire	1 November	Joey Foster	Ruben Carrapatoso	Westley Barber	Comtec Racing
	H2			Yelmer Buurman	Yelmer Buurman	Yelmer Buurman	Fortec Motorsport
	LC			James Jakes	John Byrne	John Byrne	Manor Motorsport
	F			Westley Barber	Westley Barber	Westley Barber	Comtec Racing

Drivers' Championship

Pos Driver DON CRO Pts H1 H2 LC F H1 H2 LC F 1 Jay Howard 1 2 5 5 57 2 Westley Barber 6 11 1 1 52 3 Yelmer Buurman 5 8 1 3 49 4 Vitaly Petrov 2 1 44 5 Alex Buncombe 3 5 2 6 44 6 Joey Foster Ret 1 14 3 2 34 7 Stefan Söderberg 2 3 13 2 Ret 32 8 Mike Conway 1 DNS 2 Ret 29 9 James Murphy 4 4 6 12 29 10 Tim Bridgman 3 6 4 Ret 29 11 Sean McIntosh 4 7 7 7 28 12 Brandon Thomas 8 13 4 4 27 13 John Byrne 6 10 11 1 8 15 14 Oliver Jarvis 5 9 6 Ret 15 15 Tom Kimber-Smith 7 12 3 13 14 16 Marc McLoughlin 8 9 7 17 Susie Stoddart Ret 2 16 5 Ret 6 18 Oliver Turvey 9 18 7 17 6 19 Rodolfo González 9 17 9 10 6 20 Dean Stirling 7 Ret 16 13 DNS 4 21 Ruben Carrapatoso 9 Ret 4 22 Pippa Mann 8 27 15 14 DNS 3 23 Sean Edwards Ret 4 23 8 18 3 24 Patrick Hogan 10 Ret 13 3 Ret 1 25 Michael Virtulli 10 26 16 12 DNS 1 26 Josh Weber Ret 5 19 10 Ret 1 27 Matt Nicoll-Jones Ret Ret DNS 10 Ret 1 James Jakes 11 3 24 11 4 14 0 Stuart Hall Ret 6 15 Ret 6 11 0 Matt Harris 12 9 25 12 7 16 0 Jonathan Kennard Ret 11 21 12 9 DNS 0 Juan Manuel Polar Ret Ret DNS 14 5 Ret 0 Paul Rees Ret 12 DNS 14 10 DNS 0 James Gornall 15 8 15 0 Mauricio Godanez Ret 10 20 17 11 DNS 0 Stephanie Boden Ret 8 22 0 Luca Filippi Ret 7 Ret 0 Danny Bleek Ret 13 DNS 0 Pos Driver H1 H2 LC F H1 H2 LC F Pts DON CRO

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Did not finish (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 Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

External links

• The official website of the Formula Renault UK Championship