2011 British Formula Three season

The 2011 Cooper Tires British Formula Three International Series is the 61st British Formula Three Championship season. The season began on 16 April at Monza in Italy and will end on 9 October at Silverstone after 30 races to be held at ten meetings. Of those meetings, six are held in the United Kingdom, with overseas rounds at Monza, the Nürburgring in Germany, Paul Ricard in France, and Spa in Belgium.

Brazilian driver Felipe Nasr dominated the series, winning seven races and recording 16 top three finishes over the first eight rounds of the series, putting him 123 points ahead of Nasr's Carlin Motorsport team mate, Danish driver Kevin Magnussen, giving him an unassailable lead in the championship with two rounds still in hand.^[1]

Regulation changes

A number of changes were announced for the season, with pit-stops set to be introduced in the third race of each round,^[2] but this plan was later abandoned in July 2011.^[3] The championship's class system – Championship and National – was also renamed to the International and Rookie Championships. The Rookie winner will receive a fully paid entry to the 2012 International Championship.^[2]

Drivers and teams

Team No. Driver Class Chassis Engine Rounds Carlin 1 Carlos Huertas[4] Int Dallara F308 Volkswagen All 2 Kevin Magnussen[5] Int Dallara F308 Volkswagen All 21 Rupert Svendsen-Cook[6] Int Dallara F308 Volkswagen All 22 Jazeman Jaafar[7] Int Dallara F308 Volkswagen All 31 Felipe Nasr[8] Int Dallara F308 Volkswagen All 32 Jack Harvey[9] Int Dallara F308 Volkswagen All Fortec Motorsport 3 William Buller[10] Int Dallara F311 Mercedes HWA All 4 Lucas Foresti[11] Int Dallara F311 Mercedes HWA All 23 Harry Tincknell[12] Int Dallara F311 Mercedes HWA All 24 Fahmi Ilyas[13] Int Dallara F311 Mercedes HWA All Double R Racing[14] 5 Pipo Derani[15] Int Dallara F308 Mercedes HWA All 6 Scott Pye[16] Int Dallara F308 Mercedes HWA All 26 Valtteri Bottas[17] Int Dallara F308 Mercedes HWA 9 Mitch Evans[18] 10 77 Marko Asmer[19] Inv Dallara F308 Mercedes HWA 7 Hitech Racing 7 Pietro Fantin[20] Int Dallara F308 Volkswagen All 8 Riki Christodoulou[13] Int Dallara F310 Volkswagen 1–3 António Félix da Costa[21] 5–6 Max Snegirev[22] 4 Dallara F308 9–10 27 Bruno Méndez[13] Int Dallara F308 Volkswagen 1 Pedro Nunes[21] 5 42 Kotaro Sakurai[23] R Dallara F307 Mugen-Honda 1 Dallara F305 2–10 77 Guilherme Silva[18] Inv Dallara F308 Volkswagen 10 Sino Vision Racing 11 Hywel Lloyd[24] Int Dallara F308 Mercedes HWA All 12 Adderly Fong[25] Int Dallara F308 Mercedes HWA All T-Sport 15 Yann Cunha[26] Int Dallara F311 Volkswagen[26] All 16 Menasheh Idafar[27] Int Dallara F311 Volkswagen[27] All 17 Bart Hylkema[28][29] Int Dallara F311 Volkswagen 6–10 41 R Dallara F307 Mugen-Honda 1–5 Motopark[18] 18 Alexander Sims[18] Int Dallara F308 Volkswagen 10 Team West-Tec 44 Luca Orlandi[30] R Dallara F307 Mugen-Honda 8 Van Amersfoort Racing[19] 92 Hannes van Asseldonk[19] Inv Dallara F308 Volkswagen 7 Signature[19] 93 Daniel Abt[19] Inv Dallara F308 Volkswagen 7 94 Carlos Muñoz[19] Inv Dallara F308 Volkswagen 7 95 Laurens Vanthoor[19] Inv Dallara F309 Volkswagen 7 96 Marco Wittmann[19] Inv Dallara F308 Volkswagen 7 Prema Powerteam[19] 97 Raffaele Marciello[19] Inv Dallara F308 Mercedes HWA 7 98 Roberto Merhi[19] Inv Dallara F308 Mercedes HWA 7 99 Daniel Juncadella[19] Inv Dallara F309 Mercedes HWA 7

Icon Championship Int International R Rookie Inv Invitation

Driver changes

Changed Teams

• William Buller will change teams for his second season in British F3 moving from Hitech Racing to Fortec Motorsport. Lucas Foresti will also join Fortec Motorsport, having completed his rookie season with Carlin.
• After driving for Räikkönen Robertson Racing in 2010, Carlos Huertas and Felipe Nasr will join Carlin.
• After three seasons with his family-run CF Racing outfit, Hywel Lloyd will move to Sino Vision Racing to partner Adderly Fong.

Entering/Re-Entering British Formula Three

• After finishing runner-up to Robin Frijns in Formula BMW Europe, Jack Harvey will move to Carlin. Another Formula BMW Europe graduate, Fahmi Ilyas will compete with Fortec Motorsport.
• Kevin Magnussen and Pipo Derani will move from the Motopark Academy team that competes in German F3 to compete in the championship. Magnussen will drive for Carlin, while Derani will race for Double R Racing.
• Formula Three Sudamericana champion Yann Cunha will move into the series full-time and will partner National class champion Menasheh Idafar at T-Sport. Cunha competed at the second Silverstone meeting with CF Racing in 2010.
• After two seasons in Formula Renault UK, Harry Tincknell will compete for Fortec Motorsport.
• Bart Hylkema will move into the series from the Formula Renault Eurocup, to compete in the secondary Rookie Cup for T-Sport. He will be joined in the Rookie Cup by Kotaro Sakurai, who will move from the now-defunct Formula BMW Pacific series to compete for Hitech Racing.
• Pietro Fantin will move into the series from Formula Three Sudamericana. He will compete for Hitech Racing, the team he raced for in three meetings in 2010 when he was competing in the Invitation Class. He will be joined by Formula Renault UK race-winner Riki Christodoulou, who returns to the championship after a season's absence, and Bruno Méndez, who competed in Formula Renault 3.5 in 2010.
• British Formula Ford champion Scott Pye will move into the championship, driving for Double R Racing.

Leaving British Formula Three

• After contesting a part season in Formula Renault 3.5 for Tech 1 Racing outwith commitments in British F3, 2010 champion Jean-Éric Vergne will move into the series full-time with Carlin. Third-placed Oliver Webb and ninth-placed Daniel McKenzie will also move into the series for Pons Racing and Comtec Racing respectively.
• Runner-up in 2010, James Calado will move into the GP3 Series with ART Grand Prix.
• Daisuke Nakajima will return to his native Japan to compete in Formula Nippon, having finished in eleventh place for Räikkönen Robertson Racing.
• Alex Brundle will return to Formula Two, having competed in the series' inaugural season in 2009. He will be joined by Max Snegirev and National Class runner-up James Cole.

Race calendar and results

• A provisional ten-round calendar was announced on 16 October 2010,^[31] before this was altered again on 26 November 2010.^[32] The Nürburgring meeting was moved from September to July on 4 February 2011.^[33] The first and third races at the Spa-Francorchamps round were also points-scoring for the FIA Formula 3 International Trophy.

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team	Supporting
1	R1	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	16 April	William Buller	Felipe Nasr	Felipe Nasr	Carlin	Blancpain Endurance Series
	R2		17 April		William Buller	Rupert Svendsen-Cook	Carlin
	R3			William Buller	Felipe Nasr	Felipe Nasr	Carlin
2	R1	Oulton Park	23 April	Lucas Foresti	Lucas Foresti	Lucas Foresti	Fortec Motorsport	British GT
	R2		25 April		Pietro Fantin	Riki Christodoulou	Hitech Racing
	R3			Felipe Nasr	Lucas Foresti	Felipe Nasr	Carlin
3	R1	Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit	14 May	Felipe Nasr	Felipe Nasr	Kevin Magnussen	Carlin	British GT
	R2		15 May		Kevin Magnussen	Lucas Foresti	Fortec Motorsport
	R3			Felipe Nasr	Felipe Nasr	Kevin Magnussen	Carlin
4	R1	Brands Hatch	18 June	Rupert Svendsen-Cook	William Buller	Lucas Foresti	Fortec Motorsport	British GT
	R2		19 June		William Buller	Harry Tincknell	Fortec Motorsport
	R3			Rupert Svendsen-Cook	Kevin Magnussen	Felipe Nasr	Carlin
5	R1	Nürburgring	2 July	Kevin Magnussen	Kevin Magnussen	Kevin Magnussen	Carlin	FIA Formula Two/AvD 100 Meilen
	R2		3 July		Jack Harvey	Jack Harvey	Carlin
	R3			Kevin Magnussen	Kevin Magnussen	Felipe Nasr	Carlin
6	R1	Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet	16 July	Kevin Magnussen	Felipe Nasr	Felipe Nasr	Carlin	FIA GT1 World Championship
	R2		17 July		William Buller	William Buller	Fortec Motorsport
	R3			Kevin Magnussen	António Félix da Costa	Felipe Nasr	Carlin
7	R1	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	29 July	Roberto Merhi	Kevin Magnussen1	Roberto Merhi	Prema Powerteam	24 Hours of Spa
	R2				Rupert Svendsen-Cook2	Kevin Magnussen	Carlin
	R3		30 July	Roberto Merhi	Felipe Nasr1	Roberto Merhi	Prema Powerteam
8	R1	Rockingham Motor Speedway	3 September	Pietro Fantin	Felipe Nasr	Pietro Fantin	Hitech Racing	British GT
	R2		4 September		Felipe Nasr	Scott Pye	Double R Racing
	R3			Pietro Fantin	Pietro Fantin	Kevin Magnussen	Carlin
9	R1	Donington Park	24 September	Rupert Svendsen-Cook	Kevin Magnussen	Rupert Svendsen-Cook	Carlin	British GT
	R2		25 September		Felipe Nasr	Valtteri Bottas	Double R Racing
	R3			Felipe Nasr	Valtteri Bottas	Kevin Magnussen	Carlin
10	R1	Silverstone Circuit	8 October	Kevin Magnussen	Kevin Magnussen	Kevin Magnussen	Carlin	British GT
	R2		9 October		Kevin Magnussen	Alexander Sims	Motopark
	R3			Kevin Magnussen	Kevin Magnussen	Carlos Huertas	Carlin

• ¹ Fastest lap recorded by Roberto Merhi, but he was ineligible to score the fastest lap point.
• ² Fastest lap recorded by Hannes van Asseldonk, but he was ineligible to score the fastest lap point.

Championship standings

Pos Driver MNZ OUL SNE BRH NÜR LEC SPA ROC DON SIL Pts Championship Class 1 Felipe Nasr 1 2 1 2 5 1 2 6 17 2 6 1 2 4 1 1 16 1 9 8 7 6 2 3 Ret 10 9 3 7 Ret 318 2 Kevin Magnussen 15 8 6 8 18 Ret 1 8 1 8 11 15 1 6 5 4 4 Ret 7 1 8 7 5 1 Ret 16 1 1 8 2 237 3 Carlos Huertas 3 6 4 4 6 10 3 10 2 5 3 5 Ret Ret 3 3 5 5 10 11 9 5 6 11 2 6 4 7 9 1 222 4 William Buller 4 3 7 14 13 5 9 3 Ret 6 15 3 5 Ret 7 7 1 2 2 10 3 15 3 4 8 2 16 6 12 5 197 5 Rupert Svendsen-Cook 5 1 8 10 8 4 4 Ret 13 3 7 Ret 8 2 6 6 2 4 6 2 14 2 10 Ret 1 8 3 Ret 15 3 191 6 Jazeman Jaafar 2 5 3 3 4 6 16 16 4 4 5 4 4 5 11 8 9 Ret 3 DSQ 12 4 4 5 5 4 10 4 19 9 187 7 Lucas Foresti 9 17 2 1 7 2 10 1 9 1 8 2 9 11 4 9 7 Ret 13 13 11 11 12 12 17 7 8 5 2 6 170 8 Pietro Fantin Ret 9 5 5 2 9 6 4 5 12 9 10 11 Ret 8 15 8 Ret 19 14 DSQ 1 19 2 12 14 6 9 3 8 119 9 Jack Harvey Ret 10 17 11 10 19 15 Ret 12 13 12 6 7 1 14 5 6 3 5 12 10 3 14 6 3 9 Ret 10 6 18 112 10 Scott Pye Ret 12 14 9 9 8 Ret 11 7 7 4 8 12 10 12 14 Ret Ret 16 16 15 8 1 7 4 Ret 5 2 20 17 81 11 Harry Tincknell 11 11 16 6 3 7 8 2 8 10 1 9 3 8 9 10 17 Ret 22 Ret 16 Ret 13 8 7 5 14 12 16 11 78 12 Riki Christodoulou 6 4 11 7 1 12 5 7 3 51 13 António Félix da Costa 6 7 2 2 3 9 51 14 Menasheh Idafar 8 18 10 Ret Ret 3 14 17 19 9 2 Ret 19 Ret Ret Ret 11 12 Ret Ret 19 9 7 Ret 11 3 11 19 4 13 48 15 Pipo Derani Ret Ret 9 Ret 14 13 13 12 6 15 13 Ret 14 9 13 13 Ret 10 18 21 Ret 13 8 Ret 10 Ret 2 14 5 12 36 16 Hywel Lloyd 7 7 15 12 11 14 7 5 14 Ret Ret 7 16 13 19 12 10 7 15 18 Ret 10 9 Ret 15 13 12 11 Ret 10 34 17 Valtteri Bottas 6 1 13 17 18 Alexander Sims 8 1 7 17 19 Pedro Nunes 10 3 10 10 20 Mitch Evans Ret 11 4 10 21 Fahmi Ilyas 12 Ret 12 15 15 15 Ret 13 15 Ret Ret DNS 13 Ret 20 11 14 6 20 Ret 18 Ret 15 10 18 17 Ret 20 Ret 19 7 22 Adderly Fong 13 16 20 16 16 11 12 14 11 11 10 Ret 15 12 15 17 12 Ret 21 20 22 14 11 Ret 16 12 7 18 17 16 5 23 Bart Hylkema Ret Ret 8 Ret 22 17 12 17 9 14 Ret 17 13 Ret 14 5 24 Max Snegirev 16 Ret 12 9 15 Ret 16 13 Ret 2 25 Bruno Méndez 10 14 18 1 26 Yann Cunha 14 13 13 13 12 16 11 9 10 14 14 11 18 14 16 16 13 Ret 23 19 20 Ret 16 Ret 13 11 15 15 10 15 −36 Guest drivers ineligible for points Roberto Merhi 1 15 1 0 Marco Wittmann 11 5 2 0 Daniel Juncadella 8 3 Ret 0 Carlos Muñoz 4 6 Ret 0 Laurens Vanthoor 17 7 4 0 Hannes van Asseldonk 12 4 Ret 0 Raffaele Marciello Ret 17 5 0 Marko Asmer Ret Ret 6 0 Daniel Abt 14 9 13 0 Guilherme Silva 17 14 Ret 0 Rookie Class 1 Kotaro Sakurai Ret DNS DNS 18 Ret 18 18 15 18 17 16 14 20 16 18 18 15 11 24 23 21 Ret 18 13 19 Ret Ret 21 18 20 378 2 Bart Hylkema NC 15 19 17 17 17 17 Ret 16 Ret 17 13 17 15 17 214 3 Luca Orlandi 16 20 14 45 Pos Driver MNZ OUL SNE BRH NÜR LEC SPA ROC DON SIL 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)

References

External links

• The official website of the British Formula Three Championship