2013 British Formula Three season

The 2013 Cooper Tires British Formula 3 International Series season was the 63rd British Formula Three Championship season. The series, promoted by the Stéphane Ratel Organisation, began on 25 May at Silverstone and ended on 22 September at the Nürburgring after twelve races to be held at four meetings.^[1] The championship was won by Jordan King.

Regulation changes

After all races awarded equal championship points during the 2012 season, the 2013 season saw the re-introduction of fewer points awarded to drivers in the second race. The first and third races awarded points using the same system as used in Formula One – with twenty-five points for the winner, down to one point for tenth place – with the reverse-grid race offering twelve points for the winner down to half a point for tenth place.^[2]

A five-race "mini-series" for older-specification Formula Three cars was also scheduled to be introduced for the 2013 season, after only two drivers competed in a full-season campaign in the Rookie class, in 2012. However, with the championship realignment in January 2013, older-specification cars were able to compete at every meeting.

Drivers and teams

Team No. Driver Class Chassis Engine Rounds Carlin[3] 1 Nicholas Latifi[3] Int Dallara F312 Volkswagen All 2 Jordan King[3] Int Dallara F312 All 21 Jann Mardenborough[3] Int Dallara F312 All 22 Jazeman Jaafar[4] Int Dallara F312 3 31 Zhi Cong Li[5] Int Dallara F312 3 Fortec Motorsports[3] 3 William Buller[6] Int Dallara F312 Mercedes HWA All 4 Félix Serrallés[7] Int Dallara F312 1 23 Felipe Guimarães[8] Int Dallara F312 All 24 Alfonso Celis Jr.[9] Int Dallara F312 4 Double R Racing[10] 7 Sean Gelael[10] Int Dallara F312[10] Mercedes HWA[10] All 8 Antonio Giovinazzi[10] Int Dallara F312[10] All 16 Tatiana Calderón[6] Int Dallara F312[10] All Threebond with T-Sport 15 Spike Goddard[11] Int Dallara F312 ThreeBond Nissan 4 Team West-Tec F3[12] 50 Roberto La Rocca[13] Nat Dallara F312[13] Toyota[12] 1 53 Chris Vlok[14] Nat Dallara F312[14] All 55 Huan Zhu[12] Nat Dallara F312[12] 1 56 William Barbosa[15] Nat Dallara F308 4 58 Jordan Oon[16] Nat Dallara F312[17] 2 66 Cameron Twynham[12] Nat Dallara F308[12] 1, 3 77 Sean Walkinshaw[12] Nat Dallara F308[12] 1 81 Ed Jones[12] Nat Dallara F312[12] 1, 3 88 Liam Venter[12] Nat Dallara F308[12] 1 Performance Racing Europe 51 John Bryant-Meisner[7] Inv Dallara F310-003[7] Volkswagen[7] 1 Mark Bailey Racing 82 Alice Powell[18] Nat B Dallara F306[18] Toyota[18] 1 CF Racing 87 Sun Zheng[19] Nat Dallara F311[19] Mugen-Honda[19] All

Icon Class Int International Nat National Nat B National B Inv Invitation

Driver changes

• Sun Zheng will join CF Racing for 2013 after competed China Touring Car Championship and Audi R8 LMS Cup in 2012 season.^[19]

Race calendar and results

A provisional ten-round calendar was announced on 28 July 2012.^[20] This was later revised down to nine rounds – with series organisers SRO open to the addition of a tenth meeting – on 18 December 2012.^[2] In January 2013, SRO reduced the calendar yet further, to just four triple-header meetings; two events in the United Kingdom and two overseas, in Belgium and Germany.^[1]

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team	National winner
1	R1	Silverstone Circuit	25 May	John Bryant-Meisner	Nicholas Latifi[N 1]	John Bryant-Meisner	Performance Racing Europe	Ed Jones
	R2		26 May		William Buller	Antonio Giovinazzi	Double R Racing	Ed Jones
	R3			John Bryant-Meisner	William Buller	John Bryant-Meisner	Performance Racing Europe	Ed Jones
2	R1	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	26 July	Nicholas Latifi	William Buller	William Buller	Fortec Motorsports	Sun Zheng
	R2				William Buller	Jordan King	Carlin	Sun Zheng
	R3		27 July	Nicholas Latifi	Sean Gelael	Antonio Giovinazzi	Double R Racing	Sun Zheng
3	R1	Brands Hatch	10 August	Jazeman Jaafar	William Buller	Jazeman Jaafar	Carlin	Sun Zheng
	R2		11 August		William Buller	Felipe Guimarães	Fortec Motorsports	Ed Jones
	R3			Jazeman Jaafar	Jordan King	Jazeman Jaafar	Carlin	Ed Jones
4	R1	Nürburgring	21 September	Jordan King	Jordan King	Jordan King	Carlin	Sun Zheng
	R2				Felipe Guimarães	Felipe Guimarães	Fortec Motorsports	Chris Vlok
	R3		22 September	Jordan King	William Buller	Jordan King	Carlin	Sun Zheng

Notes

Championship standings

Pos Driver SIL SPA BRH NÜR Pts International Class 1 Jordan King Ret 6 2 2 1 3 2 4 2 1 5 1 176 2 Antonio Giovinazzi 6 1 7 5 3 1 3 2 Ret 2 6 3 135 3 William Buller 2 2 3 1 2 7 6 9 12 13 Ret 2 134 4 Felipe Guimarães 3 8 6 Ret 7 5 7 1 4 3 1 7 109 5 Nicholas Latifi 14 5 5 Ret DNS 4 4 10 3 5 4 4 97 6 Jann Mardenborough NC 10 4 Ret 6 2 5 5 5 4 Ret 6 85 7 Tatiana Calderón 5 7 9 4 4 6 8 7 7 6 3 8 79 8 Sean Gelael 4 3 8 3 5 8 Ret 6 6 7 7 11 78 9 Jazeman Jaafar 1 3 1 58 10 Félix Serrallés 13 4 Ret 15 11 Alfonso Celis Jr. 9 8 5 15 12 Spike Goddard 8 2 13 14 13 Zhi Cong Li 11 12 10 7 Guest drivers ineligible for points John Bryant-Meisner 1 9 1  — National Class 1 Sun Zheng 8 15 11 6 8 9 9 11 Ret 10 10 9 205 2 Chris Vlok Ret 16 Ret 8 10 11 12 Ret 11 11 9 10 121 3 Ed Jones 7 11 10 Ret 8 8 103 4 Cameron Twynham 9 13 12 10 13 9 82 5 Jordan Oon 7 9 10 45 6 William Barbosa 12 11 12 38 7 Roberto La Rocca 10 12 13 33 8 Liam Venter 11 14 16 23 9 Sean Walkinshaw 15 17 14 20 10 Huan Zhu 12 18 15 19 Guest drivers ineligible for points Alice Powell Ret 19 17  — Pos Driver SIL SPA BRH NÜR Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (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 (DNP) Excluded (EX)

References

External links

• The official website of the British Formula 3 Championship