2010 Formula Palmer Audi season

The 2010 Formula Palmer Audi season was the thirteenth and final Formula Palmer Audi season. It began at Brands Hatch on 8 May and finished at Silverstone Circuit on 17 October. It consisted of twenty rounds, all held in England. The champion driver received a £100,000 scholarship prize, double last year's prize money, towards a drive in the 2011 FIA Formula Two Championship. On top of that, the top six finishers in the final drivers' standings were all granted an official Formula Two test.^[1]

The scholarship prize went to Nigel Moore, as he overhauled the long-time leader of the championship Maxime Jousse on dropped scores; Jousse having scored four more points than Moore on overall scores. Whereas Moore could drop two retirements for no points loss, Jousse had to drop a finish of seventh place along with a retirement and turned a four-point advantage into a nine-point deficit to Moore, having won six races to Moore's three. Third place went to Spanish driver Ramón Piñeiro, having taken four wins in the last seven races of the season to enable him to move him up from sixth to his eventual placing of third. Kieran Vernon and José Alonso Liste battled over fourth place, with Vernon coming out on top by two points after his third win of the season – to go with his double at the second Brands Hatch meeting – in the series' final race at Silverstone, ahead of Alonso Liste. Other winners during the season were Melroy Heemskerk at the first Brands Hatch meeting, Max Snegirev at Croft and Jordan Williams, who won at Snetterton before an accident with Jousse in the next race left him without funds to complete the season.

In November 2010, series boss Jonathan Palmer announced the end of the series with the series' chassis being dismantled for use in other areas of the MotorSport Vision organisation.^[2]

Driver lineup

Car #	Driver	Sponsor(s)	Rounds
2	Howard Fuller[3]	Powerchex	All
3	Vincent Beltoise[4]	Pole Mechanique	All
4	Tommaso Menchini[5]	AMP	1–2, 4
5	Maxime Jousse[6]	Warson Motors	All
6	Nigel Moore[7]	Ginetta	All
7	Melroy Heemskerk[4]	ORANJEDAK	1–5
8	James Thorp[4]	ARCOROC	1–4
9	Giuseppe Cipriani[5]		1–5, 7
10	Luca Orlandi[5]	Super 5 Wipes	All
11	Ash Davies[4]	H2O Networks	All
12	Thiemo Storz[8]		4
14	Jorge Pescador[9]	Luis Pescador	1
15	Ramón Piñeiro[4]	Caja Madrid	All
16	Aaron Steele[10]		1
17	Jordan Williams[4]	Willy's Ice Cream / Lanhydrock Golf Club	1–2
18	Callum Holland[11]	Irisguard	2–7
19	Tom Ashton[11]	R Ashton & Son Ltd	2
20	Max Snegirev[12]	Klaxon	6–7
21	Florian Le Roux[13]	2wcl	7
24	Toni Alarcon[13]	Santander	7
25	Victor Jimenez[8]		4–7
26	José Alonso Liste[5]	Kentes	All
28	Kieran Vernon[5]		All
39	Matt Bell[4]	AES	1
42	Jordan King[13]	Hugo Boss	7
44	Mark Powell[14]	FutureWorld	3, 5

Race calendar and results

• All races were held in the United Kingdom.^[15]

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver
1	R1	Brands Hatch Indy	9 May	Jorge Pescador	José Alonso Liste	Melroy Heemskerk
	R2			Maxime Jousse	José Alonso Liste	Maxime Jousse
	R3			Maxime Jousse	Maxime Jousse	Maxime Jousse
2	R1	Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit	26 June	Nigel Moore	Melroy Heemskerk	Jordan Williams
	R2			Nigel Moore	Maxime Jousse	Maxime Jousse
	R3		27 June	Maxime Jousse	Maxime Jousse	Maxime Jousse
	R4			Maxime Jousse	Maxime Jousse	Maxime Jousse
3	R1	Oulton Park	24 July	Nigel Moore	Maxime Jousse	Nigel Moore
	R2			Nigel Moore	Maxime Jousse	Maxime Jousse
4	R1	Rockingham Motor Speedway	28 August	José Alonso Liste	Thiemo Storz	Nigel Moore
	R2			José Alonso Liste	José Alonso Liste	José Alonso Liste
5	R1	Brands Hatch GP	26 September	Kieran Vernon	Kieran Vernon	Kieran Vernon
	R2			Kieran Vernon	Kieran Vernon	Kieran Vernon
6	R1	Croft Circuit	9 October	Ramón Piñeiro	Callum Holland	Ramón Piñeiro
	R2		10 October	José Alonso Liste	José Alonso Liste	Ramón Piñeiro
	R3			Callum Holland	Callum Holland	Max Snegirev
7	R1	Silverstone National	16 October	Jordan King	Ramón Piñeiro	Ramón Piñeiro
	R2			Ramón Piñeiro	Ramón Piñeiro	Ramón Piñeiro
	R3		17 October	Nigel Moore	José Alonso Liste	Nigel Moore
	R4			José Alonso Liste	José Alonso Liste	Kieran Vernon

Championship standings

Pos Driver BRH SNE OUL ROC BRH CRO SIL Total Drop Points 1 Nigel Moore 3 2 2 2 2 4 Ret 1 Ret 1 2 6 4 2 4 4 2 2 1 4 344 344 2 Maxime Jousse 5 1 1 3 1 1 1 2 1 6 6 3 6 7 3 6 5 4 5 Ret 348 13 335 3 Ramón Piñeiro 2 3 8 5 3 11 4 Ret 2 Ret 7 2 3 1 1 7 1 1 3 6 320 320 4 Kieran Vernon 6 7 6 8 7 Ret 5 4 4 3 3 1 1 3 6 9 4 5 4 1 311 11 300 5 José Alonso Liste 11 4 4 6 8 3 3 5 3 7 1 8 5 5 2 2 6 3 Ret 2 307 9 298 6 Vincent Beltoise NC 5 13 4 4 5 7 3 6 5 4 5 10 4 7 5 7 Ret 9 8 250 250 7 Howard Fuller 8 10 9 14 6 7 14 7 12 8 8 9 8 Ret 8 10 12 6 7 7 210 6 204 8 Melroy Heemskerk 1 Ret 5 7 5 2 2 6 5 4 5 4 2 203 203 9 Callum Holland 9 14 8 6 11 9 10 11 7 7 6 Ret 3 8 8 6 5 193 193 10 Ash Davies Ret 11 10 13 11 12 12 8 8 12 Ret 10 9 9 9 8 10 9 11 10 178 178 11 Giuseppe Cipriani Ret 16 Ret 11 9 6 11 9 7 14 9 12 12 9 7 8 11 149 149 12 Luca Orlandi Ret 14 14 16 12 14 13 12 Ret 15 13 11 Ret 8 10 11 14 13 13 13 124 124 13 Max Snegirev 10 5 1 3 11 10 3 104 104 14 James Thorp 10 13 15 10 Ret 10 8 10 10 11 10 93 93 15 Jordan Williams 4 8 7 1 DNS 9 10 86 86 16 Victor Jimenez 13 12 13 13 Ret 11 12 13 10 14 12 77 77 17 Aaron Steele 7 6 3 45 45 18 Tommaso Menchini Ret 15 Ret 15 13 13 Ret 9 14 41 41 19 Toni Alarcon 11 14 12 9 34 34 20 Matt Bell 9 9 11 31 31 21 Mark Powell 13 11 14 11 31 31 22 Tom Ashton 12 10 Ret 9 29 29 23 Jordan King NC Ret 2 Ret 20 20 24 Thiemo Storz 2 Ret 20 20 25 Florian Le Roux Ret 12 15 14 19 19 26 Jorge Pescador Ret 12 12 16 16 Pos Driver BRH SNE OUL ROC BRH CRO SIL Total Drop Points

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) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest lap

References

External links

• Official Formula Palmer Audi Website