2011 Formula 3 Euro Series

2011 Formula 3 Euro Series
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The 2011 Formula 3 Euro Series season was the ninth championship year of the Formula 3 Euro Series. It began on 2 April at Circuit Paul Ricard and finished on 23 October at Hockenheim after 21 races at nine meetings.

Roberto Merhi, who participated his third season in series clinched title after home win at Valencia with a round to spare, bringing first Drivers' Championship for Prema Powerteam since 2003 and first title in the Teams' Standings. Second place for the second year in row went to Signature's Marco Wittmann, who took five wins. Merhi's compatriot and teammate Daniel Juncadella scored four races victories and managed third in drivers' standing. Also Juncadella and Merhi won Nations Cup.

Best rookie of the season Nigel Melker took fourth place with four victories despite missing round Silverstone due to commitments in GP3 Series. His teammate Felix Rosenqvist finished fifth, winning penultimate race of the season at Hockenheim. Places six through eight went to Signature's drivers Laurens Vanthoor, Daniel Abt and Carlos Muñoz. Motopark's drivers Jimmy Eriksson and Kimiya Sato finished on ninth and tenth positions respectively.

Drivers and teams

Competition numbers 30 and higher are single-race entrants and are ineligible to score championship points.

Team	No.	Driver	Class	Chassis^{[N 1]}	Engine	Rounds
Signature^[1]	1	Marco Wittmann^[2]	FIA	F308/011	Volkswagen	All
	2	Laurens Vanthoor^[3]	FIA	F309/023		All
	9	Carlos Muñoz^[4]	FIA	F308/005		All
	10	Daniel Abt^[5]	FIA	F308/057		All
	38	Carlos Sainz Jr.^[6]	R	F309/001		9
Mücke Motorsport^[1]	3	Nigel Melker^[7]	R	F308/005	Mercedes	1–6, 8–9
	4	Felix Rosenqvist^[8]		F308/042		All
	35	Marco Sørensen^[9]		F308/005		7
	37	Facu Regalia^[10]		F308/050		9
Motopark^[1]	5	Jimmy Eriksson^[11]		F308/099	Volkswagen	All
	6	Kimiya Sato^[2]	FIA	F308/098		All
	11	Gianmarco Raimondo^[12]		F308/006		1–3
	31	Tom Dillmann^[13]		F308/006		4
	36	Artem Markelov^[10]	R	F308/096		9
Prema Powerteam^[1]	7	Daniel Juncadella^[14]	FIA	F309/014	Mercedes	All
	8	Roberto Merhi^[15]	FIA	F308/047		All
	11	Gianmarco Raimondo^[13]		F308/031		4–9
STAR Racing Team^[16]	12	Kuba Giermaziak^[16]	R	F308/096	Volkswagen	1–6
Carlin	30	Jazeman Jaafar^[17]	FIA	F308/018	Volkswagen	2
	31	Tom Dillmann^[18]		F308/056		2
	32	Carlos Huertas^[18]	FIA	F308/055		2
HS Engineering	33	Alon Day^[19]		F308/071	Volkswagen	5, 7
Jo Zeller Racing	34	Sandro Zeller^[20]		F308/044	Mercedes	2, 5, 9

Icon	Legend
R	Rookie Cup
FIA	FIA Formula 3 International Trophy

Notes

↑ All drivers competed in Dallara chassis; model listed.

Driver changes

Changed Teams

Roberto Merhi and Carlos Muñoz both switched from Mücke Motorsport to Prema Powerteam and Signature respectively.

Entering/Re-Entering Formula 3 Euro Series

After finishing runner-up to Tom Dillmann in German Formula Three, Daniel Abt moved to Signature. Dillmann competed as a guest driver at Hockenheim for Carlin along with British series regulars Carlos Huertas and Jazeman Jaafar, and then moved to Motopark for the Red Bull Ring round.
Alon Day made his series début as a guest driver for his German Formula Three team HS Engineering, at the Norisring.
Jimmy Eriksson moved up from German Formula Three full-time, competing for Motopark. He was joined by Gianmarco Raimondo who moves from Italian Formula Three and Kimiya Sato, who moves from Japanese Formula Three. Raimondo later moved to a third car at Prema Powerteam
Kuba Giermaziak débuted in the series with the STAR Racing Team, dovetailing with commitments in the Porsche Supercup.
Nigel Melker competed for Mücke Motorsport, alongside his GP3 commitments with the team. Felix Rosenqvist joined him, stepping up from German Formula Three.

Leaving Formula 3 Euro Series

With his ART Grand Prix team leaving the championship after the 2010 season, Valtteri Bottas moved into one of the team's GP3 Series seats, while his 2010 teammate Alexander Sims join edStatus Grand Prix.
2010 champion Edoardo Mortara moved into the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters with Audi.

Team changes

ART Grand Prix, who won six drivers' titles and seven teams' titles, exited the championship to concentrate on other series.^[21]
STAR Racing Team débuted in the series, with Kuba Giermaziak driving the team's sole entry.^[1]

Race calendar and results

A provisional nine-round calendar was announced on 16 October 2010.^[22] Seven of the nine rounds will support Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters events, with additional rounds at Le Castellet and Silverstone in support of the Le Mans Series. The series will adopt a format introduced in the 2010 British Formula 3 Championship, with three races a weekend, two of which held on the Saturday and the final race on the Sunday. The first and third races at the first Hockenheim round were also points-scoring for the FIA Formula 3 International Trophy.

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team
1	R1	Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet	2 April	Roberto Merhi	Marco Wittmann	Nigel Melker	Mücke Motorsport
	R2		2 April		Daniel Juncadella	Roberto Merhi	Prema Powerteam
	R3		3 April	Roberto Merhi	Daniel Abt	Daniel Juncadella	Prema Powerteam
2	R1	Hockenheimring	30 April	Roberto Merhi	Roberto Merhi	Roberto Merhi	Prema Powerteam
	R2		30 April		Roberto Merhi	Daniel Juncadella	Prema Powerteam
	R3		1 May	Marco Wittmann	Roberto Merhi	Roberto Merhi	Prema Powerteam
3	R1	Circuit Park Zandvoort	14 May	Nigel Melker	Marco Wittmann	Nigel Melker	Mücke Motorsport
	R2		14 May		Felix Rosenqvist	Kimiya Sato	Motopark
	R3		15 May	Marco Wittmann	Marco Wittmann	Marco Wittmann	Signature
4	R1	Red Bull Ring, Spielberg	4 June	Daniel Juncadella	Felix Rosenqvist	Roberto Merhi	Prema Powerteam
	R2		4 June		Roberto Merhi	Roberto Merhi	Prema Powerteam
	R3		5 June	Daniel Juncadella	Nigel Melker	Daniel Juncadella	Prema Powerteam
5	R1	Norisring, Nuremberg	2 July	Marco Wittmann	Marco Wittmann	Nigel Melker	Mücke Motorsport
	R2		2 July		Roberto Merhi	Marco Wittmann	Signature
	R3		3 July	Marco Wittmann	Roberto Merhi	Marco Wittmann	Signature
6	R1	Nürburgring	6 August	Daniel Juncadella	Roberto Merhi	Roberto Merhi	Prema Powerteam
	R2		6 August		Daniel Juncadella	Roberto Merhi	Prema Powerteam
	R3		7 August	Daniel Juncadella	Daniel Juncadella	Daniel Juncadella	Prema Powerteam
7	R1	Silverstone Circuit	10 September	Roberto Merhi	Roberto Merhi	Roberto Merhi	Prema Powerteam
	R2		10 September		Marco Sørensen	Marco Sørensen	Mücke Motorsport
	R3		11 September	Roberto Merhi	Roberto Merhi	Marco Wittmann	Signature
8	R1	Circuit Ricardo Tormo, Valencia	1 October	Nigel Melker	Nigel Melker	Nigel Melker	Mücke Motorsport
	R2		1 October		Marco Wittmann	Marco Wittmann	Signature
	R3		2 October	Roberto Merhi	Roberto Merhi	Roberto Merhi	Prema Powerteam
9	R1	Hockenheimring	22 October	Roberto Merhi	Felix Rosenqvist	Roberto Merhi	Prema Powerteam
	R2		22 October		Felix Rosenqvist	Felix Rosenqvist	Mücke Motorsport
	R3		23 October	Roberto Merhi	Felix Rosenqvist	Roberto Merhi	Prema Powerteam

Standings

Points are awarded as follows:

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Race 1 & 3	25	18	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1
Race 2	10	8	6	5	4	3	2	1	0

Drivers' Championship

Pos	Driver	LEC			HOC			ZAN			RBR			NOR			NÜR			SIL			VAL			HOC			Pts
1	Roberto Merhi	4	1	2	1	4	1	3	4	4	1	1	Ret	4	2	2	1	1	2	1	3	2	3	5	1	1	2	1	406
2	Marco Wittmann	5	2	3	2	3	2	10	6	1	3	11	Ret	3	1	1	6	11	6	2	10	1	6	1	5	4	4	4	285
3	Daniel Juncadella	3	3	1	6	1	4	5	7	12†	2	6	1	Ret	3	11	2	4	1	3	2	8	4	3	2	7	6	3	280
4	Nigel Melker	1	12	4	7	11	5	1	11	3	5	Ret	2	1	11	10	4	6	3				1	8	3	6	5	2	251
5	Felix Rosenqvist	2	4	Ret	5	5	3	2	3	2	Ret	10	Ret	DSQ	5	5	3	2	4	4	7	Ret	2	6	4	2	1	Ret	219
6	Laurens Vanthoor	8	7	5	3	6	15	4	5	6	7	2	7	2	8	4	5	3	5	6	6	4	11	11†	6	3	9	12	189
7	Daniel Abt	Ret	11	9	4	7	6	Ret	8	5	6	3	4	10†	10	3	12	7	7	5	5	5	10	10	7	5	3	6	150
8	Carlos Muñoz	6	5	7	8	2	9	6	12	8	10	9	5	9	Ret	13	9	8	8	10	11	3	5	7	10	8	14†	Ret	105
9	Jimmy Eriksson	10	9	6	9	8	7	9	9	7	9	5	6	5	4	7	10	Ret	10	9	9	6	9	9	11	9	8	7	93
10	Kimiya Sato	Ret	6	8	Ret	12	10	7	1	10	11	4	10	6	Ret	8	8	5	12	8	4	DSQ	8	2	9	Ret	7	9	86
11	Gianmarco Raimondo	9	10	10	Ret	13	14	8	2	11	8	7	8	Ret	6	Ret	7	9	9	12†	8	Ret	7	4	8	13†	13	8	66
12	Kuba Giermaziak	7	8	Ret	14	14	Ret	Ret	10	9	12	8	9	7	Ret	6	11	10	11										29
Guest drivers ineligible for points
	Marco Sørensen																			7	1	Ret							0
	Tom Dillmann				12	10	8				4	12†	3																0
	Carlos Sainz Jr.																									Ret	Ret	5	0
	Alon Day													8	7	12				11	Ret	7							0
	Sandro Zeller				13	15	13							Ret	9	9										11	12	10	0
	Jazeman Jaafar				10	9	11																						0
	Facu Regalia																									10	10	Ret	0
	Artem Markelov																									12	11	11	0
	Carlos Huertas				11	Ret	12																						0
Pos	Driver	LEC			HOC			ZAN			RBR			NOR			NÜR			SIL			VAL			HOC			Pts

Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	2nd place
Bronze	3rd place
Green	Points finish
Blue	Non-points finish
Blue	Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple	Retired (Ret)
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Red	Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did not start (DNS)
	Withdrew (WD)
	Race cancelled (C)
Blank	Did not participate (DNP)
Blank	Excluded (EX)

Bold – Pole
Italics – Fastest Lap

† — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.

Teams' Championship

Pos	Team	LEC			HOC			ZAN			RBR			NOR			NÜR			SIL			VAL			HOC			Pts
1	Prema Powerteam	3	1	1	1	1	1	3	4	4	1	1	1	4	2	2	1	1	1	1	2	2	3	3	1	1	2	1	693
1	Prema Powerteam	4	3	2	6	4	4	5	7	12	2	6	8	Ret	3	11	2	4	2	3	3	8	4	4	2	7	6	3	693
2	Signature	5	2	3	2	2	2	4	5	1	3	2	4	2	1	1	5	3	5	2	5	1	5	1	5	3	3	4	570
2	Signature	6	5	5	3	3	6	6	6	5	6	3	5	3	8	3	6	7	6	6	6	3	6	7	6	4	4	6	570
3	Mücke Motorsport	1	4	4	5	5	3	1	3	2	5	10	2	1	5	5	3	2	3	4	1	Ret	1	6	3	2	1	2	470
3	Mücke Motorsport	2	12	Ret	7	11	5	2	11	3	Ret	Ret	Ret	DSQ	11	10	4	6	4	7	7	Ret	2	8	4	6	5	Ret	470
4	Motopark STAR Racing Team	7	6	6	9	8	7	7	1	7	9	4	6	5	4	6	8	5	10	8	4	6	8	2	9	9	7	7	205
4	Motopark STAR Racing Team	9	8	8	14	12	10	8	2	9	11	5	9	6	Ret	7	10	10	11	9	9	DSQ	9	9	11	Ret	8	9	205
Guest teams ineligible for points
	HS Engineering													8	7	12				11	Ret	7							0
	Carlin				10	9	8																						0
	Carlin				11	10	11																						0
	Jo Zeller Racing				13	15	13							Ret	9	9										11	12	10	0
Pos	Team	LEC			HOC			ZAN			RBR			NOR			NÜR			SIL			VAL			HOC			Pts

Nations Cup

Pos	Nation	LEC			HOC			ZAN			RBR			NOR			NÜR			SIL			VAL			HOC			Pts
1	Spain	3	1	1	1	1	1	3	4	4	1	1	1	4	2	2	1	1	1	1	2	2	3	3	1	1	2	1	686
1	Spain	4	3	2	6	4	4	5	7	12	2	6	Ret	Ret	3	11	2	4	2	3	3	8	4	5	2	7	6	3	686
2	Germany	5	2	3	2	3	2	10	6	1	3	3	4	3	1	1	6	7	6	2	5	1	6	1	5	4	3	4	435
2	Germany	Ret	11	9	4	7	6	Ret	8	5	6	11	Ret	10	10	3	12	11	7	5	10	5	10	10	7	5	4	6	435
3	Sweden	2	4	6	5	5	3	2	3	2	9	5	6	5	4	5	3	2	4	4	7	6	2	6	4	2	1	7	312
3	Sweden	10	9	Ret	9	5	7	9	9	7	Ret	10	Ret	DSQ	5	7	10	Ret	10	9	9	Ret	9	9	11	9	8	Ret	312
4	Netherlands	1	12	4	7	11	5	1	11	3	5	Ret	2	1	11	10	4	6	3				1	8	3	6	5	2	251
5	Belgium	8	7	5	3	6	15	4	5	6	7	2	7	2	8	4	5	3	5	6	6	4	11	11	6	3	9	12	189
6	Colombia	6	5	7	8	2	9	6	12	8	10	9	5	9	Ret	13	9	8	8	10	11	3	5	7	10	8	14	Ret	105
6	Colombia				11	Ret	12																						105
7	Japan	Ret	6	8	Ret	12	10	7	1	10	11	4	10	6	Ret	8	8	5	12	8	4	DSQ	8	2	9	Ret	7	9	86
8	Canada	9	10	10	Ret	13	14	8	2	11	8	7	8	Ret	6	Ret	7	9	9	12	8	Ret	7	4	8	13	13	8	66
9	Poland	7	8	Ret	14	14	Ret	Ret	10	9	12	8	9	7	Ret	6	11	10	11										29
Guest nations ineligible for points
	Denmark																			7	1	Ret							0
	France				12	10	8				4	12	3																0
	Israel													8	7	12				11	Ret	7							0
	Switzerland				13	15	13							Ret	9	9										11	12	10	0
	Malaysia				10	9	11																						0
	Argentina																									10	10	Ret	0
	Russia																									12	11	11	0
Pos	Nation	LEC			HOC			ZAN			RBR			NOR			NÜR			SIL			VAL			HOC			Pts

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External links

The official website of the Formula 3 Euro Series

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List of Formula 3 Euro Series drivers (2003 – 2012)

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