2003 Formula Renault 2000 Masters

The 2003 Formula Renault 2000 Masters season was the thirteenth Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season. The season began at Brno on 24 May and finished at the Donington Park on 26 October, after eight races.^[1] Cram Competition's Esteban Guerrieri who is also Argentine Formula Renault champion won three races on his way to the championship by a 36-point margin over Danish driver Robert Schlünssen, who won abandoned race at Assen. ASM's Simon Pagenaud was two points behind Schlünssen. Pagenaud also won second races on TT Circuit Assen. Other wins were scored by Paul Meijer, Ryan Sharp and Reinhard Kofler.

2003 Formula Renault 2000 Masters

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Driver Lineup

2003 Entry List[2]
Team	No.	Driver name	Rounds
JD Motorsport	1	Mikhail Aleshin	All
	2	Robert Schlünssen	All
	3	Reinhard Kofler	All
Jenzer Motorsport	4	Ryan Sharp	All
	5	Pascal Kochem	All
	6	Grant Maiman	All
ma-con Motorsport	7	Ross Zwolsman	1–2
	8	Takuya Izawa	All
	57	Thomas Weiss	2–3
	70	Marcel Engels	3–4
SL Formula Racing	9	Hendrick Vieth	All
	10	Ben Jamini	1–2
	72	Pekka Saarinen	3
ASM	11	Simon Pagenaud	All
	12	Nicolas Armindo	1–2
	16	Johan-Boris Scheier	All
	68	David Martinez Leon	4
Tech 1 Racing	14	Bruce Lorgère-Roux	4
Graff Racing	15	Hideaki Nakao	1
	17	Olivier Metz	1, 3–4
	26	David Laisis	All
	49	Guillaume Moreau	2–4
Cram Competition	18	Marcello Puglisi	1, 3–4
	19	Esteban Guerrieri	All
	20	Pastor Maldonado	All
Prema Powerteam	21	Franck Perera	All
	39	Roberto Streit	All
	77	Kohei Hirate	All
AR Motorsport	22	Paul Meijer	All
Speedlover	23	Stephanie Boden	1–2, 4
BVM Racing	24	Cristian Corsini	1
	27	Mike den Tandt	1
Euronova Racing	25	Luca Filippi	1–2, 4
	32	Vitaly Petrov	All
	69	Elias Papailias	3
Durango	28	Ferdinando Monfardini	1
	42	Rafael Morgenstern	1
Hexis Racing	29	Julien Falcini-Joulian	2, 4
	30	Ludovic Badey	2, 4
CD Sport	33	Julien Canal	2–4
	50	Franck Mailleux	2–3
	66	Patrick Goeters	4
	67	Homero Richards	4
Scorp Motorsport	34	Ulric Amado de Carvalho	2
MP Motorsport	35	Ferdinand Kool	All
	36	Olivier Tielemans	2
Equipe Verschuur	38	Yelmer Buurman	2, 4
	40	Xavier Maassen	2, 4
RP Motorsport	43	Davide Valsecchi	2
	44	Andrea Sonvico	2
	45	Toni Vilander	2
Manor Motorsport	46	Lewis Hamilton	2
	47	Matthew Wilson	2, 4
Imola Racing	51	Paolo Maria Nocera	2, 4
Van Amersfoort Racing	52	Junior Strous	2–4
	53	Giedo van der Garde	2–4
Twinlife Racing Team	54	Ron Marchal	2
Fortec Motorsport	55	Mike Conway	2
John Village Automotive	56	Charles Hollings	2
RS-Line	60	Marc Walz	3
Motopark Academy	61	Helmut Sanden	3
Team Formula Sport	71	Kasper Andersen	3
	79	Jimmy Jacobsson	3
Franken Racing	78	Dennis Furchheim	3

Calendar

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team
1	R1	Masaryk Circuit, Brno	24 May	Esteban Guerrieri	Esteban Guerrieri	Esteban Guerrieri	Cram Competition
	R2		25 May	Esteban Guerrieri	Esteban Guerrieri	Esteban Guerrieri	Cram Competition
2	R1	TT Circuit Assen	2 August	Ryan Sharp	Pascal Kochem	Robert Schlünssen	JD Motorsport
	R2		3 August	Franck Perera	Simon Pagenaud	Simon Pagenaud	ASM
3	R1	Motorsport Arena Oschersleben	11 October	Giedo van der Garde	Esteban Guerrieri	Esteban Guerrieri	Cram Competition
	R2		12 October	Robert Schlünssen	Robert Schlünssen	Paul Meijer	AR Motorsport
4	R1	Donington Park	25 October	Ferdinand Kool	Marcel Engels	Ryan Sharp	Jenzer Motorsport
	R2		26 October	Giedo van der Garde	Junior Strous	Reinhard Kofler	JD Motorsport

Championship standings

Drivers

Points are awarded to the drivers as follows:

Position	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	PP	FL
Points	30	24	20	16	12	10	8	6	4	2	2	2

Pos Driver BRN ASS‡ OSC DON Points 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 Esteban Guerrieri 1 1 10 9 1 26 3 Ret 124 2 Robert Schlünssen 7 2 1 10 6 2 13 4 88 3 Simon Pagenaud 4 3 15 1 8 28 7 9 86 4 Paul Meijer 12 7 11 4 7 1 5 6 84 5 Ryan Sharp 6 25 2 6 Ret 7 1 3 78 6 Giedo van der Garde 14 Ret 19 3 2 2 72 7 Reinhard Kofler 10 Ret 25 Ret 3 4 10 1 70 8 Hendrick Vieth 3 6 16 Ret 4 32 14 11 46 9 Roberto Streit 5 5 22 19 9 6 8 Ret 44 10 Franck Perera 9 26 5 Ret 5 8 4 12 40 11 Marc Walz 2 5 36 12 Lewis Hamilton 4 2 24 13 Pascal Kochem 2 14 6 Ret 11 25 18 17 24 14 Toni Vilander 20 3 20 15 Nicolas Armindo 15 4 Ret Ret 16 16 Ross Zwolsman 13 9 8 5 16 17 Guillaume Moreau 19 11 14 11 9 5 16 18 Johan-Boris Scheier 20 8 7 7 17 10 Ret Ret 16 19 Ferdinand Kool 17 13 Ret 12 12 19 6 23 12 20 Junior Strous 12 15 15 13 26 7 10 21 Kohei Hirate 8 10 17 17 16 27 27 13 8 22 Yelmer Buurman 13 18 21 8 6 23 Ben Jamini 21 15 Ret 8 6 24 Helmut Sanden Ret 9 4 25 Marcel Engels 10 34 24 DNQ 4 26 Xavier Maassen 18 13 23 10 2 27 Takuya Izawa 11 Ret 3 Ret Ret 35 12 Ret 0 28 Pastor Maldonado Ret 16 9 Ret Ret 29 11 Ret 0 29 Mikhail Aleshin 27 11 Ret Ret 21 16 22 14 0 30 Julien Canal DNQ 16 Ret 12 DNQ 21 0 31 Ferdinando Monfardini 18 12 0 32 Dennis Furchheim 13 33 0 33 Julien Falcini-Joulian 21 14 15 15 0 34 Rafael Morgenstern 14 17 0 35 Pekka Saarinen 18 14 0 36 Grant Maiman 19 19 DNQ DNQ Ret 15 17 20 0 37 Olivier Metz Ret 23 20 17 16 16 0 38 Mike den Tandt 16 18 0 39 David Laisis 22 Ret 23 DNQ 26 18 25 DNQ 0 40 Homero Richards DNQ 18 0 41 Luca Filippi 23 Ret Ret Ret 19 Ret 0 42 Vitaly Petrov 29 Ret DNQ DNQ Ret 31 Ret 19 0 43 David Martinez Leon 20 22 0 44 Marcello Puglisi 28 24 24 20 DNQ DNQ 0 45 Cristian Corsini 26 20 0 46 Hideaki Nakao 24 21 0 47 Kasper Andersen Ret 21 0 48 Stephanie Boden 25 22 DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ 0 49 Elias Papailias 25 22 0 50 Franck Mailleux DNQ DNQ 22 30 0 51 Jimmy Jacobsson 23 23 0 52 Thomas Weiss DNQ DNQ 27 24 0 53 Paolo Maria Nocera 24 DNQ 0 Bruce Lorgère-Roux Ret Ret 0 Mike Conway DNQ Ret 0 Patrick Goeters DNQ Ret 0 Ludovic Badey DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ 0 Davide Valsecchi DNQ DNQ 0 Charles Hollings DNQ DNQ 0 Andrea Sonvico DNQ DNQ 0 Olivier Tielemans DNQ DNQ 0 Matthew Wilson DNQ DNQ 0 Ron Marchal DNQ DNQ 0 Ulric Amado de Carvalho DNQ DNQ 0 Pos Driver BRN ASS‡ OSC DON Points

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points classification Blue Non-points classification Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired, not classified (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 practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

‡ Points were not awarded in the first race at Assen as race was abandoned after three laps due to massive crash.^[3]

Teams

Pos	Team	Points
1	JD Motorsport	158
2	Cram Competition	124
3	ASM	118
4	Jenzer Motorsport	102
5	Prema Powerteam	92
6	AR Motorsport	84
7	Van Amersfoort Racing	82
8	SL Formula Racing	52
9	RS-Line	36
10	Manor Motorsport	24
11	ma-con Motorsport	20
12	RP Motorsport	20
13	Graff Racing	16
14	MP Motorsport	12
15	Equipe Verschuur	8
15	Motopark Academy	4