2003 International Formula 3000 Championship

The 2003 International Formula 3000 season was the thirty-seventh season of the second-tier of Formula One feeder championship and also nineteenth season under the International Formula 3000 Championship moniker. It featured the 2003 FIA Formula 3000 International Championship with titles awarded for both Drivers and Teams.^[1] The championship was contested over ten events from 19 April to 13 September 2003.^[2]

2003 FIA International Formula 3000 Championship

Drivers' Champion: Björn Wirdheim
Teams' Champion: Arden International

Previous

2002

Next

2004

Parent series:
Formula One
Support series:
Porsche Supercup

The Drivers Championship was won by Björn Wirdheim and the Teams Championship was awarded to Arden International Ltd.

Teams and drivers

Björn Wirdheim, pictured at the Hungaroring round, won the Drivers' Championship. Vitantonio Liuzzi, driving the car behind him, placed fourth.

The following teams and drivers contested the championship.^[2]

Team	No.	Driver	Rounds
Arden International	1	Björn Wirdheim	All
	2	Townsend Bell	All
Coloni Motorsport	3	Ricardo Sperafico	All
	4	Zsolt Baumgartner	1–9
		Christian Montanari	10
Super Nova Racing	5	Enrico Toccacelo	All
	6	Derek Hill	1–6
		Nicolas Kiesa	7
		Sam Hancock	8–10
Den Blå Avis	7	Nicolas Kiesa	1–6
	8	Robbie Kerr	1
		Philip Giebler	2–6
Durango	9	Giorgio Pantano	All
	10	Raffaele Giammaria	All
Team Astromega	11	Tony Schmidt	All
	12	Jeffrey van Hooydonk	1–2, 4–6, 10
		Michael Keohane	7–8
Superfund ISR – Charouz	14	Jaroslav Janiš	All
	15	Yannick Schroeder	1–8
Red Bull Junior Team	16	Vitantonio Liuzzi	All
	17	Patrick Friesacher	1–2, 5–10
		Bernhard Auinger	3–4
BCN F3000	18	Rob Nguyen	1–3
		Will Langhorne	4–8
		Ferdinando Monfardini	9–10
	19	Valerio Scassellati	1, 5–6, 8
		Alessandro Piccolo	2–4, 10
		Marc Hynes	7
		Giovanni Berton	9
Brand Motorsport	20	Nicolas Minassian	1
	21	Gary Paffett	1
Sources:[3][4]

Calendar

The 2003 FIA Formula 3000 International Championship was contested over a ten event series. The round at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps was cancelled due to the FIA banning tobacco advertising, which cancelled the F1 race. ^[2][5]

Event	Circuit	Date	Distance	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team	Report
1	Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari	20 April	31 laps / 152.686 km	Björn Wirdheim	Björn Wirdheim	Björn Wirdheim	Arden International	Report
2	Circuit de Catalunya	3 May	33 laps / 152.565 km	Giorgio Pantano	Giorgio Pantano	Giorgio Pantano	Durango	Report
3	A1-Ring	17 May	35 laps / 151.410 km	Ricardo Sperafico	Björn Wirdheim	Ricardo Sperafico	Coloni Motorsport	Report
4	Circuit de Monaco	31 May	45 laps / 150.3 km	Björn Wirdheim	Björn Wirdheim	Nicolas Kiesa	Den Blå Avis	Report
5	Nürburgring	28 June	30 laps / 154.423 km	Björn Wirdheim	Björn Wirdheim	Enrico Toccacelo	Super Nova Racing	Report
6	Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours	5 July	35 laps / 154.201 km	Giorgio Pantano	Giorgio Pantano	Giorgio Pantano	Durango	Report
7	Silverstone Circuit	19 July	30 laps / 154.125 km	Björn Wirdheim	Björn Wirdheim	Björn Wirdheim	Arden International	Report
8	Hockenheimring	2 August	33 laps / 150.942 km	Ricardo Sperafico	Björn Wirdheim	Ricardo Sperafico	Coloni Motorsport	Report
9	Hungaroring	23 August	35 laps / 153.440 km	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Patrick Friesacher	Patrick Friesacher	Red Bull Junior Team	Report
10	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	13 September	26 laps / 150.353 km	Björn Wirdheim	Björn Wirdheim	Björn Wirdheim	Arden International	Report
Source:[6]

Drivers' Championship

Pos[5] Driver IMO CAT A1R MON NÜR MAG SIL HOC HUN MNZ Points 1 Björn Wirdheim 1 2 2 2 13 2 1 2 2 1 78 2 Ricardo Sperafico 3 Ret 1 DSQ 14 3 4 1 Ret 3 43 3 Giorgio Pantano Ret 1 3 Ret 16 1 2 7 4 Ret 41 4 Vitantonio Liuzzi 4 Ret 4 Ret 2 4 3 4 9 4 39 5 Patrick Friesacher 2 Ret Ret 11 5 3 1 2 36 6 Enrico Toccacelo 5 3 5 Ret 1 13 6 Ret 7 8 30 7 Nicolas Kiesa 12 10 6 1 3 Ret 8 20 8 Jaroslav Janiš DNS 4 9 4 6 Ret 10 8 5 7 20 9 Townsend Bell 9 12 7 6 Ret 12 7 5 3 Ret 17 10 Raffaele Giammaria 7 Ret 14 3 7 8 Ret 10 6 Ret 14 11 Tony Schmidt Ret 6 Ret Ret 10 5 Ret 6 8 6 14 12 Yannick Schroeder 6 8 Ret 7 4 7 9 11 13 13 Jeffrey van Hooydonk Ret Ret 8 8 6 5 9 14 Zsolt Baumgartner 10 7 10 5 11 9 11 9 DNS 6 15 Rob Nguyen 8 5 13 5 16 Derek Hill 15 11 Ret DSQ 5 10 4 17 Phil Giebler Ret 8 Ret 9 DNS 1 18 Alessandro Piccolo 9 12 DNS 11 0 19 Bernhard Auinger 11 9 0 20 Christian Montanari 9 0 21 Will Langhorne 10 12 14 13 12 0 22 Ferdinando Monfardini Ret 10 0 23 Giovanni Berton 10 0 24 Sam Hancock 13 11 DNS 0 25 Nicolas Minassian 11 0 26 Michael Keohane 12 Ret 0 27 Valerio Scassellati 13 15 15 14 0 28 Marc Hynes 14 0 29 Gary Paffett 14 0 – Robbie Kerr DNS 0 Pos Driver IMO CAT A1R MON NÜR MAG SIL HOC HUN MNZ Points Sources:[7][8][9]

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

• All drivers used Lola B02/50 chassis with Zytek-Judd KV engines and Avon tyres.^[3]
• Championship points were awarded on a 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis to the first eight finishers at each event. If two or more drivers had the same number of points (including 0 points), their positions in the Championship was fixed according to the quality of their places. Under this system one first place was better than any number of second places, one second place was better than any number of third places and so on.^[5]

Teams Championship

Points for the 2003 FIA Formula 300 International Championship for Teams were awarded on a 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis for the first eight places at each event.^[5] Results from both team cars were taken into account.^[1]

Position [5]	Team [5]	IMO	CAT	A1R	MON	NUR	MAG	SIL	HOC	HUN	MNZ	Total [5]
1	Arden International Ltd	10	8	10	11	0	8	12	12	14	10	95
2	Red Bull Junior Team F3000	13	0	5	0	8	5	10	11	10	13	75
3	Durango Formula	2	10	6	6	2	11	8	2	8	0	55
4	Coloni Motorsport	6	2	10	4	0	6	5	10	0	6	49
5	Super Nova Racing Ltd	4	6	4	0	14	0	4	0	2	1	35
6	ISR – Charouz	3	6	0	7	8	2	0	1	4	2	33
7	Team Astromega	0	3	0	1	1	7	0	3	1	7	23
8	Den Blå Avis	0	0	4	10	6	0	–	–	–	–	20
9	BCN F3000	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
10	Brand Motorsports	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0

See also

2003 Euro Formula 3000 season