2004 British Formula 3 International Series

The 2004 British Formula 3 International Series was the 54th British Formula 3 International Series season. It commenced on 3 April, and ended on 1 October after twenty-four races.

2004 British Formula 3 International Series

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2004 champion, Nelson Piquet Jr.

Drivers and teams

The following teams and drivers were competitors in the 2004 British Formula 3 International Series. The Scholarship class is for older Formula Three cars. Teams in the Invitation class are not series regulars, and do not compete for championship points.

Team	Chassis	Engine	No	Driver	Rounds
Championship Class
Carlin Motorsport	Dallara F304	Mugen-Honda	1	Clivio Piccione	All
			2	Álvaro Parente	All
			21	Danilo Dirani	All
			22	Alexandre Negrão	11
Hitech Racing	Dallara F304	Renault	3	Andrew Thompson	All
			4	Marko Asmer	All
			23	Lucas di Grassi	All
			24	James Walker	All
Menu F3 Motorsport	Dallara F304	Opel	5	Will Davison	1-5
				Ivor McCullough	12
			6	Rob Austin	9-10, 12
				Fairuz Fauzy	1-4
			39		5-7
Fortec Motorsport	Dallara F304	Opel	7	James Rossiter	All
			8	Ronayne O'Mahony	1
				Marcus Marshall	3-10
Alan Docking Racing	Dallara F304	Mugen-Honda	10	Will Power	All
Promatecme	Lola-Dome F106/4	Mugen-Honda	11	Danny Watts	1-3, 5-12
P1 Racing	Dallara F304	Mugen-Honda	18	Adam Carroll	All
			19	Ernesto Viso	1-6
				Fairuz Fauzy	8-12
T-Sport	Dallara F304	Mugen-Honda	32	Karun Chandhok	1-9
				Barton Mawer	11
Piquet Sports	Dallara F304	Mugen-Honda	33	Nelson Piquet Jr.	All
Scholarship Class
Performance Racing Europe	Dallara F301	Opel	42	Stephen Jelley	All
			43	Barton Mawer	1-5
				Ronayne O'Mahony	7-12
Reon Motorsport	Dallara F301	Renault	45	James Winslow	9
Planet Racing	Dallara F301	Mugen-Honda	46	Lars Sexton	2, 9, 12
Promatecme	Dallara F301	Mugen-Honda	51	Vasilije Calasan	All
Alan Docking Racing	Dallara F301	Mugen-Honda	59	Adam Khan	1-5
T-Sport	Dallara F301	Mugen-Honda	69	Ryan Lewis	All
Mango Racing	Dallara F301	Mugen-Honda	78	Ajith Kumar	1-5
Invitation Entries
Opel Signature	Dallara F304	Opel	71	Nicolas Lapierre	11
			72	Gregory Franchi	11

Calendar and results

Round	Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning driver	Winning team	Scholarship Class Winner
1	Donington Park	3 April	Adam Carroll	Adam Carroll	Adam Carroll	P1 Racing	Ryan Lewis
2		4 April	Álvaro Parente	Nelson Angelo Piquet	Clivio Piccione	Carlin Motorsport	Ryan Lewis
3	Silverstone	17 April	James Rossiter	Nelson Angelo Piquet	James Rossiter	Fortec Motorsport	Ryan Lewis
4		18 April	Round cancelled1
5	Croft	1 May	Danilo Dirani	Danilo Dirani	Danilo Dirani	Carlin Motorsport	Ryan Lewis
6		2 May	Danilo Dirani	Danilo Dirani	Danilo Dirani	Carlin Motorsport	Barton Mawer
7	Knockhill	15 May	Ernesto Viso	James Rossiter	Ernesto Viso	P1 Racing	Barton Mawer
8		16 May	James Rossiter	Nelson Angelo Piquet	James Rossiter	Fortec Motorsport	Ryan Lewis
41	Snetterton	5 June	Danilo Dirani	Nelson Angelo Piquet	Nelson Angelo Piquet	Piquet Sports	Ryan Lewis
9		6 June	Lucas di Grassi	Nelson Angelo Piquet	Nelson Angelo Piquet	Piquet Sports	Ryan Lewis
10			James Rossiter	Nelson Angelo Piquet	Adam Carroll	P1 Racing	Ryan Lewis
11	Castle Combe	19 June	Danny Watts	James Rossiter	Danny Watts	Promatecme	Ryan Lewis
12		20 June	Adam Carroll	Marko Asmer	Álvaro Parente	Carlin Motorsport	Ryan Lewis
13	Donington Park	26 June	Adam Carroll	Nelson Angelo Piquet	Adam Carroll	P1 Racing	Ryan Lewis
14		27 June	Álvaro Parente	Danilo Dirani	Clivio Piccione	Carlin Motorsport	Stephen Jelley
15	Oulton Park	17 July	Nelson Angelo Piquet	Nelson Angelo Piquet	Nelson Angelo Piquet	Piquet Sports	Ryan Lewis
16		18 July	Nelson Angelo Piquet	Nelson Angelo Piquet	Nelson Angelo Piquet	Piquet Sports	Stephen Jelley
17	Silverstone	14 August	Nelson Angelo Piquet	Nelson Angelo Piquet	Nelson Angelo Piquet	Piquet Sports	Vasilije Calasan
18		15 August	Nelson Angelo Piquet	Adam Carroll	Marcus Marshall	Fortec Motorsport	Vasilije Calasan
19	Thruxton	29 August	James Rossiter	Rob Austin	Lucas di Grassi	Hitech Racing	Ryan Lewis
20		30 August	Lucas di Grassi	Nelson Angelo Piquet	Lucas di Grassi	Hitech Racing	Stephen Jelley
21	Spa-Francorchamps	11 September	Nelson Angelo Piquet	Adam Carroll	Adam Carroll	P1 Racing	Ryan Lewis
22		12 September	Adam Carroll	James Rossiter	Adam Carroll	P1 Racing	Ryan Lewis
23	Brands Hatch	2 October	Nelson Angelo Piquet	Rob Austin	James Rossiter	Fortec Motorsport	Ryan Lewis
24		3 October	Clivio Piccione	Marko Asmer	Nelson Angelo Piquet	Piquet Sports	Ryan Lewis

Notes:

1.^  – The second race at the first Silverstone meeting was cancelled due to poor weather conditions.^[1] It was run at the Snetterton meeting.

Standings

Championship Class

Pos Driver DON SIL CRO KNO SNE CAS DON OUL SIL THR SPA BRH Pts 1 Nelson Angelo Piquet 2 2 3 C 5 Ret 10 3 1 1 4 7 Ret 6 3 1 1 1 4 Ret 2 6 4 2 1 282 2 Adam Carroll 1 Ret 4 C Ret Ret 4 Ret 2 2 1 3 2 1 7 4 8 5 18 3 7 1 1 9 4 233 3 James Rossiter 3 8 1 C 2 Ret 3 1 Ret Ret 2 8 5 3 6 5 3 2 7 2 4 18 13 1 2 228 4 Clivio Piccione 12 1 6 C 9 4 5 Ret 8 9 11 2 4 2 1 8 Ret 10 Ret 4 6 2 2 11 18 161 5 Danilo Dirani 4 Ret Ret C 1 1 7 9 4 4 14 Ret Ret 5 9 11 5 12 3 8 12 3 3 4 Ret 146 6 Danny Watts Ret DNS 5 C 7 9 5 6 5 1 3 Ret 8 6 9 3 8 6 8 4 5 3 6 139 7 Álvaro Parente 8 10 8 C Ret 10 8 8 6 Ret 8 5 1 7 2 3 4 9 2 7 5 10 8 8 5 137 8 Lucas di Grassi 10 9 Ret C 6 3 15 4 3 Ret 7 9 8 Ret Ret Ret 2 11 11 1 1 7 6 Ret 3 130 9 Will Power Ret 4 2 C 15 Ret 2 2 10 3 3 6 13 Ret 10 12 Ret 4 6 10 18 8 9 Ret 9 111 10 Marko Asmer 9 7 9 C 4 6 12 11 Ret Ret 16 12 7 Ret 4 14 6 6 10 5 9 5 7 5 8 87 11 Ernesto Viso 5 5 7 C Ret Ret 1 6 12 5 9 4 Ret 66 12 Fairuz Fauzy 7 Ret 11 C 11 8 11 13 7 7 6 13 6 Ret 12 2 7 8 13 11 11 DNS 21 Ret 11 49 13 Will Davison 14 3 10 C 3 2 Ret 7 13 8 10 48 14 Karun Chandhok 11 11 14 C 8 5 6 5 14 Ret Ret Ret 9 4 Ret Ret DNS 13 Ret 37 15 Andrew Thompson 6 6 12 C 10 7 9 10 9 15 15 10 Ret Ret Ret 7 10 14 12 9 10 14 14 10 7 36 16 Rob Austin 7 5 14 3 6 12 32 17 Marcus Marshall 16 13 13 11 12 11 14 13 11 9 12 Ret 1 Ret 14 24 18 James Walker 13 14 13 C 12 11 Ret 12 11 10 13 14 12 12 5 10 Ret 15 14 15 13 13 11 7 10 20 19 Alexandre Negrão 11 12 1 20 Barton Mawer 12 15 0 21 Ivor McCullough 14 13 0 22 Ronayne O'Mahony 17 Ret 0 Guest drivers ineligible for points Gregory Franchi 9 Ret 0 Nicolas Lapierre DNS 10 0 Scholarship Class 1 Ryan Lewis 15 12 15 C 13 15 Ret 14 15 12 17 15 10 8 15 13 13 18 Ret 12 16 15 16 12 14 423 2 Stephen Jelley 20 13 16 C 14 14 Ret Ret Ret 13 19 17 11 9 13 Ret 11 Ret 17 13 15 DNS 19 13 15 266 3 Vasilije Calasan 19 Ret 19 C 18 16 17 Ret Ret 17 20 16 Ret 11 Ret 16 14 16 9 17 DNS 17 18 16 17 212 4 Barton Mawer 16 Ret 17 C 17 12 14 15 17 14 18 134 5 Ronayne O'Mahony 10 14 15 Ret Ret 16 16 17 16 17 Ret 16 121 6 Adam Khan 18 Ret 18 C 19 17 16 Ret 16 16 DNS 78 7 Ajith Kumar 21 15 Ret C Ret 18 18 16 18 18 21 70 8 Lars Sexton Ret C 17 19 15 19 43 9 James Winslow Ret 15 15 Pos Driver DON SIL CRO KNO SNE CAS DON OUL SIL THR SPA BRH Pts

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)