2012 Formula Renault BARC season

The Protyre 2012 Formula Renault BARC season was a multi-event motor racing championship for open wheel, formula racing cars held across England. The championship featured a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded drivers competing in 2 litre Formula Renault single seat race cars that conform to the technical regulations for the championship. The 2012 season was the 18th Formula Renault BARC Championship; the season began at Snetterton 200 on 7 April and ended on 7 October at Silverstone, after fourteen races, all held in England.

2012 Formula Renault BARC

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Following a second-place finish in the final race at Silverstone, Scott Malvern secured the championship title after achieving three victories during the season and eleven podiums in total, driving for Cliff Dempsey Racing in the opening half of the season and Cullen Motorsport thereafter. MGR Motorsport driver Josh Webster finished the season as runner-up for the second consecutive year; although he won five races – tied for most wins in the season along with Fortec Motorsport's Seb Morris – during the campaign, a less consistent finishing record allowed Malvern to take the title by 33 points via dropped scores. Morris was third at the end of the season, having started half of the season's races from pole position in his first year in the series having graduated from Ginetta Juniors. The only other race winner was Webster's team-mate David Wagner, who finished fourth in the championship.

Teams and drivers

2012 Entry List[1]
Team	No.	Driver name	Rounds
Middlehurst Motorsport	2	Chris Middlehurst	All
Cliff Dempsey Racing	3	Trent Hindman	1–3
	4	Scott Malvern	1–3
	22	Falco Wauer	5
	23	Matthew Brabham	6
	42	James Theodore	4
Cullen Motorsport	4	Scott Malvern	4–6
	17	Ryan Cullen	6
Antel Motorsport	5	Ivan Taranov	1–5
	6	Raoul Owens	All
	7	Tom Oliphant	All
	8	Henry Chart	All
	18	Jake Hughes	6
Scorpio Motorsport	5	Ivan Taranov	6
	16	Henrique Baptista	All
	20	Macaulay Walsh	All
MGR Motorsport	9	Josh Webster	All
	25	Jake Dalton	All
	43	David Wagner	All
	66	James Fletcher	All
RPD Motorsport	10	Ovie Iroro	2
Hillspeed		Matt Rao	6
	15	Struan Moore	5–6
	28	Kieran Vernon	2–6
	44	Jacob Nortoft	1–5
	49	Marcus Allen	1–2
MTECH Lite	11	Joe Ghanem	2–6
	12	Shahan Sarkissian	2–6
	33	Sean Walkinshaw[2]	All
	36	Jorge Cevallos	All
ACS Motorsport	13	Oliver Sirrell	1–5
Fortec Motorsports	21	Laura Tillett[3]	All
	26	Diego Menchaca	All
	31	Seb Morris	All
	88	Martin Cao[4]	All
SWB Motorsport	24	Tommy Ostgaard	6
	27	Jack Dex	1–2, 6
JWA-Avila	30	Michael Epps	All
	55	Matt Tiffin	All
National College for Motorsport	32	Max Robinson	6
Core Motorsport	50	Anton Spires	6

Race calendar and results

The series will form part of the BARC club racing meetings and will expand to fourteen rounds at six events, with two triple header events. A provisional calendar was released on 10 November 2011, with the final round still to be confirmed. This first provisional calendar showed Snetterton and Brands Hatch as the season opening triple headers.^[5] A revised provisional calendar was released on 2 December 2011, adding Silverstone as the final round, in support of the British Touring Car Championship. The round at Brands Hatch was replaced in favour of a round at Thruxton. The calendar also had major date changes, with the triple header events moved to Snetterton,^[6] and Donington Park.

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team
1	R1	Snetterton 200	7 April	Seb Morris	Scott Malvern	Josh Webster	MGR Motorsport
	R2		8 April	Seb Morris	Seb Morris	Seb Morris	Fortec Motorsport
	R3			Seb Morris	Scott Malvern	Scott Malvern	Cliff Dempsey Racing
2	R4	Rockingham Motor Speedway	20 May	Seb Morris	Scott Malvern	Seb Morris	Fortec Motorsport
	R5			Seb Morris	Seb Morris	Seb Morris	Fortec Motorsport
3	R6	Thruxton Circuit	17 June	Josh Webster	Josh Webster	Scott Malvern	Cliff Dempsey Racing
	R7			Josh Webster	Scott Malvern	Josh Webster	MGR Motorsport
4	R8	Croft Circuit	22 July	Josh Webster	Josh Webster	Josh Webster	MGR Motorsport
	R9			David Wagner	Scott Malvern	Josh Webster	MGR Motorsport
5	R10	Donington Park (National)	18 August	Josh Webster	Josh Webster	Josh Webster	MGR Motorsport
	R11		19 August	Scott Malvern	Scott Malvern	Scott Malvern	Cullen Motorsport
	R12			David Wagner	Seb Morris	David Wagner	MGR Motorsport
6	R13	Silverstone Circuit	6 October	Seb Morris	Seb Morris	Seb Morris	Fortec Motorsport
	R14		7 October	Seb Morris	Scott Malvern	Seb Morris	Fortec Motorsport

Championship standings

A driver's best 13 scores counted towards the championship, with any other points being discarded.

Pos Driver SNE ROC THR CRO DON SIL Points 1 Scott Malvern 13 3 1 2 2 1 5 4 2 2 1 2 3 2 368 2 Josh Webster 1 2 2 13 20 2 1 1 1 1 4 6 2 13 335 3 Seb Morris 6 1 5 1 1 10 Ret Ret 11 Ret 5 3 1 1 274 4 David Wagner 2 4 6 6 Ret 6 Ret 6 3 7 2 1 Ret 5 243 5 Kieran Vernon 4 5 3 2 2 5 6 7 7 7 3 236 6 Macaulay Walsh 3 7 4 5 10 5 3 Ret 17 4 8 4 10 22 214 7 James Fletcher Ret 5 7 3 3 18 8 3 8 8 6 12 9 9 210 8 Jake Dalton 5 Ret 3 7 12 4 4 13 Ret 5 10 8 14 8 192 9 Chris Middlehurst 11 14 15 Ret Ret DNS 11 11 10 3 3 5 5 Ret 147 10 Ivan Taranov 9 6 16 18 7 9 9 14 12 Ret 19 19 8 4 142 11 Diego Menchaca 8 8 9 10 13 19 Ret 7 6 11 18 15 12 Ret 130 12 Jorge Cevallos 14 Ret 11 16 14 7 6 9 7 Ret 12 13 Ret 10 123 13 Michael Epps 19 15 13 15 21 Ret DNS 10 Ret 9 9 9 4 7 112 14 Martin Cao Ret 12 12 8 4 22 7 DNS 15 Ret 13 11 25 18 100 15 Jacob Nortoft Ret Ret DNS 9 8 14 15 Ret 9 10 11 10 87 16 Tom Oliphant 18 17 17 17 17 13 10 Ret 13 14 14 18 20 20 73 17 Jack Dex 7 9 10 Ret Ret 11 6 71 18 Sean Walkinshaw 17 13 20 19 16 15 17 8 18 13 21 Ret Ret 12 71 19 Raoul Owens 10 11 24 12 11 8 Ret Ret Ret 12 24 NC 23 19 70 20 Henrique Baptista 12 19 19 24 19 21 13 16 Ret 18 Ret 17 NC 11 51 21 James Theodore 5 4 42 22 Matt Tiffin 15 Ret 18 22 15 17 19 15 Ret 17 22 21 21 21 38 23 Joe Ghanem Ret Ret 16 18 12 Ret 20 16 14 18 Ret 36 24 Oliver Sirrell 16 16 21 21 22 11 14 18 Ret 21 Ret 23 35 25 Marcus Allen 21 Ret 14 14 9 31 26 Laura Tillett 20 18 22 20 18 DNS DNS 19 16 Ret 17 20 22 25 24 27 Struan Moore 19 23 16 13 17 21 28 Henry Chart 22 Ret 23 23 24 Ret 16 20 14 15 20 24 27 24 21 29 Shahan Sarkissian Ret 23 20 Ret 17 Ret 16 15 22 26 Ret 17 30 Jake Hughes 24 15 7 31 Tommy Ostgaard 15 Ret 7 32 Matt Rao 16 Ret 6 33 Anton Spires Ret 16 6 34 Ryan Cullen 17 23 5 35 Max Robinson 19 Ret 3 Falco Wauer Ret Ret Ret 0 Ovie Iroro DNS DNS 0 Ineligible drivers Trent Hindman 4 10 8 11 6 12 12 0 Matthew Brabham 6 14 0 Pos Driver SNE ROC THR CRO DON SIL 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)

Formula Renault BARC Winter Series

The 2012 Protyre Formula Renault BARC Winter Series with Michelin will be the 15th British Formula Renault Winter Series and the first season without the Formula Renault 2.0 UK championship, making this the first BARC championship only winter series. The series will commence at Brands Hatch on 20–21 October and end at Rockingham on 10 November, after four races at two rounds held in England.^[7]

Teams and drivers

The series organisers announced a 19 car grid on 18 October 2012, for the opening round of the winter series, with more cars expected for the Rockingham round.^[8]

Team	No.	Driver name	Rounds
Middlehurst Motorsport GTR	2	Chris Middlehurst	All
MGR Motorsport	4	Gustav Malja	1
	8	Jake Hughes	2
	14	Matt Mason	All
	15	Tom Oliphant	2
Cliff Dempsey Racing (Team USA)[N 1]	5	Olly Rae	All
	23	Matthew Brabham	All
Cullen Motorsport	7	Ryan Cullen	1
MTech Lite	9	Joe Ghanem	All
	13	Shahan Sarkissian	2
	33	Sean Walkinshaw	All
Hillspeed	10	Matthew Rao	All
	21	George Gamble	All
Core Motorsport	11	Ivan Taranov	All
	30	Michael Epps	All
Fortec Motorsport	12	Jack Aitken	All
	16	Patric Armand	2
	26	Laura Tillett	1
	31	Seb Morris	All
	88	Hongwei Cao	All
Jamun Racing Services	17	Luke Williams	All
SWB Motorsport	27	Cameron Twynham	All
Kingdom Motorsport	50	Anton Spires	1

1. Matthew Brabham competed with the Team USA Banner

Race calendar and results

The calendar was announced by the championship organisers on 7 September 2012, with the first round at Brands Hatch in support of the British Touring Car Championship.^[7]

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team
1	R1	Brands Hatch GP	20 October	Matt Mason	Matt Mason	Seb Morris	Fortec Motorsport
	R2		21 October	Jack Aitken	Matt Mason	Matt Mason	MGR Motorsport
2	R3	Rockingham Motor Speedway	10 November	Seb Morris	Seb Morris	Seb Morris	Fortec Motorsport
	R4			Seb Morris	Jack Aitken[N 1]	Jack Aitken	Fortec Motorsport

Notes

1. Aitken achieved the fastest lap among championship competitors, as Matthew Brabham set the fastest lap of the race, but was ineligible to score the two championship points on offer.

Championship standings

Pos Driver BRH ROC Points 1 Seb Morris 1 4 1 4 113 2 Jack Aitken 2 3 3 1 112 3 Matt Mason 6 1 5 3 104 4 Chris Middlehurst 3 2 4 6 95 5 Hongwei Cao 7 9 2 5 82 6 Cameron Twynham 10 6 10 12 54 7 George Gamble 8 7 Ret 8 50 8 Ivan Taranov 15 Ret 6 7 43 9 Sean Walkinshaw 12 14 13 10 39 10 Michael Epps 4 Ret Ret 9 36 11 Olly Rae 14 10 12 18 34 12 Ryan Cullen 9 8 30 13 Joe Ghanem Ret 11 11 14 30 14 Jake Hughes 8 13 23 15 Tom Oliphant 7 16 22 16 Anton Spires 11 13 20 17 Laura Tillett 13 12 19 18 Luke Williams Ret 15 Ret 15 14 19 Shahan Sarkissian 14 17 13 20 Matt Rao DNS DNS Ret 11 11 Gustav Malja Ret Ret 0 Ineligible drivers Matthew Brabham 5 5 9 2 0 Patric Armand Ret Ret 0 Pos Driver BRH ROC 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)