2013 Formula Renault 3.5 Series

The 2013 Formula Renault 3.5 Series season was a multi-event motor racing championship for open wheel, formula racing cars held across Europe. The championship features drivers competing in 3.5 litre Formula Renault single seat race cars that conform to the technical regulations for the championship. The 2013 season was the ninth Formula Renault 3.5 Series season organized by the Renault Sport. The season began at Monza Circuit on 6 April and finished on 20 October at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. The series formed part of the World Series by Renault meetings at seven double header events with double header event at Monza and single event at Monaco.

2013 Formula Renault 3.5 Series

Drivers' Champion: Kevin Magnussen
Teams' Champion: DAMS

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2012

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2014

The championship battle was between McLaren junior programme drivers Kevin Magnussen and Stoffel Vandoorne. Magnussen clinched the championship title with a race to spare,^[1] and ultimately finished sixty points ahead of Vandoorne. Despite having less wins than in 2012, António Félix da Costa improved to the third place in the drivers' standings. Nico Müller, Marco Sørensen and Carlos Huertas were the only other winners outside the top three.

Teams and drivers

Team No. Driver name Status Rounds Tech 1 Racing[2] 1 Mikhail Aleshin[3] All 2 Nigel Melker[4] All Arden Caterham[2] 3 António Félix da Costa[5] All 4 Pietro Fantin[6] R All Fortec Motorsports[2] 5 Stoffel Vandoorne[7] R All 6 Oliver Webb[8] All ISR[2] 7 Sergey Sirotkin[9] R All 8 Christopher Zanella[10] R All Lotus[2] 9 Marco Sørensen[11] All 10 Marlon Stöckinger[11] R All Carlin[2] 11 Carlos Huertas[12] All 12 Jazeman Jaafar[13] R All SMP Racing by Comtec[2] 15 Daniil Move[14] All 16 Lucas Foresti[14] All International Draco Racing[2] 17 André Negrão[15] All 18 Nico Müller[16] All DAMS[2] 19 Norman Nato[17] R All 20 Kevin Magnussen[18] All P1 Motorsport[2] P1 by Strakka Racing[19][N 1] 21 Will Stevens[20] All 22 Matias Laine[21] R All Zeta Corse[22] 23 Mihai Marinescu[23] R 1–2 Carlos Sainz Jr.[24] R 3–4 William Buller[25] R 5–9 24 Emmanuel Piget[23] R 1 Mathéo Tuscher[26] R 2 Nick Yelloly[27] 3 Mihai Marinescu[23] R 4–5 Riccardo Agostini[28] R 6 Carlos Sainz Jr.[29] R 7–9 Pons Racing[2] 25 Zoël Amberg[30] All 26 Nikolay Martsenko[31] All AV Formula[32] 27 Arthur Pic[33] All 28 Yann Cunha[33] All

Icon Meaning R Series rookie for 2013

Driver changes

• Following a part-time campaign with Tech 1 Racing, Daniel Abt joined the GP2 Series with ART Grand Prix.
• Mikhail Aleshin switched from Team RFR to Tech 1 Racing.^[3]
• Jules Bianchi left Tech 1 Racing to race in Formula One with Marussia.
• Sam Bird, who finished third in 2012, left ISR to join Russian Time in the GP2 Series.
• Yann Cunha left Pons Racing to join AV Formula.^[33]
• Pietro Fantin graduated from the British Formula 3 to join Formula Renault, where he races for Arden Caterham.^[6]
• After losing his seat in DAMS,^[17][18] Lucas Foresti joined at Comtec Racing.^[14]
• Vittorio Ghirelli, who raced with Comtec Racing moved to Auto GP.^[34]
• Walter Grubmüller left P1 Motorsport after three consecutive seasons.
• Carlos Huertas moved from Fortec to Carlin, the team he raced for in the 2011 British Formula 3 Championship.^[12]
• Jazeman Jaafar entered the Formula Renault series with Carlin, the team he placed second with in the 2012 British Formula Three championship.^[13]
• Kevin Korjus, who contested the 2012 season with Tech 1 Racing and Lotus, moved to the GP3 Series with Koiranen GP.^[35]
• Matias Laine moved from the GP3 Series to race in Formula Renault 3.5 for P1 Motorsport.^[21]
• Kevin Magnussen joined DAMS after racing for Carlin in 2012.^[18]
• Mihai Marinescu, who finished fifth in the 2012 FIA Formula Two Championship, signed with the Zeta Corse team.^[23] After being replaced by Nick Yelloly for the Monaco round of the championship,^[27] Marinescu returned to the team for the race at Spa-Francorchamps.^[36]
• After one season with BVM Target, Nikolay Martsenko switched to Pons Racing.^[31]
• Nigel Melker, who competed in the GP2 Series in 2012, joined Tech 1 Racing.^[4]
• Daniil Move switched from P1 Motorsport to SMP Racing by Comtec.^[14]
• Formula Renault 2.0 Alps runner-up Norman Nato joined DAMS.^[17]
• Arthur Pic switched from DAMS to AV Formula.^[33]
• After two years without a drive, Emmanuel Piget made his return to motor racing with Zeta Corse.^[23]
• After competing part-time in 2012, César Ramos, Davide Rigon and Daniel Zampieri all moved to the Blancpain Endurance Series, with the three of them co-driving the #44 Kessel Racing car.
• Jake Rosenzweig left the series after 3 years, instead doing a season in GP2 with Barwa Addax.
• Alexander Rossi, who contested the 2012 season with Arden Caterham, left the series, concentrating on his Caterham F1 reserve driver duties.^[37]
• Sergey Sirotkin, who raced in the Auto GP World Series and Italian Formula Three in 2012 and contested at Moscow Formula Renault 3.5 Series round with BVM Target, stepped up to the series with ISR.^[9]
• After contesting the first three rounds of 2012 before injury, Richie Stanaway moved to the Porsche Supercup.
• Will Stevens signed with P1 Motorsport after a season with Carlin.^[20]
• Marlon Stöckinger joined Lotus after racing in GP3 Series.^[11]
• After competing in the last three rounds of the 2012 season, Aaro Vainio left Formula Renault to concentrate on GP3.
• Stoffel Vandoorne, the reigning Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 champion, moved into the Formula Renault 3.5 Series, racing for Fortec Motorsports.^[7]
• Giovanni Venturini moved to the GP3 Series full-time.
• Oliver Webb, who competed in Indy Lights in 2012, returned to the series with Fortec Motorsports.^[8]
• Christopher Zanella, who finished third in the 2012 FIA Formula Two Championship signed with ISR team.^[10]

Mid-season changes

• FIA Formula Two runner-up Mathéo Tuscher replaced Emmanuel Piget at Zeta Corse after the first round.^[26]
• Carlos Sainz Jr. joined Zeta Corse for the third round of the championship in Monaco, replacing Marinescu.^[24] Sainz races for the team again for the final three rounds.
• After racing for Comtec Racing in 2012, Nick Yelloly moved to the GP3 Series with Carlin. Yelloly returned to Formula Renault for the Monaco round, replacing Mathéo Tuscher at Zeta Corse.^[27] Marinescu returned for the Belgian and Russian rounds. At the Red Bull Ring, the seat was occupied by Italian Formula Three champion Riccardo Agostini.^[28]
• William Buller replaced Sainz Jr. for the Moscow Raceway round.^[25]

Team changes

• Former Formula Renault 3.5 driver Adrián Vallés returned to the category as team owner of AV Formula.^[32]
• BVM Target was demoted from racing team to reserve team when series organisers released a provisional entry list in November 2012. The team was divided into two entries; Zeta Management and MT Motorsport, which was previously known as the Max Travin Racing Team.^[32] The team was later accepted onto the grid under the name Zeta Corse and registered as an Italian team.^[22]
• Team RFR—previously known as KMP Racing—left the series after the 2012 season.^[32]

Race calendar and results

The calendar for the 2013 season was announced on 20 October 2012, the day before the end of the 2012 season.^[38] Seven of the nine rounds formed meetings of the 2013 World Series by Renault season, with additional rounds in support of the Superstars Series at Monza, and the 2013 Monaco Grand Prix. The championship visited the Red Bull Ring for the first time and returned to Monza. The Nürburgring and Silverstone have been removed from the schedule.

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team	Rookie Winner
1	R1	Monza Circuit	6 April	Stoffel Vandoorne	Will Stevens	Stoffel Vandoorne	Fortec Motorsports	Stoffel Vandoorne
	R2		7 April	António Félix da Costa	Arthur Pic	António Félix da Costa	Arden Caterham	Stoffel Vandoorne
2	R1	Ciudad del Motor de Aragón, Alcañiz	27 April	Kevin Magnussen	Kevin Magnussen	Kevin Magnussen	DAMS	Sergey Sirotkin
	R2		28 April[N 2]	Norman Nato	Carlos Huertas	Carlos Huertas	Carlin	Sergey Sirotkin
3		Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo	26 May	Nico Müller	Nigel Melker	Nico Müller	International Draco Racing	Jazeman Jaafar
4	R1	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Spa	1 June	Kevin Magnussen	Lucas Foresti	Kevin Magnussen	DAMS	Jazeman Jaafar
	R2		2 June	Kevin Magnussen	Kevin Magnussen	Stoffel Vandoorne	Fortec Motorsports	Stoffel Vandoorne
5	R1	Moscow Raceway, Volokolamsk	22 June	Stoffel Vandoorne	Stoffel Vandoorne	Stoffel Vandoorne	Fortec Motorsports	Stoffel Vandoorne
	R2		23 June	Stoffel Vandoorne	Stoffel Vandoorne	Stoffel Vandoorne	Fortec Motorsports	Stoffel Vandoorne
6	R1	Red Bull Ring, Spielberg	20 July	Marco Sørensen	Nigel Melker	Marco Sørensen	Lotus	William Buller
	R2		21 July	Marco Sørensen	Marco Sørensen	Marco Sørensen	Lotus	Sergey Sirotkin
7	R1	Hungaroring, Budapest	14 September	André Negrão	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Nico Müller	International Draco Racing	Sergey Sirotkin
	R2		15 September	Kevin Magnussen	António Félix da Costa	António Félix da Costa	Arden Caterham	Stoffel Vandoorne
8	R1	Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet	28 September	Kevin Magnussen	Kevin Magnussen	António Félix da Costa	Arden Caterham	Stoffel Vandoorne
	R2		29 September	Kevin Magnussen	António Félix da Costa	Kevin Magnussen	DAMS	William Buller
9	R1	Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Barcelona	19 October	Kevin Magnussen	Kevin Magnussen	Kevin Magnussen	DAMS	Stoffel Vandoorne
	R2		20 October	Kevin Magnussen	Will Stevens	Kevin Magnussen	DAMS	Stoffel Vandoorne

Championship standings

Drivers' Championship

Pos Driver MNZ ALC MON SPA MSC RBR HUN LEC CAT Points 1 Kevin Magnussen 2 2 1 9 4 1 3 11 2 3 3 2 2 DSQ 1 1 1 274 2 Stoffel Vandoorne 1 3 8 3 9 13 1 1 1 Ret Ret 4 3 2 Ret 3 2 214 3 António Félix da Costa Ret 1 13 7 5 2 4 2 Ret 7 Ret Ret 1 1 3 4 13 172 4 Will Stevens 18 Ret 2 4 7 Ret 2 4 3 4 6 8 Ret 5 13 2 3 148 5 Nico Müller 13 5 Ret 5 1 Ret 5 7 4 13 8 1 5 10 2 12 4 143 6 Nigel Melker 5 11 6 6 17 3 6 3 15 2 2 6 4 Ret 4 Ret 8 136 7 Marco Sørensen 19 18 9 10 2 5 10 10 17 1 1 12 9 4 5 Ret 7 113 8 Arthur Pic 6 4 3 Ret 10 4 Ret 12 16 5 20 9 Ret 6 7 Ret Ret 74 9 Sergey Sirotkin Ret 19† 4 2 22 18 8 DNS 11 Ret 4 3 12 [N 3] Ret Ret Ret 61 10 André Negrão 11 13 Ret 8 12 7 Ret 6 6 9 11 21† 6 3 11 Ret Ret 51 11 William Buller 5 20 6 5 Ret 16 8 8 5 Ret 46 12 Mikhail Aleshin 15 14 10 11 8 14 Ret 16 5 Ret 18 5 13 17† 6 Ret 14 33 13 Norman Nato 10 6 5 20 Ret 15 15 13 10 Ret 10 15 11 18 9 Ret 5 33 14 Carlos Huertas 16 16 20 1 15 10 Ret 15 19 Ret Ret 17 8 Ret 18 Ret 18 30 15 Oliver Webb 4 9 11 17 11 12 9 9 7 DNS 16 16 10 13 22 10 10 27 16 Christopher Zanella 3 8 7 Ret Ret 11 13 22 23 16 14 Ret 19 Ret 19 Ret 11 25 17 Jazeman Jaafar 7 Ret 18 12 3 9 19† Ret 13 10 13 20 20 14 14 [N 4] 24 18 Marlon Stöckinger 14 12 19 DNS Ret 20 17 8 12 8 7 13 7 15 10 Ret 9 23 19 Carlos Sainz Jr. 6 Ret 18† 7 22 16† Ret Ret 6 22 20 Nikolay Martsenko Ret Ret 12 21 21 6 7 Ret 14 Ret Ret 11 Ret 7 12 13† 17 20 21 Pietro Fantin Ret 7 Ret 18 Ret 16 12 18 8 Ret 9 Ret 14 11 20 9 20 14 22 Daniil Move Ret NC 21 15 13 8 Ret 17 9 14 17 18 Ret 9 21 8 Ret 12 23 Matias Laine 9 Ret 16 14 19 17 11 14 21 Ret 15 10 15 Ret 16 7 16 9 24 Zoël Amberg 12 20 17 19 20 19 16 21 22 11 19† 19 18 12 15 6 12 8 25 Mihai Marinescu 8 10 Ret Ret 21 14 20 18 5 26 Lucas Foresti Ret Ret 14 16 16 22 Ret Ret DNS 12 21† 14 17 Ret 17 11 15 0 27 Yann Cunha Ret 15 15 13 18 Ret Ret 19 Ret 15 12 Ret 21 Ret Ret Ret 19 0 28 Nick Yelloly 14 0 29 Emmanuel Piget 17 17 0 30 Mathéo Tuscher 22 22† 0 Riccardo Agostini Ret Ret 0 Pos Driver MNZ ALC MON SPA MSC RBR HUN LEC CAT 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 † – Retired, but classified

Teams' Championship

Pos Team Car No. MNZ ALC MON SPA MSC RBR HUN LEC CAT Points 1 DAMS 19 10 6 5 20 Ret 15 15 13 10 Ret 10 15 11 18 9 Ret 5 307 20 2 2 1 9 4 1 3 11 2 3 3 2 2 DSQ 1 1 1 2 Fortec Motorsports 5 1 3 8 3 9 13 1 1 1 Ret Ret 4 3 2 Ret 3 2 241 6 4 9 11 17 11 12 9 9 7 DNS 16 16 10 13 22 10 10 3 International Draco Racing 17 11 13 Ret 8 12 7 Ret 6 6 9 11 21† 6 3 11 12 Ret 194 18 13 5 Ret 5 1 Ret 5 7 4 13 8 1 5 10 2 Ret 4 4 Arden Caterham 3 Ret 1 13 7 5 2 4 2 Ret 7 Ret Ret 1 1 3 4 13 186 4 Ret 7 Ret 18 Ret 16 12 18 8 Ret 9 Ret 14 11 20 9 20 5 Tech 1 Racing 1 15 14 10 11 8 14 Ret 16 5 Ret 18 5 13 17† 6 Ret 14 169 2 5 11 6 6 17 3 6 3 15 2 2 6 4 Ret 4 Ret 8 6 P1 Motorsport P1 by Strakka Racing 21 18 Ret 2 4 7 Ret 2 4 3 4 6 8 Ret 5 13 2 3 157 22 9 Ret 16 14 19 17 11 15 21 Ret 15 10 15 Ret 16 7 16 7 Lotus 9 19 18 9 10 2 5 10 10 17 1 1 12 9 4 5 Ret 7 136 10 14 12 19 DNS Ret 20 17 8 12 8 7 13 7 15 10 Ret 9 8 ISR 7 Ret 19† 4 2 22 18 8 Ret 11 Ret 4 3 12 [N 3] Ret Ret Ret 86 8 3 8 7 Ret Ret 11 13 22 23 16 14 Ret 19 Ret 19 Ret 11 9 AV Formula 27 6 4 3 Ret 10 4 Ret 12 16 5 20 9 Ret 6 7 Ret Ret 74 28 Ret 15 15 13 18 Ret Ret 19 Ret 15 21 Ret 21 Ret Ret Ret 19 10 Zeta Corse 23 8 10 Ret Ret 6 Ret 18† 5 20 6 5 Ret 16 8 8 5 Ret 73 24 17 17 22 22† 14 21 14 20 18 Ret Ret 7 22 16† Ret Ret 6 11 Carlin 11 16 16 20 1 15 10 Ret 15 19 Ret Ret 17 8 Ret 18 Ret 18 54 12 7 Ret 18 12 3 9 19† Ret 13 10 13 20 20 14 14 [N 4] 12 Pons Racing 25 12 20 17 19 20 19 16 21 22 11 19† 19 18 12 15 6 12 28 26 Ret Ret 12 21 21 6 7 Ret 14 Ret Ret 11 Ret 7 12 13 17 13 SMP Racing by Comtec 15 Ret NC 21 15 13 8 Ret 17 9 14 17 18 Ret 9 21 8 Ret 12 16 Ret Ret 14 16 16 22 Ret Ret DNS 12 21† 14 17 Ret 17 11 15 Pos Team Car No. MNZ ALC MON SPA MSC RBR HUN LEC CAT 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)

• Polesitter for each race in bold. No points are awarded.
• Driver who recorded fastest lap denoted in italics. No points are awarded.
• Driver who retired but was classified denoted by †.

Footnotes

1. The team competed as P1 Motorsport for the first round at Monza, before Nick Leventis purchased the team's assets and renamed it as "P1 by Strakka Racing".
2. Both qualifying and the race for the second event at Aragon were shortened and the mandatory pit-stop cancelled after problems with Zytek engines were detected.^[39]
3. Sirotkin missed the first race at Le Castellet, due to commitments with Sauber in Sochi, Russia.^[40]
4. Jaafar missed the final round at Barcelona after suffering from severe parotiditis.