2017 Formula Renault Northern European Cup

The 2017 Formula Renault Northern European Cup is the twelfth Formula Renault Northern European Cup season, an open-wheel motor racing series for emerging young racing drivers based in Europe.

2017 Formula Renault Northern European Cup

Drivers' Champion: Michaël Benyahia
Teams' Champion: R-ace GP

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2018

Drivers and teams

• For the Spa event, some drivers used different numbers in line with Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 regulations; each driver's Spa race number is displayed in tooltips.

Team	No.	Driver name	Rounds
R-ace GP	1	Charles Milesi[1]	All
	2	Théo Coicaud[1]	All
	3	Michaël Benyahia[1]	All
	4	Gilles Magnus[2]	All
	8	Will Palmer[3]	4
	9	Max Defourny[3]	4
	10	Robert Shwartzman[3]	4
	12	Raúl Guzmán[3]	4
	43	Logan Sargeant[4]	5
Tech 1 Racing	5	Thomas Maxwell[5]	1, 3–4
	6	Thomas Neubauer[5]	1, 3–5
	7	Max Fewtrell[5]	1, 4
	14	Gabriel Aubry[5]	1, 3–5
Josef Kaufmann Racing	11	Sacha Fenestraz[6]	3–5
	41	Yifei Ye[6]	3–5
	42	Luis Leeds[6]	3–4
		James Pull[4]	5
AVF by Adrián Vallés	13	Henrique Chaves[3]	4
	14	Xavier Lloveras[3]	4
	15	Axel Matus[3]	4
	16	Thomas Randle[3]	4
Arden Motorsport	15	James Pull[6]	3
	33	Dan Ticktum[6]	3–4
	34	Ghislain Cordeel[3]	4
		Aleksandr Vartanyan[4]	5
	81	Oscar Piastri[4]	5
	93	Zane Goddard[3]	4
Fortec Motorsport	17	Alex Peroni[3]	4
	18	Aleksey Korneev[3]	4
	19	Frank Bird[5]	1, 4
	20	Najiy Razak[3]	4
	51	Chia Wing Hoong[5]	1
JD Motorsport	21	Sun Yueyang[5]	1, 3–4
	22	Jean-Baptiste Simmenauer[5]	1, 3–4
	23	Aleksandr Vartanyan[3]	4
Burdett Motorsport	25	Julia Pankiewicz[5]	1, 4
	26	Presley Martono[5]	1, 4
MP Motorsport	29	Richard Verschoor[7]	2, 4–5
	30	Jarno Opmeer[7]	2, 4–5
	31	Neil Verhagen[7]	2, 4
Anders Motorsport	48	Andreas Estner[4]	5
BM Racing Team	96	Bartłomiej Mirecki[8]	All

Calendar

The provisional calendar for the 2017 season was announced on 2 December 2016.^[9] On 28 December 2016 was confirmed that Circuit Paul Ricard will host the seventh venue for the season.^[10]

A revision of the calendar reduced the number of rounds to five and amended the clashes between the series and the Eurocup series.^[11] At Spa NEC drivers joined Eurocup drivers on the grid, but the Eurocup drivers were ineligible to score points, and despite that on track races 1 & 3 were won by Sacha Fenestraz and race 2 by Gabriel Aubry they didn't receive NEC trophies.^[12]

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team	Supporting
1	R1	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	24 June	Gabriel Aubry	Gabriel Aubry	Gabriel Aubry	Tech 1 Racing	Clio Cup Italia
	R2		25 June	Gabriel Aubry	Max Fewtrell	Gabriel Aubry	Tech 1 Racing
2	R1	TT Circuit Assen	5 August	Gilles Magnus	Gilles Magnus	Neil Verhagen	MP Motorsport	Gamma Racing Days
	R2		6 August	Gilles Magnus	Gilles Magnus	Richard Verschoor	MP Motorsport
3	R1	Nürburgring, Nürburg	16 September	Sacha Fenestraz	Sacha Fenestraz	Sacha Fenestraz	Josef Kaufmann Racing	Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup
	R2		17 September	Sacha Fenestraz	Sacha Fenestraz	Sacha Fenestraz	Josef Kaufmann Racing
4	R1	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Spa	23 September	Sacha Fenestraz	Michaël Benyahia	Gilles Magnus[N 1]	R-ace GP	European Le Mans Series Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0
	R2			Sacha Fenestraz	Max Defourny	Charles Milesi[N 2]	R-ace GP
	R3		24 September	Sacha Fenestraz	Sacha Fenestraz	Gilles Magnus[N 1]	R-ace GP
5	R1	Hockenheimring, Hockenheim	7 October	Yifei Ye	Yifei Ye	Yifei Ye	Josef Kaufmann Racing	Deutsche Tourenwagen Classics
	R2			Yifei Ye	Yifei Ye	Yifei Ye	Josef Kaufmann Racing

Championship standings

Points system

Points were awarded to the top 20 classified finishers.

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th	16th	17th	18th	19th	20th
Points	30	24	20	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1

Drivers' championship

Pos. Driver MNZ ASS NÜR SPA HOC Points 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1 Michaël Benyahia Ret 3 5 6 7 5 27 24 23 9 9 163 2 Gilles Magnus 5 4 7 2 8 6 14 Ret 18 15 10 161 3 Bartłomiej Mirecki 3 11 6 5 11 11 30 30 26 11 6 151 4 Théo Coicaud 10 9 8 7 13 12 28 31 25 12 13 129.5 5 Gabriel Aubry 1 1 5 2 6 1 4 6 Ret 115 6 Sacha Fenestraz 1 1 1 3 1 2 2 108 7 Charles Milesi Ret 8 3 Ret DSQ 7 23 20 Ret 13 12 106 8 Yifei Ye 2 3 3 7 8 1 1 104 9 Richard Verschoor 2 1 7 12 Ret 3 5 90 10 Jarno Opmeer 4 3 11 10 6 7 4 68 11 Thomas Neubauer 6 Ret 9 Ret 25 33 29 14 11 52 12 Max Fewtrell 2 2 5 4 9 48 13 James Pull 10 9 10 7 48 14 Neil Verhagen 1 4 8 8 5 47 15 Jean-Baptiste Simmenauer Ret 6 6 4 26 22 24 47 16 Aleksandr Vartanyan 22 19 10 5 3 36 17 Thomas Maxwell Ret 5 14 8 13 13 12 36 18 Sun Yueyang 4 Ret 12 14 34 26 Ret 33 19 Luis Leeds 4 10 29 23 Ret 28 20 Frank Bird 9 7 32 27 20 26 21 Oscar Piastri 8 8 26 22 Julia Pankiewicz 7 10 31 29 28 25 23 Logan Sargeant 4 14 24 24 Chia Wing Hoong 8 12 22 25 Presley Martono Ret Ret 20 17 17 0 Andreas Estner WD WD 0 Guest drivers ineligible to score points Max Defourny 4 2 3 Will Palmer 9 6 2 Robert Shwartzman 2 25 Ret Dan Ticktum 3 13 18 11 7 Thomas Randle 10 5 11 Henrique Chaves 12 9 14 Zane Goddard 24 18 13 Axel Matus 17 14 19 Alex Peroni 15 16 15 Aleksey Korneev 19 15 21 Raúl Guzmán 16 32 16 Xavier Lloveras 21 21 22 Najiy Razak 33 28 27 Pos. Driver MNZ ASS NÜR SPA HOC 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 † — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.

Teams' championship

Pos	Team	Points
1	R-ace GP	348
2	Josef Kaufmann Racing	204
3	MP Motorsport	174
4	Tech 1 Racing	170
5	BM Racing Team	87
6	JD Motorsport	40
7	Arden Motorsport	80
8	Fortec Motorsports	12
9	Burdett Motorsport	7
NC	Anders Motorsport	0
Teams ineligible for points
NC	AVF by Adrián Vallés	0

Footnotes

1. Sacha Fenestraz won the race, but he wasn't eligible to claim winning trophy at Spa because he wasn't a Northern European Cup regular.
2. Gabriel Aubry won the race, but he wasn't eligible to claim winning trophy at Spa because he wasn't a Northern European Cup regular.