2017 World Series Formula V8 3.5

The 2017 World Series Formula V8 3.5 was a multi-event motor racing championship for open wheel, formula racing cars held across Europe, was the second and final season of the Formula V8 3.5 Series The championship features drivers competing in World Series Formula 3.5 V8 formula race cars that conform to the technical regulations for the championship. The 2017 became the first season as feeder series to FIA World Endurance Championship. The season also marked the return of the name "World Series" after one season, as the FIA accepted the request from promoter RPM Racing.^[1] The name "World Series" was retrieved from the championship after Renault Sport withdraw its support and the Formula Renault 3.5 became Formula V8 3.5 for the 2016 season. It was the final season of the series which was promoted by RPM-MKTG since 1998.^[2]

2017 World Series Formula V8 3.5

Drivers' Champion: Pietro Fittipaldi
Teams' Champion: Lotus

Previous

2016

Next

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Teams and drivers

Team	No.	Driver name	Status	Rounds
Lotus	3	René Binder[3]		All
	4	Pietro Fittipaldi[3]		All
SMP Racing with AVF[4]	5	Egor Orudzhev[5]		1–8
		Konstantin Tereshchenko[6]	R	9
	6	Matevos Isaakyan[7]		All
Fortec Motorsports	7	Alfonso Celis Jr.[8]		All
	8	Diego Menchaca[9]	R	All
Teo Martín Motorsport	9	Konstantin Tereshchenko[10]	R	1–8
	10	Nelson Mason[11]	R	1–5
		Álex Palou[12]	R	6–8
RP Motorsport	11	Roy Nissany[13]		All
	12	Yu Kanamaru[14]		All
	21	Damiano Fioravanti[15]	R	2–6
		Tatiana Calderón[16]	R	9
Il Barone Rampante[17]	15	Giuseppe Cipriani[17]		1–8
	16	Damiano Fioravanti[13]	R	1
AVF	17	Henrique Chaves[6]	R	9

Driver changes

Changed teams

• Alfonso Celis Jr. switched from AVF to Fortec Motorsports.^[8]
• Pietro Fittipaldi, who raced for Fortec Motorsports moved to Lotus.^[3]
• Matevos Isaakyan moved from SMP Racing to AVF.^[7] He was joined in AVF by Egor Orudzhev, who left Arden Motorsport.^[5]
• Yu Kanamaru, who raced for Teo Martín Motorsport moved to RP Motorsport.^[14]

Entering World Series Formula V8 3.5

• Euroformula Open Championship drivers Damiano Fioravanti and Diego Menchaca made their debut with Il Barone Rampante and Fortec Motorsports respectively.^[13][9]
• Nelson Mason returned to racing for the first time since 2014 as he joins the World Series with Teo Martín Motorsport.^[11]
• Konstantin Tereshchenko stepped up from GP3 Series to race with Teo Martín Motorsport.^[10]

Leaving World Series Formula V8 3.5

• RP Motorsport driver Vitor Baptista returned to the Formula 3 Brasil championship.
• Fortec Motorsports driver and 2016 runner-up Louis Delétraz left the series to join the FIA Formula 2 Championship.^[18]
• 2016 champion Tom Dillmann moved to Formula E.^[19]
• Arden Motorsport driver Aurélien Panis will make his touring car racing debut in World Touring Car Championship.^[20]
• SMP Racing driver Matthieu Vaxiviere switched to sports car racing, moving to FIA World Endurance Championship^[21]

Mid-season changes

• Damiano Fioravanti restored his collaboration with RP Motorsport, leaving the Barone Rampante team after the first round due to funding issues.^[15] Fiorovanti's seat at RP Motorsport was taken by Tatiana Calderón, who will make her debut in the series in Bahrain.^[16]
• Prior to the Nürburgring round, Nelson Mason was replaced (due to a lack of funding) by Spanish driver Álex Palou.^[12]
• Prior to the Bahrain round, Egor Orudzhev was diagnosed with acute tonsillitis and was replaced by his fellow Russian Konstantin Tereshchenko.^[6]
• Henrique Chaves joined AVF in their third car for the final round in Bahrain.^[6]

Team changes

• Arden Motorsport, Comtec Racing and SMP Racing have left the series. However, both Comtec and the proposed Durango entry were listed on the World Series website with "TBC" driver names, suggesting they may enter at a later date. The Durango Racing Team entry was later bought by Giuseppe Cipriani, who entered his own team, Il Barone Rampante.^[17]

Race calendar

The provisional calendar for the 2017 season was announced on 7 November 2016, at the final round of the 2016 season.^[22] The Nürburgring round will return to the World Series' schedule, while the Hungaroring, Le Castellet, Spielberg and Barcelona will be removed from the calendar. The championship will have rounds outside Europe for the first time since 2002, visiting Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Circuit of the Americas and Bahrain International Circuit.

Round		Circuit	Date	Supporting
1	R1	Silverstone Circuit	15 April	6 Hours of Silverstone
	R2		16 April
2	R1	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Spa	5 May	6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps
	R2		6 May
3	R1	Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza	13 May	4 Hours of Monza
	R2		14 May
4	R1	Circuito de Jerez, Jerez de la Frontera	27 May	Renault Clio Cup Spain
	R2		28 May
5	R1	Ciudad del Motor de Aragón, Alcañiz	24 June
	R2		25 June
6	R1	Nürburgring, Nürburg	15 July	6 Hours of Nürburgring
	R2		16 July
7	R1	Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City	2 September	6 Hours of Mexico
	R2		3 September
8	R1	Circuit of the Americas, Austin	15 September	6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas
	R2		16 September
9	R1	Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir	17 November	6 Hours of Bahrain
	R2		18 November

Results

Round		Circuit	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team	Rookie Winner
1	R1	Silverstone Circuit	Pietro Fittipaldi	Alfonso Celis Jr.	Pietro Fittipaldi	Lotus	Damiano Fioravanti
	R2		Pietro Fittipaldi	Nelson Mason	Pietro Fittipaldi	Lotus	Konstantin Tereshchenko
2	R1	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	Alfonso Celis Jr.	Roy Nissany	Alfonso Celis Jr.	Fortec Motorsports	Diego Menchaca
	R2		Pietro Fittipaldi	Matevos Isaakyan	Matevos Isaakyan	SMP Racing with AVF	Diego Menchaca
3	R1	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	Pietro Fittipaldi	Pietro Fittipaldi	René Binder	Lotus	Nelson Mason
	R2		Pietro Fittipaldi	Roy Nissany	René Binder	Lotus	Nelson Mason
4	R1	Circuito de Jerez	Egor Orudzhev	Egor Orudzhev	Roy Nissany	RP Motorsport	Nelson Mason
	R2		Pietro Fittipaldi	Pietro Fittipaldi	Pietro Fittipaldi	Lotus	Damiano Fioravanti
5	R1	Ciudad del Motor de Aragón	Pietro Fittipaldi	Egor Orudzhev	Egor Orudzhev	SMP Racing with AVF	Konstantin Tereshchenko
	R2		Pietro Fittipaldi	Alfonso Celis Jr.	Pietro Fittipaldi	Lotus	Diego Menchaca
6	R1	Nürburgring	Álex Palou	Matevos Isaakyan	Matevos Isaakyan	SMP Racing with AVF	Diego Menchaca
	R2		Álex Palou	Álex Palou	Álex Palou	Teo Martín Motorsport	Álex Palou
7	R1	Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez	Pietro Fittipaldi	Matevos Isaakyan	Pietro Fittipaldi	Lotus	Álex Palou
	R2		Pietro Fittipaldi	Matevos Isaakyan	Pietro Fittipaldi	Lotus	Konstantin Tereshchenko
8	R1	Circuit of the Americas	René Binder	René Binder	René Binder	Lotus	Álex Palou
	R2		Álex Palou	René Binder	Egor Orudzhev	SMP Racing with AVF	Álex Palou
9	R1	Bahrain International Circuit	Matevos Isaakyan	Henrique Chaves	Henrique Chaves	AVF	Henrique Chaves
	R2		René Binder	Yu Kanamaru	René Binder	Lotus	Tatiana Calderón

Championship standings

Points system

Points were awarded to the top 10 classified finishers.

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
Points	25	18	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1

Drivers' Championship

Pos Driver SIL SPA MNZ JER ALC NÜR MEX COA BHR Points 1 Pietro Fittipaldi 1 1 8 6 9 4 2 1 Ret 1 7 6 1 1 3 Ret 2 2 259 2 Matevos Isaakyan 4 Ret Ret 1 3 5 3 3 2 5 1 2 2 4 4 6 NC 9 215 3 Alfonso Celis Jr. 3 6 1 3 4 Ret 6 4 3 2 2 8 5 2 8 5 6 8 204 4 René Binder 5 4 6 2 1 1 4 5 5 Ret 6 9 6 Ret 1 10 9 1 201 5 Roy Nissany Ret 3 2 4 2 2 1 Ret 4 6 4 5 9 8 6 4 3 4 201 6 Egor Orudzhev 2 2 3 7 5 Ret Ret 2 1 3 3 3 Ret Ret 2 1 198 7 Yu Kanamaru 10 Ret 5 8 Ret 3 7 10 7 4 5 7 7 7 7 7 4 6 115 8 Konstantin Tereshchenko 8 5 10 11 8 7 8 7 6 Ret 9 4 4 3 Ret 8 7 Ret 94 9 Diego Menchaca 9 7 4 5 7 DNS 9 9 9 7 8 10 8 5 9 3 8 7 94 10 Álex Palou 11 1 3 Ret 5 2 68 11 Nelson Mason 7 Ret 9 9 6 6 5 8 DNP 9 42 12 Damiano Fioravanti 6 8 7 10 Ret Ret Ret 6 8 8 10 Ret 36 13 Henrique Chaves 1 5 35 14 Tatiana Calderón 5 3 25 15 Giuseppe Cipriani 11 9 Ret 12 10 8 10 Ret 10 10 12 Ret 10 6 Ret 9† 21 Pos Driver SIL SPA MNZ JER ALC NÜR MEX COA BHR 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

Only two best-finishing cars are allowed to score points in the championship.

Pos	Team	SIL		SPA		MNZ		JER		ALC		NÜR		MEX		COA		BHR		Points
1	Lotus	1	1	6	2	1	1	2	1	5	1	6	6	1	1	1	10	2	1	460
		5	4	8	6	9	4	4	4	Ret	Ret	7	9	6	Ret	3	Ret	9	2
2	SMP Racing with AVF	2	2	3	1	3	5	3	2	1	3	1	2	2	4	2	1	7	9	419
		4	Ret	Ret	7	5	Ret	Ret	3	2	5	3	3	Ret	Ret	4	6	NC	Ret
3	RP Motorsport	10	3	2	4	2	2	1	6	4	4	4	5	7	7	6	4	3	3	313
		Ret	Ret	5	8	Ret	3	7	10	7	6	5	7	9	8	7	7	4	4
4	Fortec Motorsports	3	6	1	3	4	Ret	6	4	3	2	2	8	5	2	8	3	6	7	305
		9	7	4	5	7	DNS	9	9	9	7	8	10	8	5	9	5	8	8
5	Teo Martín Motorsport	7	5	9	9	6	6	5	7	6	9	9	1	3	3	5	2			198
		8	Ret	10	11	8	7	8	8	DNP	Ret	11	4	4	Ret	Ret	8
6	AVF																	1	5	35
7	Il Barone Rampante	6	8	Ret	12	10	8	10	Ret	10	10	12	Ret	10	6	Ret	9†			33
		11	9