2018 SMP F4 Championship

The 2018 SMP F4 Championship was the fourth season of the SMP F4 Championship. The series is also known as the FIA North-European Zone (NEZ) championship. Koiranen GP, despite creating Formula Academy Finland,^[1] continued as the promoter.^[2] The season started in Smolensk Ring on 5 May and finished in Assen Circuit on 21 October.^[3]

2018 SMP F4 Championship

Drivers' Champion: Konsta Lappalainen

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Champion Konsta Lappalainen won seven races, with runner-up Michael Belov and third-placed Isac Blomqvist taking five and three victories respectively.

Drivers

Team	No.	Driver	Rounds
MP Motorsport	1	Freek Schothorst[4]	1
	12	Patrick Schott[5][N 1]	1–4
	52	László Tóth	7
	64	Isac Blomqvist[1]	All
	888	Amaury Cordeel[6][N 1]	3–5, 7
SMP Racing	2	Pavel Bulantsev[1]	All
	7	Nikita Volegov[7]	2
	11	Aleksandr Vilaev[8]	All
	16	Nikita Aleksandrov[8]	All
	20	Ivan Berets[1]	All
	21	Artem Lobanenko[9]	All
	27	Ivan Shvetsov[9]	All
	41	Aleksandr Vartanyan[1]	3
		Denis Bulatov	4
		Irina Sidorkova	7
	57	Michael Belov[9]	All
Formula Academy	3	Noah Watt	7
Kart In Club Driving Academy	10	Konsta Lappalainen[10]	All
	69	Jesse Salmenautio[10]	All
Jimi Hannus Racing	12	Jimi Hannus	6
Koiranen GP	32	Tuomas Haapalainen[6]	3–5
		Mi Maijala	6
	56	Markus Laitala[6]	3–6

Race calendar

On 27 April 2018 the calendar was announced. For the first time of the existence of the championship Sochi Autodrom hadn't received a slot in the schedule. Circuit Zandvoort was replaced with a round at the Assen Circuit, whilst Autodrom Moscow and NRING Circuit were included to the calendar for the first time.^[3] Round 6 was originally scheduled to be held at Auto24ring on 15–16 September, but was rescheduled to take place at Alastaro Circuit on 22–23 September.^[11]

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team	Supporting
1	R1	Smolensk Ring, Safonovo	5 May	Isac Blomqvist	Isac Blomqvist	Isac Blomqvist	MP Motorsport	2018 Russian Circuit Racing Series
	R2				Konsta Lappalainen	Isac Blomqvist	MP Motorsport
	R3		6 May	Ivan Berets	Freek Schothorst	Ivan Berets	SMP Racing
2	R4	NRING Circuit, Bogorodsk	2 June	Konsta Lappalainen	Michael Belov	Michael Belov	SMP Racing
	R5				Isac Blomqvist	Pavel Bulantsev	SMP Racing
	R6		3 June	Michael Belov	Michael Belov	Michael Belov	SMP Racing
3	R7	Moscow Raceway, Volokolamsk	11 August	Konsta Lappalainen	Tuomas Haapalainen	Konsta Lappalainen	Kart In Club Driving Academy
	R8				Isac Blomqvist	Isac Blomqvist	MP Motorsport
	R9		12 August	Konsta Lappalainen	Aleksandr Vartanyan	Konsta Lappalainen	Kart In Club Driving Academy
4	R10	Autodrom Moscow, Myachkovo Airport	18 August	Konsta Lappalainen	Konsta Lappalainen	Konsta Lappalainen	Kart In Club Driving Academy	Mitjet Russian Cup IV
	R11				Konsta Lappalainen	Konsta Lappalainen	Kart In Club Driving Academy
	R12		19 August	Amaury Cordeel	Amaury Cordeel	Amaury Cordeel	MP Motorsport
5	R13	Ahvenisto Race Circuit, Hämeenlinna	1 September	Michael Belov	Konsta Lappalainen	Konsta Lappalainen	Kart In Club Driving Academy	Rata-SM
	R14				Pavel Bulantsev	Tuomas Haapalainen	Koiranen GP
	R15		2 September	Michael Belov	Michael Belov	Michael Belov	SMP Racing
6	R16	Alastaro Circuit, Loimaa	22 September	Pavel Bulantsev	Michael Belov	Konsta Lappalainen	Kart In Club Driving Academy	Rata-SM
	R17				Ivan Berets	Michael Belov	SMP Racing
	R18		23 September	Michael Belov	Michael Belov	Konsta Lappalainen	Kart In Club Driving Academy
7	R19	Assen Circuit, Assen	20 October	Ivan Berets	Michael Belov	Michael Belov	SMP Racing	Hankook Finaleraces
	R20				Amaury Cordeel	Amaury Cordeel	MP Motorsport
	R21		21 October	Ivan Berets	Michael Belov	Ivan Berets	SMP Racing

Championship standings

Points were awarded to the top 10 classified finishers in each race. No points were awarded for pole position or fastest lap.

Races	Position, points per race
	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
Races 1 & 3	25	18	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1
Race 2	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1

Drivers' championship

Pos Driver SMO NRG MSC ADM AHV ALA ASS Pts 1 Konsta Lappalainen 6 2 2 5 Ret 5 1 3 1 1 1 2 1 4 3 1 2 1 Ret 2 2 316 2 Michael Belov 5 4 4 1 Ret 1 4 7 7 3 2 3 2 5 1 2 1 2 1 4 Ret 275 3 Isac Blomqvist 1 1 5 2 2 2 DSQ 1 3 6 7 5 Ret 7 5 7 3 Ret 3 Ret 5 201 4 Ivan Berets 2 12 1 4 5 6 3 6 5 9 9 6 Ret 6 6 3 6 3 7 3 1 195 5 Jesse Salmenautio 4 3 6 Ret 6 7 5 5 8 2 4 4 4 2 2 6 4 4 4 5 9 188 6 Ivan Shvetsov 7 7 Ret 3 3 4 7 8 4 8 8 7 7 10 7 4 5 5 6 7 6 133 7 Pavel Bulantsev 9 6 8 6 1 3 8 DNS 10 5 5 8 3 3 8 5 Ret Ret 8 6 4 132 8 Amaury Cordeel 6 9 6 4 6 1 Ret 9 9 2 1 3 107 9 Tuomas Haapalainen 14 4 2 7 3 10 8 1 4 74 10 Freek Schothorst 3 5 3 36 11 Aleksandr Vartanyan 2 2 9 32 12 Patrick Schott 8 8 7 7 4 9 9 12 11 12 11 9 31 13 Artem Lobanenko 10 9 9 9 9 8 10 10 13 Ret 14 Ret 10† Ret 10 9 10 6 9 9 12 24 14 Markus Laitala 12 11 12 11 13 12 5 8 13 8 7 7 23 15 Aleksandr Vilaev 12 10 10 11 10 11 13 14 15 Ret 12 11 6 11 11 12 8 8 10 10 8 19 16 Noah Watt 5 8 7 17 17 Nikita Aleksandrov 11 11 11 10 7 10 11 13 14 Ret 15 Ret 9 12 12 13 11 9 11 12 10 9 18 Nikita Volegov 8 8 Ret 5 19 Mi Maijala 10 12 10 2 20 Denis Bulatov 10 10 DNS 1 21 Jimi Hannus 11 9 11 0 22 László Tóth 12 11 11 0 23 Irina Sidorkova 13 13 13 0 Pos Driver SMO NRG MSC ADM AHV ALA ASS 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) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

Notes:

• † — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.

Footnotes

1. Schott and Cordeel competed under a Finnish racing license in order to be eligible for points.