The 2010 Formula Abarth season was the sixth season of the former Formula Azzurra, and the first under its new guise of "Formula Abarth". It started on April 24 at Misano and finished on October 14 in Monza after fourteen races held at seven meetings.
Brandon Maïsano, part of the Ferrari Driver Academy scheme and driving for BVM – Target Racing, won the Alboreto Trophy as overall champion, taking four victories and three second places for a championship-winning margin of 22 points over runner-up Patric Niederhauser of the Jenzer Motorsport team. Niederhauser assumed second place in the standings after finishing the season strongly, taking seven top-five finishes in the final eight races including a victory at Varano and five third places. JD Motorsport driver Raffaele Marciello finished the season in third place, taking victories at Misano and Varano, with winless Jordi Cunill (Prema Junior) and Maxim Zimin (Jenzer Motorsport) taking five second places and two third places between them. Despite only competing in three meetings, Cunill's team-mate Hannes van Asseldonk finished the season in sixth place, taking three main race victories and two fifth places. Other victories went to Jenzer's Zoël Amberg, Prema's Riccardo Agostini, JD's Víctor Guerin and National Trophy competitor Simone Iaquinta of ARM Competition.
Iaquinta won the National Trophy, having won nine of the fourteen races in the class and taken eight top-ten overall finishes including his victory at Mugello. Having started the season at RP Motorsport, Stefano Colombo ended the season as Iaquinta's team-mate, and wrapped up second place with a class second behind Iaquinta at Monza, having taken two wins during the season at Misano and the only win at Magione, as the first race saw no finishers from the National Trophy. Federico Bonamico, who entered the season at round three, finished third for Scuderia Victoria World with one victory at Vallelunga. Simone Taloni took the other victory for Winner Motorsport at Imola. Prema Junior won the Teams' Championship by six points ahead of Jenzer Motorsport.
Teams and drivers Drivers competing in the main Alboreto Trophy (Main championship) were numbered from 1 to 59, with drivers competing in the secondary National Trophy numbered from 71 to 99.
Team No Driver Class Rounds Prema Junior 2 Zhang Zhi Qiang All * 3 Riccardo Agostini All * 6 Hannes van Asseldonk 5–7 7 Jordi Cunill All * RP Motorsport 4 Timmy Hansen 7 43 Mirko Merill 1–2 84 Stefano Colombo 1–5 * MG Motorsport 5 Lorenzo Camplese All * 41 Mirko Torsellini 2–5 82 Simone Taloni 6 89 Stefano Comini 7 BVM – Target Racing 8 Michael Heche All * 9 Brandon Maïsano All * 14 Marco Moscato 3 66 Roberto Curiia 4–7 Emmebi Motorsport 10 Matteo Torta 5–7 33 Niccolò Schirò 1–4, 6–7 * 83 Simone Iaquinta 1–3, 5 Line Race 10 Matteo Torta 3–4 39 Marco Moscato 1–2 Alan Racing 10 Matteo Torta 1–2 42 Antonio Spavone 5–7 81 Gilles Pagani 1–2, 4–7 TomCat Racing 11 Vittoria Piria 1–6 * 12 Matteo Davenia 6–7 23 Andrea Barbirato 2–4, 6–7 Durango 12 Matteo Davenia 4–5 * Cram Competition 1–3 17 André Negrão 4–5 * 21 Kevin Gilardoni All 31 Mario Marasca 6–7 TP Formula 15 Edoardo Bacci 1–4 16 Matteo Beretta 1–2 64 Mattia Brugiotti 3–4 Europa Corse 18 Cristiano Marcellan 1–3 JD Motorsport 19 Víctor Guerin All * 53 Raffaele Marciello All * Jenzer Motorsport 24 Eddie Cheever III All * 25 Patric Niederhauser All * 26 Måns Grenhagen 1–4 * 27 Maxim Zimin All * 28 Zoël Amberg All * 29 Sergey Sirotkin 5–7 PKF Racing 31 Mario Marasca 1–5 BVE Racing Team 32 Mirko Luciani 2–4 81 Gilles Pagani 3 Scuderia Victoria World 34 Roman de Beer All 35 Francisco Weiler All 36 Federico Bonamico 3–7 Monolite Racing 41 Mirko Torsellini 1 88 Sheban Kamal Siddiqi 4 CO2 Motorsport 42 Vincenzo Spavone 4 ARM Competition 1–3 43 Mirko Merillo 3–4 83 Simone Iaquinta 4, 6–7 84 Stefano Colombo 6–7 Team Costa Rica 45 Riccardo Vera All Uboldi Corse 55 Luca Defendi 1–6 Winner Motorsport 82 Simone Taloni 1–5 Diegi Motorsport 87 Josef Feffer All AB Motorsport 68 Andrea Boffo 7 Icon Class Championship – Alboreto Trophy National Trophy * Drivers who participated in the non-championship round at Spa-Francorchamps.
Race calendar and results All rounds, excluding Magione (that was part of Italian GT Championship weekend) supported the Italian Formula Three Championship. In the view of a future international series, a non-championship round was held on the weekend of June 25–27 at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, supporting International GT Open, Auto GP and European F3 Open rounds. Round Circuit Location Date Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning team 1 R1 Misano World Circuit Emilia-Romagna, Italy 24 April Kevin Gilardoni Raffaele Marciello Raffaele Marciello JD Motorsport R2 25 April Maxim Zimin Zoël Amberg Jenzer Motorsport 2 R1 Autodromo dell'Umbria, Magione Umbria, Italy 6 June Brandon Maïsano Brandon Maïsano Brandon Maïsano BVM – Target Racing R2 Brandon Maïsano Víctor Guerin JD Motorsport NC R1 Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps 26 June André Negrão André Negrão André Negrão Cram Competition R2 27 June Raffaele Marciello Raffaele Marciello JD Motorsport 3 R1 Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola Emilia-Romagna, Italy 4 July Riccardo Agostini Riccardo Agostini Riccardo Agostini Prema Junior R2 Víctor Guerin Brandon Maïsano BVM – Target Racing 4 R1 Autodromo Riccardo Paletti, Varano Emilia-Romagna, Italy 29 August Patric Niederhauser Patric Niederhauser Patric Niederhauser Jenzer Motorsport R2 Brandon Maïsano Raffaele Marciello JD Motorsport 5 R1 Vallelunga Circuit Lazio, Italy 26 September Maxim Zimin Hannes van Asseldonk Hannes van Asseldonk Prema Junior R2 Brandon Maïsano Brandon Maïsano BVM – Target Racing 6 R1 Mugello Circuit Tuscany, Italy 10 October Hannes van Asseldonk Maxim Zimin Hannes van Asseldonk Prema Junior R2 Simone Iaquinta Simone Iaquinta ARM Competition 7 R1 Autodromo Nazionale Monza Lombardy, Italy 23 October Brandon Maïsano Maxim Zimin Hannes van Asseldonk Prema Junior R2 24 October Timmy Hansen Brandon Maïsano BVM – Target Racing
Standings Points were awarded as follows: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 PP FL Race 1 20 15 12 10 8 6 4 3 2 1 1 1 Race 2131198654321 1
Drivers' standings Pos Driver MIS MGISPA ‡ IMO VAR VLL MUG MNZ Points Alboreto Trophy 1 Brandon Maïsano1611124Ret218251101041 128 2 Patric Niederhauser9621113565127333353 106 3 Raffaele Marciello132Ret61RetDNS71447724Ret 91 4 Jordi Cunill8235Ret94321078Ret52Ret4 82 5 Maxim Zimin357Ret2RetRet331310 28292Ret 80 6 Hannes van Asseldonk15151Ret 76 7 Zoël Amberg616RetRet686Ret12101544277 58 8 Kevin Gilardoni210Ret1953111167152278 55 9 Roman de Beer17Ret16Ret34381621923116 53 10 Eddie Cheever III77176881115631499685 52 11 Riccardo Agostini1917Ret1592 1242671217Ret1012 49 12 Edoardo Bacci44Ret37311618 31 13 Victor Guerin131651533028 DNQ DNQRet1312Ret622 29 14 André Negrão1424Ret17 23 15 Måns Grenhagen2594477RetRet2216 20 16 Lorenzo Camplese28131281011131255Ret11251516Ret 20 17 Zhang Zhi Qiang18Ret13Ret1513287Ret15121613Ret313 16 18 Sergey Sirotkin9101181311 12 19 Matteo Davenia526DNQDNQ121610181723232224RetRet14 9 20 Marco MoscatoRet2189Ret10 8 21 Michael Heche26RetRet13Ret10934Ret17241418Ret129 5 22 Mirko Torsellini1412117Ret3521131718 4 23 Riccardo Vera158DNQDNQ1617201921212111Ret18 4 24 Vincenzo Spavone3024DNQDNQ2629149 3 25 Timmy Hansen925 3 26 Mirko Luciani9Ret22191920 2 27 Francisco Weiler12RetDNQDNQ2913DNQDNQRetDNS231926Ret 2 28 Luca Defendi22201012DSQDSQRetRet13Ret1618 1 29 Niccolò Schirò231819Ret13152016Ret2111Ret22Ret1819 0 30 Mario Marasca242914141220DNQDNQ2223Ret121915 0 31 Antonio SpavoneRetRet27142217 032 Roberto CuriaDNQDNQ18DNS14RetRetRet 0 33 Mirko Merillo3225151730262322 0 34 Vittoria Piria20Ret201614141825DNQDNQRetRet26Ret 0 35 Matteo Torta3122DNQDNQ23RetDNQDNQ1925Ret172324 0 36 Matteo Beretta27231818 0 37 Mattia Brugiotti21221820 0 38 Cristiano Marcellan2928DNQDNQ1924 0 39 Andrea BarbiratoDNQDNQ2530DNQDNQ30202521 0 40 Andrea Boffo2123 0 National Trophy 1 Simone Iaquinta10RetRetRet27996Ret661142 120 2 Stefano Colombo1114Ret10111217111214RetDNS8RetRet10 101 3 Federico BonamicoRet231525151929131716 98 4 Gilles Pagani2115RetRet1514DNQDNQ2020RetRet 78 5 Simone TaloniRet19DNQDNQ1421DNQDNQRet242016 61 6 Josef FefferRet27DNQDNQ2427DNQDNQRetRet28212020 59 7 Stefano Comini15Ret 15 Sheban Kamal SiddiqiDNQDNQ 0 Pos Driver MIS MGI SPA ‡ IMO VAR VLL MUG MNZ PointsBold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap ‡ Round at Spa-Francorchamps was non-championship, no points awarded.
Teams' Standings The person or company that entered the race application for a driver was considered Competitor P.G. or Team. In a such situation, for example, Matteo Davenia competed at Imola for Durango, physically driving a Cram Competition car. Only Competitors P.G. and Teams holding a valid ACI license for the current season were awarded points. Pos Team MIS MGI SPA ‡ IMO VAR VLL MUG MNZ Points 1 Prema Junior8235921247151214 166 2 Jenzer Motorsport3144256513232323 160 3 BVM – Target Racing161112410218251101041 122 4 JD Motorsport13215130287141377622 101 5 Cram Competition210Ret1914532467151278 75 6 TP Formula441837221618 31 7 Team Costa Rica158 DNQ DNQ1617201921212111Ret18 4 8 CO2 Motorsport149 3 9 RP Motorsport32251517925 2 10 BVE Racing Team9Ret22191920 2 11 Durango101817232322 1 Pos Team MIS MGI SPA ‡ IMO VAR VLL MUG MNZ Points ‡ Round at Spa-Francorchamps was non-championship, no points awarded.
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