The 2012 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season was the 22nd Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season. The season commenced on 5 May at Alcañiz and ended on 21 October at Barcelona. The season featured seven double-header rounds, with each race lasting for a duration of 30 minutes. All races were part of the World Series by Renault.
Red Bull Junior's Daniil Kvyat won the opening race of the season at Motorland Aragón after qualifying on pole position by 0.1 seconds. Newcomer Nyck de Vries finished in second place and returnee Stoffel Vandoorne attained his maiden podium in third. The race was red-flagged after a violent crash between Daniel Cammish and Hans Villemi, with Villemi flipping over the back of Cammish's car. Both drivers suffered long-term injuries in the crash, and have yet to return to the series. iRace Professional driver Óscar Tunjo of Tech 1 Racing started the Sunday race from pole position but he was passed by Kvyat at the second turn of the first lap. Kvyat scored his first Eurocup double win, ahead of Tunjo and RC Formula's Norman Nato.
A month later at Spa, R-ace GP's Pierre Gasly claimed his first pole position. Gasly had a bad getaway and lost positions to both Nato and Vandoorne. Nato scored his first win in the series, while Gasly scored his first series podium. Gasly's teammate Andrea Pizzitola was the fastest in the second qualifying session. The race was held in heavy rain, and was red-flagged after an incident at Kemmel, involving Nato and team-mate Javier Tarancón, Koiranen Motorsport's Stefan Wackerbauer and Victor Franzoni, Tunjo and team-mate Matthieu Vaxivière, Fortec Motorsports' Dan de Zille and KTR's Yu Kanamaru. Kvyat coped with conditions better than others, claiming his third win of the season, ahead of Fortec driver Jake Dennis and Vandoorne completed the podium.
The next Eurocup stop was at the Nürburgring, where Vandoorne set the fastest time in qualifying, before he converted pole position into victory. Nato and Tech 1's Paul-Loup Chatin joined Vandoorne on the podium. Vandoorne led from start to finish the next day, claiming the pole and won the race with fastest lap. Interwetten.com Racing's Melville McKee and Gasly completed the podium. Vandoorne's double win gave him the championship lead.
Two weeks later, the series visited Russia for the first time, at the newly inaugurated Moscow Raceway. In both qualification sessions, Vandoorne was faster than Kvyat. However, Kvyat won both races to retake the championship lead from Vandoorne. Vandoorne took a pair of second places in Moscow, while Oliver Rowland took his first Eurocup podiums with a brace of third places.
Teams and drivers Team Driver name Class Rounds Koiranen Motorsport 1 Patrick Kujala All 2 Esteban Ocon All 3 Daniil Kvyat All 4 Stefan Wackerbauer All 60 Hans Villemi 1, 6 Victor Franzoni 2 Josef Kaufmann Racing 5 Pieter Schothorst All 6 Alex Riberas All 7 Stoffel Vandoorne All Fortec Motorsports 8 Mikko Pakari All 9 Nick Cassidy 1–3 Alexey Chuklin 4 Steijn Schothorst 5 Gustavo Menezes 6 Egor Orudzhev 7 10 Ed Jones All 44 Oliver Rowland All 62 Jake Dennis 2–3, 7 63 Dan de Zille 2 64 Josh Hill 2, 7 Tech 1 Racing 11 Paul-Loup Chatin All 12 Matthieu Vaxivière All 14 Óscar Tunjo All 15 Roman Mavlanov All 66 Felipe Fraga 3, 5–7 KTR 16 Miki Weckstrom 1–4 Victor Colomé 7 17 Yu Kanamaru All 18 Ignazio D'Agosto All EPIC Racing 20 Alexander Albon All 21 Kevin Giovesi 1 Dennis Wüsthoff 2 Konstantin Tereshchenko 4 Kevin Jörg 7 22 Christof von Grünigen All Interwetten.com Racing 23 Timmy Hansen 1–4 Konstantin Tereshchenko 5, 7 24 Melville McKee All 25 Guilherme Silva All R-ace GP 26 Nyck de Vries All 27 Pierre Gasly All 28 Andrea Pizzitola All ARTA Engineering 29 William Vermont 1–4, 6–7 30 Léo Roussel All 65 Tristan Papavoine 2, 6 68 Alex Loan 7 Manor MP Motorsport 31 Johan Jokinen 1–2 Tanart Sathienthirakul 3 Kevin Kleveros 5 Steijn Schothorst 4, 6–7 61 2–3 32 Jordan King All 33 Meindert van Buuren 1–4, 6–7 Tanart Sathienthirakul 5 RC Formula 36 Norman Nato All 37 Javier Tarancón 1–6 45 Edolo Ghirelli 1–2 Aurélien Panis 5–7 Atech Reid GP 38 Alessandro Latif 1–3 Hans Villemi 7 39 Daniel Cammish 1 Roman Beregech 4 Dan Wells 7 Mark Burdett Motorsport 67 Gabriel Casagrande 3 Icon Class Junior Class
Race calendar and results The calendar for the 2012 season was announced on 10 October 2011, the day after the end of the 2011 season. Silverstone Circuit was dropped from the calendar in favour of a round at the new Moscow Raceway in Russia. All seven rounds formed meetings of the 2012 World Series by Renault season.
Round Circuit Country Date Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning team 1 R1 Ciudad del Motor de Aragón, Alcañiz 5 May Daniil Kvyat Daniil Kvyat Daniil Kvyat Koiranen Motorsport R2 6 May Óscar Tunjo Daniil Kvyat Daniil Kvyat Koiranen Motorsport 2 R1 Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps 2 June Pierre Gasly Daniil Kvyat Norman Nato RC Formula R2 3 June Andrea Pizzitola Daniil Kvyat Daniil Kvyat Koiranen Motorsport 3 R1 Nürburgring 30 June Stoffel Vandoorne Norman Nato Stoffel Vandoorne Josef Kaufmann Racing R2 1 July Stoffel Vandoorne Stoffel Vandoorne Stoffel Vandoorne Josef Kaufmann Racing 4 R1 Moscow Raceway 14 July Stoffel Vandoorne Stoffel Vandoorne Daniil Kvyat Koiranen Motorsport R2 15 July Stoffel Vandoorne Daniil Kvyat Daniil Kvyat Koiranen Motorsport 5 R1 Hungaroring, Mogyoród 15 September Stoffel Vandoorne Stoffel Vandoorne Stoffel Vandoorne Josef Kaufmann Racing R2 16 September Daniil Kvyat Nyck de Vries Daniil Kvyat Koiranen Motorsport 6 R1 Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet 29 September Javier Tarancón Alex Riberas Stoffel Vandoorne Josef Kaufmann Racing R2 30 September Stoffel Vandoorne Paul-Loup Chatin Daniil Kvyat Koiranen Motorsport 7 R1 Circuit de Catalunya, Montmeló 20 October Óscar Tunjo Melville McKee Óscar Tunjo Tech 1 Racing R2 21 October Daniil Kvyat Alex Riberas Oliver Rowland Fortec Motorsports
Championship standings Points for both championships were awarded as follows: 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 25 18 15 12 10 8 6 4 2 1
Drivers' Championship Pos Driver ARA SPA NÜR MSC HUN LEC CAT Points1234567891011121314 1 Stoffel Vandoorne 3 4 2 3 1 1 2 2 1 4 1 2 2 Ret 244 2 Daniil Kvyat 1 1 4 1 5 22 1 1 Ret 1 2 1 3 8 234 3 Oliver Rowland 6 8 26 4 8 Ret 3 3 16 6 15 6 5 1 109 4 Norman Nato 4 3 1 Ret 2 Ret 23 9 6 3 10 17 15 16 96 5 Nyck de Vries 2 16 Ret 16 4 Ret Ret 4 4 2 7 13 22 27 78 6 Paul-Loup Chatin 5 10 6 5 3 4 12 10 12 15 14 4 6 28 77 7 Óscar Tunjo Ret 2 12 Ret 22 21 11 11 7 7 4 18 1 7 73 8 Melville McKee Ret 15 Ret 14 9 2 6 7 8 5 8 7 7 Ret 64 9 Alex Riberas 10 11 5 19 6 Ret 7 Ret 5 10 17 8 4 5 62 10 Pierre Gasly Ret 7 3 25 32 3 14 8 11 11 Ret Ret 10 6 49 11 Stefan Wackerbauer 11 28 9 Ret Ret Ret 4 6 14 9 6 11 16 13 32 12 Jake Dennis 10 2 14 24 12 4 31 13 Jordan King Ret Ret 7 12 Ret 5 13 Ret 3 13 20 Ret Ret 25 31 14 Esteban Ocon 19 5 21 24 12 18 8 Ret 21 18 9 3 Ret Ret 31 15 Mikko Pakari 14 23 Ret 26 11 23 5 Ret 2 23 12 Ret 20 9 30 16 William Vermont 26 20 14 11 31 Ret 10 16 13 5 26 2 29 17 Guilherme Silva 9 9 15 9 15 10 9 14 Ret 17 3 21 Ret 19 24 18 Felipe Fraga 10 8 30 25 18 10 13 3 21 19 Javier Tarancón 7 Ret 8 Ret 16 7 16 18 10 8 11 15 21 20 Miki Weckstrom 8 14 34 6 7 Ret 31 17 18 21 Andrea Pizzitola 12 12 32 13 13 9 19 12 Ret 16 5 16 Ret 18 12 22 Steijn Schothorst Ret 22 18 6 30 13 20 14 Ret 14 8 22 12 23 Patrick Kujala 15 Ret 17 18 19 25 15 5 13 19 23 Ret Ret 20 10 24 Nick Cassidy Ret 6 Ret DNS 17 11 8 25 Josh Hill Ret 7 9 Ret 8 26 Ignazio D'Agosto 22 Ret 25 8 25 26 24 Ret 29 27 Ret Ret 25 23 4 27 Ed Jones 18 25 16 31 21 16 18 Ret 24 31 28 9 23 11 2 28 Pieter Schothorst Ret 19 28 29 Ret 12 17 20 9 21 21 Ret 19 14 2 29 Matthieu Vaxivière 16 22 20 NC Ret 14 25 Ret 23 20 Ret Ret 27 10 1 30 Christof von Grünigen 25 Ret 30 10 27 Ret 32 19 22 Ret 25 22 DNS DNS 1 31 Timmy Hansen 13 13 11 17 Ret DNS 20 15 0 32 Meindert van Buuren Ret Ret 18 15 20 Ret 22 21 Ret 23 11 Ret 0 33 Roman Mavlanov 17 21 33 28 26 13 21 Ret 15 12 26 Ret 17 Ret 0 34 Tristan Papavoine 24 21 22 12 0 35 Johan Jokinen Ret 17 13 Ret 0 36 Hans Villemi Ret DNS 16 Ret 14 15 0 37 Gabriel Casagrande 29 15 0 38 Alexander Albon 21 24 19 20 23 Ret Ret DNS 17 24 19 24 Ret 26 0 39 Yu Kanamaru Ret 29 27 32 24 17 Ret 25 27 26 Ret Ret DSQ 24 0 40 Léo Roussel 24 26 23 Ret 33 Ret 26 26 18 Ret Ret 19 Ret Ret 0 41 Kevin Giovesi 20 18 0 42 Tanart Sathienthirakul 28 19 26 28 0 43 Alessandro Latif 23 27 35 27 30 20 0 44 Konstantin Tereshchenko 29 22 28 29 21 21 0 45 Victor Franzoni 22 Ret 0 46 Aleksey Chuklin 28 23 0 47 Dennis Wüsthoff 29 23 0 48 Roman Beregech 27 24 0 49 Edolo Ghirelli Ret Ret 31 30 0 Dan de Zille Ret Ret 0 Daniel Cammish Ret DNS 0 Guest drivers ineligible for points Aurélien Panis 19 22 27 Ret 18 17 0 Gustavo Menezes 24 20 0 Dan Wells 24 Ret 0 Kevin Kleveros 25 30 0 Alex Loan 28 DNS 0 Victor Colomé 29 Ret 0 Egor Orudzhev Ret Ret 0 Kevin Jörg Ret DNS 0 Pos Driver ARA SPA NÜR MSC HUN LEC CAT PointsBold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap
Teams' Championship Prior to each round of the championship, two drivers from each team – if applicable – are nominated to score teams' championship points. PosTeamPoints1 Josef Kaufmann Racing3062 Koiranen Motorsport2653 Fortec Motorsports1574 Tech 1 Racing1505 R-ace GP1276 RC Formula1177 Interwetten.com Racing628 Manor MP Motorsport439 ARTA Engineering2910 KTR2211 EPIC Racing1
References
External links Renault-Sport official website