The 2017 Formula Renault Eurocup was a multi-event motor racing championship for open wheel, formula racing cars held across Europe. The championship featured drivers competing in 2 litre Formula Renault single seat race cars that conformed to the technical regulations for the championship. The 2017 season was the 27th Formula Renault Eurocup season organized by the Renault Sport and the second season as the main category of the World Series by Renault. The series would visit ten circuits around Europe, including Monaco.

Teams and drivers Twelve teams were preselected on 12 September 2016. ASM Motorsport, Cram Motorsport and Duqueine Engineering were dropped from the final teams' list that was published on 9 November 2016. Team Driver name Status Rounds Josef Kaufmann Racing 1 Yifei Ye All 2 Luis Leeds All 11 Sacha Fenestraz All Tech 1 Racing 4 Gabriel Aubry All 5 Thomas Maxwell All 6 Thomas Neubauer All 7 Max Fewtrell All R-ace GP 8 Will Palmer All 9 Max Defourny All 10 Robert Shwartzman All 12 Raúl Guzmán All 40 Charles Milesi 6, 8–10 41 Théo Coicaud 6, 8–9 42 Michael Benyahia 8–9 43 Logan Sargeant 10 44 Gilles Magnus 9 AVF by Adrián Vallés 13 Henrique Chaves All 14 Rodrigo Pflucker 1–5 Xavier Lloveras 7–10 15 Axel Matus All 16 Gregoire Saucy 1–4 Thomas Randle 5–10 Fortec Motorsports 17 Alex Peroni All 18 Aleksey Korneev All 19 Frank Bird All 20 Najiy Razak All JD Motorsport 21 Sun Yueyang All 22 Jean-Baptiste Simmenauer All 23 Aleksandr Vartanyan All Mark Burdett Motorsport 25 Julia Pankiewicz All 26 Presley Martono All MP Motorsport 29 Richard Verschoor All 30 Jarno Opmeer All 31 Neil Verhagen All Arden 33 Dan Ticktum All 34 Ghislain Cordeel 1–7, 10 93 Zane Goddard All BM Racing Team 96 Bartłomiej Mirecki 5, 9 Icon Status Rookie Guest

Driver changes French F4 champion Yifei Ye and 2016 F4 British Championship driver Luis Leeds made their Eurocup debut with Josef Kaufmann Racing. They were partnered by Sacha Fenestraz who left Tech 1 Racing. While Eurocup champion Lando Norris and his teammate Jehan Daruvala, who raced for Josef Kaufmann racing in 2016, stepped up to 2017 FIA Formula 3 European Championship. F4 British Champion Max Fewtrell, 2016 BRDC British Formula 3 Championship driver Thomas Maxwell and 2016 V de V Challenge Monoplace driver Thomas Neubauer joined Tech 1 Racing. While 2016 Tech 1 regular Dorian Boccolacci moved to 2017 GP3 Series. Another 2016 Tech 1 regular Hugo de Sadeleer left single-seaters to join United Autosports in LMP2 class of the 2017 European Le Mans Series. French F4 Championship driver Raúl Guzmán competed for R-ace GP, he was joined in the team by Robert Shwartzman, who previously raced for Josef Kaufmann Racing. While 2016 R-ace GP racer Julien Falchero graduated to GP3 Series. Panam GP Series champion Axel Matus and V de V Challenge Monoplace driver Gregoire Saucy made their debuts for AVF by Adrián Vallés. They was joined by Rodrigo Pflucker who has competed two rounds with Cram Motorsport. 2016 AVF regular Harrison Scott decided to switch to 2017 Euroformula Open Championship. V de V Challenge Monoplace champion Alex Peroni and 2016 Asian Formula Renault Series driver Najiy Razak made their Eurocup debut with Fortec Motorsports. Aleksey Korneev switched from JD Motorsport to Fortec. While Bruno Baptista and Ferdinand Habsburg, who raced for Fortec in 2016 moved to GP3 Series and FIA Formula 3 European Championship respectively. JD Motorsport signed all-rookie line-up with Sun Yueyang and Jean-Baptiste Simmenauer who jumped straight from the karting. They also took 2016 SMP F4 Championship driver Aleksandr Vartanyan, who also have contested 2016 Eurocup finale with Fortec. James Allen who raced for JD Motorsport in 2016 decided to switch to sports car racing, joining Graff Racing Mark Burdett Motorsport team were joined by Formula 4 South East Asia champion Presley Martono and 2016 Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup driver Julia Pankiewicz. MP Motorsport squad was staffed by SMP F4 and F4 Spanish champion Richard Verschoor, F1600 Championship Series driver and another Red Bull Junior Neil Verhagen and Verschoor's SMP F4 title rival Jarno Opmeer. Arden signed with Red Bull Junior driver Dan Ticktum, Formula Renault 2.0 NEC driver Ghislain Cordeel and F4 British Championship driver Zane Goddard.

Race calendar The provisional calendar for the 2017 season was announced on 17 October 2016. The series will return Silverstone Circuit, Hungaroring, Nürburgring and Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya and add Pau Circuit in its schedule. While Ciudad del Motor de Aragón for the first time since 2009 will be not present in the 2017 calendar, as well as 2016 returnee Autódromo Fernanda Pires da Silva. On 3 February 2017 was confirmed the number of the races during the rounds.

Round Circuit Date Supporting 1 R1 Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza 22 April Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup R2 23 April 2 R1 Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone 13 May R2 14 May 3 R1 Pau Circuit, Pau 20 May Pau Grand Prix R2 21 May 4 R1 Circuit de Monaco, Monte-Carlo 27 May R2 28 May 5 R1 Hungaroring, Mogyoród 1 July International GT Open Euroformula Open Championship R2 2 July R3 6 R1 Nürburgring, Nürburg 15 July FIA World Endurance Championship R2 16 July 7 R1 Red Bull Ring, Spielberg 22 July European Le Mans Series R2 23 July 8 R1 Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet 26 August R2 27 August 9 R1 Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Spa 23 September R2 R3 24 September 10 R1 Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló 28 October International GT Open R2 29 October R3

Results

Round Circuit Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning team 1 1 Autodromo Nazionale Monza Robert Shwartzman Sacha Fenestraz Robert Shwartzman R-ace GP Max Fewtrell R2 Gabriel Aubry Sacha Fenestraz Will Palmer R-ace GP Neil Verhagen 2 R1 Silverstone Circuit Max Defourny Will Palmer Will Palmer R-ace GP Max Fewtrell R2 Robert Shwartzman Robert Shwartzman Robert Shwartzman R-ace GP Dan Ticktum 3 R1 Pau Circuit Robert Shwartzman Robert Shwartzman Robert Shwartzman R-ace GP Max Fewtrell R2 Alex Peroni Robert Shwartzman Alex Peroni Fortec Motorsports Max Fewtrell 4 R1 Circuit de Monaco Will Palmer Max Defourny Will Palmer R-ace GP Dan Ticktum R2 Sacha Fenestraz Max Defourny Sacha Fenestraz Josef Kaufmann Racing Dan Ticktum 5 R1 Hungaroring Dan Ticktum Dan Ticktum Dan Ticktum Arden Dan Ticktum R2 Sacha Fenestraz Yifei Ye Gabriel Aubry Tech 1 Racing Max Fewtrell R3 Gabriel Aubry Gabriel Aubry Gabriel Aubry Tech 1 Racing Yifei Ye 6 R1 Nürburgring Robert Shwartzman Max Defourny Robert Shwartzman R-ace GP Dan Ticktum R2 Sacha Fenestraz Sacha Fenestraz Sacha Fenestraz Josef Kaufmann Racing Dan Ticktum 7 R1 Red Bull Ring Max Defourny Dan Ticktum Max Fewtrell Tech 1 Racing Max Fewtrell R2 Sacha Fenestraz Sacha Fenestraz Sacha Fenestraz Josef Kaufmann Racing Max Fewtrell 8 R1 Circuit Paul Ricard Sacha Fenestraz Robert Shwartzman Max Defourny R-ace GP Yifei Ye R2 Robert Shwartzman Max Defourny Sacha Fenestraz Josef Kaufmann Racing Dan Ticktum 9 R1 Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps Sacha Fenestraz Michael Benyahia Sacha Fenestraz Josef Kaufmann Racing Yifei Ye R2 Sacha Fenestraz Max Defourny Gabriel Aubry Tech 1 Racing Max Fewtrell R3 Sacha Fenestraz Sacha Fenestraz Sacha Fenestraz Josef Kaufmann Racing Neil Verhagen 10 R1 Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya Robert Shwartzman Robert Shwartzman Robert Shwartzman R-ace GP Richard Verschoor R2 Robert Shwartzman Robert Shwartzman Robert Shwartzman R-ace GP Richard Verschoor R3 Sacha Fenestraz Robert Shwartzman Sacha Fenestraz Josef Kaufmann Racing Richard Verschoor

Footnotes

Championship standings The first race at Spa which held in fog conditions was red-flagged after three laps were completed behind the safety car, but before 75% of the scheduled distance in laps, the necessary distance required for a race to pay full points. Race paid half points to all classified finishers.

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 (key) Driver MNZ SIL PAU MON HUN NÜR RBR LEC SPA CAT PointsR1R2R1R2R1R2R1R2R1R2R3R1R2R1R2R1R2R1R2R3R1R2R31 Sacha Fenestraz 2 2 5 Ret 6 2 2 1 2 3 8 3 1 2 1 Ret 1 1 3 1 4 2 1367.52 Will Palmer 4 1 1 2 4 4 1 3 18 2 4 8 5 12 2 3 4 9 6 2 2 6 42983 Robert Shwartzman 1 Ret 3 1 1 3 4 2 7 5 2 1 8 6 9 23 DSQ 2 25 Ret 1 1 22854 Max Defourny 5 3 Ret 12 2 6 3 4 14 4 32 6 3 8 1 2 4 2 3 6 Ret 32555 Gabriel Aubry 3 Ret 8 Ret 3 7 7 7 4 1 1 9 4 5 3 15 3 6 1 4 3 Ret 6232 6 Max Fewtrell 8 8 4 4 7 5 16 13 13 6 9 6 7 1 4 5 6 5 4 9 Ret 4 7164 7 Dan Ticktum 11 Ret 10 3 10 Ret 5 5 1 9 7 4 2 9 5 Ret 5 18 11 7 20 7 12134 8 Yifei Ye 9 6 9 14 8 10 11 19 24 7 5 7 3 8 7 2 8 3 7 8 12 10 11106.59 Richard Verschoor 10 7 7 6 13 8 8 8 Ret 25 18 20 14 11 26 4 7 7 12 Ret 5 3 5 8910 Alex Peroni 6 Ret 6 21 5 1 6 6 Ret 12 19 13 15 14 12 24 Ret 15 16 15 18 11 8 7211 Neil Verhagen 17 4 Ret 16 DNS 9 12 12 3 11 24 18 Ret 18 25 7 12 8 8 5 7 Ret 1759 12 Henrique Chaves 7 Ret 2 Ret Ret Ret 17 Ret 6 17 16 5 Ret 7 10 Ret Ret 12 9 14 11 12 1653 13 Aleksandr Vartanyan 14 9 11 25 12 23 10 9 5 8 6 12 23 16 15 8 Ret 22 19 10 10 8 18 42 14 Thomas Randle Ret 13 10 11 9 4 6 9 10 10 5 11 DSQ Ret 14 39.5 15 Jarno Opmeer 18 21 Ret 15 11 22 13 Ret 8 14 12 16 16 13 Ret 11 11 11 10 6 16 5 9 27 16 Thomas Maxwell 13 5 22 8 15 13 25 14 Ret 24 22 23 18 15 Ret 13 17 13 13 12 13 Ret 13 14 17 Raúl Guzmán 22 10 12 5 9 11 19 22 12 16 13 21 13 22 18 12 13 16 32 16 26 Ret 22 13 18 Aleksey Korneev 20 14 14 9 17 14 9 10 15 10 11 17 19 10 14 DNS 23 19 15 21 17 16 10 8 19 Luis Leeds 25 Ret 23 7 18 16 14 11 Ret Ret 26 14 10 19 24 18 18 29 23 Ret 29 Ret 237 20 Zane Goddard 15 20 13 13 19 15 18 17 9 15 17 10 11 29 16 10 28 24 18 13 15 Ret DNS5 21 Presley Martono 16 Ret 15 10 16 Ret Ret 15 16 21 21 24 25 23 Ret Ret 27 20 17 17 22 15 Ret 1 22 Najiy Razak 21 18 24 26 23 19 DNQ 23 10 19 Ret 27 20 24 22 Ret 22 33 28 27 27 Ret DNS 1 23 Thomas Neubauer 23 11 18 17 24 24 Ret Ret 17 27 15 15 Ret 17 11 16 14 25 33 29 Ret Ret 19 0 24 Axel Matus 26 13 26 11 14 12 24 18 22 26 23 19 12 Ret Ret Ret 15 17 14 19 14 14 21 0 25 Ghislain Cordeel Ret Ret 21 19 Ret 18 21 16 11 23 25 25 Ret 28 21 23 17 Ret 0 26 Gregoire Saucy 12 12 Ret DNS DNS DNS 20 DNS 0 27 Jean-Baptiste Simmenauer 24 19 25 20 Ret 20 22 DNQ 20 18 14 22 17 20 13 20 20 26 22 24 21 Ret DNS 0 28 Xavier Lloveras 27 19 19 19 21 21 22 19 13 15 0 29 Rodrigo Pflucker Ret Ret 19 18 21 Ret 15 21 WD WD WD 0 30 Julia Pankiewicz Ret 15 20 23 22 25 DNQ 20 21 29 29 28 26 26 20 Ret 26 31 29 28 28 Ret 25 031 Sun Yueyang 27 16 16 24 Ret 21 23 DNQ 19 28 28 26 21 21 17 21 24 34 26 Ret 25 Ret 24 032 Frank Bird 19 17 17 22 20 17 Ret Ret 23 22 27 29 24 25 23 22 25 32 27 20 24 Ret 20 0 guest drivers ineligible to score points Charles Milesi Ret Ret 6 9 23 20 Ret 9 Ret DNS 0 Logan Sargeant 8 9 Ret 0 Michael Benyahia 14 15 27 24 23 0 Gilles Magnus 14 Ret 18 0 Théo Coicaud 30 22 17 21 28 31 25 0 Bartłomiej Mirecki Ret 20 20 30 30 26 0DriverR1R2R1R2R1R2R1R2R1R2R3R1R2R1R2R1R2R1R2R3R1R2R3Points MNZ SIL PAU MON HUN NÜR RBR LEC SPA CAT

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