2007 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0

The 2007 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season was the seventeenth Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season. The season began at Zolder on 21 April and finished at Barcelona on 28 October, after fourteen rounds.^[1]

The title was claimed by Epsilon RedBull driver Brendon Hartley with a round to spare.^[2] Hartley took four race wins during the season, two of which coming in the opening round at Zolder. He also took four further podium finishes en route to a 32-point championship win over Jon Lancaster. SG Formula's driver eventually ended the season also with four victories in two final rounds at Estoril and Barcelona.

Lancaster's teammate Charles Pic finished in third position, taking victory at the Nürburgring.^[3] He finished 17 points clear of Epsilon Euskadi's Stefano Coletti, who took win at the Hungaroring.^[4] Other victories were taken by Prema Powerteam's Henkie Waldschmidt at the Nürburgring and guest driver Mathieu Arzeno, who won both Magny-Cours races.

Teams and drivers

Guest entries are listed in italics.

2007 Entry List^[5]
Team	No.	Driver name	Class	Rounds
SG Formula	1	Nelson Panciatici		1-3
		Edouard Texte		5
		Fabio Onidi		6-7
	2	Charles Pic	J	All
SG Drivers Project	3	Jon Lancaster		All
	4	Alexandre Marsoin	J	All
	43	Jules Bianchi	J	2–3, 7
	52	Anton Nebylitskiy	J	All
Motopark Academy	5	Oliver Oakes		All
Motopark Academy	6	Frank Kechele		All
Motorsport Arena	7	Fabio Onidi		1-5
		Tiago Petiz		6
		Jakub Giermaziak		7
	8	Tobias Hegewald	J	All
Jenzer Motorsport	9	Oliver Turvey		All
	10	Roberto Merhi	J	All
	11	Fabio Leimer	J	All
Epsilon Euskadi	12	Miquel Julià Perello		All
	14	Pablo Montilla	J	All
	15	Stefano Coletti	J	All
Epsilon RedBull	16	Mika Mäki		All
	18	Brendon Hartley	J	All
	19	Jaime Alguersuari	J	All
Cram Competition	20	Nicola Zonzini	J	2–3, 7
	20	Sergio Campana		5
	21	Daniel Zampieri	J	All
	22	Giovanni Nava	J	1-2
		Frederico Muggia		4
		Pierre Combot	J	5, 7
Prema Powerteam	23	Andrea Caldarelli	J	All
	24	Martin Plowman		All
	25	Henkie Waldschmidt		All
BVM Minardi Team	26	Felipe Rachid Lapenna		1-3
	26	César Ramos	J	4-6
	27	Markus Niemelä		1-3
	27	Adrian Quaife-Hobbs	J	4-7
	44	Simeon Ivanov	J	2–3, 7
District Racing	28	Aleix Alcaraz	J	All
District Racing	29	Mihai Marinescu	J	All
Omicron Racing	30	Facundo Crovo		1–2, 4-5
	30	Jaime Pintanez		6
	31	Francesc Moreno	J	All
	32	Tiago Petiz		1-5
	32	Pascal Kochem		6-7
Boutsen Energy Racing	33	Stéphane Richelmi	J	All
	34	Jonathan Hirschi		1-2
		Pierre Combot		3
		Nelson Panciatici		4-7
	48	Nelson Lukes		5
SL Formula Racing	35	Anton Nebylitskiy	J	1-5
	36	Pedro Nunes		1-5
	41	Natalia Kowalska	J	2
	42	David Sigachev	J	2
Carlin Motorsport	37	Alexander Khateeb		1-2
		Jimmy Auby		3
		Khalil Beschir		4
	42	Joe Ghanem	J	1-4
Graff Racing	39	Tristan Vautier	J	1–2, 5
Graff Racing	40	Gary Hirsch		1–2, 5
Steiner Motorsport	45	Bianca Steiner	J	3
TCS Racing	46	Nicolas Marroc		5, 7
Epsilon Sport Team	49	Mathieu Arzeno		5, 7
RP Motorsport	50	Patrick Kronenberger	J	6-7
RP Motorsport	51	Daniel Ricciardo		6-7

Icon	Class
J	Junior Class

Calendar

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team
1	R1	Circuit Zolder	21 April	Brendon Hartley	Brendon Hartley	Brendon Hartley	Epsilon RedBull
1	R2	Circuit Zolder	22 April		Brendon Hartley	Brendon Hartley	Epsilon RedBull
2	R1	Nürburgring	5 May	Charles Pic	Oliver Oakes	Henkie Waldschmidt	Prema Powerteam
2	R2	Nürburgring	6 May		Charles Pic	Charles Pic	SG Formula
3	R1	Hungaroring	14 July	Jules Bianchi	Brendon Hartley	Brendon Hartley	Epsilon RedBull
3	R2	Hungaroring	15 July		Jules Bianchi	Stefano Coletti	Epsilon Euskadi
4	R1	Donington Park	8 September	Jon Lancaster	Fabio Leimer	Jon Lancaster	SG Formula
4	R2	Donington Park	9 September		Frank Kechele	Brendon Hartley	Epsilon RedBull
5	R1	Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours	22 September	Brendon Hartley	Stefano Coletti	Mathieu Arzeno	Epsilon Euskadi
5	R2	Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours	23 September		Brendon Hartley	Mathieu Arzeno	Epsilon Euskadi
6	R1	Autódromo do Estoril	20 October	Jon Lancaster	Jon Lancaster	Jon Lancaster	SG Formula
6	R2	Autódromo do Estoril	21 October		Jon Lancaster	Jon Lancaster	SG Formula
7	R1	Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona	27 October	Brendon Hartley	Jon Lancaster	Jon Lancaster	SG Formula
7	R2	Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona	28 October		Jon Lancaster	Jon Lancaster	SG Formula

Championship standings

Drivers

Points are awarded to the drivers as follows:

Position	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	PP*
Points	15	12	10	8	6	5	4	3	2	1	1

* - only awarded to race one polesitters

Pos	Driver	ZOL		NÜR		HUN		DON		MAG		EST		CAT		Points
Pos	Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Points
1	Brendon Hartley J	1	1	Ret	8	1	5	2	1	Ret	3	3	3	4	5	134
2	Jon Lancaster	Ret	26	Ret	11	2	25	1	4	11	13	1	1	1	1	102
3	Charles Pic J	10	28	2	1	6	Ret	10	Ret	2	10	2	8	3	3	88
4	Stefano Coletti J	Ret	5	Ret	Ret	Ret	1	3	2	4	27†	Ret	7	6	4	71
5	Jaime Alguersuari J	4	23	10	9	Ret	4	5	Ret	6	6	5	27†	2	2	67
6	Frank Kechele	8	6	4	4	4	6	6	16	3	29	7	10	7	8	67
7	Henkie Waldschmidt	DSQ	2	1	DSQ	7	10	14	Ret	17	8	4	4	15	12	52
8	Oliver Turvey	6	4	7	3	5	9	18	12	7	4	11	13	10	DNS	51
9	Mika Mäki	Ret	13	3	2	10	Ret	13	5	15	20	6	2	32	6	46
10	Nelson Panciatici	3	Ret	9	14	Ret	3	8	3	Ret	7	10	11	8	Ret	44
11	Mihai Marinescu J	16	NC	5	Ret	3	8	9	8	31†	DSQ	8	5	9	10	37
12	Oliver Oakes	7	7	6	10	11	16	11	7	8	5	14	14	17	17	32
13	Tobias Hegewald J	9	16	8	6	15	17	15	14	21	2	22	20	13	22	25
14	Alexandre Marsoin J	Ret	11	27†	18	16	11	4	6	20	17	13	6	5	11	25
15	Tristan Vautier J	2	3	19	19					13	Ret					22
16	Markus Niemelä	5	9	23	Ret	Ret	2									20
17	Fabio Leimer J	18	12	12	7	19	19	7	Ret	5	28†	16	24	21	32	17
18	Roberto Merhi J	13	10	Ret	5	21	15	16	Ret	16	9	9	28	11	6	16
19	Aleix Alcaraz J	11	Ret	Ret	Ret	12	7	19	17	12	23	15	9	16	13	7
20	Fabio Onidi	23	8	13	Ret	8	12	12	Ret	22	14	12	12	18	21	6
21	Jules Bianchi J			NC	Ret	Ret	30							Ret	9	4
22	Daniel Zampieri J	14	14	11	Ret	17	22	24	11	10	Ret	23	21	34	15	4
23	Adrian Quaife-Hobbs J							Ret	9	Ret	30†	20	19	27	20	3
24	Andrea Caldarelli J	28†	14	Ret	21	9	33	Ret	20	29	15	27	23	23	24	2
25	Federico Muggia							Ret	10							2
26	Martin Plowman	29†	Ret	31	13	18	20	17	Ret	18	12	19	16	12	19	1
27	Pierre Combot ¹ J					13	13			9	11			19	14	0
28	Anton Nebylitskiy ² J	12	17	14	Ret	20	23	27	13	Ret	Ret	29	17	22	33†	0
29	Felipe Lapenna	Ret	25	Ret	12	14	14									0
30	Miquel Julià Perello	19	27	17	25	24	26	21	18	26	21	21	Ret	14	16	0
31	Gary Hirsch	26	22	18	17					14	Ret					0
32	Jonathan Hirschi	15	18	20	15											0
31	Tiago Petiz	17	20	16	Ret	Ret	24	Ret	15	30	16	Ret	22			0
33	Nicola Zonzini J			15	23	28	21							28	27	0
34	Facundo Crovo	Ret	Ret	Ret	16			20	21	Ret	26					0
35	César Ramos J							Ret	24†	24	31†	18	18			0
36	Stéphane Richelmi J	20	21	28	20	26	18	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	25	Ret	24	23	0
37	Pascal Kochem											24	29†	20	18	0
38	Pedro Nunes	24	Ret	24	28	29	29	23	19	27	19					0
39	Giovanni Nava J	22	19	Ret	Ret											0
40	Pablo Montilla J	21	29	22	27	25	28	25	23	32	25	Ret	26	31	28	0
41	David Sigachev J			21	26											0
42	Joe Ghanem J	27	30	26	24	22	Ret	Ret	22							0
43	Francesc Moreno J	25	24	29	29	Ret	27	22	Ret	33†	24	26	30	29	29	0
44	Alexander Khateeb	Ret	Ret	Ret	22											0
45	Bianca Steiner J					23	32									0
46	Natalia Kowalska J			25	Ret											0
47	Simeon Ivanov J			30	Ret	Ret	Ret							26	31	0
48	Khalil Beschir							26	Ret							0
49	Jimmy Auby					27	31									0
	Jaime Pintanez											DNQ	DNQ			0
The following drivers are guest ineligible to final standing.
	Mathieu Arzeno									1	1			Ret	Ret	-
	Daniel Ricciardo											17	15	33	Ret	-
	Sergio Campana									25	18					-
	Nelson Lukes									19	Ret					-
	Edouard Texte									23	22					-
	Patrick Kronenberger J											28†	25	25	25	-
	Jakub Giermaziak													Ret	26	-
	Nicolas Marroc									28	Ret			30	30	-
Pos	Driver	ZOL		NÜR		HUN		DON		MAG		EST		CAT		Points

Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	Second place
Bronze	Third place
Green	Points finish
Blue	Non-points finish
Blue	Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple	Retired (Ret)
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Red	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

† — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.

¹ Pierre Combot raced as guest driver with Cram Competition in rounds Magny Cours and Barcelona.
² Anton Nebylitskiy raced as guest driver with SG Formula at Estoril and Barcelona.

Teams

Pos	Team	Points
1	Epsilon RedBull	201
2	SG Drivers Project	127
3	SG Formula	112
4	Motopark Academy	99
5	Epsilon Euskadi	71
6	Prema Powerteam	54
7	Jenzer Motorsport	53
8	District Racing	44
9	Motorsport Arena	31
10	BVM Minardi Team	23
11	Graff Racing	22
12	Boutsen Energy Racing	22
13	Cram Competition	6
	Carlin Motorsport	0
	Omicron Racing	0
	SL Formula Racing	0
	Steiner Motorsport	0

References

External links

Official website of the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 championship

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