2016 SMP F4 Championship

The 2016 SMP F4 Championship season is the second season of the SMP F4 Championship. It began on 29 April at Sochi and finished on 10 September at Ahvenisto after 20 races held across seven rounds.^[1]

This season saw the F4 debut of the Dutch team MP Motorsport, which joined Koiranen GP and SMP Racing in fielding cars and drivers. The series also expanded to the Netherlands, hosting some races as well as a parallel championship to the SMP F4 championship, called the Dutch F4 Trophy.

The series is a FIA North-European Zone (NEZ) championship as in 2015. NEZ Council agreed in its meeting in 20 March to allow KNAF licence holders to score points in the championship. The FIA World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) had already accepted KNAF into the NEZ F4 championship earlier in 4 March. The exception is valid for 2016 season only, and only after NEZ receives full payment of membership fees. Dutch drivers aren't eligible to any other NEZ cups or championships.^[2] Spanish Xavier Lloveras scored points in the series as he was an AKK Motorsports (FIN) license holder. Richard Verschoor take 11 wins as another Dutch driver Jarno Opmeer wins 7 races, as Thomas Tujula and Aleksandr Vartanyan win 1 race.

Drivers

No.	Driver	Class	Rounds
1	Aleksey Korneev^[3]	G	1, 4–5
2	Ivan Matveev^[4]	G	4
3	Henri Kauppi^[3]		1–2, 7
4	Tuomas Tujula^[5]		All
5	Nikita Sitnikov^[4]		1–2, 4–7
7	Nikita Volegov^[4]		2–7
10	Zakhar Slutskiy^[3]		1–3
11	Gleb Zotov^[4]		1–5
14	Juho Valtanen^[5]		All
15	Artem Petrov^[4]		1–5
16	Jarno Opmeer^[6]		All
17	Nerses Isaakyan	G	5, 7
21	Xavier Lloveras^[7]		All
22	Richard Verschoor^[8]		All
25	Artem Slutskiy^[3]		1–3
32	Roman Lebedev^[4]		All
38	Danny Kroes^[9]		1–3
40	Vladimiros Tziortzis^[4]		All
41	Aleksandr Vartanyan^[5]		All
50	Tuomas Haapalainen^[3]		All
64	Rasmus Markkanen^[10]		All
65	Roope Markkanen^[10]		All
77	Aleksandr Maslennikov^[3]		All

Icon	Class
G	Guest drivers ineligible to score points

Race calendar and results

The final calendar was announced on 7 March 2016.^[1]

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Supporting
1	R1	Sochi Autodrom, Sochi	30 April	Richard Verschoor	Jarno Opmeer	Richard Verschoor	Russian Grand Prix
1	R2	Sochi Autodrom, Sochi	1 May	Jarno Opmeer	Jarno Opmeer	Jarno Opmeer	Russian Grand Prix
2	R3	Circuit Park Zandvoort, Zandvoort	14 May	Richard Verschoor	Jarno Opmeer	Tuomas Tujula	Pinksterraces
	R4		15 May		Aleksandr Vartanyan	Jarno Opmeer
	R5		15 May	Richard Verschoor	Tuomas Tujula	Jarno Opmeer
3	R6	Circuit Park Zandvoort, Zandvoort	4 June	Richard Verschoor	Jarno Opmeer	Jarno Opmeer	Max Verstappen Fan Days
	R7		5 June		Juho Valtanen	Jarno Opmeer
	R8		5 June	Richard Verschoor	Richard Verschoor	Richard Verschoor
4	R9	Moscow Raceway, Volokolamsk	23 July	Richard Verschoor	Aleksey Korneev	Richard Verschoor	Russian Circuit Racing Series
	R10		24 July		Richard Verschoor	Richard Verschoor
	R11		24 July	Richard Verschoor	Richard Verschoor	Richard Verschoor
5	R12	Moscow Raceway, Volokolamsk	20 August	Richard Verschoor	Xavier Lloveras	Richard Verschoor	Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters
	R13		21 August		Richard Verschoor	Richard Verschoor
	R14		21 August	Richard Verschoor	Richard Verschoor	Richard Verschoor
6	R15	Anderstorp Raceway, Anderstorp	3 September	Jarno Opmeer	Richard Verschoor	Richard Verschoor
	R16		4 September		Jarno Opmeer	Richard Verschoor
	R17		4 September	Jarno Opmeer	Richard Verschoor	Richard Verschoor
7	R18	Ahvenisto Race Circuit, Hämeenlinna	10 September	Jarno Opmeer	Aleksandr Vartanyan	Jarno Opmeer	Rata-SM
	R19		11 September		Richard Verschoor	Jarno Opmeer
	R20		11 September	Richard Verschoor	Richard Verschoor	Aleksandr Vartanyan

Championship standings

Points are awarded to the top 10 classified finishers in each race. No points are awarded for pole position or fastest lap. At Sochi, only two races were held, and full points were awarded for Race 2.

Races	Position, points per race
Races	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	SOC		ZAN1			ZAN2			MSC1			MSC2			AND			AHV			Pts
1	Richard Verschoor	1	Ret	2	7	12	2	4	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	3	2	2	339
2	Jarno Opmeer	2	1	3	1	1	1	1	3	5	2	3	10	16	2	5	9	12	1	1	4	270
3	Aleksandr Vartanyan	4	4	5	6	3	7	3	2	4	4	9	4	4	13	6	Ret	2	8	9	1	198
4	Rasmus Markkanen	Ret	5	16	5	Ret	3	6	5	11	9	12	5	3	Ret	10	12	3	4	6	3	124
5	Tuomas Tujula	Ret	EX	1	3	2	6	8	Ret	12	10	7	7	7	4	8	Ret	4	7	8	Ret	120
6	Roope Markkanen	3	Ret	8	Ret	6	4	2	6	14	12	5	13	10	3	7	11	Ret	6	5	6	118
7	Nikita Sitnikov	5	3	9	Ret	4				2	3	2	Ret	13	15	4	4	10	13	Ret	8	113
8	Tuomas Haapalainen	Ret	6	12	13	Ret	Ret	15	9	7	5	16	2	5	5	2	2	8	9	11	5	110
9	Juho Valtanen	Ret	Ret	4	2	5	8	7	4	10	6	10	12	8	11	3	3	Ret	5	4	Ret	108
10	Xavier Lloveras	8	7	Ret	15	11	5	5	7	8	7	6	11	9	6	Ret	6	9	10	7	7	80
11	Nikita Volegov			11	10	Ret	10	10	10	6	13	8	9	12	9	9	10	5	14	14	Ret	38
12	Danny Kroes	6	8	6	4	Ret	9	11	11													32
13	Vladimiros Tziortzis	14	11	7	14	10	13	12	12	13	15	13	6	6	16	Ret	7	7	12	13	Ret	32
14	Aleksandr Maslennikov	9	Ret	15	12	9	15	18	Ret	9	8	11	Ret	15	12	11	8	6	11	10	Ret	20
15	Artem Petrov	10	EX	14	9	7	Ret	13	Ret	Ret	DNS	Ret	8	11	10							14
16	Henri Kauppi	7	14	18	17	13													16	15	9	8
17	Zakhar Slutskiy	Ret	9	13	11	8	11	9	13													8
18	Roman Lebedev	13	10	17	16	Ret	14	14	8	15	14	17				12	5	11	15	12	Ret	6
19	Artem Slutskiy	12	13	10	8	Ret	12	17	Ret													2
20	Gleb Zotov	11	12	Ret	18	Ret	16	16	14	17	Ret	15	14	Ret	14							0
Drivers ineligible to score points
-	Nerses Isaakyan												3	2	8				2	3	Ret	0
-	Aleksey Korneev	Ret	2							3	16	4	DSQ	14	7							0
-	Ivan Matveev									16	11	14										0
Pos	Driver	SOC		ZAN1			ZAN2			MSC1			MSC2			AND			AHV			Pts

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

References

External links

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