2011 French F4 Championship

The 2011 French F4 Championship season was the nineteenth season of the series for 1600cc Formula Renault machinery, and the first season to run under the guise of French F4 Championship.^[1] The series began on 9 April at Circuit de Lédenon and ended on 30 October at Circuit Paul Ricard, after seven rounds and fourteen races.^[2]

Driver lineup edit

No.	Driver^[3]	Rounds
1	Andrea Pizzitola	All
2	Marie Baus-Coppens	All
3	Alexandre Mantovani	All
4	Aurélien Panis	All
5	Cyril Raymond	All
6	Jean Antunes	1
	Jonas Ramanauskas	5
	Maël le Gall	7
7	Matthieu Vaxivière	All
8	Tomasz Krzeminski	All
9	Patrick Kujala	All
10	Alex Loan Ventura	All
11	Kévin Balthazar	All
12	Paul Petit	All
14	Francisco-Javier Suárez	All
15	Pierre Gasly	All
16	Parth Ghorpade	All
17	Josh Fielding	1–3
17	Sébastien Ogier	7
18	Tristan Papavoine	All
19	Victor Colomé	All
20	Alexander Boquoi	All
21	Pierre Sancinéna	All
22	Jordan Perroy	All

Race calendar and results edit

All races supported the FFSA GT Championship, except Pau (FIA Formula 3 International Trophy) and Spa-Francorchamps (24 Hours of Spa)

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver
1	R1	Circuit de Lédenon, Lédenon	9 April	Cyril Raymond	Cyril Raymond	Cyril Raymond
1	R2	Circuit de Lédenon, Lédenon	10 April	Cyril Raymond	Cyril Raymond	Andrea Pizzitola
2	R1	Circuit Paul Armagnac, Nogaro	24 April	Pierre Sancinéna	Matthieu Vaxivière	Pierre Sancinéna
2	R2	Circuit Paul Armagnac, Nogaro	25 April	Pierre Sancinéna	Matthieu Vaxivière	Pierre Sancinéna
3	R1	Circuit de Pau, Pau	21 May	Matthieu Vaxivière	Pierre Gasly	Matthieu Vaxivière
3	R2	Circuit de Pau, Pau	22 May	Matthieu Vaxivière	Matthieu Vaxivière	Matthieu Vaxivière
4	R1	Circuit du Val de Vienne, Le Vigeant	25 June	Matthieu Vaxivière	Andrea Pizzitola	Andrea Pizzitola
4	R2	Circuit du Val de Vienne, Le Vigeant	26 June	Matthieu Vaxivière	Matthieu Vaxivière	Matthieu Vaxivière
5	R1	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Spa	29 July	Pierre Sancinéna	Patrick Kujala	Patrick Kujala
5	R2	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Spa	30 July	Pierre Sancinéna	Andrea Pizzitola	Pierre Gasly
6	R1	Circuit d'Albi, Albi	3 September	Matthieu Vaxivière	Matthieu Vaxivière	Andrea Pizzitola
6	R2	Circuit d'Albi, Albi	4 September	Matthieu Vaxivière	Tristan Papavoine	Pierre Gasly
7	R1	Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet	29 October	Pierre Gasly	Matthieu Vaxivière	Pierre Gasly
7	R2	Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet	30 October	Pierre Gasly	Aurélien Panis	Pierre Gasly

Championship standings edit

Points are awarded to the top ten drivers in both races on a 15–12–10–8–6–5–4–3–2–1 basis. Additional points are awarded to the driver achieving pole position and fastest lap in each race. Only a driver's best twelve results count towards the championship.

Pos	Driver	LÉD		NOG		PAU		VDV		SPA		ALB		LEC		Points
1	Matthieu Vaxivière	3	5	4	3	1	1	Ret	1	4	3	2	3	3	2	146
2	Andrea Pizzitola	2	1	3	2	7	7	1	2	6	5	1	10	16	4	120
3	Pierre Gasly	Ret	Ret	10	10	3	Ret	6	9	2	1	3	1	1	1	104
4	Pierre Sancinéna	5	2	1	1	Ret	2	3	Ret	Ret	4	5	4	4	16	104
5	Patrick Kujala	Ret	4	7	12	5	4	7	10	1	2	6	5	6	Ret	76
6	Cyril Raymond	1	12	5	19	2	Ret	4	3	8	Ret	9	14	11	9	64
7	Alexandre Mantovani	18	3	2	4	10	5	DNS	12	7	8	13	6	2	Ret	61
8	Tristan Papavoine	11	17	DNS	5	4	9	2	4	9	9	4	8	7	Ret	57
9	Victor Colomé	4	7	12	8	Ret	Ret	11	5	3	10	8	2	DSQ	EX	47
10	Aurélien Panis	8	18	11	7	Ret	3	5	11	11	7	7	7	20	3	46
11	Alex Loan Ventura	6	Ret	Ret	6	6	Ret	Ret	17	5	6	10	13	9	6	36
12	Francisco-Javier Suárez	7	9	6	15	Ret	Ret	9	7	18	11	11	Ret	13	8	21
13	Jordan Perroy	12	6	8	11	Ret	6	16	13	13	13	12	Ret	8	10	19
14	Kévin Balthazar	9	8	18	14	11	10	8	8	10	12	17	12	10	11	16
15	Parth Ghorpade	16	13	13	16	8	8	12	14	Ret	15	16	9	14	7	13
16	Paul Petit	13	Ret	17	Ret	Ret	12	10	6	17	14	14	Ret	19	Ret	6
17	Josh Fielding	14	10	9	9	Ret	Ret									5
18	Tomasz Krzeminski	10	11	14	13	9	11	13	15	12	17	15	11	12	13	3
—	Alexander Boquoi	17	16	16	18	12	13	14	16	15	16	DNS	DNS	15	14	0
—	Marie Baus-Coppens	15	15	15	17	13	Ret	15	18	16	Ret	Ret	15	17	15	0
—	Jonas Ramanauskas									14	18					0
—	Jean Antunes	Ret	14													0
Guest drivers ineligible for points
—	Sébastien Ogier													5	5	0
—	Maël le Gall													18	12	0
Pos	Driver	LÉD		NOG		PAU		VDV		SPA		ALB		LEC		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

References edit

^ "New – French F4 Championship". Auto Sport Academy. 14 October 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-12-19. Retrieved 25 February 2011.
^ "Auto Sport Academy - Competition - 2011 season - Calendar / Results". Archived from the original on 2011-10-03. Retrieved 2011-03-27.
^ "Drivers 2011". Autosport Academy. French F4 Championship. Archived from the original on 3 October 2011. Retrieved 29 October 2011.

External links edit

The official website of the French F4 Championship Archived 2011-07-07 at the Wayback Machine

[1] "New – French F4 Championship". Auto Sport Academy. 14 October 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-12-19. Retrieved 25 February 2011.

[2] "Auto Sport Academy - Competition - 2011 season - Calendar / Results". Archived from the original on 2011-10-03. Retrieved 2011-03-27.

[3] "Drivers 2011". Autosport Academy. French F4 Championship. Archived from the original on 3 October 2011. Retrieved 29 October 2011.

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