The 2017 BOSS GP season was the 23rd season of the BOSS GP series. The championship began on 21 April at Hockenheim and finished on 1 October at Imola.

Teams and Drivers edit

Team Chassis Engine No. Driver Rounds
Open Class
Top Speed Toro Rosso STR1 Cosworth 3.0 V10 1   Ingo Gerstl 1, 3, 5-7
GP Racing Panoz DP01 Judd 4.2 V10 3   Peter Milavec 1
Penn Elcom Racing Benetton B197 Judd 4.2 V10 7   Phil Stratford 1, 4, 7
Mansell Motorsport Dallara GP2/08 Evo Judd 4.2 V10 11   Rinus van Kalmthout[1] 2-3, 7
Benetton B197 Judd 4.2 V10 12   Marijn van Kalmthout 2
Team Griffith's AGS JH23 Cosworth 3.0 V10 14   Patrick D’Aubreby 3
H&A Racing Arrows A22 Cosworth 3.0 V10 21   Bernd Herndlhofer 1, 6
FXtreme Racing Team Super Aguri SA06 Cosworth 3.0 V10 26   Wolfgang Jaksch 1, 3, 5-6
Team Ascari Jaguar R5 Cosworth 3.0 V10 66   Klaas Zwart 1, 4-5
Formula Class
Speed Center - Castrol Dallara GP2/08 Mecachrome 4.0 V8 101   Peter Göllner 2-3, 5-6
555   Christian Eicke 1-3, 5-6
H&A Racing Dallara GP2/05 Mecachrome 4.0 V8 105   Wolfgang Jordan 3-5
222   Veronika Cicha 3, 5-6
FXtreme Racing Team Dallara GP2/08 Mecachrome 4.0 V8 1
Easy Formula Dallara T08 Renault 3.5 V6 111   'Peter' 1-2, 5, 7
PS Racing Lola B05/52 Gibson Tech 3.4 V8 115   Mahaveer Raghunathan All
116   Nicolas Matile 7
Team Griffith's Dallara GP2/05 Mecachrome 4.0 V8 127   Bruno Navarrete 3
150   David Moretti 3
Zig-Zag Dallara GP2/08 Mecachrome 4.0 V8 129   Marc Faggionato 2, 5
De Boer Manx Dallara GP2/08 Mecachrome 4.0 V8 136   Henk de Boer 2-4, 6
139   René Kouwenberg 7
Fiedler Racing Dallara GP2/05 Mecachrome 4.0 V8 321   Andreas Fiedler 1, 6
MM International Motorsport Dallara GP2/11 Mecachrome 4.0 V8 323   Armando Mangini 1
Lola B02/50 Zytek 3.0 V8 2
Dallara GP2/05 Mecachrome 4.0 V8 3-7
999   Salvatore de Plano 1-2
Dallara GP2/11 3-7
Becker Motorsport Dallara SN01 Nissan AER 3.4 V6 411   Karl-Heinz Becker 2-7
Jenzer Motorsport Dallara SN01 Nissan AER 3.4 V6 430   Martin Kindler 3, 7
Team Ledermair Motorsport Dallara GP2/08 Mecachrome 4.0 V8 444   Johann Ledermair 1-3, 5-7
Inter Europol Competition Dallara GP2/05 Mecachrome 4.0 V8 505   Walter Steding 1, 4-7
Top Speed Dallara GP2/08 Mecachrome 4.0 V8 888   Florian Schnitzenbaumer 1-3, 6-7

Calendar edit

Round Circuit Date Pole Position Fastest Lap Winning Driver Winning Team Formula Class Winner
1 R1   Hockenheimring, Hockenheim 22 April   Ingo Gerstl   Andreas Fiedler   Ingo Gerstl   Top Speed   Andreas Fiedler
R2 23 April   Ingo Gerstl   Ingo Gerstl   Top Speed   Johann Ledermair
2 R3   Circuit Park Zandvoort, Zandvoort 20 May   Rinus van Kalmthout   Johann Ledermair   Johann Ledermair   Team Ledermair Motorsport   Johann Ledermair
R4 21 May   Johann Ledermair   Johann Ledermair   Team Ledermair Motorsport   Johann Ledermair
3 R5   Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet 10 June   Ingo Gerstl   Ingo Gerstl   Ingo Gerstl   Top Speed   Johann Ledermair
R6 11 June   Ingo Gerstl   Ingo Gerstl   Top Speed   Johann Ledermair
4 R7   Circuit Zolder, Heusden-Zolder 15 July   Klaas Zwart   Klaas Zwart   Mahaveer Raghunathan   PS Racing   Mahaveer Raghunathan
R8 16 July   Klaas Zwart   Phil Stratford   Penn Elcom Racing   Salvatore de Plano
5 R9   TT Circuit Assen, Assen 5 August   Ingo Gerstl   Johann Ledermair   Johann Ledermair   Ledermair Motorsport   Johann Ledermair
R10 6 August   Ingo Gerstl   Ingo Gerstl   Top Speed   Johann Ledermair
6 R11   Masaryk Circuit, Brno 9 September   Ingo Gerstl   Ingo Gerstl   Ingo Gerstl   Top Speed   Johann Ledermair
R12 10 September   Ingo Gerstl   Ingo Gerstl   Top Speed   Johann Ledermair
7 R13   Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola 30 September   Ingo Gerstl   Ingo Gerstl   Ingo Gerstl   Top Speed   Mahaveer Raghunathan
R14 1 October   Rinus van Kalmthout   Rinus van Kalmthout   Mansell Motorsport   Mahaveer Raghunathan

Championship standings edit

  • Points for both championships were awarded as follows:
Race
Position  1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th   7th   8th   9th   10th   11th   12th   13th   14th   15th   16th   17th 
All Races 25 22 20 18 16 14 12 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Drivers Standings edit

Pos Driver HOC
 
ZAN
 
LEC
 
ZOL
 
ASS
 
BRN
 
IMO
 
Points
Open Class
1   Ingo Gerstl 1 1 1 1 DNS 1 1 1 1 DNS 200
2   Rinus van Kalmthout 2 Ret 2 2 2 1 116
3   Phil Stratford 4 3 Ret 1 5 3 111
4   Wolfgang Jaksch DNS 5 7 4 5 9 Ret DNS 107
5   Klaas Zwart Ret DNS 4† Ret DNS DNS 25
6   Bernd Herndlhofer DNS DNS 2 DNS 22
7   Marijn van Kalmthout 11 Ret 22
8   Patrick D'Aubreby 15 Ret 18
  Peter Milavec DNS DNS
Formula Class
1   Mahaveer Raghunathan 5 6 3 2 5 6 1 3 2 4 5 11 3 2 263
2   Johann Ledermair 3 2 1 1 3 3 1 2 3 2 DNS DNS 247
3   Salvatore de Plano 7 7 4 3 8 5 2 2 4 3 4 3 4 Ret 243
4   Armando Mangini DNS DNS DNS DNS 10 10 3 4 6 7 6 5 6 6 168
5   Florian Schnitzenbaumer 6 4 8 5 4 Ret Ret 4 Ret 4 132
6   Karl-Heinz Becker 9 10 Ret DNS 5 5 10 Ret Ret 7 10 7 105
7   Christian Eicke DNS 9 10 8 12 11 11 11 8 9 93
8   Walter Steding DNS DNS 6 WD 7 6 7 8 7 DSQ 74
9   Marc Faggionato 5 4 3 5 74
10   Henk de Boer 6 6 11 9 Ret WD 9 DNS 66
11   Peter Göllner 7 7 Ret Ret 9 8 Ret 6 64
12   Martin Kindler 13 12 9 5 51
13   Wolfgang Jordan 9 8 Ret Ret 13 12 46
14   Veronika Cicha DNS 10 16 Ret 8 Ret Ret 10 39
15   David Moretti 6 7 36
16   René Kouwenberg 8 8 30
17   'Peter' DNS DSQ Ret 9 12 10 Ret DNS 26
18   Nicolas Matile 11 9 22
19   Andreas Fiedler 21 8 Ret Ret 16
20   Bruno Navarrete 14 13 15

1 Andreas Fielder lost the points earned for winning the Formula Class in the first Hockenheim race for using incorrect tires. He was however still credited with the win.

References edit

  1. ^ "Rinus van Kalmthout racet in 700 PK sterke GP2 tegen zijn vader Marijn in de Benetton F1". Racexpress.nl. Retrieved 21 May 2017.

External links edit