The 1994 British Formula Two Championship was the sixth season of the British Formula 3000 Championship. José Luis Di Palma won the championship, driving a Reynard 92D for Madgwick International. Both the Argentinian and series runner-up Phil Andrews (Apache Racing) won two rounds apiece. However, the grids were weak and British F2 was in decline. International F3000 drivers Gareth Rees and Christian Pescatori both won one-off races with Durango, at Snetterton and Donington respectively. Future Indy Lights star Philipp Peter also had a single race with the Italian team. Rees' future team-mate Stephen Watson made a single appearance in the series. The Moosehead Grand Prix at Halifax, Canada, a non-championship F3000 race in 1993, counted as a British F2 round in 1994 and was won by the Italian-Mexican Gianfranco Cané, driving for Fred Goddard Racing.[1]
It was very sad that this season gave sequence to the continuous downward spiral for this series, with fields sometimes having as few as six entries only, and three scheduled races cancelled due to aforementioned lack of entries.
Drivers and teams
editThe following drivers and teams contested the 1994 British Formula Two Championship.
Team | Chassis | Engine | No. | Driver | Rounds |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Madgwick International | Reynard | Cosworth | 1 | José Luis Di Palma | All |
Apache Racing | Reynard | Cosworth | 4 | Dominic Chappell | All |
5 | Phil Andrews | All | |||
AIM Motorsport | Reynard | Mugen | 6 | Andreas Halkiopoulos | 1–2, 4-7 |
McNeil Engineering | Lola | Judd | 7 | Robbie Stirling | 1–3, 5-7 |
Rex Hart Racing | Reynard | Cosworth | 8 | David Mercer | 3, 5, 7 |
Weylock Racing | Reynard | Cosworth | 9 | Nicke Blom | 1 |
Franck Fréon | 4 | ||||
Fred Goddard Racing | Reynard | Cosworth | 10 | Pekka Herva | 2–3, 5 |
Gianfranco Cané | 4 | ||||
Worswick Engineering | Reynard | Cosworth | 11 | Tony Worswick | 3 |
Cobra Motorsport | Reynard | Cosworth | 12 | Richard Dean | 4 |
Monninghoff Sport Promotion | Reynard | Cosworth | 14 | Klaus Panchyrz | 4 |
15 | James Taylor | 4 | |||
Vortex Motorsport | Reynard | Cosworth | 18 | Allard Kalff | 6 |
Kris Nissen | 7 | ||||
19 | Hans Fertl | 6 | |||
Omegaland | Lola | Cosworth | 20 | Stephen Watson | 7 |
Durango Corse | Reynard | Cosworth | 30 | Gareth Rees | 6 |
Christian Pescatori | 7 | ||||
31 | Luca Riccitelli | 6 | |||
Philipp Peter | 7 | ||||
32 | Vito Popolizio | 6-7 |
Results
editBritish Formula Two Championship
editRound | Date | Circuit | Pole Position | Fastest Lap | Winning Driver | Winning Team |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
C | April 1 | Oulton Park | Cancelled due to lack of entries | |||
C | May 2 | Thruxton | ||||
1 | May 30 | Brands Hatch (Indy) | José Luis Di Palma | Robbie Stirling | Phil Andrews | Apache Racing |
2 | June 4 | Silverstone (National) | Phil Andrews | Pekka Herva | José Luis Di Palma | Madgwick International |
3 | June 11 | Oulton Park | Phil Andrews | Phil Andrews | Phil Andrews | Apache Racing |
4 | July 10 | Halifax | Franck Fréon | Franck Fréon | Gianfranco Cane | Fred Goddard Racing |
5 | August 7 | Snetterton | José Luis Di Palma | José Luis Di Palma | José Luis Di Palma | Madgwick International |
C | September 18 | Brands Hatch (GP) | Cancelled due to lack of entries | |||
6 | October 16 | Snetterton | Gareth Rees | Gareth Rees | Gareth Rees | Durango Corse |
7 | October 30 | Donington Park | Christian Pescatori | Phil Andrews | Christian Pescatori | Durango Corse |
Championship Standings
editPos. | Driver | BHI |
SIL |
OUL |
HAL |
SNE |
SNE |
DON |
Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | José Luis Di Palma | Ret | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 34 |
2 | Phil Andrews | 1 | 2 | 1 | DNS | 2 | DNS | Ret | 30 |
3 | Dominic Chappell | 2 | Ret | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | Ret | 22 |
4 | Robbie Stirling | DSQ | Ret | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 | |
5 | Gianfranco Cane | 1 | 9 | ||||||
6 | Gareth Rees | 1 | 9 | ||||||
7 | Christian Pescatori | 1 | 9 | ||||||
8 | Andreas Halkiopoulos | 3 | 4 | 6 | NC | Ret | Ret | 8 | |
9 | Klaus Panchyrz | 2 | 6 | ||||||
10 | Philipp Peter | 2 | 6 | ||||||
11 | Pekka Herva | 3 | DNS | Ret | 4 | ||||
12 | Kris Nissen | 3 | 4 | ||||||
13 | David Mercer | 5 | 5 | 9 | 4 | ||||
14 | James Taylor | 5 | 2 | ||||||
15 | Luca Riccitelli | 5 | 2 | ||||||
16 | Stephen Watson | 6 | 1 | ||||||
17 | Vito Popolizio | 6 | 7 | 1 | |||||
18 | Akbar Ebrahim | 8 | 0 | ||||||
Tony Worswick | Ret | ||||||||
Franck Fréon | Ret | ||||||||
Richard Dean | Ret | ||||||||
Hans Fertl | Ret | ||||||||
Steve Arnold | Ret | ||||||||
Nicke Blom | DNS |
References
edit- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2021-10-23. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
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