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2018 SMP F4 Championship

The 2018 SMP F4 Championship was the fourth season of the SMP F4 Championship. The series is also known as the FIA North-European Zone (NEZ) championship. Koiranen GP, despite creating Formula Academy Finland,[1] continued as the promoter.[2] The season started in Smolensk Ring on 5 May and finished in Assen Circuit on 21 October.[3]

Champion Konsta Lappalainen won seven races, with runner-up Michael Belov and third-placed Isac Blomqvist taking five and three victories respectively.

Drivers edit

Team No. Driver Rounds
  MP Motorsport 1   Freek Schothorst[4] 1
12   Patrick Schott[5][N 1] 1–4
52   László Tóth 7
64   Isac Blomqvist[1] All
888   Amaury Cordeel[6][N 1] 3–5, 7
  SMP Racing 2   Pavel Bulantsev[1] All
7   Nikita Volegov[7] 2
11   Aleksandr Vilaev[8] All
16   Nikita Aleksandrov[8] All
20   Ivan Berets[1] All
21   Artem Lobanenko[9] All
27   Ivan Shvetsov[9] All
41   Aleksandr Vartanyan[1] 3
  Denis Bulatov 4
  Irina Sidorkova 7
57   Michael Belov[9] All
  Formula Academy 3   Noah Watt 7
  Kart In Club Driving Academy 10   Konsta Lappalainen[10] All
69   Jesse Salmenautio[10] All
  Jimi Hannus Racing 12   Jimi Hannus 6
  Koiranen GP 32   Tuomas Haapalainen[6] 3–5
  Mi Maijala 6
56   Markus Laitala[6] 3–6

Race calendar edit

On 27 April 2018 the calendar was announced. For the first time of the existence of the championship Sochi Autodrom hadn't received a slot in the schedule. Circuit Zandvoort was replaced with a round at the Assen Circuit, whilst Autodrom Moscow and NRING Circuit were included to the calendar for the first time.[3] Round 6 was originally scheduled to be held at Auto24ring on 15–16 September, but was rescheduled to take place at Alastaro Circuit on 22–23 September.[11]

Round Circuit Date Pole Position Fastest Lap Winning Driver Winning Team Supporting
1 R1   Smolensk Ring, Safonovo 5 May   Isac Blomqvist   Isac Blomqvist   Isac Blomqvist   MP Motorsport 2018 Russian Circuit Racing Series
R2   Konsta Lappalainen   Isac Blomqvist   MP Motorsport
R3 6 May   Ivan Berets   Freek Schothorst   Ivan Berets   SMP Racing
2 R4   NRING Circuit, Bogorodsk 2 June   Konsta Lappalainen   Michael Belov   Michael Belov   SMP Racing
R5   Isac Blomqvist   Pavel Bulantsev   SMP Racing
R6 3 June   Michael Belov   Michael Belov   Michael Belov   SMP Racing
3 R7   Moscow Raceway, Volokolamsk 11 August   Konsta Lappalainen   Tuomas Haapalainen   Konsta Lappalainen   Kart In Club Driving Academy
R8   Isac Blomqvist   Isac Blomqvist   MP Motorsport
R9 12 August   Konsta Lappalainen   Aleksandr Vartanyan   Konsta Lappalainen   Kart In Club Driving Academy
4 R10   Autodrom Moscow, Myachkovo Airport 18 August   Konsta Lappalainen   Konsta Lappalainen   Konsta Lappalainen   Kart In Club Driving Academy Mitjet Russian Cup IV
R11   Konsta Lappalainen   Konsta Lappalainen   Kart In Club Driving Academy
R12 19 August   Amaury Cordeel   Amaury Cordeel   Amaury Cordeel   MP Motorsport
5 R13   Ahvenisto Race Circuit, Hämeenlinna 1 September   Michael Belov   Konsta Lappalainen   Konsta Lappalainen   Kart In Club Driving Academy Rata-SM
R14   Pavel Bulantsev   Tuomas Haapalainen   Koiranen GP
R15 2 September   Michael Belov   Michael Belov   Michael Belov   SMP Racing
6 R16   Alastaro Circuit, Loimaa 22 September   Pavel Bulantsev   Michael Belov   Konsta Lappalainen   Kart In Club Driving Academy Rata-SM
R17   Ivan Berets   Michael Belov   SMP Racing
R18 23 September   Michael Belov   Michael Belov   Konsta Lappalainen   Kart In Club Driving Academy
7 R19   Assen Circuit, Assen 20 October   Ivan Berets   Michael Belov   Michael Belov   SMP Racing Hankook Finaleraces
R20   Amaury Cordeel   Amaury Cordeel   MP Motorsport
R21 21 October   Ivan Berets   Michael Belov   Ivan Berets   SMP Racing

Championship standings edit

Points were awarded to the top 10 classified finishers in each race. No points were awarded for pole position or fastest lap.

Races Position, points per race
 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 edit

Pos Driver SMO
  		NRG
  		MSC
  		ADM
  		AHV
  		ALA
  		ASS
  		Pts
1   Konsta Lappalainen 6 2 2 5 Ret 5 1 3 1 1 1 2 1 4 3 1 2 1 Ret 2 2 316
2   Michael Belov 5 4 4 1 Ret 1 4 7 7 3 2 3 2 5 1 2 1 2 1 4 Ret 275
3   Isac Blomqvist 1 1 5 2 2 2 DSQ 1 3 6 7 5 Ret 7 5 7 3 Ret 3 Ret 5 201
4   Ivan Berets 2 12 1 4 5 6 3 6 5 9 9 6 Ret 6 6 3 6 3 7 3 1 195
5   Jesse Salmenautio 4 3 6 Ret 6 7 5 5 8 2 4 4 4 2 2 6 4 4 4 5 9 188
6   Ivan Shvetsov 7 7 Ret 3 3 4 7 8 4 8 8 7 7 10 7 4 5 5 6 7 6 133
7   Pavel Bulantsev 9 6 8 6 1 3 8 DNS 10 5 5 8 3 3 8 5 Ret Ret 8 6 4 132
8   Amaury Cordeel 6 9 6 4 6 1 Ret 9 9 2 1 3 107
9   Tuomas Haapalainen 14 4 2 7 3 10 8 1 4 74
10   Freek Schothorst 3 5 3 36
11   Aleksandr Vartanyan 2 2 9 32
12   Patrick Schott 8 8 7 7 4 9 9 12 11 12 11 9 31
13   Artem Lobanenko 10 9 9 9 9 8 10 10 13 Ret 14 Ret 10† Ret 10 9 10 6 9 9 12 24
14   Markus Laitala 12 11 12 11 13 12 5 8 13 8 7 7 23
15   Aleksandr Vilaev 12 10 10 11 10 11 13 14 15 Ret 12 11 6 11 11 12 8 8 10 10 8 19
16   Noah Watt 5 8 7 17
17   Nikita Aleksandrov 11 11 11 10 7 10 11 13 14 Ret 15 Ret 9 12 12 13 11 9 11 12 10 9
18   Nikita Volegov 8 8 Ret 5
19   Mi Maijala 10 12 10 2
20   Denis Bulatov 10 10 DNS 1
21   Jimi Hannus 11 9 11 0
22   László Tóth 12 11 11 0
23   Irina Sidorkova 13 13 13 0
Pos Driver SMO
  		NRG
  		MSC
  		ADM
  		AHV
  		ALA
  		ASS
  		Pts
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver Second place
Bronze Third place
Green Points finish
Blue Non-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple Retired (Ret)
Red Did not qualify (DNQ)
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

Notes:

  • † — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.

Footnotes edit

  1. ^ a b Schott and Cordeel competed under a Finnish racing license in order to be eligible for points.

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e Wood, Elliot (14 February 2018). "SMP trio named among first drivers for 2018 F4 NEZ season". formulascout.com. Formula Scout. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  2. ^ F4 NEZ CHAMPIONSHIP certified by FIA SPORTING REGULATIONS 2018 Art.8, page 4
  3. ^ a b Wood, Elliot. "F4 NEZ reveals 2018 calendar". formulascout.com. No. 27 April 2018. Formula Scout. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  4. ^ Woollard, Craig (4 May 2018). "World's Fastest Gamer finalist Freek Schothorst to make car racing debut in F4 NEZ". formulascout.com. Formula Scout. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
  5. ^ "MP MOTORSPORT LINES UP PATRICK SCHOTT FOR NEZ AND SPANISH F4". 19 March 2018. Archived from the original on 20 March 2018. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  6. ^ a b c "MOSCOW RACEWAY HOSTING THE THIRD RACE WEEKEND OF SMP F4 NEZ CHAMPIONSHIP". smpf4championship.com. SMP F4 Championship. 7 August 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  7. ^ "Nikita Volegov". smpf4championship.com. SMP F4 Championship. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
  8. ^ a b "THE 2018 SMP F4 NEZ GRID CONTINUES TO GROW". April 6, 2018. Retrieved April 10, 2018.
  9. ^ a b c "THREE MORE RUSSIAN DRIVERS JOIN THE 2018 SMP F4 NEZ CHAMPIONSHIP". smpf4championship.com. SMP F4 Championship. 7 March 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
  10. ^ a b "FINNISH RACING TEAM FILLS THE GRID OF THE 2018 SMP F4 NEZ CHAMPIONSHIP". smpf4championship.com. SMP F4 Championship. 20 March 2018. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  11. ^ "Changes in SMP F4 NEZ Championship Calendar". SMP F4 Championship. 22 August 2018. Retrieved 22 August 2018.

External links edit

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