2003 International Formula 3000 season

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The 2003 International Formula 3000 season was the 19th season of FIA Formula 3000 motor racing. It featured the 2003 FIA Formula 3000 International Championship with titles awarded for both Drivers and Teams.^[1] The championship was contested over ten events from April 19 to September 13, 2003.^[2]

[edit] Teams and Drivers

Bjorn Wirdheim at the Hungaroring round of the 2003 FIA Formula 3000 International Championship

Vitantonio Liuzzi at the Hungaroring round of the 2003 FIA Formula 3000 International Championship

The following teams and drivers contested the 2003 FIA Formula 3000 International Championship.^[2]

Team	Car #	Driver	Events
Arden International	1	Björn Wirdheim	All
	2	Townsend Bell	All
Coloni Motorsport	3	Zsolt Baumgartner	1-9
		Christian Montanari	10
	4	Ricardo Sperafico	All
Super Nova Racing	5	Enrico Toccacelo	All
	6	Derek Hill	1-6
		Nicolas Kiesa	7
		Sam Hancock	8-10
Den Blå Avis	7	Nicolas Kiesa	1-6
	8	Robbie Kerr	1
		Philip Giebler	2-6
Durango	9	Giorgio Pantano	All
	10	Raffaele Giammaria	All
Team Astromega	11	Tony Schmidt	All
	12	Jeffrey van Hooydonk	1-2, 4-6, 10
		Michael Keohane	7-9
Superfund ISR - Charouz	14	Jaroslav Janiš	All
	15	Yannick Schroeder	1-8
Red Bull Junior Team F3000	16	Vitantonio Liuzzi	All
	17	Patrick Friesacher	1-2, 5-10
		Bernhard Auinger	3-4
BCN F3000	18	Valerio Scassellati	1, 5-6, 8
		Alessandro Piccolo	2-4, 10
		Marc Hynes	7
		Giovanni Berton	9
	19	Rob Nguyen	1-3
		Will Langhorne	4-8
		Ferdinando Monfardini	9-10
Brand Motorsport	20	Nicolas Minassian	1
	21	Gary Paffett	1

[edit] Calendar

The 2003 FIA Formula 3000 International Championship was contested over a ten event series.^{[3] [2]}

Event	Circuit	Date	Distance	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team
1	Imola	April 20	31 laps / 152.686 km	Björn Wirdheim	Björn Wirdheim	Björn Wirdheim	Arden International
2	Catalunya	May 3	33 laps / 152.565 km	Giorgio Pantano	Giorgio Pantano	Giorgio Pantano	Durango
3	A1-Ring	May 17	35 laps / 151.410 km	Ricardo Sperafico	Björn Wirdheim	Ricardo Sperafico	Coloni Motorsport
4	Monaco	May 31	45 laps / 150.3 km	Björn Wirdheim	Björn Wirdheim	Nicolas Kiesa	Den Blå Avis
5	Nürburgring	June 28	30 laps / 154.423 km	Björn Wirdheim	Björn Wirdheim	Enrico Toccacelo	Super Nova Racing
6	Magny-Cours	July 5	35 laps / 154.201 km	Giorgio Pantano	Giorgio Pantano	Giorgio Pantano	Durango
7	Silverstone	July 19	30 laps / 154.125 km	Björn Wirdheim	Björn Wirdheim	Björn Wirdheim	Arden International
8	Hockenheim	August 2	33 laps / 150.942 km	Ricardo Sperafico	Björn Wirdheim	Ricardo Sperafico	Coloni Motorsport
9	Budapest	August 23	35 laps / 153.440 km	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Patrick Friesacher	Patrick Friesacher	Red Bull Junior Team
10	Monza	September 13	26 laps / 150.353 km	Björn Wirdheim	Björn Wirdheim	Björn Wirdheim	Arden International

[edit] Drivers' Championship

Pos [3] Driver Team IMO CAT A1R MON NUR MAG SIL HOC HUN MNZ Pts 1 Björn Wirdheim Arden 1 2 2 2 13 2 1 2 2 1 78 2 Ricardo Sperafico Coloni 3 Ret 1 DSQ 14 3 4 1 Ret 3 43 3 Giorgio Pantano Durango Ret 1 3 Ret 16 1 2 7 4 Ret 41 4 Vitantonio Liuzzi Red Bull Junior 4 Ret 4 Ret 2 4 3 4 9 4 39 5 Patrick Friesacher Red Bull Junior 2 Ret Ret 11 5 3 1 2 36 6 Enrico Toccacelo Super Nova 5 3 5 Ret 1 13 6 Ret 7 8 30 7 Nicolas Kiesa Den Blå Avis, Super Nova 12 10 6 1 3 Ret 8 20 8 Jaroslav Janiš ISR Racing DNS 4 9 4 6 Ret 10 8 5 7 20 9 Townsend Bell Arden 9 12 7 6 Ret 12 7 5 3 Ret 17 10 Raffaele Giammaria Durango 7 Ret 14 3 7 8 Ret 10 6 Ret 14 11 Tony Schmidt Astromega Ret 6 Ret Ret 10 5 Ret 6 8 6 14 12 Yannick Schroeder ISR Racing 6 8 Ret 7 4 7 9 11 13 13 Jeffrey van Hooydonk Astromega Ret Ret 8 8 6 5 9 14 Zsolt Baumgartner Coloni 10 7 10 5 11 9 11 9 DNS 6 15 Rob Nguyen BCN 8 5 13 5 16 Derek Hill Super Nova 15 11 Ret DSQ 5 10 4 17 Phil Giebler Den Blå Avis Ret 8 Ret 9 DNS 1 18 Alessandro Piccolo BCN 9 12 DNS 11 0 19 Bernhard Auinger Red Bull Junior 11 9 0 20 Christian Montanari Coloni 9 0 21 Will Langhorne BCN 10 12 14 13 12 0 22 Ferdinando Monfardini BCN Ret 10 0 23 Giovanni Berton BCN 10 0 24 Sam Hancock Super Nova 13 11 DNS 0 25 Nicolas Minassian Brand 11 0 26 Michael Keohane Astromega 12 Ret 0 27 Valerio Scassellati BCN 13 15 15 14 0 28 Marc Hynes BCN 14 0 29 Gary Paffett Brand 14 0 – Robbie Kerr Den Blå Avis DNS 0 Pos Driver Team IMO CAT A1R MON NUR MAG SIL HOC HUN MNZ Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Finished, in points Blue Finished, no points Not classified (NC) Purple Did not finish (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 participate Excluded (EX)

• All drivers used Lola B02/50 chassis with Zytek-Judd KV engines and Avon tyres.
• Bold signifies pole position, italics signifies fastest lap.
• Championship points were awarded on a 10-8-6-4-3-2-1 basis to the first eight finishers at each round. If two or more drivers had the same number of points (including 0 points), their postions in the Championship was fixed according to the quality of their places. Under this system one first place was better than any number of second places, one second place was better than any number of third places and so on.^[3]

[edit] Teams Championship

The Teams Championship was won by Arden International from Red Bull Junior Team F3000 and Durango.^[3]

[edit] Complete Overview

R16=retired, but classified R=retired NS=did not start NT=no time set in qualifying 13E=grid position, but started from the end of the grid

Place	Name	Country	Team
1	Björn Wirdheim	Sweden	Arden International	1	1	2	2	2	2	1	2	1	13	2	2	1	1	3	2	5	2	1	1
2	Ricardo Sperafico	Brazil	Coloni Motorsport	4	3	4	R	1	1	2	R	2	14	4	3	3	4	1	1	6	R	3	3
3	Giorgio Pantano	Italy	Durango Formula	7	R	1	1	5	3	3	R	14	R16	1	1	2	2	5	7	2	4	2	R
4	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Italy	Red Bull Junior Team	3	4	10	R	3	4	4	R	5	2	5	4	4	3	2	4	1	9	12	4
5	Patrick Friesacher	Austria	Red Bull Junior Team	2	2	12	R	-	-	-	-	4	R	8	11	5	5	4	3	3	1	4	2
6	Enrico Toccacelo	Italy	Super Nova Racing	10	5	7	3	7	5	5	R	3	1	14	13	7	6	7	R	8	7	5	8
7	Nicolas Kiesa	Denmark	Den Blå Avis	13	12	9	10	13	6	6	1	10	3	12	R
			Super Nova Racing													11	8	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Jaroslav Janiš	Czech Republic	Superfund ISR Racing	15	NS	5	4	10	9	8	4	12	6	3	R	8	10	8	8	7	5	11	7
9	Townsend Bell	United States	Arden International	5	9	11	12	4	7	18	6	6	R	11	12	6	7	6	5	4	3	7	R
10	Raffaele Giammaria	Italy	Durango Formula	8	7	18	R	17	14	9	3	16	7	15	8	14	R	12	10	11	6	8	R
	Tony Schmidt	Germany	Team Astromega	12	R	13	6	6	R15	16	R	13E	10	6	5	9	R	10	6	10	8	10	6
12	Yannick Schroeder	France	Superfund ISR Racing	6	6	6	8	16	R	12	7	9	4	7	7	10	9	11	11	NT	-	NT	-
13	Jeffrey van Hooydonk	Belgium	Team Astromega	11	R	3	R	-	-	7	8	8	8	10	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	5
14	Zsolt Baumgartner	Hungary	Coloni Motorsport	16	10	16	7	9	10	10	5	15	11	9	9	12	11	9	9	9	NS	-	-
15	Rob Nguyen	Australia	Team BCN F3000	17	8	15	5	15	13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
16	Derek Hill	United States	Super Nova Racing	19	15	8	11	12	R	14	R	7	5	13	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
17	Philip Giebler	United States	Den Blå Avis	-	-	14	R	8	8	15	R	11	9	16	NS	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Alessandro Piccolo	Italy	Team BCN F3000	-	-	17	9	11	12	11	NS	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	13	R11
-	Bernhard Auinger	Austria	Red Bull Junior Team	-	-	-	-	14	11	13	9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Christian Montanari	San Marino	Coloni Motorsport	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	9
-	Will Langhorne	United States	Team BCN F3000	-	-	-	-	-	-	17	10	17	12	17	14	15	13	13	12	-	-	-	-
-	Ferdinando Monfardini	Italy	Team BCN F3000	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14	R	14	R10
-	Giovanni Berton	Italy	Team BCN F3000	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12	10	-	-
-	Sam Hancock	United Kingdom	Super Nova Racing	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14	13	13	11	15	NS
-	Nicolas Minassian	France	Brand Motorsport	9	11	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Michael Keohane	Ireland	Team Astromega	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	13	12	16	R	NT	-	-	-
-	Valerio Scassellati	Italy	Team BCN F3000	20	13	-	-	-	-	-	-	18	15	18	15	-	-	15	14	-	-	-	-
-	Gary Paffett	United Kingdom	Brand Motorsport	14	14	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Marc Hynes	United Kingdom	Team BCN F3000	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	16	14	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Robbie Kerr	United Kingdom	Den Blå Avis	18	NS	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

[edit] See also

2003 Euro Formula 3000 season

[edit] References

1. ^ 2003 FIA F3000 Sporting Regulations Retrieved from web.archive.org on 19 March 2010
2. ^ ^{a b c} 2003 F3000 Results from www.teamdan.com Retrieved from www.teamdan.com on 19 March 2010
3. ^ ^{a b c d} 2003 FIA F3000 Championship Classifications Retrieved from web.archive.org on 19 March 2010

[edit] Further Reading

• Automobile Year, 2003/04

[edit] External links

• FIA F3000 Season Guide

• Barcelona testing images from www.motorsport.com