2008 Formula BMW Europe season

The 2008 Formula BMW Europe season is the first season of a new open wheel racing series that results by the merging of the Formula BMW Germany and Formula BMW UK championships, Formula BMW Europe is a new continental series for junior drivers, whose mission is to develop talented young drivers and introduce them to auto racing.^[1]

The youngsters will do battle for points for the first time on April 27, 2008 at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona and will end on September 14 at Monza. This is followed by classic Grand Prix venues, such as Silverstone, Spa-Francorchamps and Monza. The race in Valencia promises to provide a real highlight, as the youngsters tackle a new street circuit.

The new championship will mainly be staged on the undercard of the FIA Formula One World Championship.

Contents 1 Teams and drivers 2 Rules 3 Results and Standings 3.1 Races 3.2 Drivers 4 Teams 5 References 6 External links

Teams and drivers

Team No Driver Class Chassis Rounds Double R Racing 2 Carlos Huertas FB02-BMW All 3 Michael Christensen R FB02-BMW All 4 Rupert Svendsen-Cook FB02-BMW All Josef Kaufmann Racing 5 Marco Wittmann FB02-BMW All 6 Kazeem Manzur R FB02-BMW All 7 Esteban Gutierrez FB02-BMW All Motaworld Racing 8 Thomas Hilldson R FB02-BMW All 9 Mathijs Harkema FB02-BMW All 10 Asad Rahman R FB02-BMW All EuroInternational 11 Daniel Juncadella FB02-BMW All 12 Facundo Regalia R FB02-BMW All Fortec Motorsport 15 Doru Sechelariu FB02-BMW All 16 William Buller FB02-BMW All 17 Ramón Piñeiro R FB02-BMW All FMS International 18 Pedro Bianchini FB02-BMW All 19 Mihai Marinescu FB02-BMW All 20 Oliver Millroy R FB02-BMW All Mücke Motorsport 21 Juan Cevallos FB02-BMW 1-5 22 David Mengesdorf R FB02-BMW All 23 Anthony Comas FB02-BMW 1-2 AM-Holzer Rennsport 24 Bastian Graber FB02-BMW 1-3,5 25 Jazeman Jaafar FB02-BMW All 26 Kyle Mitchell FB02-BMW 5,6 Eifelland Racing 27 Adrien Tambay FB02-BMW All 28 Tiago Geronimi FB02-BMW All 29 Henrique Martins R FB02-BMW All DAMS 30 Kévin Breysse FB02-BMW All 31 Jim Pla FB02-BMW All 32 Jordan Williams FB02-BMW 1,3 Guest Drivers EuroInternational 14 Giancarlo Vilarinho R FB02-BMW 1,3,8 Ricardo Favoretto FB02-BMW 2 Alexander Rossi FB02-BMW 4 Marlon Stöckinger FB02-BMW 5,6,7 Mücke Motorsport 23 Velibor Jovanovic R FB02-BMW 3 Phillip Eng FB02-BMW 4,5,7 Sami Favre FB02-BMW 6 AM-Holzer Rennsport 26 Melvin Moh FB02-BMW 1 DAMS 32 Joel Volluz FB02-BMW 4,8 Simon Moss FB02-BMW 7

Icon Class R Rookie Cup

Rules

• Point system: 30, 24, 20, 18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 for 15th. 1 point for Pole Position.

Results and Standings

Races

Round	Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning driver	Winning team
1	Barcelona	April 26	Adrien Tambay	David Mengesdorf	Adrien Tambay	Josef Kaufmann Racing
2		April 27	Adrien Tambay	Marco Wittmann	Adrien Tambay	Josef Kaufmann Racing
3	Zolder	May 31	Daniel Juncadella	Esteban Gutierrez	Esteban Gutierrez	Josef Kaufmann Racing
4		June 1	Daniel Juncadella	Michael Christensen	Esteban Gutierrez	Josef Kaufmann Racing
5	Silverstone	July 5	Ramón Piñeiro	Esteban Gutierrez	Esteban Gutierrez	Josef Kaufmann Racing
6		July 6	Ramón Piñeiro	Esteban Gutierrez	Esteban Gutierrez	Josef Kaufmann Racing
7	Hockenheim	July 19	Esteban Gutierrez	Esteban Gutierrez	Esteban Gutierrez	Josef Kaufmann Racing
8		July 20	Esteban Gutierrez	Esteban Gutierrez	Esteban Gutierrez	Josef Kaufmann Racing
9	Hungaroring	August 3	Daniel Juncadella	Daniel Juncadella	Daniel Juncadella	EuroInternational
10		August 4	Daniel Juncadella	Esteban Gutierrez	Daniel Juncadella	Josef Kaufmann Racing
11	Valencia	August 23	Kévin Breysse	Esteban Gutierrez	Tiago Geronimi	Eifelland Racing
12		August 24	Esteban Gutierrez	Esteban Gutierrez	Esteban Gutierrez	Josef Kaufmann Racing
13	Spa-Francorchamps	September 6	Marco Wittmann	Ramón Piñeiro	Marco Wittmann	Eifelland Racing
14		September 7	Tiago Geronimi	Kévin Breysse	Kévin Breysse	DAMS
15	Monza	September 13	Carlos Huertas	Giancarlo Vilarinho	Tiago Geronimi	Double R Racing
16		September 14	Carlos Huertas	William Buller	Tiago Geronimi	Josef Kaufmann Racing

Drivers

Pos Driver BAR 1 BAR 2 ZOL 1 ZOL 2 GBR 1 GBR 2 HOC 1 HOC 2 HUN 1 HUN 2 VAL 1 VAL 2 SPA 1 SPA 2 ITA 1 ITA 2 Pts 1 Esteban Gutierrez 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 Ret 2 2 1 17 8 4 3 353 2 Marco Wittmann 4 5 3 2 5 5 3 3 2 3 3 2 1 6 3 2 327 3 Adrien Tambay 1 1 8 3 3 3 2 2 Ret 4 Ret 4 3 2 18 Ret 260 4 Daniel Juncadella 2 3 2 6 8 7 6 4 1 1 Ret 5 10 7 Ret 17 237 5 Tiago Geronimi 11 Ret 13 15 27 27 25 19 6 6 1 6 2 3 1 1 187 6 Michael Christensen Ret 6 DNS 20 2 8 7 26 5 5 9 8 7 10 6 6 158 7 Pedro Bianchini 6 11 12 7 4 2 8 6 16 16 4 17 5 19 9 Ret 145 8 Kévin Breysse 10 4 9 13 23 Ret 14 5 3 9 21 3 13 1 Ret Ret 136 9 Carlos Huertas 9 7 6 5 6 16 19 18 12 11 20 13 15 5 2 5 74 10 David Mengesdorf DSQ 8 5 4 15 6 12 21 7 7 7 11 6 18 13 Ret 124 11 Mihai Marinescu 7 10 7 10 7 4 5 8 Ret Ret Ret 14 11 13 7 16 118 12 William Buller 8 16 10 9 Ret 21 17 11 4 8 8 9 25 Ret 11 10 87 13 Svendsen-Cook 17 12 11 8 9 9 13 14 14 19 13 16 12 11 5 9 81 14 Jazeman Jaafar 5 24 16 19 17 12 4 7 8 10 Ret 26 20 16 15 Ret 67 15 Doru Sechelariu 12 23 4 11 11 15 26 20 11 12 Ret 20 24 9 16 7 64 16 Facundo Regalia Ret DNS 21 21 12 24 15 13 9 20 6 7 16 15 8 15 60 17 Jim Pla 15 Ret 17 16 19 17 21 17 18 24 19 18 9 4 10 4 54 18 Kazeem Manzur 13 13 24 23 10 11 9 27 15 14 Ret 10 14 Ret Ret 8 47 19 Henrique Martins 14 15 15 14 13 19 11 15 19 13 5 25 23 Ret 17 Ret 38 20 Ramón Piñeiro 25 9 22 12 21 18 24 24 10 17 17 Ret 8 Ret Ret 14 37 21 Oliver Millroy 16 Ret 18 17 24 10 Ret 9 Ret 22 11 15 19 Ret Ret DNS 20 22 Mathijs Harkema 21 21 Ret Ret 16 13 10 Ret Ret DNS 12 12 Ret Ret 14 Ret 20 23 Thomas Hillsdon 19 19 Ret 24 18 14 16 16 17 15 10 22 18 14 Ret 12 19 24 Jordan Williams 23 14 14 23 4 25 Juan Cevallos 22 Ret 26 26 22 Ret 20 22 13 26 3 26 Bastian Graber 18 20 20 22 26 22 23 DNS 14 21 2 Asad Rahman 24 25 25 27 25 25 23 25 22 25 18 27 Ret 21 19 Ret 0 Kyle Mitchell 20 21 Ret 19 0 Anthony Comas Ret 17 19 25 0 Guest Drivers† Alexander Rossi 22 10 0 Phillip Eng 18 12 Ret 18 4 12 0 Ricardo Favoretto 14 18 0 Giancarlo Vilarinho 20 18 20 20 12 13 0 Marlon Stöckinger 21 23 15 23 20 21 0 Melvin Moh Ret 22 0 Joel Volluz Ret 23 Ret 11 0 Velibor Jovanovic Ret 26 0 Sami Favre 16 24 0 Simon Moss 22 17 0 Pos Driver BAR 1 BAR 2 ZOL 1 ZOL 2 GBR 1 GBR 2 HOC 1 HOC 2 HUN 1 HUN 2 VAL 1 VAL 2 SPA 1 SPA 2 ITA 1 ITA 2 Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Finished, in points Blue Finished, no points Purple Did not finish (Ret) Not classified (NC) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Blank Did not participate Injured (INJ) Excluded (EX) Bold - Pole Italics - Fastest Lap R - Rookie Cup

• † Guest Drivers may be permitted to register for two individual Events at the discretion of the Organizing Committee and subject to such conditions as they may stipulate. Guest Drivers will not be entitled to receive points and prize money in the Driver classification and/or the Rookie Cup classification and/or the Team Trophy classification.

Teams

Pos	Team	Pts
1	Josef Kaufmann Racing	723
2	Eifelland Racing	481
3	Double R Racing	374
4	EuroInternational	293
5	FMS International	283
6	DAMS	193
7	Fortec Motorsport	186
8	Mücke Motorsport	127
9	AM-Holzer Rennsport	69
10	Motaworld Racing	39

References

External links

• BMW-Motorsport.com

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