The 2012 ADAC Formel Masters season was an open-wheel motor racing series for emerging young racing drivers based out of Germany. It was the fifth season of the ADAC Formel Masters. The season began on 31 March at Motorsport Arena Oschersleben and finished on 30 September at Hockenheim after eight race weekends, totalling 24 races.
The championship was won by German driver Marvin Kirchhöfer.
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The first two poles of the season were claimed at Oschersleben by second-year driver Jeffrey Schmidt for the Lotus team, that was previously known as Motopark Academy. [1] But he was passed by his team-mate Marvin Kirchhöfer on the opening lap of the first race, with Kirchhöfer going on to win his first race in single-seaters. [2] Schmidt and Kirchhöfer collided in the second race, while Thomas Jäger secured his first win in the German series, [3] and the first for his team, Neuhauser Racing, since 2008. Another Lotus driver Kuba Dalewski won the reverse-grid third race of the weekend in his first single-seaters meeting. [4]
Team | No. | Drivers | Rounds |
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Lotus [5] | 2 | Kuba Dalewski [6] | 1–5 |
3 | Marvin Kirchhöfer [6] | All | |
4 | Hubertus Carlos-Vier [7] | 3–4 | |
5 | Beitske Visser [8] | 1–2, 4–6, 8 | |
6 | Indy Dontje [6] | All | |
7 | Jeffrey Schmidt [6] | All | |
24 | Antti Buri | 7 | |
Mücke Motorsport [6] | 8 | Roy Nissany [9] | All |
9 | Florian Herzog [10] | All | |
10 | Luca Caspari [6] | All | |
12 | Jason Kremer [11] | All | |
ADAC Berlin-Brandenburg [6] | 11 | Hendrik Grapp [6] | All |
Neuhauser Racing [6] | 14 | Gustav Malja [12] | All |
15 | Thomas Jäger [13] | All | |
Team KUG Motorsport [6] | 16 | Hubertus Carlos-Vier [6] | 1 |
17 | Nicolas Pohler [6] | All | |
KSW Motorsport [6] | 18 | Kim-Alexander Giersiepen [6] | 1–3, 7–8 |
G&J/Schiler Motorsport [6] | 19 | Sebastian Balthasar [6] | All |
21 | Alessio Picariello [14] | All | |
HS Engineering [6] | 20 | Felix Wieland [6] | All |
23 | Nicolas Beer | 4–6, 8 |
Notes:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
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Races 1 & 2 | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
Race 3 | 15 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
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Bold – Pole |
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