2015 Formula Masters China

Last updated October 01, 2025

The 2015 Formula Masters China season was the fifth season of the Formula Pilota China series, and the third under the Formula Masters China branding. The championship began on 18 April at Sepang in Malaysia and finished on 18 October at Shanghai in China after eighteen races held at six meetings.^[1]

Teams and drivers

Team	No.	Driver	Rounds
Cebu Pacific Air by KCMG	1	Jeffrey Ye^[2]	All
	2	Nicholas Rowe^[3]	All
	3	Zheng Shangguan ^[2]	All
	4	Martin Rump ^[4]	All
	8	Bo Yuan^[5]	4-6
Absolute Racing	5	Sennan Fielding	3
		Dennis Olsen ^[5]	4
		Oliver Askew	5–6
	6	Sun Zheng	3
	6	Alessio Picariello ^[5]	4–6
Eurasia Motorsport	7	Kim Jeong Tae^[6]	1–4, 6
	11	Hua Miao^[7]	1–2
	19	Takeru Muratomi^[8]	1
	24	Aidan Read^[9]	All
	36	Sam Lok	3
	54	Sean Hudspeth^[9]	1–5
	94	William Lok ^[5]	4–5
	99	Asuka Muratomi^[8]	1
Meritus.GP	8	Bo Yuan^[8]	1–2
	16	Daniel Woodroof^[10]	All
	27	Jake Parsons ^[11]	All
	33	Tommy Wong	3
	77	Worawong Komarakul^[8]	1
Dasheng Zheng	9	Dasheng Zheng	2
Super License Team	17	Hong Shijie	2–6
	39	Tomoki Takahashi^[8]	1–2, 5–6
	55	Takashi Hata^[8]	All
	56	Shota Kiyohara	3–4
Arrows Racing^[8]	49	Matthew Swanepoel^[8]	All

Race calendar and results

A provisional race calendar was released on 15 December 2014.^[1] An updated race calendar was released on 29 January 2015. On 29 March, it was announced that the round due to be held at Sentul in Indonesia, had been removed from the calendar.

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team
1	R1	Sepang International Circuit	25 April	Martin Rump	Jake Parsons	Martin Rump	Cebu Pacific Air by KCMG
	R2		26 April		Jake Parsons	Jake Parsons	Meritus.GP
	R3		26 April	Asuka Muratomi	Worawong Komarakul	Jake Parsons	Meritus.GP
2	R1	Shanghai International Circuit	6 June	Jake Parsons	Martin Rump	Martin Rump	Cebu Pacific Air by KCMG
	R2		7 June		Martin Rump	Martin Rump	Cebu Pacific Air by KCMG
	R3		7 June	Martin Rump	Jake Parsons	Jake Parsons	Meritus.GP
3	R1	Penbay International Circuit	4 July	Martin Rump	Martin Rump	Martin Rump	Cebu Pacific Air by KCMG
	R2		4 July		Martin Rump	Martin Rump	Cebu Pacific Air by KCMG
	R3		5 July	Martin Rump	Martin Rump	Martin Rump	Cebu Pacific Air by KCMG
4	R1	Kuala Lumpur Street Circuit	8 August	Martin Rump	Martin Rump	Martin Rump	Cebu Pacific Air by KCMG
	R2		8 August		Martin Rump	Martin Rump	Cebu Pacific Air by KCMG
	R3		9 August	Martin Rump	Shota Kiyohara	Martin Rump	Cebu Pacific Air by KCMG
5	R1	Zhuhai International Circuit	19 September	Martin Rump	Martin Rump	Martin Rump	Cebu Pacific Air by KCMG
	R2		20 September		Alessio Picariello	Alessio Picariello	Absolute Racing
	R3		20 September	Alessio Picariello	Martin Rump	Alessio Picariello	Absolute Racing
6	R1	Shanghai International Circuit	17 October	Alessio Picariello	Alessio Picariello	Alessio Picariello	Absolute Racing
	R2		18 October		Alessio Picariello	Alessio Picariello	Absolute Racing
	R3		18 October	Alessio Picariello	Martin Rump	Alessio Picariello	Absolute Racing

Championship standings

Drivers' championship

Points for both championships were awarded as follows:

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	PP
Races 1 & 3	20	15	12	10	8	6	4	3	2	1	1
Race 2	12	10	8	6	4	3	2	1	0		1

Pos.	Driver	SEP			SHI			PEN			KUA			ZHU			SHI			Pts
1	Martin Rump	1	2	10	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	4	2	274
2	Jake Parsons	2	1	1	3	Ret	1	2	2	4	Ret	2	3	3	Ret	Ret	9	9	3	163
3	Nicholas Rowe	5	8	6	4	2	7	3	3	2	3	6	4	6	5	5	4	3	Ret	135
4	Alessio Picariello										2	3	Ret	2	1	1	1	1	1	126
5	Aidan Read	4	3	3	5	4	5	4	Ret	5	13	14	10	4	4	6	5	5	4	115
6	Daniel Woodroof	Ret	5	2	2	3	13	7	10	7	5	5	9	5	10	Ret	8	8	6	82
7	Matthew Swanepoel	3	7	5	Ret	13	4	6	4	8	Ret	10	7	12	6	3	Ret	10	Ret	66
8	Yuan Bo	8	DNS	7	8	6	3				Ret	Ret	6	7	3	9	6	7	7	57
9	Sean Hudspeth	6	4	4	6	8	9	Ret	Ret	11	7	9	8	8	8	4				52
10	Oliver Askew													11	Ret	7	3	2	5	34
11	Shota Kiyohara							Ret	8	6	4	4	5							31
12	Jeffrey Ye	10	12	13	9	9	Ret	5	7	9	8	11	11	10	Ret	8	7	12	Ret	26
13	Zheng Shangguan	Ret	13	15	Ret	7	10	Ret	6	10	6	8	Ret	9	9	13	10	6	9	22
14	Kim Jeong Tae	7	9	9	10	10	6	10	11	13	9	Ret	12				12	Ret	8	19
15	Tomoki Takahashi	11	10	8	7	5	8							Ret	7	10	11	11	10	18
16	Dennis Olsen										Ret	7	2							17
17	Sennan Fielding							Ret	5	3										16
18	Asuka Muratomi	Ret	6	Ret																4
19	Sun Zheng							8	9	12										3
20	Takashi Hata	Ret	14	12	12	12	DNS	9	Ret	Ret	10	13	Ret	13	Ret	14	13	13	Ret	3
21	Hua Miao	9	11	11	11	11	11													2
22	Hong Shijie				13	14	12	11	12	14	12	12	Ret	14	11	11	Ret	Ret	11	0
23	William Lok										11	15	Ret	15	Ret	12				0
24	Worawong Komarakul	12	15	14																0
25	Sam Lok							12	DNS	DNS										0
26	Tommy Wong							13	13	DNS										0
	Takeru Muratomi	Ret	Ret	DNS																0
	Zheng Dasheng				Ret	DNS	DNS													0
Pos.	Driver	SEP			SHI			PEN			KUA			ZHU			SHI			Pts

Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	Second place
Bronze	Third place
Green	Points classification
Blue	Non-points classification
Blue	Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple	Retired, not classified (Ret)
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Red	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
† – Retired, but classified

Teams' championship

Pos.	Team	Pts
1	Cebu Pacific Air by KCMG	348
2	Meritus.GP	236
3	Eurasia Motorsport	143
4	Absolute Racing	109
5	Arrows Racing	66
6	Super License Team	54
	Zheng Dasheng	0

References

1 2 "Calendar". FormulaMastersChina.com. 11 December 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
1 2 "Cebu Pacific Air by KCMG confirms Star Racing Academy duo for Formula Masters China Series". KC Motorgroup. 16 April 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
↑ Banerjee, Aditya (21 April 2015). "Nick Rowe completes KCMG lineup in Formula Masters China". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
↑ Banerjee, Aditya (18 April 2015). "Martin Rump to race for KCMG in 2015 FMCS season". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
1 2 3 4 Allen, Peter (9 August 2015). "Rump wins first Kuala Lumpur race ahead of Picariello". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
↑ Banerjee, Aditya (27 February 2015). "Kim Jeong Tae completes Eurasia's four-car lineup". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
↑ Banerjee, Aditya (20 January 2015). "Eurasia retain Hua Miao for 2015 FMCS season". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Banerjee, Aditya (23 April 2015). "Six new drivers in FMCS entry list for Sepang". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
1 2 Banerjee, Aditya (19 December 2014). "Eurasia sign Read and Hudspeth for 2015". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
↑ Banerjee, Aditya (2 January 2015). "Meritus sign Daniel Woodroof for 2015 FMCS season". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
↑ Banerjee, Aditya (16 February 2015). "Parsons returns to FMCS with Meritus". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 16 February 2015.

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[calendar-1] 1 2 "Calendar". FormulaMastersChina.com. 11 December 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2014.

[KCMG-2] 1 2 "Cebu Pacific Air by KCMG confirms Star Racing Academy duo for Formula Masters China Series". KC Motorgroup. 16 April 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2015.

[3] Banerjee, Aditya (21 April 2015). "Nick Rowe completes KCMG lineup in Formula Masters China". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 22 April 2015.

[4] Banerjee, Aditya (18 April 2015). "Martin Rump to race for KCMG in 2015 FMCS season". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 19 April 2015.

[KL-5] 1 2 3 4 Allen, Peter (9 August 2015). "Rump wins first Kuala Lumpur race ahead of Picariello". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 9 August 2015.

[6] Banerjee, Aditya (27 February 2015). "Kim Jeong Tae completes Eurasia's four-car lineup". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 27 February 2015.

[7] Banerjee, Aditya (20 January 2015). "Eurasia retain Hua Miao for 2015 FMCS season". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 20 January 2015.

[Rd1-8] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Banerjee, Aditya (23 April 2015). "Six new drivers in FMCS entry list for Sepang". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 23 April 2015.

[Eurasia-9] 1 2 Banerjee, Aditya (19 December 2014). "Eurasia sign Read and Hudspeth for 2015". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 19 December 2014.

[10] Banerjee, Aditya (2 January 2015). "Meritus sign Daniel Woodroof for 2015 FMCS season". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 2 January 2015.

[11] Banerjee, Aditya (16 February 2015). "Parsons returns to FMCS with Meritus". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 16 February 2015.

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