2016 Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup

2016 Formula Renault 2.0 NEC

Drivers' Champion: Lando Norris
Teams' Champion: Josef Kaufmann Racing

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The 2016 Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup was the eleventh Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup season, an open-wheel motor racing series for emerging young racing drivers based in Europe.

Drivers and teams

Team	No.	Driver name	Status	Rounds
Josef Kaufmann Racing	1	Jehan Daruvala [1]		All
	2	Lando Norris [2]	R	All
	3	Robert Shwartzman [3]	R	All
Fortec Motorsports [4]	5	Vasily Romanov [4]		1–5
	6	Bruno Baptista [4]		All
	7	Nikita Troitskiy [4]	R	1–6
	30	Aleksandr Vartanyan [5]	R	6–7
	62	Ferdinand Habsburg [4]		2–6
Tech 1 Racing [6]	9	Dorian Boccolacci [7]		All
	10	Hugo de Sadeleer [6]		All
	11	Sacha Fenestraz [6]	R	All
	12	Gabriel Aubry [6]	R	1, 4, 6–7
R-ace GP [3]	14	Will Palmer [8]		1–5, 7
	15	Marcus Armstrong [5]	R	6
	16	Julien Falchero [9]		All
	33	Max Defourny [10]		All
JD Motorsport [11]	17	Aleksey Korneev [12]	R	1, 3–4, 6–7
	18	James Allen [12]		All
	19	Callan O'Keeffe [13]		2
	35	Ghislain Cordeel [14]	R	4–5
AVF by Adrián Vallés [6]	21	Henrique Chaves [6]		All
	24	Nerses Isaakyan [15]	R	All
	42	Julia Pankiewicz [15]	R	All
Mark Burdett Motorsport [16]	27	Alex Gill [16]		All
	28	Finlay Hutchison [3]	R	All
KEO Racing [3]	32	Kasper Larsen [3]		1–2, 4–6
Formula Motorsport [14]	36	Thomas Neubauer [14]	R	4
	37	Nicolas Melin [14]	R	4
	94	Philippe Haezebrouck [14]		4–5
Mark Godwin Racing [13]	38	David Porcelli [13]		2
Cram Motorsport [14]	40	Antoni Ptak Jr. [14]		4–5
TS Corse [14]	73	Pietro Peccenini [14]		4
Dutt Motorsport [3]	77	Laurents Hörr [3]		1–2, 4–7
Inter Europol Competition	94	Philippe Haezebrouck [17]		7
BM Racing Team [3]	96	Bartłomiej Mirecki [3]		All

Race calendar and results

The seven-event provisional calendar for the 2016 season was released on 8 October 2015. The calendar was set to remain unchanged and feature all the circuits that were in the previous season, ^[18] but a further update replaced the event at Red Bull Ring with a stand-alone event at Hungaroring. ^[19]

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team	Rookie winner	Event
1	R1	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	23 April	Jehan Daruvala	Robert Shwartzman	Dorian Boccolacci	Tech 1 Racing	Nikita Troitskiy	Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup
	R2		24 April	Max Defourny	Jehan Daruvala	Max Defourny	R-ace GP	Lando Norris
2	R1	Silverstone Circuit	14 May	Max Defourny	Max Defourny	Max Defourny	R-ace GP	Robert Shwartzman
	R2		15 May	Lando Norris	Lando Norris	Lando Norris	Josef Kaufmann Racing	Lando Norris
3	R1	Hungaroring	19 June	Lando Norris	Hugo de Sadeleer	Lando Norris	Josef Kaufmann Racing	Lando Norris	stand-alone event
	R2			Lando Norris	Jehan Daruvala	Jehan Daruvala	Josef Kaufmann Racing	Robert Shwartzman
4	R1	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	29 July	Lando Norris	Lando Norris	Lando Norris	Josef Kaufmann Racing	Lando Norris	Spa 24 Hours Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup
	R2		30 July	Lando Norris	Lando Norris	Lando Norris	Josef Kaufmann Racing	Lando Norris
5	R1	TT Circuit Assen	6 August	Lando Norris	Max Defourny	Lando Norris	Josef Kaufmann Racing	Lando Norris	Gamma Racing Day
	R2		7 August	Lando Norris	Max Defourny	Max Defourny	R-ace GP	Lando Norris
6	R1	Nürburgring	17 September	Lando Norris	Lando Norris	Robert Shwartzman	Josef Kaufmann Racing	Robert Shwartzman	Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup
	R2		18 September	Lando Norris	Max Defourny	Lando Norris	Josef Kaufmann Racing	Lando Norris
7	R1	Hockenheimring	1 October	Lando Norris	Hugo de Sadeleer	Sacha Fenestraz	Tech 1 Racing	Sacha Fenestraz	ADAC GT Masters
	R2		2 October	Robert Shwartzman	Max Defourny	Robert Shwartzman	Josef Kaufmann Racing	Robert Shwartzman
	R3			Sacha Fenestraz	Robert Shwartzman	James Allen	JD Motorsport	Lando Norris

Championship standings

Points system

Points were awarded to the top 20 classified finishers.

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th	16th	17th	18th	19th	20th
Points	30	24	20	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1

Drivers' championship

Pos. Driver MNZ SIL HUN SPA ASS NÜR HOC Points 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 1 Lando Norris 3 4 Ret 1 1 Ret 1 1 1 2 2 1 2 4 3 326 2 Max Defourny 19 1 1 5 10 7 Ret 2 5 1 3 2 3 2 2 285 3 Dorian Boccolacci 1 5 2 3 17 8 2 6 2 4 5 Ret 11 22 8 226 4 Jehan Daruvala 4 2 5 4 13 1 7 Ret 3 3 4 3 Ret 13 9 223 5 Sacha Fenestraz 7 14 13 13 16 5 10 3 4 5 6 6 1 3 16 207 6 Robert Shwartzman 5 22 11 Ret 5 2 6 8 7 7 1 Ret 5 1 13 206 7 James Allen 14 16 6 12 12 12 3 4 17 11 14 9 8 11 1 177 8 Alex Gill 9 8 7 8 6 17 4 5 12 9 7 15 Ret 6 5 176 9 Hugo de Sadeleer 10 12 9 14 19 4 16 10 9 12 8 5 14 5 6 162 10 Bartłomiej Mirecki 15 17 16 16 4 6 14 17 15 19 12 12 4 7 4 137 11 Ferdinand Habsburg 4 10 3 3 12 7 6 8 10 Ret 130 12 Will Palmer 13 3 3 2 9 18 DNS Ret 11 6 16 12 21 126 13 Julien Falchero Ret 11 8 6 Ret 16 8 12 16 16 11 7 7 16 10 124 14 Nikita Troitskiy 2 6 14 11 14 13 17 13 10 10 18 13 116 15 Henrique Chaves 11 10 22 Ret 8 10 5 9 Ret 14 16 17 10 15 DNS 106 16 Vasily Romanov 8 9 10 9 2 14 13 11 13 Ret 105 17 Bruno Baptista Ret Ret 12 15 11 Ret DNS 19 8 15 9 8 9 21 7 97 18 Gabriel Aubry 6 7 11 16 13 11 Ret 9 19 76 19 Aleksey Korneev Ret 15 7 9 Ret 14 17 10 Ret 8 14 74 20 Laurents Hörr 12 19 17 21 15 15 14 18 19 16 12 14 12 69 21 Nerses Isaakyan Ret 13 15 17 15 11 Ret 21 16 17 Ret 14 15 17 15 66 22 Aleksandr Vartanyan 20 18 6 10 11 40 23 Finlay Hutchinson 16 18 19 18 18 15 19 22 19 22 21 20 18 18 17 37 24 Marcus Armstrong 15 4 23 25 Antoni Ptak Jr. 9 18 22 13 23 26 Kasper Larsen 17 20 18 19 18 20 20 20 22 19 18 27 Julia Pankiewicz 18 21 21 Ret 20 Ret 22 26 21 21 Ret 21 13 19 18 17 28 Callan O'Keeffe 23 7 14 29 Philippe Haezebrouck 23 27 23 24 17 20 20 6 30 Ghislain Cordeel Ret 28 18 23 3 31 David Porcelli 20 20 2 32 Thomas Neubauer 20 23 1 33 Nicolas Melin 21 24 0 34 Pietro Peccenini DNS 25 0 Pos. Driver MNZ SIL HUN SPA ASS NÜR HOC Points

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points classification Blue Non-points classification Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired, not classified (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 Rookie

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

Teams' championship

Pos. Driver MNZ SIL HUN SPA ASS NÜR HOC Points 1 Josef Kaufmann Racing 3 4 5 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 3 398 2 R-ace GP 13 1 1 2 9 7 8 2 5 1 3 2 3 2 2 313 3 Tech 1 Racing 1 5 2 3 16 4 2 3 2 4 5 5 1 3 6 294 4 Fortec Motorsports 2 6 4 9 2 3 12 7 6 8 9 8 6 10 7 228 5 JD Motorsport 14 15 6 7 7 9 3 4 17 11 14 9 8 8 1 194 6 Mark Burdett Motorsport 9 8 7 8 6 15 4 5 12 9 7 15 18 6 5 181 7 BM Racing Team 15 17 16 16 4 6 14 17 15 19 12 12 4 7 4 137 8 AVF by Adrián Vallés 11 10 15 17 8 10 5 9 16 14 16 14 10 15 10 130 9 Dutt Motorsport 12 19 17 21 15 15 14 18 19 16 12 14 12 69 10 Cram Motorsport 9 18 22 13 23 11 KEO Racing 17 20 18 19 18 20 20 20 22 19 18 12 Inter Europol Competition 17 20 20 6 13 MGR Motorsport 20 20 2 14 Formula Motorsport 20 23 1 15 TS Corse DNS 25 0 Pos. Driver MNZ SIL HUN SPA ASS NÜR HOC Points

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points classification Blue Non-points classification Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired, not classified (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

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

References

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External links

• Official website of the Formula Renault 2.0 NEC championship