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The 2018 BOSS GP season was the 24th season of the BOSS GP series. The championship began on 22 April at Hockenheim and finished on 14 October at Paul Ricard.
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The 2018 BOSS GP season was the 24th season of the BOSS GP series. The championship began on 22 April at Hockenheim and finished on 14 October at Paul Ricard.
| Team | Chassis | Engine | No. | Driver | Rounds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open Class | |||||
| Top Speed | Toro Rosso STR1 | Cosworth 3.0 V10 | 1 |  Ingo Gerstl | All |
| 2 |  Markus Lehmann | 7 | |||
| Penn Elcom Racing | Benetton B197 | Judd 4.2 V10 | 7 |  Phil Stratford | All |
| Mansell Motorsport | Dallara GP2/08 Evo | Judd 4.2 V10 | 11 |  Rinus van Kalmthout | 3 |
| H&A Racing | Arrows A22 | Cosworth 3.0 V10 | 21 | Bernd Herndlhofer | 1 |
| Speed Center | Forti FG03 | Judd 4.0 V10 | 22 | Hans Laub | 3–4, 7 |
| F Xtreme Racing Team | Super Aguri SA06 | Cosworth 3.0 V10 | 26 | Wolfgang Jaksch | 1, 3–6 |
| Formula Class | |||||
| Top Speed | Dallara GP2/08 | Mecachrome 4.0 V8 | 100 | Thomas Jakoubek | 1–4, 6–7 |
| 121 | Reinhard Kofler | 2 | |||
| 181 | Manfred Loach | 1 | |||
| 221 | Bernd Herndlhofer | 4, 6 | |||
| 888 | Florian Schnitzenbaumer | All | |||
| Dallara GP2/05 | 110 | Bianca Steiner | 1–2, 4 | ||
| Speed Center | Dallara GP2/08 | Mecachrome 4.0 V8 | 101 |  Peter Göllner | 1–2, 4–7 |
| 515 | Alain Valente | 2, 7 | |||
| 555 | Christian Eicke | All | |||
| 565 | Hans Laub | 2 | |||
| 666 | Roy Glaser | 4–5 | |||
| Dallara T08 | Renault 3.5 V6 | 212 |  John Reaks | 1 | |
| H&A Racing | Dallara GP2/05 | Mecachrome 4.0 V8 | 105 | Wolfgang Jordan | 3–4 |
| 222 |  Veronika Cicha | 1, 3–6 | |||
| Ray-Ban | Dallara T08 | Renault 3.5 V6 | 111 |  'Piter' | 1, 3–4 |
| ZIG-ZAG Motorsport Service | Lola B05/52 | Zytek 3.0 V8 | 116 |  Nicolas Matile | 6 |
| Dallara GP2/08 | Mecachrome 4.0 V8 | 129 | Marc Faggionato | 6 | |
| Team Griffith's | Dallara GP2/05 | Mecachrome 4.0 V8 | 150 | David Moretti | 3 |
| MRC Sport | Dallara GP2/11 | Mecachrome 4.0 V8 | 217 |  Marco Ghiotto | 3, 7 |
| Fiedler Racing | Dallara GP2/05 | Mecachrome 4.0 V8 | 321 | Andreas Fiedler | 1–3, 5–7 |
| MM International Motorsport | Dallara GP2/11 | Mecachrome 4.0 V8 | 323 | Armando Mangini | 1–4, 6–7 |
| Dallara GP2/05 | 122 | Sergio Ghiotto | 7 | ||
| 324 | Gianluca Ripoli | 4, 7 | |||
| 999 | Salvatore de Plano | 1, 6–7 | |||
| Becker Motorsport | Dallara SN01 | Nissan AER 3.4 V6 | 411 | Karl-Heinz Becker | 1–4 |
| Kindler Motorsport | Dallara SN01 | Nissan AER 3.4 V6 | 430 | Martin Kindler | 1 |
| Team Ledermair Motorsport | Dallara GP2/08 | Mecachrome 4.0 V8 | 444 | Johann Ledermair | 2, 4 |
| Inter Europol Competition | Dallara GP2/05 | Mecachrome 4.0 V8 | 505 | Walter Steding | All |
| Round | Circuit | Date | Pole Position | Fastest Lap | Winning Driver | Winning Team | Formula Class Winner | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | R1 | Hockenheimring, Hockenheim | 21 April | Ingo Gerstl | Ingo Gerstl | Ingo Gerstl | Top Speed | Florian Schnitzenbaumer |
| R2 | 22 April | Ingo Gerstl | Ingo Gerstl | Top Speed | Florian Schnitzenbaumer | |||
| 2 | R3 | Red Bull Ring, Spielberg | 19 May | Ingo Gerstl | Ingo Gerstl | Ingo Gerstl | Top Speed | Johann Ledermair |
| R4 | 20 May | Ingo Gerstl | Ingo Gerstl | Top Speed | Johann Ledermair | |||
| 3 | R5 | Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza | 30 June | Ingo Gerstl | Ingo Gerstl | Ingo Gerstl | Top Speed | Marco Ghiotto |
| R6 | 1 July | Ingo Gerstl | Wolfgang Jaksch | F Xtreme Racing Team | Armando Mangini | |||
| 4 | R7 | Hockenheimring, Hockenheim | 21 July | Ingo Gerstl | Ingo Gerstl | Ingo Gerstl | Top Speed | Roy Glaser |
| R8 | 22 July | Race Cancelled | ||||||
| 5 | R9 | TT Circuit Assen, Assen | 18 August | Ingo Gerstl | Ingo Gerstl | Ingo Gerstl | Top Speed | Andreas Fiedler |
| R10 | 19 August | Ingo Gerstl | Ingo Gerstl | Top Speed | Roy Glaser | |||
| 6 | R11 | Masaryk Circuit, Brno | 8 September | Ingo Gerstl | Ingo Gerstl | Ingo Gerstl | Top Speed | Marc Faggionato |
| R12 | 9 September | Ingo Gerstl | Ingo Gerstl | Top Speed | Marc Faggionato | |||
| 7 | R13 | Red Bull Ring, Spielberg | 22 September | Ingo Gerstl | Ingo Gerstl | Ingo Gerstl | Top Speed | Alain Valente |
| R14 | 23 September | Ingo Gerstl | Ingo Gerstl | Top Speed | Salvatore De Plano | |||
| Race | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | 13th | 14th | 15th | 16th | 17th |
| All Races | 25 | 22 | 20 | 18 | 16 | 14 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Pos | Driver | HOC | RBR | MNZ | HOC | ASS | BRN | RBR | Points | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open Class | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Ingo Gerstl | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Ret | 1 | C | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 300 |
| 2 | Phil Stratford | 2 | 2 | 8 | DNS | 2 | Ret | 3 | C | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 240 |
| 3 | Wolfgang Jaksch | DNS | DNS | Ret | 1 | 5 | C | 3 | Ret | 3 | 3 | 105 | ||||
| 4 | Hans Laub | DNS | DNS | Ret | C | 6 | 12 | 42 | ||||||||
| 5 | Rinus van Kalmthout | DNS | 9 | 22 | ||||||||||||
| Bernd Herndlhofer | DNS | DNS | ||||||||||||||
| Markus Lehmann | DNS | DNS | ||||||||||||||
| Formula Class | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Florian Schnitzenbaumer | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 6 | C | DNS | 5 | 8 | 6 | 8 | DNS | 210 |
| 2 | Andreas Fiedler | 6 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 196 | ||
| 3 | Christian Eicke | 9 | 9 | 6 | DNS | 8 | Ret | 11 | C | 7 | 7 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 11 | 136 |
| 4 | Walter Steding | 8 | 8 | Ret | DNS | 10 | 5 | 9 | C | 8 | Ret | 12 | 9 | 7 | DNS | 125 |
| 5 | Armando Mangini | 5 | 4 | Ret | 4 | Ret | 2 | 8 | C | 7 | DNS | Ret | DNS | 121 | ||
| 6 | Peter Göllner | 11 | Ret | Ret | DNS | Ret | C | 6 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 115 | ||
| 7 | Veronika Cicha | 7 | Ret | Ret | 6 | 13 | C | 5 | 6 | 15 | Ret | 86 | ||||
| 8 | Marco Ghiotto | 3 | 3 | Ret | 4 | 69 | ||||||||||
| 9 | Karl-Heinz Becker | Ret | 7 | Ret | 8 | 7 | 8 | 10 | C | 68 | ||||||
| 10 | Salvatore De Plano | 4 | DNS | 6 | DNS | Ret | 3 | 67 | ||||||||
| 11 | Bianca Steiner | 10 | 6 | 4 | 6 | Ret | C | 64 | ||||||||
| 12 | Roy Glaser | 2 | C | Ret | 3 | 50 | ||||||||||
| 13 | Johann Ledermair | 2 | 2 | 50 | ||||||||||||
| 14 | Marc Faggionato | 4 | 4 | 50 | ||||||||||||
| 15 | Bernd Herndlhofer | 4 | C | 5 | Ret | 44 | ||||||||||
| 16 | Alain Valente | 2 | 2 | 6 | 43 | |||||||||||
| 17 | Thomas Jakoubek | DNS | DNS | 7 | DNS | DNS | DNS | 12 | C | 13 | 10 | DNS | DNS | 43 | ||
| 18 | Gianluca Ripoli | 14 | C | 5 | 8 | 39 | ||||||||||
| 19 | Luca Martucci | 7 | C | DNS | 5 | 38 | ||||||||||
| 20 | 'Piter' | Ret | Ret | 9 | 7 | 26 | ||||||||||
| 21 | Nicolas Matile | 11 | 8 | 26 | ||||||||||||
| 22 | Wolfgang Jordan | 6 | Ret | 15 | C | 24 | ||||||||||
| 23 | Reinhard Kofler | DNS | 3 | 22 | ||||||||||||
| 24 | David Moretti | Ret | 4 | 20 | ||||||||||||
| 25 | Martin Kindler | 12 | 10 | 18 | ||||||||||||
| 26 | John Reaks | 13 | 12 | 15 | ||||||||||||
| 27 | Sergio Ghiotto | DNS | 9 | 12 | ||||||||||||
| 28 | Hans Laub | Ret | 9 | 10 | ||||||||||||
| 29 | Manfred Loach | DNS | 11 | 9 | ||||||||||||
| Pos | Driver | HOC | RBR | MNZ | HOC | ASS | BRN | RBR | Points | |||||||
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