1996 International Formula 3000 Championship Explained

^[1] The 1996 International Formula 3000 Championship was contested over ten rounds from 11 May to 12 October 1996. This was the first F3000 season in which every team had the same chassis, engine and tyres.

Drivers and constructors

Team		Driver	Rounds
Super Nova Racing	1	Kenny Bräck	All
Super Nova Racing	2	Marcos Gueiros	All
Madgwick International	3	Pedro Couceiro	1-6
Madgwick International	4	Marc Rostan	9-10
Nordic Racing	5	Elton Julian	All
Nordic Racing	6	Akira Iida	All
DAMS	7	Jean-Philippe Belloc	All
DAMS	8	Laurent Redon	All
Apomatox	9	Christophe Tinseau	All
Apomatox	10	Cyrille Sauvage	All
RSM Marko	11	Oliver Tichy	All
RSM Marko	33	Jörg Müller	All
Durango Equipe	14	Fabrizio Gollin	All
Durango Equipe	15	Christian Pescatori	All
Draco Engineering	16	Ricardo Zonta	All
	17	Alexandre de Andrade	1
		Sergio Paese	2-4
		Esteban Tuero	5-10
Team Astromega	18	Guillaume Gomez	1-9
Team Astromega	19	Marc Goossens	All
Auto Sport Racing	20	Thomas Biagi	1-4, 6-10
Auto Sport Racing	21	Gastón Mazzacane	All
Bob Salisbury Engineering	22	James Taylor	5-10
Team Alpha Plus	24	Stephen Watson	All
Team Alpha Plus	25	Carl Rosenblad	All
Edenbridge Racing	26	David Dussau	1-2
		Tom Kristensen	4-6, 9-10
		Norberto Fontana	8
	27	Peter Olsson	1-3
		Steve Arnold	5
		Pedro Couceiro	8-10
Pacific Racing	28	Patrick Lemarié	All
Pacific Racing	29	Cristiano da Matta	All
Shannon Racing Team Italia	30	Tom Kristensen	1-2
Shannon Racing Team Italia	31	Luca Rangoni	2
Sources:^[2] ^[3]

Calendar

Round	Circuit	Date	Laps	Distance	Time	Speed	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winner
1	nowrap	Nürburgring	nowrap	11 May	43	4.556=195.908 km	1'07:04.885	175.227 km/h	nowrap	Kenny Bräck	nowrap	Kenny Bräck Jörg Müller	nowrap	Kenny Bräck
2	nowrap	Pau Grand Prix	nowrap	27 May	72	2.760=198.720 km	1'28:55.055	134.093 km/h	nowrap	Tom Kristensen	nowrap	Tom Kristensen	nowrap	Jörg Müller
3	nowrap	Autodromo di Pergusa	nowrap	21 July	40	4.950=198.000 km	1'03:33.989	186.891 km/h	nowrap	Marc Goossens	nowrap	Jörg Müller	nowrap	Marc Goossens
4	nowrap	Hockenheimring	nowrap	27 July	29	6.823=197.867 km	0'59:58.819	197.932 km/h	nowrap	Kenny Bräck	nowrap	Kenny Bräck	nowrap	Kenny Bräck
5	nowrap	Silverstone Circuit	nowrap	18 August	40	5.072=202.880 km	1'09:17.948	175.656 km/h	nowrap	Kenny Bräck	nowrap	Tom Kristensen	nowrap	Kenny Bräck
6	nowrap	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	nowrap	24 August	22	6.968=153.296 km	0'48:24.693	189.991 km/h	nowrap	Tom Kristensen	nowrap	Jörg Müller	nowrap	Jörg Müller
7	nowrap	Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours	nowrap	14 September	47	4.250=199.750 km	1'10:45.670	169.373 km/h	nowrap	Marc Goossens	nowrap	Kenny Bräck	nowrap	Marc Goossens
8	nowrap	Autódromo do Estoril	nowrap	21 September	46	4.360=200.560 km	1'14:55.143	160.621 km/h	nowrap	Jörg Müller	nowrap	Ricardo Zonta	nowrap	Ricardo Zonta
9	nowrap	Mugello Circuit	nowrap	28 September	38	5.245=199.31 km	1'05:44.337	181.910 km/h	nowrap	Ricardo Zonta	nowrap	Ricardo Zonta	nowrap	Ricardo Zonta
10	nowrap	Hockenheimring	nowrap	12 October	29	6.823=197.867 km	0'59:24.317	199.848 km/h	nowrap	Jörg Müller	nowrap	Jörg Müller	nowrap	Christophe Tinseau
Source:^[4]

Final points standings

Drivers' Championship

Pos	Driver	NÜR	PAU	PER	HOC	SIL	SPA	MAG	EST	MUG	HOC	valign=middle	Points
1	Jörg Müller	2	1	2	2	Ret	1	3	2	2	*Ret*	52
2	Kenny Bräck	1	2	Ret	1	1	5	2	3	3	DSQ	49
3	Marc Goossens	Ret	Ret	1	Ret	16	2	1	4	6	Ret	28
4	Ricardo Zonta	Ret	3	Ret	6	3	9	Ret	1	1	11	27
5	Marcos Gueiros	3	Ret	4	3	4	15	Ret	Ret	17	2	20
6	Christophe Tinseau	8	Ret	3	4	6	6	9	11	11	1	18
7	Tom Kristensen	4	*Ret*		5	2	3			4	Ret	18
8	Laurent Rédon	6	Ret	10	Ret	Ret	12	4	DSQ	8	4	7
9	Cristiano da Matta	9	4	5	Ret	Ret	10	5	7	Ret	Ret	7
10	Oliver Tichy	11	DNQ	6	Ret	Ret	8	Ret	Ret	7	3	5
11	Christian Pescatori	10	Ret	Ret	9	5	4	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	5
12	Thomas Biagi	Ret	DNQ	8	DSQ		DNQ	6	6	5	7	4
13	Pedro Couceiro	5	Ret	7	Ret	Ret	13		8	15	Ret	2
14	Elton Julian	13	DNS	Ret	Ret	7	14	12	18	14	5	2
15	Patrick Lemarié	12	5	13	10	8	Ret	8	15	Ret	8	2
16	Fabrizio Gollin	Ret	10	9	Ret	9	11	Ret	5	22	DNQ	2
17	Cyrille Sauvage	Ret	7	Ret	7	10	7	Ret	13	12	6	1
18	Luca Rangoni		6									1
19	Jean-Philippe Belloc	7	9	Ret	8	17	20	Ret	14	9	Ret	0
20	Guillaume Gomez	Ret	DNS	12	11	12	18	7	9	10		0
21	Akira Iida	14	8	11	12	13	Ret	14	12	18	9	0
22	Gastón Mazzacane	Ret	DNQ	14	Ret	11	19	Ret	10	Ret	Ret	0
23	Stephen Watson	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	18	16	11	Ret	16	10	0
24	Esteban Tuero					14	17	10	Ret	13	Ret	0
25	Carl Rosenblad	Ret	DNQ	Ret	13	19	Ret	13	Ret	19	12	0
26	James Taylor					Ret	Ret	15	Ret	21	Ret	0
27	Steve Arnold					15						0
28	Marc Rostan									23	Ret	0
–	Peter Olsson	DSQ	DNQ	Ret								0
-	David Dussau	Ret	Ret									0
-	Sergio Paese		Ret	DNQ	Ret							0
-		Ret										0
-	Norberto Fontana								Ret			0
Pos	Driver	NÜR	PAU	PER	HOC	SIL	SPA	MAG	EST	MUG	HOC	valign=middle	Points
Sources:^[5] ^[6] ^[7]

Bold – Pole
Italics – Fastest lap

Notes

All drivers used Lola T96/50 chassis, with Zytek-Judd engines, and Avon tyres.^[2]
Kenny Bräck was disqualified from first place from the second race at Hockenheim for dangerous driving.
Laurent Redon was disqualified from the race at Estoril due to taking the wrong position on the grid.
Thomas Biagi was disqualified from the first race at Hockenheim for ignoring a drive-through penalty.

Complete Overview

first column of every race

= grid position

second column of every race

= race result

R22=retired, but classified R=retired NC=not classified NS=did not start NQ=did not qualify DIS(1)=disqualified after finishing as winner 17E=grid position, but started from the end of the grid

Place	Name	Team	NÜR		PAU		PER		HOC		SIL		SPA		MAG		EST		MUG		HOC
1			4	2	2	1	2	2	4	2	5	R	4	1	5	3	1	2	4	2	1	R
2			1	1	3	2	12	R	1	1	1	1	5	5	2	2	4	3	3	3	2	DIS(1)
3			15	R	10	R	1	1	2	R	14	16	3	2	1	1	6	4	2	6	8	R
4			9	R	13	3	3	R	5	6	4	3	12	9	17	R	3	1	1	1	12	11
5			2	3	5	R	8	4	3	3	6	4	6	15	8	R	5	R	6	17	6	2
6	Tom Kristensen		5	4	1	R	-	-
6								13	5	2	2	1	3	-	-	-	-	5	4	3	R
			12	8	6	R	4	3	6	4	8	6	8	6	14	9	18	11	13	11	4	1
8			10	9	12	4	6	5	9	R	3	R	10	10	12	5	9	7	10	20	5	R
			3	6	4	R	9	10	7	R	10	R	13	12	7	4	7	R	8	8	7	4
10			19	10	7	R	15	R	14	9	7	5	2	4	6	R	2	R	14	R	10	R
			25	11	25	NQ	11	6	11	R	11	R	7	8	3	R	8	R	12	7	11	3
12			11	R	24	NQ	19	8	16	R	-	-	25	NQ	9	6	11	6	7	5	16	7
13			7	5	16	R	16	7	17	R	12	R	16	13	-	-
13																16	8	20	15	17	R
			20	12	19	5	21	13	21	10	15	8	20	R	13	8	20	15	18	R	9	8
			16	R	21	10	14	9	8	R	20	9	11	11	16	R	13	5	11	R22	25	NQ
			8	13	11	NS	5	R	18	R	9	7	15	14	20	12	22	NC	21	14	13	5
17			-	-	18	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
			22	R	20	7	10	R	12	7	16	10	9	7	10	R	14	13	17	12	19	6
-			6	7	14	9	20	R	10	8	22	17	14	20	4	R	10	14	16	9	14	R
-			14	R	9	NS	17E	12	19	11	13	12	19	18	11	7	12	9	15	10	-	-
-			23	14	17	8	18	11	23	12	24	13	18	R	22	14	23	12	23	18	18	9
-			13	R	23	NQ	7	14	15	R	18	11	21	19	15	R	17	10	9	R	20	R
-			18	R	15	R	13	R	20	R	19	18	17	16	18	11	15	R	22	16	21	10
-			26	R	27	NQ	23	R	24	13	23	19	23	R	21	13	24	R	24	19	22	12
-			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	21	14	22	17	19	10	21	R	19	13	15	R
-			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	25	R	24	R	23	15	25	R	26	21	24	R
-			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	17	15	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	25	23	23	R
-			21	R	26	NQ	22	R	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-			-	-	22	R	24	NQ	22	R	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-			17	R	8	R	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-			24	R	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	R	-	-	-	-

References

Web site: Formula 3000 memories; 1993-96 . Race Fans Independent MotorSport Coverage . Keith . 3 April 2020.
Web site: Endenbridge Racing . https://web.archive.org/web/20200831174455/https://www.autosportinternational.com/marketplacesuppliers/154 . dead . August 31, 2020 . AutoSport International . AutoSport International . 3 April 2020 .

Notes and References

Web site: Formula 3000 memories: 1993-96. Collantine. Keith. 12 August 2015. Race Fans Independent Motorsport Coverage. 3 April 2020.
Web site: FIA Formula 3000 Int. Championship - 1996: Entrylist. Speedsport Magazine. 30 December 2023.
Web site: F3000 International Championship Entry List 1996. Motorsport Stats. 30 December 2023.
Web site: F3000 International Championship Results 1996. Motorsport Stats. 30 December 2023.
Web site: F3000 International Championship Standings 1996. Motorsport Stats. 30 December 2023.
Web site: FIA Formula 3000 Int. Championship - Season 1996: Results. Speedsport Magazine. 30 December 2023.
Web site: 1996 FIA International F3000 Championship. Motor Sport. 30 December 2023.