The 2003 International Formula 3000 season was the thirty-seventh season of the second-tier of Formula One feeder championship and also nineteenth season under the International Formula 3000 Championship moniker. It featured the 2003 FIA Formula 3000 International Championship with titles awarded for both Drivers and Teams.[1] The championship was contested over ten events from 19 April to 13 September 2003.[2]
The Drivers Championship was won by Björn Wirdheim and the Teams Championship was awarded to Arden International Ltd.
The following teams and drivers contested the 2003 FIA Formula 3000 International Championship.[2]
| Team | Driver | Rounds | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arden International | 1 | Björn Wirdheim | All | |
| 2 | Townsend Bell | All | ||
| Coloni Motorsport | 4 | Zsolt Baumgartner | 1–9 | |
| Christian Montanari | 10 | |||
| 3 | Ricardo Sperafico | All | ||
| Super Nova Racing | 5 | Enrico Toccacelo | All | |
| 6 | Derek Hill | 1–6 | ||
| Nicolas Kiesa | 7 | |||
| Sam Hancock | 8–10 | |||
| Den Blå Avis | 7 | Nicolas Kiesa | 1–6 | |
| 8 | Robbie Kerr | 1 | ||
| Philip Giebler | 2–6 | |||
| Durango | 9 | Giorgio Pantano | All | |
| 10 | Raffaele Giammaria | All | ||
| Team Astromega | 11 | Tony Schmidt | All | |
| 12 | Jeffrey van Hooydonk | 1–2, 4–6, 10 | ||
| Michael Keohane | 7–9 | |||
| Superfund ISR – Charouz | 14 | Jaroslav Janiš | All | |
| 15 | Yannick Schroeder | 1–8 | ||
| Red Bull Junior Team | 16 | Vitantonio Liuzzi | All | |
| 17 | Patrick Friesacher | 1–2, 5–10 | ||
| Bernhard Auinger | 3–4 | |||
| BCN F3000 | 18 | Rob Nguyen | 1–3 | |
| Will Langhorne | 4–8 | |||
| Ferdinando Monfardini | 9–10 | |||
| 19 | Valerio Scassellati | 1, 5–6, 8 | ||
| Alessandro Piccolo | 2–4, 10 | |||
| Marc Hynes | 7 | |||
| Giovanni Berton | 9 | |||
| Brand Motorsport | 20 | Nicolas Minassian | 1 | |
| 21 | Gary Paffett | 1 | ||
| Sources:[3] [4] | ||||
The 2003 FIA Formula 3000 International Championship was contested over a ten event series.[2] [5]
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Points for the 2003 FIA Formula 300 International Championship for Teams were awarded on a 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis for the first eight places at each event.[5] Results from both team cars were taken into account.[1]
| Position | Team | IMO | CAT | A1R | MON | NUR | MAG | SIL | HOC | HUN | MNZ | Total | |
| 1 | Arden International Ltd | 10 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 14 | 10 | 95 | |
| 2 | nowrap | Red Bull Junior Team F3000 | 13 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 75 |
| 3 | Durango Formula | 2 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 55 | |
| 4 | Coloni Motorsport | 6 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 49 | |
| 5 | nowrap | Super Nova Racing Ltd | 4 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 35 |
| 6 | ISR – Charouz | 3 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 33 | |
| 7 | Team Astromega | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 23 | |
| 8 | Den Blå Avis | 0 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 20 | |
| 9 | BCN F3000 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
| 10 | Brand Motorsports | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 |
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