2004 Italian Formula Three Championship Explained

The 2004 Italian Formula Three Championship was the 40th Italian Formula Three Championship season. It began on 4 April at Adria and ended on 24 October at Misano after fourteen races.^[1]

Matteo Cressoni of Ombra Racing won the opening race at Adria, race at Pergusa and had another six podiums and ultimately clinched the title. Coloni Motorsport's Toni Vilander had six wins and the same number of points as Cressoni, but he was ineligible to contest for the title.^[2] Third place went to Lucidi Motors driver Alex Frassineti, who took one victory, and he finished ahead of Imola winner Michele Rugolo, who competed with Team Ghinzani.

Teams and drivers

All teams were Italian-registered and all cars competed on Hankook tyres.

Entry List^[3]
Team	No	Driver	Chassis	Engine	Rounds
Target Racing	1	Andrea Tiso	Dallara F304	Spiess-Opel	All
	2	Alex Ciompi	Dallara F304	Spiess-Opel	1–7
Corbetta Angelo	3	Stefano Gattuso	Dallara F304	Mugen-Honda	All
	4	Giovanni Faraonio	Dallara F304	Mugen-Honda	3–10
		Marco Bonanomi	Dallara F304	Mugen-Honda	11–14
	22	Francesco Dracone	Dallara F303	Mugen-Honda	8–10
	34	Davide Valsecchi	Dallara F304	Mugen-Honda	11–12
Lucidi Motors	5	Michele Rugolo	Dallara F302	Spiess-Opel	All
	6	Omar Galeffi	Dallara F302	Spiess-Opel	1–3
		Paolo Maria Nocera	Dallara F302	Spiess-Opel	8–14
W&D Racing	7	Paolo Meloni	Dallara F303	Renault	1–2, 4–5
Passoli Racing	8	Maurizio Ceresoli	Dallara F303	Spiess-Opel	All
Ombra Racing	11	Matteo Cressoni	Dallara F304	Mugen-Honda	All
	12	Davide Mazzoleni	Dallara F304	Mugen-Honda	1–3, 9–10
W.R.C.	15	Davide Rigon	Dallara F302	Spiess-Opel	1–7, 9–10
	29	Franco Ghiotto	Dallara F302	Spiess-Opel	1
	31	Sergio Ghiotto	Dallara F302	Spiess-Opel	9–10
Style Car Racing	19	Gianpiero Negrotti	Dallara F303	Spiess-Opel	6–7
	21	Giovanni Berton	Dallara F303	Spiess-Opel	1
	24	Imeiro Brigliadori	Dallara F302	Spiess-Opel	6–7
	28	Giovanni Rambelli	Dallara F399	Spiess-Opel	6–7
Motivi Team	22	Francesco Dracone	Dallara F302	Spiess-Opel	1
System Team	25	Alberto Morelli	Dallara F302	Spiess-Opel	2
Coloni Motorsport	27	Toni Vilander	Lola-Dome F106	Spiess-Opel	4–14
	28	Alex Ciompi	Lola-Dome F106	Spiess-Opel	8–14
Team Ghinzani	32	Marco Bonanomi	Dallara F302	Mugen-Honda	9–10
	33	Daniel la Rosa	Dallara F302	Mugen-Honda	9–10
	34	Álvaro Barba	Dallara F302	Mugen-Honda	13–14

Calendar

All rounds were held in Italy.

Round	Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning driver	Winning team
1	Adria International Raceway	4 April	Alex Ciompi	Alex Ciompi	Matteo Cressoni	Ombra Racing
2	Autodromo dell'Umbria, Magione	2 May	Michele Rugolo	Michele Rugolo	Stefano Gattuso	Corbetta Angelo
3	Autodromo di Pergusa, Enna	30 May	Stefano Gattuso	Stefano Gattuso	Matteo Cressoni	Ombra Racing
4	Mugello Circuit, Scarperia	11 July	Toni Vilander	Toni Vilander	Toni Vilander	Coloni Motorsport
5			Toni Vilander	Toni Vilander	Toni Vilander	Coloni Motorsport
6	Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola	1 August	Toni Vilander	Toni Vilander	Toni Vilander	Coloni Motorsport
7			Toni Vilander	Toni Vilander	Toni Vilander	Coloni Motorsport
8	Autodromo Riccardo Paletti, Varano	5 September	Toni Vilander	Toni Vilander	Toni Vilander	Coloni Motorsport
9	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	26 September	Marco Bonanomi	Michele Rugolo	Marco Bonanomi	Team Ghinzani
10			Marco Bonanomi	Daniel la Rosa	Marco Bonanomi	Team Ghinzani
11	ACI Vallelunga Circuit, Campagnano di Roma	10 October	Toni Vilander	Alex Ciompi	Marco Bonanomi	Corbetta Angelo
12			Toni Vilander	Toni Vilander	Toni Vilander	Coloni Motorsport
13	Misano World Circuit	24 October	Matteo Cressoni	Michele Rugolo	Michele Rugolo	Lucidi Motors
14			Paolo Maria Nocera	Alex Ciompi	Alex Ciompi	Coloni Motorsport

Standings

• Points are awarded as follows:

Pos Driver ADR PER MUG IMO VAR MNZ VAL MIS Pts 1 Matteo Cressoni 1 Ret 1 3 2 2 2 2 Ret 3 4 8 Ret 5 146 2 Toni Vilander^[4] 1 1 1 1 1 Ret 4 Ret 1 Ret 8 146 3 Alex Ciompi 2 4 2 7 6 6 3 5 Ret 8 2 6 2 1 139 4 Michele Rugolo 3 Ret Ret 2 7 3 5 3 3 Ret 6 2 1 2 135 5 Stefano Gattuso Ret 1 4 5 4 5 6 7 4 7 3 7 4 7 112 6 Marco Bonanomi 1 1 1 4 5 7 86 7 Andrea Tiso 4 3 5 8 8 9 8 4 Ret 6 7 5 6 4 85 8 Davide di Benedetto Ret 6 3 4 4 6 5 10 53 9 Maurizio Ceresoli 9 6 Ret 9 9 8 9 8 6 9 8 9 7 3 49 10 Davide Mazzoleni 7 2 6 Ret 5 33 11 Davide Rigon 6 Ret Ret 4 5 7 7 Ret Ret 32 12 Daniel la Rosa 2 2 31 13 Paolo Maria Nocera Ret 7 12 5 3 8 Ret 28 14 Omar Galeffi 8 5 3 23 15 Álvaro Barba 3 Ret 12 16 Giovanni Berton 5 8 17 Paolo Meloni 10 7 10 DNS 6 18 Francesco Dracone 11 9 8 Ret 5 19 Gianpiero Negrotti 10 10 2 20 Giovanni Rambelli 11 11 0 21 Sergio Ghiotto Ret 11 0 Davide Valsecchi Ret Ret 0 Imeiro Brigliadori Ret DNS 0 Franco Ghiotto Ret 0 Alberto Morelli Ret 0 Pos Driver ADR PER MUG IMO VAR MNZ VAL MIS Pts

Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

Notes^[2]

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Race Calendar: Italian Formula 3 Championship – Season 2004. Speedsport Magazine. 26 August 2012.
2. News: Matteo Cressoni tricolore Primo successo di Alex Ciompi. Verlicchi. Giorgio. 24 October 2012. ItaliaRacing.net. Inpagina. Italian. 26 August 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20140920002655/http://italiaracing.net/notizia.asp?id=5709&cat=9. 20 September 2014. dead. dmy-all.
3. Web site: Entrylist: Italian Formula 3 Championship – Season 2004. Speedsport Magazine. 26 August 2012.
4. Ineligible for championship title contesting.