2008 Formula Renault 2.0 Italia Explained

The 2008 Formula Renault 2.0 Italia was the ninth season of the Formula Renault 2.0 Italia series. It was won by Pål Varhaug driving for Jenzer Motorsport.

Daniel Mancinelli would win the winter series driving for It Loox Racing Car.

Drivers and Teams

2008 Entry List^[1]
Team		Driver name	Rounds
CO2 Motorsport	2	nowrap	Federico Rossi	1-2
4	nowrap	Sergio Campana	All
56	nowrap	Alberto Bassi	7
Cram Competition	3	nowrap	Genis Olivé	All
6	nowrap	Tyler Dueck	All
30	nowrap	Alessandro Kouzkin	All
31	nowrap	Samuele Buttarelli	1-5
RP Motorsport	5	nowrap	Nicola Zonzini	1-5
12	nowrap	Augusto Scalbi	7
18	nowrap	Jesse Krohn	6-7
21	nowrap	David Fumanelli	1-6
81	nowrap	Stefano Bizzarri	1-5
nowrap	W&D Racing	7	nowrap	Paolo Meloni	All
Tomcat Racing	8	nowrap	Riccardo Cinti	1-4, 6-7
11	nowrap	Andrea Roda	All
IT Loox Racing Car	10	nowrap	Marco Betti	All
23	nowrap	Niki Sebastiani	All
nowrap	Facondini Racing	15	nowrap	Patrick Kronenberger	All
Prema Powerteam	16	nowrap	Carlos Muñoz	All
17	nowrap	Kazim Vasiliauskas	1-2, 6-7
37	nowrap	Felix Rosenqvist	4
38	nowrap	Patrick Reiterer	All
Van Amersfoort Racing	19	nowrap	Nigel Melker	1-3, 5-6
20	nowrap	Stef Dusseldorp	1-3, 5-7
BVM Minardi Team	24	nowrap	Daniel Zampieri	All
25	nowrap	César Ramos	All
26	nowrap	Adrian Quaife-Hobbs	All
Jenzer Motorsport	27	nowrap	Michele Faccin	All
28	nowrap	Pål Varhaug	All
29	nowrap	Siso Cunill	1-5
Jenzer Motorsport 2	67	nowrap	Nico Müller	4-5
68	nowrap	Fabien Thuner	4
69	nowrap	Simon Trummer	4-6
nowrap	Paragon Motorsports	33	nowrap	Daniel Mancinelli	5-7
Team Dueppì	47	nowrap	Stefano Comini	All
87	nowrap	Andrea Borio	1-6
nowrap	BVE Racing Team	74	nowrap	Alberto Cola	7

Calendar

Round	Race	Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning driver	Winning team
1	R1	nowrap rowspan=2	ACI Vallelunga Circuit	nowrap	April 12	nowrap	Michele Faccin	nowrap	Niki Sebastiani	nowrap	Niki Sebastiani	nowrap	IT Loox Racing Car
	R2	nowrap	April 13	nowrap	Niki Sebastiani	nowrap	Michele Faccin	nowrap	Michele Faccin	nowrap	Jenzer Motorsport
2	R1	nowrap rowspan=2	Hungaroring	nowrap rowspan=2	May 11	nowrap	Pål Varhaug	nowrap	Niki Sebastiani	nowrap	Pål Varhaug	nowrap	Jenzer Motorsport
	R2	nowrap	Pål Varhaug	nowrap	Adrian Quaife-Hobbs	nowrap	Pål Varhaug	nowrap	Jenzer Motorsport
3	R1	nowrap rowspan=2	Masaryk Circuit	nowrap	May 24	nowrap	Patrick Kronenberger	nowrap	Pål Varhaug	nowrap	Pål Varhaug	nowrap
	R2	nowrap	May 25	nowrap	Patrick Kronenberger	nowrap	Patrick Kronenberger	nowrap	Patrick Kronenberger	nowrap	Facondini Racing
4	R1	nowrap rowspan=2	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	nowrap	May 31	nowrap	Michele Faccin	nowrap	Michele Faccin	nowrap	Michele Faccin	nowrap	Jenzer Motorsport
	R2	nowrap	June 1	nowrap	Michele Faccin	nowrap	Michele Faccin	nowrap	Michele Faccin	nowrap	Jenzer Motorsport
5	R1	nowrap rowspan=2	Misano World Circuit	nowrap	July 19	nowrap	Pål Varhaug	nowrap	César Ramos	nowrap	Sergio Campana	nowrap	CO2 Motorsport
	R2	nowrap	July 20	nowrap	Sergio Campana	nowrap	César Ramos	nowrap	Sergio Campana	nowrap	CO2 Motorsport
6	R1	nowrap rowspan=2	Mugello Circuit	nowrap	September 13	nowrap	Michele Faccin	nowrap	Michele Faccin	nowrap	Daniel Mancinelli	nowrap	Paragon Motorsports
	R2	nowrap	September 14	nowrap	Daniel Mancinelli	nowrap	Patrick Kronenberger	nowrap	Patrick Kronenberger	nowrap	Facondini Racing
7	R1	nowrap rowspan=2	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	nowrap	October 11	nowrap	César Ramos	nowrap	Sergio Campana	nowrap	Genis Olivé	nowrap	Cram Competition
	R2	nowrap	October 12	nowrap	César Ramos	nowrap	Sergio Campana	nowrap	Sergio Campana	nowrap	CO2 Motorsport

Championship standings

Each championship round included 2 or 3 races by rounds length of 30 minutes each. Points were awarded as follows:

!Position!1st!2nd!3rd!4th!5th!6th!7th!8th!9th!10th!11th!12th!13th!14th!15th

Points

32

28

24

22

20

18

16

14

12

10

8

6

4

2

1

In each race, 2 additional points were awarded for pole position, and 2 for fastest lap.

Drivers

Pos^[2] ^[3]	Driver	VLL		HUN		BRN		SPA		MIS		MUG		MNZ		Points
		width=25	1	width=25	2	width=25	3	width=25	4	width=25	5	width=25	6	width=25	7		width=25	8	width=25	9	width=25	10	width=25	11	width=25	12	width=25	13	width=25	14
1	align=left nowrap	Pål Varhaug	5	4	1	1	1	5	2	5	12	2	7	5	5	3	330
2	align=left nowrap	Michele Faccin	4	1	9	8	15	6	1	1	Ret	8	3	11	4	5	271
3	align=left nowrap	Niki Sebastiani	1	Ret	3	3	2	2	3	3	20	3	6	9	10	8	270
4	align=left nowrap	Adrian Quaife-Hobbs	16	2	5	4	3	3	5	4	11	6	2	4	11	Ret	250
5	align=left nowrap	Sergio Campana	6	19	22	9	12	4	Ret	2	1	1	5	Ret	2	1	238
6	align=left nowrap	César Ramos	3	Ret	2	2	7	7	4	13	23	4	4	Ret	3	19	216
7	align=left nowrap	Patrick Kronenberger	7	5	6	22	DSQ	1	8	10	Ret	5	15	1	9	9	196
8	align=left nowrap	Genís Olivé	11	8	4	5	16	23	10	11	4	26	12	12	1	2	178
9	align=left nowrap	Daniel Zampieri	2	13	8	6	17	20	Ret	6	8	10	11	3	6	DNS	158
10	align=left nowrap	Stef Dusseldorp	14	15	7	7	6	9			16	18	14	6	Ret	4	125
11	align=left nowrap	Patrick Reiterer	23	14	11	13	4	15	7	8	2	9	Ret	14	Ret	Ret	109
12	align=left nowrap	Riccardo Cinti	8	3	21	11	Ret	12	9	9			10	17	12	10	104
13	align=left nowrap	Siso Cunill	10	7	Ret	Ret	13	11	6	7	6	12					96
14	align=left nowrap	Alessandro Kouzkin	17	20	10	Ret	8	8	22	20	3	11	18	Ret	Ret	12	76
15	align=left nowrap	Daniel Mancinelli									5	14	1	2	8	Ret	66
16	align=left nowrap	Carlos Muñoz	13	18	Ret	Ret	14	10			17	7	22	19	7	6	66
17	align=left nowrap	Stefano Comini	12	Ret	17	17	Ret	21	20	21	16	15	9	10	Ret	7	47
18	align=left nowrap	Nigel Melker	21	Ret	16	15	5	16			22	19	Ret	7			37
19	align=left nowrap	Marco Betti	Ret	10	Ret	20	Ret	22	14	14	24	17	8	13	20	Ret	34
20	align=left nowrap	Paolo Meloni	Ret	Ret	13	16	10	19	19	23	9	Ret	18	18	13	13	34
21	align=left nowrap	Kazim Vasiliauskas	18	9	5	Ret							21	8	14	15	30
22	align=left nowrap	Federico Rossi	Ret	6	Ret	10											28
23	align=left nowrap	Andrea Borio	Ret	11	Ret	21	11	25	23	Ret	14	22	13	16			24
24	align=left nowrap	Stefano Bizzarri	9	Ret	20	14	18	13	15	18	21	16					19
25	align=left nowrap	David Fumanelli	22	12	12	Ret	Ret	14	18	26	19	Ret	19	20			14
26	align=left nowrap	Andrea Roda	19	16	19	18	9	17	25	25	15	21	Ret	Ret	18	17	13
27	align=left nowrap	Tyler Dueck	20	17	15	12	Ret	18	24	19	18	25	16	15	15	18	11
28	align=left nowrap	Samuele Buttarelli	24	Ret	18	Ret	20	Ret	16	24	10	20					10
29	align=left nowrap	Fabien Thuner							13	12							10
30	align=left nowrap	Nicola Zonzini	15	Ret	Ret	19	19	24	11	17	25	24					9
31	align=left nowrap	Alberto Cola													DNS	11	8
32	align=left nowrap	Nico Müller							17	16	13	13					8
33	align=left nowrap	Simon Trummer							12	15	26	23	Ret	Ret			7
34	align=left nowrap	Jesse Krohn											17	Ret	16	14	2
35	align=left nowrap	Augusto Scalbi													17	16	0
36	align=left nowrap	Alberto Bassi													19	Ret	0
37	align=left nowrap	Felix Rosenqvist							21	22							0

Teams

Pos	Team	Points
1	Jenzer Motorsport	515
2	BVM Minardi Team	384
3	It Loox Racing Car	280
4	CO2 Motorsport	227
5	Cram Competition	188
6	Facondini Racing	172
7	Prema Powerteam	155
8	van Amersfoort Racing	140
9	Tomcat Racing	101
10	Team Dueppì	82
11	RP Motorsport	28
12	W&D Racing	26
13	Jenzer Motorsport 2	25
14	AP Motorsport	0
15	Line Race Technology	0
16	Emmebi Motorsport	0
17	Antonino Racing	0
18	Team BVE	0

Winter Series

Race point system

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th
Points	32	28	24	22	20	18	16	14	12	10	8	6	4	2	1

2 points are awarded to the fastest driver in each lap and 4 points to the pole position holder.

Pos^[4]	Driver	Team	Imola Nov 2		Points
			1	2
1	align=left nowrap	Daniel Mancinelli	align=left nowrap	It Loox Racing Car	1	5	58
2	align=left nowrap	Kazim Vasiliauskas	align=left nowrap	CO2 Motorsport	5	1	54
3	align=left nowrap	Nico Müller	align=left nowrap	Jenzer Motorsport	3	2	52
4	align=left nowrap	Genis Olive	align=left nowrap	Cram Competition	4	3	46
5	align=left nowrap	Daniel Zampieri	align=left nowrap	BVM Minardi Team	2	7	44
6	align=left nowrap	Federico Scionti	align=left nowrap	Tomcat Racing	6	8	32
7	align=left nowrap	Thiemo Storz	align=left nowrap	CO2 Motorsport	7	11	24
8	align=left nowrap	Carlos Muñoz	align=left nowrap	Jenzer Motorsport	Ret	4	22
9	align=left nowrap	Tomas Pivoda	align=left nowrap	Jenzer Motorsport	9	10	22
10	align=left nowrap	Adriano Buzaid	align=left nowrap	BVM Minardi Team	Ret	6	18
11	align=left nowrap	Andrea Amici	align=left nowrap	Viola Formula Racing	8	Ret	14
12	align=left nowrap	Frank Suntjens	align=left nowrap	Co2 Motorsport	Ret	9	12

External links

• http://forix.autosport.com/cp.php?l=0&d=44&r=442008&c=0

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2008 season. Autosport. 26 March 2024.
2. http://www.renaultsportitalia.it/risultati.aspx?cat=1&stg=1 Calendario e Risultati 2008
3. http://www.renaultsportitalia.it/classifica.aspx?cat=1&stg=1 Classifica
4. http://www.renaultsportitalia.it/classifica.aspx?cat=1&stg=16 2 Novembre 2008 – WINTER CUP Imola