2010 Formula BMW Europe season explained

The 2010 Formula BMW Europe season was the third and final season of the Formula BMW Europe championship. The championship began on 8 May at Barcelona and finished on 12 September at Monza. The series was axed at the end of the season, in favour of a new Formula BMW Talent Cup starting in 2011.^[1]

The season was dominated by two drivers in their second season of competing in the championship, Robin Frijns of Josef Kaufmann Racing and Jack Harvey of Fortec Motorsport. Heading into the final round at Monza, Harvey held a seven-point lead over Frijns, but after taking pole position for both races, Harvey's chances took a hit after Javier Tarancón tried to outbrake him into the final corner and collided with him. Frijns won the race, and then a third place for him in the final race to Harvey's victory allowed the Kaufmann driver to claim the championship by eleven points, despite taking six wins to Harvey's seven, with both drivers taking thirteen podiums.

Third place was just as hotly contested, between Mücke Motorsport's Timmy Hansen and EuroInternational's Carlos Sainz Jr. which like the main championship battle, was not settled until the final rounds of the season. Hansen, the son of multiple championship-winning rallycross driver Kenneth, had finished thirteenth in the previous season due to his team being disqualified from two meetings due to a technical infringement, but improved in his second season in the class which included a victory at Hockenheim. Sainz, the son of former double World Rally Champion Carlos Sainz, finished thirteen points behind in fourth having taken a single victory during the season, winning at Silverstone. The season's other victory was taken by Tarancón at Spa-Francorchamps en route to a fifth place championship finish. The Teams' Championship was won by Josef Kaufmann Racing ahead of Fortec Motorsport.

Teams and drivers

• The entry list for the series was released on 2 March 2010.^[2] All cars were Mygale FB02 chassis powered by BMW engines. Guest drivers in italics.

Team No Driver Class Rounds Josef Kaufmann Racing 4 Robin Frijns^[3] All 5 Hannes van Asseldonk All 6 Petri Suvanto All Mücke Motorsport 7 Maciej Bernacik^[4] All 8 Timmy Hansen^[5] All EuroInternational 11 Daniil Kvyat^[6] All 12 Carlos Sainz Jr. All 14 Michael Lewis All DAMS 15 Javier Tarancón^[7] All 16 Dustin Sofyan^[8] 5 Luciano Bacheta^[9] 7–8 17 Fahmi Ilyas 1–6 Dustin Sofyan^[10] 8 Eifelland Racing 18 Facundo Regalia^[11] All 19 Côme Ledogar^[12] All 20 Marc Coleselli All Fortec Motorsport 24 Jack Harvey^[13] All 25 George Katsinis All 26 Christof von Grünigen^[14] All

Calendar

• The calendar for the 2010 season was announced on 17 December 2009.^[15]

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning driver	Winning team	Supporting
1	R1	Circuit de Catalunya, Montmeló	8 May	Jack Harvey	Jack Harvey	Jack Harvey	Fortec Motorsport
	R2	9 May	Jack Harvey	Jack Harvey	Robin Frijns	Josef Kaufmann Racing
2	R1	Circuit Park Zandvoort	5 June	Timmy Hansen	Jack Harvey	Jack Harvey	Fortec Motorsport	Masters of Formula 3
	R2		6 June	Jack Harvey	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Robin Frijns	Josef Kaufmann Racing
3	R1	Valencia Street Circuit	26 June	Jack Harvey	Robin Frijns	Jack Harvey	Fortec Motorsport
	R2		27 June	Jack Harvey	Javier Tarancón	Jack Harvey	Fortec Motorsport
4	R1	Silverstone Circuit	10 July	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Jack Harvey	Jack Harvey	Fortec Motorsport
	R2		11 July	nowrap	Carlos Sainz Jr.	nowrap	Carlos Sainz Jr.		nowrap	Carlos Sainz Jr.	EuroInternational
5	R1	Hockenheimring	24 July	Robin Frijns	Jack Harvey	Timmy Hansen	Mücke Motorsport
	R2		25 July	Robin Frijns	Jack Harvey	Robin Frijns	Josef Kaufmann Racing
6	R1	Hungaroring, Mogyoród	31 July	Robin Frijns	Robin Frijns	Robin Frijns	Josef Kaufmann Racing
	R2		1 August	Jack Harvey	Jack Harvey	Jack Harvey	Fortec Motorsport
7	R1	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	28 August	Côme Ledogar	Javier Tarancón	nowrap	Javier Tarancón	DAMS
	R2	29 August	Côme Ledogar	Robin Frijns	Robin Frijns	Josef Kaufmann Racing
8	R1	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	11 September	Jack Harvey	Timmy Hansen	Robin Frijns	nowrap	Josef Kaufmann Racing
	R2		nowrap	12 September	Jack Harvey	nowrap	Hannes van Asseldonk	Jack Harvey		Fortec Motorsport

Standings

Drivers

• Points were awarded as follows:

Pos Driver CAT ZAN VAL SIL HOC HUN SPA MNZ Pts 1 Robin Frijns Ret 1 4 1 4 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 3 383 2 Jack Harvey 1 3 1 9 1 1 1 3 3 2 2 1 3 4 Ret 1 372 3 Timmy Hansen 2 2 3 4 Ret 6 4 15 1 7 Ret 4 5 6 4 8 240 4 align=left style="background:#8FCFDF;" Carlos Sainz Jr. 3 6 5 2 7 10 3 1 11 6 4 3 Ret Ret 8 6 227 5 Javier Tarancón 4 5 7 12 3 4 15 7 8 8 8 Ret 1 2 Ret 10 193 6 Côme Ledogar 13 9 6 3 8 Ret 12 14 4 5 5 6 7 3 2 12 188 7 align=left style="background:#8FCFDF;" 10 11 Ret 5 10 11 9 10 6 3 10 5 4 7 3 5 176 8 Facundo Regalia 7 4 2 7 6 5 5 4 Ret 9 9 9 Ret 12 Ret 7 172 9 George Katsinis 5 7 13 Ret 5 7 11 5 7 10 3 10 9 8 Ret Ret 139 10 align=left style="background:#8FCFDF;" Daniil Kvyat 9 10 11 Ret Ret 8 14 11 5 4 6 Ret 6 5 Ret 2 138 11 align=left style="background:#8FCFDF;" Petri Suvanto 11 12 12 6 Ret 13 8 6 Ret 16 14 7 10 9 9 9 100 12 align=left style="background:#8FCFDF;" Maciej Bernacik 12 13 8 11 11 9 13 12 9 12 11 8 13† 10 6 11 99 13 Fahmi Ilyas Ret Ret Ret Ret 2 3 6 8 10 14 7 Ret 88 14 Michael Lewis 14 8 9 10 9 15 10 9 14 11 15 11 Ret 11 5 Ret 83 15 Christof von Grünigen 6 14 10 8 12 14 16 13 13 13 12 12 12 Ret 10 Ret 66 16 align=left style="background:#8FCFDF;" Marc Coleselli 8 Ret Ret DNS Ret 12 7 16 12 15 13 DSQ 8 13 7 Ret 59 align=center colspan=19 Guest drivers ineligible for championship points Luciano Bacheta 11 Ret Ret 4 0 Dustin Sofyan 15 Ret Ret DNS 0 Pos Driver CAT ZAN VAL SIL HOC HUN SPA MNZ Pts

Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap  – Rookie Cup

† — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.

Teams

	Team	Points
1	Josef Kaufmann Racing	656
2	Fortec Motorsport	559
3	EuroInternational	446
4	Eifelland Racing	417
5	Mücke Motorsport	338
6	DAMS	281

External links

• BMW-Motorsport.com

Notes and References

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2. News: Just 15 cars for season opener. Tom. Hornsby. motorstv.com. Motors TV. 2010-03-02. 2010-03-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20110714122240/http://www.motorstv.com/car/single-seater/formula-bmw-series/02032010/fbmw-just-15-cars-season-opener. 2011-07-14. dead.
3. News: Formula BMW Europe Season 2010. jk-racing.de. Josef Kaufmann Racing. 2010-01-26. 2010-01-26.
4. News: Maciej Bernacik przy F1. wyscigi.autoklub.pl. Autoklub. Polish. 2010-02-23. 2010-02-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20100226184855/http://wyscigi.autoklub.pl/news/maciej-bernacik-przy-f1,28396. 2010-02-26. dead.
5. News: Mücke Motorsport verlängert Vertrag mit Timmy Hansen. muecke.jgsm.de. Mücke Motorsport. German. 2010-02-23. 2010-02-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20100302191056/http://muecke.jgsm.de/default.asp?show=news_detail&id=448&lang=de. 2010-03-02. dead.
6. News: Michele. Benso. Europa – Esclusivo: Kvyat, Sainz Jr. e Frijns frecce Red Bull 2010 nell'arco della Eurointernational!. stopandgo.tv. Stop&Go!. Italian. 2009-09-01. 2009-10-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20100322212852/http://www.stopandgo.tv/news/fbmw/it/europa-esclusivo-kvyat-sainz-jr-e-frijns-frecce-red-bull-2010-nell-arco-della-eurointernational-.html. 2010-03-22. dead.
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11. News: Facu Regalia signs with Eifelland Racing for 2010. Facundo Regalia. Diseño Integral Web S.L.. 2010-02-04. 2010-02-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20100904005723/http://www.facuregalia.com/noticia.php?id=201. 2010-09-04. dead.
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