2010 Formula BMW Pacific season explained

The 2010 Formula BMW Pacific season was the seventh and final Formula BMW Pacific season. The championship began on 3 April in Sepang and finished on 21 November in Macau^[1] after fifteen races held at six meetings. The series was axed at the end of the season, in favour of a new Formula BMW Talent Cup starting in 2011.^[2] Motorsport Asia will continue to run a rebranded JK Racing Asia Series from 2011,^[3] without BMW support.^[4]

Singapore-licensed, British driver Richard Bradley^[5] won the championship for Eurasia Motorsport with two races in hand, after dominating for most of the season, winning seven races outright as well as an eighth by being the top finisher behind the guest drivers – Carlos Sainz Jr. and Daniil Kvyat took five overall victories between them but were ineligible for championship points – run by the EuroInternational team. He also took three other podium finishes en route to a 76-point championship-winning margin over his nearest rival, Meritus driver Óscar Andrés Tunjo. Tunjo finished the season runner-up despite failing to finish any of the final two races, but E-Rain Racing's Jordan Oon or Mofaz Racing's Calvin Wong could not capitalise on Tunjo's misfortune.

Tunjo, Oon and Wong all took overall victories in Singapore, Guangdong and Okayama respectively, but Tunjo's consistent finishing kept him ahead of Oon and Wong, who each added a class win to their overall wins. Bradley's team-mate Nabil Jeffri completed the top five in the championship, and their results along with Kotaro Sakurai and Duvashen Padayachee helped Eurasia claim the Teams' Championship. Other class victories were claimed by EuroInternational's Dustin Sofyan and James Birch of Motaworld Racing.

Teams and drivers

• All cars were BMW-engined Mygale FB02 chassis. Guest drivers in italics.

Team No Driver Class Rounds Motaworld Racing 2 James Birch 1–2, 4 3 Axcil Jefferies 1–2 4 Dylan Young 1, 4 6 Hannes van Asseldonk 1 15 Sazlan Sirajudin 2 Atlantic Racing Team 2 James Birch 3, 5 10 Jesse Dixon^[6] All 20 Yannick Mettler 2 23 Jimmy Antunes 5–6 27 William Cheung 6 Asia Racing Team 5 Suriya Balakerisnan^[7] 1–2 21 Ryō Hirakawa^[8] 5–6 22 Yuichi Nakayama 5–6 25 Li Zhi Cong 6 26 Paul Lau 4 Eurasia Motorsport 7 Nabil Jeffri^[9] All 45 Duvashen Padayachee^[10] All 55 Kotaro Sakurai^[11] All 69 Richard Bradley^[12] All Meritus 8 Dustin Sofyan^[13] 1–2 Andrey Khrapov^[14] 4, 6 38 Pasin Lathouras^[15] All 78 Afiq Ikhwan^[16] 1–5 88 Óscar Andrés Tunjo^[17] All E-Rain Racing 9 Tom Mun All 66 Jordan Oon All 77 Fahmi Ilyas 1 EuroInternational 11 Daniil Kvyat 1–2, 4 Tom Blomqvist 6 12 Carlos Sainz Jr. 1–2, 4, 6 14 Michael Lewis 1–2 Dustin Sofyan 4–6 15 Tomoki Nojiri 6 Petronas Mofaz Racing 16 Calvin Wong All 17 Ryan Ritchie All 18 Natasha Seatter All 19 Amirrul Khirudin^[18] All Champ Motorsport 68 Ivo Yiu 6 73 Wai Kai Un 6 83 Jim Ka To 6 Mango Asia 75 Chang Mun Shien^[19] align=center rowspan=2 1 IM Racing 2–6

Race calendar and results

• Three rounds were confirmed via an announcement by the FIA on 18 December 2009.^[20] A provisional calendar was latterly released by the championship, before being confirmed with no further changes. Latterly, rounds scheduled for the Korea International Circuit were moved to Guangdong and Okayama due to delays in track construction.

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning driver	Winning team	Supporting
1	R1	Sepang International Circuit	3 April	Richard Bradley	Richard Bradley	Richard Bradley	Eurasia Motorsport
	R2		4 April	Richard Bradley	Richard Bradley	Richard Bradley	Eurasia Motorsport
2	R1	Sepang International Circuit	15 May	Kotaro Sakurai^1	Michael Lewis	Daniil Kvyat	EuroInternational	Asian Festival of Speed
	R2			Kotaro Sakurai^2	Michael Lewis	Carlos Sainz Jr.	EuroInternational
	R3		16 May			Daniil Kvyat	EuroInternational
	R4				Óscar Andrés Tunjo	Carlos Sainz Jr.	EuroInternational
3	R1		4 September	Jordan Oon	Calvin Wong	Richard Bradley	Eurasia Motorsport	Hong Kong Touring Car Championship
	R2			Jordan Oon	Richard Bradley	Richard Bradley	Eurasia Motorsport
	R3		5 September		Jordan Oon	Jordan Oon	E-Rain Racing
	R4				Óscar Andrés Tunjo	Richard Bradley	Eurasia Motorsport
4	R1	Marina Bay Street Circuit	25 September	Richard Bradley^1	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Richard Bradley	Eurasia Motorsport
	R2				Carlos Sainz Jr.		Meritus
5	R1	Okayama International Circuit	30 October	Óscar Andrés Tunjo	Calvin Wong	Richard Bradley	Eurasia Motorsport	WTCC Race of Japan
	R2		31 October	Dustin Sofyan	Yuichi Nakayama	Calvin Wong
6		Guia Circuit, Macau	21 November		Tom Blomqvist	Carlos Sainz Jr.	EuroInternational	Macau Grand Prix

• ¹ Pole position recorded by Daniil Kvyat, but he was ineligible to score the pole point.
• ² Pole position recorded by Carlos Sainz Jr., but he was ineligible to score the pole point.

Standings

Drivers' Championship

• Points were awarded as follows:

Pos Driver SEP SEP GUA SIN OKA MAC Pts 1 Richard Bradley 1 1 Ret 8 4 4 1 1 Ret 1 1 3 1 2 17 217 2 Óscar Andrés Tunjo 4 2 Ret Ret 6 6 4 7 2 2 5 1 3 Ret Ret 141 3 Jordan Oon 10 10 Ret 4 13 5 2 2 1 5 8 13 9 8 6 134 4 Calvin Wong 15 8 4 17 3 16 7 Ret 4 3 3 12 2 1 Ret 121 5 Nabil Jeffri 9 Ret 7 5 8 11 5 4 7 Ret 15 4 8 16 10 83 6 Afiq Ikhwan 8 Ret Ret Ret 15 12 6 3 Ret 6 4 6 4 6 74 7 Dustin Sofyan 6 12 5 6 18 Ret Ret Ret 5 Ret 4 68 8 Kotaro Sakurai Ret 3 NC DSQ 5 8 10 Ret 13 8 Ret 8 DSQ 5 5 68 9 James Birch 12 Ret 3 7 11 Ret 9 6 9 11 7 5 16 Ret 63 10 Tom Mun Ret 15 Ret 13 12 9 Ret 5 3 4 10 10 7 13 Ret 49 11 align=left nowrap Duvashen Padayachee 20 11 13 10 10 10 3 Ret 6 9 Ret 14 10 10 9 49 12 Jesse Dixon 13 13 8 9 Ret 7 Ret 8 Ret Ret 14 7 6 9 12 49 13 Pasin Lathouras 14 14 6 14 9 13 8 9 5 7 9 9 12 DSQ 11 46 14 Chang Mun Shien 11 19 10 12 Ret Ret 13 Ret 8 12 13 11 Ret 15 8 23 15 Axcil Jefferies 7 9 DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ 18 16 Amirrul Khirudin 18 20 DNS 18 19 18 12 Ret 12 10 12 16 17 12 22 5 17 Suriya Balakerisnan Ret 16 11 11 17 15 5 18 Ryan Ritchie 17 21 Ret 16 16 14 11 Ret 11 13 18 15 13 11 14 5 19 Yannick Mettler 9 Ret 14 Ret 4 20 Natasha Seatter Ret 22 12 Ret 21 EX 14 Ret 10 14 16 18 15 14 16 3 21 Dylan Young 16 17 17 Ret 0 guest drivers ineligible for points Carlos Sainz Jr. 2 4 Ret 1 7 1 6 2 1 0 Daniil Kvyat 19 5 1 2 1 3 2 Ret 0 Michael Lewis 5 6 2 3 2 2 0 Tomoki Nojiri 2 0 Fahmi Ilyas 3 7 0 Yuichi Nakayama DSQ 3 20 0 Tom Blomqvist 3 0 Ryō Hirakawa 11 4 Ret 0 Jimmy Antunes 14 7 13 0 Jim Ka To 7 0 Andrey Khrapov 11 17 Ret 0 Sazlan Sirajudin 14 15 20 17 0 Li Zhi Cong 15 0 Paul Lau 18 19 0 align=left nowrap Hannes van Asseldonk Ret 18 0 William Cheung 18 0 Ivo Yiu 19 0 Wai Kai Un 21 0 Pos Driver SEP SEP GUA SIN OKA MAC Pts

Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

Teams' Championship

• Points were awarded on the same basis (excluding pole points) as the drivers' championship, but only to a team's first two cars at the end of the race. If a team was running just one car at a meeting, their points were doubled.

Pos Team SEP SEP GUA SIN OKA MAC Pts 1 align=left rowspan=2 Eurasia Motorsport 1 1 7 5 4 4 1 1 6 1 1 3 1 2 5 362 9 3 13 8 5 8 3 4 7 8 15 4 8 5 9 2 align=left rowspan=2 Meritus 4 2 5 6 6 6 4 3 2 2 4 1 3 6 11 281 6 12 6 14 9 12 6 7 5 6 5 6 4 Ret Ret 3 align=left rowspan=2 E-Rain Racing 3 10 Ret 4 12 5 2 2 1 4 8 10 7 8 6 196 10 15 Ret 13 13 9 Ret 5 3 5 10 13 9 13 Ret 4 align=left rowspan=2 nowrap Petronas Mofaz Racing 15 8 4 16 3 14 7 Ret 4 3 3 12 2 1 14 152 17 20 12 17 16 16 11 Ret 10 10 12 15 13 11 16 5 align=left rowspan=2 Atlantic Racing Team 13 13 8 9 14 7 9 6 9 11 14 7 6 7 12 85 9 Ret Ret Ret Ret 8 Ret Ret 14 9 13 6 align=left rowspan=2 Motaworld Racing 7 9 3 7 11 17 7 5 75 12 17 14 15 20 Ret 17 Ret 7 IM Racing 10 12 Ret Ret 13 Ret 8 12 13 11 Ret 15 8 58 8 align=left rowspan=2 EuroInternational 2 4 1 1 1 1 2 2 5 Ret 1 56 5 5 2 2 2 2 6 Ret 4 9 align=left rowspan=2 Asia Racing Team Ret 16 11 11 17 15 19 19 11 3 15 18 DSQ 4 20 10 Mango Asia 11 19 8 Guest teams ineligible for points align=left rowspan=2 Champ Motorsport 7 0 19 Pos Team SEP SEP GUA SIN OKA MAC Pts

External links

• BMW-Motorsport.com
• Asian Festival Of Speed

Notes and References

1. News: Formula BMW Pacific gears up for watershed season.. bmw-motorsport.com. Formula BMW. 2009-12-21. 2010-01-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20100107131648/http://bmw-motorsport.com/ms/en/races/fbmw/news/current/2009_12/2009_12_21.html?lity=tn_ms_sp_2_2_M. 2010-01-07. dead.
2. News: Europe and Asia series axed . Tom . Hornsby . motorstv.com . . 2010-07-08 . 2010-07-08 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120305022402/http://www.motorstv.com/car/single-seater/formula-bmw-series/08072010/fbmw-europe-and-asia-series-axed . 2012-03-05 .
3. News: Junior single seater series bolstered by Indian tyre company. Tom. Hornsby. Motors TV. LMC. 11 February 2011. 30 March 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20120319005534/http://www.motorstv.com/car/others/asian-festival-of-speed/11022011/jk-racing-asia-series-replaces-formula-bmw-pacific. 2012-03-19. dead.
4. News: Motorsport Asia to continue FBMW Pacific. Andy. Wilkinson. motorstv.com. Motors TV. 2010-07-09. 2010-07-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20120305022413/http://www.motorstv.com/car/single-seater/formula-bmw-series/09072010/fbmw-motorsport-asia-continue-fbmw-pacific. 2012-03-05. dead.
5. Autosport. Haymarket Publications. 24 March 2011. Introducing...Richard Bradley. 203. 12. 61. Singapore put itself on the international motorsport map three years ago when it hosted its first world championship grand prix, but so far it has never produced a driver worthy of competing at the top level of single-seater racing. That could all be about to change. Well, sort of. Because although Formula BMW Pacific champion Richard Bradley competes using a Singapore licence, he actually hails from Greenwich..
6. News: Atlantic Racing Team – Santa Claus comes early first Driver line-up 2010. atlanticracingteam.com. Atlantic Racing Team. Ingo. Strackerjan. 2009-12-21. 2010-01-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20110707182804/http://www.atlanticracingteam.com/press-room/index/#4. 2011-07-07. dead.
7. News: Rounding off the 2009 Season in Formula BMW and Formula Renault, Single Seater Debut. suriyabkt.com. Suriya Bala. 2010-01-03. 2010-02-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20110716165137/http://www.suriyabkt.com/2010/01/rounding-off-2009-season-in-formula-bmw.html. 2011-07-16. dead.
8. Web site: Formula BMW Pacific Provisional Entry List . macau.grandprix.gov.mo . . 2010-10-06 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110728023012/http://gp.macau.grandprix.gov.mo/gp/57/subpage.php?id=2182&lang=en . 2011-07-28 .
9. News: Jeffri completes Eurasia’s FBMW line-up. motorstv.com. Motors TV. Andy. Wilkinson. 2010-02-16. 2010-02-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20100404040038/http://www.motorstv.com/car/others/asian-festival-of-speed/16022010/afos-jeffri-completes-eurasia%E2%80%99s-fbmw-line. 4 April 2010 . live.
10. News: Duvashen Padayachee joins Eurasia for 2010. eurasiamotorsport.com. Eurasia Motorsport. 2009-11-09. 2010-01-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20101029021006/http://www.eurasiamotorsport.com/news/index.php/2009/11/duvashen-padayachee-joins-eurasia-for-2010/. 2010-10-29. dead.
11. News: Scholarship winner joins Eurasia for 2010. eurasiamotorsport.com. Eurasia Motorsport. 2009-12-21. 2010-01-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20101029030246/http://www.eurasiamotorsport.com/news/index.php/2009/12/scholarship-winner-joins-eurasia-for-2010/. 2010-10-29. dead.
12. News: Richard Bradley joins Eurasia for 2010 F.BMW Pacific. eurasiamotorsport.com. Eurasia Motorsport. 2009-11-27. 2010-01-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20101029021027/http://www.eurasiamotorsport.com/news/index.php/2009/11/richard-bradley-joins-eurasia-for-2010-f-bmw-pacific/. 2010-10-29. dead.
13. News: Meritus re-signs Dustin Sofyan. https://web.archive.org/web/20110726171301/http://www.automobilsport.com/formula-bmw-pacific-meritus-dustin-sofyan-bio---77904.html. usurped. July 26, 2011. automobilsport.com. MaP. 2010-03-28. 2010-03-30.
14. News: Meritus GP Ready for Singapore Challenge. afos.com. Asian Festival of Speed. 2010-09-22. 2010-09-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20100926204518/http://www.afos.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=561&catid=83. 2010-09-26. dead.
15. News: Where have all the drivers gone?. kartingphotography.com. KP. 2010-03-31. 2010-03-31.
16. News: Strong international entry for 2010 season.. 2010-03-31. Formula BMW. BMW Motorsport. 2010-10-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20100721161829/http://www.bmw-motorsport.com/ms_en/news/maerz_2010/strong_international_entry_for_2010_season. 2010-07-21. dead.
17. News: Fourteen-year-old Colombian racing sensation to drive for MERITUS-GP. https://web.archive.org/web/20110726171324/http://www.automobilsport.com/formula-bmw-pacific-colombian-racing-sensation-oscar-tunjo-firhat-mokhzani-meritus-gp---77978.html. usurped. July 26, 2011. automobilsport.com. MaP. 2010-03-29. 2010-03-30.
18. News: Mofaz Racing And Petronas Collaborate To Form Junior Formula Racing Team. mofazracing.com. Mofaz Racing. 2009-12-10. 2010-01-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20110714110652/http://mofazracing.com/?p=359. 2011-07-14. dead.
19. News: Mango Racing set to go all the way. findarticles.com. New Straits Times. 2010-01-17. 2010-02-18.
20. News: 2010 International Series: Formula BMW Pacific. PDF. fia.com. Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. 2009-12-18. 2010-01-03.