2012 Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup Explained

The 2012 Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup is the seventh Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup season. The season began at Hockenheimring on 21 April and finished on 14 October at Spa, after 20 races at 8 events.

Drivers and teams

After the Formula Renault UK was cancelled for the 2012 season, British team Fortec Motorsports joined the Formula Renault 2.0 NEC with refugee Josh Hill and Intersteps champion Jake Dennis among its drivers, whereas Manor Competition followed with Jordan King.

Team		Driver name	Rounds
Inter Europol Competition	2	Jakub Śmiechowski^[1]	All
	3	Remi Kirchdörffer	All
	4	Lena Heun^[2]	8
Josef Kaufmann Racing	5	Pieter Schothorst	1–2, 4–5
	6	Alex Riberas	1–2, 5
	7	Stoffel Vandoorne	1–2, 5
SL Formula Racing	8	David Freiburghaus	1–6
	9	Robert Siska	1–2, 5–6
	41	Alessio Picariello	3–4, 6, 8
Van Amersfoort Racing	10	Roman Beregech	All
	11	Jeroen Slaghekke	All
PositionOne Motorsport	14	Leopold Ringbom^[3]	All
KTR	16	Victor Colomé	All
	17	Yu Kanamaru	All
	18	Ignazio D'Agosto^[4]	All
Speedlover	20	Frank Suntjens	All
Interwetten.com Racing	23	Sandy Stuvik	All
	24	Victor Bouveng	1–3, 5–8
R-ace GP	26	Nyck de Vries	1–2, 4–5, 8
	27	Pierre Gasly	1–2, 5
	28	Andrea Pizzitola	1–2, 4–5, 8
Manor MP Motorsport^[5]	30	Raoul Owens	8
	31	Kevin Kleveros	1
	32	Jordan King	All
	33	Meindert van Buuren^[6]	All
	34	Steijn Schothorst	All
	35	Tanart Sathienthirakul	All
	36	Alexey Chuklin^[7]	1–3, 5–6
	37	Corinna Kamper^[8]	5–6
Trackstar	31	Kevin Kleveros	2–8
	48	Ronnie Lundströmer	1–4, 6
Daltec Racing^[9]	37	Corinna Kamper	1–4
	38	Dennis Wüsthoff	All
	39	Rafael Danieli	1
	40	Kevin Giovesi	1
	44	Christof von Grünigen	1–2, 5–6
	67	Kevin Jörg	8
Krenek Motorsport	42	Gabriela Jilkova^[10]	6
	43	Richard Gonda	1–3
	45	Christian Malcharek	6
One Racing	45	Alex Bosak	5
Fortec Motorsports^[11]	52	Seb Morris	8
	53	Mikko Pakari	1–2, 4, 6, 8
	54	Ed Jones	1–2, 4, 6, 8
	55	Josh Hill^[12]	All
	56	Jake Dennis	All
	57	Dan de Zille	All
	58	Shahaan Engineer^[13]	All
Mark Burdett Motorsport	60	Gabriel Casagrande	1, 3–8
	61	Tomasz Krzeminski^[14]	7
	62	Gustavo Lima	8
Prema Powerteam^[15]	63	Luca Ghiotto	8
	64	Bruno Bonifacio	8
Falcon Motorsport	65	Liam Venter	8
Sandro Luković	68	Sandro Luković	8

Race calendar and results

The eight-event provisional calendar for the 2012 season was announced on 22 November 2011.^[16] The Spa round was later moved to the end of the season.

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team	Event
1	R1	Hockenheimring	21 April					Preis der Stadt Stuttgart
	R2		22 April	Stoffel Vandoorne	Stoffel Vandoorne	Jake Dennis	Fortec Motorsports
	R3			Jeroen Slaghekke	Nyck de Vries	Stoffel Vandoorne	Josef Kaufmann Racing
2	R1	Nürburgring	22 June	Stoffel Vandoorne	Stoffel Vandoorne	Stoffel Vandoorne	Josef Kaufmann Racing	VLN
	R2		23 June	Stoffel Vandoorne	Stoffel Vandoorne	Stoffel Vandoorne	Josef Kaufmann Racing
3	R1		7 July	Jeroen Slaghekke	Steijn Schothorst	Josh Hill	Fortec Motorsports
	R2			Jake Dennis	Josh Hill	Josh Hill	Fortec Motorsports
	R3		8 July	Alessio Picariello	Jake Dennis	Jake Dennis	Fortec Motorsports
4	R1	TT Circuit Assen	4 August	Jake Dennis	Steijn Schothorst	Jake Dennis	Fortec Motorsports	Gamma Racing Day
	R2		5 August	Nyck de Vries	Nyck de Vries	Nyck de Vries	R-ace GP
5	R1	Red Bull Ring	26 August	Alex Riberas	Stoffel Vandoorne	Alex Riberas	Josef Kaufmann Racing	AvD
	R2			Alex Riberas	Josh Hill	Stoffel Vandoorne	Josef Kaufmann Racing
6	R1	Autodrom Most	1 September	Josh Hill	Josh Hill	Josh Hill	Fortec Motorsports	ADAC Truck Grand Prix
	R2		2 September	Jake Dennis	Jordan King		Van Amersfoort Racing
	R3			Leopold Ringbom	Mikko Pakari	Steijn Schothorst	Manor MP Motorsport
7	R1	Circuit Park Zandvoort	22 September	Jeroen Slaghekke	Jake Dennis	Josh Hill	Fortec Motorsports	Trophy of the Dunes
	R2				Steijn Schothorst	Steijn Schothorst	Manor MP Motorsport
	R3			Shahaan Engineer	Jordan King	Jordan King	Manor MP Motorsport
8	R1	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	14 October	Mikko Pakari	Alessio Picariello	Josh Hill	Fortec Motorsports	Racing Festival
	R2			Mikko Pakari	Andrea Pizzitola	Yu Kanamaru	KTR

Standings

Drivers' Championship

• Championship points were awarded on a 30, 24, 20, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 to the top 20 classified finishers in each race.

Pos Driver HOC NÜR OSC ASS RBR MST ZAN SPA 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 width=25 15 width=25 16 width=25 17 width=25 18 width=25 19 width=25 20 1 Jake Dennis 3 1 2 12 7 3 4 1 1 3 4 2 3 7 4 3 3 5 Ret 7 376 2 Jordan King 2 5 5 2 5 2 2 Ret 8 2 11 22 2 3 3 5 15 1 12 25 316 3 Josh Hill Ret 3 25 6 4 1 1 2 25 5 7 4 1 Ret 6 1 Ret 6 1 12 311 4 Jeroen Slaghekke 6 11 7 14 13 5 6 4 7 10 10 12 16 1 11 2 Ret 4 13 21 241 5 Steijn Schothorst 7 Ret Ret 13 10 4 21 3 6 7 9 Ret 5 21 1 18 1 16 11 9 212 6 Kevin Kleveros 5 12 6 29 8 11 5 8 Ret 4 21 20 9 4 Ret 9 5 7 6 28 196 7 Shahaan Engineer 8 8 Ret 31 DNS 9 8 7 24 14 16 10 15 9 12 6 2 2 5 20 195 8 Gabriel Casagrande 26 29 15 7 13 5 12 12 3 8 8 2 5 7 Ret Ret 4 19 181 9 Stoffel Vandoorne 1 19 1 1 1 2 1 176 10 Nyck de Vries 32 6 22 4 2 2 1 5 3 8 14 166 11 Meindert van Buuren DNS 9 Ret 16 11 15 Ret 9 11 6 18 7 Ret 28 16 4 4 3 9 18 161 12 Leopold Ringbom 11 15 9 Ret 12 17 9 23 Ret 25 13 16 6 5 9 8 10 14 7 27 154 13 Andrea Pizzitola 4 2 3 9 3 3 Ret 8 Ret 10 17 141 14 Sandy Stuvik 10 10 Ret 11 DNS 8 7 6 20 13 14 11 7 23 22 11 Ret 10 16 23 140 15 Alessio Picariello 6 3 19 16 28 4 27 2 2 8 120 16 Alex Riberas 14 4 4 10 22 1 6 97 17 Yu Kanamaru 23 Ret Ret DNS 21 10 12 20 13 17 20 15 21 13 20 Ret 7 Ret 17 1 97 18 Ignazio D'Agosto 27 30 24 17 23 13 17 10 10 11 Ret 19 13 26 10 Ret 6 Ret Ret 16 89 19 Dennis Wüsthoff 18 14 Ret 30 15 25 24 24 15 20 15 Ret 18 14 13 12 8 8 15 24 88 20 Victor Colomé Ret Ret Ret 21 14 12 Ret DNS Ret 18 Ret Ret 14 8 7 Ret 11 Ret Ret 2 87 21 Ed Jones 33 25 13 8 DNS 5 8 10 18 8 25 15 85 22 Victor Bouveng 13 22 11 28 16 16 Ret Ret 22 14 17 Ret Ret 16 9 12 22 4 82 23 Pierre Gasly Ret 13 17 3 6 6 5 78 24 Mikko Pakari 30 16 8 7 Ret 9 Ret 11 6 Ret Ret 13 75 25 Jakub Śmiechowski 9 Ret 16 15 DNS 22 10 13 23 16 19 17 27 19 19 13 Ret 11 Ret 10 75 26 Dan de Zille NC 28 Ret 18 24 14 18 11 17 15 Ret 18 Ret 25 23 10 Ret 9 Ret 22 63 27 align=left nowrap Tanart Sathienthirakul 21 20 12 24 17 21 14 14 14 21 Ret 24 20 12 14 14 Ret 15 20 32 60 28 Christof von Grünigen 16 DNS 10 26 9 12 9 24 Ret Ret 49 29 Roman Beregech 22 18 Ret 22 18 20 15 22 19 26 17 13 Ret 11 21 Ret 14 17 26 30 48 30 Pieter Schothorst Ret Ret DNS 5 Ret 4 9 23 Ret 45 31 Frank Suntjens 12 21 19 25 20 23 22 18 22 24 27 23 19 17 26 15 Ret DNS 24 5 44 32 Ronnie Lundströmer 15 Ret 18 20 28 18 11 16 18 19 23 16 18 41 33 David Freiburghaus 17 Ret DNS 19 19 26 20 17 Ret 22 24 28 12 Ret 17 25 34 Alexey Chuklin 31 Ret 20 23 29 Ret 16 25 25 Ret 25 10 15 23 35 Bruno Bonifacio 3 Ret 20 36 Sandro Lukovic Ret 3 20 37 Tomasz Krzeminski Ret 12 13 17 38 Richard Gonda 24 24 14 DNS DNS DNS 19 15 15 39 Gustavo Lima Ret 6 15 40 Kevin Giovesi 20 7 Ret 14 41 Corinna Kamper 25 23 26 27 25 19 23 12 21 23 26 21 22 20 Ret 12 42 Remi Kirchdörffer 29 26 23 32 26 24 Ret 21 26 27 29 27 28 24 24 17 13 Ret 27 31 12 43 Seb Morris 23 11 10 44 Luca Ghiotto 14 Ret 7 45 Christian Malcharek 26 15 Ret 6 46 Rafael Danieli 19 17 Ret 5 47 Kevin Jörg 18 29 3 48 Raoul Owens 19 33 2 49 Robert Siska 28 27 21 Ret 27 30 26 29 22 25 0 50 Liam Venter 21 Ret 0 51 Alex Bosak 28 25 0 52 Lena Heun Ret 26 0 53 Gabriela Jilkova Ret Ret 27 0 Pos Driver HOC NÜR OSC ASS RBR MST ZAN SPA Points

Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

Teams' Championship

Pos	Team	HOC			NÜR		OSC			ASS		RBR		MST			ZAN			SPA		Points
1	Fortec Motorsports	3	1	2	6	4	1	1	1	1	3	4	2	1	6	4	1	2	2	1	7	471
2	Manor MP Motorsport	2	5	5	2	5	2	2	3	6	2	9	7	2	3	1	4	1	1	9	9	404
3	Van Amersfoort Racing	6	11	7	14	13	5	6	4	7	10	10	12	16	1	11	2	14	4	13	21	248
4	Josef Kaufmann Racing	1	4	1	1	1				4	9	1	1									226
5	R-ace GP	4	2	3	3	2				2	1	5	3							8	14	215
6	Mark Burdett Motorsport	26	29	15			7	13	5	12	12	3	8	8	2	5	7	12	13	4	6	201
7	Interwetten.com Racing	10	10	11	11	16	8	7	6	20	13	14	11	7	23	22	11	9	10	16	4	184
8	Trackstar	15	Ret	18	20	8	11	5	8	18	4	21	20	9	4	18	9	5	7	6	28	172
9	KTR	23	30	24	17	14	10	12	10	10	11	20	15	13	8	7	Ret	6	Ret	17	1	154
10	PositionOne Motorsport	11	15	9	Ret	12	17	9	23	Ret	25	13	16	6	5	9	8	10	14	7	27	154
11	Daltec Racing	16	7	10	26	9	19	23	12	15	20	12	9	18	14	13	12	8	8	15	24	140
12	SL Formula Racing	17	27	21	19	19	6	3	17	16	22	24	26	4	22	2				2	8	130
13	Inter Europol Competition	9	26	16	15	26	22	10	13	23	16	19	17	27	19	19	13	13	11	27	10	94
14	Speedlover	12	21	19	25	20	23	22	18	22	24	27	23	19	17	26	15	Ret	DNS	24	5	43
15	Krenek Motorsport	24	24	14	DNS	DNS	DNS	19	15	26	15	27										21
16	Prema Powerteam																			3	Ret	20
17	Sandro Luković																			Ret	3	20
18	Falcon Motorsport																			21	Ret	0
Pos	Team	HOC			NÜR		OSC			ASS		RBR		MST			ZAN			SPA		Points

External links

• Official website of the Formula Renault 2.0 NEC championship

Notes and References

1. Web site: Teams & Drivers. Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup. MdH Consultants AG. 16 April 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120418125559/http://necup.com/index.php/teams-drivers#. 18 April 2012. dead. dmy-all.
2. Web site: 8th round Spa Francorchamps Participants. 11 October 2012. racspa.be. Spa Racing Festival. 11 October 2012.
3. News: NEC-testit päätökseen Hockessa. NEC Tests Completed at Hockenheim. 24 March 2012. FormulaPosti.fi. FormulaPosti. fi. 26 March 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20150710142547/http://formulaposti.formula3.fi/?p=4023#. 10 July 2015. dead. dmy-all.
4. News: D'Agosto con KTR nella Eurocup e nel NEC. D'Agosto for KTR in Eurocup and NEC. 5 February 2012. ItaliaRacing.net. Inpagina. it. 5 February 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121017132932/http://italiaracing.net/notizia.asp?id=34550&cat=22#. 17 October 2012. dead. dmy-all.
5. News: Eurocup – Manor molla la serie britannica e si allea con MP Motorsport. Eurocup – Manor leaves British series and joins forces with MP Motorsport. Rubino. Jacopo. 27 January 2012. stopandgo.tv. Stop&Go. it. 27 January 2012. 29 December 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141229105848/http://www.stopandgo.tv/news/frenault/it/eurocup-manor-molla-la-serie-britannica-e-si-allea-con-mp-motorsport.html. dead.
6. News: Meindert van Buuren terzo pilota della Manor MP Motorsport . Meindert van Buuren is the third driver for Manor MP Motorsport . Rubino . Jacopo . 13 February 2012 . stopandgo.tv . Stop&Go . it . 13 February 2012 .
7. News: Алексей Чуклин проведет еще один сезон в NEC. Alexey Chuklin to compete another season in NEC. 12 April 2012. OpenRacing.ru. OpenRacing. ru. 12 April 2012.
8. News: Red Bull Ring Participants . renault-sport.de . . 23 August 2012 .
9. News: NEC heads for promising season with more than 20 registered cars . 27 February 2012 . . MdH Consultants AG . 27 February 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150710192444/http://necup.com/index.php/news/10/63/NEC-heads-for-promising-season-with-more-than-20-registered-cars/d%2Cnieuws . 10 July 2015 .
10. News: RENAULT TRUCKS CZECH TRUCKS PRIX 2012. 31 August 2012. Renault Sport. 1 September 2012.
11. News: Fortec joins Formula Renault 2.0 NEC for 2012. 20 March 2012. fortecmotorsports.com. Fortec Motorsports. 21 March 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120204051531/http://www.fortecmotorsports.com/fruk20.php. 4 February 2012. dead. dmy-all.
12. News: Fortec four confirm NEC switch. Paice. Simon. 29 March 2012. The Checkered Flag. BlackEagleMedia Network. 29 March 2012.
13. News: Engineer confirms Formula Renault NEC move. Paice. Simon. 24 March 2012. The Checkered Flag. BlackEagleMedia Network. 24 March 2012.
14. News: 7th round Zandvoort Participants. 10 September 2012. renault-sport.de. Renault Sport. 21 September 2012.
15. News: Prema returns in Formula Renault 2.0. 19 September 2012. premapowerteam.com. Prema Powerteam. 6 October 2012.
16. Web site: Season 2012 Presentation. Renault Sport. Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup. 22 November 2011. 16 January 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120404040651/http://www.renault-sport.de/uploads/media/Presentatie2012_V2_1.pdf#. 4 April 2012. dead. dmy-all.