The 2016 FIA Formula 3 European Championship was a multi-event motor racing championship for single-seat open wheel formula racing cars that is held across Europe. The championship features drivers competing in two-litre Formula Three racing cars which conform to the technical regulations, or formula, for the championship. It is the fifth edition of the FIA Formula 3 European Championship.
Felix Rosenqvist was the defending drivers' champion,[1] but was unable to defend his title, because of a new rule which determined that drivers could spend no more than three years in the category. His team, Prema Powerteam, were the defending winners of the teams' championship.
2016 was the final season that the Dallara F312 chassis package, which débuted in the 2012 season, was used in competition, as a brand new chassis package was introduced for 2017.
The following teams and drivers competed during the 2016 season:[2]
A provisional ten-round calendar was announced on 2 December 2015.[33]
Round | Circuit | Date | Supporting | |
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1 | 1 | Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet | 2 April | World Touring Car Championship |
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3 | 3 April | |||
2 | 4 | Hungaroring, Mogyoród | 23 April | |
5 | ||||
6 | 24 April | |||
3 | 7 | Circuit de Pau-Ville, Pau | 14 May | Pau Grand Prix |
8 | ||||
9 | 15 May | |||
4 | 10 | Red Bull Ring, Spielberg | 21 May | Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters |
11 | ||||
12 | 22 May | |||
5 | 13 | Norisring, Nuremberg | 25 June | |
14 | ||||
15 | 26 June | |||
6 | 16 | Circuit Park Zandvoort, Zandvoort | 16 July | |
17 | ||||
18 | 17 July | |||
7 | 19 | Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Francorchamps | 29 July | 24 Hours of Spa Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup |
20 | ||||
21 | 30 July | |||
8 | 22 | Nürburgring, Rhineland-Palatinate | 10 September | Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters |
23 | ||||
24 | 11 September | |||
9 | 25 | Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola | 1 October | European Touring Car Cup FFSA GT Championship |
26 | 2 October | |||
27 | ||||
10 | 28 | Hockenheimring, Baden-Württemberg | 15 October | Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters |
29 | 16 October | |||
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Round | Circuit | Pole position | Fastest lap | Winning driver | Winning team | |||
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1 | R1 | Circuit Paul Ricard | Lance Stroll | Lance Stroll | Lance Stroll | Prema Powerteam | Ben Barnicoat | |
R2 | Maximilian Günther | Nick Cassidy | Callum Ilott | nowrap | Van Amersfoort Racing | Guanyu Zhou | ||
R3 | Maximilian Günther | Joel Eriksson | Maximilian Günther | Prema Powerteam | Joel Eriksson | |||
2 | R1 | Hungaroring | Maximilian Günther | Joel Eriksson | Ralf Aron | Prema Powerteam | Ralf Aron | |
R2 | nowrap | Maximilian Günther | nowrap | Maximilian Günther | nowrap | Maximilian Günther | Prema Powerteam | Ralf Aron |
R3 | Maximilian Günther | Lance Stroll | Ben Barnicoat | HitechGP | Ben Barnicoat | |||
3 | R1 | Circuit de Pau-Ville | Lance Stroll | Callum Ilott | Ben Barnicoat | HitechGP | Ben Barnicoat | |
R2 | George Russell | George Russell | George Russell | HitechGP | Ben Barnicoat | |||
R3 | Alessio Lorandi | Anthoine Hubert | Alessio Lorandi | Carlin | Joel Eriksson | |||
4 | R1 | Red Bull Ring | Callum Ilott | Callum Ilott | Callum Ilott | Van Amersfoort Racing | nowrap | David Beckmann |
R2 | Lance Stroll | nowrap | Sérgio Sette Câmara | Lance Stroll | Prema Powerteam | Niko Kari | ||
R3 | Lance Stroll | Lance Stroll | Lance Stroll | Prema Powerteam | Ben Barnicoat | |||
5 | R1 | Norisring | Lance Stroll | Callum Ilott | Lance Stroll | Prema Powerteam | Niko Kari | |
R2 | Anthoine Hubert | Lance Stroll | Anthoine Hubert | Van Amersfoort Racing | Anthoine Hubert | |||
R3 | Lance Stroll | Alessio Lorandi | Lance Stroll | Prema Powerteam | Anthoine Hubert | |||
6 | R1 | Circuit Park Zandvoort | Nick Cassidy | Lance Stroll | Lance Stroll | Prema Powerteam | Niko Kari | |
R2 | Callum Ilott | Maximilian Günther | Nick Cassidy | Prema Powerteam | Anthoine Hubert | |||
R3 | Maximilian Günther | Lance Stroll | Maximilian Günther | Prema Powerteam | David Beckmann | |||
7 | R1 | Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps | Lance Stroll | Lance Stroll | Lance Stroll | Prema Powerteam | Ben Barnicoat | |
R2 | George Russell | George Russell | George Russell | HitechGP | Joel Eriksson | |||
R3 | George Russell | George Russell | Joel Eriksson | Motopark | Joel Eriksson | |||
8 | R1 | Nürburgring | Lance Stroll | Lance Stroll | Lance Stroll | Prema Powerteam | Ralf Aron | |
R2 | Lance Stroll | Maximilian Günther | Lance Stroll | Prema Powerteam | Joel Eriksson | |||
R3 | Maximilian Günther | Maximilian Günther | Maximilian Günther | Prema Powerteam | Niko Kari | |||
9 | R1 | Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari | Lance Stroll | Lance Stroll | Niko Kari | Motopark | Niko Kari | |
R2 | Lance Stroll | Lance Stroll | Lance Stroll | Prema Powerteam | Joel Eriksson | |||
R3 | Lance Stroll | Lance Stroll | Lance Stroll | Prema Powerteam | Ralf Aron | |||
10 | R1 | Hockenheimring | Lance Stroll | Lance Stroll | Lance Stroll | Prema Powerteam | Ralf Aron | |
R2 | Lance Stroll | David Beckmann | Lance Stroll | Prema Powerteam | Joel Eriksson | |||
R3 | Joel Eriksson | Lance Stroll | Lance Stroll | Prema Powerteam | Joel Eriksson |
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
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Points | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap |
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Driver | LEC | HUN | PAU | RBR | NOR | ZAN | SPA | NÜR | IMO | HOC | Points | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | ||||
1 | Joel Eriksson | 6 | 9 | 3 | 3 | Ret | 2 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 17 | 10 | 6 | Ret | 5 | Ret | 12 | 10 | 7 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 470 | |
2 | Ralf Aron | 7 | Ret | 7 | 1 | 2 | DNS | 13 | 6 | 15 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 9 | 14 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 14 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 418 | |
3 | Anthoine Hubert | 17 | 8 | 6 | Ret | 13 | 14 | 12 | 7 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 16 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 10 | Ret | 4 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 392 | |
4 | Ben Barnicoat | 4 | Ret | 11 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 10 | 15 | 5 | 6 | Ret | DSQ | 18 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 11 | 20 | 9 | Ret | 10 | 8 | Ret | 13 | 18 | 9 | 7 | 342 | |
5 | Niko Kari | 8 | 16 | 15 | 2 | Ret | 8 | 19 | 11 | 8 | 20 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 12 | Ret | 6 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 9 | Ret | 14 | 12 | 13 | 340 | |
6 | Guanyu Zhou | 14 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 11 | Ret | Ret | 14 | 12 | 7 | Ret | 6 | 4 | 16 | 18 | 16 | 17 | 8 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 11 | 304 | |
7 | align=left nowrap | David Beckmann | 17 | Ret | Ret | 7 | 7 | 12 | 10 | 13 | Ret | 10 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 17 | 10 | 13 | 6 | 13 | Ret | Ret | 9 | 12 | 3 | 18 | 221 | ||||||
8 | Harrison Newey | 9 | Ret | 14 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 15 | Ret | 14 | 8 | 16 | 11 | Ret | Ret | 10 | 19 | 12 | 18 | 6 | 12 | 12 | 14 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 8 | Ret | 15 | 18 | 12 | 202 | |
9 | Nikita Mazepin | 19 | 12 | 10 | EX | Ret | 13 | 16 | 13 | Ret | 15 | 17 | 14 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 17 | 15 | 17 | 12 | Ret | 8 | 16 | 14 | 16 | 13 | 11 | 15 | 8 | 10 | Ret | 171 | |
10 | Ukyo Sasahara | 13 | Ret | 19 | Ret | 13 | Ret | 12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Driver | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | Points | ||
LEC | HUN | PAU | RBR | NOR | ZAN | SPA | NÜR | IMO | HOC |
Prior to each round of the championship, two drivers from each team – if applicable – were nominated to score teams' championship points.
Pos | Team | Points | |
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1 | Prema Powerteam | 780 | |
2 | HitechGP | 499 | |
3 | Motopark | 431 | |
4 | Van Amersfoort Racing | 416 | |
5 | kfzteile24 Mücke Motorsport | 297 | |
6 | Carlin | 238 | |
7 | Threebond with T-Sport | 32 |