2015–16 F4 Chinese Championship

The 2015–16 F4 Chinese Championship season (Castrol Cup FIA F4 CHINESE CHAMPIONSHIP) was the inaugural season of the F4 Chinese Championship. It began on 5 July 2015 at the Goldenport Park Circuit in Beijing and finished on 10 January 2016 at the Zhuhai International Circuit after five double header rounds.^[1]

Teams and drivers

Team	No.	Drivers	Rounds
Champ Motorsport	3	Chen Zhuoxuan	3–4
	8	Liu Wenlong	All
	17	Alex Yang	2
	18	Xie Ruilin	All
	91	Julio Acosta	1–4
Auto Business Racing Team	6	He Weihang	1–2
Wu Pei	7	Wu Pei	1
Zhang Chong	11	Zhang Chong	1
Asia Racing Team[2]	16	Hua Miao	1
	19	Lin Taian	5
	21	Liu Kai	All
UMC Utah Motorsports Campus	20	Bruno Carneiro	4
Xiongfeng Racing Team	25	Tai Yi	All
	88	Wu Ruopeng	All
Geely Automobile Racing Team	23	Shang Zongyi	5
	44	Cui Yue	All
	77	Yang Peng	1–3
Boom VROOM Racing Team	66	Qin Tianqi	2

Race calendar and results

• A six–round provisional calendar was revealed on 28 February 2015.^[1] In April, the scheduled season-opening round – that was due to be held at Zhuhai – was cancelled, with the season being shortened to five rounds.^[1] The then scheduled first round at Chengdu in June was also cancelled, and a new round at Zhuhai was added to be the season-ending round in January 2016.^[3] All rounds will be held in China.

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning team
2015
1	R1	Goldenport Park Circuit, Beijing	5 July	Cui Yue	Liu Kai	Julio Acosta	Champ Motorsport
	R2				Julio Acosta	Julio Acosta	Champ Motorsport
2	R1	Goldenport Park Circuit, Beijing	2 August	Liu Kai	Julio Acosta	Julio Acosta	Champ Motorsport
	R2				Julio Acosta	Julio Acosta	Champ Motorsport
3	R1	Shanghai International Circuit, Shanghai	20 September	Julio Acosta	Wu Ruopeng	Cui Yue	Geely Automobile Racing Team
	R2				Julio Acosta	Julio Acosta	Champ Motorsport
4	R1	Zhuhai International Circuit, Zhuhai	1 November	Julio Acosta	Julio Acosta[N 1]	Julio Acosta	Champ Motorsport
	R2				Bruno Carneiro	Julio Acosta	Champ Motorsport
2016
5	R1	Zhuhai International Circuit, Zhuhai	9 January	Liu Wenlong	Liu Kai	Wu Ruopeng	Xiongfeng Racing Team
	R2		10 January		Liu Kai	Liu Kai	Asia Racing Team

Championship standings

Points were awarded as follows:

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	Pole	FL
Points	25	18	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1	5	1

Drivers' standings

Pos Driver BEI1 BEI2 SHI ZHU1 ZHU2 Pts 1 Julio Acosta 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 1 000 000 202 2 Wu Ruopeng 3 3 5 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 174 3 Liu Kai 2 2 3 4 3 3 DSQ 4 2 1 156 4 Liu Wenlong 5 Ret 4 6 5 5 3 6 3 Ret 93 5 Cui Yue DNS DNS 2 Ret 1 6 DSQ 5 Ret Ret 66 6 Tai Yi Ret Ret Ret 5 6 4 4 8 6 6 62 7 Xie Ruilin 7 5 6 6 9 9 Ret DNS 5 3 57 8 Yang Peng 6 9 8 Ret 7 7 26 9 Hua Miao 4 4 24 10 Lin Taian 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 4 4 24 11 Chen Zhuoxuan 8 8 5 7 24 12 Qin Tianqi 6 3 23 13 Bruno Carneiro Ret 3 16 14 Shang Zongyi Ret 5 10 15 He Weihang 10 6 Ret Ret 9 16 Wu Pei 9 7 8 17 Zhang Chong 8 8 8 18 Alex Yang Ret Ret 0 Pos Driver BEI1 BEI2 SHI ZHU1 ZHU2 Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

Footnotes

1. Liu Kai had originally scored the fastest lap of the race, but prior to the last round at Zhuhai it was announced that both Liu Kai and Yui Cue had been disqualified from this race. As a result, Julio Acosta inherited the fastest lap and was awarded the point for it.

References

1. "FIA F4中国锦标赛2015年赛历（暂定）" (in Chinese). Narcar International Racing Development Co., Ltd. 28 February 2015. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
2. "ART evaluating China F4 entry". ART Motorsports. ART Motorsports. 25 February 2015. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
3. "Liu Kai Races to Second-place finish at Zhuhai". ART Motorsports. ART Motorsports. 4 November 2015. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 5 December 2015.

External links

• Official website (in Chinese)