2016 SMP F4 Championship

The 2016 SMP F4 Championship season is the second season of the SMP F4 Championship. It began on 29 April at Sochi and finished on 10 September at Ahvenisto after 20 races held across seven rounds.^[1]

This season saw the F4 debut of the Dutch team MP Motorsport, which joined Koiranen GP and SMP Racing in fielding cars and drivers. The series also expanded to the Netherlands, hosting some races as well as a parallel championship to the SMP F4 championship, called the Dutch F4 Trophy.

The series is a FIA North-European Zone (NEZ) championship as in 2015. NEZ Council agreed in its meeting in 20 March to allow KNAF licence holders to score points in the championship. The FIA World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) had already accepted KNAF into the NEZ F4 championship earlier in 4 March. The exception is valid for 2016 season only, and only after NEZ receives full payment of membership fees. Dutch drivers aren't eligible to any other NEZ cups or championships.^[2] Spanish Xavier Lloveras scored points in the series as he was an AKK Motorsports (FIN) license holder. Richard Verschoor take 11 wins as another Dutch driver Jarno Opmeer wins 7 races, as Thomas Tujula and Aleksandr Vartanyan win 1 race.

Drivers

No. Driver Class Rounds 1 Aleksey Korneev[3] G 1, 4–5 2 Ivan Matveev[4] G 4 3 Henri Kauppi[3] 1–2, 7 4 Tuomas Tujula[5] All 5 Nikita Sitnikov[4] 1–2, 4–7 7 Nikita Volegov[4] 2–7 10 Zakhar Slutskiy[3] 1–3 11 Gleb Zotov[4] 1–5 14 Juho Valtanen[5] All 15 Artem Petrov[4] 1–5 16 Jarno Opmeer[6] All 17 Nerses Isaakyan G 5, 7 21 Xavier Lloveras[7] All 22 Richard Verschoor[8] All 25 Artem Slutskiy[3] 1–3 32 Roman Lebedev[4] All 38 Danny Kroes[9] 1–3 40 Vladimiros Tziortzis[4] All 41 Aleksandr Vartanyan[5] All 50 Tuomas Haapalainen[3] All 64 Rasmus Markkanen[10] All 65 Roope Markkanen[10] All 77 Aleksandr Maslennikov[3] All

Icon Class G Guest drivers ineligible to score points

Race calendar and results

The final calendar was announced on 7 March 2016.^[1]

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Supporting
1	R1	Sochi Autodrom, Sochi	30 April	Richard Verschoor	Jarno Opmeer	Richard Verschoor	Russian Grand Prix
	R2		1 May	Jarno Opmeer	Jarno Opmeer	Jarno Opmeer
2	R3	Circuit Park Zandvoort, Zandvoort	14 May	Richard Verschoor	Jarno Opmeer	Tuomas Tujula	Pinksterraces
	R4		15 May		Aleksandr Vartanyan	Jarno Opmeer
	R5			Richard Verschoor	Tuomas Tujula	Jarno Opmeer
3	R6	Circuit Park Zandvoort, Zandvoort	4 June	Richard Verschoor	Jarno Opmeer	Jarno Opmeer	Max Verstappen Fan Days
	R7		5 June		Juho Valtanen	Jarno Opmeer
	R8			Richard Verschoor	Richard Verschoor	Richard Verschoor
4	R9	Moscow Raceway, Volokolamsk	23 July	Richard Verschoor	Aleksey Korneev	Richard Verschoor	Russian Circuit Racing Series
	R10		24 July		Richard Verschoor	Richard Verschoor
	R11			Richard Verschoor	Richard Verschoor	Richard Verschoor
5	R12	Moscow Raceway, Volokolamsk	20 August	Richard Verschoor	Xavier Lloveras	Richard Verschoor	Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters
	R13		21 August		Richard Verschoor	Richard Verschoor
	R14			Richard Verschoor	Richard Verschoor	Richard Verschoor
6	R15	Anderstorp Raceway, Anderstorp	3 September	Jarno Opmeer	Richard Verschoor	Richard Verschoor
	R16		4 September		Jarno Opmeer	Richard Verschoor
	R17			Jarno Opmeer	Richard Verschoor	Richard Verschoor
7	R18	Ahvenisto Race Circuit, Hämeenlinna	10 September	Jarno Opmeer	Aleksandr Vartanyan	Jarno Opmeer	Rata-SM
	R19		11 September		Richard Verschoor	Jarno Opmeer
	R20			Richard Verschoor	Richard Verschoor	Aleksandr Vartanyan

Championship standings

Points are awarded to the top 10 classified finishers in each race. No points are awarded for pole position or fastest lap. At Sochi, only two races were held, and full points were awarded for Race 2.

Races	Position, points per race
	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
Races 1 & 3	25	18	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1
Race 2	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1

Drivers' Championship

Pos Driver SOC ZAN1 ZAN2 MSC1 MSC2 AND AHV Pts 1 Richard Verschoor 1 Ret 2 7 12 2 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 2 2 339 2 Jarno Opmeer 2 1 3 1 1 1 1 3 5 2 3 10 16 2 5 9 12 1 1 4 270 3 Aleksandr Vartanyan 4 4 5 6 3 7 3 2 4 4 9 4 4 13 6 Ret 2 8 9 1 198 4 Rasmus Markkanen Ret 5 16 5 Ret 3 6 5 11 9 12 5 3 Ret 10 12 3 4 6 3 124 5 Tuomas Tujula Ret EX 1 3 2 6 8 Ret 12 10 7 7 7 4 8 Ret 4 7 8 Ret 120 6 Roope Markkanen 3 Ret 8 Ret 6 4 2 6 14 12 5 13 10 3 7 11 Ret 6 5 6 118 7 Nikita Sitnikov 5 3 9 Ret 4 2 3 2 Ret 13 15 4 4 10 13 Ret 8 113 8 Tuomas Haapalainen Ret 6 12 13 Ret Ret 15 9 7 5 16 2 5 5 2 2 8 9 11 5 110 9 Juho Valtanen Ret Ret 4 2 5 8 7 4 10 6 10 12 8 11 3 3 Ret 5 4 Ret 108 10 Xavier Lloveras 8 7 Ret 15 11 5 5 7 8 7 6 11 9 6 Ret 6 9 10 7 7 80 11 Nikita Volegov 11 10 Ret 10 10 10 6 13 8 9 12 9 9 10 5 14 14 Ret 38 12 Danny Kroes 6 8 6 4 Ret 9 11 11 32 13 Vladimiros Tziortzis 14 11 7 14 10 13 12 12 13 15 13 6 6 16 Ret 7 7 12 13 Ret 32 14 Aleksandr Maslennikov     9 Ret 15 12 9 15 18 Ret 9 8 11 Ret 15 12 11 8 6 11 10 Ret 20 15 Artem Petrov 10 EX 14 9 7 Ret 13 Ret Ret DNS Ret 8 11 10 14 16 Henri Kauppi 7 14 18 17 13 16 15 9 8 17 Zakhar Slutskiy Ret 9 13 11 8 11 9 13 8 18 Roman Lebedev 13 10 17 16 Ret 14 14 8 15 14 17 12 5 11 15 12 Ret 6 19 Artem Slutskiy 12 13 10 8 Ret 12 17 Ret 2 20 Gleb Zotov 11 12 Ret 18 Ret 16 16 14 17 Ret 15 14 Ret 14 0 Drivers ineligible to score points - Nerses Isaakyan 3 2 8 2 3 Ret 0 - Aleksey Korneev Ret 2 3 16 4 DSQ 14 7 0 - Ivan Matveev 16 11 14 0 Pos Driver SOC ZAN1 ZAN2 MSC1 MSC2 AND AHV 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

References

1. "The 2016 SMP F4 NEZ calendar is now official". SMP F4 Championship. 7 March 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
2. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-04-23. Retrieved 2016-04-15.
3. "Round 1 Entry List for Sochi". SMP F4. 25 April 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
4. "SMP F4 NEZ CHAMPIONSHIP: THE GRID IS FILLING UP". SMP F4 Championship. 3 February 2016. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
5. Allen, Peter (14 December 2015). "Vartanyan and Finnish karting duo commit to SMP F4 for 2016". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
6. "Dutch jarno Opmeer joins the SMP F4 NEZ championship". 3 March 2016. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
7. "XAVIER LLOVERAS IN A DOUBLE PROGRAM AND LLUC IBAÑEZ IN THE SPANISH F4 CHAMPIONSHIP". F4Spain.com. 10 April 2016. Archived from the original on 14 April 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
8. David, Gruz (12 February 2016). "Karting star Richard Verschoor enters SMP F4". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
9. "Dutch Danny Kroes enters the fight in the SMP F4 NEZ Championship". SMP F4 Championship. 14 April 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
10. David, Gruz (1 March 2016). "Twins Rasmus and Roope Markkanen enter SMP F4". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 1 March 2016.

External links

• Official website