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 will finish 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]

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 Vladimir 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	R1	Circuit Park Zandvoort, Zandvoort	14 May	Richard Verschoor	Jarno Opmeer	Tuomas Tujula	Pinksterraces
	R2		15 May		Aleksandr Vartanyan	Jarno Opmeer
	R3			Richard Verschoor	Tuomas Tujula	Jarno Opmeer
3	R1	Circuit Park Zandvoort, Zandvoort	4 June	Richard Verschoor	Jarno Opmeer	Jarno Opmeer	Max Verstappen Fan Days
	R2		5 June		Juho Valtanen	Jarno Opmeer
	R3			Richard Verschoor	Richard Verschoor	Richard Verschoor
4	R1	Moscow Raceway, Volokolamsk	23 July	Richard Verschoor	Aleksey Korneev	Richard Verschoor	Russian Circuit Racing Series
	R2		24 July		Richard Verschoor	Richard Verschoor
	R3			Richard Verschoor	Richard Verschoor	Richard Verschoor
5	R1	Moscow Raceway, Volokolamsk	20 August	Richard Verschoor	Xavier Lloveras	Richard Verschoor	Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters
	R2		21 August		Richard Verschoor	Richard Verschoor
	R3			Richard Verschoor	Richard Verschoor	Richard Verschoor
6	R1	Anderstorp Raceway, Anderstorp	3 September	Jarno Opmeer	Richard Verschoor	Richard Verschoor
	R2		4 September		Jarno Opmeer	Richard Verschoor
	R3			Jarno Opmeer	Richard Verschoor	Richard Verschoor
7	R1	Ahvenisto Race Circuit, Hämeenlinna	10 September	Jarno Opmeer	Aleksandr Vartanyan	Jarno Opmeer	Rata-SM
	R2		11 September		Richard Verschoor	Jarno Opmeer
	R3			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.

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 Vladimir 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 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 2nd place Bronze 3rd 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 participate (DNP) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

References

External links

• Official website