The 2013 Formula Renault 3.5 Series season was a multi-event motor racing championship for open wheel , formula racing cars held across Europe . The championship features drivers competing in 3.5 litre Formula Renault single seat race cars that conform to the technical regulations for the championship. The 2013 season was the ninth Formula Renault 3.5 Series season organized by the Renault Sport . The season began at Monza Circuit on 6 April and finished on 20 October at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya . The series formed part of the World Series by Renault meetings at seven double header events with double header event at Monza and single event at Monaco.
The championship battle was between McLaren junior programme drivers Kevin Magnussen and Stoffel Vandoorne . Magnussen clinched the championship title with a race to spare,[ 1] António Félix da Costa improved to the third place in the drivers' standings. Nico Müller , Marco Sørensen and Carlos Huertas were the only other winners outside the top three.
Icon Meaning R Series rookie for 2013
Following a part-time campaign with Tech 1 Racing , Daniel Abt joined the GP2 Series with ART Grand Prix . Mikhail Aleshin switched from Team RFR to Tech 1 Racing .[ 3] Jules Bianchi left Tech 1 Racing to race in Formula One with Marussia .Sam Bird , who finished third in 2012, left ISR to join Russian Time in the GP2 Series.Yann Cunha left Pons Racing to join AV Formula .[ 33] Pietro Fantin graduated from the British Formula 3 to join Formula Renault, where he races for Arden Caterham .[ 6] After losing his seat in DAMS ,[ 17] [ 18] Lucas Foresti joined at Comtec Racing .[ 14] Vittorio Ghirelli , who raced with Comtec Racing moved to Auto GP .[ 34] Walter Grubmüller left P1 Motorsport after three consecutive seasons.Carlos Huertas moved from Fortec to Carlin , the team he raced for in the 2011 British Formula 3 Championship .[ 12] Jazeman Jaafar entered the Formula Renault series with Carlin , the team he placed second with in the 2012 British Formula Three championship.[ 13] Kevin Korjus , who contested the 2012 season with Tech 1 Racing and Lotus , moved to the GP3 Series with Koiranen GP .[ 35] Matias Laine moved from the GP3 Series to race in Formula Renault 3.5 for P1 Motorsport .[ 21] Kevin Magnussen joined DAMS after racing for Carlin in 2012 .[ 18] Mihai Marinescu , who finished fifth in the 2012 FIA Formula Two Championship , signed with the Zeta Corse team.[ 23] Nick Yelloly for the Monaco round of the championship,[ 27] [ 36] After one season with BVM Target , Nikolay Martsenko switched to Pons Racing .[ 31] Nigel Melker , who competed in the GP2 Series in 2012 , joined Tech 1 Racing .[ 4] Daniil Move switched from P1 Motorsport to SMP Racing by Comtec .[ 14] Formula Renault 2.0 Alps runner-up Norman Nato joined DAMS .[ 17] Arthur Pic switched from DAMS to AV Formula.[ 33] After two years without a drive, Emmanuel Piget made his return to motor racing with Zeta Corse.[ 23] After competing part-time in 2012 , César Ramos , Davide Rigon and Daniel Zampieri all moved to the Blancpain Endurance Series , with the three of them co-driving the #44 Kessel Racing car. Jake Rosenzweig left the series after 3 years, instead doing a season in GP2 with Barwa Addax .Alexander Rossi , who contested the 2012 season with Arden Caterham , left the series, concentrating on his Caterham F1 reserve driver duties.[ 37] Sergey Sirotkin , who raced in the Auto GP World Series and Italian Formula Three in 2012 and contested at Moscow Formula Renault 3.5 Series round with BVM Target, stepped up to the series with ISR .[ 9] After contesting the first three rounds of 2012 before injury, Richie Stanaway moved to the Porsche Supercup . Will Stevens signed with P1 Motorsport after a season with Carlin.[ 20] Marlon Stöckinger joined Lotus after racing in GP3 Series.[ 11] After competing in the last three rounds of the 2012 season , Aaro Vainio left Formula Renault to concentrate on GP3 . Stoffel Vandoorne , the reigning Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 champion, moved into the Formula Renault 3.5 Series, racing for Fortec Motorsports .[ 7] Giovanni Venturini moved to the GP3 Series full-time.Oliver Webb , who competed in Indy Lights in 2012, returned to the series with Fortec Motorsports.[ 8] Christopher Zanella , who finished third in the 2012 FIA Formula Two Championship signed with ISR team.[ 10] Former Formula Renault 3.5 driver Adrián Vallés returned to the category as team owner of AV Formula .[ 32] BVM Target was demoted from racing team to reserve team when series organisers released a provisional entry list in November 2012. The team was divided into two entries; Zeta Management and MT Motorsport, which was previously known as the Max Travin Racing Team.[ 32] Zeta Corse and registered as an Italian team.[ 22] Team RFR —previously known as KMP Racing—left the series after the 2012 season .[ 32] Race calendar and results [ edit ] The calendar for the 2013 season was announced on 20 October 2012, the day before the end of the 2012 season.[ 38] 2013 World Series by Renault season , with additional rounds in support of the Superstars Series at Monza , and the 2013 Monaco Grand Prix . The championship visited the Red Bull Ring for the first time and returned to Monza. The Nürburgring and Silverstone have been removed from the schedule.
Championship standings [ edit ] [ edit ] 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 – PoleItalics – Fastest Lap
[ edit ] Pos Team Car MNZ ALC MON SPA MSC RBR HUN LEC CAT Points 1 DAMS 19 10 6 5 20 Ret 15 15 13 10 Ret 10 15 11 18 9 Ret 5 307 20 2 2 1 9 4 1 3 11 2 3 3 2 2 DSQ 1 1 1 2 Fortec Motorsports 5 1 3 8 3 9 13 1 1 1 Ret Ret 4 3 2 Ret 3 2 241 6 4 9 11 17 11 12 9 9 7 DNS 16 16 10 13 22 10 10 3 International Draco Racing 17 11 13 Ret 8 12 7 Ret 6 6 9 11 21 † 6 3 11 12 Ret 194 18 13 5 Ret 5 1 Ret 5 7 4 13 8 1 5 10 2 Ret 4 4 Arden Caterham 3 Ret 1 13 7 5 2 4 2 Ret 7 Ret Ret 1 1 3 4 13 186 4 Ret 7 Ret 18 Ret 16 12 18 8 Ret 9 Ret 14 11 20 9 20 5 Tech 1 Racing 1 15 14 10 11 8 14 Ret 16 5 Ret 18 5 13 17† 6 Ret 14 169 2 5 11 6 6 17 3 6 3 15 2 2 6 4 Ret 4 Ret 8 6 21 18 Ret 2 4 7 Ret 2 4 3 4 6 8 Ret 5 13 2 3 157 22 9 Ret 16 14 19 17 11 15 21 Ret 15 10 15 Ret 16 7 16 7 Lotus 9 19 18 9 10 2 5 10 10 17 1 1 12 9 4 5 Ret 7 136 10 14 12 19 DNS Ret 20 17 8 12 8 7 13 7 15 10 Ret 9 8 ISR 7 Ret 19† 4 2 22 18 8 Ret 11 Ret 4 3 12 [ N 3] Ret Ret Ret 86 8 3 8 7 Ret Ret 11 13 22 23 16 14 Ret 19 Ret 19 Ret 11 9 AV Formula 27 6 4 3 Ret 10 4 Ret 12 16 5 20 9 Ret 6 7 Ret Ret 74 28 Ret 15 15 13 18 Ret Ret 19 Ret 15 21 Ret 21 Ret Ret Ret 19 10 Zeta Corse 23 8 10 Ret Ret 6 Ret 18† 5 20 6 5 Ret 16 8 8 5 Ret 73 24 17 17 22 22† 14 21 14 20 18 Ret Ret 7 22 16† Ret Ret 6 11 Carlin 11 16 16 20 1 15 10 Ret 15 19 Ret Ret 17 8 Ret 18 Ret 18 54 12 7 Ret 18 12 3 9 19† Ret 13 10 13 20 20 14 14 [ N 4] 12 Pons Racing 25 12 20 17 19 20 19 16 21 22 11 19† 19 18 12 15 6 12 28 26 Ret Ret 12 21 21 6 7 Ret 14 Ret Ret 11 Ret 7 12 13 17 13 SMP Racing by Comtec 15 Ret NC 21 15 13 8 Ret 17 9 14 17 18 Ret 9 21 8 Ret 12 16 Ret Ret 14 16 16 22 Ret Ret DNS 12 21† 14 17 Ret 17 11 15 Pos Team Car MNZ ALC MON SPA MSC RBR HUN LEC CAT Points
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)
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Zanella's ISR team-mate Sergey Sirotkin is set to be absent until Sunday morning's qualifying while he makes his F1 debut with Sauber at a demonstration run in Sochi.
World Series by Nissan Formula Renault V6 Eurocup Formula Renault 3.5 Series World Series Formula V8 3.5
Monza Circuit 
Stoffel Vandoorne 
Will Stevens 
António Félix da Costa 
Arthur Pic 
Ciudad del Motor de Aragón, Alcañiz 
Kevin Magnussen 
Sergey Sirotkin 
Carlos Huertas 
Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo 
Nico Müller 
Nigel Melker 
Jazeman Jaafar 
Lucas Foresti 
Red Bull Ring, Spielberg 
Lotus 
Hungaroring, Budapest