2004 International Formula 3000 Championship

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The 2004 International Formula 3000 season was the thirty-eight season of the second-tier of Formula One feeder championship and also twentieth and final season under the International Formula 3000 Championship moniker. It featured the 2004 FIA Formula 3000 International Championship, which was contested over ten rounds from 24 April to 11 September 2004.[1] Two titles were awarded, a Championship for Drivers and a Championship for Teams.[2] This was the final FIA Formula 3000 International Championship before it was replaced by the GP2 Series in 2005.

Vitantonio Liuzzi (pictured in 2007), won the final Formula 3000 championship

Drivers and teams

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The following drivers and teams contested the 2004 FIA Formula 3000 International Championship.

Team No. Driver Rounds
United Kingdom Arden International 1 Error creating thumbnail: Vitantonio Liuzzi All
2 Monaco Robert Doornbos[a] All
Error creating thumbnail: CMS Performance 3 Argentina José María López All
4 Austria Mathias Lauda All
Error creating thumbnail: Durango Corse 5 France Yannick Schroeder 1–8
Error creating thumbnail: Matteo Meneghello 9
Error creating thumbnail: Michele Rugolo 10
6 Brazil Rodrigo Ribeiro 1–4
Venezuela Ernesto Viso 5–10
Error creating thumbnail: Coloni Motorsport 7 Belgium Jeffrey van Hooydonk 1–4
Austria Patrick Friesacher 5–10
8 Turkey Can Artam 1–5, 7
Israel Chanoch Nissany 8–10
United Kingdom Super Nova Racing 9 Austria Patrick Friesacher 1–4
Belgium Jeffrey van Hooydonk 5–10
10 South Africa Alan van der Merwe 1–7
Turkey Can Artam 8–10
Belgium Team Astromega 11 Belgium Nico Verdonck 1–9
Error creating thumbnail: Raffaele Giammaria 10
12 Belgium Jan Heylen 1–4
Netherlands Olivier Tielemans 6–10
Spain BCN F3000 14 Error creating thumbnail: Enrico Toccacelo All
15 Argentina Esteban Guerrieri All
Germany Ma-Con Engineering 16 Germany Tony Schmidt All
17 Czech Republic Tomáš Enge All
Error creating thumbnail: AEZ Racing 18 Error creating thumbnail: Raffaele Giammaria 1–8
Error creating thumbnail: Matteo Grassotto 9–10
19 Error creating thumbnail: Ferdinando Monfardini All
Sources:[3][4]

All entries used Lola B02/50 chassis with Zytek-Judd KV engines and Avon tyres.[5]

Calendar

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Round [1] Circuit Date Distance Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning team Report
1 Error creating thumbnail: Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari 24 April 31 laps / 152.686 km Error creating thumbnail: Vitantonio Liuzzi Argentina José María López Error creating thumbnail: Vitantonio Liuzzi United Kingdom Arden International Report
2 Spain Circuit de Catalunya 8 May 33 laps / 152.565 km Error creating thumbnail: Enrico Toccacelo Error creating thumbnail: Vitantonio Liuzzi Error creating thumbnail: Vitantonio Liuzzi United Kingdom Arden International Report
3 Monaco Circuit de Monaco 22 May 45 laps / 150.3 km Error creating thumbnail: Vitantonio Liuzzi Czech Republic Tomáš Enge Error creating thumbnail: Vitantonio Liuzzi United Kingdom Arden International Report
4 Germany Nürburgring 29 May 30 laps / 154.423 km Error creating thumbnail: Vitantonio Liuzzi Argentina José María López Error creating thumbnail: Enrico Toccacelo Spain BCN Competicion Report
5 France Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours 3 July 35 laps / 154.201 km Error creating thumbnail: Vitantonio Liuzzi Error creating thumbnail: Vitantonio Liuzzi Error creating thumbnail: Vitantonio Liuzzi United Kingdom Arden International Report
6 United Kingdom Silverstone Circuit 10 July 30 laps / 154.125 km Error creating thumbnail: Vitantonio Liuzzi Czech Republic Tomáš Enge Error creating thumbnail: Vitantonio Liuzzi United Kingdom Arden International Report
7 Germany Hockenheimring 24 July 33 laps / 150.942 km Error creating thumbnail: Vitantonio Liuzzi Error creating thumbnail: Enrico Toccacelo Error creating thumbnail: Vitantonio Liuzzi United Kingdom Arden International Report
8 Hungary Hungaroring 14 August 35 laps / 153.440 km Error creating thumbnail: Vitantonio Liuzzi Czech Republic Tomáš Enge Austria Patrick Friesacher Error creating thumbnail: Coloni Motorsport Report
9 Belgium Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps 28 August 22 laps / 153.296 km Error creating thumbnail: Vitantonio Liuzzi Monaco Robert Doornbos Monaco Robert Doornbos United Kingdom Arden International Report
10 Error creating thumbnail: Autodromo Nazionale Monza 11 September 26 laps / 150.353 km Error creating thumbnail: Vitantonio Liuzzi Error creating thumbnail: Vitantonio Liuzzi Error creating thumbnail: Vitantonio Liuzzi United Kingdom Arden International Report
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Drivers' Championship

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Pos[2] Driver[2] IMO
Error creating thumbnail:
CAT
Spain
MON
Monaco
NÜR
Germany
MAG
France
SIL
United Kingdom
HOC
Germany
HUN
Hungary
SPA
Belgium
MNZ
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Points[2]
1 Error creating thumbnail: Vitantonio Liuzzi 1 1 1 11 1 1 1 2 2 1 86
2 Error creating thumbnail: Enrico Toccacelo 2 2 2 1 12 2 2 3 12 Ret 56
3 Monaco Robert Doornbos 3 14 6 2 5 10 4 7 1 3 44
4 Czech Republic Tomáš Enge 5 Ret 14 7 2 3 Ret 4 4 2 38
5 Austria Patrick Friesacher 9 4 5 Ret 3 5 DNS 1 5 Ret 33
6 Argentina José María López Ret 6 3 5 Ret 4 6 8 3 Ret 28
7 Argentina Esteban Guerrieri Ret 5 Ret 4 6 15 3 5 7 5 28
8 Error creating thumbnail: Raffaele Giammaria 4 3 4 6 Ret 6 Ret 10 4 27
9 France Yannick Schroeder 7 Ret 10 3 4 14 Ret Ret 13
10 Germany Tony Schmidt 10 11 14 7 7 5 11 6 Ret 11
11 Belgium Jeffrey van Hooydonk 6 Ret 7 8 13 Ret 9 9 9 7 8
12 Venezuela Ernesto Viso 8 11 7 6 10 8 7
13 Austria Mathias Lauda 12 7 Ret 10 Ret 13 Ret Ret 14 6 5
14 South Africa Alan van der Merwe 8 12 9 Ret 9 8 Ret 2
15 Belgium Nico Verdonck 15 9 12 12 11 12 8 12 11 1
16 Belgium Jan Heylen 11 11 8 9 1
17 Brazil Rodrigo Ribeiro 13 8 Ret 16 1
18 Error creating thumbnail: Matteo Grassotto 8 Ret 1
19 Turkey Can Artam Ret 10 Ret 13 Ret 10 14 13 9 0
20 Error creating thumbnail: Ferdinando Monfardini 14 13 13 15 10 9 Ret 13 16 14 0
21 Netherlands Olivier Tielemans Ret 12 15 Ret 11 0
22 Israel Chanoch Nissany Ret Ret 12 0
23 Error creating thumbnail: Matteo Meneghello 15 0
Error creating thumbnail: Michele Rugolo Ret 0
Pos Driver IMO
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CAT
Spain
MON
Monaco
NÜR
Germany
MAG
France
SIL
United Kingdom
HOC
Germany
HUN
Hungary
SPA
Belgium
MNZ
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Points
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Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver Second place
Bronze Third place
Green Points classification
Blue Non-points classification
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple Retired, not classified (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

  • Points towards the 2004 FIA Formula 3000 International Championship for Drivers were awarded on a 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis for the first eight places at each round.[2] The Sporting Regulations provided that if two or more drivers had the same number of points (including 0 points), their positions in the Championship was fixed according to the quality of their places. Under this system one first place was better than any number of second places, one second place was better than any number of third places, and so on.[2]
  • All drivers used Lola B02/50 chassis with Zytek-Judd KV engines and Avon tyres.[5]

Teams' Championship

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Position [2] Team [2] IMO Error creating thumbnail: CAT Spain MON Monaco NUR Germany MAG France SIL United Kingdom HOC Germany HUN Hungary SPA Belgium MNZ Error creating thumbnail: Points [2]
1 Arden International Ltd 16 10 13 8 14 10 15 10 18 16 130
2 BCN Competicion 8 12 8 15 3 8 14 10 2 4 84
3 Ma-Con Engineering 4 0 0 2 10 8 4 5 8 8 49
4 CMS Performance 0 5 6 4 0 5 3 1 6 3 33
5 Coloni Motorsport 3 0 2 1 6 4 0 10 4 0 30
6 AEZ I.E. Engineering 5 6 5 3 0 3 0 0 1 0 23
7 Durango 2 1 0 6 6 0 2 3 0 1 21
8 Super Nova Racing Ltd 1 5 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 13
9 Team Astromega 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 7
  • Points towards the 2004 FIA Formula 3000 International Championship for Teams were awarded on a 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis for the first eight places at each round.[2] The Sporting Regulations provided that if two or more teams had the same number of points (including 0 points), their positions in the Championship was fixed according to the quality of their places. Under this system one first place was better than any number of second places, one second place was better than any number of third places, and so on.[2]

Notes

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  1. ^ Doornbos is a Dutch driver who competed under a Monaco racing licence.

References

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  1. ^ a b 2004 Formula 3000 International Championship race results Archived 2012-06-04 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved from www.teamdan.com on 26 May 2010
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k 2004 Formula 3000 International Championship classifications Archived April 18, 2010, at the Wayback Machine Retrieved from www.fia.com on 26 May 2010
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  5. ^ a b Liuzzi is 2004 Champion Archived 2011-07-02 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved from www.motorsm.com on 26 May 2010
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Further reading

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  • Automobile Year, 2004/05, pages 230–234 + 254
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