Auto GP
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| Category | Single seaters |
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| Region | Europe |
| Inaugural season | 1999 |
| Folded | 2016 |
| Drivers | 9 |
| Teams | 5 |
| Constructors | Lola |
| Engine suppliers | Zytek |
| Tyre suppliers | Kumho Tires[1] |
| Last Drivers' champion | Mexico Luis Michael Dörrbecker |
| Last Teams' champion | Italy Torino Squadra Corse |
Auto GP, sometimes referred to as the Auto GP World Series and formerly known as both Euro Formula 3000 and the Euroseries 3000, was a European formula racing series.
The series' roots can be traced back to 1999 and the Italian Formula 3000 series, organised by Pierluigi Corbari, which used old Lola chassis with Zytek engines. The teams used the Lola T96/50 in the first two years. At the beginning nearly all races were held in Italy, but very quickly the series expanded and had venues in different European countries.
The series became European Formula 3000 in 2001. The next three years (2001–2003) saw the Lola B99/50 in use. For 2004, Superfund became the series' title sponsor, planning to use a new car with a new set of regulations, named Formula Superfund, but the funding was pulled before the 2005 season got under way and the series was cancelled.
For 2005, Coloni Motorsport established an Italian national-level championship, using the Italian Formula 3000 name. In 2006, Coloni expanded this to form a new European championship named Euroseries 3000 with the Lola B02/50. The Italian series continued to run as part of Euroseries races.
In 2009, the organisers announced that the first-generation A1 Grand Prix Lola B05/52 were allowed alongside the Lola F3000 chassis, replacing the old cars completely from 2010.[2]
The championship itself was rebranded for the 2010 season, with it adopting the Auto GP name. As well as that, the championship offered a €200,000 prize fund at each of its six rounds.[3]
2015 marked the start of the Auto GP World Series working with ISRA, a company from the Netherlands who set up the 2014 FA1 Series, this partnership, however, has not lasted long with the Auto GP Organisation announcing at Round 1 (of the 2015 season) that the two companies have parted ways. The 2015 season was "archived" midway through the season and midway through the 2016 season the series merged with the BOSS GP series.
Results
[edit | edit source]Formula 3000 era
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Auto GP
[edit | edit source]| Season | Champion | Second | Third | Team Champion | Secondary Class Champion |
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| 2010 |  Romain Grosjean
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Italy Edoardo Piscopo | United Kingdom Duncan Tappy | DAMS
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U21: Adrien Tambay
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| 2011 | Italy Kevin Ceccon | Italy Luca Filippi | Russia Sergey Afanasyev | DAMS
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U21: Italy Kevin Ceccon |
| Auto GP World Series | |||||
| 2012 | United Kingdom Adrian Quaife-Hobbs | Norway Pål Varhaug | Russia Sergey Sirotkin | United Kingdom Super Nova International | U21: United Kingdom Adrian Quaife-Hobbs |
| Auto GP | |||||
| 2013 | Italy Vittorio Ghirelli | Japan Kimiya Sato | Italy Sergio Campana | United Kingdom Super Nova International | U21: Italy Vittorio Ghirelli |
| 2014 | Japan Kimiya Sato | Hungary Tamás Pál Kiss | Germany Markus Pommer | United Kingdom Super Nova International | not awarded |
| 2015 | cancelled | ||||
| Auto GP Formula Open Championship | |||||
| 2016 | Mexico Luis Michael Dörrbecker | India Mahaveer Raghunathan | Switzerland Christof von Grünigen | Italy Torino Squadra Corse | not awarded |
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Scoring system
[edit | edit source]Current system
[edit | edit source]Teams only score from their two highest placed cars. 48 points is the maximum possible haul for one driver in a race weekend.
| 2012 Auto GP points system[4][5] | ||||||||||||
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| Race | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | Pole position | Fastest lap |
| R1 | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| R2 | 20 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
Previous points systems
[edit | edit source]| Previous Auto GP points systems | |||||||||||||
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| Years | Race | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | Pole position | Fastest lap |
| 2011 | R1 | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| R2 | 18 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 2006–2010 | R1 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| R2 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| 2005 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 1999–2004 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
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