2001 Euro Formula 3000 Championship

2001 Euro Formula 3000

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2001 International Formula 3000 Championship
2001 Formula Nippon Championship

The 2001 Euro Formula 3000 Championship was contested over 8 rounds. 11 different teams, 30 different drivers competed. All teams raced with Lola T96/50 chassis with Zytek engines. Future Formula One driver Felipe Massa took the title.

Entries

Team	No.	Driver	Rounds
ADM Motorsport	1	Vítor Meira	All
	2	"Babalus"	1-3
		Gabriele Varano	4-6
		Sergey Zlobin	8
Sighinolfi Autoracing	5	Salvatore Tavano	All
	6	Alessandro Piccolo	All
GP Racing	9	Thomas Biagi	All
	10	Gabriele Gardel	All
Great Wall Racing Team	11	Massimiliano Busnelli	All
	12	Valerio Scassellati	All
Martello Racing	14	Etienne van der Linde	1-6
		Tomas Scheckter	8
	15	Jean de Pourtales	1-7
Durango	16	Michele Spoldi	1-7
		Gabriele de Bono	8
	17	Marco Cioci	All
Draco Junior Team	18	Luca Vacis	All
	19	Felipe Massa	All
Team Ghinzani	20	Alexander Müller	All
	21	Armin Pörnbacher	All
Fortec Motorsport	24	Polo Villaamil	1-5
		Tsuyoshi Takahashi	6
	25	Michael Bentwood	All
Uboldi Corse	26	Davide Uboldi	1-3, 6
		Yannick Schroeder	4-5
		Michele Spoldi	8
	27	Leonardo Nienkötter	All
B&C Competition	28	Sascha Bert	1-2
		Giuseppe Burlotti	3
		Giovanni Montanari	4-8
	29	Romain Dumas	1-5
		Yannick Schroeder	6-7

Calendar

Round	Circuit/Location	Date	Laps	Distance	Time	Speed
1	ACI Vallelunga Circuit	22 April	44	3.228=142.032 km	0'49:05.454	173.595 km/h
2	Autodromo di Pergusa	6 May	29	4.950=143.55 km	0'45:25.500	189.609 km/h
3	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	24 June	25	5.793=144.825 km	0'44:18.209	196.136 km/h
4	Donington Park	12 August	36	4.023=144.828 km	0'52:49.068	164.522 km/h
5	Circuit Zolder	19 August	35	4.194=146.79 km	0'50:33.479	174.204 km/h
6	Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola	26 August	29	4.933=143.057 km	0'50:04.560	171.408 km/h
7	Nürburgring	16 September	31	4.556=141.236 km	0'52:04.674	162.721 km/h
8	Circuit de Valencia	7 October	35	4.051=141.785 km	0'51:27.597	165.315 km/h

Calendar

Round	Circuit/Location	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winner	Winning Team
1	ACI Vallelunga Circuit	Felipe Massa	Felipe Massa	Felipe Massa	Draco Junior Team
2	Autodromo di Pergusa	Felipe Massa	Alessandro Piccolo	Felipe Massa	Draco Junior Team
3	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	Thomas Biagi	Felipe Massa	Felipe Massa	Draco Junior Team
4	Donington Park	Thomas Biagi	Alexander Müller	Thomas Biagi	GP Racing
5	Circuit Zolder	Felipe Massa	Thomas Biagi	Salvatore Tavano	Sighinolfi Autoracing
6	Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola	Felipe Massa	Felipe Massa	Felipe Massa	Draco Junior Team
7	Nürburgring	Felipe Massa	Felipe Massa	Felipe Massa	Draco Junior Team
8	Circuit de Valencia	Felipe Massa	Felipe Massa	Felipe Massa	Draco Junior Team

Championships standings

Pos Driver VLL PER MNZ DON ZOL IMO NÜR VAL Pts 1 Felipe Massa 1 1 1 8 Ret 1 1 1 60 2 Thomas Biagi 2 3 Ret 1 4 2 Ret 4 32 3 Alexander Müller 9 4 2 4 3 3 2 12 26 4 Salvatore Tavano 5 5 7 2 1 DNS Ret Ret 20 5 Vítor Meira Ret Ret DNS Ret 2 5 3 3 16 6 Alessandro Piccolo 3 2 Ret Ret 5 14 4 Ret 15 7 Romain Dumas 6 Ret 3 5 14 2 13 8 Polo Villaamil 4 14 4 Ret 15 Ret 6 9 Gabriele Gardel 13 Ret 5 Ret 7 6 Ret 5 5 10 Etienne van der Linde 11 Ret 8 3 9 Ret 4 11 Massimiliano Busnelli Ret 7 Ret Ret 6 4 Ret 14 4 12 Michael Bentwood Ret 6 11 Ret 10 12 5 7 3 13 Luca Vacis Ret 11 6 Ret 12 15 8 8 1 14 Giovanni Montanari 6 Ret Ret Ret Ret 1 15 Yannick Schroeder Ret 8 9 6 1 16 Marco Cioci 8 8 Ret 7 Ret Ret Ret 6 1 - Leonardo Nienkotter 12 Ret Ret Ret 11 7 7 9 0 - "Babalus" 7 9 9 0 - Valerio Scassellati 18† 13 10 9 13 8 9 10 0 - Armin Pornbacher 10 15 Ret 10 Ret Ret Ret 11 0 - Michele Spoldi 16 10 Ret Ret Ret 10 11 Ret 0 - Jean de Pourtales 15 Ret Ret Ret Ret 11 10 0 - Davide Uboldi 17† 12 Ret Ret 0 - Tsuyoshi Takahashi 13 0 - Sergey Zlobin 13 0 - Gabriele Varano Ret 16 Ret 0 - Sascha Bert 14 Ret 0 - Giuseppe Burlotti Ret 0 - Tomas Scheckter Ret 0 - Gabriele de Bono Ret 0 Pos Driver VLL PER MNZ DON ZOL IMO NÜR VAL 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)

• † — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.

See also

2001 International Formula 3000 season

External links

• Official Euroseries 3000 site Archived 2009-12-25 at the Wayback Machine