2004 Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup

The 2004 Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup season was the fourteenth Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season. The season began at Monza on 27 March and finished at Oschersleben on 18 September, after seventeen races.^[1]

American driver Scott Speed scored eight victories at Hockenheimring, Brno, Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Imola and Oschersleben during the season. He took the championship with a round to spare at the wheel of his Motopark Academy-run car, giving team based at Oschersleben their first Eurocup championship after double win on fellow circuit.^[2]^[3] Second place was not resolved until the final round, as Graff Racing's Simon Pagenaud and Jenzer Motorsport's Colin Fleming battled over the placing. Despite that Fleming was ahead of Pagenaud in both races of final round and scored more points, the French driver became runner-up.

JD Motorsport's Reinhard Kofler took fourth place with one victory at Valencia and took three further podium finishes to confirm fourth. Fleming's team-mate Pascal Kochem won race at Imola and completed the top-five.^[4] Cram Competition's Pastor Maldonado won both races in opening round at Monza on his way to eighth place. Other races were won by French drivers Patrick Pilet and Yann Clairay who completed the top-ten. Guest Formula Renault 2000 UK driver Mike Conway claimed win at Donington Park.^[5]

Teams and drivers

2004 Entry List^[6]
Team	No.	Driver name	Rounds
Cram Competition	1	Marcello Thomaz	1-3
	2	Salvador Durán	1-5, 7-9
	3	Pastor Maldonado	1-5, 7-9
	27	Davide Valsecchi	1-4, 7-8
Motopark Academy	4	Marc Walz	1-5
		Mike den Tandt	7
		Dominik Weigl	6, 9
	14	Dominik Weigl	5
	14	Junior Strous	1-5, 7-9
	5	Frank Kechele	1
	5	Matías Milla	9
	41	Scott Speed	All
Graff Racing	6	Jérôme d'Ambrosio	1-3, 7
	9	Julien Canal	All
	22	Johan Charpilienne	1-3
	23	Patrick Pilet	1, 3, 6-7, 9
	28	Simon Pagenaud	All
AR Motorsport	7	Paul Meijer	All
	8	Yelmer Buurman	1-4, 6-9
	20	Xavier Maassen	2, 4, 6-7, 9
Jenzer Motorsport	10	Pascal Kochem	All
	11	Michael Ammermüller	All
	12	Colin Fleming	All
Koiranen Motorsport	15	Mika Leirilaakso	All
Koiranen Motorsport	63	Miikka Honkanen	9
Tech 1 Racing	16	Franck Mailleux	1-3, 9
Tech 1 Racing	17	Ludovic Badey	1-3, 7
Lukoil Racing Team	18	Yuri Baiborodov	All
Lukoil Racing Team	19	Mikhail Aleshin	All
Team AKA	21	James Jakes	1-4, 6-7, 9
	40	Andrew Kirkaldy	7
	59	Juan Manuel Polar	9
JD Motorsport	24	Dominique Claessens	All
	25	Reinhard Kofler	All
	26	Patrick Rocha	1-7
SG Formula	29	Guillaume Moreau	1-3, 6-7
	36	Romain Grosjean	1-3, 7, 9
	37	Yann Clairay	1-3, 7, 9
	54	Pierre Ragues	7, 9
Euronova Racing	30	Luca Frigerio	1
	30	Gary Cester	4, 7
	31	Luca Filippi	1, 4, 7-9
	32	Vitaly Petrov	1, 4
Uboldi Corse	33	Luigi Ferrara	4, 8
	34	Giacomo Vargiu	2, 4
	35	Riccardo Cinti	1-4
	45	Massimo Torre	4
Green Racing	38	Ulric Amado de Carvalho	3, 7
	39	Malo Olivier	3
	39	Cedric Valdevit	7
Kern Motorsport	42	Bruno Rudolf Fechner	4, 9
Kern Motorsport	60	Kenny Weiss	9
Conrad Racing	43	Thomas Conrad	4
Böhm Motorsport	44	Marco Dürr	4
Fortec Motorsport	46	Mike Conway	6
	47	Stuart Hall	6
	52	Charles Hollings	6
Manor Motorsport	48	Patrick Hogan	6-7
	49	Josh Weber	6-7
	50	Paul di Resta	6-7
CD Sport	53	Jean-Francis Gagneraud	7
BVM Racing	55	Luca Persiani	8
	56	Frederico Muggia	8
	57	Andrea Ceccato	8
Bicar Racing	58	Cristian Corsini	8
SL Formula Racing	61	Pekka Saarinen	9
SL Formula Racing	62	Dima Raikhlin	9

Calendar

All races were part of LG Super Racing Weekends, that also included FIA GT Championship and Formula Renault V6 Eurocup.

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team
1	R1	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	27 March	Scott Speed	Pastor Maldonado	Pastor Maldonado	Cram Competition
1	R2	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	27 March	Scott Speed	Scott Speed	Pastor Maldonado	Cram Competition
2	R1	Circuit Ricardo Tormo, Valencia	17 April	Guillaume Moreau	Scott Speed	Simon Pagenaud	Graff Racing
2	R2	Circuit Ricardo Tormo, Valencia	17 April	Simon Pagenaud	Scott Speed	Reinhard Kofler	JD Motorsport
3	R1	Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours	1 May	Yann Clairay	Simon Pagenaud	Yann Clairay	SG Formula
3	R2	Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours	1 May	Simon Pagenaud	Simon Pagenaud	Simon Pagenaud	Graff Racing
4	R1	Hockenheimring	15 May	Scott Speed	Pascal Kochem	Scott Speed	Motopark Academy
4	R2	Hockenheimring	15 May	Colin Fleming	Colin Fleming	Scott Speed	Motopark Academy
5	R1	Masaryk Circuit, Brno	29 May	Scott Speed	Pascal Kochem	Scott Speed	Motopark Academy
5	R2	Masaryk Circuit, Brno	29 May	Scott Speed	Scott Speed	Scott Speed	Motopark Academy
6	R1	Donington Park	26 June	Scott Speed	Patrick Pilet	Patrick Pilet	Graff Racing
6	R2	Donington Park	26 June	Colin Fleming	Guillaume Moreau	Mike Conway	Fortec Motorsport
7		Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	31 July	Scott Speed	Scott Speed	Scott Speed	Motopark Academy
8	R1	Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola	4 September	Pascal Kochem	Pascal Kochem	Pascal Kochem	Jenzer Motorsport
8	R2	Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola	4 September	Pascal Kochem	Scott Speed	Scott Speed	Motopark Academy
9	R1	Motorsport Arena Oschersleben	18 September	Scott Speed	Pascal Kochem	Scott Speed	Motopark Academy
9	R2	Motorsport Arena Oschersleben	18 September	Scott Speed	Scott Speed	Scott Speed	Motopark Academy

Championship standings

Drivers

Points are awarded to the drivers as follows:

Position	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	PP
Points	30	24	20	16	12	10	8	6	4	2	2

Races : 2 races of 25 minutes by rounds.

Pos	Driver	MNZ		VAL		MAG		HOC		BRN		DON		SPA	IMO		OSC		Points
Pos	Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Points
1	Scott Speed	2	12	7	DSQ	7	3	1	1	1	1	4	7	1	2	1	1	1	370
2	Simon Pagenaud	10	4	1	Ret	4	1	3	2	5	2	5	9	7	6	Ret	6	4	246
3	Colin Fleming	24	5	8	8	2	Ret	6	Ret	4	3	3	Ret	2	3	2	3	5	222
4	Reinhard Kofler	21	3	6	1	11	5	Ret	4	3	6	10	5	5	5	3	8	9	202
5	Pascal Kochem	4	14	5	4	8	10	2	3	2	5	Ret	Ret	3	1	Ret	Ret	7	198
6	Paul Meijer	5	Ret	16	9	10	2	18	5	6	4	Ret	8	6	4	6	2	2	174
7	Guillaume Moreau	22	2	3	3	3	8					2	2	10					148
8	Pastor Maldonado	1	1	2	7	Ret	7	15	Ret	7	7			Ret	8	Ret	Ret	8	132
9	Patrick Pilet	13	8			5	4					1	4	24			7	10	102
10	Yann Clairay	8	21	9	2	1	17							Ret			4	Ret	82
11	Michael Ammermüller	17	6	15	Ret	15	6	9	Ret	8	8	9	12	8	7	9	12	Ret	64
12	Marc Walz	3	Ret	13	6	9	11	5	7	11	DNS								54
13	Dominique Claessens	16	9	24	12	Ret	22	8	6	10	9	DSQ	Ret	4	13	12	Ret	13	42
14	Romain Grosjean	7	Ret	10	13	6	24							25			5	22	32
15	Jérôme d'Ambrosio	25	Ret	4	5	13	14							15					28
16	Mikhail Aleshin	9	Ret	20	17	20	25	12	22	9	10	DSQ	6	14	12	Ret	11	15	28
17	Junior Strous	20	16	14	15	Ret	13	4	10			DSQ	13	9	Ret	11	19	11	26
18	Salvador Durán	6	18	22	18	Ret	19	16	13	14	12			13	9	8	Ret	16	20
19	Luigi Ferrara							19	12						11	4			16
20	Luca Filippi	12	Ret					23	14					18	15	5	Ret	12	14
21	Mika Leirilaakso	Ret	13	25	22	Ret	15	14	9	15	13	12	18	17	16	7	14	Ret	14
22	Patrick Rocha	32	Ret	18	15	18	9	Ret	8	12	15	13	11	Ret					14
23	James Jakes	18	15	27	19	Ret	12	11	16			8	21	11			13	14	10
24	Julien Canal	Ret	10	12	10	24	16	26	11	13	11	Ret	19	27	14	10	10	Ret	10
25	Marcello Thomaz	14	7	17	16	16	Ret												8
26	Bruno Rudolf Fechner							7	Ret								26	Ret	8
27	Yuri Baibodorov	23	22	Ret	21	Ret	Ret	17	Ret	16	14	15	10	16	18	17	25	21	6
28	Yelmer Buurman	26	19	23	14	19	Ret	13	19			11	20	12	Ret	14	21	18	4
29	Davide Valsecchi	11	Ret	Ret	Ret	17	26	21	18					19	10	13			2
30	Xavier Maassen			19	11			10	Ret			Ret	17	22			24	19	2
31	Vitaly Petrov	15	11					25	23										0
32	Franck Mailleux	31	Ret	11	24	21	20										Ret	Ret	0
33	Malo Olivier					12	DNS												0
34	Johan Charpelienne	30	Ret	21	Ret	14	Ret												0
35	Dominik Weigl									17	16	17	22				15	Ret	0
36	Cristian Corsini														17	15			0
37	Thomas Conrad							20	15										0
38	Luca Persiani														DNS	16			0
39	Pierre Ragues													Ret			18	17	0
40	Ludovic Badet	27	17	Ret	23	22	21							26					0
41	Marco Dürr							22	17										0
42	Andrea Ceccato														20	18			0
43	Ulric Amado de Carvalho					Ret	18							Ret					0
44	Frederico Muggia														19	19			0
45	Frank Kechele	19	Ret																0
46	Riccardo Cinti	29	20	26	20	23	23	Ret	DNS										0
47	Gary Cester							24	20					23					0
48	Kenny Weiss																20	Ret	0
49	Jean-Francis Gagneraud													20					0
50	Massimo Torre							Ret	21										0
51	Cédric Valdevit													21					0
52	Juan Manuel Polar																22	Ret	0
53	Miikka Honkanen																23	Ret	0
54	Giacomo Vargui			Ret	Ret			Ret	24										0
55	Luca Frigerio	28	Ret																0
	Andrew Kirkaldy													Ret					0
	Mike den Tandt													Ret					0
The following drivers are guest ineligible to final standing
	Mike Conway											7	1						-
	Paul di Resta											6	3	Ret					-
	Pekka Saarinen																9	3	-
	Matías Milla																17	6	-
	Stuart Hall											14	14						-
	Charles Hollings											Ret	15						-
	Dima Raikhlin																16	20	-
	Patrick Hogan											16	23	Ret					-
	Josh Weber											Ret	16	Ret					-
Pos	Driver	MNZ		VAL		MAG		HOC		BRN		DON		SPA	IMO		OSC		Points

Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	Second place
Bronze	Third place
Green	Points finish
Blue	Non-points finish
Blue	Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple	Retired (Ret)
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Red	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)

Teams

Pos	Team	Points
1	Motopark Academy	498
2	Jenzer Motorsport	490
3	Graff Racing	392
4	SG Formula	262
5	JD Motorsport	258
6	AR Motorsport	204
7	Cram Competition	164
8	SL Formula Racing	44
9	Lukoil Racing Team	32
10	Uboldi Corse	16
11	Koiranen Motorsport	14
12	Euronova Racing	12
13	Team AKA	10
14	Kern Motorsport	8
	BVM Racing	0
	CD Sport	0
	Tech 1 Racing	0
	Green Team	0
	Conrad Racing	0
	Böhm Motorsport	0

References

^ "Race Calendar: Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup — Season 2004". Speedsport Magazine. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
^ "FRENAULT: EU 2000: Imola race two summary, champion crowned". motorsport.com. 18 September 2004. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
^ "FRENAULT: EU 2000: Oschersleben race two summary". motorsport.com. 18 September 2004. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
^ "FRENAULT: EU 2000: Imola race one summary". motorsport.com. 5 September 2004. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
^ "FRENAULT: EU 2000: Donington race two notes". 27 June 2004. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
^ "Entrylist: Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup — Season 2004". Speedsport Magazine. Retrieved 11 March 2012.

[1] "Race Calendar: Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup — Season 2004". Speedsport Magazine. Retrieved 12 March 2012.

[2] "FRENAULT: EU 2000: Imola race two summary, champion crowned". motorsport.com. 18 September 2004. Retrieved 12 March 2012.

[3] "FRENAULT: EU 2000: Oschersleben race two summary". motorsport.com. 18 September 2004. Retrieved 12 March 2012.

[4] "FRENAULT: EU 2000: Imola race one summary". motorsport.com. 5 September 2004. Retrieved 12 March 2012.

[5] "FRENAULT: EU 2000: Donington race two notes". 27 June 2004. Retrieved 12 March 2012.

[6] "Entrylist: Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup — Season 2004". Speedsport Magazine. Retrieved 11 March 2012.

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