2017 F4 Spanish Championship
The 2017 F4 Spanish Championship was the second season of the Spanish F4 Championship. It was a multi-event motor racing championship for open wheel, formula racing cars regulated according to FIA Formula 4 regulations, taking place in Spain, France and Portugal. The championship featured drivers competing in 1.4 litre Tatuus-Abarth single seat race cars that conformed to the technical regulations for the championship. The series was organised by Koiranen GP and RFEDA.
MP Motorsport driver Christian Lundgaard won the drivers' championship after winning in the finale at Estoril.[1] While his team successfully defended teams' title. Aleksandr Smolyar finished as runner-up to Lundgaard, winning more races than him, but Smolyar wasn't consistent as Lundgaard and lost by 36 points. The only other winner was another MP driver Bent Viscaal, who was victorious at Nogaro and Estoril and completed the top-three in the driver standings. Javier González, Guillem Pujeu, Tuomas Haapalainen and Lukas Dunner visited a podium step and shared places in top-eight in the driver standings. While Marta García, who finished ninth, was the only woman in the championship and the only competitor in the Female driver trophy, which she received at the end of the season.
Entry list
| Team | No. | Driver | Rounds |
|---|---|---|---|
 Drivex School[2] |
4 | Javier Cobián[2] |
1 |
| 58 |  Javier González[3] |
2–7 | |
| 88 |  Ivan Berets[2] |
1–5 | |
| 99 | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Jakes Caouette[2] |
All | |
 MP Motorsport[4] |
5 |  Christian Lundgaard[5] |
All |
| 8 |  Lukas Dunner[4] |
All | |
| 12 | Bent Viscaal[4] |
All | |
| 17 |  Nazim Azman[3] |
2–7 | |
| 19 | Marta García[6] F |
All | |
| SMP Racing[2] |
7 | Nikita Volegov[2] |
All |
| 10 | Aleksandr Smolyar[2] |
All | |
| 22 |  Sami-Matti Trogen[2] |
1–5 | |
| 32 | Tuomas Haapalainen[2] |
1–2, 4–7 | |
| 50 | Juuso Puhakka[2] |
1 | |
| 77 | Konsta Lappalainen[2] |
4 | |
| FA Racing Team[7] |
18 | Guillem Pujeu[7] |
All |
| 21 | Xavier Lloveras[7] |
1 | |
| Kart in Club Driving Academy[8] |
50 | Juuso Puhakka[8] |
5 |
| 69 | Jesse Salmenautio[8] |
5, 7 | |
| 77 | Konsta Lappalainen[8] |
5–7 |
Race calendar and results
The provisional calendar was announced on 17 April 2017[9] and officially confirmed the 24 May 2017.[10] The opening round in Alcañiz was in the support of the 2017 World Series Formula V8 3.5 while other round were stand-alone.
Championship standings
Drivers' championship
Points were awarded to the top 10 classified finishers in each race. No points were awarded for pole position or fastest lap.
| Races | Position, points per race | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | |
| Races 1 & 3 | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Race 2 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | ||
Female Trophy F
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Teams' championship
Points were awarded to the best 2 classified of each team.
| Pos | Driver | ALC |
NAV1 |
CAT |
JER |
NAV2 |
NOG |
EST |
Pts | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MP Motorsport |
1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 619 |
| 7 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | |||
| 2 | SMP Racing |
2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 486 |
| 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | |||
| 3 | Drivex School |
8 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 198 |
| 9 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 9 | Ret | 12 | 12 | 13 | Ret | 11 | |||
| 4 | FA Racing |
5 | 7 | 5 | DSQ | 9 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 14† | 10 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 140 |
| 6 | Ret | 13† | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Kart in Club Driving Academy |
9 | 11 | 12 | Ret | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 16 | |||||||||||
| 13 | 13 | 14 | 12 | 11 | 10 | |||||||||||||||||
References
- Waring, Bethonie (12 November 2017). "Christian Lundgaard seals Spanish F4 title with victory in final race". formulascout.com. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
- "F4 ESPAÑA REVELA SUS PILOTOS 2017! (Spanish F4 reveals its 2017 drivers!)". 21 June 2017. Archived from the original on 27 June 2017. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
- "Navarra, Round 2: Preview". 1 September 2017. Archived from the original on September 2, 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
- "MP Motorsport voor nieuw F4-seizoen met vier talenten in zee". 9 March 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
- "First free practices of the season completed". 23 June 2017. Archived from the original on 2 September 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
- "MARTA GARCIA, RENAULT SPORT ACADEMY DRIVER IN 2017 SPANISH F4". 31 March 2017. Archived from the original on 1 April 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- "FA RACING TEAM JOINS F4 SPANISH CHAMPIONSHIP". 16 December 2016. Archived from the original on 19 December 2016. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
- "Lundgaard's show in Navarra - Day 1". 14 October 2017. Archived from the original on 15 October 2017. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
- "La Fórmula 4 española presenta su calendario provisional para la temporada 2017 (Spanish Formula 4 presents its provisional calendar for the 2017 season)". 17 April 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
- "2017 FIA F4 Spain Calendar is official". Archived from the original on 7 June 2017. Retrieved 24 May 2017.