The 2011 Formula Pilota China season is the first season of the newly created

Formula Pilota China Formula Masters China, FMCS () (previously known as Formula Pilota China), was a single-seater racing series based in Asia. The series was created in 2011 after the success of the Formula Abarth championship that was created a year before. Event ...

series, which ran on regulations based on

Formula Abarth Formula Abarth was an open wheel racing series based in Italy and Europe aimed at karting graduates. The inaugural season was in 2010, effectively replacing the Formula Azzurra. Abarth have taken over the supporting Project Youth initiative, tha ...

. The championship began on 3 July at

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and was finished on 27 November at

Sepang Pekan Sepang is a small border town and also a mukim in Sepang District, Selangor, Malaysia. The Sepang International Circuit in the western part of the town, where the Malaysian F1 Grand Prix was and Malaysian MotoGP Grand Prix is held. Mal ...

after twelve races held at six meetings. Also series had non-championship round that held on 3 December at Sepang. 9 teams fielded 26 drivers during the whole tour. Swiss-French driver, who participated under Czech racing license

Mathéo Tuscher Mathéo Tuscher (born 12 December 1996 in Noville) is a Swiss- French former professional racing driver. Career Karting Tuscher began karting in 2004 and raced primarily in his native Switzerland for the majority of his career, winning Swiss K ...

became the first Formula Pilota China Champion with 189 points after scoring nine podium finishes from twelve races with eight wins. His nearest competitor, Luis Sá Silva, took two wins during the whole season and managed second overall with 124 points. Third place went to Indonesian driver

Dustin Sofyan Dustin Sofyan (born 29 July 1994) is an Indonesian racing driver. Career Karting He won third place in the Asian Karting Open Championship - ROK Junior 2006. Asian series Sofyan began his car racing career in his native continent, competing i ...

, who also took Best Asian Driver Trophy.

Teams and drivers

* All cars are FPT-engined

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chassis.

Race calendar and results

The series' provisional schedule was released on 3 March 2011. Latterly, the calendar was almost totally revised. Rounds in

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was dropped in favor of Shanghai Tianma, also series had non-championship round at

Standings

*Points were awarded as follows: ‡ Round at Sepang was non-championship, no points awarded.
Only eleven best results were count towards the year-end standings.

Teams and drivers

Race calendar and results

Standings

Best Asian Driver Trophy

References

External links