The Protyre 2012 Formula Renault BARC season was a multi-event
motor racing
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championship for
open wheel
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,
formula racing cars held across
England
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. The championship featured a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded drivers competing in
2 litre Formula Renault single seat race cars that conform to the technical regulations for the championship. The 2012 season was the 18th
Formula Renault BARC Championship; the season began at
Snetterton 200 on 7 April and ended on 7 October at
Silverstone, after fourteen races, all held in
England
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.
Following a second-place finish in the final race at Silverstone,
Scott Malvern
Scott Aaron Malvern (born 23 February 1989) is a British racing driver, currently competing in the British GT Championship who is best known for winning the 2011 British Formula Ford Championship, the 2012 Formula Renault BARC championship and ...
secured the championship title after achieving three victories during the season and eleven podiums in total, driving for Cliff Dempsey Racing in the opening half of the season and Cullen Motorsport thereafter. MGR Motorsport driver
Josh Webster
Josh Webster (born 6 February 1994 in Chelmsford) is a British auto racing driver.
Career
2013 saw Josh drive in the GP3 Series where he finished the season in 28th place scoring no points, with his best finish a pair of 16th places at his h ...
finished the season as runner-up for the second consecutive year; although he won five races – tied for most wins in the season along with
Fortec Motorsport
Fortec Motorsport Ltd. is a motor-racing team that races in the GB3 Championship. The team was bought in 1995 by current owner Richard Dutton.
Past drivers for the team include Juan Pablo Montoya, Gianmaria Bruni, Danny Watts, Jamie Green, ...
's
Seb Morris
Sebastian "Seb" Morris (born 30 November 1995) is a professional racing driver from Marford, who lives in Chester, Cheshire. He won the 2017 British GT Championship. He also won the 2017 Sunoco Challenge which gave him the prize drive in the Num ...
– during the campaign, a less consistent finishing record allowed Malvern to take the title by 33 points via dropped scores. Morris was third at the end of the season, having started half of the season's races from pole position in his first year in the series having graduated from
Ginetta Juniors. The only other race winner was Webster's team-mate David Wagner, who finished fourth in the championship.
Teams and drivers
Race calendar and results
The series will form part of the
BARC club racing meetings and will expand to fourteen rounds at six events, with two triple header events. A provisional calendar was released on 10 November 2011, with the final round still to be confirmed. This first provisional calendar showed
Snetterton
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and
Brands Hatch
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as the season opening triple headers. A revised provisional calendar was released on 2 December 2011, adding
Silverstone as the final round, in support of the
British Touring Car Championship
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. The round at Brands Hatch was replaced in favour of a round at
Thruxton. The calendar also had major date changes, with the triple header events moved to Snetterton, and
Donington Park.
Championship standings
A driver's best 13 scores counted towards the championship, with any other points being discarded.
Formula Renault BARC Winter Series
The 2012
Protyre Formula Renault BARC Winter Series with
Michelin will be the 15th
British Formula Renault Winter Series and the first season without the Formula Renault 2.0 UK championship, making this the first BARC championship only winter series. The series will commence at
Brands Hatch
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on 20–21 October and end at
Rockingham on 10 November, after four races at two rounds held in
England
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.
Teams and drivers
The series organisers announced a 19 car grid on 18 October 2012, for the opening round of the winter series, with more cars expected for the
Rockingham round.
Race calendar and results
The calendar was announced by the championship organisers on 7 September 2012, with the first round at
Brands Hatch
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in support of the
British Touring Car Championship
The Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship is a touring car racing series held each year in the United Kingdom, currently organised and administered by TOCA. It was established in 1958 as the British Saloon Car Championship and was renamed as ...
.
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Championship standings
References
External links
The official website of the Formula Renault BARC Championship
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