The 2014–2015
MRF Challenge
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Formula 2000 Championship was the third running of the MRF Challenge Formula 2000 Championship. The championship commenced on 17 October 2014 in
Losail International Circuit
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,
Qatar
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and finished on 25 January 2015 in
Madras Motor Racing Track,
India
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. The series consisted of 12 races, spread across 3 meetings.
With four victories – two at Losail and two in Madras – and top-five finishes in every race,
Toby Sowery
Toby Sowery (born 30 June 1996 in Melbourn) is a British racing driver who currently competes in the GT World Challenge Endurance Cup for Paradine Motorsport. He also previously competed in the IndyCar Series for Dale Coyne Racing in the No. ...
finished the season as champion. Sowery finished 47 points clear of his next closest competitor
Ryan Cullen
Ryan Cullen (born 26 March 1991) is an Irish Auto racing, racing driver currently competing in the 2024 European Le Mans Series, European Le Mans Series for Vector Sport.
Early career
Cullen first drove in the 2012 British Formula Ford season, ...
, who was a three-time race winner, winning a pair of races in
Bahrain
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and one in Madras. Third place in the championship went to the best placed home driver
Raj Bharath, who was a race winner at Losail; he finished 26 points in arrears of Cullen. Four other drivers won races during the season; Tarun Reddy won the other race to be held at Losail, Struan Moore and
Mathias Lauda
Mathias Lauda (born 30 January 1981) is an Austrian racing driver notable for winning the 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship for Aston Martin Racing in the LMGTE Am category. He is the son of the late three-time Formula One world champion Niki ...
each won races in Bahrain, and Oscar King won the season's final race, in Madras.
Drivers
Freddie Hunt, son of
Formula One
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champion
James Hunt
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and
Mathias Lauda
Mathias Lauda (born 30 January 1981) is an Austrian racing driver notable for winning the 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship for Aston Martin Racing in the LMGTE Am category. He is the son of the late three-time Formula One world champion Niki ...
, son of , and Formula One champion
Niki Lauda
Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda (22 February 1949 – 20 May 2019) was an Austrian racing driver, motorsport executive and aviation entrepreneur, who competed in Formula One from to and from to . Lauda won three Formula One World Drivers' Champ ...
both competed in the series.
Race calendar and results
The second round in Bahrain was held in support of the
FIA World Endurance Championship
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.
Championship standings
References
External links
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2014–2015
MRF Challenge
MRF Challenge is an open-wheel motorsport formula
In science, a formula is a concise way of expressing information symbolically, as in a mathematical formula or a ''chemical formula''. The informal use of the term ''formula'' in science r ...
MRF Challenge
MRF Challenge is an open-wheel motorsport formula
In science, a formula is a concise way of expressing information symbolically, as in a mathematical formula or a ''chemical formula''. The informal use of the term ''formula'' in science r ...
MRF Challenge
MRF Challenge is an open-wheel motorsport formula
In science, a formula is a concise way of expressing information symbolically, as in a mathematical formula or a ''chemical formula''. The informal use of the term ''formula'' in science r ...
MRF Challenge
MRF Challenge is an open-wheel motorsport formula
In science, a formula is a concise way of expressing information symbolically, as in a mathematical formula or a ''chemical formula''. The informal use of the term ''formula'' in science r ...
MRF Challenge
MRF Challenge is an open-wheel motorsport formula
In science, a formula is a concise way of expressing information symbolically, as in a mathematical formula or a ''chemical formula''. The informal use of the term ''formula'' in science r ...