The 2013 Formula Renault 3.5 Series season was a multi-event

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championship for

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, formula racing cars held across

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. The championship features drivers competing in 3.5 litre Formula Renault single seat race cars that conform to the technical regulations for the championship. The 2013 season was the ninth

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season organized by the

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. The season began at

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on 6 April and finished on 20 October at

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. The series formed part of the

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meetings at seven double header events with double header event at Monza and single event at Monaco. The championship battle was between

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junior programme drivers

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and Stoffel Vandoorne. Magnussen clinched the championship title with a race to spare, and ultimately finished sixty points ahead of Vandoorne. Despite having less wins than in 2012, António Félix da Costa improved to the third place in the drivers' standings. Nico Müller,

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and Carlos Huertas were the only other winners outside the top three.

Teams and drivers

Driver changes

* Following a part-time campaign with Tech 1 Racing, Daniel Abt joined the GP2 Series with ART Grand Prix. *

Mikhail Aleshin Mikhail Petrovich Aleshin ( rus, Михаи́л Петро́вич Алёшин, p=mʲɪxɐˈil pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ɐˈlʲɵʂɨn, born 22 May 1987 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Russian professional racing driver and the 2010 champion of the For ...

switched from Team RFR to Tech 1 Racing. * Jules Bianchi left Tech 1 Racing to race in

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with Marussia. *

Sam Bird Sam Jamie Bird (born 9 January 1987) is a British professional racing driver who currently drives for Jaguar TCS Racing in the FIA Formula E World Championship. Career Formula BMW Bird made his name in single seater racing in the Formula BM ...

, who finished third in 2012, left

ISR ISR may refer to: Organizations * Institute for Strategy and Reconciliation, a think tank, relief and development organization * Institutional and Scientific Relations, a Directorate of the European Commission * International Star Registry, a com ...

to join

Russian Time Russian Time (previously known as RT Russian Time) was a Russian motor racing team founded by Igor Mazepa to compete in the GP2 Series, a category of open-wheel racing cars designed to prepare drivers for Formula One. From 2015 to 2018, the team ...

in the GP2 Series. *

Yann Cunha Yann Cunha (born 22 January 1991) is a Brazilian racing driver. Career Karting Yann Cunha began his career kart racing. In November 2010 Yann, teamed up with pilots Luiz Cordeiro and Lu Boesel, won the famous 500 miles kart race in Granja Viana ...

left Pons Racing to join AV Formula. *

Pietro Fantin Pietro Fantin (born 28 November 1991 in Curitiba) is a Brazilian racing driver. Career Fantin began his racing career in karting, where he remained until 2009. In 2010 he began his formula racing career. For Hitech Racing Brazil he participated ...

graduated from the

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to join Formula Renault, where he races for

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Caterham. * After losing his seat in DAMS,

Lucas Foresti Lucas Constantino Bethonico Foresti (born 12 May 1992) is a Brazilian racing driver who currently competes in Stock Car Brasil for KTF Sports. Career Karting After a previous career in junior motocross, Foresti made his karting debut at Brasíli ...

joined at

Comtec Racing Comtec Racing is a motor racing team based in the United Kingdom. It competes in three championships — Formula Renault, World Series by Renault and the Auto GP World Series. History The team started out in Formula Ford from the ashes of ...

. * Vittorio Ghirelli, who raced with

moved to

Auto GP Auto GP, sometimes referred to as the Auto GP World Series and formerly known as both Euro Formula 3000 and the Euroseries 3000, was a European formula racing series. The series' roots can be traced back to 1999 and the Italian Formula 3000 serie ...

. *

Walter Grubmüller Walter Grubmüller (born 13 January 1989 in Vienna) is an Austrian racing driver. Career Karting Beginning his karting career in his native Austria in 2000, Grubmüller did not move up into the major international series until 2002, with an ap ...

left P1 Motorsport after three consecutive seasons. * Carlos Huertas moved from Fortec to Carlin, the team he raced for in the

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British Formula 3 Championship. *

Jazeman Jaafar Jazeman Firhan bin Jaafar (born 13 November 1992) is a Malaysian racing driver. Career Karting Jazeman started his career at a tender age of 6 in Shah Alam, Malaysia. A hobby which turned to a full time career, Jazeman has won a total Eleve ...

entered the Formula Renault series with Carlin, the team he placed second with in the

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British Formula Three championship. * Kevin Korjus, who contested the 2012 season with Tech 1 Racing and

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, moved to the GP3 Series with Koiranen GP. *

Matias Laine Matias Laine (born 25 April 1990 in Joensuu) is a Finnish racing driver. Career Karting Laine began his motorsport career in karting in 2003, finishing as runner-up in the Finnish Raket Cup Championship. In 2005 he won the Finnish Championship ...

moved from the GP3 Series to race in Formula Renault 3.5 for P1 Motorsport. *

joined DAMS after racing for Carlin in

. *

Mihai Marinescu Mihai Marinescu (born 25 January 1989 in Brașov, Romania) is a professional Romanian racing driver formerly competing in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series. He currently works as a race engineer for Jenzer Motorsport. Career Formula Junior & Form ...

, who finished fifth in the

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, signed with the

Zeta Corse Zeta Corse was a Russian motor racing team, who formerly operated in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series. History In January 2013, was announced that Giancarlo Zampieri (father of Daniel Zampieri) bought BVM - Target Racing Formula Renault 3.5 Series ...

team. After being replaced by Nick Yelloly for the Monaco round of the championship, Marinescu returned to the team for the race at Spa-Francorchamps. * After one season with BVM Target,

Nikolay Martsenko Nikolay Yuryevich Martsenko (russian: Никола́й Ю́рьевич Ма́рценко, , born 25 May 1993) is a racing car driver from Russia. Career Early career Born in Krasnoyarsk, Martsenko started his racing career at the age of elev ...

switched to Pons Racing. *

Nigel Melker Nigel Melker (born 25 January 1991) is a Dutch racing driver. Career Karting Melker was born in Rotterdam. He began his motorsport career in karting in 2001, winning in the Dutch Mini Junior Cup. In 2005, he won the German Junior championship a ...

, who competed in the GP2 Series in

, joined Tech 1 Racing. *

Daniil Move Daniil Yuryevich Move ( rus, Дании́л Ю́рьевич Мове́ , p=dənʲɪˈil ˈjʉrʲjɪvʲɪtɕ mɐˈvʲɛ, born on 11 December 1985, in Moscow, Russia) is a Russian race car driver. Daniil holds the title "master of sport on interna ...

switched from P1 Motorsport to SMP Racing by Comtec. *

Formula Renault 2.0 Alps Formula Renault 2.0 Alps was a category of Formula Renault open-wheel racing, created by the merging of the Formula Renault 2.0 Middle European Championship (formerly known as Formula Renault 2.0 Switzerland) and Formula Renault 2.0 Italia. Ov ...

runner-up Norman Nato joined DAMS. * Arthur Pic switched from DAMS to AV Formula. * After two years without a drive,

Emmanuel Piget Emmanuel Piget (born February 25, 1984 in Cognac) is a French racing driver. In 2013 he starts in the Formula Renault 3.5. Career Piget began his racing career in karting in 1997. He competed in karting until 2000. 2001 und 2002 he took part in ...

made his return to motor racing with Zeta Corse. * After competing part-time in

, César Ramos, Davide Rigon and Daniel Zampieri all moved to the Blancpain Endurance Series, with the three of them co-driving the #44

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car. *

Jake Rosenzweig Jake Rosenzweig (born April 14, 1989 in London) is an English-born American racing driver. Career Karting Much of Rosenzweig's early karting career was contested in the United Kingdom, with him competing in Super 1 karting championships. In 200 ...

left the series after 3 years, instead doing a season in GP2 with

Barwa Addax Addax, or Barwa Addax was a Spanish motorsport team owned by the bank Addax Capital, which competed in the GP2, GP3 and GP2 Asia Series. Team history GP2 Series Barwa Addax was formed as a result of Alejandro Agag purchase of the Campos Rac ...

. * Alexander Rossi, who contested the 2012 season with

Caterham, left the series, concentrating on his Caterham F1 reserve driver duties. * Sergey Sirotkin, who raced in the

Auto GP World Series Auto GP, sometimes referred to as the Auto GP World Series and formerly known as both Euro Formula 3000 and the Euroseries 3000, was a European formula racing series. The series' roots can be traced back to 1999 and the Italian Formula 3000 serie ...

and

Italian Formula Three The Italian Formula Three Championship was the Formula Three racing competition in Italy. History Formula Three has traditionally been regarded as the first major stepping stone for F1 hopefuls - it is typically the first point in a driver's care ...

in 2012 and contested at Moscow Formula Renault 3.5 Series round with BVM Target, stepped up to the series with

. * After contesting the first three rounds of

before injury, Richie Stanaway moved to the Porsche Supercup. * Will Stevens signed with P1 Motorsport after a season with Carlin. * Marlon Stöckinger joined Lotus after racing in GP3 Series. * After competing in the last three rounds of the 2012 season, Aaro Vainio left Formula Renault to concentrate on GP3. * Stoffel Vandoorne, the reigning

Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 Formula Renault Eurocup was a Formula Renault motor racing championship. Eurocup raced only on European circuits. It served as a support series to the Formula 3.5 V8, Formula Renault 3.5 Series as part of the World Series by Renault from 2005 to ...

champion, moved into the Formula Renault 3.5 Series, racing for Fortec Motorsports. *

Giovanni Venturini Giovanni Venturini (born 9 November 1991 in Vicenza) is a professional racing driver from Italy. Career Formula 2000 Light Venturini began his Formula racing career in November 2008, racing in the Formula 2000 Light Italy Winter Trophy, where h ...

moved to the GP3 Series full-time. * Oliver Webb, who competed in Indy Lights in 2012, returned to the series with Fortec Motorsports. *

Christopher Zanella Christopher Zanella (born 21 October 1989) is a Swiss former racing driver. Career Formula Renault 2.0 Switzerland Zanella, born in Waldshut-Tiengen, began competing in formula racing with Formula Renault 2.0 Switzerland in 2007. In 2008 he w ...

, who finished third in the 2012 FIA Formula Two Championship signed with ISR team.

Mid-season changes

* FIA Formula Two runner-up

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 ...

replaced Emmanuel Piget at Zeta Corse after the first round. *

Carlos Sainz Jr. Carlos Sainz Vázquez de Castro (; born 1 September 1994), otherwise known as Carlos Sainz Jr. or simply Carlos Sainz, is a Formula One drivers from Spain, Spanish racing driver currently competing in Formula One for Scuderia Ferrari. He is th ...

joined Zeta Corse for the third round of the championship in

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, replacing Marinescu. Sainz races for the team again for the final three rounds. * After racing for

in 2012, Nick Yelloly moved to the GP3 Series with Carlin. Yelloly returned to Formula Renault for the Monaco round, replacing

at Zeta Corse. Marinescu returned for the Belgian and Russian rounds. At the

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, the seat was occupied by Italian Formula Three champion

Riccardo Agostini Riccardo Agostini (born 20 April 1994 in Padua) is an Italian racing driver. Career Karting Agostini began karting in 2000 and raced primarily in his native Italy for the majority of this part of career, working his way up from the junior rank ...

. * William Buller replaced Sainz, Jr. for the Moscow Raceway round.

Team changes

* Former Formula Renault 3.5 driver Adrián Vallés returned to the category as team owner of AV Formula. * BVM Target was demoted from racing team to reserve team when series organisers released a provisional entry list in November 2012. The team was divided into two entries; Zeta Management and MT Motorsport, which was previously known as the Max Travin Racing Team. The team was later accepted onto the grid under the name

and registered as an Italian team. * Team RFR—previously known as KMP Racing—left the series after the 2012 season.

Race calendar and results

The calendar for the 2013 season was announced on 20 October 2012, the day before the end of the 2012 season. Seven of the nine rounds formed meetings of the

2013 World Series by Renault season The 2013 World Series by Renault was the ninth season of Renault Sport's series of events, with four different championships racing under one banner. Consisting of the Formula Renault 3.5 Series, Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0, the Eurocup Mégane Tr ...

, with additional rounds in support of the Superstars Series at

Monza Monza (, ; lmo, label=Lombard language, Lombard, Monça, locally ; lat, Modoetia) is a city and ''comune'' on the River Lambro, a tributary of the Po River, Po in the Lombardy region of Italy, about north-northeast of Milan. It is the capit ...

, and the

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. The championship visited the

for the first time and returned to Monza. The

Nürburgring The is a 150,000 person capacity motorsports complex located in the town of Nürburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It features a Formula One, Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a long "North loop" track, built in the 1920s, around t ...

and

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have been removed from the schedule.

Championship standings

Drivers' Championship

Teams' Championship

* Polesitter for each race in bold. No points are awarded. * Driver who recorded fastest lap denoted in ''italics''. No points are awarded. * Driver who retired but was classified denoted by †.

Footnotes

References

External links

Renault–Sport official website
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