Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0
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Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 is a Formula Renault 2.0
Formula Renault
Formula Renault is a class of formula racing founded in 1971. It is popular in Europe and other countries. Regarded as an entry-level series to motor racing, it is a respected series where drivers can learn advanced racecraft before moving on to Formula Three, World Series by Renault, GP2 or...

 championship with a presence of many Formula Renault championships drivers. It serves as a support series to the Formula Renault 3.5 Series
World Series by Renault
The World Series by Renault, formerly the World Series by Nissan from 1998 to 2004, is a motor racing series. The series consists of the flagship Formula Renault 3.5 Series , the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 and the Eurocup Mégane Trophy...

 as part of the World Series by Renault.

Renault Sport
Renault Sport
Renault Sport Technologies is the France motorsport division of Renault. Renault Sport was responsible for Renault's sports car racing entries during the 1970s, including their win at the 1978 24 Hours of Le Mans race with the Renault Alpine A442.Actual Renault's Formula One team, Renault F1 in...

 offers a prize of 200,000 € to the winner of the Eurocup.

History

The series was established in 1991, as the "Rencontres Internationales de Formule Renault", before switching to the "Eurocup Formula Renault" name in 1993.

In 2000, renamed to Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup and Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup since 2005 used up to now, excludes the 2003 season named Formula Renault 2000 Masters.

Champions

Season Series Name Champion Team Champion
1991 Rencontres Internationales de Formule Renault   Jason Plato
Jason Plato
Timothy Jason Plato is a British racing car driver currently competing in the BTCC for Silverline Chevrolet. He is a two time BTCC champion having previously won the series in 2001 when driving for Vauxhall and 2010 for Silverline Chevrolet. He has finished in the top 3 in the championship 8 times...

  Duckhams Van Diemen
Van Diemen
Van Diemen International, Ltd. is a British race car manufacturer based in Snetterton, Norfolk, England.The company has a reputation for high-volume production runs of its cars, the most well-known of which is its series of Formula Ford chassis, which have been at the forefront of that class of...

1992 Rencontres Internationales de Formule Renault   Pedro de la Rosa
Pedro de la Rosa
Pedro Martínez de la Rosa is a Formula One driver who has participated in 87 Grands Prix for the Arrows, Jaguar, McLaren and Sauber teams, debuting on 7 March 1999, becoming one of very few drivers to score a point at his first race...

  Racing for Spain
1993 Eurocup Formula Renault   Olivier Couvreur
Olivier Couvreur
Olivier Couvreur is a French champion driver in the Formula Renault 2.0 West European Cup-External links:* http://www.driverdb.com/drivers/5481/...

  Synergie
1994 Eurocup Formula Renault   James Matthews
James Matthews (racing driver)
James Matthews is a British racing driver. He has competed in such series as the British Formula Three Championship. He won the British Formula Renault Championship in 1994 for Manor Motorsport. He followed that up by winning the Eurocup Formula Renault in the same year.-External links:*...

  Manor Motorsport
Manor Motorsport
Manor Motorsport is a British motor racing team that was formed in 1990 by former single-seater champion John Booth.Throughout its history the team primarily competed in Formula Renault, with past drivers including 2007 Formula One World Champion Kimi Räikkönen, 2008 F1 World Championship winner...

1995 Eurocup Formula Renault   Cyrille Sauvage
Cyrille Sauvage
Cyrille Sauvage is a French racing driver. He has competed in such series as International Formula 3000 and Porsche Supercup. He won both the Championnat de France Formule Renault and the Eurocup Formula Renault in 1995....

  Mygale
Mygale
Mygale is a French racing car constructor and contractor that specialises in the production of single seater chassis for use in formula racing. The company was established in 1989 by Bertrand Decoster and its factory is based in Magny Cours....

1996 Eurocup Formula Renault   Enrique Bernoldi
Enrique Bernoldi
Enrique Antônio Langue e Silvério de Bernoldi is a Brazilian racing driver who raced for the Arrows Formula One team...

  Tatuus JD Motorsport
JD Motorsport
JD Motorsport is an auto racing team based in Italy.-External links:*...

1997 Eurocup Formula Renault   Jeffrey van Hooydonk
Jeffrey van Hooydonk
Jeffrey van Hooydonk is a Belgian racing car driver.A native of Antwerp, Van Hooydonk began racing karts in 1990 and graduated to open-wheel racing five years later. For the next three seasons, he was successful in Formula Renault, winning the European Formula Super Renault championship in 1997...

  Tatuus JD Motorsport
JD Motorsport
JD Motorsport is an auto racing team based in Italy.-External links:*...

1998 Eurocup Formula Renault   Bruno Besson
Bruno Besson
Bruno Besson is a French racing driver. He has competed in such series as World Series by Nissan and the French Formula Three Championship. He won the Eurocup Formula Renault championship in 1998.-External links:...

  Tatuus JD Motorsport
JD Motorsport
JD Motorsport is an auto racing team based in Italy.-External links:*...

1999 Eurocup Formula Renault   Gianmaria Bruni
Gianmaria Bruni
Gianmaria "Gimmi" Bruni is an Italian racing driver who in 2004 drove in Formula One with the Minardi team, and is now racing in the Le Mans Series and Intercontinental Le Mans Cup....

  JD Motorsport
JD Motorsport
JD Motorsport is an auto racing team based in Italy.-External links:*...

2000 Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup   Felipe Massa
Felipe Massa
Felipe Massa is a Brazilian Formula One racing driver. He finished second in the Drivers' World Championship, and is under contract to race for Scuderia Ferrari until the end of the season.-Early years:...

  JD Motorsport
JD Motorsport
JD Motorsport is an auto racing team based in Italy.-External links:*...

2001
2001 Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup season
The 2001 Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup season was the eleventh Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season. The season began at Autodromo Nazionale Monza on March 30 and finished at the Autódromo do Estoril on November 4, after ten races. Augusto Farfus was crowned series champion.-Driver...

Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup   Augusto Farfus
Augusto Farfus
Augusto Farfus Jr. is a Brazilian auto racing driver. He presently lives in Monaco.- Early years :Farfus first tasted racing in minibike races and won the local championships in 1991....

  Prema Powerteam
Prema Powerteam
Prema Powerteam is a motorsports team from Italy. It currently operates in the World Series by Renault, but has also taken part in Formula Three Euroseries and Italian Formula 3. The team was founded in 1984. Also this team was a part of Toyota Driver Programme.-Formula Three Euroseries:-World...

2002
2002 Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup season
The 2002 Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup season was the twelfth Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season. The season began at Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours on April 20 and finished at the Autódromo do Estoril on October 19, after nine races. Eric Salignon was crowned series champion.-Driver...

Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup   Eric Salignon
Eric Salignon
- Formula Renault :A former two-time winner of the Monaco Kart Cup, Salignon moved into Formula Renault in 2000, competing in both the European and French championships. Solid campaigns in both championships enabled Salignon to finished 16th in his national championship, and one place lower in the...

  Graff Racing
Graff Racing
Graff Racing is an auto racing team based in France....

2003 Formula Renault 2000 Masters   Esteban Guerrieri
Esteban Guerrieri
Esteban Guerrieri is an Argentine racing driver.-Career:After graduating from karts, Guerrieri competed in various Formula Renault 2000 championships from 2001 to 2003...

  JD Motorsport
JD Motorsport
JD Motorsport is an auto racing team based in Italy.-External links:*...

2004
2004 Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup season
The 2004 Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup season was the fourteenth Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season.-Drivers:Points are awarded to the drivers as follows:...

Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup   Scott Speed
Scott Speed
Scott Andrew Speed is an American race car driver. Formerly a driver for the Scuderia Toro Rosso F1 team, he made his Formula One race debut at the 2006 Bahrain Grand Prix; becoming the first American to race in F1 since Michael Andretti in 1993...

  Motopark Academy
Motopark Academy
Motopark Academy is an auto racing team based in Oschersleben, Germany, next to the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben race track.-Single-seaters:The team have competed in open-wheel racing consistently since the start of the 21st century...

2005
2005 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season
The 2005 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season was the fifteenth Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season. The season began at Zolder on April 30 and finished at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza on October 22, after sixteen races. Kamui Kobayashi was crowned series champion.-Driver...

Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0   Kamui Kobayashi
Kamui Kobayashi
is a Japanese racing driver. He has competed in the GP2 Series, won the GP2 Asia Series, and made his Formula One debut with Toyota in the final two races of when he replaced Timo Glock after the German was injured in a crash during qualifying for the...

  SG Formula
SG Formula
SG Formula is a French auto racing team which participated in the junior categories of open wheel racing: Formula Renault and Formula Three. The team was founded in 2004 by Frenchman Stephane Guerin.-History:...

2006
2006 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season
The 2006 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season was the sixteenth Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season. The season began at Zolder on April 29 and finished at the Circuit de Catalunya on October 29, after fourteen rounds...

Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0   Filipe Albuquerque
Filipe Albuquerque
Filipe Miguel Delgadinho Albuquerque is a Portuguese race car driver, currently driving in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters.- Career :...

  JD Motorsport
JD Motorsport
JD Motorsport is an auto racing team based in Italy.-External links:*...

2007
2007 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season
The 2007 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season was the seventeenth Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season. The season began at Zolder on April 21 and finished at the Circuit de Catalunya on October 28, after fourteen rounds...

Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0   Brendon Hartley
Brendon Hartley
Brendon Hartley is a New Zealand race car driver.-Career:Hartley was born in a family well integrated within motorsport. His father, Bryan, had raced in many forms of motorsport, most notably Formula Atlantic. At the age of six, Hartley began his motor racing career in kart racing, following his...

  Epsilon RedBull
Epsilon Euskadi
EPIC Racing is a racing team from Spain, and a division of Spanish company Epsilon Euskadi. The team's headquarters are located in Azkoitia . It is the only major motorsport team from the Basque Country,...

2008
2008 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season
The 2008 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season was the eighteenth Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season. The season began at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps on May 3 and finished at the Circuit de Catalunya on October 19, after fourteen rounds...

Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0   Valtteri Bottas
Valtteri Bottas
Valtteri Bottas is a Finnish racing driver. He currently resides in Oxford, United Kingdom.-Career:Bottas won both the 2008 Formula Renault Eurocup and the 2008 Formula Renault Northern European Cup...

  SG Formula
SG Formula
SG Formula is a French auto racing team which participated in the junior categories of open wheel racing: Formula Renault and Formula Three. The team was founded in 2004 by Frenchman Stephane Guerin.-History:...

2009
2009 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season
The 2009 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season was the nineteenth Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season. The season began at Circuit de Catalunya on April 18 and finished at the Ciudad del Motor de Aragón on October 25, after fourteen rounds. This season was the last for the current specification Tatuus...

Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0   Albert Costa
Albert Costa (racing driver)
-Karting:Costa started his international karting career in 2004, in the Copa Campeones Trophy for ICA Junior class karts, finishing in seventh position. He continued in the same class in 2005, with the exception of the Copa Campeones Trophy, where he competed in the ICA class...

  Epsilon Euskadi
Epsilon Euskadi
EPIC Racing is a racing team from Spain, and a division of Spanish company Epsilon Euskadi. The team's headquarters are located in Azkoitia . It is the only major motorsport team from the Basque Country,...

2010
2010 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season
The 2010 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season was the 20th Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season. It began on 17 April at Motorland Aragon and ended on 10 October at Circuit de Catalunya after eight rounds and sixteen races....

Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0   Kevin Korjus
Kevin Korjus
-Karting:Korjus made his pan-European karting début in 2006, competing in the Rotax Max Euro Challenge for the AGS Racing team. He finished sixth overall in the championship standings, 25 points behind the champion Jack Hawksworth. As well as that, he finished thirteenth in the Challenge finals, as...

  Tech 1 Racing
2011
2011 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season
The 2011 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season was the 21st Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season. The season commenced on 16 April at Alcañiz and ended on 9 October at Barcelona. The season features seven double-header rounds, with each race lasting for a duration of 30 minutes...

Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0   Robin Frijns
Robin Frijns
Robin Frijns is a Dutch auto racing driver, but lives in Belgium.-Karting:Frijns has been an active kart racer in Belgium and France...

  Koiranen Motorsport

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