2018 GP3 Series

The 2018 GP3 Series was the ninth and final season of the second-tier of Formula One feeder championship and also ninth and final season under the moniker of GP3 Series, a motor racing feeder series that runs in support of the 2018 FIA Formula One World Championship and sister series Formula 2. This was the final contested season of GP3, as the series united with the FIA Formula 3 European Championship to form the FIA Formula 3 Championship.^[1]

2018 GP3 Series

Drivers' Champion: Anthoine Hubert
Teams' Champion: ART Grand Prix

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2017

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2019 (FIA F3)

Parent series:
Formula One World Championship
FIA Formula 2 Championship

Anthoine Hubert, the series champion.

ART Grand Prix successfully defended the teams' championship.

2018 was the final season that the Dallara GP3/16 chassis package—which débuted in the 2016 GP3 Series—was used in competition, as a brand new chassis package for the FIA Formula 3 Championship was introduced in 2019.

After finishing 3rd in the final feature race of the last season of GP3, Anthoine Hubert was crowned the 2018 GP3 Champion. ART successfully defended their teams' title over Trident after the first race at Sochi, winning the teams' title in eight of the nine seasons of GP3.^[2]

Runner-up Nikita Mazepin won 4 races; in Barcelona, Hungaroring, Spa-Francorchamps, and Yas Marina. After having four rounds with Jenzer Motorsport, David Beckmann moved to Trident before the summer break and took 3 race wins. Champion Anthoine Hubert, Callum Ilott, Leonardo Pulcini, and Pedro Piquet all won 2 races. Also, Giuliano Alesi won the second race in Spain, Jake Hughes won for the third time in the series at the Red Bull Ring, and Dorian Boccolacci, who drove for MP Motorsport before being promoted to their Formula 2 team won the sprint race at the Hungaroring.

Teams and drivers

All GP3 drivers competed in a Dallara GP3/16 chassis using a Mecachrome GP3 V6 engine and Pirelli P Zero and Cinturato tyres.^[3]

Team	No.	Driver name	Rounds
ART Grand Prix	1	Callum Ilott[4]	All
	2	Anthoine Hubert[5]	All
	3	Nikita Mazepin[6]	All
	4	Jake Hughes[7]	All
Trident	5	Pedro Piquet[8]	All
	6	Giuliano Alesi[9]	All
	7	Ryan Tveter[10]	All
	8	Alessio Lorandi[11]	1–4
		David Beckmann[12]	5–9
Jenzer Motorsport	9	Tatiana Calderón[13]	All
	10	Juan Manuel Correa[14]	All
	11	David Beckmann[15]	1–4
		Jannes Fittje[16]	5–9
Arden International	14	Gabriel Aubry[17]	All
	15	Julien Falchero[18]	1–7
		Sacha Fenestraz[19]	8–9
	16	Joey Mawson[20]	All
Campos Racing	18	Leonardo Pulcini[21]	All
	19	Simo Laaksonen[22]	All
	20	Diego Menchaca[23]	All
MP Motorsport	22	Dorian Boccolacci[24]	1–5
		Richard Verschoor[25]	6–9
	23	Will Palmer[26]	1
		Christian Lundgaard[27]	2
		Devlin DeFrancesco[28]	3–9
	24	Niko Kari[29]	1–7
		Jehan Daruvala[30]	9
Sources:[31][32]

Team changes

• DAMS left the championship after two years of competition. Their entry was taken by Formula 2 team MP Motorsport.^[32]

Driver changes

• Gabriel Aubry and Joey Mawson, who raced in 2017 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 and 2017 FIA Formula 3 European Championship respectively, made their series début with Arden International.^[17][20] They were joined by Julien Falchero, who switched from Campos Racing.^[18] Steijn Schothorst left the team and switched to sports car racing, joining 2018 Blancpain GT Series.^[33]
• Dorian Boccolacci and Niko Kari moved from Trident and Arden International respectively to MP Motorsport.^[24][29] They were joined by 2017 Formula Renault Eurocup runner-up Will Palmer.^[26]
• Tatiana Calderón moved from DAMS to Jenzer Motorsport.^[13] She was joined by 2017 FIA Formula 3 European Championship driver David Beckmann.^[15] Arjun Maini left the team to join the FIA Formula 2 Championship.^[34]
• 2017 FIA Formula 3 European Championship drivers Callum Ilott and Nikita Mazepin moved to the series, joining ART Grand Prix for the season.^[4][6] Under the series regulations, reigning GP3 Series champion George Russell could not compete in the championship again and left the series along with Jack Aitken and Nirei Fukuzumi and joined Formula 2.^[35][36] Fukuzumi will also contest the 2018 Super Formula Championship.^[37]
• Simo Laaksonen continued his collaboration with Campos Racing after his campaign with the team in the 2017 Euroformula Open Championship.^[22] He was partnered by Leonardo Pulcini and Diego Menchaca, who reignited their partnership with Campos after a season with Arden in 2017 and 2017 World Series Formula V8 3.5 respectively.^[21][23] Raoul Hyman and Marcos Siebert both left the team. Siebert later joined Campos in the 2018 Euroformula Open Championship.^[38]
• Alessio Lorandi, who raced with Jenzer Motorsport switched to race with Trident.^[11] He was joined by former FIA Formula 3 European Championship driver Pedro Piquet.^[8]

Midseason changes

• Formula Renault Eurocup race-winner Christian Lundgaard joined MP Motorsport for a one-off entry at Paul Ricard, replacing Will Palmer.^[27] Lundgaard was replaced by FIA Formula 3 European Championship driver Devlin DeFrancesco for the rest of the season.^[28]
• Jannes Fittje replaced David Beckmann in Jenzer Motorsport after Beckmann parted ways with the team prior Hungaroring round.^[16] Beckmann filled Alessio Lorandi's slot in Trident, while Lorandi moved to Trident's FIA Formula 2 Championship team ahead of the Hungaroring round, replacing Santino Ferrucci.^[12]
• Richard Verschoor replaced Dorian Boccolacci for the Spa-Francorchamps round, as the French driver joined MP's FIA Formula 2 team, to replace Roberto Merhi. Niko Kari was also promoted to Formula 2 with MP Motorsport before the Sochi round.^[39] Jehan Daruvala took Kari's seat for the Abu Dhabi round.^[30]
• Sacha Fenestraz replaced Julien Falchero for Arden International ahead of the Sochi Autodrom round.^[19]

Calendar

The following nine rounds took place as part of the 2018 championship. Each round consisted of two races, a longer race 1 and a shorter race 2:

Round	Circuit	Race 1	Race 2	Supporting
1	Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Barcelona	12 May	13 May	Spanish Grand Prix
2	Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet	23 June	24 June	French Grand Prix
3	Red Bull Ring, Spielberg	30 June	1 July	Austrian Grand Prix
4	Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone	7 July	8 July	British Grand Prix
5	Hungaroring, Budapest	28 July	29 July	Hungarian Grand Prix
6	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Francorchamps	25 August	26 August	Belgian Grand Prix
7	Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza	1 September	2 September	Italian Grand Prix
8	Sochi Autodrom, Sochi	29 September	30 September	Russian Grand Prix
9	Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi	24 November	25 November	Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
Source:[40]

Calendar changes

• The championship will expand to nine rounds in 2018.^[40]
• The championship will return to the Sochi Autodrom, running in support of the Russian Grand Prix.^[40] The series last visited the circuit in 2015.
• The championship will make its début at the Circuit Paul Ricard, running in support of the French Grand Prix.^[40]
• The stand-alone event run at the Jerez Circuit in 2017 was discontinued.^[40]

Results

Season summary

Round		Circuit	Pole position	Fastest lap[41]	Winning driver	Winning team	Report
1	R1	Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya	Leonardo Pulcini	Anthoine Hubert	Nikita Mazepin	ART Grand Prix	Report
	R2			Giuliano Alesi	Giuliano Alesi	Trident
2	R1	Circuit Paul Ricard	Dorian Boccolacci	Anthoine Hubert	Anthoine Hubert[a]	ART Grand Prix	Report
	R2			Anthoine Hubert	Callum Ilott	ART Grand Prix
3	R1	Red Bull Ring	Callum Ilott	Leonardo Pulcini	Callum Ilott	ART Grand Prix	Report
	R2			Leonardo Pulcini	Jake Hughes	ART Grand Prix
4	R1	Silverstone Circuit	Anthoine Hubert	Callum Ilott	Anthoine Hubert	ART Grand Prix	Report
	R2			Callum Ilott	Pedro Piquet	Trident
5	R1	Hungaroring	Anthoine Hubert	Nikita Mazepin	Nikita Mazepin	ART Grand Prix	Report
	R2			Joey Mawson[b]	Dorian Boccolacci	MP Motorsport
6	R1	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	David Beckmann	Anthoine Hubert	David Beckmann	Trident	Report
	R2			Nikita Mazepin	Nikita Mazepin	ART Grand Prix
7	R1	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	David Beckmann	Juan Manuel Correa[c]	David Beckmann	Trident	Report
	R2			Nikita Mazepin	Pedro Piquet	Trident
8	R1	Sochi Autodrom	Leonardo Pulcini[d]	Nikita Mazepin	Leonardo Pulcini	Campos Racing	Report
	R2			Jake Hughes[e]	David Beckmann	Trident
9	R1	Yas Marina Circuit	Nikita Mazepin	Nikita Mazepin	Leonardo Pulcini	Campos Racing	Report
	R2			Jehan Daruvala[f]	Nikita Mazepin	ART Grand Prix
Source:[42]

Championship standings

Scoring system

Points were awarded to the top 10 classified finishers in the race 1, and to the top 8 classified finishers in the race 2. The pole-sitter in the race 1 also received four points, and two points were given to the driver who set the fastest lap inside the top ten in both the race 1 and race 2. No extra points were awarded to the pole-sitter in the race 2.^[43]

Race 1 points

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	Pole	FL
Points	25	18	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1	4	2

Race 2 points

Points were awarded to the top 8 classified finishers.^[43]

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	FL
Points	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1	2

Drivers' championship

Pos. Driver CAT LEC RBR SIL HUN SPA MNZ SOC YMC Points R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 1 Anthoine Hubert 2 2 1 7 17 9 1 4 3 3 3 2 2 DSQ 3 4 3 Ret 214 2 Nikita Mazepin 1 10 2 5 13 7 2 7 1 12 5 1 5 3 2 Ret 5 1 198 3 Callum Ilott 3 7 8 1 1 6 3 5 6 2 6 3 3 DSQ 13 18 4 4 167 4 Leonardo Pulcini 4 9 4 8 2 3 6 6 2 4 15 Ret 14 7 1 8 1 12 156 5 David Beckmann 6 17 18 10 8 Ret 14 Ret 4 7 1 Ret 1 5 5 1 2 Ret 137 6 Pedro Piquet 9 Ret 6 2 4 2 7 1 12 9 4 5 7 1 15 11 12 Ret 106 7 Giuliano Alesi 7 1 3 6 6 Ret 8 2 17† 16 9 6 6 2 14 17 6 10 100 8 Jake Hughes 13 3 10 17 5 1 Ret 8 16 14 7 4 9 4 7 16 7 2 85 9 Ryan Tveter 17 14 11 9 7 Ret 4 3 5 6 2 8 11 16 18 9 11 5 69 10 Dorian Boccolacci 5 5 DSQ 14 10 5 5 9 8 1 58 11 Alessio Lorandi 11 16 5 4 3 4 10 12 42 12 Juan Manuel Correa 8 4 9 12 19 13 Ret 15 7 5 11 10 17 Ret 9 5 8 6 42 13 Joey Mawson 16 15 7 3 Ret 10 9 13 Ret 18 8 17† 12 12 8 2 20 9 38 14 Simo Laaksonen 15 8 13 11 9 15 13 16 14 11 12 13 4 8 6 14 9 3 36 15 Richard Verschoor 17 7 8 9 4 3 14 7 30 16 Tatiana Calderón Ret Ret 17 16 12 12 Ret 10 11 8 10 9 15 6 10 7 10 8 11 17 Niko Kari Ret 6 DSQ Ret 11 8 11 Ret Ret Ret 14 12 10 10 6 18 Gabriel Aubry 12 Ret 15 Ret 16 Ret Ret Ret 10 13 13 11 Ret Ret 11 6 15 14 5 19 Diego Menchaca 10 12 14 Ret 14 16 12 11 9 10 19 16 Ret 14 Ret 15 18 16 3 20 Jannes Fittje 13 17 20 15 16 11 12 10 13 Ret 0 21 Devlin DeFrancesco 18† 11 15 14 WD WD 18 Ret 13 15 17 12 17 11 0 22 Julien Falchero 14 11 16 15 15 14 Ret Ret 15 15 16 14 Ret 13 0 23 Christian Lundgaard 12 13 0 24 Sacha Fenestraz 16 13 16 15 0 25 Will Palmer 18 13 0 26 Jehan Daruvala 19 13 0 Pos. Driver R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 Points CAT LEC RBR SIL HUN SPA MNZ SOC YMC Sources:[43][44]

Key Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Other points position Blue Other classified position Not classified, finished (NC) Purple Not classified, retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Excluded (EX) Did not arrive (DNA) Withdrawn (WD) Text formatting Meaning Bold Pole position point(s) Italics Fastest lap point(s) Rookie

Notes:

• † — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.

Teams' championship

Only three best-finishing cars are allowed to score points in the championship.^[45]

Pos. Team CAT LEC RBR SIL HUN SPA MNZ SOC YMC Points R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 1 ART Grand Prix 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 2 3 1 2 3 2 4 3 1 640 2 3 2 5 5 6 2 5 3 3 5 2 3 4 3 16 4 2 3 7 8 7 13 7 3 7 6 12 6 3 5 DSQ 7 18 5 4 2 Trident 7 1 3 2 3 2 4 1 4 7 1 5 1 1 5 1 2 5 433 9 14 5 4 4 4 7 2 5 8 2 6 6 2 14 9 8 10 11 16 6 6 6 Ret 8 3 12 9 4 8 7 5 15 11 11 Ret 3 Campos Racing 4 8 4 8 2 3 6 6 2 4 12 13 4 7 1 8 1 3 195 10 9 13 11 9 15 12 11 9 10 15 16 14 8 6 14 9 16 15 12 14 Ret 14 16 13 16 14 11 19 Ret Ret 14 Ret 15 18 Ret 4 MP Motorsport 5 5 12 13 10 5 5 9 8 1 14 7 8 9 4 3 14 7 94 18 6 DSQ 14 11 8 11 14 Ret Ret 17 12 10 10 17 12 17 11 Ret 13 DSQ Ret 18† 11 15 Ret WD WD 18 Ret 13 15 DNP DNP 19 13 5 Jenzer Motorsport 6 4 9 10 8 12 14 10 7 5 10 9 15 6 9 5 8 6 65 8 17 17 12 12 13 Ret 15 11 8 11 10 16 11 10 7 10 8 Ret Ret 19 16 19 Ret Ret Ret 13 17 20 15 17 Ret 12 10 13 Ret 6 Arden International 12 11 7 3 15 10 9 13 10 13 8 11 12 12 8 2 15 9 43 14 15 15 15 16 14 Ret Ret 15 15 13 14 Ret 13 11 6 16 14 16 Ret 16 Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret 18 16 17 Ret Ret 16 13 20 15 Pos. Team R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 Points CAT LEC RBR SIL HUN SPA MNZ SOC YMC Sources:[43][44]

Key Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Other points position Blue Other classified position Not classified, finished (NC) Purple Not classified, retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Excluded (EX) Did not arrive (DNA) Withdrawn (WD) Text formatting Meaning Bold Pole position point(s) Italics Fastest lap point(s)

Notes:

• † — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.

Notes

1. MP Motorsport driver Dorian Boccolacci won the race but was later disqualified for a technical infringement.
2. Joey Mawson set the fastest lap, but did not finish in the top 10, so was ineligible to be the point-scorer for the fastest lap. Dorian Boccolacci was the point-scorer instead for setting the fastest lap of those finishing in the top 10.
3. Juan Manuel Correa set the fastest lap, but did not finish in the top 10, so was ineligible to be the point-scorer for the fastest lap. David Beckmann was the point-scorer instead for setting the fastest lap of those finishing in the top 10.
4. Nikita Mazepin originally qualified on pole for the Sochi feature race, but had his lap time deleted for track limits.
5. Jake Hughes set the fastest lap, but did not finish in the top 10, so was ineligible to be the point-scorer for the fastest lap. David Beckmann was the point-scorer instead for setting the fastest lap of those finishing in the top 10.
6. Jehan Daruvala set the fastest lap, but did not finish in the top 10, so was ineligible to be the point-scorer for the fastest lap. Ryan Tveter was the point-scorer instead for setting the fastest lap of those finishing in the top 10.