2018 SMP F4 Championship

The 2018 SMP F4 Championship was the fourth season of the SMP F4 Championship. The series is also known as the FIA North-European Zone (NEZ) championship. Koiranen GP, despite creating Formula Academy Finland,^[1] continued as the promoter.^[2] The season started in Smolensk Ring on 5 May and finished in Assen Circuit on 21 October.^[3]

Champion Konsta Lappalainen won seven races, with runner-up Michael Belov and third-placed Isac Blomqvist taking five and three victories respectively.

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Team	No.	Driver	Rounds
MP Motorsport	1	Freek Schothorst^[4]	1
	12	Patrick Schott^[5]^{[N 1]}	1–4
	52	László Tóth	7
	64	Isac Blomqvist^[1]	All
	888	Amaury Cordeel^[6]^{[N 1]}	3–5, 7
SMP Racing	2	Pavel Bulantsev^[1]	All
	7	Nikita Volegov^[7]	2
	11	Aleksandr Vilaev^[8]	All
	16	Nikita Aleksandrov^[8]	All
	20	Ivan Berets^[1]	All
	21	Artem Lobanenko^[9]	All
	27	Ivan Shvetsov^[9]	All
	41	Aleksandr Vartanyan^[1]	3
		Denis Bulatov	4
		Irina Sidorkova	7
	57	Michael Belov^[9]	All
Formula Academy	3	Noah Watt	7
Kart In Club Driving Academy	10	Konsta Lappalainen^[10]	All
Kart In Club Driving Academy	69	Jesse Salmenautio^[10]	All
Jimi Hannus Racing	12	Jimi Hannus	6
Koiranen GP	32	Tuomas Haapalainen^[6]	3–5
	32	Mi Maijala	6
	56	Markus Laitala^[6]	3–6

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On 27 April 2018 the calendar was announced. For the first time of the existence of the championship Sochi Autodrom hadn't received a slot in the schedule. Circuit Zandvoort was replaced with a round at the Assen Circuit, whilst Autodrom Moscow and NRING Circuit were included to the calendar for the first time.^[3] Round 6 was originally scheduled to be held at Auto24ring on 15–16 September, but was rescheduled to take place at Alastaro Circuit on 22–23 September.^[11]

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Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team	Supporting
1	R1	Smolensk Ring, Safonovo	5 May	Isac Blomqvist	Isac Blomqvist	Isac Blomqvist	MP Motorsport	2018 Russian Circuit Racing Series
	R2		5 May		Konsta Lappalainen	Isac Blomqvist	MP Motorsport
	R3		6 May	Ivan Berets	Freek Schothorst	Ivan Berets	SMP Racing
2	R4	NRING Circuit, Bogorodsk	2 June	Konsta Lappalainen	Michael Belov	Michael Belov	SMP Racing
	R5		2 June		Isac Blomqvist	Pavel Bulantsev	SMP Racing
	R6		3 June	Michael Belov	Michael Belov	Michael Belov	SMP Racing
3	R7	Moscow Raceway, Volokolamsk	11 August	Konsta Lappalainen	Tuomas Haapalainen	Konsta Lappalainen	Kart In Club Driving Academy
	R8		11 August		Isac Blomqvist	Isac Blomqvist	MP Motorsport
	R9		12 August	Konsta Lappalainen	Aleksandr Vartanyan	Konsta Lappalainen	Kart In Club Driving Academy
4	R10	Autodrom Moscow, Myachkovo Airport	18 August	Konsta Lappalainen	Konsta Lappalainen	Konsta Lappalainen	Kart In Club Driving Academy	Mitjet Russian Cup IV
	R11		18 August		Konsta Lappalainen	Konsta Lappalainen	Kart In Club Driving Academy
	R12		19 August	Amaury Cordeel	Amaury Cordeel	Amaury Cordeel	MP Motorsport
5	R13	Ahvenisto Race Circuit, Hämeenlinna	1 September	Michael Belov	Konsta Lappalainen	Konsta Lappalainen	Kart In Club Driving Academy	Rata-SM
	R14		1 September		Pavel Bulantsev	Tuomas Haapalainen	Koiranen GP
	R15		2 September	Michael Belov	Michael Belov	Michael Belov	SMP Racing
6	R16	Alastaro Circuit, Loimaa	22 September	Pavel Bulantsev	Michael Belov	Konsta Lappalainen	Kart In Club Driving Academy	Rata-SM
	R17		22 September		Ivan Berets	Michael Belov	SMP Racing
	R18		23 September	Michael Belov	Michael Belov	Konsta Lappalainen	Kart In Club Driving Academy
7	R19	Assen Circuit, Assen	20 October	Ivan Berets	Michael Belov	Michael Belov	SMP Racing	Hankook Finaleraces
	R20		20 October		Amaury Cordeel	Amaury Cordeel	MP Motorsport
	R21		21 October	Ivan Berets	Michael Belov	Ivan Berets	SMP Racing

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Points were awarded to the top 10 classified finishers in each race. No points were awarded for pole position or fastest lap.

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Races	Position, points per race
Races	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
Races 1 & 3	25	18	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1
Race 2	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1

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Drivers' championship

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Pos	Driver	SMO			NRG			MSC			ADM			AHV			ALA			ASS			Pts
1	Konsta Lappalainen	6	2	2	5	Ret	5	1	3	1	1	1	2	1	4	3	1	2	1	Ret	2	2	316
2	Michael Belov	5	4	4	1	Ret	1	4	7	7	3	2	3	2	5	1	2	1	2	1	4	Ret	275
3	Isac Blomqvist	1	1	5	2	2	2	DSQ	1	3	6	7	5	Ret	7	5	7	3	Ret	3	Ret	5	201
4	Ivan Berets	2	12	1	4	5	6	3	6	5	9	9	6	Ret	6	6	3	6	3	7	3	1	195
5	Jesse Salmenautio	4	3	6	Ret	6	7	5	5	8	2	4	4	4	2	2	6	4	4	4	5	9	188
6	Ivan Shvetsov	7	7	Ret	3	3	4	7	8	4	8	8	7	7	10	7	4	5	5	6	7	6	133
7	Pavel Bulantsev	9	6	8	6	1	3	8	DNS	10	5	5	8	3	3	8	5	Ret	Ret	8	6	4	132
8	Amaury Cordeel							6	9	6	4	6	1	Ret	9	9				2	1	3	107
9	Tuomas Haapalainen							14	4	2	7	3	10	8	1	4							74
10	Freek Schothorst	3	5	3																			36
11	Aleksandr Vartanyan							2	2	9													32
12	Patrick Schott	8	8	7	7	4	9	9	12	11	12	11	9										31
13	Artem Lobanenko	10	9	9	9	9	8	10	10	13	Ret	14	Ret	10†	Ret	10	9	10	6	9	9	12	24
14	Markus Laitala							12	11	12	11	13	12	5	8	13	8	7	7				23
15	Aleksandr Vilaev	12	10	10	11	10	11	13	14	15	Ret	12	11	6	11	11	12	8	8	10	10	8	19
16	Noah Watt																			5	8	7	17
17	Nikita Aleksandrov	11	11	11	10	7	10	11	13	14	Ret	15	Ret	9	12	12	13	11	9	11	12	10	9
18	Nikita Volegov				8	8	Ret																5
19	Mi Maijala																10	12	10				2
20	Denis Bulatov										10	10	DNS										1
21	Jimi Hannus																11	9	11				0
22	László Tóth																			12	11	11	0
23	Irina Sidorkova																			13	13	13	0
Pos	Driver	SMO			NRG			MSC			ADM			AHV			ALA			ASS			Pts

Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	Second place
Bronze	Third place
Green	Points finish
Blue	Non-points finish
Blue	Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple	Retired (Ret)
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Red	Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did not start (DNS)
	Withdrew (WD)
	Race cancelled (C)
Blank	Did not practice (DNP)
	Did not arrive (DNA)
	Excluded (EX)

Bold – Pole
Italics – Fastest Lap

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Notes:

† — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.

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Schott and Cordeel competed under a Finnish racing license in order to be eligible for points.

[1]
Wood, Elliot (14 February 2018). "SMP trio named among first drivers for 2018 F4 NEZ season". formulascout.com. Formula Scout. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
[2]
F4 NEZ CHAMPIONSHIP certified by FIA SPORTING REGULATIONS 2018 Art.8, page 4
[3]
Wood, Elliot. "F4 NEZ reveals 2018 calendar". formulascout.com. No. 27 April 2018. Formula Scout. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
[4]
Woollard, Craig (4 May 2018). "World's Fastest Gamer finalist Freek Schothorst to make car racing debut in F4 NEZ". formulascout.com. Formula Scout. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
[5]
"MP MOTORSPORT LINES UP PATRICK SCHOTT FOR NEZ AND SPANISH F4". 19 March 2018. Archived from the original on 20 March 2018. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
[6]
"MOSCOW RACEWAY HOSTING THE THIRD RACE WEEKEND OF SMP F4 NEZ CHAMPIONSHIP". smpf4championship.com. SMP F4 Championship. 7 August 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
[7]
"Nikita Volegov". smpf4championship.com. SMP F4 Championship. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
[8]
"THE 2018 SMP F4 NEZ GRID CONTINUES TO GROW". April 6, 2018. Retrieved April 10, 2018.
[9]
"THREE MORE RUSSIAN DRIVERS JOIN THE 2018 SMP F4 NEZ CHAMPIONSHIP". smpf4championship.com. SMP F4 Championship. 7 March 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
[10]
"FINNISH RACING TEAM FILLS THE GRID OF THE 2018 SMP F4 NEZ CHAMPIONSHIP". smpf4championship.com. SMP F4 Championship. 20 March 2018. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
[11]
"Changes in SMP F4 NEZ Championship Calendar". SMP F4 Championship. 22 August 2018. Retrieved 22 August 2018.

Official website

[Foreign-6] [N 1]
Schott and Cordeel competed under a Finnish racing license in order to be eligible for points.

[SMP-1] [1]
Wood, Elliot (14 February 2018). "SMP trio named among first drivers for 2018 F4 NEZ season". formulascout.com. Formula Scout. Retrieved 20 February 2018.

[regulations-2] [2]
F4 NEZ CHAMPIONSHIP certified by FIA SPORTING REGULATIONS 2018 Art.8, page 4

[Calendar-3] [3]
Wood, Elliot. "F4 NEZ reveals 2018 calendar". formulascout.com. No. 27 April 2018. Formula Scout. Retrieved 27 April 2018.

[4] [4]
Woollard, Craig (4 May 2018). "World's Fastest Gamer finalist Freek Schothorst to make car racing debut in F4 NEZ". formulascout.com. Formula Scout. Retrieved 5 May 2018.

[5] [5]
"MP MOTORSPORT LINES UP PATRICK SCHOTT FOR NEZ AND SPANISH F4". 19 March 2018. Archived from the original on 20 March 2018. Retrieved 20 March 2018.

[Moscow-7] [6]
"MOSCOW RACEWAY HOSTING THE THIRD RACE WEEKEND OF SMP F4 NEZ CHAMPIONSHIP". smpf4championship.com. SMP F4 Championship. 7 August 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2018.

[8] [7]
"Nikita Volegov". smpf4championship.com. SMP F4 Championship. Retrieved 2 June 2018.

[Aleksandrov-9] [8]
"THE 2018 SMP F4 NEZ GRID CONTINUES TO GROW". April 6, 2018. Retrieved April 10, 2018.

[Three_more-10] [9]
"THREE MORE RUSSIAN DRIVERS JOIN THE 2018 SMP F4 NEZ CHAMPIONSHIP". smpf4championship.com. SMP F4 Championship. 7 March 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2018.

[Kart_In_Club-11] [10]
"FINNISH RACING TEAM FILLS THE GRID OF THE 2018 SMP F4 NEZ CHAMPIONSHIP". smpf4championship.com. SMP F4 Championship. 20 March 2018. Retrieved 20 March 2018.

[12] [11]
"Changes in SMP F4 NEZ Championship Calendar". SMP F4 Championship. 22 August 2018. Retrieved 22 August 2018.

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