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2010 FIA Formula Two Championship

Motor racing season

The 2010 FIA Formula Two Championship season was the second year of the FIA Formula Two Championship. The championship began on 18 April at Silverstone and concluded on 19 September at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia, after nine double-header rounds.

For most of the season, the championship battle revolved around a pair of British drivers, returning driver Jolyon Palmer and Formula Renault UK graduate Dean Stoneman. Stoneman and Palmer won eleven of the season's eighteen races – Stoneman won six and Palmer five – but more podiums for Stoneman helped him in the long run, and eventually sealed the championship title, and a prize test for the Williams F1 team, with a race to spare. Palmer finished a comfortable second place in the standings, 42 points behind Stoneman and 85 ahead of his nearest rival.

Third place in the standings remained a five-way battle until the final race with newcomers Sergey Afanasyev of Russia, another British driver Will Bratt and Belgium's Benjamin Bailly, as well as returnees Kazim Vasiliauskas of Lithuania and Austria's Philipp Eng all in contention for the remaining FIA Super Licence awarded to the top three championship finishers. Despite not winning a race, it was Afanasyev that prevailed, scoring points in all but three races including four podiums. Vasiliauskas' only victory of the season came in the final race of the season in Valencia, and allowed him to jump from seventh pre-race to an end fourth place in the standings, four points behind Afanasyev. Bratt finished fifth, winless but with four podiums, ahead of three-time winner Eng by two points and Bailly, a winner at his home round of Zolder was 12 points further behind. Eighth-placed Nicola de Marco was the only other race-winner on the season, winning at Brno and Valencia.

Regulation changes

As announced at the FIA's World Motor Sport Council meeting in December 2009, Formula Two cars in the 2010 season had a base power of 425 bhp, up from 400 bhp in 2009. The overboost also increased from 50 bhp to 55 bhp, giving a maximum power of 480 bhp. Races were also extended to 40 minutes in duration, and implemented the 25–18–15–12–10–8–6–4–2–1 point-scoring system as was introduced to the 2010 Formula One World Championship.

Drivers

The number of drivers admitted to the series had been expected to increase to 30. However, this was altered back to 24, with only 22 drivers appearing on the Silverstone entry list.

No.	Driver	Rounds
2	GBR Will Bratt	All
3	GBR Jolyon Palmer	All
4	BEL Benjamin Bailly	All
5	ANG Ricardo Teixeira	All
6	IND Armaan Ebrahim	All
7	RUS Ivan Samarin	All
8	BGR Plamen Kralev	All
9	ROU Mihai Marinescu	All
10	FRA Benjamin Lariche	All
11	GBR Jack Clarke	All
12	NLD Kelvin Snoeks	1–5, 7–9
14	RUS Sergey Afanasyev	All
16	ESP Ramón Piñeiro	9
17	DNK Johan Jokinen	1–3
19	ITA Nicola de Marco	All
21	LTU Kazim Vasiliauskas	All
22	DEU Johannes Theobald	8–9
24	GBR Tom Gladdis	1, 6–7
26	nowrap	IND Parthiva Sureshwaren	1–6
27	GBR Paul Rees	1–4
28	IND Ajith Kumar	1–3
DEU Julian Theobald	6–8
33	AUT Philipp Eng	All
48	GBR Dean Stoneman	All
77	POL Natalia Kowalska	1–7, 9

Driver changes

; Entering FIA Formula Two Championship

Russian drivers Sergey Afanasyev – who was International Formula Master runner-up – and Ivan Samarin made their debut in the series.
Formul'Academy Euro Series champion Benjamin Bailly graduated to the championship.
Euroseries 3000 champion Will Bratt debuted in the series.
Johan Jokinen switched from the Formula 3 Euro Series to the championship.
After all taking a year's sabbatical, Natalia Kowalska, Ajith Kumar and Julian Theobald all returned to racing competition.
International GT Open driver Plamen Kralev switched to Formula Two.
Benjamin Lariche, who had a dual programme in the Formula Renault Eurocup and the Formula Renault 2.0 West European Cup in 2009, joined the championship.
Mihai Marinescu, who competed in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series with Interwetten.com Racing, joined the championship.
Formula Palmer Audi graduates Ramón Piñeiro and Paul Rees moved into the series.
Kelvin Snoeks, who had a season in International Formula Master joined the series' grid.
Formula Renault UK driver Dean Stoneman made his series debut.
A1 Grand Prix driver Parthiva Sureshwaren moved into the series.
After competing in the GP2 Series in 2009, Ricardo Teixeira switched to the FIA Formula Two Championship.

; Leaving FIA Formula Two Championship

Third-placed Mikhail Aleshin returned to the Formula Renault 3.5 Series with Carlin.
Mirko Bortolotti joined the Ferrari Driver Academy and moved into the GP3 Series with the Addax Team. Robert Wickens and Tobias Hegewald also moved to the series.
Alex Brundle switched to the British Formula 3 Championship with T-Sport.
Natacha Gachnang joined the newly created FIA GT1 World Championship with Matech Competition.
Pietro Gandolfi moved into the Italian Prototype Championship.
Ollie Hancock switched to the World Sportscar Masters series.
Sebastian Hohenthal, Jens Höing, Jason Moore and Germán Sánchez all retired from auto racing.
Carlos Iaconelli and Edoardo Piscopo switched to Auto GP with Durango and DAMS respectively.
Julien Jousse moved to Superleague Formula.
Henri Karjalainen moved into the Finnish GT3 Championship.
Miloš Pavlović took a two-year hiatus.
Champion Andy Soucek became Virgin Racing Formula One test and reserve driver.
Henry Surtees died in a racing accident during the series' 2009 event at Brands Hatch.
Tristan Vautier switched to the Star Mazda Championship with Andersen Racing.

Calendar

A nine-round calendar was published on 21 October 2009. The series ventured outside of Europe, racing in Marrakech, after being an all-European series in 2009.

Round	Country	Date
Silverstone Circuit	18 April	Stand-alone event
Marrakech Street Circuit	1 May	FIA WTCC Race of Morocco
2 May
Autodromo Nazionale Monza	22 May	FIA WTCC Race of Italy
23 May
Circuit Zolder	19 June	FIA WTCC Race of Belgium
20 June
Autódromo Internacional do Algarve, Portimão	3 July	FIA WTCC Race of Portugal
4 July
Brands Hatch, Kent	17 July	FIA WTCC Race of UK
18 July
Masaryk Circuit, Brno	31 July	FIA WTCC Race of the Czech Republic
1 August
Motorsport Arena Oschersleben	4 September	FIA WTCC Race of Germany
5 September
Circuit Ricardo Tormo, Valencia	18 September	FIA WTCC Race of Spain
19 September
Source:

Results

Round	Circuit	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Report
GBR Silverstone	GBR Jolyon Palmer	GBR Jolyon Palmer	GBR Jolyon Palmer	Report
AUT Philipp Eng	AUT Philipp Eng	AUT Philipp Eng
MAR Marrakech	GBR Dean Stoneman	GBR Dean Stoneman	GBR Dean Stoneman	Report
AUT Philipp Eng	GBR Dean Stoneman	AUT Philipp Eng
ITA Monza	GBR Jolyon Palmer	DNK Johan Jokinen	GBR Jolyon Palmer	Report
GBR Jolyon Palmer	ROU Mihai Marinescu	GBR Jolyon Palmer
BEL Zolder	GBR Dean Stoneman	GBR Dean Stoneman	GBR Dean Stoneman	Report
BEL Benjamin Bailly	RUS Sergey Afanasyev	BEL Benjamin Bailly
PRT Algarve	GBR Jolyon Palmer	GBR Jolyon Palmer	GBR Jolyon Palmer	Report
GBR Jolyon Palmer	GBR Dean Stoneman	GBR Dean Stoneman
GBR Brands Hatch	GBR Dean Stoneman	GBR Dean Stoneman	GBR Dean Stoneman	Report
LTU Kazim Vasiliauskas	GBR Dean Stoneman	AUT Philipp Eng
CZE Brno	GBR Dean Stoneman	ITA Nicola de Marco	ITA Nicola de Marco	Report
GBR Dean Stoneman	GBR Jolyon Palmer	GBR Jolyon Palmer
DEU Oschersleben	RUS Sergey Afanasyev	ITA Nicola de Marco	GBR Dean Stoneman	Report
GBR Dean Stoneman	LTU Kazim Vasiliauskas	GBR Dean Stoneman
ESP Valencia	ITA Nicola de Marco	GBR Will Bratt	ITA Nicola de Marco	Report
nowrap	LTU Kazim Vasiliauskas	nowrap	LTU Kazim Vasiliauskas	nowrap	LTU Kazim Vasiliauskas
Source:

Standings

Drivers' Championship

Pos.	Driver	SIL
GBR	MAR
MAR	MNZ
ITA	ZOL
BEL	ALG
PRT	BRH
GBR	BRN
CZE	OSC
DEU	VAL
ESP	Points	1	284	2	242	3	157	4	153	5	144	6	142	7	130	8	98	9	81	10	78	11	68	12	64	13	48	14	33	15	28	16	23	17	21	18	18	19	3	20	1	21	1	22	1	23	0	24	0	25	0	Pos	Driver	SIL
GBR	MAR
MAR	MNZ
ITA	ZOL
BEL	ALG
PRT	BRH
GBR	BRN
CZE	OSC
DEU	VAL
ESP	Points
GBR Dean Stoneman	2	Ret	1	2	2	4	1	3	11	1	1	12	2	2	1	1	9	3
GBR Jolyon Palmer	1	2	Ret	5	1	1	2	2	1	2	8	Ret	5	1	3	12	7	13
RUS Sergey Afanasyev	3	6	8	7	Ret	2	4	15†	9	12	6	5	3	4	4	3	5	5
LTU Kazim Vasiliauskas	5	7	10	4	3	Ret	3	7	4	Ret	11	Ret	11	3	2	2	Ret	1
GBR Will Bratt	6	5	Ret	3	4	3	14	5	Ret	5	4	3	8	10	6	7	2	15
AUT Philipp Eng	4	1	2	1	11	Ret	15	12	15	6	10	1	6	18	7	9	4	11
BEL Benjamin Bailly	11	11	Ret	Ret	6	6	6	1	2	3	13	11	4	5	5	5	8	9
ITA Nicola de Marco	9	10	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	10	Ret	5	7	7	4	1	6	9	15	1	Ret
GBR Jack Clarke	Ret	4	Ret	Ret	Ret	12	Ret	4	3	Ret	2	8	Ret	9	12	DNS	16	2
IND Armaan Ebrahim	8	9	6	6	Ret	5	5	Ret	7	Ret	9	7	Ret	13	11	10	3	7
ROU Mihai Marinescu	7	8	Ret	14	5	16	8	6	12	4	12	6	16	11	13	6	13	6
RUS Ivan Samarin	DSQ	15	4	Ret	12	8	7	8	13	8	3	9	14	16	Ret	8	10	4
NLD Kelvin Snoeks	12	Ret	3	9	13	DSQ	11	10	Ret	Ret			7	8	8	4	12	8
FRA Benjamin Lariche	10	19†	9	10	8	9	Ret	9	8	10	14	10	10	7	Ret	11	6	14
GBR Tom Gladdis	Ret	Ret									5	2	12	12
ANG Ricardo Teixeira	17†	14	5	Ret	16†	13	9	Ret	6	Ret	16	16	9	Ret	10	16	14	Ret
DNK Johan Jokinen	Ret	3	Ret	Ret	7	Ret
GBR Paul Rees	13	13	7	8	9	7	13	13
POL Natalia Kowalska	14	12	Ret	11	Ret	14	Ret	11	10	9	15	13	Ret	14			Ret	16
BGR Plamen Kralev	15	17	12	12	10	11	Ret	14	Ret	Ret	Ret	15	15	17	15	14	17	17
IND Parthiva Sureshwaren	16	16	11	Ret	15	10	12	Ret	14	11	18	14
ESP Ramón Piñeiro																	15	10
DEU Johannes Theobald															16	13	11	12
IND Ajith Kumar	18	18	13	13	14	15
DEU Julian Theobald											17	17	13	15	14	Ret
Sources:

Bold – Pole

Italics – Fastest Lap

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