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2012 Racecar Euro Series

The 2012 Racecar Euro Series was the 4th season of Racecar Euro Series season, and the first EuroNASCAR season under NASCAR sanctioning. The season began on April 8 with the Nogaro 200 at Circuit Paul Armagnac and ended on 14 October with the Le Mans Finals at Bugatti Circuit after five championship rounds and a non-championship round at Tours Speedway. NASCAR's standard rules, such as beneficiary rule and green-white-checker finish, were adopted by the series starting from this season.

TFT Racing driver Ander Vilariño was crowned as the first Driver's Champion in the NASCAR years after scoring six race wins during the season, edging Romain Thievin by 16 points in the final standings. Thievin did not win a race, but managed to score a podium in nine championship races. Fellow Spaniard Javier Villa was third, 64 points adrift from Vilariño. Villa took one victory at Brands Hatch, his only win in EuroNASCAR. Romain Iannetta and Gaël Castelli were the other winners in the championship rounds while Ben Kennedy and 2011 champion Éric Hélary took one win each in the Tours non-championship round. French driver Carole Perrin scored a third place finish in the fifth race at Spa-Francorchamps, making her the only female driver to finish on the podium in EuroNASCAR's top division as of the 2023 season.

In the Open division, Simon Escallier became the first champion of the present-day EuroNASCAR 2 division. Escallier swept the races at Circuit Ricardo Tormo on his way to championship victory, 44 points ahead of Alain Grand. Six other drivers scored victories in 2012, most of them were taken by part-time competitors. Outside of Escallier, Vincent Gonneau was the only other full-time driver to win a race. Martin van Hove and Olivier Porta took two race wins while Adriano Medeiros, Loic Deman and Marc Duez secured one victory each.

Schedule

With the exception of the non-championship round at Tours Speedway, all races in the 2012 season were held as support races for another championship.

Round	Race title	Track	Date
Nogaro 200	FRA Circuit Paul Armagnac, Nogaro	April 8	FIA GT1 World Championship
April 9
Brands Hatch 200	GBR Brands Hatch, Swanley	May 19	Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters
May 20
Spa 200	BEL Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Spa	June 9	Belgian Touring Car Series
June 10
Michelin / Tours Evenements 100	FRA Tours Speedway, Tours	July 7	None
July 8
Valencia Semifinals	ESP Circuito Ricardo Tormo, Cheste	September 29	Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters
September 30
Le Mans Finals	FRA Circuit Bugatti, Le Mans	October 13	European Truck Racing Championship
October 14

Results

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Round	Race	Pole position	Fastest lap	Most laps led	Winning driver	Winning team
FRA Nogaro 200	ESP Ander Vilariño	ESP Javier Villa	FRA Romain Thievin	ESP Ander Vilariño	TFT Racing	Chevrolet
ESP Javier Villa	ESP Ander Vilariño	ESP Ander Vilariño	ESP Ander Vilariño	TFT Racing	Chevrolet
GBR Brands Hatch 200	FRA Romain Thievin	ESP Ander Vilariño	ESP Ander Vilariño	ESP Ander Vilariño	TFT Racing	Chevrolet
ESP Ander Vilariño	ESP Javier Villa	ESP Ander Vilariño	ESP Javier Villa	TFT Racing	Chevrolet
BEL Spa 200	ESP Ander Vilariño	ESP Ander Vilariño	ESP Ander Vilariño	ESP Ander Vilariño	TFT Racing	Chevrolet
ESP Ander Vilariño	ESP Ander Vilariño	FRA Romain Iannetta	FRA Romain Iannetta	Orhes Competition	Dodge
FRA Michelin / Tours Evenements 100	FRA Romain Fournillier	FRA Carole Perrin	Unknown	USA Ben Kennedy	TFT Racing	Chevrolet
FRA Carole Perrin	ESP Javier Villa	Unknown	FRA Éric Hélary	Still Racing	Chevrolet
ESP Valencia SemiFinals	ESP Javier Villa	ESP Javier Villa	ESP Ander Vilariño	ESP Ander Vilariño	TFT Racing	Chevrolet
ESP Javier Villa	ESP Ander Vilariño	ESP Ander Vilariño	ESP Ander Vilariño	TFT Racing	Chevrolet
FRA Le Mans Finals	ESP Ander Vilariño	FRA Gaël Castelli	Unknown	FRA Gaël Castelli	Rapido Racing	Ford
FRA Gaël Castelli	FRA Gaël Castelli	Unknown	FRA Gaël Castelli	Rapido Racing	Ford

Open

Round	Race	Pole position	Fastest lap	Most laps led	Winning driver	Winning team
FRA Nogaro 200	FRA Eric Quintal	FRA Vincent Gonneau	FRA Eric Quintal	BEL Martin van Hove	TFT Racing	Dodge
FRA Simon Escallier	FRA Eric Quintal	FRA Vincent Gonneau	BEL Martin van Hove	TFT Racing	Dodge
GBR Brands Hatch 200	FRA Philippe Marie	BRA Adriano Medeiros	Unknown	FRA Vincent Gonneau	Gonneau Racing	Chevrolet
BEL Martin van Hove	BEL Martin van Hove	Unknown	BRA Adriano Medeiros	Autosport 42	Chevrolet
BEL Spa 200	BEL Loic Deman	BEL Loic Deman	BEL Loic Deman	BEL Loic Deman	Rapido Racing	Ford
FRA Gerald Cormon	Unknown	BEL Marc Duez	BEL Marc Duez	TFT Racing	Chevrolet
FRA Michelin / Tours Evenements 100	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	FRA Sebastien Baron	Rapido Racing	Ford
FRA Vincent Gonneau	Unknown	FRA Vincent Gonneau	FRA Vincent Gonneau	Gonneau Racing	Chevrolet
ESP Valencia SemiFinals	FRA Simon Escallier	AUS Josh Burdon	FRA Simon Escallier	FRA Simon Escallier	Scorpus Racing	Dodge
FRA Eric Quintal	FRA Eric Quintal	Unknown	FRA Simon Escallier	Scorpus Racing	Dodge
FRA Le Mans Finals	FRA Olivier Porta	FRA Olivier Porta	Unknown	FRA Olivier Porta	TFT Racing	Chevrolet
FRA Donald Reignoux	AUS Josh Burdon	Unknown	FRA Olivier Porta	TFT Racing	Chevrolet

Standings

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(key) Bold - Pole position awarded by time. Italics - Pole position set by final practice results or rainout. * – Most laps led.

Rank	Driver	NOG1	NOG2	BRH1	BRH2	SPA1	TOU2	VAL1	VAL2	LMS1
Ander Vilariño	1	1	1	2	1	2	1	1	7	10
Romain Thievin	2	3	2	3	2	10	3	2	2	2
Javier Villa (J)	4	2	3	1	19	3	2	3	6	6
Antoine Lioen	13	7	6	4	5	11	4	5	15	9
Romain Iannetta	5	16	5	9	20	1	10	4	3	3

6 17 Wilfried BOUCENNA (J) 563 -104 0 0 6 9 7 11 Romain FOURNILLIER (J) 548 -119 1 0 2 10 8 6 Anthony GARBARINO (J) 528 -139 0 0 0 7 9 44 Freddy NORDSTROM (J) 512 -155 0 0 1 7 10 55 Bruno COSIN © 483 -184 0 0 1 3 11 28 Stéphane JAGGI © 461 -206 0 0 0 1 12 46 Nathalie MAILLET © 445 -222 0 0 0 2 13 15 Vincent GONNEAU (J) 431 -236 0 0 0 3 14 100 Stéphane SABATES © 398 -269 0 0 0 0 15 28 Franck VIOLAS © 372 -295 0 0 0 0 16 42 Carole PERRIN (J) 372 -295 0 0 1 3 17 14 Jospeh COZZELLA © 331 -336 0 0 0 0 18 33 Dimitri ENJALBERT 272 -395 0 0 2 6 19 88 Valentin SIMONET (J) 218 -449 0 0 0 1 20 18 Yann ZIMMER (J) 201 -466 0 0 1 2 21 88 Olivier PERNAUT 181 -486 0 0 0 0 22 7 Harry VAULKHARD 178 -489 0 0 0 2 23 85 Ben ANDERSON 164 -503 0 0 0 0 24 18 James WINSLOW 104 -563 0 0 2 2 25 14 Grégory GUILVERT 77 -590 0 0 1 2 26 7 Manu BRIGAND © 69 -598 0 0 0 1 27 38 Martin VAN HOVE (J) 58 -609 0 0 0 1 28 81 Niall QUINN (J) 50 -617 0 0 0 0 29 81 Joao TEIXEIRA © 25 -642 0 0 0 0 30 48 Nigel GREENSALL 24 -643 0 0 0 0 31 6 Gaël CASTELLI (nc) 0 -667 0 2 2 2 32 96 Ben KENNEDY (nc) 0 -667 0 1 1 1 33 14 Eric HELARY (nc) 0 -667 0 1 1 1 34 100 Yvan MULLER (nc) 0 -667 0 0 1 1 35 19 Stéphane ROMECKI (nc) 0 -667 0 0 0 3 36 29 Nicolas DEKEJSER (nc) 0 -667 0 0 1 2 37 33 Azor DUENAS (nc) 0 -667 0 0 0 1 38 81 Didier LESCOS (nc) 0 -667 0 0 0 0 39 33 Frederic JOHAIS (nc) 0 -667 0 0 0 0 !--

References

(9 June 2012). "Racecar: Vilarino remporte le Sprint". {{Interlanguage link.
(22 February 2012). "NASCAR: RACECAR Euro Series enters NASCAR family". Auto123.com.

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