2018 Formula Renault Northern European Cup

The 2018 Formula Renault Northern European Cup was the thirteenth and the final Formula Renault Northern European Cup season, an open-wheel motor racing series. It was a multi-event motor racing championship that featured drivers competing in 2 litre Formula Renault single seat race cars that conform to the technical regulations for the championship.

The championship title was won by German driver Doureid Ghattas, after recording five consecutive win.^[1] He won races at Hungaroring, Nürburgring and Hockenheim, finished 42 points clear of his closest rival and Anders Motorsport teammate, Phil Hill, who was the winner at Spa and Hockenheim. Third place in the championship was settled by R-ace GP driver Gabriel Gandulia, who finished eight points behind Hill. Sharon Scolari was the last driver considered as regular driver finished fourth.

Over the course of the season, four different drivers won a race. Aside from Ghattas and Hill, other drivers (when they were eligible for the series trophy) to win were Logan Sargeant, who finished fifth in the championship, and his teammate Victor Martins. Alex Peroni, who finished seventh was the only driver excluding Ghattas and Hill, who was able to win more than one race.

Team	No.	Driver name	Rounds
R-ace GP	1	Max Fewtrell[2]	2–6
	2	Logan Sargeant[3]	All
	3	Charles Milesi[3]	All
	4	Victor Martins[3]	All
	5	Gabriel Gandulia[3]	All
Anders Motorsport	6	Phil Hill[4]	1–5
	7	Doureid Ghattas[5]	All
Josef Kaufmann Racing	11	Clément Novalak[6]	4–6
	12	Richard Verschoor[7]	3
	16	Yifei Ye[7]	3–6
Lamo Racing Car	16	Thierry Malhomme[8]	1
Tech 1 Racing	21	Neil Verhagen[9]	1, 3–6
	22	Aleksandr Smolyar[9]	1, 3–6
	23	Thomas Neubauer[9]	All
	24	Frank Bird[9]	All
MP Motorsport	31	Christian Lundgaard[10]	1, 3–6
	32	Alex Peroni[10]	1, 3–6
	33	Jarno Opmeer[7]	3
		Freek Schothorst[11]	4–6
Formula Motorsport	35	Nicolas Melin[12]	1
	36	Nicolas Pironneau[12]	1
Arden Motorsport	41	Oscar Piastri[7]	3–6
	42	Nikita Volegov[7]	3–6
	43	Sami Taoufik[7]	3–6
AVF by Adrián Vallés	51	Axel Matus[7]	3–6
	52	Xavier Lloveras[7]	3
	53	Eliseo Martínez[7]	3–6
	54	Christian Muñoz[7]	3–6
JD Motorsport	61	Lorenzo Colombo[2]	2–6
	62	Thomas Maxwell[7]	3–6
	63	Najiy Razak[7]	3–6
ScoRace Team	77	Sharon Scolari[13]	1–3, 5–6
	90	Phil Hill	6
Cram Motorsport	78	Zichao Wang[2]	2
Fortec Motorsports	84	Vladimiros Tziortzis[7]	3–4, 6
	85	Raúl Guzmán[7]	3–6
	87	Arthur Rougier[14]	1, 3–6

The provisional calendar for the 2018 season was announced on 11 November 2017.^[15] The schedule was increased to six rounds. For the first time in the history, the series is scheduled to have event which will be part of the Pau Grand Prix. Hungaroring and Circuit Park Zandvoort were set to return to the calendar, while events at Nürburgring and Silverstone Circuit were set to be omitted. On 4 April 2018 the calendar was amended, with three rounds supporting 2018 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0. Zandvoort opener was replaced by Nürburgring in the schedule.^[16] On 31 August 2018 the final round at Hockenheimring was rescheduled to an earlier date.^[17]

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team	Supporting
1	R1	Circuit de Pau-Ville	12 May	Christian Lundgaard	Christian Lundgaard	Alex Peroni	MP Motorsport	Pau Grand Prix
	R2		13 May	Alex Peroni	Victor Martins	Alex Peroni	MP Motorsport
2	R1	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	30 June	Charles Milesi	Charles Milesi	Logan Sargeant	R-ace GP	Clio Cup Italia
	R2		1 July	Victor Martins	Logan Sargeant	Victor Martins	R-ace GP
3	R1	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Spa	27 July	Phil Hill[N 1]	Victor Martins	Phil Hill[N 2]	Anders Motorsport	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0
	R2		28 July	Gabriel Gandulia[N 3]	Victor Martins	Phil Hill[N 4]	Anders Motorsport
4	R1	Hungaroring	1 September	Gabriel Gandulia[N 5]	Christian Lundgaard	Doureid Ghattas[N 6]	Anders Motorsport	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0
	R2		2 September	Doureid Ghattas[N 5]	Christian Lundgaard	Doureid Ghattas[N 7]	Anders Motorsport
5	R1	Nürburgring, Nürburg	14 September	Gabriel Gandulia[N 8]	Max Fewtrell	Doureid Ghattas[N 9]	Anders Motorsport	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0
	R2		15 September	Gabriel Gandulia[N 10]	Max Fewtrell	Doureid Ghattas[N 11]	Anders Motorsport
6	R1	Hockenheimring, Hockenheim	22 September	Doureid Ghattas[N 12]	Max Fewtrell	Doureid Ghattas[N 13]	Anders Motorsport	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0
	R2		23 September	Doureid Ghattas[N 5]	Logan Sargeant	Phil Hill[N 14]	Scorace Team

Points system

Points were awarded to the top 20 classified finishers.

Pos. Driver PAU MNZ SPA HUN NÜR HOC Points 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 Doureid Ghattas 9 9 10 8 23 20 20 19 22 20 16 20 266 2 Phil Hill 15 13 8 6 19 18 21 23 23 DNS 21 15 224 3 Gabriel Gandulia 10 10 9 7 24 21 22 20 24 24 22 17 216 4 Sharon Scolari Ret Ret 11 10 Ret DNS 26 23 23 21 96 5 Logan Sargeant 3 3 1 4 9 2 5 7 1 4 4 5 87 6 Victor Martins 5 4 3 1 Ret 1 4 9 4 2 Ret Ret 83 7 Alex Peroni 1 1 Ret 25 13 5 9 9 6 Ret 60 8 Thomas Neubauer 7 7 7 5 WD WD Ret Ret 21 10 Ret Ret 58 9 Charles Milesi 4 Ret 5 2 10 13 9 12 7 3 10 8 57 10 Frank Bird 11 6 4 11 14 11 12 13 Ret 21 20 13 52 11 Christian Lundgaard 2 2 1 8 2 1 3 5 Ret Ret 48 12 Lorenzo Colombo 6 3 6 5 6 3 11 22 Ret 4 35 13 Neil Verhagen 6 5 25 22 14 14 13 12 7 6 31 14 Arthur Rougier 8 8 4 6 Ret 8 10 13 12 10 26 15 Max Fewtrell 2 Ret 5 7 3 2 2 1 1 1 24 16 Zichao Wang 12 9 21 17 Aleksandr Smolyar 13 11 11 16 10 6 5 8 8 Ret 18 18 Nicolas Pironneau 12 14 16 19 Nicolas Melin 14 12 16 20 Thierry Malhomme 16 15 11 guest drivers ineligible to score points Yifei Ye 2 3 1 11 6 6 2 3 Oscar Piastri 3 9 7 4 15 7 3 2 Thomas Maxwell 7 4 11 25 8 11 5 7 Richard Verschoor 8 10 Axel Matus Ret 26 8 15 16 Ret Ret 14 Raúl Guzmán 13 23 Ret Ret 25 18 9 11 Eliseo Martínez 15 12 15 21 12 Ret 14 9 Sami Taoufik 17 Ret 16 10 17 14 19 12 Clément Novalak 18 22 14 16 11 22 Jarno Opmeer 12 24 Nikita Volegov 16 Ret 19 17 18 15 13 24 Xavier Lloveras 22 14 Freek Schothorst 17 24 20 17 15 19 Najiy Razak 18 15 23 18 Ret Ret Ret 23 Christian Muñoz 21 17 Ret Ret 19 19 17 16 Vladimiros Tziortzis 20 19 Ret 16 18 18 Pos. Driver PAU MNZ SPA HUN NÜR HOC Points

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) 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 † — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.

Pos	Team	Points
1	R-ace GP	467
2	Anders Motorsport	436
3	ScoRace	150
4	MP Motorsport	86
5	Tech 1 Racing	66
6	JD Motorsport	23
7	Fortec Motorsport	8
8	Cram Motorsport	2
9	Formula Motorsport	0
10	Lamo Car Racing	0

• Official website of the Formula Renault 2.0 NEC championship