# 2012 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0

The 2012 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season was the 22nd Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season. The season commenced on 5 May at Alcañiz and ended on 21 October at Barcelona. The season featured seven double-header rounds, with each race lasting for a duration of 30 minutes. All races were part of the World Series by Renault.
Red Bull Junior's Daniil Kvyat won the opening race of the season at Motorland Aragón after qualifying on pole position by 0.1 seconds. Newcomer Nyck de Vries finished in second place and returnee Stoffel Vandoorne attained his maiden podium in third. The race was red-flagged after a violent crash between Daniel Cammish and Hans Villemi, with Villemi flipping over the back of Cammish's car. Both drivers suffered long-term injuries in the crash, and have yet to return to the series. iRace Professional driver Óscar Tunjo of Tech 1 Racing started the Sunday race from pole position but he was passed by Kvyat at the second turn of the first lap. Kvyat scored his first Eurocup double win, ahead of Tunjo and RC Formula's Norman Nato.
A month later at Spa, R-ace GP's Pierre Gasly claimed his first pole position. Gasly had a bad getaway and lost positions to both Nato and Vandoorne. Nato scored his first win in the series, while Gasly scored his first series podium. Gasly's teammate Andrea Pizzitola was the fastest in the second qualifying session. The race was held in heavy rain, and was red-flagged after an incident at Kemmel, involving Nato and team-mate Javier Tarancón, Koiranen Motorsport's Stefan Wackerbauer and Victor Franzoni, Tunjo and team-mate Matthieu Vaxivière, Fortec Motorsports' Dan de Zille and KTR's Yu Kanamaru. Kvyat coped with conditions better than others, claiming his third win of the season, ahead of Fortec driver Jake Dennis and Vandoorne completed the podium.
The next Eurocup stop was at the Nürburgring, where Vandoorne set the fastest time in qualifying, before he converted pole position into victory. Nato and Tech 1's Paul-Loup Chatin joined Vandoorne on the podium. Vandoorne led from start to finish the next day, claiming the pole and won the race with fastest lap. Interwetten.com Racing's Melville McKee and Gasly completed the podium. Vandoorne's double win gave him the championship lead.
Two weeks later, the series visited Russia for the first time, at the newly inaugurated Moscow Raceway. In both qualification sessions, Vandoorne was faster than Kvyat. However, Kvyat won both races to retake the championship lead from Vandoorne. Vandoorne took a pair of second places in Moscow, while Oliver Rowland took his first Eurocup podiums with a brace of third places.

## Teams and drivers

| Team | No. | Driver name | Class | Rounds |
| Koiranen Motorsport | 1 | Patrick Kujala | J | All |
| Koiranen Motorsport | 2 | Esteban Ocon | J | All |
| Koiranen Motorsport | 3 | Daniil Kvyat | J | All |
| Koiranen Motorsport | 4 | Stefan Wackerbauer | J | All |
| Koiranen Motorsport | 60 | Hans Villemi | | 1, 6 |
| Koiranen Motorsport | 60 | Victor Franzoni | | 2 |
| Josef Kaufmann Racing | 5 | Pieter Schothorst | | All |
| Josef Kaufmann Racing | 6 | Alex Riberas | | All |
| Josef Kaufmann Racing | 7 | Stoffel Vandoorne | | All |
| Fortec Motorsports | 8 | Mikko Pakari | J | All |
| Fortec Motorsports | 9 | Nick Cassidy | J | 1–3 |
| Fortec Motorsports | 9 | Alexey Chuklin | | 4 |
| Fortec Motorsports | 9 | Steijn Schothorst | J | 5 |
| Fortec Motorsports | 9 | Gustavo Menezes | | 6 |
| Fortec Motorsports | 9 | Egor Orudzhev | | 7 |
| Fortec Motorsports | 10 | Ed Jones | | All |
| Fortec Motorsports | 44 | Oliver Rowland | | All |
| Fortec Motorsports | 62 | Jake Dennis | J | 2–3, 7 |
| Fortec Motorsports | 63 | Dan de Zille | | 2 |
| Fortec Motorsports | 64 | Josh Hill | | 2, 7 |
| Tech 1 Racing | 11 | Paul-Loup Chatin | | All |
| Tech 1 Racing | 12 | Matthieu Vaxivière | J | All |
| Tech 1 Racing | 14 | Óscar Tunjo | J | All |
| Tech 1 Racing | 15 | Roman Mavlanov | J | All |
| Tech 1 Racing | 66 | Felipe Fraga | J | 3, 5–7 |
| KTR | 16 | Miki Weckstrom | | 1–4 |
| KTR | 16 | Victor Colomé | | 7 |
| KTR | 17 | Yu Kanamaru | J | All |
| KTR | 18 | Ignazio D'Agosto | J | All |
| EPIC Racing | 20 | Alexander Albon | J | All |
| EPIC Racing | 21 | Kevin Giovesi | | 1 |
| EPIC Racing | 21 | Dennis Wüsthoff | | 2 |
| EPIC Racing | 21 | Konstantin Tereshchenko | | 4 |
| EPIC Racing | 21 | Kevin Jörg | | 7 |
| EPIC Racing | 22 | Christof von Grünigen | | All |
| Interwetten.com Racing | 23 | Timmy Hansen | | 1–4 |
| Interwetten.com Racing | 23 | Konstantin Tereshchenko | | 5, 7 |
| Interwetten.com Racing | 24 | Melville McKee | J | All |
| Interwetten.com Racing | 25 | Guilherme Silva | J | All |
| R-ace GP | 26 | Nyck de Vries | J | All |
| R-ace GP | 27 | Pierre Gasly | J | All |
| R-ace GP | 28 | Andrea Pizzitola | | All |
| ARTA Engineering | 29 | William Vermont | | 1–4, 6–7 |
| ARTA Engineering | 30 | Léo Roussel | J | All |
| ARTA Engineering | 65 | Tristan Papavoine | | 2, 6 |
| ARTA Engineering | 68 | Alex Loan | | 7 |
| Manor MP Motorsport | 31 | Johan Jokinen | | 1–2 |
| Manor MP Motorsport | 31 | Tanart Sathienthirakul | | 3 |
| Manor MP Motorsport | 31 | Kevin Kleveros | | 5 |
| Manor MP Motorsport | 31 | Steijn Schothorst | J | 4, 6–7 |
| Manor MP Motorsport | 61 | Steijn Schothorst | J | 2–3 |
| Manor MP Motorsport | 32 | Jordan King | | All |
| Manor MP Motorsport | 33 | Meindert van Buuren | J | 1–4, 6–7 |
| Manor MP Motorsport | 33 | Tanart Sathienthirakul | | 5 |
| RC Formula | 36 | Norman Nato | | All |
| RC Formula | 37 | Javier Tarancón | | 1–6 |
| RC Formula | 45 | Edolo Ghirelli | | 1–2 |
| RC Formula | 45 | Aurélien Panis | J | 5–7 |
| Atech Reid GP | 38 | Alessandro Latif | J | 1–3 |
| Atech Reid GP | 38 | Hans Villemi | | 7 |
| Atech Reid GP | 39 | Daniel Cammish | | 1 |
| Atech Reid GP | 39 | Roman Beregech | | 4 |
| Atech Reid GP | 39 | Dan Wells | | 7 |
| Mark Burdett Motorsport | 67 | Gabriel Casagrande | J | 3 |
| Icon | Class |
| J | Junior Class |

## Race calendar and results

The calendar for the 2012 season was announced on 10 October 2011, the day after the end of the 2011 season. Silverstone Circuit was dropped from the calendar in favour of a round at the new Moscow Raceway in Russia. All seven rounds formed meetings of the 2012 World Series by Renault season.
| Round | Round | Circuit | Country | Date | Pole Position | Fastest Lap | Winning Driver | Winning Team |
| 1 | R1 | Ciudad del Motor de Aragón, Alcañiz | Spain | 5 May | Daniil Kvyat | Daniil Kvyat | Daniil Kvyat | Koiranen Motorsport |
| 1 | R2 | Ciudad del Motor de Aragón, Alcañiz | Spain | 6 May | Óscar Tunjo | Daniil Kvyat | Daniil Kvyat | Koiranen Motorsport |
| 2 | R1 | Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps | Belgium | 2 June | Pierre Gasly | Daniil Kvyat | Norman Nato | RC Formula |
| 2 | R2 | Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps | Belgium | 3 June | Andrea Pizzitola | Daniil Kvyat | Daniil Kvyat | Koiranen Motorsport |
| 3 | R1 | Nürburgring | Germany | 30 June | Stoffel Vandoorne | Norman Nato | Stoffel Vandoorne | Josef Kaufmann Racing |
| 3 | R2 | Nürburgring | Germany | 1 July | Stoffel Vandoorne | Stoffel Vandoorne | Stoffel Vandoorne | Josef Kaufmann Racing |
| 4 | R1 | Moscow Raceway | Russia | 14 July | Stoffel Vandoorne | Stoffel Vandoorne | Daniil Kvyat | Koiranen Motorsport |
| 4 | R2 | Moscow Raceway | Russia | 15 July | Stoffel Vandoorne | Daniil Kvyat | Daniil Kvyat | Koiranen Motorsport |
| 5 | R1 | Hungaroring, Mogyoród | Hungary | 15 September | Stoffel Vandoorne | Stoffel Vandoorne | Stoffel Vandoorne | Josef Kaufmann Racing |
| 5 | R2 | Hungaroring, Mogyoród | Hungary | 16 September | Daniil Kvyat | Nyck de Vries | Daniil Kvyat | Koiranen Motorsport |
| 6 | R1 | Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet | France | 29 September | Javier Tarancón | Alex Riberas | Stoffel Vandoorne | Josef Kaufmann Racing |
| 6 | R2 | Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet | France | 30 September | Stoffel Vandoorne | Paul-Loup Chatin | Daniil Kvyat | Koiranen Motorsport |
| 7 | R1 | Circuit de Catalunya, Montmeló | Spain | 20 October | Óscar Tunjo | Melville McKee | Óscar Tunjo | Tech 1 Racing |
| 7 | R2 | Circuit de Catalunya, Montmeló | Spain | 21 October | Daniil Kvyat | Alex Riberas | Oliver Rowland | Fortec Motorsports |

## Championship standings

* Points for both championships were awarded as follows:
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
| 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 |

### Drivers' Championship

| Pos | Driver | ALC | ALC | SPA | SPA | NÜR | NÜR | MSC | MSC | HUN | HUN | LEC | LEC | CAT | CAT | Points |
| Pos | Driver | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Points |
| 1 | Stoffel Vandoorne | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | Ret | 244 |
| 2 | Daniil Kvyat | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 22 | 1 | 1 | Ret | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 234 |
| 3 | Oliver Rowland | 6 | 8 | 26 | 4 | 8 | Ret | 3 | 3 | 16 | 6 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 109 |
| 4 | Norman Nato | 4 | 3 | 1 | Ret | 2 | Ret | 23 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 17 | 15 | 16 | 96 |
| 5 | Nyck de Vries | 2 | 16 | Ret | 16 | 4 | Ret | Ret | 4 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 22 | 27 | 78 |
| 6 | Paul-Loup Chatin | 5 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 28 | 77 |
| 7 | Óscar Tunjo | Ret | 2 | 12 | Ret | 22 | 21 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 18 | 1 | 7 | 73 |
| 8 | Melville McKee | Ret | 15 | Ret | 14 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 7 | Ret | 64 |
| 9 | Alex Riberas | 10 | 11 | 5 | 19 | 6 | Ret | 7 | Ret | 5 | 10 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 62 |
| 10 | Pierre Gasly | Ret | 7 | 3 | 25 | 32 | 3 | 14 | 8 | 11 | 11 | Ret | Ret | 10 | 6 | 49 |
| 11 | Stefan Wackerbauer | 11 | 28 | 9 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 4 | 6 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 16 | 13 | 32 |
| 12 | Jake Dennis | | | 10 | 2 | 14 | 24 | | | | | | | 12 | 4 | 31 |
| 13 | Jordan King | Ret | Ret | 7 | 12 | Ret | 5 | 13 | Ret | 3 | 13 | 20 | Ret | Ret | 25 | 31 |
| 14 | Esteban Ocon | 19 | 5 | 21 | 24 | 12 | 18 | 8 | Ret | 21 | 18 | 9 | 3 | Ret | Ret | 31 |
| 15 | Mikko Pakari | 14 | 23 | Ret | 26 | 11 | 23 | 5 | Ret | 2 | 23 | 12 | Ret | 20 | 9 | 30 |
| 16 | William Vermont | 26 | 20 | 14 | 11 | 31 | Ret | 10 | 16 | | | 13 | 5 | 26 | 2 | 29 |
| 17 | Guilherme Silva | 9 | 9 | 15 | 9 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 14 | Ret | 17 | 3 | 21 | Ret | 19 | 24 |
| 18 | Felipe Fraga | | | | | 10 | 8 | | | 30 | 25 | 18 | 10 | 13 | 3 | 21 |
| 19 | Javier Tarancón | 7 | Ret | 8 | Ret | 16 | 7 | 16 | 18 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 15 | | | 21 |
| 20 | Miki Weckstrom | 8 | 14 | 34 | 6 | 7 | Ret | 31 | 17 | | | | | | | 18 |
| 21 | Andrea Pizzitola | 12 | 12 | 32 | 13 | 13 | 9 | 19 | 12 | Ret | 16 | 5 | 16 | Ret | 18 | 12 |
| 22 | Steijn Schothorst | | | Ret | 22 | 18 | 6 | 30 | 13 | 20 | 14 | Ret | 14 | 8 | 22 | 12 |
| 23 | Patrick Kujala | 15 | Ret | 17 | 18 | 19 | 25 | 15 | 5 | 13 | 19 | 23 | Ret | Ret | 20 | 10 |
| 24 | Nick Cassidy | Ret | 6 | Ret | DNS | 17 | 11 | | | | | | | | | 8 |
| 25 | Josh Hill | | | Ret | 7 | | | | | | | | | 9 | Ret | 8 |
| 26 | Ignazio D'Agosto | 22 | Ret | 25 | 8 | 25 | 26 | 24 | Ret | 29 | 27 | Ret | Ret | 25 | 23 | 4 |
| 27 | Ed Jones | 18 | 25 | 16 | 31 | 21 | 16 | 18 | Ret | 24 | 31 | 28 | 9 | 23 | 11 | 2 |
| 28 | Pieter Schothorst | Ret | 19 | 28 | 29 | Ret | 12 | 17 | 20 | 9 | 21 | 21 | Ret | 19 | 14 | 2 |
| 29 | Matthieu Vaxivière | 16 | 22 | 20 | NC | Ret | 14 | 25 | Ret | 23 | 20 | Ret | Ret | 27 | 10 | 1 |
| 30 | Christof von Grünigen | 25 | Ret | 30 | 10 | 27 | Ret | 32 | 19 | 22 | Ret | 25 | 22 | DNS | DNS | 1 |
| 31 | Timmy Hansen | 13 | 13 | 11 | 17 | Ret | DNS | 20 | 15 | | | | | | | 0 |
| 32 | Meindert van Buuren | Ret | Ret | 18 | 15 | 20 | Ret | 22 | 21 | | | Ret | 23 | 11 | Ret | 0 |
| 33 | Roman Mavlanov | 17 | 21 | 33 | 28 | 26 | 13 | 21 | Ret | 15 | 12 | 26 | Ret | 17 | Ret | 0 |
| 34 | Tristan Papavoine | | | 24 | 21 | | | | | | | 22 | 12 | | | 0 |
| 35 | Johan Jokinen | Ret | 17 | 13 | Ret | | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| 36 | Hans Villemi | Ret | DNS | | | | | | | | | 16 | Ret | 14 | 15 | 0 |
| 37 | Gabriel Casagrande | | | | | 29 | 15 | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| 38 | Alexander Albon | 21 | 24 | 19 | 20 | 23 | Ret | Ret | DNS | 17 | 24 | 19 | 24 | Ret | 26 | 0 |
| 39 | Yu Kanamaru | Ret | 29 | 27 | 32 | 24 | 17 | Ret | 25 | 27 | 26 | Ret | Ret | DSQ | 24 | 0 |
| 40 | Léo Roussel | 24 | 26 | 23 | Ret | 33 | Ret | 26 | 26 | 18 | Ret | Ret | 19 | Ret | Ret | 0 |
| 41 | Kevin Giovesi | 20 | 18 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| 42 | Tanart Sathienthirakul | | | | | 28 | 19 | | | 26 | 28 | | | | | 0 |
| 43 | Alessandro Latif | 23 | 27 | 35 | 27 | 30 | 20 | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| 44 | Konstantin Tereshchenko | | | | | | | 29 | 22 | 28 | 29 | | | 21 | 21 | 0 |
| 45 | Victor Franzoni | | | 22 | Ret | | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| 46 | Aleksey Chuklin | | | | | | | 28 | 23 | | | | | | | 0 |
| 47 | Dennis Wüsthoff | | | 29 | 23 | | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| 48 | Roman Beregech | | | | | | | 27 | 24 | | | | | | | 0 |
| 49 | Edolo Ghirelli | Ret | Ret | 31 | 30 | | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| | Dan de Zille | | | Ret | Ret | | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| | Daniel Cammish | Ret | DNS | | | | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| Guest drivers ineligible for points |||||||||||||||||
| | Aurélien Panis | | | | | | | | | 19 | 22 | 27 | Ret | 18 | 17 | 0 |
| | Gustavo Menezes | | | | | | | | | | | 24 | 20 | | | 0 |
| | Dan Wells | | | | | | | | | | | | | 24 | Ret | 0 |
| | Kevin Kleveros | | | | | | | | | 25 | 30 | | | | | 0 |
| | Alex Loan | | | | | | | | | | | | | 28 | DNS | 0 |
| | Victor Colomé | | | | | | | | | | | | | 29 | Ret | 0 |
| | Egor Orudzhev | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ret | Ret | 0 |
| | Kevin Jörg | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ret | DNS | 0 |
| Pos | Driver | ALC | ALC | SPA | SPA | NÜR | NÜR | MSC | MSC | HUN | HUN | LEC | LEC | CAT | CAT | Points |
| 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) |
| White | Withdrew (WD) |
| White | Race cancelled (C) |
| Blank | Did not practice (DNP) |
| Blank | Did not arrive (DNA) |
| Blank | Excluded (EX) |

### Teams' Championship

Prior to each round of the championship, two drivers from each team – if applicable – are nominated to score teams' championship points.
| Pos | Team | Points |
| 1 | Josef Kaufmann Racing | 306 |
| 2 | Koiranen Motorsport | 265 |
| 3 | Fortec Motorsports | 157 |
| 4 | Tech 1 Racing | 150 |
| 5 | R-ace GP | 127 |
| 6 | RC Formula | 117 |
| 7 | Interwetten.com Racing | 62 |
| 8 | Manor MP Motorsport | 43 |
| 9 | ARTA Engineering | 29 |
| 10 | KTR | 22 |
| 11 | EPIC Racing | 1 |