Grand Prix World Series - Season three

Scott Dixon leads League 1 after 12 rounds

Pascal Wehrlein tops the points in League 2 after 12 rounds

The Grand Prix World Series enters its third season of competition off the back of a hugely successful season two which saw multiple race winners and an intense battle for the championship that went down to the wire.

Scott Dixon of Simtek entered the season as the reigning League 1 champion having claimed his maiden title at the final round of season two, while Super Aguri is the reigning teams' champion.

Once again 16 races will form the calendar in a season that starts off in Asia before heading to Europe and finishing in the Americas. After Round 8 there will be a Mid-Season Test in which each team can evaluate a new driver alongside its reserve driver.

At the end of the season, the bottom three teams from League 1 will be demoted into League 2 for Season 4 while the top three teams in League 2 will be promoted into League 1.

Following the conclusion of the season, the Grand Prix World Series will introduce the annual Macau Grand Prix as an end-of-season non-championship race, which will see the top 13 teams across both leagues qualify for the prestigious event and go all out for glory in a race which will have power and reliability equalised for the closest possible race.

## Teams and drivers

### Mid-season driver changes

* Marco Wittmann was hit with a one-race ban for taking Kamui Kobayashi out of the Sepang Grand Prix. His seat at Prost for the Yeongam Grand Prix will be taken by reserve driver Nicolas Prost.
* Juan Manuel Correa also received a one-race ban following his part in Colton Herta's retirement from the Sepang Grand Prix. Rio Haryanto filled the vacant seat at Midland Racing in Yeongam.
* Marcus Armstrong was banned from the Yeongam Grand Prix after he punted Sergio Sette Camara out of the Sepang Grand Prix, with Jaime Alguersuari taking his seat at Scuderia Coloni. Following an impressive drive to P4, Alguersuari was handed Armstrong's seat full-time.
* Will Power received a two-race ban for multiple incidents at the Yeongam Grand Prix. Leyton House replaced the Australian with reserve driver Sebastien Buemi.
* AGS took the decision to demote Tom Cruise to reserve driver after the opening two rounds and promoted Alex Palou into the vacant race seat.
* Ahead of the Sentul Grand Prix, Minardi swapped reserve driver Nyck de Vries into Jean-Eric Vergne's race seat.
* Susie Wolff was moved into a race seat at MasterCard Lola for the Sentul and Fuji Grands Prix in order to evaluate her performance in place of Sebastien Ogier.
* Christian Lundgaard was hit with a one-race ban after taking Mike Conway out of the Sentul Grand Prix. Marcus Armstrong returned to a race seat in his place.
* Sebastien Loeb also received a race ban from Sentul, with RAM Racing giving Gary Paffett his race debut.
* Antonio Giovinazzi replaced Nicholas Latifi at BAR for the Fuji Grand Prix after the Canadian was banned due to wiping out the AGS of Alex Palou during the Sentul Grand Prix.
* Rial took the decision to evaluate reserve driver Dan Ticktum in Oliver Turvey's race seat for the Fuji Grand Prix and the Kyalami Grand Prix.
* After running out of patience with Kazuki Nakajima, Onyx Grand Prix demoted his to the reserve role and put Daniil Kvyat in his seat for Kyalami.
* Leyton House shook up its driver line-up after Will Power returned from his two-race ban, putting the Australian back into a race seat while Sebastien Buemi took over Helio Castroneves' car.
* Midland Racing elected to do a double driver change ahead of the Kyalami Grand Prix, replacing both Marino Sato and Juan Manuel Correa with Felipe Nasr and Naoki Yamamoto.
* MasterCard Lola replaced Susie Wolff with Mick Schumacher for the Kyalami Grand Prix, giving the German his debut.
* Zakspeed rested Sam Bird for the Kyalami Grand Prix, with reserve driver Oliver Rowland making his return to a race seat in his place.
* Daniel Juncadella picked up a race ban at the Kyalami Grand Prix. His place at Arrows was filled by reserve driver Adrian Quaife-Hobbs.
* Daniil Kvyat was handed a two-race ban at the Istanbul Grand Prix for separate incidents involving Nyck de Vries and Alex Lynn. Onyx Grand Prix gave Antonio Fuoco his return to the Grand Prix World Series in Kvyat's place.
* Also receiving a race ban at Istanbul was Alex Palou, with the MasterCard Lola team agreeing to loan reserve driver Sebastien Ogier to AGS to fill the vacant seat.
* Naoki Yamamoto was handed a two-race ban after taking both AGS drivers out of the Misano Grand Prix. Midland Racing's reserve driver Rio Haryanto stepped in for the second time as Yamamoto's replacement, and was eventually handed a full-time drive for the rest of the season.
* Paul di Resta was banned from the Brands Hatch Grand Prix after taking Sebastien Bourdais out of the Dijon-Bourgogne Grand Prix. Oliver Bearman will make his GPWS debut with Super Aguri in di Resta's place.
* Championship contender Sebastien Buemi also collected a race ban for Brands Hatch for his part in Robin Frijns' retirement in Dijon-Bourgogne. Leyton House reserve driver Helio Castroneves will be back in action as his replacement.
* Nicholas Latifi picked up his second race ban of the season for shoving the HRT of Adrian Sutil into retirement at Dijon-Bourgogne. Antonio Giovinazzi was called upon again to fill the vacant seat.
* Driver changes following the mid-season test:
	+ Owing to inconsistent form, Arrows took the decision to indefinitely replace Daniel Juncadella with Adrian Quaife-Hobbs.
	+ Forti Corse swapped one Indian driver for another as Jehan Daruvala impressed enough in the test to take Mahaveer Raghunathan's seat for the rest of the season.
	+ After topping the League 1 test for Minardi, Jean-Eric Vergne went out on loan to the Prost team where he replaced Artem Markelov.
	+ Having impressed in the test, HRT handed Nick Yelloly his Grand Prix World Series debut in place of Adrian Sutil.
	+ DAMS-Vaillante underwent a complete change to its driver line-up, with Mirko Bortolotti and Nelson Piquet Jr. replacing Simona de Silvestro and Theo Pourchaire for the rest of the season.
* Jose Maria Lopez made his return to the Grand Prix World Series in time for the Hockenheim Grand Prix, joining the Manor team in place of Kamui Kobayashi who was demoted to the reserve role.
* In a surprise move, Simtek moved Stoffel Vandoorne down to the reserve role from Hockenheim onwards and replaced the Belgian with Luke Browning.
* Sean Gelael was banned from the Hockenheim Grand Prix, giving BAR reserve driver Antonio Giovinazzi another race at the team.
* Following the Hockenheim Grand Prix, Manor returned Kamui Kobayashi to his race seat and moved Jose Maria Lopez into Romain Grosjean's seat for the rest of the season.
* After giving Rio Haryanto a handful of races, Midland Racing put Naoki Yamamoto back in the car ahead of the Pannonia Grand Prix.

## Results and standings

### Scoring system

**Bold** indicates pole position

*Italics* indicates fastest lap

R indicates driver retired from Grand Prix

D indicates driver disqualified from Grand Prix

Cars must be classified to receive points

In the event of tied points, the driver with the most wins will take priority. If they are still tied, it then goes down to most second places, most third places and so on until a result is declared. In the highly unlikely event of a complete tie, the cars will share the position.