2015 SMP F4 Championship

The 2015 SMP F4 Championship season was the inaugural season of the SMP F4 Championship, a motor racing series for the North European Zone (NEZ) regulated according to FIA Formula 4 regulations, held in Estonia, Finland and Russia. The 2015 season began on 16 May at Ahvenisto in Finland[1] and finished on 3 October at the auto24ring in Estonia,[2] after seven triple header rounds.

2015 SMP F4 Championship
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The series' inaugural champion was Finnish driver Niko Kari in his first season of car racing.[3] Kari took seven overall wins (including a weekend sweep at Moscow Raceway) during the 2015 season, but also added five class victories behind British driver Enaam Ahmed – who was ineligible to score championship points – for a total of twelve during the season. Kari finished over 150 points clear of his next closest rival, Vladimir Atoev; Atoev won three races, all coming on the same weekend at Alastaro. Third place in the championship was settled in the final race in Estonia; Nerses Isaakyan took five runner-up positions in six races which allowed him to overhaul Aleksanteri Huovinen in the championship standings. Huovinen was another three-time race winner; winning twice at Ahvenisto and once at Moscow Raceway. Two other drivers won races in 2015 as Aleksey Korneev won races at Moscow Raceway and Sochi, while Nikita Troitskiy won the third race at Ahvenisto; the drivers finished fifth and sixth in the drivers' championship.

Drivers
No. Driver Rounds
2 Ivan Matveev[4] All
3 Joel Eriksson[5] 1
5 Niko Kari[6] All
7 Nikita Troitskiy[4] 1–4, 6–7
10 Vladimir Atoev[4] All
12 Aleksanteri Huovinen[4] All
14 Simo Laaksonen[7] 3–4, 6–7
17 Nerses Isaakyan[4] All
21 Aleksey Korneev[8] All
23 Niklas Nylund[9] All
29 Denis Mavlanov[8] 1–5, 7
32 Roman Lebedev 6
34 Nikita Sitnikov[8] All
41 Aleksandr Vartanyan 5–6
65 Enaam Ahmed[10] 1, 3–5, 7
71 Semen Evstigneev[11] 1, 3–7
77 Aleksandr Maslennikov[8] All
96 Artem Kabakov[8] 1–3

Race calendar and results

The round at Moscow Raceway, held over 5–7 June, was a support event to the FIA WTCC Race of Russia.[1] The original scheduled final meeting was scheduled to be held over 18–20 September at Sochi Autodrom,[12] but was first postponed to 2–3 October and later moved to the Auto24ring.[2]

Round Circuit, Location Date Pole Position Fastest Lap Winning Driver
1 R1 Ahvenisto Race Circuit, Hämeenlinna 16 May Vladimir Atoev Niko Kari Aleksanteri Huovinen
R2 17 May Aleksanteri Huovinen Aleksanteri Huovinen
R3 Vladimir Atoev Niko Kari Nikita Troitskiy
2 R4 Moscow Raceway, Volokolamsk 6 June Aleksey Korneev Aleksanteri Huovinen Aleksanteri Huovinen
R5 7 June Niko Kari Niko Kari
R6 Aleksey Korneev Aleksey Korneev Aleksey Korneev
3 R7 Sochi Autodrom, Sochi 20 June Niko Kari Vladimir Atoev Niko Kari
R8 21 June Niko Kari Niko Kari
R9 Niko Kari Niko Kari Aleksey Korneev
4 R10 Alastaro Circuit, Loimaa 15 August Vladimir Atoev Vladimir Atoev Vladimir Atoev
R11 16 August Vladimir Atoev Vladimir Atoev
R12 Vladimir Atoev Nerses Isaakyan Vladimir Atoev
5 R13 Auto24ring, Audru 29 August Niko Kari Vladimir Atoev Enaam Ahmed
R14 Niklas Nylund Enaam Ahmed
R15 Niko Kari Nerses Isaakyan Niko Kari
6 R16 Moscow Raceway, Volokolamsk 5 September Nerses Isaakyan Niko Kari Niko Kari
R17 6 September Niko Kari Niko Kari
R18 Nerses Isaakyan Niko Kari Niko Kari
7 R19 Auto24ring, Audru 3 October Enaam Ahmed Niko Kari Enaam Ahmed
R20 Nikita Troitskiy Enaam Ahmed
R21 Enaam Ahmed Vladimir Atoev Enaam Ahmed

Championship standings
Pos Driver AHV
 MSC
 SOC
 ALA
 AUD
 MSC
 AUD
 Pts
1 Niko Kari 2 Ret 2 2 1 2 1 1 4 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 449
2 Vladimir Atoev 3 2 4 3 5 8 3 3 8 1 1 1 5 3 2 10 5 10 4 3 5 296
3 Nerses Isaakyan 4 13† 5 5 4 6 7 8 3 3 Ret 4 6 Ret 5 2 2 2 3 5 3 234
4 Aleksanteri Huovinen 1 1 6 1 2 3 4 Ret 12 7 6 9 7 4 8 6 4 5 5 8 11 229
5 Aleksey Korneev 10 Ret 7 NC 7 1 2 2 1 4 3 7 8 5 4 9 Ret 6 11 9 6 191
6 Nikita Troitskiy Ret 6 1 Ret 6 5 DNS 6 2 8 Ret 12 5 3 3 10 4 9 149
7 Niklas Nylund Ret 9 8 9 Ret 4 5 5 6 6 4 8 3 7 Ret 3 13† 4 13 10 Ret 136
8 Ivan Matveev 6 5 13† 10 10 10 8 7 5 9 Ret 5 4 6 3 13 9 7 6 6 Ret 131
9 Nikita Sitnikov 8 7 14† 4 3 7 12 Ret 7 13 Ret 10 10 10 7 12 6 9 9 7 4 104
10 Aleksandr Maslennikov 9 8 10 6 9 9 10 Ret Ret 10 7 Ret 9 9 12† 7 7 Ret 8 Ret 8 66
11 Simo Laaksonen 6 10 Ret 11 5 6 8 8 8 7 11 7 60
12 Joel Eriksson 12 4 3 30
13 Artem Kabakov 7 10 Ret 7 8 11 14 11† Ret 21
14 Denis Mavlanov 11 12 12 8 11 DSQ 11 9 10 14 8 11 12 12 11 12 12 10 20
15 Aleksandr Vartanyan 11 11 10 4 10 11 17
16 Semen Evstigneev Ret 11 11 13 Ret 11 12 Ret Ret 13 8 9 11 11 13† 14 Ret DSQ 13
Drivers with non-NEZ licence ineligible for championship points
Enaam Ahmed 5 3 9 9 4 9 5 9† 3 1 1 6 1 1 1 0
Roman Lebedev 14 12 12 0
Pos Driver AHV
 MSC
 SOC
 ALA
 AUD
 MSC
 AUD
 Pts
ColourResult
GoldWinner
Silver2nd place
Bronze3rd place
GreenPoints finish
BlueNon-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
PurpleRetired (Ret)
RedDid not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
BlackDisqualified (DSQ)
WhiteDid not start (DNS)
Withdrew (WD)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank Did not participate (DNP)
Did not arrive (DNA)
Excluded (EX)

Bold – Pole
Italics – Fastest Lap

References
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