2016 Supercup season

2016 Supercup season

Competition	Supercup
Title Sponsor	TBC
Platform Used	rFactor 2
Rounds	18
Mod Used	Formula Renault 3.5 2014
Carshape
Engine Supplier(s)	GPVWC
Tyre Supplier(s)	GPVWC
Drivers	-
Teams	14
Drivers' Champion
Teams' Champion
Supercup Seasons
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GPVWC series in 2016
Career Ladder
Superleague Supercup Formula Challenge Open Series
Other series
Masters Series World Sport Series International Touring Cup World GT Vintage Series Atlantic Series

The 2016 Supercup season will be the 9th GPVWC Supercup season.

Teams and drivers

The amount of team slots was reduced from 15 to 14 for the 2016 season, co-inciding with the move to rFactor 2 for the 2016 Career Ladder series.

The following teams have confirmed their 2016 participation.

Supercup Team	Base	Abbreviation	Chassis	Tyre	No.	Race Drivers	Rounds	Test/Reserve Driver(s)
Simtech Enterprise GP	Bromley, England	EGP	SC-016	G	17	Geoffrey Fournier	1	Antonio Hreljanovic Argo Teder
						Rait Tuulikas
					23	Scott Berrisford	1
Evolution Motorsports	Kirchhain, Germany	Evolution	SC-016	G	47	Dennis Jordan	1	TBC
					48	Marcel Rautter	1
Fox Racing	Kessel, Belgium	Fox	SC-016	G	31	Matt Richards	1	TBC
					41	Maurice Brackhahn	1
GoSport International	Philadelphia, PA, United States	GoSport	SC-016	G	22	Danny Asbury	1	TBC
					63	Adrian Holm	1
Ice Cold Racing	Gothenberg, Sweden	Ice Cold	SC-016	G	42	Eric Stranne	1	TBC
					43	Tobias Olsson	1
Karjala Racing	Helsinki, Finland	Karjala	SC-016	G	40	Ari Nieminen	1	TBC
					78	Lewis McGlade	1
Malta Force GP	Siggiewi, Malta	Malta Force	SC-016	G	44	Jason Muscat	1	TBC
					77	Menno Klont	1
Measuric Racing	Bennekom, The Netherlands	Measuric	SC-016	G	16	Dino Paolini	1	Wopke Hoekstra
					55	Mark Wicks	1
Team Proline	Hameln, Germany	Proline	SC-016	G	94	Lars Brugman	1	TBC
					97	Niels Brugman	1
Racing Team Schroten	Bennekom, Netherlands	RTS	SC-016	G	29	Teemu Toikka	1	Marius Nicolae
					98	Argenis Riera	1
Satellite Racing	West Palm Beach, FL, United States	Satellite	SC-016	G	32	Sven de Vries	1	TBC
					64	Craig Baxter	1
ST Racing	Chandler's Ford, England	ST	SC-016	G	56	Mark Fuller	1	TBC
					96	Borja Millán	1
Streetfighter Racing Systems	Sydney, Australia	SRS	SC-016	G	67	Risto Kappet	1	TBC
					68	David Francic	1
TG Racing	Mtarfa, Malta	TG	SC-016	G	59	Andrew Waring	1	Terence Grech
					60	Edgar Ruiz	1

Team changes

• Wauters Automotive and Storm Racing Team were both promoted to the Superleague.
• Smile Power Racing's entry was taken over by Evolution Motorsports, the team nationality being accordingly changed to German.
• Neither Walk Racing, PB Racing or Positive SimRacing continued into the 2016 season.
• TSA Racing, having withdrawn from the 2015 championship mid-season, also did not continue into 2016.
• SimCraft Racing were initially on the entry list, but had a change of management and was rebranded as GoSport International shortly before the first round at Melbourne.

New entries

• Ice Cold Racing, Team Proline and Karjala Racing were all promoted from the Formula Challenge.

Returning entries

• Centurion Grand Prix was also promoted from Formula Challenge, returning to the Supercup following a year's absence. However, during pre-season, team boss Terence Grech completed his takeover of the team following his arrival in February 2015 and renamed the outfit to TG Racing. The nationality of the team was accordingly switched to Maltese.
• Racing Team Schroten was promoted from Formula Challenge, returning to the Supercup after four years of absence.

2016 Calendar

Round	Race Title	Grand Prix	Circuit	Conditions	Date	Start Time
						Track time	GMT	BST
1	Australian Grand Prix	Australian GP	Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit, Melbourne	TBC	24th February	14:00	19:00	—
2	Bahrain Grand Prix	Bahrain GP	Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir	TBC	9th March	18:00	19:00	—
3	Russian Grand Prix	Russian GP	Sochi Autodrom, Sochi	TBC	23rd March	14:00	19:00	—
4	Spanish Grand Prix	Spanish GP	Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona	TBC	6th April	14:00	18:00	19:00
5	Turkish Grand Prix	Turkish GP	Istanbul Park, Istanbul	TBC	20th April	14:00	18:00	19:00
6	Monaco Grand Prix	Monaco GP	Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo	TBC	4th May	14:00	18:00	19:00
7	Canadian Grand Prix	Canadian GP	Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal	TBC	18th May	14:00	18:00	19:00
8	British Grand Prix	British GP	Silverstone Circuit, Northamptonshire	TBC	1st June	14:00	18:00	19:00
9	Austrian Grand Prix	Austrian GP	Red Bull Ring, Spielberg	TBC	15th June	14:00	18:00	19:00
10	Dutch Grand Prix	Dutch GP	TT Circuit Assen, Assen	TBC	29th June	14:00	18:00	19:00
11	Hungarian Grand Prix	Hungarian GP	Hungaroring, Budapest	TBC	13th July	14:00	18:00	19:00
12	Belgian Grand Prix	Belgian GP	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Spa	TBC	27th July	14:00	18:00	19:00
13	Italian Grand Prix	Italian GP	Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, Monza	TBC	31st August	14:00	18:00	19:00
14	Japanese Grand Prix	Japanese GP	Suzuka Circuit, Suzuka	TBC	14th September	14:00	18:00	19:00
15	Abu Dhabi Grand Prix	Abu Dhabi GP	Yas Marina Circuit, Yas Island	TBC	28th September	17:00	18:00	19:00
16	United States Grand Prix	United States GP	Circuit of the Americas, Austin	TBC	12th October	14:00	18:00	19:00
17	Mexican Grand Prix	Mexican GP	Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City	TBC	26th October	14:00	18:00	19:00
18	Brazilian Grand Prix	Brazilian GP	Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo	TBC	9th November	14:00	19:00	—

Calendar changes

• The Portuguese and Singapore Grands Prix were both removed from the calendar
• The calendar was extended to 18 events seeing the return of the Mexican Grand Prix after a 4 year absence whilst also seeing the first running of the Russian Grand Prix.

Testing

The 2016 testing schedule is as follows:

Test	Date	Venue
Pre-Season Test #1	9th February 2016	Sepang International Circuit, Sepang
Pre-Season Test #2	16th February 2016	Dubai Autodrome, Dubailand

Rule changes

Technical

• For the first time since 2009, the simulator of choice for the Career Ladder was upgraded from rFactor to its sequel, rFactor 2.
• With a change in simulator came a change in vehicle as the Formula Renault 3.5 2014 car was utilised for the first time.

Sporting

• Multiple dry tyre compounds were removed from the series with one single Dry compound replacing the previous Soft and Hard options.
• Due to this change, an enforced pit stop was brought into action for the Feature race of an event's evening.

Results and standings

Grands Prix

Round		Grand Prix	Pole Position	Pole Time	Fastest Lap	F/L Time	Winning Driver	Winning Team	Report
1	R1	Supercup Australian Grand Prix	David Francic	1:31.413	Risto Kappet	1:32.410	Lars Brugman	Team Proline	Report
	R2				Geoffrey Fournier	1:32.676	Scott Berrisford	Simtech Enterprise GP
2	R1	Supercup Bahrain Grand Prix		-		-			Report
	R2					-
3	R1	Supercup Russian Grand Prix		-		-			Report
	R2					-
4	R1	Supercup Spanish Grand Prix		-		-			Report
	R2					-
5	R1	Supercup Turkish Grand Prix		-		-			Report
	R2					-
6	R1	Supercup Monaco Grand Prix		-		-			Report
	R2					-
7	R1	Supercup Canadian Grand Prix		-		-			Report
	R2					-
8	R1	Supercup British Grand Prix		-		-			Report
	R2					-
9	R1	Supercup Austrian Grand Prix		-		-			Report
	R2					-
10	R1	Supercup Grand Prix		-		-			Report
	R2					-
11	R1	Supercup Hungarian Grand Prix		-		-			Report
	R2					-
12	R1	Supercup Belgian Grand Prix		-		-			Report
	R2					-
13	R1	Supercup Italian Grand Prix		-		-			Report
	R2					-
14	R1	Supercup Japanese Grand Prix		-		-			Report
	R2					-
15	R1	Supercup Abu Dhabi Grand Prix		-		-			Report
	R2					-
16	R1	Supercup United States Grand Prix		-		-			Report
	R2					-
17	R1	Supercup Mexican Grand Prix		-		-			Report
	R2					-
18	R1	Supercup Brazilian Grand Prix		-		-			Report
	R2					-

Scoring system

Points are awarded to the top 15 classified finishers.

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th
Points	25	20	16	13	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1

Drivers' standings

Pos Driver AUS BAH RUS ESP TUR MON CAN GBR AUT TBC HUN BEL ITA JPN UAE USA MEX BRA Points 1 Lars Brugman 1 5 36 2 Scott Berrisford 10 1 31 3 Risto Kappet 6 2 30 4 Adrian Holm 5 3 27 5 Niels Brugman 3 6 26 6 Sven de Vries 4 4 26 7 David Francic 2 Ret 20 8 Andrew Waring 8 7 17 9 Jason Muscat 9 8 15 10 Eric Stranne 7 15 10 11 Lewis McGlade 14 9 9 12 Marcel Rautter 15 10 7 13 Craig Baxter Ret 11 5 14 Maurice Brackhahn 11 Ret 5 15 Menno Klont 19 12 4 16 Dennis Jordan 12 Ret 4 17 Dino Paolini 16 13 3 18 Tobias Olsson 13 17 3 19 Argenis Riera 20 14 2 20 Teemu Toikka 21 16 0 21 Geoffrey Fournier 17 21 0 22 Edgar Ruiz Ret 18 0 23 Ari Nieminen 18 20 0 24 Danny Asbury Ret 19 0 25 Mark Wicks 22 Ret 0 26 Borja Millan 23† Ret 0 27 Mark Fuller Ret Ret 0 28 Matt Richards Ret DNS 0 Pos Driver AUS BAH RUS ESP TUR MON CAN GBR AUT TBC HUN BEL ITA JPN UAE USA MEX BRA Points

Key Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Did not finish (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Race cancelled (C) Light blue Practiced only (PO) Blank Did not participate (-) Excluded (EX) Withdrew entry before the event (WD) Bold - Pole Italics - Fastest lap

^† Cars did not finish the Grand Prix, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.

Teams' standings

Pos Team Car No. AUS BAH RUS ESP TUR MON CAN GBR AUT TBC HUN BEL ITA JPN UAE USA MEX BRA Points 1 Team Proline 94 1 5 62 97 3 6 2 Streetfighter Racing Systems 67 6 2 50 68 2 Ret 3 Simtech Enterprise GP 17 17 21 31 23 10 1 4 Satellite Racing 32 4 4 31 64 Ret 11 5 GoSport International 22 Ret 19 27 63 5 3 6 Malta Force GP 44 9 8 19 77 19 12 7 TG Racing 59 8 7 17 60 Ret 18 8 Ice Cold Racing 42 7 15 13 43 13 17 9 Evolution Motorsports 47 12 Ret 11 48 15 10 10 Karjala Racing 40 18 20 9 78 14 9 11 Fox Racing 31 Ret DNS 5 41 11 Ret 12 Measuric Racing 16 16 13 3 55 22 Ret 13 Racing Team Schroten 29 21 16 2 98 20 14 14 ST Racing 56 Ret Ret 0 96 23† Ret Pos Team Car No. AUS BAH RUS ESP TUR MON CAN GBR AUT TBC HUN BEL ITA JPN UAE USA MEX BRA Points

Key Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Did not finish (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Race cancelled (C) Light blue Practiced only (PO) Blank Did not participate (-) Excluded (EX) Withdrew entry before the event (WD) Bold - Pole Italics - Fastest lap

^† Cars did not finish the Grand Prix, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.

Preceded by: 2015 Supercup season

GPVWC Supercup season 2016

Succeeded by: 2017 Supercup season