2003 Formula Renault 2.0 UK Championship

British Formula Renault Championship

Company type	Motorsport championship
Industry	Auto racing
Founded	1989
Area served	United Kingdom
Website	www.renaultsport.co.uk/championships/formularenaultuk/

The 2003 Formula Renault 2.0 UK Championship marked the 15th edition of the British Formula Renault Championship. The competition commenced on 19 April at Snetterton and wrapped up on 21 September at Oulton Park, featuring a total of seventeen rounds held throughout England. Out of these, five events consisted of a single race, while the remainder included two races per event.

Teams and drivers

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Race calendar and results

Team		Driver name	Rounds
Fortec Motorsport	1	Robert Scott	Entire season
	26	Mike Conway	Entire season
	38	Ronayne O'Mahoney	Rounds 1–2, 5–11
	43	James Murphy	Rounds 1–8
		Fulvio Mussi	Round 9
		Luca Filippi	Round 10
	46	James Rossiter	Entire season
	83	Tom Tremayne	Round 3 only
Team DFR	2	Barry Sime	Round 1 only
		Aaron Stroud	Rounds 6, 10
		Jonathan Adam	Rounds 7, 9, 11
	10	Stefan Söderberg	Entire season
Manor Motorsport	3	Lewis Hamilton	Rounds 1–10
	4	Sérgio Jimenez	Rounds 1–10
		Allam Khodair	Round 11 only
	5	Matthew Wilson	Entire season
	66	Fabian Coulthard	Rounds 1–8
		Ryan Lewis	Rounds 9,11
		Andrew Ranger	Round 10 only
Team JVA	6	Charlie Hollings	Entire season
	7	Phil Glew	Rounds 1–4
		Paul di Resta	Rounds 8–11
	8	Vasilije Calasan	Rounds 1–9
	18	Juan Manuel Polar	Rounds 1–4,8–11
Jensen Motorsport	9	Paul Lau	Round 1 only
		Wayne Clarke	Rounds 2–5
		Jensen Lunn	Round 6 only
		Jamie Morrow	Rounds 7,10
		Neil Doran	Rounds 8–9
		Shane Kelly	Round 11 only
	19	Fulvio Mussi	Rounds 2–8,10
Eurotek Motorsport	10	Tim Sisley	"Rounds 1–9"
	"Round 11"	" Paul di Resta"	"Rounds 1–7"
	"rowspan=2"	"24"	" Marc McLoughlin"	"Round 8"
	"24"	" Vitaly Petrov"	"Round 10"
"rowspan=2"	"Paston Racing"

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning driver	Winning team
1	R1	Snetterton Circuit, Norfolk	19 April	Template:Country data GBRTemplate:Namespace detect showall Lewis Hamilton	Template:Country data GBRTemplate:Namespace detect showall Mike Conway	Template:Country data GBRTemplate:Namespace detect showall Mike Conway	Fortec Motorsport
	R2		20 April	Template:Country data GBRTemplate:Namespace detect showall Mike Conway Template:Country data GBRTemplate:Namespace detect showall Alex Lloyd Motaworld Racing
2	R3	Brands Hatch, Kent (Indy Circuit)	5 May	Template:Country data GBRTemplate:Namespace detect showall Tom Sisley	Template:Country data GBRTemplate:Namespace detect showall Mike Conway	Template:Country data GBRTemplate:Namespace detect showall Tom Sisley	Eurotek Motorsport
3	R4	Thruxton Circuit, Hampshire	26 May	Template:Country data GBRTemplate:Namespace detect showall James Rossiter	Template:Country data GBRTemplate:Namespace detect showall Lewis Hamilton	Template:Country data GBRTemplate:Namespace detect showall James Rossiter	Fortec Motorsport
4	R5	Silverstone Circuit, Northamptonshire (International Circuit)	8 June	Template:Country data GBRTemplate:Namespace detect showall Tom Sisley	Template:Country data GBRTemplate:Namespace detect showall Tom Sisley	Template:Country data GBRTemplate:Namespace detect showall Lewis Hamilton	Manor Motorsport
5	R6	Rockingham Motor Speedway, Northamptonshire	22 June	Template:Country data GBRTemplate:Namespace detect showall Lewis Hamilton	Template:Country data GBRTemplate:Namespace detect showall Lewis Hamilton	Template:Flagicon:GBR Lewis Hamilton	Manor Motorsport
rowspan=2:6	R7	rowspan=2:6 Croft Circuit, North Yorkshire	12 July	Template:Flagicon:GBR Lewis Hamilton	Template:Flagicon:GBR Brandon Thomas	Template:Flagicon:GBR Lewis Hamilton	Manor Motorsport
R8	13 July		Template:Flagicon:GBR Lewis Hamilton	Template:Flagicon:GBR Lewis Hamilton	Manor Motorsport
rowspan=2:7	R9	rowspan=2:7 Donington Park, Leicestershire (GP)	26 July	Template:Flagicon:GBR Lewis Hamilton	Template:Flagicon:GBR Brandon Thomas	Template:Flagicon:GBR Tom Sisley	Eurotek Motorsport
R10	27 July		Template:Flagicon:GBR Lewis Hamilton	Template:Flagicon:GBR Lewis Hamilton	Manor Motorsport
8	R11	Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit,Norfolk	9 August	Template:Flagicon:GBRLewis Hamilton	Template:Flagicon:GBRLewis Hamilton	Template:Flagicon:GBRLewis Hamilton	Manor Motorsport
rowspan=2 :9	R12	rowspan=2 :9 Brands Hatch,Kent (Indy)	24 August	Template:Flagicon:GBRLewis Hamilton	Template:Flagicon:GBRLewis Hamilton	Template:Flagicon:GBRLewis Hamilton	Manor Motorsport
R13	25 August		Template:Flagicon:GBRLewis Hamilton	Manor Motorsport	-	rowspan=2 :10	R14	rowspan=2 :10 Donington Park,Leicestershire (National)	9 September	Template:Flagicon:GBRLewis Hamilton	Template:Flagicon:GBRLewis Hamilton	Template:Flagicon:GBRLewis Hamilton	Manor Motorsport	-	R15	10 September				-	rowspan=2 :11	R16	>rowspan=2=Oulton Park#Island circuit Oulton Park Island circuit, Cheshire]]	>20 September	>Template:Flagicon GB Paul di Resta	>Template:Flagicon GB Mike Conway	>Template:Flagicon GB Paul di Resta	>Team JVA
R17	>21 September	>Template:Flagicon GB Paul di Resta	>Template:Flagicon GB Alex Lloyd	>Motaworld Racing

Drivers' Championship

• Points were distributed according to a 32-28-25-22-20-18-16-14-12-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 scale, with an additional point awarded for the fastest lap. Each competitor's top 15 results were considered for their overall championship tally.

Position Competitor SNE BRH THR SIL ROC CRO DON SNE BRH DON OUL Total Points 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 1 Template:Country data GBRTemplate:Namespace detect showall Lewis Hamilton 2 3 Retired 2 1st 1 1 1 Retired 1 1 1 1 419 2 Template:Country data GBRTemplate:Namespace detect showall Alex Lloyd 4th Winner 2nd 371 (387 total, 16 points dropped) 3 Template:Country data GBRTemplate:Namespace detect showall James Rossiter 347 4 ... [table continues with remaining drivers and results] ... Motorsport driver results legend Bold – Pole position Italics – Fastest lap

Teams and Drivers

  │rowspan=2 │ Team Firstair   │15   │James Murphy   │All rounds   │24   │Sean McIntosh   │All rounds   │rowspan=2 │ Team DFR   │17   │Patrick Hogan   │All rounds   │20   │Stefan Söderberg   │All rounds   │rowspan=5 │ Eurotek Motorsport   │18   │Jay Howard   │All rounds   │rowspan=2 │43   │Vitaly Petrov   │Round 1 only   │Ruben Carrapatoso   │Round 2 only   │rowspan=2 align="right" │44   │Luca Filippi   │Round 1 only   │Marc McLoughlin   │Round 2 only   │rowspan=4 │ Motaworld Racing   │21   │Joey Foster   │All rounds   │25   │Susie Stoddart   │All rounds   │26   │Tim Bridgman   │All rounds   │28   │Oliver Jarvis   │All rounds   │rowspan=2 │ Mark Burdett Motorsport   │22   │Oliver Turvey   │All rounds   │30    │Juan Manuel Polar    │All rounds    |-    │23    │Stephanie Boden    │Round 1 only    |-    │Welch Motorsport    │33    │Matt Nicoll-Jones    │All rounds    |-    │Hillspeed#Hillspeed Racing    │39    │Josh Weber    │All rounds    |-    │tatus Motorsport    │55    │Mauricio Godanez    │All rounds    |-     │Virtulli Racing     │88     │Michael Virtulli     │All rounds     |>

Race Schedule and Outcomes

Team Name	Car Number	Driver	Participating Rounds
Manor Motorsport	1	Rodolfo González	All rounds
	2	Jonathan Kennard	All rounds
	3	John Byrne	All rounds
	5	Pippa Mann	All rounds
Fortec Motorsport	4	Mike Conway	All rounds
	16	Danny Bleek	Round 1 only
		James Gornall	Round 2 only
	19	Yelmer Buurman	All rounds
	27	Stuart Hall	All rounds
Team Nasamax	6	Dean Stirling	All rounds
Falcon Motorsport	7	Paul Rees	All rounds
	29	Alex Buncombe	All rounds
Comtec Racing	8	Westley Barber	All rounds
Team JLR	9	James Jakes	All rounds
	10	Tom Kimber-Smith	All rounds
Team JVA	11	Matt Harris	All rounds
	12	Brandon Thomas	All rounds
	14   │  Sean Edwards   │All rounds

Donington Park, Leicestershire | 25 October | Template:Flagicon GBRMike Conway | Template:Flagicon GBRMike Conway | Template:Flagicon GBRMike Conway | Fortec Motorsport 26 October | Template:Flagicon GBRJames Jakes | Template:Flagicon GBRJoey Foster | Template:Flagicon GBRJoey Foster | Motaworld Racing Croft Circuit, North Yorkshire | 1 November | Template:Flagicon GBRJoey Foster | Template:Flagicon BRA Ruben Carrapatoso | Template:Flagicon GBR Westley Barber | Comtec Racing

Drivers' Standings

Position	Competitor	DON				CRO				Points
		H1	H2	LC	F	H1	H2	LC	F
1	Template:Country data GBRTemplate:Namespace detect showall Jay Howard		1		2	5			5	57
2	Template:Country data GBRTemplate:Namespace detect showall Westley Barber	6			11	1			1	52
3	Template:Country data NLDTemplate:Namespace detect showall Yelmer Buurman		5		8		1		3	49
4	Template:Country data RUSTemplate:Namespace detect showall Vitaly Petrov	2			1					44
5	Template:Country data GBRTemplate:Namespace detect showall Alex Buncombe	3			5		2		6	44

Bold – Pole Position
Italicized – Fastest Lap

External links

• Official Formula Renault UK Championship website