2014 International Junior Grand Prix Championship
2014 International Junior Grand Prix Championship | |
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Previous: 2013 | Next: 2015 |
Parent Series: Virtual Grand Prix | |
Sister Series: WJGPC | |
Feeder Series: EJGPC |
The 2014 International Junior Grand Prix Championship was the second International Junior Grand Prix Championship season, a support series to the F1F Virtual Grand Prix Championship. The series was set up and run for the first two seasons by Robert Mathershaw, however during the Spanish race weekend of 2014 he handed control of the series over to Bradley Downton.
The series once again ran with teams using the Ford IJGP/1 spec chassis with engines built by any manufacturer providing they were 2.0 litre production-based engines.
Luke Stokey begun the season as defending drivers' champion and entered the final race as one of six drivers still in contention. The other five were Stuart Harrison, Kiara Thunder, Jochem van Snelheid, Jamie Gerrard, and eventual Champion Emma Wilson, who claimed her first ever series win in the final race of the season after a last lap battle with Harrison.
Meanwhile Arqiva Westwood Youth Racing were defending teams' champions but lost out to Formation Competition, who took the title in their first year, narrowly beating Lucas Wilson Development Racing.
Teams and drivers
Team changes
- Downton Motorsport were set to replace ART Grand Prix in the series after Bradley Downton brought out the team, however he later announced a tie-in with EJGPC team Formation Competition, and the team ran under that banner instead.
- After leaving the series as Peurteor the team returned as TF1 Peugeot Junior Motorsport.
- Piuttosto Veloce left the series after their parent team Molto Veloce left the Virtual Grand Prix Championship. They were replaced by Point Cook Racing.
Driver changes
- Alejandro Suarez replaced Michael Wilkins at Liverpool Grand Prix Junior Team with Wilkins leaving the series.
- Emma Wilson and Aron Einarsson joined Lucas Wilson Development Racing in place of Juan Alejandro and Callum Brandon who both left the series.
- Christian Fischoff left the series and was replaced at Morley Development Racing by Alva Askew.
- Kiara Thunder - younger sister of VGP driver Marcus - joined Formation Competition replacing Dino Palma.
- Ivan Fyodorov replaced Luis Pésdebills at Team 23 after Pésdebills ran out of money.
- Peugeot replaced Peurteor in the series and as such brought in Odile Abel and Arthur Daniau to replace previous French pair Jean dePanon and Frances Bouvert.
- Christos Lostovolos left the series after announcing he had a better deal to race elsewhere. Ingram-Kenyon Racing replaced the Greek driver with Davide Barone.
- Luca Andreolli replaced fellow Italian Lorenzo Moretti at the Scuderia Rossi Junior Team.
Mid-season changes
- Alejandro Suarez was dropped from the Liverpool Grand Prix Junior Team following round two for unknown reasons. As a result of the deal between the Liverpool and Downton VGPC teams, Viktor Östberg was handed the seat on a race-by-race deal. This ended after the Portuguese round of the Championship as a result of Östberg's clumsy driving and he was switched with Lapierre Formule's EJGP driver Didier Arnaud.
- Stuart Harrison replaced Odile Abel at Peugeot from the US round onwards after Peugeot withdrew their backing from the VGPC team.
- Daniel Bruner replaced Alva Askew at Morley Development Racing from round three.
- Following a number of poor performances Arthur Daniau was dropped from Peugeot following the Portuguese round, and was replaced with Bailey Növak.
Calendar
Round | Event | Circuit | Date | Supporting |
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1 | Auto Trader RAC British Junior Grand Prix | Silverstone Circuit | 10 May 2014 | 2014 British Grand Prix |
2 | Molson Dry Grand Prix Juvenile du Canada | Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal | 5 July 2014 | 2014 Canadian Grand Prix |
3 | Budweiser United States Junior Grand Prix | Indianapolis Motor Speedway | 19 July 2014 | 2014 United States Grand Prix |
4 | Telefonica Gran Premio de Espana Junior | Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona | 27 August 2014 | 2014 Spanish Grand Prix |
5 | Shell V-Power Gran Premio do Portugal Junior | Autodromo do Estoril | 30 August 2014 | 2014 Portuguese Grand Prix |
6 | Gauloises Grand Prix Juvenile de France | Circuit de Nevers, Magny Cours | 7 September 2014 | 2014 French Grand Prix |
7 | ADAC Warsteiner Grosser Preis Junioren von Deutschland | Hockenheimring | 16 September 2014 | 2014 German Grand Prix |
8 | A1 Telekom Grosser Preis Junioren von Osterreich | Red Bull Ring, Spielberg | 22 September 2014 | 2014 Austrian Grand Prix |
9 | McGregor Nederlandse Wisselprijs | Circuit Park Zandvoort | 3 October 2014 | none (stand-alone event) |
10 | Heineken Grote Prijs Junioren van Belgie | Circuit Spa Francorchamps | 11 October 2014 | 2014 Belgian Grand Prix |
11 | Campari Gran Premio Minore d'Italia | Autodromo di Monza | 25 October 2014 | 2014 Italian Grand Prix |
Calendar changes
- During the Spanish race weekend it was decided a stand-alone event for the IJGPC and the EJGPC would take place at Zandvoort. The event was placed between Austria and Belgium on the calendar.
Results and standings
Grands Prix
Drivers' standings
Points are awarded to the top twelve classified finishers using the following structure:
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | Pole |
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Points | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
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Notes:
- † — Drivers did not finish the Grand Prix, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.
Teams' standings
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Notes:
- † — Drivers did not finish the Grand Prix, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.