The 2017 Formula Renault Eurocup was a multi-event

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championship for

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, formula racing cars held across

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. The championship featured drivers competing in 2 litre Formula Renault single seat race cars that conformed to the technical regulations for the championship. The 2017 season was the 27th Formula Renault Eurocup season organized by the

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and the second season as the main category of the World Series by Renault. The series would visit ten circuits around Europe, including Monaco.

Teams and drivers

Twelve teams were preselected on 12 September 2016. ASM Motorsport, Cram Motorsport and Duqueine Engineering were dropped from the final teams' list that was published on 9 November 2016.

Driver changes

* French F4 champion Yifei Ye and 2016 F4 British Championship driver Luis Leeds made their Eurocup debut with

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. They were partnered by Sacha Fenestraz who left

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. While Eurocup champion

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and his teammate

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, who raced for Josef Kaufmann racing in 2016, stepped up to 2017 FIA Formula 3 European Championship. * F4 British Champion Max Fewtrell, 2016 BRDC British Formula 3 Championship driver Thomas Maxwell and 2016 V de V Challenge Monoplace driver Thomas Neubauer joined

. While 2016 Tech 1 regular

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moved to 2017 GP3 Series. Another 2016 Tech 1 regular Hugo de Sadeleer left single-seaters to join United Autosports in LMP2 class of the 2017 European Le Mans Series. * French F4 Championship driver Raúl Guzmán competed for

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, he was joined in the team by

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, who previously raced for Josef Kaufmann Racing. While 2016 R-ace GP racer Julien Falchero graduated to GP3 Series. * Panam GP Series champion Axel Matus and V de V Challenge Monoplace driver Gregoire Saucy made their debuts for AVF by Adrián Vallés. They was joined by Rodrigo Pflucker who has competed two rounds with Cram Motorsport. 2016 AVF regular Harrison Scott decided to switch to 2017 Euroformula Open Championship. * V de V Challenge Monoplace champion Alex Peroni and 2016 Asian Formula Renault Series driver Najiy Razak made their Eurocup debut with Fortec Motorsports. Aleksey Korneev switched from JD Motorsport to Fortec. While Bruno Baptista and Ferdinand Habsburg, who raced for Fortec in 2016 moved to GP3 Series and FIA Formula 3 European Championship respectively. * JD Motorsport signed all-rookie line-up with Sun Yueyang and Jean-Baptiste Simmenauer who jumped straight from the karting. They also took 2016 SMP F4 Championship driver Aleksandr Vartanyan, who also have contested 2016 Eurocup finale with Fortec. James Allen who raced for JD Motorsport in 2016 decided to switch to sports car racing, joining Graff Racing * Mark Burdett Motorsport team were joined by Formula 4 South East Asia champion Presley Martono and 2016 Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup driver Julia Pankiewicz. *

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squad was staffed by SMP F4 and F4 Spanish champion

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driver and another Red Bull Junior Neil Verhagen and Verschoor's SMP F4 title rival Jarno Opmeer. * Arden signed with Red Bull Junior driver Dan Ticktum, Formula Renault 2.0 NEC driver Ghislain Cordeel and F4 British Championship driver Zane Goddard.

Race calendar

The provisional calendar for the 2017 season was announced on 17 October 2016. The series will return

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and

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and add Pau Circuit in its schedule. While Ciudad del Motor de Aragón for the first time since 2009 will be not present in the 2017 calendar, as well as 2016 returnee

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. On 3 February 2017 was confirmed the number of the races during the rounds.

Results

Footnotes

Championship standings

The first race at

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which held in fog conditions was red-flagged after three laps were completed behind the safety car, but before 75% of the scheduled distance in laps, the necessary distance required for a race to pay full points. Race paid half points to all classified finishers. ;Points system Points were awarded to the top 10 classified finishers.

Drivers' championship

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Teams' championship

Only two best-finishing cars are allowed to score points in the championship.

References

External links

Renault-Sport official website
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