2019 SMP F4 Championship

The 2019 SMP F4 Championship was the first season of the SMP F4 Championship, following the closure of the preceding F4 North European Zone Championship at the end of 2018. The 7 round-provisional calendar gets all circuits in Russia. The series is situated with Russian Circuit Racing Series.^[1] But addition to the calendar was made after the scheduled 7th round in Sochi was cancelled. 7th round rescheduled return in Finland and Formula Academy Finland races at Alastaro, where the grid was joined by the final round of Formula 4 SMP.

All cars are run by Russian team SMP Racing. All drivers use the Tatuus-Abarth F4-T014 chassis.

No.	Driver	Round
2	Ivan Matveev	3
5	Irina Sidorkova	1−2, 4−7
11	Aleksandr Vilaev	All
16	Nikita Aleksandrov	All
17	Pavel Bulantsev	All
20	Ivan Nosov	1−2, 4−7
21	Artem Lobanenko	1−2, 4−7
33	Aleksey Nesov	All
41	Aleksandr Vartanyan	3
Foreign drivers not eligible to score points
10	Max Salo	All
12	Jimi Hannus	2, 7
56	Markus Laitala	2, 7
58	Elias Seppänen	7
28	Virtala Nestori	7

1 to 6 rounds scheduled to support 2019 Russian Circuit Racing Series. An addition to the calendar was made after the scheduled 7th round in Sochi was cancelled. 7th round rescheduled return in Finland.

Rnd.		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver
1	1	Fort Grozny Autodrom, Grozny	21 April	Pavel Bulantsev	Pavel Bulantsev	Pavel Bulantsev
2	2	NRING Circuit, Bogorodsk	18 May	Artem Lobanenko	Artem Lobanenko	Artem Lobanenko
	3		19 May	Artem Lobanenko	Artem Lobanenko	Alexey Nesov
3	4	Smolensk Ring, Smolensk	22 June	Pavel Bulantsev	Aleksandr Vartanyan	Pavel Bulantsev
	5		23 June	Pavel Bulantsev	Aleksandr Vartanyan	Aleksandr Vartanyan
4	6	Kazan Ring, Kazan	13 July	Artem Lobanenko	Artem Lobanenko	Artem Lobanenko
	7		14 July	Artem Lobanenko	Artem Lobanenko	Artem Lobanenko
5	8	ADM Raceway, Moscow	3 August	Pavel Bulantsev	Pavel Bulantsev	Pavel Bulantsev
	9		4 August	Pavel Bulantsev	Pavel Bulantsev	Pavel Bulantsev
6	10	Moscow Raceway, Volokolamsk	17 August	Pavel Bulantsev	Pavel Bulantsev	Pavel Bulantsev
	11		18 August	Pavel Bulantsev	Artem Lobanenko	Artem Lobanenko
7	12	Alastaro Circuit, Loimaa	21 September	Markus Laitala	Markus Laitala	Markus Laitala
	13		22 September	Markus Laitala	Nikita Aleksandrov	Markus Laitala

Points system

Points are awarded as follows:

Pos Driver FGA NRG SMO KZR ADM MSC ALA Pts 1 Pavel Bulantsev 1 2 Ret 1 2 Ret 2 1 1 1 2 3 3 254 2 Artem Lobanenko 7 1 3 1 1 2 5 7 1 2 2 224 3 Aleksey Nesov 3 3 1 6 3 2 Ret 3 2 2 3 5 4 204 4 Nikita Aleksandrov 5 9 2 4 4 4 5 5 Ret 3 4 6 8 151 5 Aleksandr Vilaev 4 8 5 3 6 5 3 6 4 4 5 Ret 6 147 6 Irina Sidorkova Ret 6 6 3 Ret 4 3 Ret 6 9 7 96 7 Ivan Nosov 2 4 7 Ret 4 DNS Ret 5 Ret 4 5 94 8 Aleksandr Vartanyan 2 1 47 9 Ivan Matveev 5 5 22 Foreign drivers not eligible to score points – Markus Laitala 7 4 1 1 - – Jimi Hannus 5 Ret Ret 10 - – Max Salo 6 10 8 7 7 6 6 7 6 6 7 8 11 - – Elias Seppänen 7 9 - – Nestori Virtala 11 12 - Pos Driver FGA NRG SMO KZR ADM MSC ALA Pts

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