2014 15 MRF Challenge Formula 2000 Championship

The 2014–2015 MRF Challenge Formula 2000 Championship was the third running of the MRF Challenge Formula 2000 Championship. The championship commenced on 17 October 2014 in Losail International Circuit, Qatar and finished on 25 January 2015 in Madras Motor Racing Track, India. The series consisted of 12 races, spread across 3 meetings.

With four victories – two at Losail and two in Madras – and top-five finishes in every race, Toby Sowery finished the season as champion. Sowery finished 47 points clear of his next closest competitor Ryan Cullen, who was a three-time race winner, winning a pair of races in Bahrain and one in Madras. Third place in the championship went to the best placed home driver Raj Bharath, who was a race winner at Losail; he finished 26 points in arrears of Cullen. Four other drivers won races during the season; Tarun Reddy won the other race to be held at Losail, Struan Moore and Mathias Lauda each won races in Bahrain, and Oscar King won the season's final race, in Madras.

Drivers

Freddie Hunt, son of Template:F1 Formula One champion James Hunt and Mathias Lauda, son of Template:F1, Template:F1 and Template:F1 Formula One champion Niki Lauda both competed in the series.

Template:Tooltip	Driver	Rounds
1	Template:Flagicon Mathias Lauda	1–2
2	Template:Flagicon Tarun Reddy	All
3	Template:Flagicon Dylan Young	All
4	Template:Flagicon Christophe Mariot	2
5	Template:Flagicon Raj Bharath	All
6	Template:Flagicon Pedro Cardoso	1
7	Template:Flagicon Toby Sowery	All
8	Template:Flagicon Ryan Cullen	All
9	Template:Flagicon Lee Keshav	All
10	Template:Flagicon Vikash Anand	1–2
11	Template:Flagicon Freddie Hunt	All
12	Template:Flagicon Vinicius Papareli	All
15	Template:Flagicon Advait Deodhar	2
16	Template:Flagicon Laura Tillett	All
17	Template:Flagicon Nikita Mazepin	1
18	Template:Flagicon Kyle Mitchell	1–2
19	Template:Flagicon Camren Kaminsky	2
20	Template:Flagicon Struan Moore	2
21	Template:Flagicon Matthew Solomon	3
23	Template:Flagicon Jordan Albert	3
35	Template:Flagicon Mahaveer Raghunathan	3
50	Template:Flagicon Gustavo Myasava	3
61	Template:Flagicon Sebastian Balthasar	3
77	Template:Flagicon Oscar King	3

Race calendar and results

The second round in Bahrain was held in support of the FIA World Endurance Championship.

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver
2014
1	Template:Tooltip1	Template:Flagicon Losail International Circuit, Lusail	17 October	Template:Flagicon Toby Sowery	Template:Flagicon Toby Sowery	Template:Flagicon Toby Sowery
	R2				Template:Flagicon Toby Sowery	Template:Flagicon Tarun Reddy
	R3		18 October		Template:Flagicon Kyle Mitchell	Template:Flagicon Raj Bharath
	R4				Template:Flagicon Raj Bharath	Template:Flagicon Toby Sowery
2	R1	Template:Flagicon Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir	14 November	Template:Flagicon Raj Bharath	Template:Flagicon Ryan Cullen	Template:Flagicon Ryan Cullen
	R2				Template:Flagicon Camren Kaminsky	Template:Flagicon Struan Moore
	R3		15 November		Template:Flagicon Kyle Mitchell	Template:Flagicon Ryan Cullen
	R4				Template:Flagicon Ryan Cullen	Template:Flagicon Mathias Lauda
2015
3	R1	Template:Flagicon Madras Motor Racing Track, Chennai	24 January	Template:Flagicon Sebastian Balthasar	Template:Flagicon Oscar King	Template:Flagicon Toby Sowery
	R2				Template:Flagicon Toby Sowery	Template:Flagicon Toby Sowery
	R3		25 January		Template:Flagicon Ryan Cullen	Template:Flagicon Ryan Cullen
	R4				Template:Flagicon Oscar King	Template:Flagicon Oscar King

Championship standings

Template:Tooltip Driver LOS Template:Flagicon BHR Template:Flagicon MMR Template:Flagicon Points 1 Template:Flagicon Toby Sowery 1 3 3 1 5 2 3 4 1 1 2 5 221 2 Template:Flagicon Ryan Cullen 2 6 4 3 1 3 1 8 10† 5 1 4 174 3 Template:Flagicon Raj Bharath 9 7 1 2 2 4 4 3 5 6 4 7 148 4 Template:Flagicon Kyle Mitchell 3 5 2 7 3 6 2 2 112 5 Template:Flagicon Tarun Reddy 6 1 7 5 Ret 7 Ret Ret 2 4 Ret 9 87 6 Template:Flagicon Mathias Lauda 4 4 6 9 15† 8 6 1 71 7 Template:Flagicon Oscar King 9† 3 3 1 61 8 Template:Flagicon Gustavo Myasava 3 2 5 3 58 9 Template:Flagicon Struan Moore 4 1 Ret 6 45 10 Template:Flagicon Nikita Mazepin 5 2 Ret 6 36 11 Template:Flagicon Dylan Young 8 11 8 10 6 5 7 Ret Ret 10 9 Ret 36 12 Template:Flagicon Matthew Solomon Ret 8 6 2 30 13 Template:Flagicon Vinícius Papareli Ret 10 9 8 10 11 5 Ret 6 Ret 11 12 29 14 Template:Flagicon Pedro Cardoso 11 8 5 4 26 15 Template:Flagicon Jordan Albert 4 12 7 6 26 16 Template:Flagicon Camren Kaminsky 12 9 8 5 18 17 Template:Flagicon Laura Tillett 12 13 11 12 8 12 Ret 7 Ret Ret 8 8 18 18 Template:Flagicon Vikash Anand 7 9 13 13 7 Ret Ret 9 16 19 Template:Flagicon Lee Keshav 11 14 12 11 13 13 9 Ret 7 9 10 13 10 20 Template:Flagicon Sebastian Balthasar Ret 7 Ret 11 8 21 Template:Flagicon Mahaveer Raghunathan 8 11 DNS 10 5 22 Template:Flagicon Freddie Hunt 10 12 10 Ret 9 10 Ret Ret Ret Ret 12 Ret 5 23 Template:Flagicon Christophe Mariot 14 15 11 10 1 24 Template:Flagicon Advait Deodhar 11 14 10 Ret 1 Template:Tooltip Driver LOS Template:Flagicon BHR Template:Flagicon MMR Template:Flagicon Points

Template:Motorsport driver results legend Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

External links

• Template:Official website