2013 NewF1 Series season

2013 NewF1 Series
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The 2013 NewF1 season is the 64th season of the Formula One World Championship, a motor racing championship for Formula One cars which is recognised by the sport's governing body, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), as the highest class of competition for open-wheel racing cars. It was also officially recognised as the first season of the NewF1 Series. Twelve teams and twenty-four drivers contest the nineteen Grands Prix that make up the calendar for the 2013 season, with the winning driver being crowned the World Drivers' Champion and the winning team the World Constructors' Champions. The season started in Australia on 17 March 2013 and is planned to end in Brazil on 24 November 2013.

The 2013 season was the first to be referred to as NewF1, although the term is officially interchangeable with Formula One and F1. The new format brought in several rule changes, aimed at revamping motorsport and bringing more interest to junior categories. For the first time in history, the two bottom-placed teams in the season would be relegated to NewGP2 for the 2014 season, being replaced by the top two GP2 teams. The series also brought about a number of other changes in format, in particular points system, qualifying, and tyre compounds.

Teams and drivers

Team	Constructor	No.	Race Drivers	Rounds	Test Driver(s)
Infiniti Red Bull Racing	Red Bull-Renault	1	Sebastian Vettel	1-	Sébastien Buemi António Félix da Costa
		2	Kamui Kobayashi	1-
Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari	3	Fernando Alonso	1-	Davide Rigon Marc Gené Pedro de la Rosa
		4	Felipe Massa	1-
Vodafone McLaren Mercedes	McLaren-Mercedes	5	Jenson Button	1-	Gary Paffett Oliver Turvey
		6	Mark Webber	1-
Lotus F1 Team	Lotus-Renault	7	Kimi Räikkönen	1-	Davide Valsecchi Giedo van der Garde
		8	Romain Grosjean	1-
Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team	Mercedes	9	Nico Rosberg	1-	Anthony Davidson Brendon Hartley
		10	Lewis Hamilton	1-
Sauber F1 Team	Sauber-Ferrari	11	Nico Hülkenberg	1-	Esteban Gutiérrez Vitaly Petrov Christian Klien
		12	Timo Glock	1-
Sahara Force India F1 Team	Force India-Mercedes	14	Paul di Resta	1-	James Calado James Rossiter
		15	Adrian Sutil	1-
Williams F1 Team	Williams-Renault	16	Pastor Maldonado	1-	Susie Wolff Felipe Nasr
		17	Valtteri Bottas	1-
Scuderia Toro Rosso	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	18	Jean-Eric Vergne	1-	Jérôme d'Ambrosio
		19	Daniel Ricciardo	1-
Caterham F1 Team	Caterham-Renault	20	Heikki Kovalainen	1-	Alexander Rossi Ma Qinghua
		21	Charles Pic	1-
Marussia F1 Team	Marussia-Cosworth	22	Jules Bianchi	1-	Alex Lynn Rodolfo González
		23	Sam Bird	1-
Scorpion Racing F1 Team	Scorpion-Cosworth	24	Sergio Pérez	1-6	Luca Badoer Sergio Pérez
			Robin Frijns	7-
		25	Kevin Magnussen	1-

Team Changes

In November 2012, Thesan Capital, the owners of HRT Formula 1 Team, announced that they were putting the team up for sale. The team needed to find a buyer by 30 November—the date by which entry fees for the 2013 were due to be paid—or else face closure and a departure from the sport, but an eleventh hour bid by a then undisclosed investor saw the team revived and saved for the 2013 grid. It was later announced that the bidder was a Canadian group, who would be renaming the team Scorpion Racing F1 Team and basing their operations in Silverstone.

Driver Changes

The season saw a number of large changes in light of the changes in format in the weeks leading up to the start of the season, following the normal silly season at the end of 2012. Red Bull shocked many by dropping Mark Webber and signing Kamui Kobayashi as his replacement on a two year contract. Timo Glock was also given another chance in F1 courtesy of Sauber, as they demoted Esteban Gutiérrez (who had originally been announced as the team's second driver) to test driver. Heikki Kovalainen, who had lost his Caterham seat was surprisingly given it back in light of the rule changes and a loss in funding for Giedo van der Garde.

Following Mark Webber's sacking at Red Bull, he was considered one of the hotter prospects for teams to snap up, and ended up going for a deal with McLaren, who unceremoniously dumped Sergio Perez to make way for the Australian. Perez, without a drive and short on options jumped at the opportunity to drive for new outfit Scorpion, partnering Kevin Magnussen. Finally, Marussia decided to give Max Chilton a test seat instead of a full-time drive as previously announced, and instead signed Sam Bird.

Mid-Season Changes

• Marussia released two of their test drivers, Tom Dillmann and Max Chilton after the Bahrain Grand Prix, replacing the duo with British driver Alex Lynn.
• Sergio Pérez was banned for the Canadian and British Grands Prix following causing a collision during the Monaco Grand Prix with Sebastian Vettel; Robin Frijns was announced as his replacement for both races, with the Dutchman also coming on board as a full-time test driver. Following consistent results in the two races Scorpion announced that Frijns would retain the seat for the remainder of the 2013 season, with Pérez demoted to a test role.

Season Calendar

Testing

Circuit	Date	Fastest driver	Fastest team	Lap time
Circuito de Jerez	8 February	Vitaly Petrov	Sauber	1:19.263
Circuit de Catalunya	3 March	Davide Valsecchi	Lotus	1:24.233
Silverstone Circuit	19 July	Daniil Kvyat	Red Bull	1:36.216

Young Driver Test

Grands Prix

Round	Date	Race title	Circuit	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team	Reject of the Race
1	17 March	Australian Grand Prix	Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit	Mark Webber	Fernando Alonso	Timo Glock	Sauber	Mark Webber
2	24 March	Malaysian Grand Prix	Sepang International Circuit	Nico Hülkenberg	Nico Hülkenberg	Nico Hülkenberg	Sauber	Weather strategists
3	14 April	Chinese Grand Prix	Shanghai International Circuit	Fernando Alonso	Fernando Alonso	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	Mercedes
4	21 April	Bahrain Grand Prix	Bahrain International Circuit	Sebastian Vettel	Kamui Kobayashi	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull	Caterham
5	12 May	Spanish Grand Prix	Circuit de Catalunya	Mark Webber	Timo Glock	Timo Glock	Sauber	Lotus
6	26 May	Monaco Grand Prix	Circuit de Monaco	Sebastian Vettel	Kamui Kobayashi	Kamui Kobayashi	Red Bull	Sergio Pérez
7	9 June	Canadian Grand Prix	Circuit Gilles Villeneuve	Lewis Hamilton	Nico Rosberg	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	Red Bull
8	30 June	British Grand Prix	Silverstone Circuit	Sebastian Vettel	Kamui Kobayashi	Kamui Kobayashi	Red Bull	Sebastian Vettel
9	7 July	German Grand Prix	Nürburgring	Mark Webber	Sebastian Vettel	Mark Webber	McLaren	Red Bull
10	28 July	Hungarian Grand Prix	Hungaroring	Sebastian Vettel	Kamui Kobayashi	Kamui Kobayashi	Red Bull	McLaren
11	25 August	Belgian Grand Prix	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	Fernando Alonso	Jenson Button	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	Jenson Button
12	8 September	Italian Grand Prix	Autodromo Nazionale Monza
13	22 September	Singapore Grand Prix	Marina Bay Street Circuit
14	6 October	Korean Grand Prix	Korea International Circuit
15	13 October	Japanese Grand Prix	Suzuka Circuit
16	27 October	Indian Grand Prix	Buddh International Circuit
17	3 November	Abu Dhabi Grand Prix	Yas Marina Circuit
18	17 November	United States Grand Prix	Circuit of the Americas
19	24 November	Brazilian Grand Prix	Autódromo José Carlos Pace

Changes

Points System

Due to the high stakes of being relegated, the FIA saw it necessary to extend the point-scoring positions down to 15th, to reward consistency for the lower-ranked teams over one-off results.

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th
Points	25	20	16	13	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1

Other Changes

• Drivers are only permitted to complete one lap in each qualifying session
• Tyre manufacturers Pirelli have revised their tyre compounds to just three: dry, intermediate and wet. The dry compound will be slightly different for each event, meaning all races should be between two and three pit stops.
• Test drivers can be approached at any time during the season for a full time driver contract with another team, whether they sign on not is up to the driver

Results and Standings

Drivers' Championship

Pos. Driver AUS MAL‡ CHN BHR ESP MON CAN GBR GER HUN BEL ITA SIN KOR JPN IND ABU USA BRA Points 1 Fernando Alonso 3 9 1 2 Ret Ret 1 Ret 2 9 1 145 2 Kamui Kobayashi 4 6 Ret 3 6 1 11 1 Ret 1 5 140 3 Timo Glock 1 5 3 12 1 8 12 7 Ret 6 11 117 4 Mark Webber 16 13 10 4 2 7 5 5 1 Ret 6 108 5 Sebastian Vettel Ret 12 7 1 9 Ret 10 11 13 2 3 95 6 Kimi Räikkönen Ret Ret 4 17 Ret 2 15 3 3 3 4 95 7 Lewis Hamilton 5 Ret Ret 8 7 5 2 14 11 Ret 2 86 8 Pastor Maldonado Ret 4 2 7 5 Ret 8 12 6 Ret 13 78 9 Adrian Sutil 10 8 9 16 3 3 Ret 8 9 Ret 7 77 10 Jenson Button 11 16 8 6 4 9 7 6 7 14 14 75 11 Daniel Ricciardo 2 3 Ret 15 10 11 13 10 5 10 Ret 74 12 Valtteri Bottas 6 15 Ret 9 Ret 4 4 13 Ret 5 8 66 13 Romain Grosjean Ret Ret 6 13 Ret 6 6 2 Ret 11 9 65 14 Nico Hülkenberg 7 1 5 11 8 Ret 19† Ret 10 Ret 16 64 15 Nico Rosberg 13 11 Ret 10 14† 10 3 18 14 8 10 54 16 Felipe Massa 12 Ret Ret 5 12 Ret Ret 9 8 4 Ret 47 17 Paul di Resta Ret 10 Ret 14 Ret Ret 9 4 12 7 12 45 18 Jean-Eric Vergne Ret 2 11† Ret 11 Ret Ret Ret 4 17† 15 44 19 Charles Pic 9 17 12 Ret 13 12 17 16 16 15 18 19 20 Heikki Kovalainen 8 18 Ret Ret Ret Ret 14 15 15 13 17 15 21 Sam Bird 14 14 13 19 16 13 16 19 17 12 19 14 22 Jules Bianchi 15 7 Ret 18 15 Ret Ret 20 Ret Ret 20 11 23 Kevin Magnussen DNQ 19 14 DNQ 17 14 Ret 21 18 18† 21 4 24 Sergio Pérez 17 DNQ 15 20 DNQ DSQ 1 25 Robin Frijns 18 17 19 16 22 0

Key Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Did not finish (Ret) Orange Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) Pale Blue Withdrawn (WD) Blank Did Not Enter (No text) Excluded (EX) Did not Start (DNS) Did not Arrive (DNA) Event cancelled (C) Injured (INJ) Bold denotes pole position Italics denote fastest lap † Classification despite retirement ‡ Race not run to scheduled distance

Constructors' Championship

Pos. Constructor No. AUS MAL‡ CHN BHR ESP MON CAN GBR GER HUN BEL ITA SIN KOR JPN IND ABU USA BRA Points 1 Red Bull-Renault 1 Ret 12 7 1 9 Ret 10 11 13 2 3 235 2 4 6 Ret 3 6 1 11 1 Ret 1 5 2 Ferrari 3 3 9 1 2 Ret Ret 1 Ret 2 9 1 192 4 12 Ret Ret 5 12 Ret Ret 9 8 4 Ret 3 McLaren-Mercedes 5 11 16 8 6 4 9 7 6 7 14 14 183 6 16 13 10 4 2 7 5 5 1 Ret 6 4 Sauber-Ferrari 11 7 1 5 11 8 Ret 19† Ret 10 Ret 16 181 12 1 5 3 12 1 8 12 7 Ret 6 11 5 Lotus-Renault 7 Ret Ret 4 17 Ret 2 15 3 3 3 4 160 8 Ret Ret 6 13 Ret 6 6 2 Ret 11 9 6 Williams-Renault 16 Ret 4 2 7 5 Ret 8 12 6 Ret 13 144 17 6 15 Ret 9 Ret 4 4 13 Ret 5 8 7 Mercedes 9 5 Ret Ret 10 14† 10 3 18 14 8 10 140 10 13 11 Ret 8 7 5 2 14 11 Ret 2 8 Force India-Mercedes 14 Ret 10 Ret 14 Ret Ret 9 4 12 7 12 122 15 10 8 9 16 3 3 Ret 8 9 Ret 7 9 Toro Rosso-Ferrari 18 Ret 2 11† Ret 11 Ret Ret Ret 4 17† 15 118 19 2 3 Ret 15 10 11 13 10 5 10 Ret 10 Caterham-Renault 20 8 18 Ret Ret Ret Ret 14 15 15 13 17 34 21 9 17 12 Ret 13 12 17 16 16 15 18 11 Marussia-Cosworth 22 15 7 Ret 18 15 Ret Ret 20 Ret Ret 20 25 23 14 14 13 19 16 13 16 19 17 12 19 12 Scorpion-Cosworth 24 17 DNQ 15 20 DNQ DSQ 18 17 19 16 22 5 25 DNQ 19 14 DNQ 17 14 Ret 21 18 18† 21 Relegated to the 2014 NewGP2 Series season