2012 ADAC Formel Masters

The 2012 ADAC Formel Masters season was an open-wheel motor racing series for emerging young racing drivers based out of Germany. It was the fifth season of the ADAC Formel Masters. The season began on 31 March at Motorsport Arena Oschersleben and finished on 30 September at Hockenheim after eight race weekends, totalling 24 races.

The championship was won by German driver Marvin Kirchhöfer.

Season review

The first two poles of the season were claimed at Oschersleben by second-year driver Jeffrey Schmidt for the Lotus team, that was previously known as Motopark Academy.[1] But he was passed by his team-mate Marvin Kirchhöfer on the opening lap of the first race, with Kirchhöfer going on to win his first race in single-seaters.[2] Schmidt and Kirchhöfer collided in the second race, while Thomas Jäger secured his first win in the German series,[3] and the first for his team, Neuhauser Racing, since 2008. Another Lotus driver Kuba Dalewski won the reverse-grid third race of the weekend in his first single-seaters meeting.[4]

Teams and drivers

Team	No.	Drivers	Rounds
Lotus[5]	2	Kuba Dalewski[6]	1–5
	3	Marvin Kirchhöfer[6]	All
	4	Hubertus Carlos-Vier[7]	3–4
	5	Beitske Visser[8]	1–2, 4–6, 8
	6	Indy Dontje[6]	All
	7	Jeffrey Schmidt[6]	All
	24	Antti Buri	7
Mücke Motorsport[6]	8	Roy Nissany[9]	All
	9	Florian Herzog[10]	All
	10	Luca Caspari[6]	All
	12	Jason Kremer[11]	All
ADAC Berlin-Brandenburg[6]	11	Hendrik Grapp[6]	All
Neuhauser Racing[6]	14	Gustav Malja[12]	All
	15	Thomas Jäger[13]	All
Team KUG Motorsport[6]	16	Hubertus Carlos-Vier[6]	1
	17	Nicolas Pohler[6]	All
KSW Motorsport[6]	18	Kim-Alexander Giersiepen[6]	1–3, 7–8
G&J/Schiler Motorsport[6]	19	Sebastian Balthasar[6]	All
	21	Alessio Picariello[14]	All
HS Engineering[6]	20	Felix Wieland[6]	All
	23	Nicolas Beer	4–6, 8

Race calendar and results

• The 2012 calendar was announced on 29 September 2011.[15] Seven of eight race weekends are a part of the ADAC's Masters Weekend package, with an additional round at the Nürburgring that will support the ADAC Truck Grand Prix.

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team
1	R1	Motorsport Arena Oschersleben	31 March	Jeffrey Schmidt	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Lotus
	R2		1 April	Jeffrey Schmidt	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Thomas Jäger	Neuhauser Racing
	R3				Kuba Dalewski	Kuba Dalewski	Lotus
2	R1	Circuit Park Zandvoort	5 May	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Lotus
	R2		6 May	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Lotus
	R3				Gustav Malja	Beitske Visser	Lotus
3	R1	Sachsenring	9 June	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Gustav Malja	Gustav Malja	Neuhauser Racing
	R2		10 June	Gustav Malja	Gustav Malja	Gustav Malja	Neuhauser Racing
	R3			Race abandoned^1
4	R1	Nürburgring	14 July	Jason Kremer	Alessio Picariello	Alessio Picariello	G&J/Schiller Motorsport
	R2			Jason Kremer	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Jason Kremer	Mücke Motorsport
	R3		15 July		Jason Kremer	Gustav Malja	Neuhauser Racing
5	R1	Red Bull Ring	11 August	Florian Herzog	Gustav Malja	Roy Nissany	Mücke Motorsport
	R2		12 August	Alessio Picariello	Jason Kremer	Alessio Picariello	G&J/Schiller Motorsport
	R3				Marvin Kirchhöfer	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Lotus
6	R1	Lausitzring	25 August	Hendrik Grapp	Florian Herzog	Hendrik Grapp	ADAC Berlin-Brandenburg
	R2		26 August	Beitske Visser	Gustav Malja	Beitske Visser	Lotus
	R3				Jeffrey Schmidt	Jeffrey Schmidt	Lotus
7	R1	Nürburgring	15 September	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Gustav Malja	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Lotus
	R2		16 September	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Gustav Malja	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Lotus
	R3				Gustav Malja	Hendrik Grapp	ADAC Berlin-Brandenburg
8	R1	Hockenheimring	29 September	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Lotus
	R2			Marvin Kirchhöfer	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Lotus
	R3		30 September		Marvin Kirchhöfer	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Lotus

Notes:

• ^1  — The third race at the Sachsenring was abandoned following an accident in which Florian Herzog and Kim-Alexander Giersiepen collided with a course car while marshals were recovering the car of Nicolas Pohler from a gravel trap.[16]

Championship standings

Drivers' Championship

• Points are awarded as follows:

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Races 1 & 2	25	18	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1
Race 3	15	10	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1

Pos Driver OSC ZAN SAC NÜR RBR LAU NÜR HOC Pts 1 Marvin Kirchhöfer 1 17 5 1 1 3 2 4 C 3 2 2 Ret 7 1 3 10 6 1 1 2 1 1 1 329 2 Gustav Malja 5 4 3 3 13 2 1 1 C 5 4 1 2 2 4 2 2 3 3 2 7 2 3 3 307 3 Jeffrey Schmidt 3 16 8 5 12 4 5 3 C 4 5 4 8 12 7 5 3 1 4 5 Ret 4 4 2 193 4 Jason Kremer 2 6 15 7 2 9 4 2 C 2 1 3 4 5 2 10 8 Ret 11 8 4 5 11 Ret 191 5 Thomas Jäger 8 1 12 Ret 6 Ret 7 14 C 6 6 7 5 4 3 6 14 5 15 3 8 3 2 4 165 6 Alessio Picariello 10 2 4 12 5 7 Ret 8 C 1 3 DSQ 3 1 5 Ret 9 4 7 12 13 10 7 14 152 7 Indy Dontje 14 12 14 8 4 8 3 5 C 12 9 6 7 10 10 12 5 Ret 6 4 11 7 5 5 111 8 Beitske Visser 9 5 Ret DNS 8 1 8 12 12 6 6 15 4 1 Ret 6 6 6 109 9 Roy Nissany Ret 8 10 6 11 5 Ret 7 C 7 8 5 1 16 Ret 7 6 Ret 8 6 DSQ 9 10 8 98 10 Luca Caspari 7 7 2 2 14 6 6 6 C 9 11 13 10 15 8 9 DSQ 7 5 Ret 3 11 12 Ret 91 11 Hendrik Grapp 6 11 13 DNS 7 16 8 10 C 17 10 14 9 11 11 1 12 9 2 7 1 Ret DNS 12 88 12 Kuba Dalewski 13 3 1 4 3 15 9 16 C 14 7 Ret Ret 3 14 80 13 Sebastian Balthasar 16 9 7 11 10 14 11 Ret C 16 15 9 14 17 6 8 4 Ret 9 13 Ret Ret 8 10 37 14 Florian Herzog 4 10 6 9 9 10 Ret 9 C 11 14 10 12 8 13 14 13 DSQ 10 Ret 9 14 9 9 37 15 Felix Wieland 11 14 9 DNS 16 13 13 15 C 18 18 11 Ret 9 Ret 11 7 2 13 10 10 Ret 16 13 22 16 Nicolas Beer 10 16 8 11 13 9 Ret 11 8 8 13 7 13 17 Antti Buri 12 9 5 8 18 Nicolas Pohler 12 13 11 10 15 11 12 12 C 15 17 Ret 13 14 12 13 Ret Ret 14 11 6 12 14 11 6 19 Hubertus-Carlos Vier DNS DNS DNS 10 13 C 13 13 15 1 20 Kim-Alexander Giersiepen 15 15 16 Ret DNS 12 14 11 C 16 14 12 15 15 15 0 Pos Driver OSC ZAN SAC NÜR RBR LAU NÜR HOC Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

Teams' Championship

Pos Team OSC ZAN SAC NÜR RBR LAU NÜR HOC Pts 1 Lotus 1 3 1 1 1 1 2 3 C 3 2 2 6 3 1 3 1 1 461 3 5 5 4 3 3 3 4 C 4 5 4 7 6 7 4 3 6 2 Mücke Motorsport 2 6 2 2 2 5 4 2 C 2 1 3 1 5 2 1 6 7 366 4 7 6 6 7 6 6 6 C 7 8 5 4 8 8 7 8 9 3 Neuhauser Racing 5 1 3 3 6 2 1 1 C 5 4 1 2 2 3 2 2 3 355 8 4 12 Ret 13 Ret 7 14 C 6 6 7 5 4 4 6 14 5 4 G&J/Schiller Motorsport 10 2 4 11 5 7 11 8 C 1 3 9 3 1 5 8 4 4 215 16 9 7 12 10 14 Ret Ret C 16 15 DSQ 14 17 6 Ret 9 Ret 5 HS Engineering 11 14 9 DNS 16 13 13 15 C 10 16 8 11 9 9 11 7 2 63 18 18 11 Ret 13 Ret Ret 11 8 6 Team KUG Motorsport 12 13 11 10 15 11 12 12 C 15 17 Ret 13 14 12 13 Ret Ret 36 DNS DNS DNS 7 KSW Motorsport 15 15 16 Ret DNS 12 14 11 C 11 Pos Team OSC ZAN SAC NÜR RBR LAU NÜR HOC Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX)

References

1. "Schmidt takes first two pole positions". ADAC Formel Masters. ADAC. 31 March 2012. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
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10. "Ein ehrgeiziger Neuling" [An ambitious newcomer]. ADAC Formel Masters (in German). ADAC. 28 December 2011. Retrieved 12 February 2012.^[permanent dead link‍]
11. "Kremer will um den Titel kämpfen" [Kremer wants to fight for the title]. ADAC Formel Masters (in German). ADAC. 8 December 2011. Retrieved 12 February 2012.^[permanent dead link‍]
12. "Neuhauser Racing 2012 weiter mit Malja, Teamkollege noch offen" [Neuhauser Racing with Malja, teammate still unknown]. ADAC Formel Masters (in German). ADAC. 28 February 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2012.^[permanent dead link‍]
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15. "2012 erneut mit acht mal drei Rennen" [Eight times with three races in 2012 again]. ADAC Formel Masters (in German). ADAC. 29 September 2011. Retrieved 12 February 2012.^[permanent dead link‍]
16. "Third race at Sachsenring abandoned". ADAC Formel Masters. ADAC. 10 June 2012. Retrieved 10 June 2012.

External links

• Official Website (in German)
• ADAC Masters Weekend^[permanent dead link‍] (in German)