2014 Florida Winter Series

The 2014 Florida Winter Series season was the inaugural and only season for the Florida Winter Series, a non-championship racing series organised by the Ferrari Driver Academy in Florida. The season started with a collective test on 22 January 2014 at Homestead-Miami Speedway,[1] before a total of 12 races were held over 4 race meetings at Sebring International Raceway, Palm Beach International Raceway and Homestead-Miami Speedway.

2014 Florida Winter Series
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One of the Academy's driver roster, Formula Renault 2.0 Alps competitor Antonio Fuoco, was one of two drivers to win four races along with Nicholas Latifi, who had contested the FIA European Formula Three Championship in 2013. KZ1 karting world champion Max Verstappen won races at Palm Beach and Homestead, as he contested his first single-seater races prior to a campaign in the FIA European Formula Three Championship with Van Amersfoort Racing, while Dennis van de Laar and Tatiana Calderón each won races at Sebring, as they also prepared for their respective FIA European Formula Three Championship campaigns.

The series used the Tatuus FA010B chassis. This car is also used in Formula Abarth and other regional championships. The car is built to Formula 3 safety regulations to ensure the drivers safety. The car is powered by a 1400cc Fiat-FPT engine producing 190hp.

Drivers
No. Driver Previous series Rounds
2 Ed Jones[2] British Formula 3 Championship National Class All
3 Max Verstappen[2] Karting KZ1 All
4 Dennis van de Laar[2] FIA European Formula Three Championship All
5 Lance Stroll[2] Karting KF1 All
6 Antonio Fuoco[2] Formula Renault 2.0 Alps All
7 Tatiana Calderón[2] FIA European Formula Three Championship All
9 Ben Anderson Formula Ford 1600 1
Will Buxton none 2
Oliver Marriage none 4
11 Alex Bosak[2] Formula Renault 2.0 Alps All
17 Vasily Romanov[2] Karting KF1 All
18 Nicholas Latifi[2] FIA European Formula Three Championship All
23 Takashi Kasai[2] Karting KF1 All
53 Raffaele Marciello[2] FIA European Formula Three Championship All

Race calendar and results

All rounds were held in Florida, United States.

Round Circuit Location Date Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver
1 R1 Sebring Raceway Sebring, Florida January 26 Antonio Fuoco Max Verstappen Dennis van de Laar
R2 January 27 Nicholas Latifi Tatiana Calderón
R3 Max Verstappen Antonio Fuoco Antonio Fuoco
2 R4 Palm Beach International Raceway Jupiter, Florida February 4 Antonio Fuoco Max Verstappen Antonio Fuoco
R5 February 5 Dennis van de Laar Nicholas Latifi
R6 Max Verstappen Tatiana Calderón Max Verstappen
3 R7 Homestead-Miami Speedway RC Homestead, Florida February 13 Antonio Fuoco Nicholas Latifi Antonio Fuoco
R8 February 14 Ed Jones Nicholas Latifi
R9 Max Verstappen Antonio Fuoco Antonio Fuoco
4 R10 Homestead-Miami Speedway RC Mod Homestead, Florida February 18 Lance Stroll Antonio Fuoco Nicholas Latifi
R11 February 19 Ed Jones Nicholas Latifi
R12 Ed Jones[N 1] Max Verstappen Max Verstappen

Results

All races were non-championship, with no points awarded.

Driver SEB PAL HMS1 HMS2
Antonio Fuoco 2 2 1 1 11 5 1 5 1 2 4 5
Nicholas Latifi 3 NC 5 7 1 12 4 1 2 1 1 2
Max Verstappen 4 Ret 8 2 7 1 3 Ret 3 4 5 1
Dennis van de Laar 1 Ret 3 4 4 3 Ret 4 5 Ret 3 Ret
Tatiana Calderón Ret 1 6 5 5 6 6 6 6 9 10† Ret
Ed Jones 6 3 2 3 6 2 5 3 8 3 2 3
Raffaele Marciello 5 Ret Ret 8 2 11 2 7 4 5 Ret 4
Lance Stroll 7 4 4 6 3 4 Ret 2 7 Ret DNS DNS
Alex Bosak 10 5 7 10 Ret 7 Ret 10 11 6 9† 7
Vasily Romanov 9 6 10 10 8 8 7 8 9 Ret 6 8
Takashi Kasai 11 7 11 11 9 9 8 9 10 7 8 6
Oliver Marriage 8 7 9
Ben Anderson 8 Ret 9
Will Buxton 12 10 10
Legend
Color Result
Gold Winner
Silver 2nd place
Bronze 3rd place
Green 4th & 5th place (Top 5)
Light Blue 6th–10th place (Top 10)
Dark Blue Finished (Outside Top 10)
Purple Did not finish (DNF)
Red Did not qualify (DNQ)
Brown Withdrew (Wth)
Black Disqualified (DSQ)
White Did not start (DNS)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank Did not participate (DNP)
Driver replacement (Rpl)
Race not held (NH)
Not competing
In-Line Notation
Bold Pole position
Italics Ran fastest race lap
* Led most race laps
miscellaneous notation

† — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.

Notes
  1. Antonio Fuoco took pole position, but was dropped five places because of an earlier jump start. Therefore, Ed Jones was handed the pole position.

References
  1. "Series info". Florida Winter Series. Archived from the original on 21 December 2013. Retrieved 19 December 2013.
  2. "FWS drivers" (PDF). ferrari.com. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
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