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Revision as of 08:39, 17 January 2014
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Masters Series |
The 2014 Superleague season will be the 15th GPVWC Superleague season.
Contents
Teams and drivers
The following teams have confirmed their 2014 participation.
Team changes
- Halcyon Racing, after retiring from the 2013 Superleague season following the Belgian Grand Prix, chose not to re-apply for 2014.
- Constant Racing, after serving five years in the Superleague, also chose not to re-apply after a troubled 2013 season.
New entries
The number of team entries increased to 14 for the 2014 Superleague season with 3 spots available for new teams. All three new entries were promoted from the Supercup.
- CSG Racing returned to the Superleague after a 3 year break and were accepted after storming to the 2013 Supercup season Teams' Championship.
- Target Racing also were promoted to the Superleague after a strong campaign in the 2013 Supercup season which saw them take four wins.
- Vod:Bul Racing, though finishing mid-table in the 2013 Supercup season, proved their worth by fielding a solid line-up to every race and taking multiple podiums. The team was expected to show this same commitment in its return to the Superleague after a 5 year absence.
2014 Calendar
Testing
The 2014 testing schedule is as follows:
| Test | Date | Venue |
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| Preseason Test #1 | 23rd Jan 2014 |  Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola
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| Preseason Test #2 | 30th Jan 2014 |  Nürburgring, Nürburg
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| Preseason Test #3 | 6th Feb 2014 |  Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours
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| Preseason Test #4 | 13th Feb 2014 |  Istanbul Park, Istanbul
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| Young Driver Test | 6th Nov 2014 |  TBC
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Calendar changes
- The calender was shortened to 17 races - 1 less than the previous season.
- The Korean, Turkish and French Grands Prix were all removed from the calender
- The location of the German Grand Prix changed from the Nurburgring to the Hockenheimring; the first time the German Grand Prix was to be held there since 2008.
- The location of the United States Grand Prix also changed. For the first time in Superleague history, the Circuit of the Americas would be used to host the event.
- The Bahrain and Chinese Grands Prix made their return to Superleague calender after a 2 and 1 year absence respectively.
Rule changes
Technical
- 2014 will see the introduction of the Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS). KERS would allow drivers a new level of strategy when lapping providing limited additional accelerative power at the driver's discretion. The KERS battery is fully recharged every lap.
- A brand new engine limit will be imposed; eight being the maximum amount of engines one car can use. If a ninth engine or more were to be used, then a penalty would be handed to the driver using the car. As a consequence of this rule change, reliability will become a new option for engine manufacturers to upgrade.
- R&D will see a massive overhaul seeing the progression system change from a 10-step model to a 1-100% model.
Sporting
- Official Free Practice sessions will now be limited to Race Drivers only with no R&D points to be gained during the session. Instead, R&D points and eRD points can be earned on a separate server to be used exclusively by Test Drivers in their own 30 minute session during the race evening.
- In-season testing has been removed from the Superleague schedule.
- Pre-season testing will now enforce a cap on mileage and the freedom of personal team testing programmes during pre-season testing.
- All costs and gains - of R&D points and for fuel - will be based now on mileage, not laps.
- All teams have the option of buying 2013-spec engines for a reduced price to 2014-spec. The advantage of these engines will be better initial reliability. However, the main disadvantage to the 2013-spec engines will be that they will not get upgraded like the 2014-specs.
- An expansion of the personnel system will see the ability to add different ranges of staff to different areas. The ability to 'max out' staff has been prohibited however to prevent a major gap between teams in terms of creativity of personnel.
- 'Hospitality' will be a new area to the Managerial system. Teams will be able to host up to three big events and four medium or small hospitality events (in addition to the standard marketing operations) to attract new sponsors: these will result in the gain of Marketing Points to be used in the 2015 sponsorship negotiations.
Results and standings
Grands Prix
| Rd. | Grands Prix | Pole position | Fastest lap | Winning driver | Winning constructor | Report |
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| 1 |  Australian Grand Prix
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| 2 |  Malaysian Grand Prix
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| 3 |  Bahrain Grand Prix
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Report |
| 4 |  Chinese Grand Prix
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| 5 |  Spanish Grand Prix
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| 6 |  Monaco Grand Prix
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| 7 |  Canadian Grand Prix
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| 8 |  Austrian Grand Prix
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| 9 |  British Grand Prix
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| 10 | German Grand Prix
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| 11 |  Hungarian Grand Prix
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| 12 |  Belgian Grand Prix
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| 13 |  Italian Grand Prix
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| 14 |  United States Grand Prix
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| 15 |  Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
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| 16 |  Japanese Grand Prix
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| 17 |  Brazilian Grand Prix
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Scoring system
Points are awarded to the top 15 classified finishers.
| Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | 13th | 14th | 15th |
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| Points | 25 | 20 | 16 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Constructors standings
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Bold – Pole |
† Cars did not finish the Grand Prix, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.
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| Preceded by: 2013 Superleague season |
GPVWC Superleague season 2014 |
Succeeded by: 2015 Superleague season |
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