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The 2011 Eurocup Clio season was the inaugural season of the Renault–supported touring car category, a one-make racing series that is part of the World Series by Renault, the series uses Renault Clio RS 197's. It replaced the French F4 Championship which ran for one season in 2010.

Frenchman Nicolas Milan won the first season with ease by taking five wins and appearing on the podium in second for the other 3 races, comfortably ahead of Dutchman Mike Verschuur by 72 points, who in turn was ahead of third place Massimiliano Pedalà by 51 points.

The series featured several different teams; however, there was no championship for teams.

Regulations

Sporting

• The points system for the first season were made to reflect the system used by the FIA for World championships. The top ten drivers in each race were awarded points as follows: 25, 18, 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2, and 1.

Race calendar and results

The calendar for the 2011 season was announced on 11 October 2010, the day after the end of the 2010 season. All of the four rounds formed meetings of the 2011 World Series by Renault season.

Round		Circuit	Country	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team
1	R1	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	Belgium	30 April	Nicolas Milan	Nicolas Milan	Nicolas Milan	Milan Competition
	R2			1 May	Nicolas Milan	Philippe Maurin	Nicolas Milan	Milan Competition
2	R1	Nürburgring	Germany	18 June	Giancarlo Lenzotti	Giancarlo Lenzotti	Nicolas Milan	Milan Competition
	R2			19 June	Sebastiaan Bleekemolen	Robert van den Berg	Mike Verschuur	Equipe Verschuur
3	R1	Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet	France	17 September	Nicolas Milan	Massimiliano Pedalà	Massimiliano Pedalà	Rangoni Motorsport
	R2			18 September	Nicolas Milan	Massimiliano Pedalà	Nicolas Milan	Milan Competition
4	R1	Circuit de Catalunya, Montmeló	Spain	8 October	Mike Verschuur	Azor Dueñas	Azor Dueñas	Milan Competition
	R2			9 October	Nicolas Milan	Philippe Maurin	Nicolas Milan	Milan Competition

Championship standings

• Points for both championships were awarded as follows:

Drivers' Championship

Pos Driver SPA NÜR LEC CAT Points 1 Nicolas Milan 1 1 1 2 2 1 2 1 186 2 Mike Verschuur 4 6 2 1 4 Ret 3 2 114 3 Massimiliano Pedalà 5 25 5 13 1 2 Ret Ret 63 4 Simone Di Luca Ret 3 4 4 28 3 8 Ret 62 5 Marc Thomas Guillot 2 2 Ret 9 20 10 10 3 59 6 Jordi Palomeras Ventós 17 Ret 31 6 7 21 5 5 43 7 Robert van den Berg 9 32 6 11 5 7 6 Ret 42 8 Sebastiaan Bleekemolen 3 5 Ret 29 Ret 6 35 9 Giancarlo Lenzotti 16 4 3 Ret 10 11 11 Ret 32 10 Sheila Verschuur 10 8 8 5 8 28 25 11 Philippe Maurin Ret 10 Ret 27 6 4 15 22 23 12 Cristian Ricciarini 18 Ret 7 3 21 13 Thibault Bossy 6 7 Ret 8 Ret 13 18 14 Frédéric Yerly 13 18 10 7 9 12 14 8 17 15 Marcos de Diego Bravo 12 12 14 8 6 17 16 16 Salvatore Arcarese 24 20 17 Ret 19 5 Ret 15 10 17 Rene Steenmetz 20 14 25 28 Ret 22 17 7 8 18 Santiago Navarro Freixas Ret 21 22 Ret 25 23 9 12 7 19 Jose Joao Magalhaes 7 13 13 12 Ret 15 19 Ret 6 20 Ronald Morien 8 9 21 14 13 Ret 6 21 Manuel Zumstein 15 16 29 15 11 14 18 9 5 22 Stephan Polderman 11 Ret 11 17 12 9 16 19 4 23 Alessandro Sebasti Scalera Ret 33 9 23 2 24 Frédéric O'Neill Ret 28 16 31 16 19 Ret 10 2 25 Max Braams 29 15 28 10 Ret 24 1 26 Ruud Steenmetz Ret Ret 14 Ret Ret 16 12 14 1 27 Thomas Fjordbach 27 24 15 19 18 18 13 18 0 28 Raquel Morera Ibañez 25 Ret 19 20 27 26 Ret 13 0 29 Björn Cornelissen Ret 27 24 21 15 20 Ret 20 0 30 Luciano Gioia 22 26 12 16 Ret 16 0 31 Stefano Zanini 26 23 30 18 17 17 0 32 Niels Kool 21 19 20 25 21 Ret 20 21 0 33 Daniele Pasquali 28 29 26 26 Ret 30 21 23 0 34 Saetta McQueen 30 31 27 30 26 27 Ret 24 0 Guest drivers ineligible for points Azor Dueñas 1 4 0 Yoann Baziret 3 6 0 Eoin Murray 4 Ret 0 Jean Philippe Lamic 19 11 0 Sebastiano Ciato 23 Ret Ret 11 0 Michaël Novalak 14 17 0 Willy Welles 18 22 0 Dennis de Borst 22 25 0 Giuseppe Termine Ret 22 0 Jean-Marc Thevenot 22 Ret 0 Enrico Dell'Onte Ret 30 23 25 0 Jose Manuel De Los Milagros 23 Ret 0 Jean-Marc Corde 24 29 0 Guy Frey Ret 24 0 Pos Driver SPA NÜR LEC CAT Points

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

External links

• Results
• More results
• Website

• 2011 in motorsport
• 2011 in European sport
• Eurocup Clio