2011 Superleague Formula season

• All teams competed on Michelin tyres for the fourth season in a row.^[5]

Entrant	Race team	No.	Race driver(s)	Rounds
Belgium – R.S.C. Anderlecht[6]	Azerti Motorsport	1	Neel Jani[7]	All
Netherlands – PSV Eindhoven[8]		2	Yelmer Buurman[9]	All
France – Girondins de Bordeaux[10]		3	Tristan Gommendy[11]	All
Czech Republic – AC Sparta Prague[12]	Atech Reid Grand Prix[13][14]	4	Filip Salaquarda[15]	All
Luxembourg[2]		5	Frédéric Vervisch[2]	All
New Zealand[12]		6	Earl Bamber[11]	1
			Chris van der Drift[16]	2
Japan[11]		7	Duncan Tappy[11]	1
			Robert Doornbos[9][17]	2
Netherlands[9]		8		1
Russia[18]		17	Mikhail Aleshin[18]	2
Spain – Atlético de Madrid[11]	EmiliodeVillota Motorsport[11]	9	María de Villota[11]	1
			Andy Soucek[11][19]	2
Turkey – Galatasaray S.K.[11]		10		1
			Duncan Tappy[19]	2
China[12]		11	Ho-Pin Tung[11]	1
South Korea[12]		19	Max Wissel[20]	2
Brazil[11]	Alan Docking Racing[21]	14	Antônio Pizzonia[22]	All
Australia[2]		24	John Martin[21]	All
England[2]		31	Craig Dolby[21]	All
Source:[23]

Entering/Re-Entering Superleague Formula

• After racing the 2010 season in Stock Car Brasil, Antônio Pizzonia returns to Superleague Formula with the Brazil entrant.
• Formula Renault 3.5 Series driver Filip Salaquarda will join new Superleague Formula club, AC Sparta Prague, supported by Atech Reid Grand Prix.

Leaving Superleague Formula

• Adderly Fong and Hywel Lloyd will both move back to British Formula 3 in 2011 with Sino Vision Racing,^[24] as will Bruno Méndez, racing for Hitech Racing.^[25]
• Having contested the final race of the 2010 season with PSV Eindhoven, Esteban Guerrieri will move into Firestone Indy Lights with Sam Schmidt Motorsports.^[26]
• Máximo Cortés, Julien Jousse and James Walker will race in the Le Mans Series in 2011, having raced in Superleague Formula on different occasions in 2010.^[27][28]
• Narain Karthikeyan, who raced for PSV Eindhoven during much of 2010, will return to Formula One with Hispania Racing following a five-year absence from the series.^[29]
• Celso Míguez will race in the Spanish GT Championship in 2011 with Aurora Racing Team having competed in Superleague Formula at two events during 2010.^[30]
• Last year's Superleague Formula champion Davide Rigon will make the step up to the GP2 Series in 2011 with team Scuderia Coloni.^[31]

• Chris van der Drift switched to the Formula Renault 3.5 Series for the start of 2011 but returned to Superleague Formula for round two in Zolder.^[32] Max Wissel rejoined the series with new entrant South Korea, and Mikhail Aleshin joined the other new entrant, Russia, racing in Superleague Formula for the first time.^[33] Robert Doornbos took over from Duncan Tappy in the championship-leading Japan car,^[17] with Tappy moving to the Galatasaray car to replace Andy Soucek, who in turn replaces María de Villota at Atlético de Madrid.

• Superleague Formula announced its full 2011 calendar on May 2, which saw the championship embark on a "Nations Cup", with races on four different continents this season in 8 rounds. For the first time, races were scheduled to be held in Russia, Brazil (two races), the Middle East and New Zealand.^[34] The Russian round, due to be held at the newly built Smolensk Ring, was later cancelled.^[35] The Middle East round was later replaced by a round in South Korea and a second round in China was added to replace the Russian round.^{[citation needed]} The two rounds in Brazil were cancelled after apparent issues with the track in Goiânia.^[3] The series finale in New Zealand was later cancelled. The "Nations Cup" branding also had to be abandoned due to issues with naming rights which the series was still looking to resolve.^[36]
• With the announcement of the calendar, it was confirmed that each round was known as a 'Grand Prix'.^[34]
• The SF World Feed commentators at Zolder were Andrew Coley and Earl Bamber.

Round		Grand Prix	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning club	Winning team	Weekend winner	Report
1	R1	GP Assen – Holland	4–5 June	France – GDB	France – GDB	Netherlands – PSV	Azerti Motorsport	England	Report
	R2				Czech Republic – SPR	Japan	Atech Reid Grand Prix
2	R1	GP Zolder – Belgium	16–17 July	England	New Zealand	England	Alan Docking Racing	Luxembourg	Report
	R2				Australia	Australia	Alan Docking Racing
Sources:[23][37]

Grand Prix	Date
GP Italy[38]	16–17 April
GP Portugal[38]	7–8 May
GP Germany[38]	18–19 June
GP Spain[38]	2–3 July
GP Britain[38]	6–7 August
GP Russia[35]	3–4 September
GP Goiânia – Brazil[3]	8–9 October
TBC[3]	15–16 October
GP Beijing – China[4]	29–30 October
GP Shanghai – China[4]	5–6 November
GP Seoul – South Korea[4]	12–13 November
TBC[39]	10–11 December

• There was a two-day pre-season test session at Spain's Circuito Monteblanco on 9–10 December 2010.^[40]
• The Circuito de Navarra in Spain was due to host a two-day test on 30–31 August 2011.^[41] However, the scheduled event was cancelled, without an explanatory announcement.^[42]