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Following a part-time campaign with Tech 1 Racing , Daniel Abt joined the GP2 Series with ART Grand Prix .
Mikhail Aleshin switched from Team RFR to Tech 1 Racing .[ 3] Jules Bianchi left Tech 1 Racing to race in Formula One with Marussia .Sam Bird , who finished third in 2012, left ISR to join Russian Time in the GP2 Series.Yann Cunha left Pons Racing to join AV Formula .[ 33] Pietro Fantin graduated from the British Formula 3 to join Formula Renault, where he races for Arden Caterham .[ 6] After losing his seat in DAMS ,[ 17] [ 18] Lucas Foresti joined at Comtec Racing .[ 14]
Vittorio Ghirelli , who raced with Comtec Racing moved to Auto GP .[ 34] Walter Grubmüller left P1 Motorsport after three consecutive seasons.Carlos Huertas moved from Fortec to Carlin , the team he raced for in the 2011 British Formula 3 Championship .[ 12] Jazeman Jaafar entered the Formula Renault series with Carlin , the team he placed second with in the 2012 British Formula Three championship.[ 13] Kevin Korjus , who contested the 2012 season with Tech 1 Racing and Lotus , moved to the GP3 Series with Koiranen GP .[ 35] Matias Laine moved from the GP3 Series to race in Formula Renault 3.5 for P1 Motorsport .[ 21] Kevin Magnussen joined DAMS after racing for Carlin in 2012 .[ 18] Mihai Marinescu , who finished fifth in the 2012 FIA Formula Two Championship , signed with the Zeta Corse team.[ 23] Nick Yelloly for the Monaco round of the championship,[ 27] [ 36] After one season with BVM _target , Nikolay Martsenko switched to Pons Racing .[ 31]
Nigel Melker , who competed in the GP2 Series in 2012 , joined Tech 1 Racing .[ 4] Daniil Move switched from P1 Motorsport to SMP Racing by Comtec .[ 14] Formula Renault 2.0 Alps runner-up Norman Nato joined DAMS .[ 17] Arthur Pic switched from DAMS to AV Formula.[ 33] After two years without a drive, Emmanuel Piget made his return to motor racing with Zeta Corse.[ 23]
After competing part-time in 2012 , César Ramos , Davide Rigon and Daniel Zampieri all moved to the Blancpain Endurance Series , with the three of them co-driving the #44 Kessel Racing car.
Jake Rosenzweig left the series after 3 years, instead doing a season in GP2 with Barwa Addax .Alexander Rossi , who contested the 2012 season with Arden Caterham , left the series, concentrating on his Caterham F1 reserve driver duties.[ 37] Sergey Sirotkin , who raced in the Auto GP World Series and Italian Formula Three in 2012 and contested at Moscow Formula Renault 3.5 Series round with BVM _target, stepped up to the series with ISR .[ 9] After contesting the first three rounds of 2012 before injury, Richie Stanaway moved to the Porsche Supercup .
Will Stevens signed with P1 Motorsport after a season with Carlin.[ 20] Marlon Stöckinger joined Lotus after racing in GP3 Series.[ 11] After competing in the last three rounds of the 2012 season , Aaro Vainio left Formula Renault to concentrate on GP3 .
Stoffel Vandoorne , the reigning Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 champion, moved into the Formula Renault 3.5 Series, racing for Fortec Motorsports .[ 7] Giovanni Venturini moved to the GP3 Series full-time.Oliver Webb , who competed in Indy Lights in 2012, returned to the series with Fortec Motorsports.[ 8] Christopher Zanella , who finished third in the 2012 FIA Formula Two Championship signed with ISR team.[ 10] Former Formula Renault 3.5 driver Adrián Vallés returned to the category as team owner of AV Formula .[ 32]
BVM _target was demoted from racing team to reserve team when series organisers released a provisional entry list in November 2012. The team was divided into two entries; Zeta Management and MT Motorsport, which was previously known as the Max Travin Racing Team.[ 32] Zeta Corse and registered as an Italian team.[ 22] Team RFR —previously known as KMP Racing—left the series after the 2012 season .[ 32] Race calendar and results
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^ The team competed as P1 Motorsport for the first round at Monza , before Nick Leventis purchased the team's assets and renamed it as "P1 by Strakka Racing".
^ Both qualifying and the race for the second event at Aragon were shortened and the mandatory pit-stop cancelled after problems with Zytek engines were detected.[ 39]
^ a b Sirotkin missed the first race at Le Castellet, due to commitments with Sauber in Sochi , Russia.[ 40]
^ a b Jaafar missed the final round at Barcelona after suffering from severe parotiditis.
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Monza Circuit
Stoffel Vandoorne
Will Stevens
António Félix da Costa
Arthur Pic
Ciudad del Motor de Aragón, Alcañiz
Kevin Magnussen
Sergey Sirotkin
Carlos Huertas
Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo
Nico Müller
Nigel Melker
Jazeman Jaafar
Lucas Foresti
Red Bull Ring, Spielberg
Lotus
Hungaroring, Budapest