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{{Short description|Auto racing championship in Europe}}
{{Infobox motorsport championship
| logo            = AutoGPlogo.png
| pixels          = 200
| caption         = 
| category        = [[Open-wheel car|Single seaters]]
| region          = [[Europe]]
| inaugural       = 1999
| folded          = 2016
| drivers         = 9
| teams           = 5
| constructors    = [[Lola Racing Cars|Lola]]
| engines         = [[Zytek]]
| tyres           = [[Kumho Tires]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.autogp.org/en/news.php?id=0580|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120723112429/http://www.autogp.org/en/news.php?id=0580|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 July 2012|title=Kumho Tyres and double compound for 2012|date=3 February 2012|work=Auto GP|publisher=Auto GP Organisation|access-date=3 February 2012}}</ref>
| champion driver = {{flagicon|MEX}} [[Luis Michael Dörrbecker]]
| champion team   = {{flagicon|ITA}} Torino Squadra Corse
| manufacturer    = 
| current_season  = 
| website         =
}}
'''Auto GP''', sometimes referred to as the '''Auto GP World Series''' and formerly known as both '''Euro Formula 3000''' and the '''Euroseries 3000''', was a European [[formula racing]] series.

The series' roots can be traced back to 1999 and the '''Italian Formula 3000''' series, organised by Pierluigi Corbari, which used old [[Lola Cars|Lola]] chassis with [[Zytek]] engines. The teams used the [[Lola T96/50]] in the first two years. At the beginning nearly all races were held in [[Italy]], but very quickly the series expanded and had venues in different European countries.

The series became European Formula 3000 in 2001. The next three years (2001–2003) saw the [[Lola B99/50]] in use. For 2004, [[Superfund Group|Superfund]] became the series' title sponsor, planning to use a new car with a new set of regulations, named Formula Superfund, but the funding was pulled before the 2005 season got under way and the series was cancelled.

For 2005, [[Scuderia Coloni|Coloni Motorsport]] established an Italian national-level championship, using the Italian Formula 3000 name. In 2006, Coloni expanded this to form a new European championship named Euroseries 3000 with the [[Lola B02/50]]. The Italian series continued to run as part of Euroseries races.

In 2009, the organisers announced that the first-generation [[A1 Grand Prix]] [[Lola B05/52]] were allowed alongside the Lola F3000 chassis, replacing the old cars completely from 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://autosport.aeiou.pt/gen.pl?p%3Dstories%26op%3Dview%26fokey%3Das.stories%2F66146|title=Euro 3000 com antigos carros do A1GP - Autosport.pt|access-date=2013-05-15|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217012831/http://autosport.aeiou.pt/gen.pl?p=stories&op=view&fokey=as.stories%2F66146|archive-date=2012-02-17}}</ref>

The championship itself was rebranded for the 2010 season, with it adopting the Auto GP name. As well as that, the championship offered a €200,000 prize fund at each of its six rounds.<ref>{{cite magazine|editor-last=Freeman|editor-first=Glenn |date=2009-10-29|title=Pit & Paddock: Euroseries 3000; Euro 3000 revamped for 2010|magazine=[[Autosport]]|volume=198|issue=5|page=29}}</ref>

2015 marked the start of the Auto GP World Series working with ISRA, a company from the Netherlands who set up the 2014 FA1 Series, this partnership, however, has not lasted long with the Auto GP Organisation announcing at Round 1 (of the 2015 season) that the two companies have parted ways. The 2015 season was "archived" midway through the season and midway through the 2016 season the series merged with the [[BOSS GP]] series.

==Results==
=== Formula 3000 era ===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:85%;"
!Season
!Champion
!Second
!Third
!Team Champion
!Secondary Class Champion
|-
!colspan=6| Italian Formula 3000
|-
! [[1999 Italian Formula 3000 Championship|1999]]
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Giorgio Vinella]]
| {{flagicon|ZAF}} [[Werner Lupberger]]
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Marco Apicella]]
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Team Martello]]
|align=center rowspan=3| ''not awarded''
|-
! [[2000 Italian Formula 3000 Championship|2000]]
| {{flagicon|BRA}} [[Ricardo Sperafico]]
| {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Warren Hughes]]
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Gabriele Lancieri]]
| {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Arden International|Arden Team Russia]]
|-
!colspan=6| Euro Formula 3000
|-
! [[2001 Euro Formula 3000 Championship|2001]]
| {{flagicon|BRA}} [[Felipe Massa]]
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Thomas Biagi]]
| {{flagicon|DEU}} [[Alex Müller (racing driver)|Alex Müller]]
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Draco Racing|Draco Junior Team]]
|align=center rowspan=3| ''not awarded''
|-
! [[2002 Euro Formula 3000 Championship|2002]]
| {{flagicon|BRA}} [[Jaime Melo, Jr.]]
| {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Romain Dumas]]
| {{flagicon|CZE}} [[Jaroslav Janiš]]
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Team Great Wall]]
|-
! [[2003 Euro Formula 3000 Series|2003]]
| {{flagicon|BRA}} [[Augusto Farfus]]
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Fabrizio del Monte]]
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Gianmaria Bruni]]
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Draco Racing|Draco Junior Team]]
|-
!colspan=6| Superfund Euro Formula 3000
|-
! [[2004 Euro Formula 3000 Series|2004]]
| {{flagicon|NLD}} [[Nicky Pastorelli]]
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Fabrizio del Monte]]
| {{flagicon|AUT}} [[Norbert Siedler]]
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Draco Racing|Draco Junior Team]]
|align=center| ''not awarded''
|-
!colspan=6| Italian Formula 3000
|-
! [[2005 Italian Formula 3000 Championship|2005]]
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Luca Filippi]]
| {{flagicon|CZE}} [[Jaroslav Janiš]]
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Giacomo Ricci]]
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[FMS International]]
| {{Tooltip|L|Winner of the Light Class}}: {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Stefano Gattuso]]
|-
!colspan=6| Euroseries 3000
|-
! [[2006 Euroseries 3000|2006]]
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Giacomo Ricci]]
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Marco Bonanomi]]
| {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Vitaly Petrov]]
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[FMS International]]
| {{Tooltip|I|Winner of the Italian Formula 3000}}: {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Giacomo Ricci]]
|-
! [[2007 Euroseries 3000|2007]]
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Davide Rigon]]
| {{flagicon|BRA}} [[Diego Nunes (racing driver)|Diego Nunes]]
| {{flagicon|BRA}} [[Luiz Razia]]
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Piquet GP|Minardi by GP Racing]]
| {{Tooltip|I|Winner of the Italian Formula 3000}}: {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Davide Rigon]]
|-
! [[2008 Euroseries 3000|2008]]
| {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Nicolas Prost]]
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Fabio Onidi]]
| {{flagicon|PAK}} [[Adam Khan]]
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Bull Racing]]
| {{Tooltip|I|Winner of the Italian Formula 3000}}: {{flagicon|COL}} [[Omar Leal]]
|-
! [[2009 Euroseries 3000|2009]]
| {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Will Bratt]]
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Marco Bonanomi]]
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Fabio Onidi]]
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[FMS International]]
| {{Tooltip|I|Winner of the Italian Formula 3000}}: {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Will Bratt]]
|}

===Auto GP===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:85%;"
!Season
!Champion
!Second
!Third
!Team Champion
!Secondary Class Champion
|-
!colspan=6| Auto GP
|-
! [[2010 Auto GP Series|2010]]
| {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Romain Grosjean]]
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Edoardo Piscopo]]
| {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Duncan Tappy]]
| {{flagicon|FRA}} [[DAMS]]
| {{Tooltip|U21|Winner of the U21 Trophy}}: {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Adrien Tambay]]
|-
! [[2011 Auto GP Series|2011]]
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Kevin Ceccon]]
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Luca Filippi]]
| {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Sergey Afanasyev (racing driver)|Sergey Afanasyev]]
| {{flagicon|FRA}} [[DAMS]]
| {{Tooltip|U21|Winner of the U21 Trophy}}: {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Kevin Ceccon]]
|-
!colspan=6| Auto GP World Series
|-
! [[2012 Auto GP World Series|2012]]
| {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Adrian Quaife-Hobbs]]
| {{flagicon|NOR}} [[Pål Varhaug]]
| {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Sergey Sirotkin (racing driver)|Sergey Sirotkin]]
| {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Super Nova Racing|Super Nova International]]
| {{Tooltip|U21|Winner of the U21 Trophy}}: {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Adrian Quaife-Hobbs]]
|-
!colspan=6| Auto GP
|-
! [[2013 Auto GP Series|2013]]
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Vittorio Ghirelli]]
| {{flagicon|JPN}} [[Kimiya Sato]]
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Sergio Campana (racing driver)|Sergio Campana]]
| {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Super Nova Racing|Super Nova International]]
| {{Tooltip|U21|Winner of the U21 Trophy}}: {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Vittorio Ghirelli]]
|-
! [[2014 Auto GP Series|2014]]
| {{flagicon|JPN}} [[Kimiya Sato]]
| {{flagicon|HUN}} [[Tamás Pál Kiss]]
| {{flagicon|DEU}} [[Markus Pommer]]
| {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Super Nova Racing|Super Nova International]]
|align=center rowspan=2| ''not awarded''
|-
! [[2015 Auto GP Series|2015]]
|align=center colspan=4| ''cancelled''
|-
!colspan=6| Auto GP Formula Open Championship
|-
! [[2016 Auto GP Formula Open Championship|2016]]
| {{flagicon|MEX}} [[Luis Michael Dörrbecker]]
| {{flagicon|IND}} [[Mahaveer Raghunathan]]
| {{flagicon|CHE}} Christof von Grünigen
| {{flagicon|ITA}} Torino Squadra Corse
|align=center| ''not awarded''
|}

==Scoring system==

===Current system===
Teams only score from their two highest placed cars. 48 points is the maximum possible haul for one driver in a race weekend.

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%; text-align:center"
! colspan="13" | 2012 Auto GP points system<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/97726|title=Auto GP tweaks race 2 points system for 2012 season|work=[[Autosport]]|publisher=[[Haymarket Media Group|Haymarket Publications]]|date=29 February 2012|access-date=29 February 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://autogp.org/en/news.php?id=0592|title=More points awarded for Race 2|work=Auto GP World Series|publisher=Auto GP Organisation|date=29 February 2012|access-date=29 February 2012|archive-date=24 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150224095018/http://autogp.org/en/news.php?id=0592|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
! Race
|style="background:#ffffbf;"| &nbsp;'''1st'''&nbsp;
|style="background:#dfdfdf;"| &nbsp;'''2nd'''&nbsp;
|style="background:#ffdf9f;"| &nbsp;'''3rd'''&nbsp;
|style="background:#dfffdf;"| &nbsp;'''4th'''&nbsp;
|style="background:#dfffdf;"| &nbsp;'''5th'''&nbsp;
|style="background:#dfffdf;"| &nbsp;'''6th'''&nbsp;
|style="background:#dfffdf;"| &nbsp;'''7th'''&nbsp;
|style="background:#dfffdf;"| &nbsp;'''8th'''&nbsp;
|style="background:#dfffdf;"| &nbsp;'''9th'''&nbsp;
|style="background:#dfffdf;"| &nbsp;'''10th'''&nbsp;
! Pole Position
! Fastest Lap
|-
!R1
|25
|18
|15
|12
|10
|8
|6
|4
|2
|1
|1
|1
|-
!R2
|20
|15
|12
|10
|8
|6
|4
|3
|2
|1
|
|1
|}

===Previous points systems===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%; text-align:center"
! colspan="14" | Previous Auto GP points systems
|-
! Years
! Race
|style="background:#ffffbf;"| &nbsp;'''1st'''&nbsp;
|style="background:#dfdfdf;"| &nbsp;'''2nd'''&nbsp;
|style="background:#ffdf9f;"| &nbsp;'''3rd'''&nbsp;
|style="background:#dfffdf;"| &nbsp;'''4th'''&nbsp;
|style="background:#dfffdf;"| &nbsp;'''5th'''&nbsp;
|style="background:#dfffdf;"| &nbsp;'''6th'''&nbsp;
|style="background:#dfffdf;"| &nbsp;'''7th'''&nbsp;
|style="background:#dfffdf;"| &nbsp;'''8th'''&nbsp;
|style="background:#dfffdf;"| &nbsp;'''9th'''&nbsp;
|style="background:#dfffdf;"| &nbsp;'''10th'''&nbsp;
! Pole Position
! Fastest Lap
|-
!rowspan=2|2011
!R1
|25
|18
|15
|12
|10
|8
|6
|4
|2
|1
|1
|1
|-
!R2
|18
|13
|10
|8
|6
|4
|2
|1
|
|
|
|1
|-
!rowspan=2|2006–2010
!R1
| 10
| 8
| 6
| 5
| 4
| 3
| 2
| 1
|
|
| 1
| 1
|-
!R2
| 6
| 5
| 4
| 3
| 2
| 1
|
|
|
|
|
| 1
|-
!colspan=2|2005
|10
|8
|6
|5
|4
|3
|2
|1
|
|
|1
|1
|-
!colspan=2|1999–2004
|10
|6
|4
|3
|2
|1
|
|
|
|
|
|
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080821112411/http://www.euroseries3000.com/ Official website for Euroseries 3000]
* [http://www.f3000history.com/oldsite/ F3000 history at Unofficial F3000]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

{{Italian/Euro Formula 3000 years}}
{{Auto GP World Series circuits}}
{{Class of Auto racing}}

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