Press Release Number 49 / 2017 is the 2017 champion, second is , Lorenzo Colombo third Leonardo Lorandi wins the Rookie Trophy ahead of and . is the best team, winning the title from Prema Power Team and .

Rome 24/10/2017 – The New Zealander Marcus Armstrong (Prema Power Team) arrived at Monza in the lead of the Drivers Championship and he did not let the moment escape him: thanks to his win in Race 1, he capped his participation in the powered by Abarth as cham- pion. 283 points for him, 247 for the Dutch driver Job Van Uitert (Jenzer Motorsport), second in the championship and consistently one of the title contenders from the start of the season. Third and fourth place in the championship for two Bhaitech drivers: Italian Lorenzo Colombo (223 poin- ts) and the Venezuelan Sebastian Fernandez (197). Followed just a little further back by the Russian Artem Petrov (DR Formula), winner of two ra- ces at Monza, and then Italian Leonardo Lorandi (Bhaitech); on 192 and 185 points respectively.

• Further back in seventh position on 115 points, is the Guatemalan Ian Ro- driguez (DRZ Benelli), just one point ahead of Indian driver Kush Maini (Jenzer Motorsport), in eighth. Rounding out the top ten is the Brasilian Enzo Fittipaldi (Prema Power Team) and Italian (Jenzer Motorsport.

• Lorandi won the Rookie Trophy with 400 points, followed by Fittipaldi (293), the Argentine Giorgio Carrara (Jenzer Motorsport), was third on 227, from the Brasilian DR Formula team driver, Felipe Branquinho, on 217 points, and the English driver (BWT Muecke Motorsport) with 172 points.

• With 528 points, Bhaitech made the teams title their own, winning ahead of Prema Power Team, who finished with 465 points. Third place for Jenzer Motorsport, on 347 points, ahead of DR Formula (225) and BWT Muecke Motorsport (144).

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