• All teams competed on
Michelin tyres for the fourth season in a row.
Driver changes 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, as will
Bruno Méndez, racing for
Hitech Racing. • Having contested the final race of the
2010 season with
PSV Eindhoven,
Esteban Guerrieri will move into
Firestone Indy Lights with
Sam Schmidt Motorsports. •
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. •
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. •
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. • Last year's Superleague Formula champion
Davide Rigon will make the step up to the
GP2 Series in
2011 with team
Scuderia Coloni.
Mid-season changes •
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.
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.
Robert Doornbos took over from
Duncan Tappy in the championship-leading
Japan car, with Tappy moving to the Galatasaray car to replace
Andy Soucek, who in turn replaces
María de Villota at Atlético de Madrid. ==2011 schedule==