Driver changes • 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. •
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. •
Matias Laine moved from the
GP3 Series to race in Formula Renault 3.5 for
P1 Motorsport. • After one season with
BVM Target,
Nikolay Martsenko switched to
Pons Racing. •
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. • 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. •
Marlon Stöckinger joined Lotus after racing in GP3 Series. • 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. •
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. •
Christopher Zanella, who finished third in the 2012 FIA Formula Two Championship signed with ISR team.
Mid-season changes • FIA Formula Two runner-up
Mathéo Tuscher replaced Emmanuel Piget at Zeta Corse after the first round. •
Carlos Sainz Jr. joined Zeta Corse for the third round of the championship in
Monaco, replacing Marinescu. Sainz races for the team again for the final three rounds. • After racing for
Comtec Racing in 2012,
Nick Yelloly moved to the
GP3 Series with
Carlin. Yelloly returned to Formula Renault for the Monaco round, replacing
Mathéo Tuscher at Zeta Corse. Marinescu returned for the Belgian and Russian rounds. At the
Red Bull Ring, the seat was occupied by Italian Formula Three champion
Riccardo Agostini. •
William Buller replaced Sainz Jr. for the
Moscow Raceway round.
Team changes • Former Formula Renault 3.5 driver
Adrián Vallés returned to the category as team owner of
AV Formula. •
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. The team was later accepted onto the grid under the name
Zeta Corse and registered as an Italian team. •
Team RFR—previously known as KMP Racing—left the series after the
2012 season. ==Race calendar and results==