2015 Football League One play-off Final, Post-match
Simon Grayson, the Preson manager, commented:  "We had two weeks to prepare for this match and it's full credit to the players that they turned up on the day and executed the gameplan to a tee. We showed character and determination and finished off a job we should have completed two weeks ago." Beckford remarked: "We knew it would be a difficult game and it shows the character and the application we've got within the team and the staff. We did a fantastic job of exploiting the spaces."


2015 Football League One play-off Final, Post-match
Huntington spoked of finally breaking Preston's play-off run of defeats: "It means everything. We had to do it the hard way. I can't speak highly enough of the staff and the players. We've broken that hoodoo now." Swindon's manager Cooper said after the game: "we didn't deal with Joe Garner and Jermaine Beckford. If a ball comes in your box and you don't want to head it or compete then you're in trouble. You've got to give credit to Preston, they were excellent." Beckford won the man of the match award, and when asked if he was going to stay with Preston, he stated: "we'll see". After being released by Bolton Wanderers, Beckford signed a permanent two-year contract with Preston North End effective from 1 July 2015.


2015 Football League One play-off Final, Post-match
Swindon ended the following season in sixteenth place in League One, fifteen points outside the play-off places and thirteen points above the relegation zone. Mark Cooper left the club on 17 October 2015. Preston's following season saw them finish in eleventh place in the EFL Championship, twelve points below the play-offs and twenty-two points above the relegation zone.


2015 Football League Trophy Final
The 2015 Football League Trophy Final was the 32nd final of the domestic cup involving the 48 teams from Football League One and Football League Two, the respective third and fourth tiers of English football.


2015 Football League Trophy Final
The final took place at Wembley Stadium in London on 22 March 2015 with Bristol City winning their third title with a 2–0 win over Walsall, who were making their first appearance at Wembley in their 127-year history. The third win made Bristol City the most successful team in the history of the tournament.


2015 Football League Trophy Final, Background
At the time of the final, Bristol City were 10 points clear at the top of the League One table, 37 above Walsall. Bristol City had previously played at Wembley in 2008, when they lost the Championship playoff final to Hull City.


2015 Football League Trophy Final, Route to the final, Walsall
Walsall, of League One, arrived in the final as winners of the Northern section. They were given a bye in the first round, and started in the second round on 7 October 2014 with a 1–0 away win over fellow League One team Rochdale at Spotland, Mathieu Manset scoring the only goal in the 23rd minute. On 12 November, in the quarter-finals, Walsall hosted Sheffield United and again won by a single goal, from Romaine Sawyers.


2015 Football League Trophy Final, Route to the final, Walsall
On 9 December in the semi-finals, they travelled to Prenton Park to play League Two Tranmere Rovers, and trailed 0–2 at half time after conceding from Max Power and Kayode Odejayi. In the second half, they equalised with goals by Anthony Forde and Michael Cain. The score remained the same throughout extra time, and the game went to a penalty shootout, in which the first to miss was Walsall's Ashley Grimes, whose shot was saved by Tranmere's Owain Fôn Williams. However, Tranmere's Liam Ridehalgh hit the crossbar and Marc Laird's attempt was saved by Walsall goalkeeper Richard O'Donnell, then Paul Downing scored to put Walsall through.


2015 Football League Trophy Final, Route to the final, Walsall
In the Northern section final, Walsall played Preston North End over two legs. The first, away at Deepdale on 7 January 2015, was a 2–0 win for Walsall with late goals by a Forde free kick and Tom Bradshaw intercepting a backwards pass by Scott Wiseman. A goalless draw 20 days later in the second game at the Bescot Stadium confirmed Walsall's place in the final.


2015 Football League Trophy Final, Route to the final, Bristol City
Bristol City, also of League One, were also given a bye in the first round of the Southern section, so began on 8 October in the second round away to League Two Cheltenham Town at Whaddon Road. They won 3–1, with Wes Burns scoring the first goal and Korey Smith the other two. On 11 November in the quarter-finals at Ashton Gate, they defeated another fourth-tier team, AFC Wimbledon, 2–1. Aaron Wilbraham scored two late goals, despite a consolation by George Francomb. In the semi-finals on 10 December, again at home, Bristol City won 2–0 against Coventry City with a goal in either half from Derrick Williams and Wilbraham.


2015 Football League Trophy Final, Route to the final, Bristol City
In the Southern final against Gillingham, Bristol City won the first leg 4–2 at Priestfield Stadium on 6 January 2015: Cody McDonald scored twice for the hosts, but Matt Smith netted four times for the visitors. In the second leg on the 29th, Matt Smith opened the scoring and Jermaine McGlashan equalised in the first half, but Bristol City nonetheless advanced 5–3 on aggregate.


2015 Football League Trophy Final, Match, Pre-match
Supporters of Bristol City and their local rival Bristol Rovers walked 100 miles to the match over four-and-a-half days, to raise money for private surgery for six-year-old mascot Oskar Pycroft. Pycroft has cerebral palsy and surgery could result in him being able to walk.


2015 Football League Trophy Final, Match, Synopsis
Bristol City gained the lead after 15 minutes, Aden Flint heading a Marlon Pack corner past Walsall goalkeeper Richard O'Donnell. Walsall then had chances to equalise by Sam Mantom and Andy Taylor. Five minutes into the second half, Mark Little, a winner in the previous season's final with Peterborough United, scored a second after O'Donnell had saved his header. Walsall's Jordan Cook hit the post, and Bristol City's Aaron Wilbraham had a goal disallowed for offside.


2015 Football League Trophy Final, Match, Post-match
Bristol City manager Steve Cotterill said that despite the gap between the two teams in the league table, Walsall were a difficult side to beat. He said that for a lot of his players, it would be the start of their careers. His Walsall counterpart Dean Smith expressed disappointment with his team's performance, saying that for reasons of height it was likely that they would concede from a corner. He added that nerves may have played a part in the defeat, as most of his players were young and had never played in front of such a large crowd before.


2015 Football League Two play-off Final
The 2015 EFL League Two play-off Final was an association football match played on 23 May 2015 at Wembley Stadium, London, between Wycombe Wanderers and Southend United. The match determined the fourth and final team to gain promotion from Football League Two, English football's fourth tier, to Football League One. The top three teams of the 2014–15 Football League Two season gained automatic promotion to League One, while the teams placed from fourth to seventh in the table took part in play-off semi-finals; the winners of these semi-finals competed for the final place for the 2015–16 season in League One. Wycombe finished in fourth place while Southend ended the season in fifth position. Stevenage and Plymouth Argyle were the losing semi-finalists.


2015 Football League Two play-off Final
The final was played in front of 38,252 spectators and was refereed by Simon Hooper. After a goalless 90 minutes, the match went into extra time and in the 95th minute, a Joe Jacobson free kick passed over the wall, off the underside of the Southend crossbar and into the goal to make it 1–0 to Wycombe.


2015 Football League Two play-off Final
Two minutes into injury time, Myles Weston's cross was partially cleared but Joe Pigott brought the ball under control inside the Wycombe box, and struck a shot from 15 yards (14 m) into the bottom corner of Alex Lynch's goal to send the game into a penalty shootout. Ben Coker and Matt Bloomfield missed their spot kicks to send the shootout into sudden death where Sam Wood's shot was saved to give the victory to Southend 7–6.


2015 Football League Two play-off Final
Wycombe ended their following season in thirteenth place in League Two while Southend's next season saw them finish in fifteenth position in the League One table.


2015 Football League Two play-off Final, Route to the final
Wycombe Wanderers finished the regular 2014–15 season in fourth place in Football League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system, one place ahead of Southend United. Both therefore missed out on the three automatic places for promotion to Football League One and instead took part in the play-offs to determine the fourth promoted team. Wycombe finished one point behind Bury (who were promoted in third place), five behind Shrewsbury Town (promoted in second) and ten behind league winners Burton Albion. Southend ended the season one place behind Wycombe on the same number of points but separated by goal difference.


2015 Football League Two play-off Final, Route to the final
Southend's opposition in their play-off semi-final was Stevenage with the first match of the two-legged tie taking place at Broadhall Way in Stevenage on 10 May 2015. The first half ended goalless and saw Southend's Michael Timlin receive 15 stitches in a head wound after a clash with Bira Dembélé, and both were substituted. Six minutes into the second half, the home side took lead after a 25-yard (23 m) curling strike from Dean Parrett beat Daniel Bentley in the Southend goal.


2015 Football League Two play-off Final, Route to the final
Nine minutes later, Barry Corr equalised with a header which took a deflection off the Stevenage defender Andy Bond before crossing the goal-line, and the match ended 1–1. The second leg of the semi-final was played four days later at Roots Hall in Southend-on-Sea. The first half ended 0–0 before Tom Pett put the visitors into the lead early in the second half from around 6 yards (5.5 m). Ryan Leonard equalised midway through the half and the game went into extra time with the aggregate score at 2–2. Stephen McLaughlin headed Southend into the lead in the second half of extra time before Timlin's stoppage time goal made it 3–1 and 4–2 on aggregate.


2015 Football League Two play-off Final, Route to the final
In the other play-off semi final, Wycombe faced Plymouth Argyle with the first leg being hosted at Home Park in Plymouth on 9 May 2015. Paul Hayes opened the scoring for the visitors on ten minutes and Aaron Holloway doubled the lead twelves minutes later to make it 2–0 at half-time. Soon after the break, Wycombe's Steven Craig scored from a quick free kick. With four minutes of the match remaining, Zak Ansah's shot from 30 yards (27 m) reduced the deficit and minutes later Jason Banton scored Plymouth's second to end the game 3–2 to Wycombe.


2015 Football League Two play-off Final, Route to the final
The second leg of the semi-final was held five days later at Adams Park in High Wycombe. Another early goal from Hayes put the home side ahead and a header from Alfie Mawson meant the home side held a 2–0 lead at half-time. Ryan Brunt scored for Plymouth midway through the second half but the game ended 2–1 to Wycombe, and the 5–3 aggregate victory saw them qualify for the final.


2015 Football League Two play-off Final, Match, Background
Southend United had featured in one play-off final in their history, winning the 2005 Football League Two play-off Final 2–0 against Lincoln City at the Millennium Stadium. They had also been knocked out in the semi-finals of the 2012 and 2014 fourth tier play-offs, and the 2008 third tier play-offs. Southend had played in the fourth tier of English football since being relegated from League One in the 2009–10 season.


2015 Football League Two play-off Final, Match, Background
Wycombe won the 1994 Football League Third Division play-off Final 4–2 against Preston North End at the old Wembley Stadium and had been knocked out at the semi-final stage of both the 2006 and 2008 fourth tier play-offs. They had been relegated to the fourth tier in the 2011–12 season and narrowly avoided further relegation to the Football League Conference in the 2013–14 season, avoiding becoming a non-League club on goal difference.


2015 Football League Two play-off Final, Match, Background
The top scorer for Southend during the regular season was Corr who had scored 15 goals (14 in the league, 1 in the FA Cup), while Hayes led the scoring chart for Wycombe with 13 goals (12 in the league, 1 in the FA Cup). In the two games between the sides during the regular season, Wycombe won the match at Adams Park 4–1 in December 2014 while the return fixture the following March ended in a 2–2 draw.


2015 Football League Two play-off Final, Match, Background
Simon Hooper was the referee for the match and was assisted by Jonathan Hunt and Billy Smallwood. Graham Scott was the fourth official while Martin Coy was the reserve assistant referee. Wycombe wore their regular blue checked kit while Southend played in yellow. Southend fans were seated in the West End of Wembley, while Wycombe's supporters were allocated the East End. The match was broadcast live in the UK on Sky Sports.


2015 Football League Two play-off Final, Match, Summary
Wycombe kicked off the match on 23 May 2015 at around 5:30 p.m. in front of a crowd of 38,252. Within two seconds, Wycombe's Sam Saunders went down with a calf injury and had to be replaced in the fourth minute by Matt Bloomfield. After a series of corners for Southend with a chance in the 17th minute falling to Cian Bolger whose header ahead of Mawson's tackle went wide of the Wycombe goal.


2015 Football League Two play-off Final, Match, Summary
Four minutes later, Bolger's shot went off-target and soon after Hayes was the first player of the match to be shown the yellow card after he fouled McLaughlin. On 24 minutes, Corr's header found the back of the Wycombe net but was disallowed after a Bolger foul on Nico Yennaris. On the half-hour mark, Bolger was shown the second yellow card of the game after he fouled Sam Wood. Five minutes before half-time, Hayes had a chance from a Hogan Ephraim cross but it was straight at Bentley. Wood then struck a shot high over the Southend crossbar from 25 yards (23 m). The referee blew the whistle for half-time with the score at 0–0.


2015 Football League Two play-off Final, Match, Summary
No changes of personnel were made to either side during the half-time interval and Southend kicked off the second half. On 50 minutes, Will Atkinson's volley for Southend from inside the area was off-target before Ephraim was fouled by Corr: the resulting free kick was struck over the bar by Wycombe's Joe Jacobson. In the 60th minute, Southend made their first substitution of the game with Joe Pigott coming on to replace McLaughlin. Four minutes later, a cross from David Worrall found Corr but his header was gathered by Alex Lynch in the Wycombe goal.


2015 Football League Two play-off Final, Match, Summary
Adam Barrett then headed two separate chances off-target for Wycombe and in the 76th minute, Hayes' shot was saved by Bentley before an attempt from Wood was defended by Southend. Pigott's shot was then blocked by Aaron Pierre and two minutes later, another strike from Pigott, this time from 25 yards (23 m), went wide. On 80 minutes, Myles Weston came on to replace Atkinson for Southend and six minutes later, Craig came on for Ephraim for Wycombe. With two minutes of regular time remaining, Pierre's header was tipped over by Bentley. Mawson was then booked for a foul on Pigott before the final whistle was blown and the game moved into extra time.


2015 Football League Two play-off Final, Match, Summary
Wycombe kicked off the first period of extra time. Hayes early strike was wide and then his header went over the Southend bar. In the 95th minute, Holloway was brought down by Timlin 25 yards (23 m) out from the Southend goal and was awarded a free kick. Jacobsen took the set piece and his strike passed over the wall, off the underside of the Southend crossbar and into the goal to make it 1–0 to Wycombe. Almost immediately, Jack Payne was brought on to replace Worrall.


2015 Football League Two play-off Final, Match, Summary
Wycombe controlled the remainder of the half and continued their domination into the second half of extra time. In the 111th minute, Wycombe's Yennaris was replaced by Peter Murphy. Leonard was booked four minutes later. Two minutes into injury time, Weston's cross was partially cleared but Pigott brought the ball under control inside the Wycombe box, and struck a shot from 15 yards (14 m) into the bottom corner of Lynch's goal to send the game into a penalty shootout.


2015 Football League Two play-off Final, Match, Summary
The spot kicks were taken at the Wycombe end of Wembley. Pigott and Murphy both scored to make it 1–1 before Ben Coker's strike was saved by Lynch with his legs. Penalties from Mawson, Leonard, Hayes and Payne then found their target before Bloomfield's shot was saved by Bentley to his right. Timlin and Marcus Bean scored their penalties to make it 4–4 and send the shootout to sudden death. Barrett, Jacobsen, Weston, Holloway and Bolger were all successful but Wood's strike was pushed onto the post by Bentley for a 7–6 Southend victory.


2015 Football League Two play-off Final, Post-match
Both Gareth Ainsworth and Phil Brown, the opposing managers, watched the penalty shootout together. Wycombe ended their following season in thirteenth place in League Two while Southend's next season saw them finish in fifteenth position in the League One table.


2015 Football League play-offs
The Football League play-offs for the 2014–15 season began in May 2015 with the finals taking place at Wembley Stadium in London.


2015 Football League play-offs
The play-offs began at the semi-final stage with all semi-finals being played over two legs, contested by the teams who finished in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place in the Football League Championship and League One and the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th-placed teams in the League Two table. The winners of the semi-finals then advanced to the finals, with the winner of the final gaining promotion for the following season.


2015 Football League play-offs, Background
The Football League play-offs have been held every year since 1987. They take place for each division following the conclusion of the regular season and are contested by the four clubs finishing below the automatic promotion places.


2015 Football NSW season
The Football NSW 2015 season was the third season of football in New South Wales under the banner of the National Premier Leagues. The competition consisted of four divisions across the state of New South Wales, excluding those regions affiliated with the Northern NSW Football federation.


2015 Football NSW season
Blacktown City were Premiers of the 1st Division, and qualified for the National Premier Leagues finals series. Blacktown City won this competition, becoming the 2015 National Premier Leagues Champion, and additionally received a spot in the 2016 FFA Cup (entering at the Round of 32).


2015 Football NSW season, League Tables, 2015 National Premier League NSW Men's 1
The National Premier League New South Wales 2015 season was played over 22 rounds, from March to August 2015.


2015 Football NSW season, League Tables, 2015 National Premier League NSW Men's 2
The 2015 National Premier League NSW Men's 2 was the third edition of the new NPL NSW 2 as the second level domestic association football competition in New South Wales. 12 teams competed, playing each other twice for a total of 22 rounds, with the top team at the end of the year promoted to the NPL NSW Men's 1 competition. Hakoah Sydney City East FC were promoted into the division after finishing 1st in the 2014 State League Division 1, and St George FC were relegated from the 2014 National Premier League's Men's 1.


2015 Football NSW season, League Tables, 2015 NSW State League Division 1
The 2015 NSW State League Division 1 was the third edition of the State League to be incorporated under the National Premier Leagues banner. 12 teams competed, playing each other twice for a total of 22 rounds.


2015 Football NSW season, League Tables, 2015 NSW State League Division 2
The 2015 NSW State League Division 2 was the third edition of the State League to be incorporated under the National Premier Leagues banner. 10 teams competed, playing each other twice for a total of 18 matches.


2015 Football NSW season, League Tables, 2015 National Premier League NSW Women's 1
The 2015 National Premier League NSW Women's 1 was the second edition of the NPL NSW Women's competition to be incorporated under the National Premier Leagues banner. 10 teams competed, playing each other twice for a total of 18 rounds.


2015 Football NSW season, 2015 Waratah Cup
Football NSW soccer clubs competed in 2015 for the Waratah Cup. The tournament doubled as the NSW qualifier for the 2015 FFA Cup, with the top five clubs progressing to the Round of 32. 104 clubs entered the qualifying phase, with the clubs entering in a staggered format (with NPL and NPL 2 clubs seeded to a later round). The five winners then were randomly drawn in order to create a preliminary fixture, before the semi finals of the competition.


2015 Football NSW season, 2015 Waratah Cup
The competition was won by Sydney United 58, their 5th title, defeating Blacktown City.


2015 Football NSW season, 2015 Waratah Cup
In addition to the A-League clubs Central Coast Mariners, Sydney FC and Western Sydney Wanderers, the five qualifiers (Balmain Tigers, Blacktown City, Rockdale City Suns, Sydney Olympic and Sydney United 58 competed in the final rounds of the 2015 FFA Cup. Of these qualifying clubs, only Rockdale City Suns, Sydney Olympic and Sydney United 58 progressed to the Round of 16.


2015 Football NSW season, Awards
The NPL Gala Dinner was held on 11 September at Rosehill Gardens, acknowledging achievements from across all NPL teams from Men's 1, Men's 2, Women's 1, Women's 2 and their respective youth teams.


2015 Football NSW season, Awards
Club Championship includes points from across youth teams (under-20s and under-18s)


2015 Football West season
The 2015 Football West season was the second season under the new competition format in Western Australia. The overall premier for the new structure qualified for the National Premier Leagues finals series, competing with the other state federation champions in a final knockout tournament to decide the National Premier Leagues Champion for 2015.


2015 Football West season, League tables, 2015 National Premier Leagues WA
The 2015 National Premier Leagues WA season was played over 22 rounds. This year there was no Finals series, instead with Bayswater City – as the Premiers – competing in the 2015 National Premier Leagues Finals.


2015 Football West season, League tables, 2015 National Premier Leagues WA
Bayswater City completed the league season undefeated, the first occurrence since Floreat Athena achieved the feat in 2007.


2015 Football West season, League tables, 2015 WA State League Division 1
The 2015 WA State League Division 1 Season is the second tier domestic football competition in Western Australia. The 12 teams play each other twice, for a total of 22 rounds. Mandurah City were Champions, but didn't meet all of the Football West eligibility criteria to be promoted to the 2016 NPL competition.


2015 Football West season, League tables, 2015 WA State League Division 2
The 2015 WA State League Division 2 Season is the third tier domestic football competition in Western Australia. The 12 teams play each other twice, for a total of 22 rounds. The top team at the end of the year is promoted to the 2016 WA State League Division 1.


2015 Football West season, League tables, 2015 Women's State League Premier Division
The highest tier domestic football competition in Western Australia is known as the BankWest Women's State League Premier Division for sponsorship reasons. The 8 teams play each other three times, for a total of 21 rounds, and with a promotion/relegation system for the bottom team with the State League Division 1. Beckenham Angels won the Women's State Cup.


2015 Football West season, 2015 Cool Ridge Cup
Western Australian soccer clubs competed in 2015 for the Football West State Cup, known that year as the Cool Ridge Cup for sponsorship reasons. Clubs entered from the National Premier Leagues WA, the two divisions of the State League, a limited number of teams from various divisions of the 2015 Sunday League competition, and from regional teams invited from the South West, Goldfields, Great Southern and Midwest regions.


2015 Football West season, 2015 Cool Ridge Cup
This knockout competition was won by Sorrento, their 3rd title.


2015 Football West season, 2015 Cool Ridge Cup
The competition also served as the Western Australian Preliminary Rounds for the 2015 FFA Cup. In addition to the A-League club Perth Glory, the two finalists – Perth SC and Sorrento FC – qualified for the final rounds of the 2015 FFA Cup, entering at the Round of 32, where they were both eliminated.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400
The 2015 Ford EcoBoost 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held on November 22, 2015, at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Florida. Contested over 267 laps on the 1.5 mile (2.4 km) oval, it was the 36th and final race of the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. Kyle Busch won the race and the championship, his fifth of the season and first of his career. Kevin Harvick finished second. Brad Keselowski, Joey Logano and Kyle Larson rounded out the top-five. Jeff Gordon finished sixth in his 797th and final scheduled career start and Martin Truex, Jr. rounded out the Chase drivers in 14th.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400
Denny Hamlin won the pole for the race and led zero laps on his way to a 10th-place finish. Keselowski led a race high of 86 laps on his way to a third-place finish. The race had 18 lead changes among eight different drivers, as well as seven caution flag periods for 30 laps.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400
This was the 34th victory for Busch, fifth of the season, first at Homestead-Miami Speedway and sixth at the track for Joe Gibbs Racing. It clinched his first career Sprint Cup Series championship. Despite being the winning manufacturer, Toyota finished the season 68-points back of Chevrolet who had clinched the manufacturers championship the week prior at Phoenix.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400
With the introduction of NASCAR's team charter program in 2016, this race marks the final race with a 43-car field.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400
The Ford EcoBoost 400 was carried by NBC Sports on the broadcast NBC network for the American television audience. The radio broadcast for the race was carried by the Motor Racing Network and Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Report, Background
Homestead-Miami Speedway is a motor racing track located in Homestead, Florida. The track, which has several configurations, has promoted several series of racing, including NASCAR, the Verizon IndyCar Series, the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series and the Championship Cup Series.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Report, Background
Since 2002, Homestead-Miami Speedway has hosted the final race of the season in all three of NASCAR's series: the Sprint Cup Series, Xfinity Series and the Camping World Truck Series. Ford Motor Company sponsors all three of the season-ending races; the races have the names Ford EcoBoost 400, Ford EcoBoost 300 and Ford EcoBoost 200, respectively, and the weekend is marketed as Ford Championship Weekend. The Xfinity Series (then known as the Busch Series) has held its season-ending races at Homestead since 1995.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Report, Background, Championship drivers
Jeff Gordon was the first of the four drivers to clinch a spot in the championship four, winning the first race of the Eliminator Round at Martinsville. Gordon, running in his final full-time season of Sprint Cup Series racing, seeks his fifth Sprint Cup championship and first since 2001. Entering his 797th Sprint Cup race, he had six consecutive top-10 finishes, including a sixth-place at Phoenix; altogether, he had recorded 20 top-10s in 2015, along with four poles, which include three at the schedule's four restrictor plate races.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Report, Background, Championship drivers
Gordon struggled during the early portion of the season, being involved in crashes in the first two races and was as low as 35th in points. However, he managed to gain positions in the standings with eight consecutive top-10s after the Kobalt 400. During the remainder of the regular season, he was between ninth and 13th-place in the points. In the first six Chase races, he finished in the top-10 in all but two races (at Chicagoland and Dover). At Martinsville, he clinched a spot in the final four by taking advantage of Team Penske drivers Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski's accidents to claim his 93rd career victory.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Report, Background, Championship drivers
Kevin Harvick, the defending Cup champion, finished second behind Dale Earnhardt, Jr. at Phoenix to clinch his place in the championship race. Harvick, who had won the 2014 Ford EcoBoost 400, had dominated the regular season, leading the points for 23 straight races (from Las Vegas to Darlington), while also winning at Vegas and Phoenix. However, Harvick struggled in the first two races of the Chase, crashing at Chicago and running out of fuel while leading at Loudon. Being required to win to advance to the Contender Round, he capitalized on Jimmie Johnson's mechanical failure to win at Dover. At Talladega, Harvick – once again faced with the possibility of being eliminated from the Chase and a struggling car – was involved in a controversial restart crash on the green–white–checker finish when he collided with Trevor Bayne and caused a crash with intentions of defending his Chase spot.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Report, Background, Championship drivers
Kyle Busch finished fourth at Phoenix to clinch his spot in the championship race. He did not start the first 11 races of the season due to breaking his right leg and left foot when he crashed in the Xfinity Series race at Daytona International Speedway. He returned to racing at the All-Star Race, with his first points race return being an 11th-place finish in the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. For Busch to qualify for the Chase, he had to record at least one win and make the top 30.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Report, Background, Championship drivers
The next three races were marred by crashes in two, but scored his first win of the season in the Toyota/Save Mart 350. He then proceeded to win three consecutive races, making him the first driver since the 2007 season to accomplish the feat. The following week, he won his first pole of the year at Pocono. The week after, he entered the top-30 in points. In the first nine Chase races, Busch finished in the top-20 in all but one race (Loudon).


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Report, Background, Championship drivers
Martin Truex, Jr. was the last driver to click his spot in the championship race after the Phoenix race was stopped, beating Carl Edwards by five-points with his 14th-place finish. Truex, considered as the underdog of the championship four, had a strong regular season under new crew chief Cole Pearn. He recorded top-10 finishes in the first seven races. From Kansas to Dover, Truex led a combined 239 laps, but failed to win.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Report, Background, Championship drivers
The following race at Pocono, Truex was able to claim his first victory of the season, third of his career and first since the 2013 Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway. Despite being as high as second in points, Truex's finishes during the remainder of the regular season dropped him down to ninth. During the Chase, he finished in the top-20 in every race, with a best finish of third at Charlotte.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Report, Background, Drivers making final start with team
A number of drivers made their final start with their respective 2015 team this weekend.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Report, Background, Drivers making final start with team
While nothing was officially announced, Richard Petty Motorsports team owner Richard Petty said that he didn't expect Sam Hornish, Jr. to return to the No. 9 Ford in 2016. He said that the team has "to look at sponsorship as much as anything else. It's a combination deal. We can't just go with the driver and then not have the money. We can't go with the money and not have a driver."


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Report, Background, Drivers making final start with team
On August 22, 2015, Michael Waltrip Racing announced that the team would terminate operations at the end of the 2015 season. On September 28, 2015, HScott Motorsports announced that Clint Bowyer would drive the No. 51 car in 2016. This displaced Justin Allgaier who returned to the Xfinity Series in 2016 to drive for JR Motorsports.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Report, Background, Drivers making final start with team
David Ragan – who drove for Front Row Motorsports, Joe Gibbs Racing and MWR in the 2015 season – was without a ride going into the offseason. He said that a few "teams have reached out to me. I've reached out to a few teams. Ultimately I don't have anything in the works or coming together right now. I'm trying to be as patient as I can just to see what happens. A lot of times things change that are unexpected with some of these top teams in the last months of the season. We've had guys get fired after Homestead before. Drivers have issues, different things happen, so I'm patiently waiting for the right opportunity." Eventually, he would be with BK Racing for 2016, in the #23 J.J. Yeley (later Jeb Burton) were in.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Report, Background, Entry list
The entry list for the Ford EcoBoost 400 was released on Monday, November 16 at 12:15 p.m. Eastern time. Forty-five drivers were entered for the race. All but Ryan Blaney and Michael McDowell were entered in the previous week's race at Phoenix. After serving a two-race suspension, Matt Kenseth returned to the seat of the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. Josh Wise drove the No. 32 Go FAS Racing Ford. Ty Dillon returned to the seat of the No. 33 Hillman-Circle Sport LLC Chevrolet. Reed Sorenson drove the No. 62 Premium Motorsports Ford.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, First practice
Carl Edwards was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 30.832 and a speed of 175.143 mph (281.865 km/h). The session was red-flagged 39 minutes in when Ryan Preece went up in smoke and started leaking power steering fluid.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Qualifying
Denny Hamlin won the pole for the race with a time of 30.568 and a speed of 176.655 mph (284.299 km/h). He said afterwards that he wished his team "were a part of it (championship four)...unfortunately[,] a couple mechanical things took us out of this Chase, but we're going to hopefully go out with a bang." Joey Logano, who qualified second, said that he wasn't "quite fast enough. It felt like after practice we didn’t get a qualifying run before the rain and it was an unknown to us.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Qualifying
My team did a good job with the changeover to qualifying trim though and I am proud of what my team was able to do there, just wish we were a little faster in that third round.” Kyle Busch, who qualified third, said that where you qualify at Homestead "doesn't matter much. Nothing to hang our heads about right now.” Jeff Gordon, who qualified fifth for his 797th and final career start, said he's "having a blast. It's a win-win no matter what happens. When it goes the way it went in qualifying…man that’s fun.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Qualifying
How could I not be having the time of my life? We have a very strong race car in this Axalta Chevrolet, obviously, because to be able to do that the next couple of runs; I’m pretty proud of those laps. I had to make up to this team what I did on the first run, so I was glad I was able to make it up. It’s pretty awesome to get top five. I’m really happy and proud of that.”


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Practice (post-qualifying), Second practice
Kyle Larson was the fastest in the second practice session with a time of 30.680 and a speed of 176.010 mph (283.261 km/h).


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Practice (post-qualifying), Final practice
Joey Logano was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 30.786 and a speed of 175.404 mph (282.285 km/h).


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Race, First half, Start
The race was scheduled to start at 3:15 p.m., but was delayed by rain. The track was dried and under mostly sunny Florida skies, Denny Hamlin led the field to the green flag at 5:15 p.m.. It would be Joey Logano, however, who would lead the first lap. Hamlin followed closely to not lose ground on him. Fluid in turn 1 brought out the first caution of the race on lap 13. The fluid came from the No. 11 Toyota. Logano opted not to pit while most of the field came down pit road.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Race, First half, Start
The race restarted on lap 19. Kyle Busch on four new tires had no trouble passing Logano for the lead on lap 21. The second caution of the race flew on lap 31. It was a scheduled competition caution for overnight and pre-race rain showers.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Race, First half, Start
The race restarted on lap 36. Jeff Gordon drove underneath Busch and Carl Edwards to take the lead the next lap. The third caution of the race flew on lap 40 for a single-car wreck in turn 1. Kasey Kahne suffered a right-rear tire blowout and hit the wall.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Race, First half, Start
The race restarted on lap 45. Kevin Harvick drove by Gordon exiting turn 2 to take the lead the next lap. The fourth caution of the race flew on lap 47 for a multi-car wreck on the backstretch. Exiting turn 2, Clint Bowyer bounced off Ty Dillon overcorrected, turned up the track, clipped Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and sent him into the inside wall. Aric Almirola slammed into the rear of Bowyer. Casey Mears got clipped by Earnhardt and hit the inside wall. David Ragan hit Earnhardt and damaged his car.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Race, First half, Start
After being released from the infield care center, Bowyer said that exiting "two, my car got loose, and I couldn’t catch it. We lost the handling on the car big-time. I hate for it to end this way. I wanted to end on a strong note for MWR. I appreciate everybody’s hard work over the years, but unfortunately it’s over." He would go on to finish 43rd.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Race, First half, Start
Jimmie Johnson was running fourth when race control called him onto pit road to fix the right-side of the car after the jackman inadvertently pushed in the right-rear side skirt when he was making a wedge adjustment to the car. He was also forced to serve a drive-through penalty when the race went back to green.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Race, First half, Second quarter
The race restarted on lap 54. Martin Truex, Jr. kicked off a round of green flag stops on lap 89. Harvick pitted from the lead on lap 91 and handed it to Kyle Larson. He pitted the next lap and the lead cycled to Logano.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Race, First half, Second quarter
Truex started the next round of green flag stops when he pitted on lap 138. During his stop, a fire started in his pit stall that forced his gas man to cease fueling the car before it was completed. Logano stopped from the lead on lap 139 and handed it to Kyle Busch. He pitted the next lap and the lead cycled to Edwards.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Race, Second half, Halfway
Debris on the backstretch brought out the fifth caution of the race on lap 148. The debris came from the back of the No. 88 Chevrolet of Earnhardt, Jr. Kyle Busch exited pit road with the race lead.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Race, Second half, Halfway
The race restarted on lap 155. The sixth caution of the race flew on lap 167 for a single-car wreck in turn 1. Josh Wise suffered a right-front tire blowout and slammed the wall. Truex exited pit road with the race lead after taking just right-side tires.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Race, Second half, Halfway
The race restarted with 96 laps to go. Brad Keselowski passed Truex with ease on the backstretch and took the lead with 95 to go. Truex started the final round of green flag stops with 54 laps to go. Keselowski pitted with 53 laps to go and handed the lead to Kyle Busch. He pitted the next lap and the lead cycled back to Keselowski.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Race, Second half, Fourth quarter
After the final stop, Kyle Busch continued to run in second until he was passed by Larson with 14 laps to go. Harvick continued to run in fourth. Gordon ran in 10th and Truex ran between 12th and 14th in the running order. After passing Busch for second, Larson began to reel in race leader Keselowski. Debris on the front stretch brought out the seventh caution of the race with 12 laps to go.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Race, Second half, Fourth quarter
It was for a piece of metal lying under the flag stand while NBC mistakenly showed what appeared to be a plastic bottle on the apron as the debris that brought out the caution. Keselowski's crew chief Paul Wolfe told FoxSports.com after the race that he was "trying to understand what it was for. I didn't ever really see what it was for, but I guess that's just the way it goes. I figured we obviously had a nice lead there and should have been able to cruise into Victory Lane, but I guess it just wasn't meant to be."


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Race, Second half, Fourth quarter
The race restarted with seven laps to go. Kyle Busch powered by Keselowski exiting turn 2 to take the lead with six to go. He would go on to win the race and earn his first ever NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
Busch said afterwards that winning the title was "pretty unbelievable. It’s a dream of a lifetime, a dream come true, it’s something that happens only every so often. I just can’t believe with everything that happened this year, all the turmoil that I went through, my wife went through, my family went through and people around me went through. This championship is for these guys, my wife, my family and everyone who sacrificed to get me here.”


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
Harvick's 13th runner-up finish in 2015 broke a tie with Bobby Allison for most second-place finishes in a single season. He joked after the race that second was "the theme of our season." He also added that he was "just really proud of everybody on our team. We were definitely a little bit off tonight, and we just kept throwing stuff at it, and we never really found anything that really helped the car that was like, oh, man, that's what we needed right there.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
I thought there at the end that the restart, we might do a little better than that, but obviously either the splitter was on the ground or the car was just tighter than it probably needed to be, and just I couldn't hustle it and got it tight and got it up the racetrack and got behind.”


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
Following a third-place finish, Keselowski said that he "led a lot of laps. The last four races, we have run pretty strong, maybe not as strong at Phoenix as we wanted, but three of the four races, we were really strong, and we just didn't have enough to close it at the end. I was really proud of my team tonight, really happy with what they were able to give me, and we were able to take a run at it, we just didn't quite have enough at the end on that final restart to hold those guys off."


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
Following a fourth-place finish, Logano said that he, unfortunately, "didn’t win and that’s what we wanted to do. We had a few good runs and made an adjustment that just took it out of the track and by the time we got it back we lost too much track position. We had a bad pit stop under green and lost more there, so it was too little, too late. We couldn’t redeem ourselves after a couple mistakes.”


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
After a fifth-place finish, Larson said that he "didn’t need that last caution. It probably cost me or Brad (Keselowski) a win, but it did make it somewhat exciting at the end. Disappointed that we didn’t get the win because I really thought we were about two to three laps away from passing Brad for the lead. We will just go back next season and try and fight for some more wins."


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
A sixth-place finish wasn't enough to deliver Gordon a fifth Sprint Cup Series championship. He said afterwards that he was ""a little disappointed," but all in all, a good way to go out. It doesn't mean I had to win a championship or even compete for a championship, but I wanted to win a race, at least. I wanted to show that I still had what it takes, and I think the Chase showed that. I'm extremely proud of my driving and our effort these last 10 races. That's something that's going to stick with me for a long time - in how I made the announcement and how we approached this season and how we finished it."


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
Following a 12th-place finish, Truex said that it was "a little disappointing where we ended up. We definitely didn’t come in here saying we’d be OK with fourth. We tried our best, but it just wasn’t in the cards for us tonight. It’s frustrating to have a day like this because everything was on the line.”


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Media, Television
NBC covered the race on the television side. Rick Allen, Jeff Burton and Steve Letarte had the call in the booth for the race. Dave Burns, Mike Massaro, Marty Snider and Kelli Stavast handled pit road on the television side. While the race itself aired on NBC, NBCSN aired NBCSN NASCAR Hot Pass, a simultaneous live feed dedicated to each of the Chase drivers, with commentary by Leigh Diffey and Dale Jarrett. Also, three different angles from in-car cameras and a track map tracked the driver's position and changes throughout the field.


2015 Ford EcoBoost 400, Media, Radio
MRN had the radio call for the race, which was simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Joe Moore, Jeff Striegle and Rusty Wallace called the race from the booth when the field was racing down the frontstretch. Dave Moody called the race from a billboard outside turn 2 when the field was racing through turns 1 and 2. Mike Bagley called the race from a billboard outside turn 3 when the field was racing through turns 3 and 4. Alex Hayden, Winston Kelley and Steve Post handled pit road on the radio side.


2015 Fordham Rams football team
The 2015 Fordham Rams football team represented Fordham University in the 2015 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fourth-year head coach Joe Moorhead and played their home games at Coffey Field. They were a member of the Patriot League. They finished the season 9–3, 5–1 in Patriot League play to finish in second place. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs where they lost in the first round to Chattanooga.


2015 Fordham Rams football team
On December 12, head coach Joe Moorhead resigned to become the offensive coordinator at Penn State. He finished at Fordham with a four-year record of 38–13.


2015 Forest Heath District Council election
The 2015 Forest Heath District Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect members of the Forest Heath District Council in England. It was held on the same day as other local elections.


2015 Forest of Dean District Council election
Elections for all seats on Forest of Dean District Council were held on 7 May 2015 as part of the 2015 United Kingdom local elections. No party gained overall control.


2015 Forest of Dean District Council election
The Conservatives remained the largest party on the Council, having increased their number of Councillors, but failing to gain an overall majority. This election saw the Green Party gain their first seats on the Council, while the Liberal Democrats lost their only Councillor.


2015 Forest of Dean District Council election, Ward results, Christchurch and English Bicknor
Note: During the 2011 elections, this ward was only contested by the Conservatives, who were elected unopposed.


2015 Formula 3 Brasil season
The 2015 Fórmula 3 Brasil season is the ninth Fórmula 3 Brasil season and the second since 1995, replacing the Formula 3 Sudamericana series as the highest-profile single-seater championship on the continent. In 2015 F3 Brasil will be integrated at Stock Car Brasil event, exception for the first and last round.


2015 Formula 3 Brasil season, Race calendar and results
A calendar for the 2015 season was released on 19 December 2014, with the category supporting Stock Car Brasil for the majority of the season. The only exceptions to this was the first race at Curitiba, which was held at the Stock Car collective test and the last round, which will be held as a stand-alone event. All races were held in Brazil.


2015 Formula 4 Sudamericana season
The 2015 Fórmula 4 Sudamericana Championship season is the second season of the Formula 4 Sudamericana. It will begin on 24 May at the Autódromo Victor Borrat Fabini "El Pinar" in Uruguay, and will finish on 8 December at the Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna in Brazil, after eight rounds.


2015 Formula 4 Sudamericana season, Race calendar and results
An updated race calendar was released on 9 April 2015. On 23 June, it was announced that the fourth round was to be held at Autódromo Oscar Cabalén on 16 August, and the fifth round was to be held at Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo on 13 September. The calendar was further altered on 27 July, with the round at Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo moved back to 4 October to replace the round at Autódromo Eusebio Marcilla. The round scheduled for 13 September was moved to Autódromo Santiago Yaco Guarnieri.


2015 Formula 4 Sudamericana season, Race calendar and results
These three Argentinian venues would form a mini-tournament within the F4 Sudamericana called Copa Argentina. The last two rounds of the calendar were finally made public on 30 October, with the seventh round being held at the Autódromo Internacional de Cascavel on 8 November and the season-ending venue taking place at the Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna in Londrina on 6 December. The venue at Cascavel and the first race at Londrina will form another mini-tournament within the F4 Sudamericana called Copa Brasil, while the last race of Londrina will give double points towards the main championship.


2015 Formula 4 Sudamericana season, Race calendar and results
Rounds denoted with a blue background are a part of the Copa Argentina, while rounds denoted with a light green background are a part of the Copa Brasil.


2015 Formula D season
The 2015 Formula D season, officially titled the Formula Drift Pro Championship, was the twelfth season of the Formula D series. The season began on April 10 at Long Beach and ended on October 10 at Irwindale Speedway.


2015 Formula Lites season
The  2015 Formula Lites season was the inaugural season of the Formula Lites series, an open wheel motor racing championship powered by Honda and sanctioned by the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA). It began on 30 May at the Thompson Speedway in Thompson, Connecticut and ended on 20 September at the MSR Houston in Angleton, Texas, after six double-header rounds.


2015 Formula Masters China
The 2015 Formula Masters China season is the fifth season of the Formula Pilota China series, and the third under the Formula Masters China branding. The championship began on 18 April at Sepang in Malaysia and will finish on 18 October at Shanghai in China after eighteen races held at six meetings.


2015 Formula Masters China, Race calendar and results
A provisional race calendar was released on 15 December 2014. An updated race calendar was released on 29 January 2015. On 29 March, it was announced that the round due to be held at Sentul in Indonesia, had been removed from the calendar.


2015 Formula Masters China, Championship standings, Drivers' championship
Bold – PoleItalics – Fastest Lap† – Retired, but classified


2015 Formula One World Championship
The 2015 FIA Formula One World Championship was a motor racing championship for Formula One cars. It was the 66th Formula One World Championship recognised by the sport's governing body, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), as the highest class of competition for open-wheel racing cars. Twenty-two drivers representing 10 teams contested 19 Grands Prix, starting in Australia on 15 March and ending in Abu Dhabi on 29 November as they competed for the World Drivers' and World Constructors' championships.


2015 Formula One World Championship
Lewis Hamilton was the defending Drivers' Champion after securing his second title at the 2014 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. His team, Mercedes, began the season as the defending Constructors' Champion, having clinched its first championship title at the 2014 Russian Grand Prix.


2015 Formula One World Championship
The calendar featured two significant changes from the 2014 season. The first was the return of the Mexican Grand Prix, held for the first time since 1992. The other change was the cancellation of the German Grand Prix after a venue could not be agreed upon, leaving the nation without a World Championship event for the first time in fifty-five years.


2015 Formula One World Championship
Hamilton secured his third Drivers' Championship with three races left in the season. The runner-up was his teammate Nico Rosberg, 59 points behind, with Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel third, another 44 points adrift. Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team clinched the 2015 Constructors' Championship at the Russian Grand Prix, ahead of Ferrari and Williams, and ended the season with a record 703 points. Hamilton also won the FIA Pole Trophy with a total of 11 pole positions in the season and the DHL Fastest Lap Award. Ferrari won the inaugural DHL Fastest Pit Stop Award.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Teams and drivers
The following teams and drivers took part in the 2015 Formula One World Championship. Teams competed with tyres supplied by Pirelli.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Teams and drivers, Team changes
Several team changes took place before the season began. Both McLaren and Lotus changed engine suppliers for the 2015 season. McLaren ended their 20-year partnership with Mercedes-Benz, in favour of a return to Honda, who had previously supplied them from 1988 until 1992. Honda had been absent for seven years: they had provided British American Racing and Jordan Grand Prix with engines until they purchased the former in 2006 and then had competed as a constructor until 2008.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Teams and drivers, Team changes
Lotus ended its association with Renault in favour of a deal with Mercedes. This ended a 20-year involvement of Renault with the Enstone-based team, (which operated as Benetton from 1992 until 2001, as Renault from 2002 until 2011 and as Lotus from 2012 until 2015) after being an engine supplier to Benetton since 1995, and being the owner of the team from 2002 to 2010.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Teams and drivers, Team changes
Both Caterham F1 and Marussia went into administration towards the end of the 2014 season. The latter was saved narrowly from liquidation in February 2015, re-entering as Manor Marussia, when new investment was secured and the team left administration after an agreement with creditors was reached. Caterham ultimately folded and its assets were auctioned off by company administrators after the start of the season.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Teams and drivers, Driver changes
The driver line-ups saw a couple of changes prior to the 2015 season and one more prior to the Singapore Grand Prix. Fernando Alonso replaced Kevin Magnussen at McLaren, returning to the team after he last raced for them in 2007. Following an accident during pre-season testing, Alonso withdrew from the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, and Magnussen returned as his temporary replacement. Sebastian Vettel left Red Bull Racing at the end of the 2014 season after six years with the team and nine years with its wider junior development programme to join Ferrari in place of Alonso. Daniil Kvyat was promoted to Red Bull from Toro Rosso to fill the vacated seat.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Teams and drivers, Driver changes
Toro Rosso changed their entire line-up: along with Kvyat joining Red Bull, the team chose not to renew Jean-Éric Vergne's contract. Vergne went on to compete in the Formula E Championship while also becoming a Ferrari development driver. They were replaced by the 2014 Formula Renault 3.5 Series champion Carlos Sainz Jr. and the 2014 FIA Formula 3 European Championship third-place finisher Max Verstappen. The latter became the youngest driver to make a Formula One début, at the age of 17 years, 164 days when he started the season.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Teams and drivers, Driver changes
Esteban Gutiérrez and Adrian Sutil were released from Sauber, where they were replaced by the former Caterham driver Marcus Ericsson and the GP2 driver Felipe Nasr. Gutiérrez and Sutil went on to join Ferrari and Williams respectively as reserve drivers.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Teams and drivers, Driver changes
Manor Marussia also had two new drivers: They employed the former Caterham driver Will Stevens to drive for his first full season in the sport, while another former Caterham test driver, Roberto Merhi, was signed to a short-term deal while he also drove in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series. Max Chilton relinquished his seat, joining the Indy Lights championship, while Jules Bianchi was in a coma at the start of the season and ultimately died from injuries sustained at the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix. Alexander Rossi was later drafted in by Manor Marussia to make his Formula One début at the Singapore Grand Prix, replacing Merhi. The Spaniard returned to the team for the Russian and Abu Dhabi Grands Prix, sharing the car with Rossi for the remainder of the season.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Teams and drivers, Driver changes
Kamui Kobayashi went on to race in the Super Formula series in Japan after the folding of Caterham left him without a drive in Formula One.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Season calendar, Calendar changes
There were a few revisions to the calendar from the previous season. The Mexican Grand Prix returned to the Formula One calendar for the first time since 1992. The race was held at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez circuit located in the centre of Mexico City, which was the location of all Mexican Grands Prix in previous decades. The circuit was substantially reconfigured to accommodate the sport's return.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Season calendar, Calendar changes
The Grand Prix of America and the Indian Grand Prix were both contracted but did not feature on the calendar. The former originally aimed for a debut in 2013 at the Port Imperial Street Circuit in New Jersey after a 15-year contract was signed, but was delayed for a third straight year, while the latter was cancelled for the second consecutive year due to an unresolved tax case in the Bombay High Court.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Season calendar, Calendar changes
The German and Korean Grands Prix were both included on the provisional calendar. The former was set to return to the Nürburgring, in accordance with the event-sharing agreement established between the Nürburgring and the Hockenheimring in 2008. The Nürburgring had previously hosted the race in 2013 and so was scheduled to host it again in 2015, but the venue was left off the provisional calendar, leaving the event-sharing agreement at a stalemate. With both venues unwilling to host the event, the race was ultimately cancelled, leaving the country off the Grand Prix calendar for the first time since 1960. The Korean Grand Prix was scheduled to return to the Formula One calendar after being removed in 2014, but the plan was ultimately abandoned.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Regulation changes, Technical, Power units
The number of power units a driver could use in a season was reduced from five in 2014 to four in 2015. This was tweaked after the 2015 British Grand Prix, with new power unit manufacturers being allowed one other power unit in their first season of competition; the only manufacturer affected in the 2015 season was Honda, who were allowed to take advantage of the rule even though it had been introduced after the season had begun. The rules regarding engine development that were introduced for the previous season were changed as well, with the manufacturers allowed to perform half the development permitted in 2014.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Regulation changes, Technical, Noses
Following the backlash over "ugly" nose designs in 2014, the FIA moved to amend the rules surrounding nose designs for the 2015 season. Noses were lower than in 2014, retaining a minimum cross section, but they had to taper to a point at a fixed linear rate, effectively outlawing the dramatic finger shapes seen in 2014 in favour of a more gradual shape. Furthermore, the design of the nose had to be symmetrical and consistent with the centreline of the car, thereby banning the more exotic designs, such as the "twin-tusk" approach used by Lotus on the E22 chassis.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Regulation changes, Technical, Weight and bodywork
The minimum weight of the cars at all times during an event was increased to 702 kilograms (1,548 lb), a difference of 10 kilograms (22 lb) from 2014, addressing concerns raised the year before that the lighter weight limit forced taller drivers to become unhealthily slim.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Regulation changes, Technical, Weight and bodywork
The ban on front-and-rear interconnected suspension systems (FRIC) that had been implemented in the middle of the 2014 season was formalised, with the regulations stating that the front and rear suspension had to be designed in such a way that any change in performance had to be a direct result of a change in load applied solely to them. The anti-intrusion panels on both sides of the survival cell were extended upwards to the rim of the cockpit and alongside the driver's head in order to improve the drivers' safety in event of a side impact. Titanium skid blocks on the underside of the car were made mandatory for the 2015 season, which led to a return of sparks being created by the cars as the underbody touched the track.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Regulation changes, Sporting regulations, Penalties
Several rules regarding penalties were changed for the 2015 season. The replacement of a complete power unit, exceeding the maximum number allowed per season, no longer resulted in a penalty in itself.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Regulation changes, Sporting regulations, Penalties
Penalties continued to be applied cumulatively for the replacement of individual components of the power unit, and if such a grid place penalty was imposed and the driver's starting position was such that it could not be applied in full, the remainder of the penalty was no longer carried over to the next race, but was instead applied in the form of a time penalty during the race corresponding to the number of grid spaces remaining in the penalty. This was tweaked after the 2015 British Grand Prix with immediate effect, to make demotion to the back of the grid the maximum penalty for engine changes. Additional time penalties to be served during the race were abandoned.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Regulation changes, Sporting regulations, Penalties
As well as the existing five-second penalty that could be served during a driver's scheduled pit stop, a new ten-second penalty was introduced, to be served in the same manner. If a car was deemed to have been released from a pit stop in an unsafe manner, the driver would receive a ten-second stop-and-go penalty. Further penalties could be applied if the stewards believed the driver was aware of this and attempted to drive the car regardless.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Regulation changes, Sporting regulations, Penalties
If any team personnel or team equipment remained on the grid after the fifteen-second signal had been shown before the start of the formation lap, the driver of the car concerned would have had to start the race from the pit lane. If the driver concerned failed to obey this, they would have received a ten-second stop-and-go penalty.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Regulation changes, Sporting regulations, Schedule and points
The rules regarding qualifying and the start times of some races were tweaked. The qualifying procedure was further clarified to cater to different sizes of starting grids: if twenty-four cars were entered for the race, seven would have been eliminated after each of the first two qualifying segments; if twenty-two were entered, six would have been eliminated after each qualifying segment and so on if fewer cars were eligible.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Regulation changes, Sporting regulations, Schedule and points
In light of a regulation introduced in 2014 dictating that a race could not run for more than four hours and following recommendations from the report into Jules Bianchi's accident the previous season, the start times of five Grands Prix were moved forward by an hour so races did not start with less than four hours until dusk. Thus, the Australian, Malaysia, Chinese, Japanese and Russian Grands Prix started an hour earlier than in 2014.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Regulation changes, Sporting regulations, Schedule and points
There were other changes introduced in a bid to further increase the safety of the sport. In the aftermath of Bianchi's accident, a new procedure called the Virtual Safety Car (VSC) was introduced following trials during the last three Grands Prix of 2014. The procedure could be initiated when double waved yellow flags were needed on any section of a circuit where competitors and officials were in danger, but the circumstances did not warrant deployment of the actual safety car. It obliged drivers to reduce their speed to match one indicated on the displays on their steering wheels.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Regulation changes, Sporting regulations, Schedule and points
The safety car procedure was amended as well: once the last lapped car had passed the leader, the safety car returned to the pit lane at the end of the following lap. This was a change of the previous practice which required the unlapped cars to have caught up with the back of the pack before the safety car could return to the pit lane.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Regulation changes, Sporting regulations, Schedule and points
If a race were suspended (red-flagged), the cars would no longer have lined up on the grid but instead would have slowly proceeded to the pit lane. The pit exit would have been closed and the first car to arrive in the pit lane would have proceeded to the exit with the others lining up behind in the order in which they arrived, regardless of race standing or garage location. Severe circumstances could still have required cars to stop immediately on track.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Regulation changes, Sporting regulations, Schedule and points
Beginning with the Belgian Grand Prix, radio communication from engineers to drivers pertaining to race starts, such as recommended torque map settings for optimal acceleration, was no longer allowed. This restriction added to the partial radio ban implemented at the end of the previous season. Drivers were also no longer permitted to change the design of their helmet in-season. The time limit rule was also adjusted, so that after races reached two hours and the leader completed a lap, an additional full lap would be run before the race ended.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Pre-season
Lewis Hamilton was the defending Drivers' Champion after securing his second title at the 2014 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. His team, Mercedes, began the season as the defending Constructors' Champion, having clinched its first championship title at the 2014 Russian Grand Prix.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Pre-season
Before the start of the season, Hamilton announced he would not be exercising his option of switching his car number to 1 for 2015, as was his prerogative as reigning World Champion, and would instead race with his career number 44. It was the first season since 1994, when Alain Prost retired from the sport following his fourth and final World Drivers' Championship title in 1993, that the field did not contain a number one car.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Pre-season
Following the financial struggles faced by Marussia and Caterham in 2014, the FIA approved the use of 2014-specification chassis in 2015 provided that teams showed cause and received an individual dispensation to compete with their old chassis. A request by Manor Marussia to use their 2014 car was rejected by the other teams. Subsequent regulation changes allowed the team to use a modified 2014 chassis which met updated safety and dimensional limits. The car was powered by a 2014 specification Ferrari power unit, with a new chassis to be introduced later in the season. However, following the twelfth round, Manor Marussia elected to abandon those plans in favour of developing the car for the following season.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Pre-season
McLaren's Fernando Alonso was involved in a pre-season testing accident that saw the two-time World Drivers' Champion hospitalised. McLaren claimed the crash was caused by a sudden gust of wind disrupting the car's downforce, while Alonso insisted the crash was caused by his steering wheel locking up. On physicians' advice, Alonso elected to sit out the opening round in Australia, prompting the team to replace him with Kevin Magnussen for the race. Alonso was cleared to race by the second round in Malaysia.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Championship, Opening rounds
Mercedes began the season with a one–two finish in Australia, resulting in a twenty-eight-point lead after just one round. They finished over thirty seconds clear of Sebastian Vettel, who finished third and secured a podium finish in his first race with Ferrari. Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo finished a lap down in sixth, prompting the team to continue to voice their frustrations with Renault, as they were forced to use its second of four allotted power units for Ricciardo on the very first day of the season.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Championship, Opening rounds
The team also voiced its displeasure over the progress Renault had made in terms of power, with the team principal, Christian Horner, saying the Renault Energy F1-2015 was still 100 horsepower (75 kW) down on Mercedes's PU106B Hybrid. After the race, the Red Bull team advisor Helmut Marko suggested that Red Bull might exit Formula One entirely if changes to the regulations were not made to level the field or cut development costs.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Championship, Opening rounds
Renault countered with their own threat to pull out of Formula One as an engine supplier if its reputation continued to be damaged or if its participation was otherwise not profitable to the company. Mercedes followed up by finishing second and third in Malaysia, while Red Bull continued to struggle, rounding out the top ten a lap down. After four rounds, Mercedes led the field, having earned 159 points (with Lewis Hamilton acquiring 93 out of 100 possible points), while Red Bull's struggles continued. The team acquired twenty-six points, enough for a distant fourth, and Ricciardo entered the European stages of the season on his fourth and final permissible power unit with fifteen events remaining on the calendar.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Championship, Opening rounds
With McLaren's longest continuous testing session lasting twelve laps in Montmeló – a total of 56 kilometres (35 mi), a sixth of a total Grand Prix distance – before running into engine trouble, Honda elected to detune the power units for the opening Grands Prix in an effort to improve reliability and longevity while the manufacturer worked to improve these areas before homologation. After both cars qualified on the back row, Kevin Magnussen failed to reach the grid after suffering an abrupt engine failure while on his way from the pit lane to the grid.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Championship, Opening rounds
Jenson Button managed to finish the race, albeit in the last classified position, two laps behind the leaders. Magnussen relinquished his seat back to Alonso in Malaysia; both cars qualified ahead of only the Manor Marussia cars and eventually retired. The team showed signs of improvement in terms of performance and was able to compete with the midfield cars in China and Bahrain, although reliability continued to prove troublesome as Button's car was unable to compete in the latter Grand Prix.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Championship, Opening rounds
Following a tumultuous pre-season in which they went through a period of administration and were saved by late investment, Manor Marussia arrived in Melbourne with a car that had passed its mandatory crash tests but had completed no testing. After the team's arrival in Australia, while assembling the cars, it was discovered that their computers had been wiped completely clean of all data in preparation for auction, and they ultimately could not compete in the Grand Prix.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Championship, Opening rounds
The team managed to get their cars running and on the racetrack by the second round in Malaysia, and were able to set times within 107% of the leading times in practice, giving stewards reasonable grounds to allow the team to race when they failed to do so in qualifying. Merhi was able to finish the race three laps down in fifteenth, while Stevens did not start. Manor Marussia continued to show signs of consistency, with both cars qualifying within 107%, starting, and finishing both Grands Prix in China and Bahrain. They were one of two teams, the other being McLaren, to return to Europe without a championship point.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Championship, Opening rounds
Ferrari came into the season seemingly much more competitive than the previous season, finishing on the podium in the opening race. Kimi Räikkönen said the SF15-T was "much better" to drive than 2014's F14 T. In Malaysia, Vettel won comfortably and Räikkönen finished in fourth, despite suffering a tyre failure. The team then finished third and fourth in China and Räikkönen secured his first podium appearance since rejoining Ferrari the previous season with a second-place finish in Bahrain. With 107 points, the team returned to Europe 52 points behind Mercedes, and 46 points ahead of Williams, who were third. Sauber left the opening rounds with their first points since 2013.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Championship, European and Canadian rounds
Mercedes arrived at Spain already with a comfortable lead. Lewis Hamilton had scored ninety-three points out of a possible one hundred, giving him a twenty-seven-point lead over his teammate Nico Rosberg entering the eight-race European portion of the season.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Championship, European and Canadian rounds
Rosberg quickly cut into Hamilton's championship lead by securing victories in Spain (reducing his deficit to twenty points) and Monaco. The latter win was aided by the result of a costly miscalculation by the Mercedes team to pit Hamilton with a 19-second lead during a safety car period (that briefly saw the use of the "Virtual Safety Car" for the first time in F1's history) with 14 laps remaining. Rosberg and Sebastian Vettel did not make pit stops, allowing both to narrowly pass Hamilton by the pit lane exit.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Championship, European and Canadian rounds
Racing resumed on lap seventy-one and Rosberg quickly pulled away, remaining in the lead till the chequered flag. Vettel held off Hamilton for second and third, respectively. As a result, Hamilton's lead over Rosberg in the Drivers' Championship was cut in half, to just ten points. Meanwhile, Button secured McLaren's first points of the season by finishing eighth. This left the Marussia drivers of Stevens and Merhi, along with the other McLaren driver, Fernando Alonso, as the only full-time drivers not to score a point after seven rounds.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Championship, European and Canadian rounds
At the following Grands Prix in Canada, Austria, and Britain, Mercedes put to rest the criticism following the result in Monaco through finishing first and second in the next three races, extending their championship lead to 160 points over Ferrari. Williams collected their first two podiums of the season in the form of third-place results by Valtteri Bottas in Canada and Felipe Massa in Austria, while Ferrari lost ground to Mercedes following a retirement in Austria and an eighth-place finish in Britain by Räikkönen.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Championship, European and Canadian rounds
Other power unit manufacturers continued to struggle, with a Renault-powered car finishing in the top five only once, in Monaco, indicating their continued lack of power. Honda continued to have reliability issues and, up to the British Grand Prix, suffered nine retirements and two failures to start due to power unit problems, translating to only seven overall finishes out of 18 possible results.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Championship, European and Canadian rounds
The Drivers' Championship remained closely contested between leader Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, with the gap between them never larger than twenty-eight points after Hamilton's victory in round eleven in Belgium. The two would trade victories between rounds six and nine, closing the gap to as little as ten points. Sebastian Vettel, who at one time was within three points of the lead, after his victory in Malaysia, and who was the only non-Mercedes winner after eleven rounds, could not overcome team errors in Canada and Austria, and fell fifty-nine points off the pace of Hamilton after round nine. He rebounded in Hungary by winning his second race of the season, reducing the gap to Hamilton to forty-two points in the process, but fell out of a point-scoring position in Belgium after a tyre failure on the penultimate lap, dropping him to sixty-seven points behind the leader.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Championship, European and Canadian rounds
Hamilton closed out the European portion of the season with his seventh victory of the season in Italy. With Rosberg's retirement at the event, Hamilton entered the closing rounds of the season with a lead of fifty-three points over his teammate in the Drivers' Championship standings, the largest gap of the season at that point, while Vettel sat a further twenty-one points behind. Hamilton's tenth pole position in Belgium assured him of victory in the FIA Pole Trophy, the award for the driver who achieves the most pole positions during the season. Mercedes had built up a 181-point lead over Ferrari in the Constructors' Championship, with Williams in third, 263 points behind the leaders. After twelve rounds, half of the teams had been represented on the podium, while nine out of ten had scored points.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Championship, Asian, Russian, and American rounds
Shortly before the thirteenth round in Singapore, Manor Marussia announced that the American GP2 driver Alexander Rossi would race for the team, replacing Merhi in five of the final seven rounds, while Merhi was retained for the remaining two. Vettel won his third victory of the season in Singapore, closing his gap to Nico Rosberg in second place to just eight points.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Championship, Asian, Russian, and American rounds
Rosberg could not close the gap to Hamilton in Japan or Russia; despite winning pole position in both races, his leads were short-lived. He was passed by Hamilton on the opening corner in Japan and retired on lap seven in Russia. Vettel capitalised on the results with third and second-place finishes respectively, to take second place in the Drivers' Championship from Rosberg with four rounds remaining, while Hamilton extended his lead to sixty-six points, the highest lead he had held in the season.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Championship, Asian, Russian, and American rounds
A victory in the United States, with Rosberg and Vettel finishing second and third respectively, secured the third Drivers' Championship for Hamilton with three races left to run. Rosberg won the final three races in Mexico, Brazil, and Abu Dhabi to reclaim second in the Drivers' Championship from Vettel, while Hamilton secured the Fastest Lap Award in Brazil.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Awards
Lewis Hamilton ended the season winning not only the championship, but also the FIA Pole Trophy for most pole positions of the season and the DHL Fastest Lap Award. Ferrari won the inaugural DHL Pit Stop Award, posting the fastest pit stop time at seven of the first eighteen races of the season. Both Hamilton and Mercedes collected their championship trophies at a gala held in Paris on 4 December 2015. Toro Rosso's Max Verstappen collected three post-season awards for Rookie of the Year, Personality of the Year and Action of the Year (for his overtake on Felipe Nasr through Blanchimont corner at the Belgian Grand Prix).


2015 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Legal disputes, Sauber
Sauber's early season preparations were disrupted by a series of legal challenges from the former Caterham driver Giedo van der Garde, who claimed the team had reneged on a contract that was signed in June 2014. Van der Garde filed a motion with the Supreme Court of Victoria in Australia in an effort to force the team to replace one of their drivers with him at the opening round in Melbourne, with the court finding in his favour. Van der Garde later agreed not to participate in the event, with the driver and team settling the dispute for an undisclosed sum and terminating the contract following the first round.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Season report, Legal disputes, Lotus
Lotus suffered financially throughout the season, culminating in Pirelli withholding their tyres for the Friday practice sessions in Hungary. Before the Belgian Grand Prix, amid negotiations with Renault for a potential takeover, the former Lotus reserve driver Charles Pic initiated legal action against Lotus alleging lack of seat time in 2014, resulting in breach of contract. Belgian authorities later moved to impound the assets of Lotus for four days following Grosjean's podium finish. After talks between the FIA and Lotus, the team was allowed to leave Spa with their equipment and cars, and was able to start the following race in Italy.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Results and standings, Scoring system
Points were awarded to the top ten classified finishers in every race, using the following structure:


2015 Formula One World Championship, Results and standings, Scoring system
In the event of a tie, a count-back system was used as a tie-breaker, with a driver's best result used to decide the standings.


2015 Formula One World Championship, Results and standings, World Constructors' Championship standings
Constructors' Championship points were awarded as per the Drivers' Championship with the results of both cars taken into account. In the event of a tie, a count-back system was used as a tie-breaker, with a constructor's best result used to decide the standings.


2015 Formula Renault 1.6 Nordic season
The 2015 Formula Renault 1.6 Nordic season was the third season of the Formula Renault 1.6 Nordic, a series running 1600cc Formula Renault machinery in similar fashion to the French F4 Championship, and the last one to run under the backing of Renault. The series began on 9 May at Skövde Airport and ended on 26 September at Ring Knutstorp, after fifteen races held in seven venues. Most of these rounds were held in support of the 2015 Scandinavian Touring Car Championship season, joint organiser of the series along with the FIA Northern European Zone Organisation.


2015 Formula Renault 1.6 Nordic season
The series uses all-carbon Signatech chassis, 1.6-litre 140bhp Renault K4MRS engines, and Michelin tyres.


2015 Formula Renault 1.6 Nordic season, Race calendar and results
Except for the third round, which was held in Finland, all races took place in Sweden. All Swedish rounds, with the exception of the one at the Kinnekulle Ring, were held in support of the STCC championship.


2015 Formula Renault 1.6 Nordic season, Race calendar and results
Rounds denoted with a blue background were a part of the Formula Renault 1.6 NEZ Championship.


2015 Formula Renault 1.6 Nordic season, Championship standings
Points were awarded to the top 10 classified finishers. Starting from this season, an extra point was awarded for pole position and fastest lap for each race.


2015 Formula Renault 1.6 Nordic season, Championship standings
Parallel to the main championship, two other championships were held: the Formula Renault 1.6 Junior Svenskt Mästerskap (JSM) for drivers under 26 years old holding a Swedish driver license, and the Formula Renault 1.6 Northern European Zone (NEZ) championship at selected rounds. Points to these championships were awarded using the same system, with the sole exception of pole position and fastest lap not awarding points.


2015 Formula Renault 2.0 Alps Series
The 2015 Formula Renault 2.0 Alps Series was the fifth year of the Formula Renault 2.0 Alps series, and the fourteenth season of the former Swiss Formula Renault Championship. The championship began on 12 April at Imola and finished on 11 October at Jerez after sixteen races held at seven meetings. The 2015 season featured a new three-race weekend format for rounds at the Red Bull Ring and Monza.


2015 Formula Renault 2.0 Alps Series
In a final-race decider, British driver Jack Aitken secured the drivers' championship title by five points ahead of his Koiranen GP team-mate Jake Hughes. Aitken trailed Hughes by five points going into the race at Jerez, but Aitken's third-place finish – behind Ben Barnicoat and Anthoine Hubert, who were both ineligible to score championship points – to Hughes' ninth-place finish (third amongst Alps runners) gave him the honours. Aitken took four overall wins during the season, as well as taking three further class wins as the best Alps runner behind drivers ineligible for the drivers' championship.


2015 Formula Renault 2.0 Alps Series
Hughes took three overall wins, adding a fourth class win at Pau. Third place in the championship was also settled in the final race, in favour of Thiago Vivacqua ahead of JD Motorsport team-mate Matevos Isaakyan. Vivacqua, a race-winner at Monza, prevailed by four points over Isaakyan, who took two overall wins and a further class win.


2015 Formula Renault 2.0 Alps Series
The only other championship-eligible driver to take a race victory was Vasily Romanov, who took a race victory at Monza for Cram Motorsport; he ultimately finished the season in sixth place in the championship. Two guest drivers took race victories during the season; Hubert won four races from six starts for Tech 1 Racing, while Barnicoat won the final race at Jerez for Fortec Motorsports. In the teams' championship, the performances of Aitken and Hughes saw Koiranen GP comfortably win the title, by almost 200 points ahead of JD Motorsport. In the junior championship for drivers under the age of 18, Isaakyan took eleven victories and finished 83 points clear of his nearest challenger, Philip Hamprecht.


2015 Formula Renault 2.0 Alps Series, Race calendar and results
The seven-event calendar for the 2015 season was announced on 5 October 2014. As in 2014, only three rounds were held in Italy – at Monza, Imola and Misano. The Pau Grand Prix, Red Bull Ring, Spa-Francorchamps and Jerez were the remaining four rounds.


2015 Formula Renault 2.0 Alps Series, Championship standings, Teams' championship
Prior to each round of the championship, two drivers from each team – if applicable – were nominated to score teams' championship points.


2015 Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup
The 2015 Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup was the tenth Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup season, an open-wheel motor racing series for emerging young racing drivers based in Europe.


2015 Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup, Race calendar and results
The seven-event provisional calendar for the 2015 season was released on 19 November 2014.


2015 Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup, Championship standings, Drivers' championship
The second race at Spa-Francorchamps was red-flagged after four laps of the race had been completed due to torrential rain. As a result, series organisers awarded half points to each of the classified finishers eligible to score points.


2015 Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup, Championship standings, Drivers' championship
† — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.


2015 Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup, Championship standings, Teams' championship
The second race at Spa-Francorchamps was red-flagged after four laps of the race had been completed due to torrential rain. As a result, series organisers awarded half points to each of the classified finishers eligible to score points.


2015 Formula Renault 3.5 Series
The 2015 Formula Renault 3.5 Series season was a multi-event motor racing championship for open wheel, formula racing cars held across Europe. The championship featured drivers competing in Formula Renault 3.5 formula race cars that conformed to the technical regulations for the championship. The 2015 season was the eleventh and final Formula Renault 3.5 Series season organised by Renault Sport, after it was announced that the organisation would withdraw its backing of the championship at the end of the season.


2015 Formula Renault 3.5 Series
The season began at Motorland Aragón on 25 April and finished on 18 October at Circuito de Jerez. The series formed part of the World Series by Renault meetings at seven double header events, with an additional double header event at the Red Bull Ring and a single race at Monaco, in support of the Monaco Grand Prix.


2015 Formula Renault 3.5 Series, Race calendar and results
The calendar for the 2015 season was announced on 20 October 2014, on the final day of the 2014 season. Seven rounds formed meetings of the 2015 World Series by Renault season, with additional rounds to be held at the Red Bull Ring and at the Monaco Grand Prix. The championship returns to the Red Bull Ring, Silverstone and Le Mans. Monza, Moscow Raceway and Paul Ricard, which all held races in 2014, have been removed from the schedule.


2015 Formula Renault 3.5 Series, Race calendar and results
On 11 February 2015, it was announced that the Silverstone round would be moved back a week due to the circuit reacquiring the rights to host the British round of the 2015 MotoGP season.


2015 Formula Renault seasons
This article describes all the 2015 seasons of Formula Renault series across the world.


2015 Formula Renault seasons, Calendar
This table indicates the round number of each Formula Renault series according to weekend dates.


2015 Formula Renault seasons, Other Formulas powered by Renault championships, 2015 Remus Formula Renault 2.0 Cup season
The season was held between 13 May and 11 September and raced across Austria, Germany, Italy and Czech Republic. The races occur with other categories as part of the Austria Formula 3 Cup, this section presents only the Austrian Formula Renault 2.0 classifications.


2015 Formula Renault seasons, Other Formulas powered by Renault championships, 2015 Formula Renault 2.0 Argentina season
All cars use Tito 02 chassis, all races were held in Argentina.


2015 Formula Renault seasons, Other Formulas powered by Renault championships, 2015 Formula Renault 2.0 Argentina season
1 extra point in each race for regularly qualified drivers.


2015 Fort Lauderdale Strikers season
The 2015 Fort Lauderdale Strikers season will be the team's fifth season in the North American Soccer League (NASL).


2015 Fort Lauderdale Strikers season, Competitions, U.S. Open Cup
The Strikers will compete in the 2015 edition of the Open Cup.


2015 Fort Lauderdale mayoral election
The 2015 Fort Lauderdale mayoral election was held on February 10, 2015 to elect the mayor of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It saw the reelection of Jack Seiler.


2015 Fort Worth mayoral election
The 2015 Fort Worth mayoral election took place on May 9, 2015, to elect the Mayor of Fort Worth, Texas. The election was held concurrently with various other local elections, and is officially nonpartisan.


2015 Fort Worth mayoral election
The mayoral term in Fort Worth is two years. Incumbent Mayor Betsy Price, a Republican who was first elected in  2011, ran unopposed for a third term.


2015 Fort Worth mayoral election
If more than two candidates had filed, and had no candidate received a majority of the vote in the general election, a runoff would have been held on June 13.


2015 Foster Farms Bowl
The 2015 Foster Farms Bowl was an American college football bowl game that was played on December 26, 2015 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California. It was one of the 2015–16 bowl games that concluded the 2015 FBS football season. The 14th edition of the Foster Farms Bowl (previously known as the Fight Hunger Bowl) featured the UCLA Bruins from the Pac-12 Conference against the Nebraska Cornhuskers from the Big Ten Conference. Since there were not enough bowl-eligible teams at the end of the regular season, 5–7 Nebraska was given a spot in this bowl because of its high Academic Progress Rate. Underdog Nebraska was victorious, winning the game 37–29.


2015 Foster Farms Bowl, Teams
The game represented the 13th overall meeting between these two teams, but was the first of those meetings to occur in a bowl game. After this game, Nebraska leads the all-time series 7–6.


2015 Foster Farms Bowl, Teams, UCLA
The Bruins were led by freshman quarterback Josh Rosen, who had completed 266 passes for an average of 279.2 yards per game. The team led the Pac-12 conference in sacks against (1.17 per game), pass defense efficiency (111.5), and pass defense (205.7 yards per game).


2015 Fotokol attack
The 2015 Fotokol attack occurred on 4 and 5 February 2015 when Boko Haram militants reportedly killed at least 91 people by shooting and burning, and injured over 500 in Fotokol, Cameroon. The militants, who are based in northeastern Nigeria and active in Chad, Niger and northern Cameroon, also torched mosques and churches of the town. This attack came a day after the regional forces said it had driven Boko Haram from Gambaru, a Nigerian town close by. This was the second foreign country attack by the militants in 2015. This region of Niger is an area where refugees had arrived by the thousands seeking safety from Boko Haram attacks.


2015 Fotokol attack
Cameroonian troops and Chadian forces have been deployed as a regional force to fight back. The Chadian army has claimed to have killed around 200 militants. The United Nations had also provided support with weapons, logistics, and operations for this multinational effort against Boko Haram.


2015 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships
The 2015 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships was a Senior ISU figure skating championship held in the 2014–15 season. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing for the title of Four Continents Champion. The event's name refers to the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Oceania, which are four of the continents represented in the Olympic rings, omitting Europe.


2015 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships
In February 2015, the Korea Skating Union organised a competition that was held at the Mokdong Ice Rink in Seoul, South Korea. The rink has a seating capacity of 5,000 spectators.


2015 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships
The 2015 competition featured a total of ninety-one athletes from fifteen nations from North America, Africa, Asia and Oceania. There were twenty-six competitors in the men's event and nineteen competitors in the ladies' event. There was also be pair teams and thirteen ice dancing teams.


2015 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, Qualification
The competition was open to skaters from non-European member nations of the International Skating Union who reach the age of 15 before July 1, 2014. The corresponding competition for European skaters will be the 2015 European Championships.


2015 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, Qualification
National associations selected up to three skaters to compete in both singles disciplines and three couples in both Pairs and Ice Dancing. Selection is based on each associations own criteria but the ISU mandates that their selections achieve a minimum technical elements score (TES) at an international event prior to the Four Continents.


2015 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, Overview and record
2014 Men's champion Takahito Mura & Pair's Champions Wenjing Sui / Cong Han participated in the competition. 2014 Ladies' champion Kanako Murakami & Ice dancing champions Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue did not defend their titles as they were not selected by their respected National associations to compete at the 2015 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships.


2015 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, Overview and record
Argentina was represented by a skater at the Four Continents Championships for the first time in history.