STRONG RUN TO FIRST POINTS FOR KARUN
Istanbul, Turkey: India’s Karun Chandhok showed opened his points
account in the second round of the GP2 Series - Formula 1’s feeder
formula at Turkey’s Istanbul Park at the weekend.
The 24-year-old from Chennai, who is backed by Red Bull, JK Tyre,
Amaron and ICSA Logistics, finished fourth from seventh on the grid [...]
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GP2 Series
Trident Racing ended up on top in the final preseason testing session at
Valencia, thanks to a great laptime clocked by Kasper Andersen. The
Danish driver, who stood in the top-5 in the AM session, managed to lower
his marks in the afternoon, opening a huge gap over the other drivers
on-track and topping the charts at the end [...]
Racing Engineering’s Giorgio
Pantano Consolidates His Championship Lead.
There were mixed fortunes for the Racing Engineering drivers in today’s
Sprint Race as Giorgio Pantano finished a competitive fourth and
continues to lead the Drivers Championship while Javier Villa was the
victim of an over-optimistic passing manoeuvre.
Giorgio made a good start from eighth place on the reversed grid, picking
up several places [...]
STILL FRESH IN MY MEMORY
A narrow escape. During a GP2 sprint race this Sunday
morning, Bruno Senna was involved in a 280kph collision with a dog that
had got loose onto the track. It took another 30 minutes after the race
had finished before Senna was able to get over his initial fright and
anger and calm his still [...]
MIXED RESULTS
A nice 11th place in this weekend’s first GP2-race showed the good part
of Ho-Pin Tungs’ results in Turkey. A DNF in the second race was the
dark side. The Chinese driver is convinced that his result on Saturday
could have been even better if he would have had an earlier pit stop. On
Sunday his engine stalled [...]
FIRST TOP TEN FINISH FOR DPR THIS SEASON
David Price Racing (DPR) took its first top ten finish of the season at Istanbul,
Turkey, today, with Brazilian Diego Nunes taking 10th in the GP2 Sprint race, and his team mate
Giacomo Ricci following close behind in 11th place.
For today’s Sprint distance Nunes lined up in 13th, after a [...]
Race 2 press conference
Istanbul
GP2 Series:
Romain, congratulations on your first win in the main series.
You must be delighted.
Romain Grosjean:
Yeah it was a good race, and it’s good to feel the podium,
the win: we missed one in Barcelona in race two, so here it was important to
be back. The thing is start seventh is not easy, but [...]
GP2 season starts well for Piquet Sports’ Andreas Zuber
The second weekend of the new GP2 Series season
started well for Dubai-resident Piquet Sports driver Andreas Zuber, who
races under a UAE license.
“I arrived in Turkey with the memory of my points in the first race of
the season in Barcelona and memories of my podium for Trident Racing [...]
Today’s Sprint Race at the Istanbul circuit in Turkey did not provide the
result that Javier Villa was looking for. Starting from second place on
the grid the young Spaniard was hoping for a podium finish but a number
of factors beyond Javi’s control saw him finish a very disappointed 15th.
Things began well for Javier as, although he [...]
2008 ART Grand Prix are now second in the 2008 GP2 series championship
after rookie racer Romain Grosjean secured two podium finishes in
last weekend’s Turkish round held at the Istanbul Park Otodrom. The
Frenchman, who started, fourth on the grid in race one, charged through
the field to take a strong second place behind race winner Giorgio
Pantano while [...]
Trident Racing ended up on top in the final preseason testing session at
Valencia, thanks to a great laptime clocked by Kasper Andersen. The
Danish driver, who stood in the top-5 in the AM session, managed to lower
his marks in the afternoon, opening a huge gap over the other drivers
on-track and topping the charts at the end [...]
STRONG RUN TO FIRST POINTS FOR KARUN
Istanbul, Turkey: India’s Karun Chandhok showed opened his points
account in the second round of the GP2 Series - Formula 1’s feeder
formula at Turkey’s Istanbul Park at the weekend.
The 24-year-old from Chennai, who is backed by Red Bull, JK Tyre,
Amaron and ICSA Logistics, finished fourth from seventh on the grid [...]
Today’s Sprint Race at the Istanbul circuit in Turkey did not provide the
result that Javier Villa was looking for. Starting from second place on
the grid the young Spaniard was hoping for a podium finish but a number
of factors beyond Javi’s control saw him finish a very disappointed 15th.
Things began well for Javier as, although he [...]
2008 ART Grand Prix are now second in the 2008 GP2 series championship
after rookie racer Romain Grosjean secured two podium finishes in
last weekend’s Turkish round held at the Istanbul Park Otodrom. The
Frenchman, who started, fourth on the grid in race one, charged through
the field to take a strong second place behind race winner Giorgio
Pantano while [...]
FIRST TOP TEN FINISH FOR DPR THIS SEASON
David Price Racing (DPR) took its first top ten finish of the season at Istanbul,
Turkey, today, with Brazilian Diego Nunes taking 10th in the GP2 Sprint race, and his team mate
Giacomo Ricci following close behind in 11th place.
For today’s Sprint distance Nunes lined up in 13th, after a [...]
Race 2 press conference
Istanbul
GP2 Series:
Romain, congratulations on your first win in the main series.
You must be delighted.
Romain Grosjean:
Yeah it was a good race, and it’s good to feel the podium,
the win: we missed one in Barcelona in race two, so here it was important to
be back. The thing is start seventh is not easy, but [...]
GP2 season starts well for Piquet Sports’ Andreas Zuber
The second weekend of the new GP2 Series season
started well for Dubai-resident Piquet Sports driver Andreas Zuber, who
races under a UAE license.
“I arrived in Turkey with the memory of my points in the first race of
the season in Barcelona and memories of my podium for Trident Racing [...]
Session: Race 1
Air temp.: 19 C
Track temp.: 34 C
BCN Competicion
Car #26
Driver: Adrian Valles
Result: 10
BCN Competicion
Car #27
Driver: Milos Pavlovic
Result: DNF
VALLES TENTH, PAVLOVIC RETIRED IN RACE ONE AT ISTANBUL
Good race of Adrian Valles at Istanbul. The Spaniard, at the
first race with BCN Competicion, has been bumped by an opponent after a
good start and consequently hit another car. [...]
Source: GP2: Istanbul: Race 2 results
Romain Grosjean took the win in the GP2 Sprint race to cement his second
position in the championship standings.
The young ART Grand Prix driver pulled out an 8 second lead in a bizarre
race which saw Bruno Senna being taken out by a stray dog.
Adam Carroll started from pole and initially seemed to get away well. [...]
