Non-F1 Motorsport Thread 2012

[paulgilb]

Driver standings:

1 Davide Valsecchi 70
2 Luiz Razia 57
3 Esteban Gutierrez 45
4 James Calado 39
5 Max Chilton 35
6 Felipe Nasr 22
7 Fabio Leimer 22
8 Giedo van der Garde 12
9 Stefano Coletti 10
10 Tom Dillmann 8
11 Fabio Onidi 4
12 Rio Haryanto 4
13 Jolyon Palmer 2
14 Nathanael Berthon 1
15 Simon Trummer 1
16 Fabrizio Crestani 1
17 Brendon Hartley 1
18 Josef Kral 0
19 Stephane Richelmi 0
20 Dani Clos 0
21 Julian Leal 0
22 Marcus Ericsson 0
23 Ricardo Teixeira 0
24 Nigel Melker 0
25 Rodolfo Gonzalez 0
26 Jon Lancaster 0
27 Giancarlo Serenelli 0
28 Johnny Cecotto Jr 0

[paulgilb]

Team standings:

1 DAMS 92
2 Lotus GP 84
3 Arden International 58
4 Marussia Carlin GP2 Team 39
5 Racing Engineering 23
6 Scuderia Coloni 14
7 Caterham Racing 12
8 Rapax 8
9 iSport International 2
10 Ocean Racing Technology 1
11 Venezuela GP Lazarus 1
12 Barwa Addax Team 0
13 Trident Racing 0

[Paul]

Superb sprint race this morning. I've always liked Valsecchi and I'm glad he's doing very well. DAMS continue to have this knack of keeping the tyres alive at the end of races, hence Nasr's rise from last to 6th place. He was very unfairly penalised for an incident with Cecotto in race 1 which knocked him out of the race. See below (Nasr in the yellow car, Cecotto in the white and blue car)

[Paddy]

Nasr in todays race stalled before the grid why he was in pit lane. what was the penalty he was given after cecotto took him out yesterday?
I in york have sky so actually able to watch these races, if a gp2 race is boring then you know the track is bad! thats how good the racing is.

[Paul]

5 place grid penalty which meant he started at the back. But as you say, that was before he stalled.

I rate Nasr very highly though; he did a superb job in British F3 last year and has acquitted himself v well making the huge jump up to GP2

[Paddy]

I didn't realise he'd skipped out GP3.

Razia is one to watch. But I am still a Colardo fan ever since he was in the BTCC support series!

[Paul]

I struggle to get excited about Razia; he's spent years in GP2 being very disappointing and is only coming good now.

Calado is good especially coming through the field and overtaking. But I'm not sure he has that extra edge to win championships. He reminds me of Oliver Turvey in that respect. I hope Racing Steps Foundation don't drop Calado as they did after Turvey's first year of GP2

[Paddy]

Think he may have matured this season and is worth watching out for. (Razia)

[Paul]

He may have, but if you were an F1 team boss who would you want? A young quick rookie making an instant impression like Nasr or Calado, or a driver who has been around for 4 years and hadn't really achieved much previously?

[Paddy]

He could follow in the footsteps of Pantino and de la rosa and karti!

[paulgilb]

Result of GP2 Bahrain (weekend 2) feature race (thanks to http://www.autosport.com):

Pos Driver Team Time/Gap
1. Davide Valsecchi DAMS 57m35.088s + fastest lap
2. Fabio Leimer Racing Engineering + 7.711s
3. Giedo van der Garde Caterham + 14.824s + pole
4. Luiz Razia Arden + 24.142s
5. Max Chilton Carlin + 24.705s
6. Rio Haryanto Carlin + 40.965s
7. Marcus Ericsson iSport + 50.645s
8. Tom Dillmann Rapax + 52.522s
9. Johnny Cecotto Addax + 55.578s
10. Esteban Gutierrez Lotus + 56.211s
11. Felipe Nasr DAMS + 45.772s + penalty
12. Nathanael Berthon Racing Engineering + 1m06.906s
13. Brendon Hartley Ocean + 1m07.254s
14. Simon Trummer Arden + 1m15.486s
15. Julian Leal Trident + 1m16.363s
16. James Calado Lotus + 1m20.506s
17. Stephane Richelmi Trident + 1m21.441s
18. Rodolfo Gonzalez Caterham + 1m09.206s + penalty
19. Nigel Melker Ocean + 1m29.955s
20. Fabio Onidi Coloni + 1m47.146s
21. Stefano Coletti Coloni + 1 lap
22. Giancarlo Serenelli Lazarus + 1 lap
23. Ricardo Teixeira Rapax + 1 lap

Retirements:

Jolyon Palmer iSport 30 laps
Fabrizio Crestani Lazarus 24 laps
Dani Clos Addax 8 laps

[paulgilb]

Result of Bahrain (weekend 2) sprint race (thanks to http://www.autosport.com):

Pos Driver Team Time/Gap
1. Tom Dillmann Rapax 41m16.276s
2. Luiz Razia Arden + 0.198s + fastest lap
3. Davide Valsecchi DAMS + 3.958s
4. Esteban Gutierrez Lotus + 16.488s
5. Felipe Nasr DAMS + 18.602s
6. Rio Haryanto Carlin + 20.425s
7. Marcus Ericsson iSport + 26.294s
8. Fabio Leimer Racing Engineering + 29.605s
9. Fabio Onidi Coloni + 33.490s
10. Nathanael Berthon Racing Engineering + 34.078s
11. Nigel Melker Ocean + 43.463s
12. James Calado Lotus + 44.371s
13. Max Chilton Carlin + 46.743s
14. Julian Leal Trident + 47.439s
15. Rodolfo Gonzalez Caterham + 54.991s
16. Brendon Hartley Ocean + 59.764s
17. Stephane Richelmi Trident + 1m00.655s
18. Stefano Coletti Coloni + 1m02.090s
19. Giedo van der Garde Caterham + 1m02.632s
20. Ricardo Teixeira Rapax + 1m07.468s
21. Giancarlo Serenelli Lazarus + 1m08.293s
22. Jolyon Palmer iSport + 1m18.688s
23. Fabrizio Crestani Lazarus + 1m26.049s

Retirements:

Simon Trummer Arden 21 laps
Dani Clos Addax 19 laps
Johnny Cecotto Addax 0 laps

Driver standings:

1 Davide Valsecchi 107
2 Luiz Razia 83
3 Esteban Gutierrez 54
4 Max Chilton 45
5 Fabio Leimer 41
6 James Calado 39
7 Giedo van der Garde 31
8 Felipe Nasr 28
9 Tom Dillmann 27
10 Rio Haryanto 16
11 Stefano Coletti 10
12 Marcus Ericsson 8
13 Fabio Onidi 4
14 Jolyon Palmer 2
15 Johnny Cecotto Jr 2
16 Nathanael Berthon 1
17 Simon Trummer 1
18 Brendon Hartley 1
19 Fabrizio Crestani 1
20 Josef Kral 0
21 Nigel Melker 0
22 Stephane Richelmi 0
23 Dani Clos 0
24 Julian Leal 0
25 Ricardo Teixeira 0
26 Rodolfo Gonzalez 0
27 Jon Lancaster 0
28 Giancarlo Serenelli 0

Team standings:

1 DAMS 135
2 Lotus GP 93
3 Arden International 84
4 Marussia Carlin GP2 Team 61
5 Racing Engineering 42
6 Caterham Racing 31
7 Rapax 27
8 Scuderia Coloni 14
9 iSport International 10
10 Barwa Addax Team 2
11 Ocean Racing Technology 1
12 Venezuela GP Lazarus 1
13 Trident Racing 0

[paulgilb]

For GP2 this weekend, Brazil's Victor Guerin replaces Brendon Hartley at Ocean Racing Technology, and Josef Kral returns to Barwa Addax in place of Dani Clos.

This weekend also sees the start of GP3 for 2012, with the following line-up:

Lotus GP (FRA)
1 Daniel Abt (GER)
2 Conor Daly (USA)
3 Aaro Vainio (FIN)

MW Arden (AUS)
4 Mitch Evans (NZL)
5 David Fumanelli (ITA)
6 Matias Laine (FIN)

Marussia Manor Racing (GBR)
7 Dmitry Suranovich (RUS)
8 Fabiano Machado (BRA)
9 Tio Ellinas (CYP)

Status Grand Prix (IRE)
14 Marlon Stockinger (PHI)
15 Kotaro Sakurai (JAP)
16 Alice Powell (GBR)

Ocean Racing Technology (POR) (replacing Tech 1 Racing)
17 Kevin Ceccon (ITA)
18 Carmen Jorda (ESP)
19 Robert Cregan (IRE)

Jenzer Motorsport (SUI)
20 Robert Visoiu (ROM)
21 Patric Niederhauser (SUI)
22 Jakub Klasterka (CZE)

Trident Racing (ITA) (replacing Addax Team)
23 Vicky Piria (ITA)
24 Antonio Spavone (ITA)

(no third driver seems to be listed)

Carlin (GBR)
26 Alex Brundle (GBR)
27 Antonio Felix da Costa (POR)
28 William Buller (GBR)

ATECH CRS Grand Prix (GBR)
29 Tamas Pal Kiss (HUN)
30 John Wartique (BEL)
31 Ethan Ringel (USA)

RSC Mucke Motorsport appear to have disappeared.

[Paul]

Mucke have pulled out of the series. Unlike Tech 1 and Addax, another team didn't replace. There is no longer a requirement that GP3 teams have to run 3 cars, hence why Trident are only running two drivers.

It's sad that the GP3 field is significantly worse in terms of talent compared to last year. All of Lotus and Carlin's drivers should be strong, as should Evans and Ceccon.

Although to be fair, only the World Series by Renault package has managed to maintain full grids this year. The Formula Renault 3.5 series which started last weekend has a much stronger lineup than even the GP2 series.

[paulgilb]

Grid for GP2 feature race (thanks to http://www.autosport.com):

Pos Driver Team Time Gap
1. James Calado Lotus 1m30.655s
2. Fabio Leimer Racing Engineering 1m30.865s + 0.210s
3. Stephane Richelmi Trident 1m30.902s + 0.247s
4. Max Chilton Carlin 1m30.962s + 0.307s
5. Giedo van der Garde Caterham 1m31.006s + 0.351s
6. Fabio Onidi Coloni 1m31.167s + 0.512s
7. Davide Valsecchi DAMS 1m31.212s + 0.557s
8. Stefano Coletti Coloni 1m31.212s + 0.557s
9. Jolyon Palmer iSport 1m31.269s + 0.614s
10. Nathanael Berthon Racing Engineering 1m31.308s + 0.653s
11. Esteban Gutierrez Lotus 1m31.320s + 0.665s
12. Nigel Melker Ocean 1m31.332s + 0.677s
13. Luiz Razia Arden 1m31.377s + 0.722s
14. Marcus Ericsson iSport 1m31.391s + 0.736s
15. Johnny Cecotto Addax 1m31.565s + 0.910s
16. Josef Kral Addax 1m31.599s + 0.944s
17. Fabrizio Crestani Lazarus 1m31.677s + 1.022s
18. Tom Dillmann Rapax 1m31.682s + 1.027s
19. Simon Trummer Arden 1m31.939s + 1.284s
20. Rodolfo Gonzalez Caterham 1m31.966s + 1.311s
21. Victor Guerin Ocean 1m32.270s + 1.615s
22. Felipe Nasr DAMS 1m32.325s + 1.670s
23. Julian Leal Trident 1m32.691s + 2.036s
24. Rio Haryanto Carlin 1m33.010s + 2.355s
25. Ricardo Teixeira Rapax 1m33.083s + 2.428s
26. Giancarlo Serenelli Lazarus 1m33.329s + 2.674s

[paulgilb]

GP2 feature race result (thanks to http://www.autosport.com):

Pos Driver Team Time/Gap
1. Giedo van der Garde Caterham 1h00m22.966s
2. James Calado Lotus + 0.878s
3. Stefano Coletti Coloni + 3.811s
4. Davide Valsecchi DAMS + 11.859s
5. Nathanael Berthon Racing Engineering + 15.795s
6. Fabio Onidi Coloni + 19.379s
7. Max Chilton Carlin + 19.768s
8. Luiz Razia Arden + 20.072s
9. Jolyon Palmer iSport + 27.624s
10. Esteban Gutierrez Lotus + 36.653s + fastest lap
11. Felipe Nasr DAMS + 45.264s
12. Fabio Leimer Racing Engineering + 46.534s
13. Marcus Ericsson iSport + 47.087s
14. Nigel Melker Ocean + 47.356s
15. Rodolfo Gonzalez Caterham + 53.555s
16. Rio Haryanto Carlin + 1m00.879s
17. Fabrizio Crestani Lazarus + 1m06.737s
18. Johnny Cecotto Addax + 1m11.199s
19. Victor Guerin Ocean + 1m11.397s
20. Josef Kral Addax + 1m14.871s
21. Stephane Richelmi Trident + 1m15.821s
22. Tom Dillmann Rapax + 1m20.031s
23. Simon Trummer Arden + 1m20.382s
24. Julian Leal Trident + 1m28.989s
25. Giancarlo Serenelli Lazarus + 1 lap

Retirements:

Ricardo Teixeira Rapax 8 laps

GP3 feature race result (thanks to http://www.autosport.com):

Pos Driver Team Time/Gap
1. Mitch Evans MW Arden 28m38.738s
2. Marlon Stockinger Status + 2.609s
3. Aaro Vainio Lotus + 4.594s
4. Patric Niederhauser Jenzer + 5.071s + fastest lap
5. Matias Laine MW Arden + 6.284s
6. Conor Daly Lotus + 6.941s
7. Tio Ellinas Manor + 7.419s
8. Robert Visoiu Jenzer + 10.102s
9. David Fumanelli MW Arden + 11.046s
10. Alex Brundle Carlin + 11.291s
11. Dmitry Suranovich Manor + 15.105s
12. Tamas Pal Kiss Atech CRS + 15.752s
13. Daniel Abt Lotus + 16.231s
14. Antonio Felix da Costa Carlin + 16.577s + pole
15. Robert Cregan Ocean + 17.132s
16. Fabiano Machado Manor + 17.775s
17. Antonio Spavone Trident + 18.284s
18. Kotaro Sakurai Status + 19.087s
19. Jakub Klasterka Jenzer + 19.626s
20. Carmen Jorda Ocean + 22.224s
21. John Wartique Atech CRS + 23.070s
22. Vicky Piria Trident + 32.897s
23. William Buller Carlin + 46.346s

Retirements:

Kevin Ceccon Ocean 7 laps
Ethan Ringel Atech CRS 0 laps
Alice Powell Status 0 laps

[paulgilb]

GP2 sprint race result (thanks to http://www.autosport.com):

Pos Driver Team Time/Gap
1. Luiz Razia Arden 40m08.411s + fastest lap
2. Nathanael Berthon Racing Engineering + 5.256s
3. Davide Valsecchi DAMS + 5.897s
4. James Calado Lotus + 6.575s
5. Max Chilton Carlin + 13.117s
6. Giedo van der Garde Caterham + 14.362s
7. Esteban Gutierrez Lotus + 14.874s
8. Stefano Coletti Coloni + 19.223s
9. Felipe Nasr DAMS + 19.703s
10. Fabrizio Crestani Lazarus + 21.570s
11. Fabio Leimer Racing Engineering + 22.852s
12. Tom Dillmann Rapax + 23.312s
13. Johnny Cecotto Addax + 30.155s
14. Rodolfo Gonzalez Caterham + 30.601s
15. Rio Haryanto Carlin + 31.281s
16. Josef Kral Addax + 31.834s
17. Julian Leal Trident + 32.817s
18. Fabio Onidi Coloni + 34.371s
19. Stephane Richelmi Trident + 34.818s
20. Simon Trummer Arden + 35.426s
21. Victor Guerin Ocean + 38.977s
22. Marcus Ericsson iSport + 39.878s
23. Ricardo Teixeira Rapax + 41.979s
24. Nigel Melker Ocean + 48.441s

Retirements:

Giancarlo Serenelli Lazarus 3 laps
Jolyon Palmer iSport 0 laps

Driver Standings:

1 Davide Valsecchi 129
2 Luiz Razia 104
3 James Calado 69
4 Giedo van der Garde 60
5 Esteban Gutierrez 59
6 Max Chilton 57
7 Fabio Leimer 41
8 Felipe Nasr 28
9 Tom Dillmann 27
10 Stefano Coletti 26
11 Nathanael Berthon 23
12 Rio Haryanto 16
13 Fabio Onidi 12
14 Marcus Ericsson 8
15 Jolyon Palmer 4
16 Johnny Cecotto Jr 2
17 Simon Trummer 1
18 Fabrizio Crestani 1
19 Brendon Hartley 1
20 Josef Kral 0
21 Nigel Melker 0
22 Stephane Richelmi 0
23 Dani Clos 0
24 Julian Leal 0
25 Ricardo Teixeira 0
26 Rodolfo Gonzalez 0
27 Jon Lancaster 0
28 Giancarlo Serenelli 0
29 Victor Guerin 0

Team Standings:

1 DAMS 157
2 Lotus GP 128
3 Arden International 105
4 Marussia Carlin GP2 Team 73
5 Racing Engineering 64
6 Caterham Racing 60
7 Scuderia Coloni 38
8 Rapax 27
9 iSport International 12
10 Barwa Addax Team 2
11 Venezuela GP Lazarus 1
12 Ocean Racing Technology 1
13 Trident Racing 0

[paulgilb]

GP3 sprint race result (thanks to http://www.autosport.com):

Pos Driver Team Time/Gap
1. Conor Daly Lotus 27m21.043s
2. Robert Visoiu Jenzer + 3.265s
3. Matias Laine MW Arden + 4.168s
4. Aaro Vainio Lotus + 4.877s
5. Patric Niederhauser Jenzer + 5.669s
6. Antonio Felix da Costa Carlin + 8.688s
7. Daniel Abt Lotus + 9.341s
8. Alex Brundle Carlin + 9.833s
9. William Buller Carlin + 12.090s
10. Kevin Ceccon Ocean + 12.401s + fastest lap
11. Alice Powell Status + 13.664s
12. Kotaro Sakurai Status + 16.703s
13. John Wartique Atech CRS + 21.703s
14. Jakub Klasterka Jenzer + 25.550s
15. Tio Ellinas Manor + 28.133s
16. Vicky Piria Trident + 31.239s
17. David Fumanelli MW Arden + 31.608s
18. Ethan Ringel Atech CRS + 37.862s
19. Marlon Stockinger Status + 38.449s
20. Mitch Evans MW Arden + 51.421s
21. Carmen Jorda Ocean + 1m16.560s

Retirements:

Fabiano Machado Manor 12 laps
Robert Cregan Ocean 0 laps
Tamas Pal Kiss Atech CRS 0 laps
Antonio Spavone Trident 0 laps
Dmitry Suranovich Manor 0 laps

Driver Standings:

1 Mitch Evans (NZL) 25
2 Conor Daly (USA) 23
3 Aaro Vainio (FIN) 23
4 Matias Laine (FIN) 20
5 Patric Niederhauser (SUI) 20
6 Marlon Stockinger (PHI) 18
7 Robert Visoiu (ROM) 16
8 Antonio Felix da Costa (POR) 6
9 Tio Ellinas (CYP) 6
10 Daniel Abt (GER) 4
11 Alex Brundle (GBR) 2
12 David Fumanelli (ITA) 2
13 Kevin Ceccon (ITA) 2
14 William Buller (GBR) 0
15 Alice Powell (GBR) 0
16 Dmitry Suranovich (RUS) 0
17 Kotaro Sakurai (JAP) 0
18 Tamas Pal Kiss (HUN) 0
19 John Wartique (BEL) 0
20 Jakub Klasterka (CZE) 0
21 Robert Cregan (IRE) 0
22 Vicky Piria (ITA) 0
23 Fabiano Machado (BRA) 0
24 Antonio Spavone (ITA) 0
25 Ethan Ringel (USA) 0
26 Carmen Jorda (ESP) 0

Team Standings:

1 Lotus GP 50
2 MW Arden 47
3 Jenzer Motorsport 36
4 Status Grand Prix 18
5 Carlin 8
6 Marussia Manor Racing 6
7 Ocean Racing Technology 2
8 ATECH CRS GP 0
9 Trident Racing 0

[Panda]

Grid for the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday:

1. Ryan Briscoe (Australia)
2. James Hinchcliffe (Canada)
3. Ryan Hunter-Reay (US)
4. Marco Andretti (US)
5. Will Power (Australia)
6. Helio Castroneves (Brazil)
7. Josef Newgarden (US)
8. Tony Kanaan (Brazil)
9. EJ Viso (Venezuela)
10. Rubens Barrichello (Brazil)
11. Alex Tagliani (Canada)
12. Graham Rahal (US)
13. Ana Beatriz (Brazil)
14. Charlie Kimball (US)
15. Scott Dixon (New Zealand)
16. Dario Franchitti (GB)
17. James Jakes (GB)
18. JR Hildebrand (US)
19. Takuma Sato (Japan)
20. Townsend Bell (US)
21. Justin Wilson (GB)
22. Michel Jourdain (Mexico)
23. Simon Pagenaud (France)
24. Sebastian Saavedra (Colombia)
25. Sebastien Bourdais (France)
26. Wade Cunningham (New Zealand)
27. Oriol Servia (Spain)
28. Ed Carpenter (US)
29. Mike Conway (GB)
30. Katherine Legge (GB)
31. Bryan Clauson (US)
32. Simona de Silvestro (Switzerland)
33. Jean Alesi (France)


Alesi seems to have benefitted from a lack of entries this year. I don't think anyone else tried to qualify apart from the 33 in the race. Alesi's 4-lap average speed was 4mph slower than de Silvestro's and 7mph slower than Legge's. To put that into context, Legge was only 5mph slower than Ryan Briscoe.

Briscoe took pole by 2/1000s of a second, the closest margin in Indy 500 history and even more remarkable when you consider the timed qualifying distance is 10 miles.

[Paul]

Rubens did very well for someone who has never raced on ovals before.

Great weekend of motorsport in prospect - Indy 500 and the F1 Monaco GP with GP2, GP3 and Formula Renault 3.5 supporting. It will be very interesting to see whether GP2 or FR 3.5 will be quicker around Monaco.