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Post by paulgilb on Aug 27, 2010 23:00:29 GMT 1
For GP2 this weekend, Romain Grosjean replaces the injured Ho-Pin Tung at DAMS. Alvaro Parente replaces Alberto Valerio at Coloni, and Italy’s Fabrizio Crestani replaces Giacomo Ricci at DPR. Pastor Maldonado will clinch the title if he outscores Sergio Perez by at least 15 points this weekend (barring a miracle from Dani Clos).
Grid before penalties: Pos Driver Team Time Gap Laps 1. Michael Herck DPR 2m15.661s 10 2. Jerome D'Ambrosio DAMS 2m15.942s +0.281 10 3. Pastor Maldonado Rapax 2m15.967s +0.306 11 4. Oliver Turvey iSport 2m16.176s +0.515 9 5. Christian Vietoris Racing Engineering 2m16.321s +0.660 9 6. Romain Grosjean DAMS 2m16.525s +0.864 11 7. Charles Pic Arden 2m16.881s +1.220 9 8. Sergio Perez Addax 2m17.005s +1.344 11 9. Sam Bird ART 2m17.008s +1.347 10 10. Fabrizio Crestani DPR 2m17.200s +1.539 10 11. Davide Valsecchi iSport 2m17.254s +1.593 10 12. Dani Clos Racing Engineering 2m17.294s +1.633 10 13. Rodolfo Gonzalez Arden 2m17.332s +1.671 8 14. Luca Filippi Super Nova 2m17.339s +1.678 10 15. Jules Bianchi ART 2m17.632s +1.971 10 16. Alvaro Parente Coloni 2m17.798s +2.137 7 17. Max Chilton Ocean 2m18.290s +2.629 11 18. Johnny Cecotto Jr Trident 2m18.592s +2.931 11 19. Adrian Zaugg Trident 2m19.137s +3.476 6 20. Fabio Leimer Ocean 2m19.870s +4.209 6 21. Marcus Ericsson Super Nova 2m20.280s +4.619 8 22. Luiz Razia Rapax 2m21.922s +6.261 3 23. Vlado Arabadjiev Coloni 2m22.224s +6.563 4 24. Giedo van der Garde Addax 2m23.104s +7.443 4
Herck, Vietoris, Clos, Parente, Chilton, Cecotto, FIlippi and Ericsson all received 3-place penalties for yellow-flag infringements, but I am uncertain as to the final grid order.
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Post by paulgilb on Aug 28, 2010 11:23:27 GMT 1
In GP3, Simon Trummer returns in place of Marco Barba at Jenzer. Robert Wickens needs to outscore Esteban Gutierrez by at least 10 points this weekend to keep his championship chances alive.
Grid for feature race:
Pos Driver Team Time Gap Laps 1. Dani Juncadella Tech 1 2m17.433s 12 2. Antonio Felix da Costa Carlin 2m18.399s +0.966 12 3. Mirko Bortolotti Addax 2m18.456s +1.023 10 4. Esteban Gutierrez ART 2m18.829s +1.396 11 5. Pal Varhaug Jenzer 2m19.300s +1.867 12 6. Rio Haryanto Manor 2m19.301s +1.868 11 7. Stefano Coletti Tech 1 2m19.421s +1.988 12 8. Robert Wickens Status 2m19.944s +2.511 11 9. Adrian Quaife-Hobbs Manor 2m20.463s +3.030 13 10. Nigel Melker Mucke 2m20.684s +3.251 12 11. Adrien Tambay Manor 2m20.694s +3.261 12 12. Daniel Morad Status 2m20.873s +3.440 12 13. Josef Newgarden Carlin 2m20.983s +3.550 12 14. Simon Trummer Jenzer 2m20.983s +3.550 12 15. Oliver Oakes Atech CRS 2m21.136s +3.703 8 16. Alexander Rossi ART 2m21.243s +3.810 12 17. Tobias Hegewald Mucke 2m21.284s +3.851 11 18. Michael Christensen MW Arden 2m21.310s +3.877 12 19. Renger van der Zande Mucke 2m21.803s +4.370 12 20. Roberto Merhi Atech 2m21.899s +4.466 11 21. Vittorio Ghirelli Atech 2m22.006s +4.573 11 22. Doru Sechelariu Tech 1 2m22.559s +5.126 11 23. Pedro Nunes ART 2m22.650s +5.217 11 24. Felipe Guimaraes Addax 2m23.074s +5.641 11 25. Nico Muller Jenzer 2m23.315s +5.882 7 26. Miki Monras MW Arden 2m25.241s +7.808 10 27. Leonardo Cordeiro MW Arden 2m25.386s +7.953 8 28. Ivan Lukashevich Status 2m26.146s +8.713 9 29. Pablo Sanchez Addax 2m27.639s +10.206 8 30. Dean Smith Carlin 2m40.128s +22.695 2
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Post by paulgilb on Aug 28, 2010 18:11:30 GMT 1
GP2 feature race result:
Pos Driver Team Time/Gap 1. Pastor Maldonado Rapax 52m27.763s 2. Alvaro Parente Coloni +0.243 3. Romain Grosjean DAMS +4.766 4. Charles Pic Arden +13.815 5. Luca Filippi Super Nova +16.085 6. Oliver Turvey iSport +21.117 7. Sergio Perez Addax +21.713 8. Rodolfo Gonzalez Arden +27.375 9. Giedo van der Garde Addax +30.834 10. Johnny Cecotto Jr Trident +32.342 11. Christian Vietoris Racing Engineering +32.772 12. Fabio Leimer Ocean +33.642 13. Marcus Ericsson Super Nova +34.932 14. Jules Bianchi ART +40.297 15. Adrian Zaugg Trident +41.390 16. Luiz Razia Rapax +45.553 17. Max Chilton Ocean + 1 lap 18. Davide Valsecchi iSport + 1 lap 19. Vlado Arabadjiev Coloni + 3 laps
Retirements
Jerome D'Ambrosio DAMS 20 laps Michael Herck DPR 18 laps Fabrizio Crestani DPR 2 laps Sam Bird ART 0 laps Daniel Clos Racing Engineering 0 laps
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Post by paulgilb on Aug 28, 2010 22:55:38 GMT 1
Pos Driver Team Time/Gap 1. Robert Wickens Status 30m10.463s 2. Leonardo Cordeiro MW Arden + 0.395s 3. Pal Varhaug Jenzer + 0.482s 4. Roberto Merhi Atech CRS + 0.519s 5. Esteban Gutierrez ART + 3.957s 6. Adrian Quaife-Hobbs Manor + 4.094s 7. Nico Muller Jenzer + 4.215s 8. Daniel Juncadella Tech 1 + 4.957s 9. Dean Smith Carlin + 5.678s 10. Pedro Nunes ART + 6.048s 11. Simon Trummer Jenzer + 7.740s 12. Miki Monras MW Arden + 8.639s 13. Michael Christensen MW Arden + 10.282s 14. Tobias Hegewald RSC Mucke + 10.932s 15. Nigel Melker RSC Mucke + 11.293s 16. Alexander Rossi ART + 24.286s 17. Oliver Oakes Atech CRS + 30.799s 18. Rio Haryanto Manor + 1m50.226s
Retirements:
Antonio Felix da Costa Carlin 6 laps Renger van der Zande RSC Mucke 6 laps Ivan Lukashevich Status 6 laps Felipe Guimaraes Addax 5 laps Mirko Bortolotti Addax 5 laps Stefano Coletti Tech 1 1 lap Daniel Morad Status 0 laps Josef Newgarden Carlin 0 laps Vittorio Ghirelli Atech CRS 0 laps Adrien Tambay Manor 0 laps Pablo Sanchez Lopez Addax 0 laps Doru Sechelariu Tech 1 0 laps
This was an utterly bizarre race, with most cars spinning at La Source, then all bar Wickens and Quaife-Hobbs changing to wet tyres when the safety car was deployed. Wickens then slowed down a lot on the safety car's in lap in order to run down the clock and win the race despite being on slick tyres on a flooded track! And he also had a damaged nose cone!
This does seem to suggest that no overtaking was allowed at all on the safety car's in lap despite it not being the designated last lap of the race.
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Post by paulgilb on Aug 29, 2010 11:22:29 GMT 1
Cordeiro, Varhaug and Gutierrez all received 30sec penalties after the race for overtaking under the safety car.
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Post by paulgilb on Aug 29, 2010 22:49:13 GMT 1
GP2 sprint race result:
Pos Driver Team Time/Gap 1. Sergio Perez Addax 41m51.924s 2. Giedo van der Garde Addax +2.574 3. Alvaro Parente Coloni +3.583 4. Rodolfo Gonzalez Arden +4.826 5. Oliver Turvey iSport +7.060 6. Romain Grosjean DAMS +8.037 7. Marcus Ericsson Super Nova +8.740 8. Davide Valsecchi iSport +9.472 9. Adrian Zaugg Trident +10.282 10. Luiz Razia Rapax +10.587 11. Max Chilton Ocean +11.630 12. Sam Bird ART +12.171 13. Michael Herck DPR +12.553 14. Fabrizio Crestani DPR +13.269
Retirements
Charles Pic Arden 11 laps Vlado Arabadjiev Coloni 9 laps Jerome D'Ambrosio DAMS 8 laps Christian Vietoris Racing Engineering 6 laps Johnny Cecotto Jr Trident 5 laps Jules Bianchi ART 4 laps Luca Filippi Super Nova 2 laps Fabio Leimer Ocean 1 lap Pastor Maldonado Rapax 0 laps
Fastest lap, Perez 1m57.014s
Driver standings:
1 Pastor Maldonado 87 2 Sergio Perez 60 3 Dani Clos 43 4 Giedo van der Garde 39 5 Jules Bianchi 39 6 Oliver Turvey 30 7 Charles Pic 28 8 Sam Bird 26 9 Davide Valsecchi 21 10 Luiz Razia 20 11 Christian Vietoris 18 12 Giacomo Ricci 16 13 Alvaro Parente 13 14 Jerome d'Ambrosio 12 15 Michael Herck 12 16 Marcus Ericsson 11 17 Fabio Leimer 8 18 Romain Grosjean 7 19 Adrian Zaugg 6 20 Luca Filippi 5 21 Rodolfo Gonzalez 4 22 Alberto Valerio 4 23 Johnny Cecotto Jr 3 24 Josef Kral 0 25 Ho-Pin Tung 0 26 Max Chilton 0 27 Vladimir Arabadzhiev 0 28 Fabrizio Crestani 0
Perez needs to outscore Maldonado by at least 7 points in the next round to keep his championship chances alive.
Team standings:
1 Rapax 107 2 Barwa Addax 99 3 ART 65 4 Racing Engineering 61 5 iSport 51 6 Arden 32 7 DPR 28 8 DAMS 19 9 Coloni 17 10 Super Nova 16 11 Trident 9 12 Ocean Racing 8
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Post by paulgilb on Aug 29, 2010 22:55:49 GMT 1
GP3 sprint race result:
Pos Driver Team Time/Gap 1. Adrien Tambay Manor 30m11.408s (from 27th on the grid!) 2. Alexander Rossi ART +0.445 3. Miki Monras MW Arden +1.203 4. Dean Smith Carlin +2.788 5. Adrian Quaife-Hobbs Manor +3.107 6. Nico Muller Jenzer +6.131 7. Esteban Gutierrez ART +12.160 8. Tobias Hegewald Mucke +13.837 9. Felipe Guimaraes Addax +18.197 10. Oliver Oakes Atech CRS +19.794 11. Robert Wickens Status +25.499 12. Antonio Felix da Costa Carlin +29.444 13. Ivan Lukashevich Status +34.677 14. Mirko Bortolotti Addax +39.355 15. Nigel Melker Mucke +50.443 16. Daniel Morad Status +57.444 17. Pal Varhaug Jenzer +1:08.290 18. Rio Haryanto Manor +1:19.228 19. Pedro Nunes ART +1:28.189 20. Doru Sechelariu Tech 1 +1:40.900 21. Josef Newgarden Carlin +1:56.218 22. Roberto Merhi Atech CRS +1 lap 23. Michael Christensen MW Arden +1 lap 24. Stefano Coletti Tech 1 +1 lap 25. Pablo Sanchez Addax +1 lap
Retirements
Dani Juncadella Tech 1 11 laps Simon Trummer Jenzer 5 laps Renger van der Zande Mucke 0 laps Leonardo Cordeiro MW Arden 0 laps Vittorio Ghirelli Atech CRS 0 laps
Driver standings:
1 Esteban Gutierrez 75 2 Robert Wickens 57 3 Nico Muller 44 4 Alexander Rossi 38 5 Dean Smith 24 6 Rio Haryanto 21 7 James Jakes 21 8 Roberto Merhi 20 9 Stefano Coletti 18 10 Miquel Monras 16 11 Daniel Morad 15 12 Pal Varhaug 10 13 Daniel Juncadella 10 14 Adrian Quaife-Hobbs 10 14 Felipe Guimaraes 9 15 Jean-Eric Vergne 9 17 Lucas Foresti 7 18 Mirko Bortolotti 7 19 Adrien Tambay 6 20 Renger van der Zande 6 21 Tobias Hegewald 6 22 Pedro Nunes 4 23 Simon Trummer 4 24 Josef Newgarden 4 25 Nigel Melker 4 26 Antonio Felix da Costa 3 27 Oliver Oakes 0 28 Doru Sechelariu 0 29 Pablo Sanchez Lopez 0 30 Michael Christensen 0 31 Leonardo Cordeiro 0 32 Ivan Lukashevich 0 33 Patrick Reiterer 0 34 Vittorio Ghirelli 0 35 Marco Barba 0 36 Jim Pla 0 37 Mikhail Aleshin 0
Robert Wickens needs a near-perfect weekend in Monza with Gutierrez scoring virtually nothing in order to win the title.
Team standings:
1 ART GP 117 2 Status GP 72 3 Jenzer Motorsport 58 4 Manor Racing 58 5 Carlin 38 6 Tech 1 Racing 37 7 ATECH CRS GP 20 8 MW Arden 16 9 Addax Team 16 10 RSC Mucke Motorsport 16
With only 1 round to go, ART GP have clinched the title.
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Post by Paul on Aug 29, 2010 23:06:08 GMT 1
Tambay was the only one to stay on slicks when the rain fell so he did an excellent job to win today.
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Post by Panda on Sept 10, 2010 10:27:41 GMT 1
Indycar update: (following back-to-back-to-back races)
Round 13 result: (Infineon Raceway) 1. Will Power (1) 2. Scott Dixon (6) 3. Dario Franchitti (3) 4. Ryan Briscoe (5) 5. Helio Castroneves (2) 6. Justin Wilson (7) 7. Tony Kanaan (9) 8. Ryan Hunter-Reay (8) 9. Graham Rahal (16) 10. Alex Lloyd (22) 11. Mario Moraes (20) 12. Marco Andretti (18) 13. Simona de Silvestro (11) 14. Alex Tagliani (4) 15. Vitor Meira (21) 16. Danica Patrick (23) 17. Hideki Mutoh (14) 18. Takuma Sato (17) 19. EJ Viso (15) 20/ret Francesco Dracone (25) 21/ret Raphael Matos (10) 22. Milka Duno (24) ret Bertrand Baguette (13) ret JR Hildebrand (19) ret Dan Wheldon (12)
Round 14 result: (Chicagoland) 1. Dario Franchitti (2) 2. Dan Wheldon (7) 3. Marco Andretti (5) 4. Ryan Hunter-Reay (9) 5. Tony Kanaan (13) 6. Helio Castroneves (4) 7. Justin Wilson (23) 8. Scott Dixon (15) 9. Vitor Meira (24) 10. Graham Rahal (6) 11. Ryan Briscoe (1) 12. Bertrand Baguette (20) 13. Hideki Mutoh (8) 14. Danica Patrick (12) 15. Sarah Fisher (25) 16. Will Power (3) 17. Mario Moraes (21) 18. Davey Hamilton (28) 19. Milka Duno (26) 20/ret Ed Carpenter (11) 21. Alex Lloyd (14) ret Jay Howard (29) ret Simona de Silvestro (27) ret Ana Beatriz (22) ret Alex Tagliani (19) ret Takuma Sato (10) ret EJ Viso (16) ret Tomas Scheckter (17) ret Raphael Matos (18)
Round 15 result: (Kentucky Speedway) 1. Helio Castroneves (8) 2. Ed Carpenter (1) 3. Dan Wheldon (3) 4. Tony Kanaan (26) 5. Dario Franchitti (11) 6. Marco Andretti (15) 7. Scott Dixon (4) 8. Will Power (2) 9. Danica Patrick (17) 10. Bertrand Baguette (6) 11. Justin Wilson (16) 12. Paul Tracy (23) 13. Alex Lloyd (18) 14. Tomas Scheckter (10) 15. Alex Tagliani (13) 16. Raphael Matos (20) 17. Hideki Mutoh (5) 18. Mario Moraes (7) 19. Milka Duno (24) 20. Graham Rahal (25) ret Ryan Hunter-Reay (27) ret Sarah Fisher (21) ret Vitor Meira (12) ret Ryan Briscoe (9) ret Simona de Silvestro (19) ret EJ Viso (22) ret Takuma Sato (14)
Championship standings after Round 15 of 17: 1. Power 552 2. Franchitti 535 3. Dixon 469 4. Castroneves 448 5. Briscoe 418 6. Hunter-Reay 404 7. Kanaan 392 8. Andretti 347 9. Wheldon 346 10. Wilson 335 11. Patrick 297 12. Meira 269 13. Tagliani 269 14. Matos 265 15. Moraes 265 16. Lloyd 236 17. Viso 235 18. Mutoh 222 19. de Silvestro 218 20. Rahal 191
Round 16 is at the Twin Ring Motegi in Japan next weekend.
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Post by paulgilb on Sept 10, 2010 22:33:28 GMT 1
Grid for GP2 Monza feature race (Brendon Hartley replaces Vladimir Arabadzhiev at Coloni, and Edoardo Piscopo replaces Johnny Cecotto Jr at Trident):
Pos Driver Team Time Gap 1. Jules Bianchi ART 1m30.269s 2. Sam Bird ART 1m30.311s +0.042 3. Jerome D'Ambrosio DAMS 1m30.366s +0.097 4. Oliver Turvey iSport 1m30.468s +0.199 5. Alvaro Parente Coloni 1m30.474s +0.205 6. Romain Grosjean DAMS 1m30.542s +0.273 7. Sergio Perez Addax 1m30.555s +0.286 8. Pastor Maldonado Rapax 1m30.675s +0.406 9. Daniel Clos Racing Engineering 1m30.682s +0.413 10. Christian Vietoris Racing Engineering 1m30.687s +0.418 11. Luca Filippi Super Nova 1m30.691s +0.422 12. Davide Valsecchi iSport 1m30.714s +0.445 13. Fabrizio Crestani DPR 1m30.801s +0.532 14. Giedo van der Garde Addax 1m30.894s +0.625 15. Luiz Razia Rapax 1m31.107s +0.838 16. Charles Pic Arden 1m31.131s +0.862 17. Adrian Zaugg Trident 1m31.246s +0.977 18. Fabio Leimer Ocean 1m31.255s +0.986 19. Marcus Ericsson Super Nova 1m31.372s +1.103 20. Rodolfo Gonzalez Arden 1m31.439s +1.170 21. Michael Herck DPR 1m31.458s +1.189 22. Brendon Hartley Coloni 1m31.601s +1.332 23. Max Chilton Ocean 1m31.667s +1.398 24. Edoardo Piscopo Trident 1m32.100s +1.831
In GP3, James Jakes returns to Manor in place of Adrien Tambay. Lucas Foresti returns to Carlin in place of Antonio Felix da Costa.
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Post by paulgilb on Sept 12, 2010 22:58:29 GMT 1
GP2 result:
Feature race: 1 Bird + fastest lap 2 Bianchi 3 Turvey 4 Vietoris 5 d’Ambrosio 6 Zaugg 7 Piscopo 8 Chilton
Sprint race: 1 Vietoris 2 d’Ambrosio 3 Bird + fastest lap 4 Bianchi 5 Chilton 6 Turvey
Driver Standings: 1 Pastor Maldonado 87 2 Sergio Perez 60 3 Jules Bianchi 52 4 Dani Clos 43 5 Sam Bird 42 6 Giedo van der Garde 39 7 Oliver Turvey 37 8 Christian Vietoris 29 9 Charles Pic 28 11 Davide Valsecchi 21 10 Jerome d'Ambrosio 21 12 Luiz Razia 20 13 Giacomo Ricci 16 14 Alvaro Parente 13 15 Michael Herck 12 16 Marcus Ericsson 11 17 Adrian Zaugg 9 18 Fabio Leimer 8 19 Romain Grosjean 7 20 Luca Filippi 5 21 Rodolfo Gonzalez 4 22 Alberto Valerio 4 23 Johnny Cecotto Jr 3 25 Max Chilton 3 24 Edoardo Piscopo 2 26 Josef Kral 0 27 Ho-Pin Tung 0 28 Vladimir Arabadzhiev 0 29 Fabrizio Crestani 0 30 Brendon Hartley 0
Team standings: 1 Rapax 107 2 Barwa Addax 99 3 ART 94 4 Racing Engineering 72 5 iSport 58 6 Arden 32 8 DPR 28 7 DAMS 28 9 Coloni 17 10 Super Nova 16 11 Trident 14 12 Ocean Racing 11
Maldonado has thus clinched the title (despite scoring a grand total of 0 points this weekend). 3 teams could still win the Teams Championship (final race is in Abu Dhabi).
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Post by paulgilb on Sept 12, 2010 22:58:52 GMT 1
GP3 feature race result: 1 Gutierrez + pole + fastest lap (pole position was enough to clinch the title) 2 Wickens 3 Haryanto 4 Muller 5 Bortolotti 6 Merhi 7 Newgarden 8 Melker (his first points-scoring finish – he did get pold in both the first 2 feature races)
Sprint race: 1 Wickens 2 Bortolotti 3 Muller 4 Merhi 5 Newgarden 6 Monras
Fastest lap: Cordeiro (finished 8th)
Final driver standings:
1 Esteban Gutierrez 88 2 Robert Wickens 71 3 Nico Muller 53 4 Alexander Rossi 38 5 Rio Haryanto 27 6 Roberto Merhi 26 7 Dean Smith 24 8 James Jakes 21 9 Stefano Coletti 18 10 Miquel Monras 17 11 Mirko Bortolotti 16 12 Daniel Morad 15 13 Pal Varhaug 10 (all coming from a win in the first race) 14 Daniel Juncadella 10 15 Adrian Quaife-Hobbs 10 16 Felipe Guimaraes 9 17 Jean-Eric Vergne 9 18 Josef Newgarden 8 19 Lucas Foresti 7 20 Adrien Tambay 6 (all coming from his win in Belgium) 21 Renger van der Zande 6 22 Tobias Hegewald 6 23 Nigel Melker 5 24 Pedro Nunes 4 25 Simon Trummer 4 26 Antonio Felix da Costa 3 27 Leonardo Cordeiro 1 28 Oliver Oakes 0 29 Doru Sechelariu 0 30 Pablo Sanchez Lopez 0 31 Michael Christensen 0 32 Ivan Lukashevich 0 33 Patrick Reiterer 0 34 Vittorio Ghirelli 0 35 Marco Barba 0 36 Jim Pla 0 37 Mikhail Aleshin 0
Final team standings:
1 ART GP 130 2 Status GP 86 3 Jenzer Motorsport 67 4 Manor Racing 64 5 Carlin 42 6 Tech 1 Racing 37 7 ATECH CRS GP 26 8 Addax Team 25 9 MW Arden 18 10 RSC Mucke Motorsport 17
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Post by Panda on Sept 19, 2010 17:36:08 GMT 1
Result from Round 16 of the Indycar Series at Twin-Ring Motegi:
(Grid positions in brackets)
1. Helio Castronveves (1) 2. Dario Franchitti (4) 3. Will Power (3) 4. Ryan Briscoe (2) 5. Danica Patrick (12) 6. Scott Dixon (11) 7. Tony Kanaan (6) 8. Graham Rahal (16) 9. Ryan Hunter-Reay (7) 10. Dan Wheldon (9) 11. Marco Andretti (5) 12. Takuma Sato (10) 13. Alex Tagliani (23) 14. Hideki Mutoh (17) 15. EJ Viso (8) 16. Justin Wilson (18) 17. Vitor Meira (14) 18. Raphael Matos (19) 19. Milka Duno (25) 20. Roger Yasukawa (21) ret Alex Lloyd (15) ret Paul Tracy (22) ret Simona de Silvestro (24) ret Mario Moraes (20) ret Bertrand Baguette (13)
Points standings with 1 round to go: 1. Power 587 2. Franchitti 575 3. Castroneves 501 4. Dixon 497 5. Briscoe 450 6. Hunter-Reay 426 7. Kanaan 418 8. Wheldon 366 9. Andretti 366 10. Wilson 349 11. Patrick 327 12. Tagliani 286 13. Meira 282 14. Matos 277 15. Moraes 277 16. Viso 250 17. Lloyd 248 18. Mutoh 238 19. de Silvestro 230 20. Rahal 215
Franchitti will be champion if he wins the final race and Power finishes 3rd or lower, or if he wins and also takes the bonus points for pole and most laps led.
Franchitti's 2nd place in Japan means he wins the inaugaral oval championship. The final race of the season doesn't count towards the oval championship. Will Power won the road championship, having won 5 of the 9 races on road/street courses.
The final race of the season is at Homestead in 2 weeks.
The 2011 schedule was announced this week. The season opener goes back to St. Petersburg, rather than Sao Paulo. Kansas, Chicagoland and Homestead have been dropped, with the Milwaukee Mile and New Hampshire returning to the calendar. Watkins Glen is gone, replaced by a new street race in Baltimore. The venue for the final race of the season is yet to be announced but it's rumoured to be Fontana.
2011 calendar: 27 Mar: St. Petersburg (street) 10 Apr: Barber Motorsports Park (road) 17 Apr: Long Beach (street) 1 May: Sao Paulo (street) 29 May: Indianapolis 500 (oval) 11 Jun: Texas Motor Speedway (oval) 19 Jun: Milwaukee Mile (oval) 25 Jun: Iowa Speedway (oval) 10 Jul: Toronto (street) 24 Jul: Edmonton (temp. road) 7 Aug: Mid-Ohio (road) 14 Aug: New Hampshire (oval) 28 Aug: Infineon Raceway (road) 4 Sep: Baltimore (street) 18 Sep: Twin Ring Motegi (oval) 2 Oct: Kentucky Speedway (oval) Oct: TBA (oval)
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Post by Panda on Oct 2, 2010 19:38:25 GMT 1
Dario Franchitti is on pole for the final round of the Indycar Series, reducing the gap to leader Will Power to 11 points.
Dario will win the title if he wins the race and takes the bonus points for most laps led or if he wins and Power finishes lower than 2nd. Power starts 3rd on the grid.
Meanwhile, Britain's Pippa Mann is on pole for the Indy Lights race, having won from pole last time out in Kentucky. She's one of six British drivers in the series this year, the others being Martin Plowman, Dan Clarke, Stefan Wilson, James Winslow and Dillon Battistini. Ireland is also represented by Niall Quinn (not THAT Niall Quinn). France's JK Vernay leads the series and will be crowned champion as long as he starts the final race.
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Post by Panda on Oct 3, 2010 13:33:49 GMT 1
Dario Franchitti has won his 3rd Indycar title after rival Will Power failed to finish the final race of the season at Homestead-Miami after contact with the wall. Power's retirement meant Franchitti only had to finish 10th to win the title, having already guaranteed himself 2 points for leading the most laps. Franchitti came home 8th, 11 seconds behind winner and team-mate Scott Dixon.
Alex Lloyd finished 12th to seal the Rookie of the Year title, ahead of Simona de Silvestro.
Round 17 result: (grid positions in brackets) 1. Scott Dixon (2) 2. Danica Patrick (11) 3. Tony Kanaan (8) 4. Ryan Briscoe (4) 5. Helio Castroneves (10) 6. Vitor Meira (21) 7. Marco Andretti (16) 8. Dario Franchitti (1) 9. Dan Wheldon (5) 10. Graham Rahal (18) 11. Ryan Hunter-Reay (20) 12. Alex Lloyd (22) 13. Ed Carpenter (7) 14. Alex Tagliani (19) 15. Bertrand Baguette (14) 16. Sebastian Saavedra (24) 17. Raphael Matos (23) 18. Takuma Sato (9) 19. EJ Viso (12) 20. Hideki Mutoh (26) 21. Justin Wilson (6) 22. Sarah Fisher (17) 23. Simona de Silvestro (25) ret Milka Duno (27) ret Will Power (3) ret Ana Beatriz (15) ret Mario Moraes (13)
Final points standings: (# of races started in brackets) 1. Dario Franchitti (GB) 602 (17) 2. Will Power (Australia) 597 (17) 3. Scott Dixon (New Zealand) 547 (17) 4. Helio Castroneves (Brazil) 531 (17) 5. Ryan Briscoe (Australia) 482 (17) 6. Tony Kanaan (Brazil) 453 (17) 7. Ryan Hunter-Reay (USA) 445 (17) 8. Marco Andretti (USA) 392 (17) 9. Dan Wheldon (GB) 388 (17) 10. Danica Patrick (USA) 367 (17) 11. Justin Wilson (GB) 361 (17) 12. Vitor Meira (Brazil) 310 (17) 13. Alex Tagliani (Canada) 302 (17) 14. Raphael Matos (Brazil) 290 (17) 15. Mario Moraes (Brazil) 287 (17) 16. Alex Lloyd (GB) 266 (17) 17. EJ Viso (Venezuela) 262 (17) 18. Hideki Mutoh (Japan) 250 (17) 19. Simona de Silvestro (Switzerland) 242 (17) 20. Graham Rahal (USA) 235 (12) 21. Takuma Sato (Japan) 214 (17) 22. Bertrand Baguette (Belgium) 213 (15) 23. Milka Duno (Venezuela) 184 (16) 24. Mario Romancini (Brazil) 149 (11) 25. Mike Conway (GB) 110 (6) 26. Sarah Fisher (USA) 92 (7) 27. Paul Tracy (Canada) 91 (5) 28. Ed Carpenter (USA) 90 (4) 29. Tomas Scheckter (South Africa) 89 (6) 30. Ana Beatriz (Brazil) 55 (4) 31. Jay Howard (GB) 44 (4) 32. John Andretti (USA) 35 (2) 33. Sebastian Saavedra (Colombia) 29 (2) 34. Davey Hamilton (USA) 26 (2) 35. JR Hildebrand (USA) 26 (2) 36. Adam Carroll (GB) 26 (2) 37. Francesco Dracone (Italy) 24 (2) 38. Townsend Bell (USA) 18 (1) 39. Bruno Junqueira (Brazil) 13 (1) 40. Roger Yasukawa (USA) 12 (1) 41. AJ Foyt IV (USA) 0 (0) 42. Jaques Lazier (USA) 0 (0)
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Post by paulgilb on Nov 12, 2010 18:15:25 GMT 1
This weekend sees the final round of the GP2 season (a whole 2 months after the previous round in Monza). Josef Kral returns to Super Nova in place of Luca Filippi, Ho-Pin Tung replaces Christian Vietoris at Racing Engineering, James Jakes replaces Alvaro Parente at Coloni, and Federico Leo replaces Edoardo Piscopo at Trident.
Initial grid for Abu Dhabi:
Pos Driver Team Time Gap 1. Oliver Turvey iSport 1m48.559s 2. Dani Clos Racing Engineering 1m49.035s + 0.476s 3. Sergio Perez Barwa Addax 1m49.081s + 0.522s 4. Fabio Leimer Ocean 1m49.148s + 0.589s 5. Davide Valsecchi iSport 1m49.307s + 0.748s 6. Jules Bianchi ART 1m49.338s + 0.779s 7. Luiz Razia Rapax 1m49.410s + 0.851s 8. Giedo van der Garde Barwa Addax 1m49.429s + 0.870s 9. Romain Grosjean DAMS 1m49.462s + 0.903s 10. Sam Bird ART 1m49.624s + 1.065s 11. Adrian Zaugg Trident 1m49.812s + 1.253s 12. Max Chilton Ocean 1m49.890s + 1.331s 13. Michael Herck DPR 1m50.160s + 1.601s 14. Fabio Crestani DPR 1m50.239s + 1.680s 15. Pastor Maldonado Rapax 1m50.362s + 1.803s 16. Rodolfo Gonzalez Arden 1m50.549s + 1.990s 17. Josef Kral Super Nova 1m50.559s + 2.000s 18. Brendon Hartley Coloni 1m50.568s + 2.009s 19. Charles Pic Arden 1m50.569s + 2.010s 20. Marcus Ericsson Super Nova 1m50.719s + 2.160s 21. Jerome D'Ambrosio DAMS 1m50.730s + 2.171s 22. James Jakes Coloni 1m50.901s + 2.342s 23. Ho-Pin Tung Racing Engineering 1m51.061s + 2.502s 24. Federico Leo Trident 1m52.170s + 3.611s
Clos, Maldonado, d'Ambrosio, Bianchi, Bird, and van der Garde were all subsequently given 10-place penalties for ignoring the red light at the end of the pit lane - not entirely sure of the resulting grid.
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Post by paulgilb on Nov 13, 2010 11:51:39 GMT 1
Feature race result:
Pos Driver Team Time/Gap 1. Sergio Perez Barwa Addax 59m53.752s + fastest lap 2. Oliver Turvey iSport + 21.065s 3. Sam Bird ART + 29.695s 4. Dani Clos Racing Engineering + 30.442s 5. Davide Valsecchi iSport + 36.614s 6. Romain Grosjean DAMS + 38.175s 7. Luiz Razia Rapax + 39.196s 8. Josef Kral Super Nova + 39.724s 9. Brendon Hartley Coloni + 40.679s 10. Rodolfo Gonzalez Arden + 49.704s 11. Marcus Ericsson Super Nova + 55.360s 12. Max Chilton Ocean + 57.925s 13. Fabrizio Crestani DPR + 58.334s 14. Jerome D'Ambrosio DAMS + 58.836s 15. James Jakes Coloni + 1m01.227 16. Michael Herck DPR + 1m02.178 17. Pastor Maldonado Rapax + 1m14.109 18. Jules Bianchi ART + 1m29.646 19. Federico Leo Trident + 1m36.305 20. Charles Pic Arden + 1 lap
Retirements:
Ho-Pin Tung Racing Engineering 11 laps Fabio Leimer Ocean 7 laps Adrian Zaugg Trident 0 laps Giedo van der Garde Barwa Addax 0 laps
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Post by paulgilb on Nov 14, 2010 23:32:31 GMT 1
Result of sprint race:
Pos Driver Team Time/Gap 1. Davide Valsecchi iSport 40m59.120s 2. Luiz Razia Rapax + 0.925s 3. Romain Grosjean DAMS + 5.107s 4. Dani Clos Racing Engineering + 5.597s 5. Josef Kral Super Nova + 17.853s 6. Oliver Turvey iSport + 21.516s 7. Brendon Hartley Coloni + 21.924s 8. Jules Bianchi ART + 22.567s 9. Jerome D'Ambrosio DAMS + 24.665s 10. Pastor Maldonado Rapax + 25.171s 11. Michael Herck DPR + 25.672s 12. Charles Pic Arden + 31.925s 13. Max Chilton Ocean + 35.481s 14. Ho-Pin Tung Racing Engineering + 36.654s 15. Fabrizio Crestani DPR + 37.828s 16. Fabio Leimer Ocean + 38.401s 17. Rodolfo Gonzalez Arden + 38.964s 18. James Jakes Coloni + 51.778s 19. Giedo van der Garde Barwa Addax + 1m16.380s
Retirements:
Marcus Ericsson Super Nova 18 laps Federico Leo Trident 10 laps Sam Bird ART 4 laps Sergio Perez Barwa Addax 4 laps Adrian Zaugg Trident 0 laps
Final Driver Standings: 1 Pastor Maldonado 87 (despite finishing with 5 non-scoring races) 2 Sergio Perez 71 3 Jules Bianchi 53 4 Dani Clos 51 5 Sam Bird 48 6 Oliver Turvey 48 7 Giedo van der Garde 39 8 Davide Valsecchi 31 9 Christian Vietoris 29 10 Charles Pic 28 11 Luiz Razia 27 12 Jerome d'Ambrosio 21 13 Giacomo Ricci 16 14 Romain Grosjean 14 15 Alvaro Parente 13 (despite only competing in 2 rounds) 16 Michael Herck 12 17 Marcus Ericsson 11 18 Adrian Zaugg 9 19 Fabio Leimer 8 (all coming in the first round) 20 Luca Filippi 5 21 Rodolfo Gonzalez 4 22 Alberto Valerio 4 23 Johnny Cecotto Jr 3 24 Josef Kral 3 25 Max Chilton 3 26 Edoardo Piscopo 2 27 Brendon Hartley 0 28 Ho-Pin Tung 0 29 Vladimir Arabadzhiev 0 30 Fabrizio Crestani 0 31 James Jakes 0 32 Federico Leo 0
Final Team Standings: 1 Rapax 114 2 Barwa Addax 110 3 ART 101 4 Racing Engineering 80 5 iSport 79 6 DAMS 35 7 Arden 32 8 DPR 28 9 Super Nova 19 10 Coloni 17 11 Trident 14 12 Ocean Racing 11 Coloni and Trident were the only teams not to win a race
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