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23 Jun 2016, 17:19 (Ref:3654729) | #1 | |
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gp2 at Red bull ring races 2016
As next weekend its time for GP2 to head to the Red Bull ring minus one person therefore ART racing will as per the rules will have to find a replacement just for this round.
any guesses who will be in car number 1 instead of Matsushita? |
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23 Jun 2016, 21:22 (Ref:3654769) | #2 | |
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Is he not only banned from R1?
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23 Jun 2016, 21:51 (Ref:3654775) | #3 | |
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it kinda says "round" and their idea of a "round" is an event... but it's kind of vague, and the autosport version doesn't really make it any more clear.
http://www.gp2series.com/News-Room/N...or-next-event/ |
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24 Jun 2016, 04:42 (Ref:3654814) | #4 | |
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It could be any of the ART GP3 drivers, but I think they'd rather have their drivers focus on that championship.
If Honda are choosing they will put another one of their Japanese drivers in. Maybe Izawa as a one off. But surely the logical choice would be to link up with Ocon again. He'll be at Austria anyway, and he seems increasingly disillusioned with DTM |
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26 Jun 2016, 19:52 (Ref:3655274) | #5 | ||
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Ocon would be great.
Anyone got recent experience of testing a GP2? |
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29 Jun 2016, 07:59 (Ref:3655729) | #6 | |
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Binder it is then
That's underwhelming |
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29 Jun 2016, 16:06 (Ref:3655783) | #7 | |
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I hoped to see a young driver in the car, bot a driver who wasn't impressive the last years...
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1 Jul 2016, 17:35 (Ref:3656149) | #8 | |
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Seems Ghiotto and Giovinazzi are having an absolutely mega time of it of late! 4th and 2nd in qually respectively! Of course, Sirotkin has another pole, I really hope he can convert it into a win, I feel if he can have one really good weekend then he'll continue to deliver. Gasly is 3rd too, outqualified by his rookie teammate despite a solid effort, takes the shine off it a little but I rate Gio very highly, not least after what he did in Baku...
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2 Jul 2016, 08:03 (Ref:3656214) | #9 | |
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Hoping Sirotkin can have a strong weekend too. If it wasn't for those errors in Barcelona and Monaco he'd be miles ahead in the championship.
Gasly and how off the pace the DAMS cars are baffles me. |
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2 Jul 2016, 18:02 (Ref:3656297) | #10 | ||
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Campos 1-2 - It means Evans won followed by... Gelael!
Marciello completed the podium, and is the championship leader. |
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Odd championship though. Even with how bad the Campos has been this year, Evans is somehow only 2 points off the lead. I can only imagine if he'd stayed in that Russian Time car how far he would be out front now, considering he was top 3 fastest for the last several races of last year and at no point has Markelov ever been close to him on speed in their 2 years together. I wonder if they found something at Campos, because he was setting fastest lap after 30 laps on the softs yet previous rounds the Campos has been hopeless on it's tyres. Binder; wow he was slow in the ART wasn't he? Lynn and Gasly; I know they're not teammates anymore but once again can't live up to their apparent potential. Lynn even behind his teammate, Gasly can't help but sabotage any chance he ever has at winning a race. It's comical. Nato and King; Racing Engineering's speed could be dropping off, is their title charge going to end as well? Ghiotto did well though, if the Campos' didn't have the superior strategy he would have ended up 2nd with only Marciello ahead of him on similar strategy. Looking forward to race 2 with King, Nato, Rowland starting up front. Gasly, Markelov, Giovinazzi, Sirotkin will need to make some passes or they'll lose more points to the average but consistent Marciello. |
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You are right about Lynn though. Latifi showing him up |
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Safety car parade to start this one......hopefully they get more racing than the GP3's.
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I wonder if money played a role? I mean Markelov is only there because of his money, Evans never had to pay for his drive at RT. Maybe Marciello is bringing in some cash - I'm sure Marciello is a decent driver, but he's not been much quicker than Markelov and isn't showing the form Evans was at the end of 2015, and I never expected him to either. Maybe still settling in though... and he is leading the points but only because the main contenders keep stuffing up.
Campos fell back to earth in the second race though with Evans a bit of a mobile chicane at the end. How about Giovanni? Sure he made that mistake which cost him several seconds and positions, but without that mistake I think he may have been attacking the front 3 at the end. I can certainly see him in F1 and winning races in 5 years time. Despite only scoring points in 3 out of 8 races this season, he's still completely in it! He probably would have been top 3 in race 1 if the car didn't stop, with his late race pace lately. Rowland good drive to 2nd, he needs it to. And just when I'm doubting Racing Engineering, King pulls one out of the bag and cleans up. Kind of needs to be Nato doing it though if they want the title. But yeah top 10 in points are only 1 feature race win apart. Sirotkin could go from 10th to 1st in a single race, even higher with FL points! |
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I don't think Evans knows has to set a car up. |
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because the driver is the only person who sets a car up, it has nothing to do with the engineer?
no i agree it's odd that evans has never really managed to get it going. couldn't comment on why without speaking to people who have worked with him but... it's weird. and a shame because he clearly has pace. about it being a crazy season where none of the favourites are scoring, i think that's a reflection on who the favourites were going into the season and who we have in the championship. red bull must see something really special in gasly that we can't see on tv for example. |
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Some brilliant racing in the tricky conditions. Very impressive stuff from a lot of the fancied guys but once again several fancied runners failed to perform.
It's a very open season with only 10 odd points covering the top 12 drivers going into Silverstone. General note to all (and im sure bella will agree). By all means come on and have a discussion but if posters are going to single out drivers or teams as being poor please provide some reasons or examples rather than sweeping statements? Back to the weekend and the Italian contingent seem to be gathering pace which could see any of them getting a title run going. Marcielo is being very determined and showing some of the flair not seen since 2014? Giovinazzi looks very assured even if results didn't quite go his way and Ghiotto also looks quick but needs to stop making mistakes. Rowland is doing a sensible job but I feel still hasn't quite found the sweet spot yet. However he is doing very well in what is a fairly unfancied team. I thought his basic ability to feel what the car was doing under him was clear to see in the wettest parts yesterday even if he couldn't hold onto King when the tyres started going off. Lynn came through strongly for an all Brit podium. Has that ever happened before at this level including 3000 and the old F2?! Alex was a bit sulky afterwards though does he not like Oli and Jordan?! |
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