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Trident’s Raffaele Marciello topped a heavily interrupted first day of the post-season tests at Abu Dhabi. The Italian finished the day fastest with a time of 1m48.937, beating the DAMS duo of Oliver Rowland and Nicholas Latifi. Morning pacesetter Nobuharu Matsushita had set the second fastest lap in the afternoon, but had his times stripped […]
Pierre Gasly re-took the lead of the GP2 Series after taking an assertive victory in the feature race at Spa-Francorchamps on Saturday. The Frenchman started second but easily had the pace to power to his third win of the season, beating the British pair of Jordan King and Alex Lynn. Gasly’s main championship rival Sergey […]
Sergey Sirotkin took his first GP2 victory of the season after a dominant sprint race performance in Hungary. The Russian made a fantastic start to run second early on before overtaking polesitter Jordan King on the fifth lap. King led home teammate Norman Nato for a Racing Engineering 2-3 with championship leader Pierre Gasly extending […]
Mitch Evans came from 10th on the grid to secure a shock feature race victory at a rain-affected Red Bull Ring, ahead of Campos team-mate Sean Gelael. Italian Raffaele Marciello completed the podium in an utterly bizarre race. Pierre Gasly had looked set for his first victory until he spun off as heavy rain engulfed […]
PREMA’s Antonio Giovinazzi passed team-mate Pierre Gasly on the last lap to became the first driver to complete a double victory in the GP2 Series since 2012 in a chaotic sprint race in Baku. The race was punctuated by a series of crashes at safety car restarts, with only 14 of the 24 starters completing […]
Pierre Gasly extended his run of GP2 pole positions as he grabbed top spot in the opening qualifying session of 2016 in Barcelona. The Frenchman, driving for Prema Racing was the only driver to lap in under 1m28s and headed compatriot Norman Nato. DAMS’ Alex Lynn and Nicholas Latifi will line up alongside each other […]
Jordan King kept Racing Engineering at the top of the timesheets for the second consecutive day by setting the fastest time in GP2 pre-season testing at Jerez. The Brit, whose morning session of time of 1m24.449 remained unbeaten for the duration of the day, finished 0.116s ahead of PREMA rookie Antonio Giovinazzi. In the morning, […]
Gustav Malja will race in his first full season of GP2 in 2016 after signing for Italian squad Rapax, it has been announced. The Swede, who made his series debut for Trident at the Spa-Francorchamps round in 2015, before making two further outings with Rapax in Abu Dhabi and Bahrain at the end of the […]
Arthur Pic has agreed a deal to race for Rapax for the forthcoming GP2 Series season after switching from Campos in the off-season. The Frenchman, younger brother of former Marussia and Caterham F1 driver Charles, tested with the team at the post-season test in Abu Dhabi and will compete in his third year in the […]
Frenchman Pierre Gasly will complete Prema Racing line-up for its inaugural season in GP2, it has been announced. The Red Bull junior driver will join rookie Antonio Giovinazzi in the team. Gasly, who scored four podiums en route to eighth in his debut season in the category, will also remain part of the Red Bull Junior […]
As far as teams went in the 2015 GP2 Series, there was really only one in it all year: ART Grand Prix. With series winner Stoffel Vandoorne not only did they beat the opposition, they pulverised them into submission. Vandoorne’s record-breaking seven race wins (including four consecutive feature race triumphs) and Japanese rookie Nobuharu Matsushita’s […]
Nobuharu Matsushita ended the final day of the post-season GP2 test in Abu Dhabi at the top of the timesheets, setting a fastest lap time of 1:48.313 in the evening session. The ART driver, who finished the year 9th in the overall standings, taking a win in Hungary, pipped Thursday’s pace-setter Nicolas Latifi’s DAMS car […]