GP2 2012 Season

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Thought it was worth getting a thread going for the season, so we can see who is doing well and might jump up to F1 soon.

The GP2 Asia series is no longer and the races are now in one series which mainly follow the F1 season.

First race is this weekend at Malaysia.


Teams & Drivers

Code: 
[b]Team 			Driver 1 		Driver 2[/b]
Addax 			Johnny Cecotto 		Josef Kral
DAMS 			Davide Valsecchi 	Felipe Nasr
Racing Engineering 	Fabio Leimer 		Nathanael Berthon
iSport 			Marcus Ericsson 	Jolyon Palmer
Lotus GP 		James Calado 		Esteban Gutierrez
Caterham 		Rodolfo Gonzalez 	Giedo van der Garde
Coloni 			Stefano Coletti 	Fabio Onidi
Trident 		Stephane Richelmi 	Julian Leal
Venezuela GP Lazarus 	Fabrizio Crestani 	Giancarlo Serenelli
Rapax 			Ricardo Teixeira 	Tom Dillmann
Arden 			Simon Trummer 		Luiz Razia
Ocean 			Jon Lancaster 		Nigel Melker
Carlin 			Max Chilton 		Rio Haryanto


2012 Race Calendar

Code: 
[b]Round 	Race 		Circuit 			Date[/b]
1 	Malaysia 	Sepang International Circuit 	March 23rd-25th
2 	Bahrain 	Bahrain International Circuit 	April 20th-22nd
3 	Bahrain 	Bahrain International Circuit 	April 26th-28th
4 	Spain 		Circuit de Catalunya 		May 11-13th
5 	Monaco 		Monte-Carlo 			May 24-26th
6 	Europe 		Valencia 			June 22nd-24th
7 	Britain 	Silverstone 			July 6-8th
8 	Germany 	Hockenheimring 			July 20th-22nd
9 	Hungary 	Hungaroring 			July 27-29th
10 	Belgium 	Spa-Francorchamps 		August 31st-Sept 2nd
11 	Italy 		Monza 				Sept 7-9th
12 	Singapore 	Marina Bay 			Sept 21st-23rd


Full preview here - http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2012/03/22/2012-gp2-season-preview/

Pre-season test 1 pics - http://www.gp2series.com/Multimedia/Photos/?tags=145,568&gpid=3761

Pre-season test 2 pics - http://www.gp2series.com/Multimedia/Photos/?tags=576&gpid=3774


All races on Sky Sports F1 HD channel.
 
Yeah, but as far as I can tell only the 1st race of the season is on SSF1. The rest look to be on Sky Sports like before.
 
Malaysia Qualifying:

Code: 
Pos.	Driver			Team		Time	
1.	Davide Valsecchi	DAMS		01:45.494	
2.	Luiz Razia		Arden		01:45.554	
3.	Max Chilton		Carlin		01:45.558	
4.	Stefano Coletti		Coloni		01:45.577	
5.	Fabio Leimer		Racing Engin.	01:45.588	
6.	James Calado		Lotus		01:45.638	
7.	Jolyon Palmer		iSport		01:45.758	
8.	Giedo van der Garde	Caterham	01:45.773	
9.	Fabio Onidi		Coloni		01:45.810	
10.	Felipe Nasr		DAMS		01:45.942	
11.	Johnny Cecotto Jr.	Addax		01:46.012	
12.	Fabrizio Crestani	Lazarus		01:46.138	
13.	Stephane Richelmi	Trident		01:46.150	
14.	Josef Kral		Addax		01:46.160	
15.	Esteban Gutiérrez	Lotus		01:46.186	
16.	Tom Dillmann		Rapax		01:46.264	
17.	Rio Haryanto		Carlin		01:46.392	
18.	Nathanael Berthon	Racing Engin.	01:46.428	
19.	Nigel Melker		Ocean Racing	01:46.489	
20.	Marcus Ericsson		iSport		01:46.557	
21.	Jon Lancaster		Ocean Racing	01:46.662	
22.	Julián Leal		Trident		01:46.868	
23.	Rodolfo Gonzalez	Caterham	01:46.962	
24.	Simon Trummer		Arden		01:47.004	
25.	Ricardo Teixeira	Rapax		01:48.113	
26.	Giancarlo Serenelli	Lazarus		01:49.620

Good showing from the Brits. And lol at the gaps. Top 11 covered by 0.5 seconds. Top 20 by just over 1 second.

For those who don't know, Qualifying defines the grid for Saturdays Feature race, which includes a pit stop. The grid for Sundays sprint race (no pit stop) is decided by the finishing order of the feature race, but with the top 8 drivers reversed.
 
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Heard of most of those teams but not of DAMS before, unless they were at the back before?
 
Yeah, with the single chassis formula of GP2 its not uncommon for teams to quickly jump up and down the grid depending on the quality of their driver.

Should be some good racing with times that close.
 
LOL OMG *** Venezuela. This Serenelli guy is an insult to those with talent. I thought pay seats in F1 were bad, but this guy is taking it to a whole new level!

What a kick in the teeth for people with skill who struggle to pull together the funding.
 
sr4470 said:
Always been like that. Not just in motorsport either.
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Not to this level though, the Venezuelan government have bought a whole team and then paid for him to have a seat in it, and he's completely useless. Never competed internationally, not race at all for the last 2 years. 2+ seconds off the pace and then refusing to get out of the way when being lapped meaning he screwed with a load of the front guys races. Its frankly embarrassing.
 
Skeeter said:
Never competed internationally, not race at all for the last 2 years. 2+ seconds off the pace and then refusing to get out of the way when being lapped meaning he screwed with a load of the front guys races. Its frankly embarrassing.
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That's different to the likes of Narain Karthikeyan or Karun Chandhok how exactly? Did F1 go to Korea or China or the Middle East because it was actually popular there, or because commercial entities needed to sell their product? If you were watching F1 in 2005, the struggling Minardi let an Israeli by the name of Chanoch Nissany drive in a free practice session: he completed 1 lap, 18 seconds off the pace before spinning into the gravel.

In India's case, it had some fans that followed drivers like Michael Schumacher without needing a token Indian in the sport. No doubt the Indian GP was a great success for Tata and co as far as commercial aspects are concerned.
 
Of course money has fueled F1 forever, but I don't think any government has ever bought a team and than paid for a seat for a driver for a whole season of races with no skill or CV to justify his place on the grid.

And this is government funded too remember. To me its taken the whole pay seat thing too far.
 
I've never actually watched any GP2 races, however I'm watching the live race now while waiting for the F1 to start, and I have to say its bloody brilliant! Proper wheel to wheel racing with evenly matched cars. Fantastic to watch.
 
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