GP2 & GP3 2013 Season

[Duke]

Thread for the new 2013 season of GP2 & GP3 series. All races on Sky Sports F1 HD channel.


Useful Links

Guide to GP2 - http://www.gp2series.com/Guide-to/
Guide to GP3 - http://www.gp3series.com/Guide-to/
General GP2 News - http://www.gpupdate.net/en/series/6/gp2/
General GP3 News - http://www.gpupdate.net/en/series/16/gp3/



GP2: Teams & Drivers

[b]Team 			Drivers[/b]
DAMS			Marcus Ericsson		Stéphane Richelmi
ART			James Calado		Daniel Abt
Arden			Johnny Cecotto Jr.	Mitch Evans
Racing Engineering	Julián Leal 		Fabio Leimer
Carlin			Felipe Nasr		Jolyon Palmer
RUSSIAN TIME		Sam Bird		Tom Dillmann
Caterham		Sergio Canamasas	Ma Qing Hua
Addax			Jake Rosenzweig		Rio Harayanto
Rapax			Stefano Coletti 	Simon Trummer
Trident			Nathanaël Berthon	Kevin Ceccon 
Hilmer Motorsport	Robin Frijns		Jon Lancaster 
Venezuela GP Lazarus	Rene Binder		Kevin Giovesi
MP Motorsport		Adrian Quaife-Hobbs	Daniel de Jong

GP3: Teams & Drivers

[b]Team 			Drivers[/b]
ART Grand Prix		C. Daly		F. Regalia	J. Harvey
MW Arden		C. Sainz Jr.	R. Visoiu	D. Kvyat
Carlin			L. Sa Silva	N. Yelloly	E. Lichtenstein
Jenzer Motorsport	S. Gómez	P. Niederhauser	A. Fontana
Marussia Manor Racing	E. Ellinas	R. Cullen	D. Zamparelli
Status Grand Prix	J. Eriksson	A. Fong		J. Webster
Bamboo Engineering	L. Williamson	M. McKee	C. Jorda
Trident Racing		G. Venturini	D. Fumanelli	E. Zonzini
Koiranen Motorsport	P. Kujala	A. Vainio	K. Korjus

GP2: Race Calendar

[b]Circuit/Location 			 Date[/b]
Sepang International Circuit, Sepang 	 23/24 March 	
Bahrain International Circuit, Manama 	 20/21 April 	
Circuit de Catalunya, Montmeló 	 	 11/12 May 	
Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo 	 	 25/26 May 	
Silverstone Circuit 	  		 29/30 June 	
Nürburgring, Nürburg 	 	 	 6/7 July 	
Hungaroring, Mogyoród 	 	 	 27/28 July 	
Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps 	 	 24/25 August 	
Autodromo Nazionale Monza 	 	 7/8 September 	
Marina Bay Street Circuit, Singapore 	 21/22 September 	
Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi 	  	 2/3 November

GP3: Race Calendar

[b]Circuit/Location 			Date[/b]
Circuit de Catalunya, Montmeló 		10/12 May	 
Circuit Ricardo Tormo, Spain 		15/16 June
Silverstone Circuit 			28/30 June
Nürburgring, Nürburg 			5/7 July	 
Hungaroring, Mogyoród 			26/28 July
Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps 		23/25 August 
Autodromo Nazionale Monza 		6/8 September 	 
Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi 		1/3 November

GP2: Championship Standings

GP3: Championship Standings

 

[Skeeter]

Mitch Evans is the GP3 champion, isn't he?

 

[Duke]

Yep, very very close with Daniel Abt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_GP3_Series_season

 

[Skeeter]

Cool. One to watch along with Quaife-Hobbs.

 

[Indy500]

James Calado
Daniel Abt
Mitch Evans
Felipe Nasr
Sam Bird
Tom Dillmann
Rio Harayanto
Adrian Quaife-Hobbs

Definitely a stronger field than last year with these guys in it.

 

[Skeeter]

A lot of those were in it last year? Or am I confusing it with GP3?

 

[Indy500]

A lot of those were in it last year?

They were either in GP3 or rookies (some didn't do a full season). Valsecchi may have won the championship but taking 4 years to do it with a general experience advantage is not impressive.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

I really must remember to watch this, it always makes god viewing!

 

[Guerrilla]

Looking forward to this, will hopefully give some good racing.

Think I mentioned in another thread good to see Russian Time using their funding to give some decent drivers a drive rather than go for sponsorship.

 

[Guerrilla]

Cecotto should definitely be punished for that.

Coletti gets points on the board for Pole.

 

[Skeeter]

What happened?

Just seen the times, looks epicly close up the top so far. Also, just lol at the predictable lack of pace from Ma Qing Hahahah, the walking piggy bank

 

[Guerrilla]

Sam Bird moved aside to let Cecotto through and Cecotto just continued driving to the right beside him, pushed him right off the track. So blatant too.

 

[Shimmy]

Stewards decision:

Cecotto had fastest lap taken away. Bird handed a 3 place penalty for blocking.

:/

 

[Indy500]

Good stuff from Calado and Nasr, I expected them to be front-runners based on their rookie year and it looks like they won't disappoint.

Also, just lol at the predictable lack of pace from Ma Qing Hahahah, the walking piggy bank

He's not last. He even outqualified Abt

 

[Guerrilla]

Stewards decision:

:/

That seems crazy, can only assume there was some stuff before that we didn't get to see... Well I'd hope so otherwise that decision is ridiculous.

 

[Shimmy]

That seems crazy, can only assume there was some stuff before that we didn't get to see... Well I'd hope so otherwise that decision is ridiculous.

Bit more info now.

It was found that between Turns 5 and 6, Cecotto was impeded by Bird during the Venezuelan’s fastest lap. As a reaction, the Arden driver deliberately forced the British driver off the track.
In consequence, the stewards have decided to issue Bird with a three place grid penalty while Cecotto has been excluded from the results of Qualifying as his reaction to being impeded by another driver were deemed unacceptable .
Bird will thus start from eighth place. Cecotto will start from the back of tomorrow’s Feature Race grid.

http://www.gp2series.com/News-Room/News/2013/03_March/Kuala-Lumpur-post-qualifying-Penalties/

Most Journo's reckon Cecotto should have been given his marching orders.

 

[Skeeter]

Any vid?

 

[Guerrilla]

There's a vid of he incident here.

 

[Skeeter]

And that was in retaliation for being blocked, I assume by accident, by Bird?

They really need to come down harder on this 'red mist' thing. Maldonado did it a few times and the penalty was always quite lapse. Forcing a driver off the road through deliberate actions should come with a ban.

 

[Guerrilla]

Yeah it's pretty shocking really... Must be a fiery Venezuelan thing