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For the Asian-based series, see 2008 GP2 Asia Series season.

The 2008 GP2 Series season shall begin April 26 at Barcelona, Spain. The outgoing champion is Timo Glock. This will be first season using a new car design to be used during the following 3 seasons.

Teams and drivers

On 19 October 2007, it was announced that the same 13 teams which took part in 2007 shall continue into 2008.[1]

Team Car # (TBC) Driver
United Kingdom iSport International 1 India Karun Chandhok[2]
2 Brazil Bruno Senna[3]
France ART Grand Prix 3 France Romain Grosjean[4]
4 Italy Luca Filippi[5]
Spain Campos Grand Prix 5 Russia Vitaly Petrov[6]
6 United Kingdom Ben Hanley[6]
United Kingdom Super Nova Racing 7 Portugal Álvaro Parente[7]
8 Denmark Christian Bakkerud[7]
France DAMS 9 Japan Kamui Kobayashi[8]
10 Belgium Jérôme D'Ambrosio[9]
Spain Racing Engineering 11 Spain Javier Villa
12 Italy Giorgio Pantano[10]
Netherlands Trust Team Arden 14 Switzerland Sébastien Buemi[11]
15 Netherlands Yelmer Buurman[12]
Italy Durango 16 Brazil Alberto Valerio[13]
17 Italy Davide Valsecchi[13]
Italy Fisichella Motor Sport International 18 Spain Adrián Vallés[14]
19 Spain Roldan Rodriguez[15]
Italy Trident Racing 20 United Kingdom Mike Conway[16]
21 China Ho-Pin Tung[17]
Italy Brazil Piquet Sports 22 Austria Andreas Zuber[18]
23 Venezuela Pastor Maldonado[19]
United Kingdom David Price Racing 24 Brazil Diego Nunes[20]
25 Belgium Michael Herck[20]
Spain BCN Competicion 26 Italy Paolo Maria Nocera[21]
27 Serbia Miloš Pavlović[22]

2008 Schedule

Round Location Circuit Date Winning Driver Winning Team
1 Spain Barcelona, Spain Circuit de Catalunya April 26
2 April 27
3 Turkey Istanbul, Turkey Istanbul Park May 10
4 May 11
5 Monaco Monte-Carlo, Monaco Circuit de Monaco May 24
6 France Magny-Cours, France Circuit de Magny-Cours June 21
7 June 22
8 United Kingdom Silverstone, Great Britain Silverstone Circuit July 5
9 July 6
10 Germany Hockenheim, Germany Hockenheimring July 19
11 July 20
12 Hungary Budapest, Hungary Hungaroring August 2
13 August 3
14 Europe Valencia, Spain Valencia Street Circuit August 23
15 August 24
16 Belgium Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps September 6
17 September 7
18 Italy Monza, Italy Autodromo Nazionale Monza September 13
19 September 14

The original calendar was released on 25th March 2008 and had a standalone event on the 31st May - 1st June at the Valencia's Ricardo Tormo circuit. However, on the 18th April 2008, it was confirmed that a deal had been agreed for a GP2 event to run alongside the new European GP at the Valencia Street Circuit instead of the original date at the Ricardo Tormo circuit

Results

Pos Driver ESP FEA Spain ESP SPR Spain TUR FEA Turkey TUR SPR Turkey MON FEA Monaco MON SPR Monaco ESP FEA Spain ESP SPR Spain FRA FEA France FRA SPR France GBR FEA United Kingdom GBR SPR United Kingdom GER FEA Germany GER SPR Germany HUN FEA Hungary HUN SPR Hungary BEL FEA Belgium BEL SPR Belgium ITA FEA Italy ITA SPR Italy Points
1 India Karun Chandhok 0
2 Brazil Bruno Senna 0
3 France Romain Grosjean 0
4 Italy Luca Filippi 0
5 Russia Vitaly Petrov 0
6 United Kingdom Ben Hanley 0
7 Portugal Álvaro Parente 0
8 Denmark Christian Bakkerud 0
9 Japan Kamui Kobayashi 0
10 Belgium Jérôme d'Ambrosio 0
11 Spain Javier Villa 0
12 Italy Giorgio Pantano 0
14 Switzerland Sébastien Buemi 0
15 Netherlands Yelmer Buurman 0
16 Brazil Alberto Valerio 0
17 Italy Davide Valsecchi 0
18 Spain Adrián Vallés 0
19 Spain Andy Soucek 0
20 United Kingdom Mike Conway 0
21 China Ho-Pin Tung 0
22 Austria Andreas Zuber 0
23 Venezuela Pastor Maldonado 0
24 Brazil Diego Nunes 0
25 Belgium Michael Herck 0
26 Italy Paolo Maria Nocera 0
27 Serbia Miloš Pavlović 0
Pos Driver ESP FEA Spain ESP SPR Spain TUR FEA Turkey TUR SPR Turkey MON FEA Monaco MON SPR Monaco ESP FEA Spain ESP SPR Spain FRA FEA France FRA SPR France GBR FEA United Kingdom GBR SPR United Kingdom GER FEA Germany GER SPR Germany HUN FEA Hungary HUN SPR Hungary BEL FEA Belgium BEL SPR Belgium ITA FEA Italy ITA SPR Italy Points
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver Second place
Bronze Third place
Green Points finish
Blue Non-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple Retired (Ret)
Red Did not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black Disqualified (DSQ)
White Did not start (DNS)
Withdrew (WD)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank Did not practice (DNP)
Did not arrive (DNA)
Excluded (EX)


Pos Team Car
No. 		ESP FEA Spain ESP SPR Spain TUR FEA Turkey TUR SPR Turkey MON FEA Monaco MON SPR Monaco ESP FEA Spain ESP SPR Spain FRA FEA France FRA SPR France GBR FEA United Kingdom GBR SPR United Kingdom GER FEA Germany GER SPR Germany HUN FEA Hungary HUN SPR Hungary BEL FEA Belgium BEL SPR Belgium ITA FEA Italy ITA SPR Italy Points
1 United Kingdom iSport International 1 0
2
2 France ART Grand Prix 3 0
4
3 Spain Campos Grand Prix 5 0
6
4 United Kingdom Super Nova Racing 7 0
8
5 France DAMS 9 0
10
6 Spain Racing Engineering 11 0
12
7 Netherlands Trust Team Arden 14 0
15
8 Italy Durango 16 0
17
9 Italy Fisichella Motor Sport Int. 18 0
19
10 Italy Trident Racing 20 0
21
11 ItalyBrazil Piquet Sports 22 0
23
12 United Kingdom DPR 24 0
25
13 Spain BCN Competicion 26 0
27
Pos Team Car
No. 		ESP FEA Spain ESP SPR Spain TUR FEA Turkey TUR SPR Turkey MON FEA Monaco MON SPR Monaco ESP FEA Spain ESP SPR Spain FRA FEA France FRA SPR France GBR FEA United Kingdom GBR SPR United Kingdom GER FEA Germany GER SPR Germany HUN FEA Hungary HUN SPR Hungary BEL FEA Belgium BEL SPR Belgium ITA FEA Italy ITA SPR Italy Points
  • Polesitter for feature race in bold and is awarded two points.
  • Driver with asterisk has been awarded point for fastest lap.
  • Driver who retired but was classified in italics.

References

  1. ^ "Current teams confirmed for 2008". autosport.com. 2007-10-19. Retrieved 2007-11-14.
  2. ^ "Chandhok and Senna sign for iSport". autosport.com. 2007-12-19. Retrieved 2007-12-19. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ "Chandhok and Senna sign for iSport". autosport.com. 2007-12-19. Retrieved 2007-12-19. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ^ "Grosjean to race for ART in 2008". autosport.com. 2007-12-11. Retrieved 2007-12-17. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ^ "Filippi confirmed at ART for 2008". autosport.com. 2007-12-17. Retrieved 2007-12-17. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. ^ a b "Campos sign Hanley to partner Petrov". autosport.com. 2008-01-10. Retrieved 2008-01-10. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  7. ^ a b "Super Nova confirm Parente, Bakkerud". autosport.com. 2008-02-07. Retrieved 2008-02-07. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ^ "Kobayashi to race for DAMS". autosport.com. 2007-11-23. Retrieved 2007-12-17. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. ^ "D'Ambrosio completes Dams line-up". autosport.com. 2007-12-14. Retrieved 2007-12-17. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ^ "Racing Engineering sign Pantano". autosport.com. 2008-02-01. Retrieved 2008-02-01. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  11. ^ "Buemi lands Arden seat for 2008". autosport.com. 2007-12-13. Retrieved 2007-12-17. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  12. ^ "Buurman signes for Arden seat for 2008 & 2009". f1today.nl. 2007-01-24. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Check date values in: |date= (help); Text "url http://www.f1today.nl/nieuws/2008/01/24/yelmer-buurman-tekent-tweejarig-contract-bij-trust-team-arden/" ignored (help)
  13. ^ a b "Durango confirm 2008 line-up". autosport.com. 2007-12-13. Retrieved 2007-12-17. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  14. ^ "Valles to race for FMS in 2008". autosport.com. 2007-12-21. Retrieved 2007-12-21. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  15. ^ "FMS International sign Rodriguez". autosport.com. 2008-04-21. Retrieved 2008-04-21. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  16. ^ "Conway Joins Trident". pitpass.com. 2007-12-20. Retrieved 2007-12-20. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  17. ^ "Tung joins Trident for second season". autosport.com. 2008-01-10. Retrieved 2008-01-10. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  18. ^ "Zuber joins Minardi Piquet". gpupdate.com. 2008-01-11. Retrieved 2008-01-11. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  19. ^ "Maldona confirma su fichaje por Piquet Sport". gpupdate.com. 2008-01-26. Retrieved 2008-01-28. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help) (in Spanish)
  20. ^ a b "DPR sign Herck and Nunes for '08". autosport.com. 2008-02-28. Retrieved 2008-02-28. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  21. ^ "Paolo Maria Nocera joins BCN Competicion for 2008". motorsport.com. 2007-12-22. Retrieved 2007-12-22. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  22. ^ "BCN confirma fichaje de Pavlovic y Tahinci". gpupdate.com. 2008-01-14. Retrieved 2008-01-14. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help) (in Spanish)
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