2013 GP2 Series
The 2013 GP2 Series season will be the ninth GP2 Series season, a support series to the 2013 Formula One World Championship.
The 2013 season will see three new teams—Russian Time, Hilmer Motorsport and MP Motorsport— join the championship, replacing iSport International, Ocean Racing Technology and Scuderia Coloni respectively.[1][2][3] 2013 will also be the last season in which teams compete with the third-generation GP2 car—the Dallara GP2/11—which was introduced in 2011.[4]
Teams and drivers
Twenty-six drivers representing thirteen teams are scheduled to take part in the championship. The driver who is declared champion will receive a Formula One test with tyre supplier Pirelli as their prize,[5] as well as qualifying for an FIA Superlicence.
Driver changes
- After finishing as runner-up in the 2012 GP3 Series with the Lotus GP team, Daniel Abt joined the team's GP2 squad, partnering James Calado.[10]
- Nathanaël Berthon left Racing Engineering after a single season.[13][26]
- Johnny Cecotto, Jr. will move from Barwa Addax to Arden International.[11]
- Max Chilton will leave GP2 to race in Formula One with Marussia.[27]
- Daniël de Jong, who competed part-time with Rapax in 2012, joined MP Motorsport.[3]
- Tom Dillmann, who also competed part-time with Rapax throughout the 2012 season, joined Russian Time.[17]
- Marcus Ericsson left iSport International to join DAMS.[7]
- 2012 GP3 Series champion Mitch Evans will enter the GP2 Series with Arden International, the same team he won the GP3 title with.[12]
- 2012 European F3 Open Copa Class champion Kevin Giovesi will enter the GP2 Series with Venezuela GP Lazarus.[24]
- Esteban Gutiérrez will leave GP2 to race in Formula One with Sauber alongside 2009 champion Nico Hülkenberg.[28]
- Rio Haryanto, who drove for Carlin in 2012, moved to Barwa Addax for the 2013 season.[20]
- Julián Leal will move to Racing Engineering after competing with Trident Racing during the 2012 season.[13]
- Former HRT F1 test driver Ma Qinghua joined Caterham Racing after the collapse of HRT.[18]
- Nigel Melker, who raced in 2012 with Ocean Racing Technology, will move to the Formula Renault 3.5 Series for the 2013 season.[29]
- Felipe Nasr, who drove for DAMS in 2012, moved to Carlin for the 2013 season.[15]
- Jolyon Palmer will move from iSport International to Carlin.[16]
- 2012 Auto GP World Series champion Adrian Quaife-Hobbs will make his step up to GP2 with MP Motorsport.[25]
- 2012 series runner-up Luiz Razia will leave Arden International to make his Formula One debut with Marussia.[30] However, 23 days after signing his contract, he was ditched by Marussia for Jules Bianchi, due to financial issues.[31]
- Stéphane Richelmi will join DAMS, after racing for Trident Racing in 2012.[7]
- Ricardo Teixeira lost his seat at Rapax.[21][22]
- Simon Trummer lost his seat at Arden International. He later moved to Rapax for the 2013 season.[22]
- Davide Valsecchi, who won the 2012 championship with DAMS,[32] will leave the series, as GP2 champions are not permitted to continue racing in the category. Valsecchi was later promoted to the role of test and reserve driver for Formula One team Lotus F1.[33]
- Giedo van der Garde will leave the GP2 Series for Formula One, where he will continue racing for Caterham.[34]
Team changes
- After racing as "Lotus GP" in 2011 and 2012, ART Grand Prix will revert back to using its original name in 2013.[8]
- Scuderia Coloni will not participate in the 2013 season following what the team described as a "disagreement" between themselves and series organisers during the 2012 season.[35] They were replaced by the Dutch team MP Motorsport.[3]
- In February 2013, the owners of iSport International announced that the team had been put up for sale to avoid potential bankruptcy.[36] The team was later purchased by Russian Time, a Russian entry based in Germany.[1]
- Ocean Racing Technology withdrew from the GP2 Series (and sister series GP3)[37] after encountering financial difficulty. They will be replaced by Hilmer Motorsport, a team created by Franz Hilmer, whose company Formtech supplies several Formula One teams.[2]
2013 schedule
The calendar for the 2013 series was unveiled on 19 December 2012.[38] The season will consist of twenty-two races in support of eleven Formula One Grands Prix throughout the 2013 season.
Calendar changes
- The series will only visit the Bahrain International Circuit once in 2013, in support of the 2013 Bahrain Grand Prix. The second, independent round—that was held one week after the 2012 Bahrain Grand Prix—was discontinued for 2013.
- The series will not visit the Valencia Street Circuit after the European Grand Prix was removed from the 2013 Formula One season calendar.
- The series will return to race the Yas Marina Circuit after the round was run as a non-championship race in 2011 and left off the 2012 calendar.
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