Jump to content

2010 Yas Marina GP2 Asia Series round

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
United Arab Emirates    2010 Abu Dhabi GP2 round
Round details
Round 2 of 4 rounds in the
2010 GP2 Series
Yas Marina Circuit
Yas Marina Circuit
Location Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Course Permanent racing facility
5.554 km (3.451 mi)
Feature race
Date 5 February 2010
Laps 33
Pole position
Driver France Charles Pic Arden International
Time 1:52.497
Podium
First United Kingdom Oliver Turvey iSport International
Second Italy Davide Valsecchi iSport International
Third France Jules Bianchi ART Grand Prix
Fastest lap
Driver Bulgaria Vladimir Arabadzhiev[a] Rapax
Time 1:51.872 (on lap 28)
Sprint race
Date 6 February 2010
Laps 21
Podium
First Italy Davide Valsecchi iSport International
Second Romania Michael Herck DPR
Third Italy Giacomo Ricci DPR
Fastest lap
Driver Italy Davide Valsecchi iSport International
Time 1.52.061 (on lap 18)

The 2009–10 Abu Dhabi 2nd GP2 Asia round was the second round of the 2009-10 GP2 Asia Series season. It was held on February 5 and 6, 2010 at Yas Marina Circuit at Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It is the second of two rounds to be held at the circuit, the other being the 2009-10 Abu Dhabi 1st GP2 Asia round. The next race of the season will be at Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir, Bahrain and will be the first round to be held at the circuit of the season.

Report

[edit]

Feature race

[edit]

Charles Pic started on pole for Race 1. The feature race was won by Oliver Turvey, claiming his first GP2 Asia victory by leading home teammate Davide Valsecchi in an iSport one-two at Yas Marina. Formula 3 Euroseries champion Jules Bianchi began his GP2 career with third for ART, with the charging Luca Filippi coming through to fourth from the back of the grid for Meritus only to retire on the last lap and hand the place to Arden's Javier Villa. Poleman Charles Pic (Arden) had a disastrous race, starting when Turvey burst ahead off the line and Valsecchi surged down the inside to claim second at the end of the long back straight. The top three then settled down in close company, with Bianchi and Villa following them. The latter kickstarted the lead group's early pitstops by coming in for tyres on lap six - and then set a new fastest lap on fresh rubber, prompting the rest of the frontrunners to stop in quick succession. Turvey was the last of this pack to pit on lap 10, emerging right in front of Valsecchi. The championship leader immediately attacked, going around the outside into the Turn 11/12/13 complex and nosing ahead. The two iSport cars banged wheels as they turned in and skittered over the run-off, rejoining still first and second but now with Villa, Bianchi and Pic - who had lost ground on the out-laps - right on their tails. Turvey wasted no time in fighting back, sweeping around the outside of Valsecchi with a brilliant move at the penultimate corner just moments after he had lost the lead. In their wake, Bianchi pulled off an identical pass to take third from Villa.

As the tyres came up to temperature, the frenetic racing calmed down, with Turvey leading Valsecchi, Bianchi, Villa and the flying Filippi. The Meritus driver had made spectacular progress from the back of the grid following his troubled Thursday, but also sent Pic flying across a run-off area and down the order with an aggressive move near half-distance. Although Valsecchi remained on Turvey's tail, the Briton could not be parted from the lead again - even when the safety car was called to retrieve Alberto Valerio's stalled Coloni car in the closing stages. Turvey ultimately beat Valsecchi across the line by 0.6s, with Bianchi close behind and Villa promoted to fourth and DPR's Giacomo Ricci to fifth when Filippi's car ground to a halt with a lap to go. American Alexander Rossi - who also had to start at the back - provided some consolation for Meritus by surging through to sixth. He looked set for eighth and race two pole for a while, until Addax's Giedo van der Garde crashed out of seventh place. That accident handed eighth to Marcus Ericsson, but DPR driver Michael Herck's bid to pass the Super Nova driver left Ericsson with broken suspension, so it was Ocean's Max Chilton who found himself scoring the final point and picking up Saturday pole once Filippi's late retirement elevated the remaining finishers. Christian Vietoris - a winner in the previous event at Yas Marina three months ago - had to retire following a tangle with Trident's Plamen Kralev as he tried to pass the backmarker after his pitstop. Vietoris' DAMS teammate Edoardo Piscopo's race was even shorter as he was involved in one of several opening lap incidents. ART's Sam Bird was the other main lap one casualty, being spun to the back and then having contact with Herck and a solo spin before retiring. Another frontrunner out of luck was Sergio Pérez (Addax), who ran sixth until stalling in the pits and then having to make an additional stop.

Sprint race

[edit]

Max Chilton started on Pole for the Sprint Race after finishing 8th in Race 1, and therefore gaining the reverse grid pole. Davide Valsecchi extended his GP2 Asia lead by denying Michael Herck victory with a late pass in the second Abu Dhabi race. Until the closing stages, Herck and his teammate Giacomo Ricci had looked set to give their DPR team a shock one-two - four and a half years after the squad's last wins. But Valsecchi mounted a last gasp charge to pass both Ricci and Herck in quick succession and claim his iSport squad's second win of the weekend. Outside front row starter Herck had taken the lead at the start, with Ricci passing Alexander Rossi (Meritus) for second at a safety car restart shortly afterwards. Valsecchi made rapid progress from seventh on the grid and was soon in third behind the two DPR cars. But until the final half dozen laps, Herck and Ricci looked comfortable up front. The points leader had speed in reserve, though, and in the final laps Valsecchi increased his pace and piled pressure on Ricci, eventually making it through with an inventive move that required several corners to complete. He then hunted down Herck and dived down the inside at the end of the back straight on the penultimate lap, before pulling away to win by 1.9s - giving him a 19-point championship lead at the series' halfway point.

Herck and Ricci held on to the remaining podium places, with Addax's Sergio Pérez charging from the midfield through to fourth. Pérez escaped serious damage in the opening lap tangle that caused the early safety car - the Mexican and Josef Kral touching, and sending the Super Nova car bouncing into Meritus' Luca Filippi. Friday winner Oliver Turvey took the second iSport car to fifth, having spent much of the race behind polesitter Max Chilton (Ocean). The Formula 3 graduate lost ground on lap one but then held his own among the frontrunners and resisted ART's Jules Bianchi - who scorched through the field after stalling on the grid - and Arden's Charles Pic to score the final point. Pic's teammate Javier Villa was another man to stall at the start, while Addax's Giedo van der Garde was making progress through the group behind Chilton until he tangled with Fabio Leimer (Ocean).

Classification

[edit]

Qualifying

[edit]
Pos No Driver Team Time Gap Grid
1 11 France Charles Pic Arden International 1:52.497 1
2 16 United Kingdom Oliver Turvey iSport International 1:52.517 +0.020 2
3 17 Italy Davide Valsecchi iSport International 1:52.603 +0.106 3
4 7 France Jules Bianchi ART Grand Prix 1:52.842 +0.345 4
5 21 United States Alexander Rossi MalaysiaQi-Meritus.com 1:52.861 +0.364 241
6 12 Spain Javier Villa Arden International 1:52.979 +0.482 5
7 8 United Kingdom Sam Bird ART Grand Prix 1:53.003 +0.506 6
8 2 Italy Edoardo Piscopo DAMS 1:53.086 +0.589 7
9 27 Italy Giacomo Ricci DPR 1:53.134 +0.637 8
10 1 Germany Christian Vietoris DAMS 1:53.183 +0.686 9
11 6 Mexico Sergio Pérez Barwa Addax Team 1:53.407 +0.910 10
12 4 Italy Daniel Zampieri Rapax 1:53.491 +0.994 11
13 5 Netherlands Giedo van der Garde Barwa Addax Team 1:53.509 +1.012 12
14 23 Switzerland Fabio Leimer Ocean Racing Technology 1:53.611 +1.114 13
15 15 Czech Republic Josef Král Super Nova Racing 1:53.685 +1.188 14
16 3 Bulgaria Vladimir Arabadzhiev Rapax 1:53.687 +1.190 15
17 18 Spain Dani Clos Trident Racing 1:53.982 +1.485 16
18 22 United Kingdom Max Chilton Ocean Racing Technology 1:54.036 +1.539 17
19 26 Romania Michael Herck DPR 1:54.074 +1.577 18
20 20 Italy Luca Filippi MalaysiaQi-Meritus.com 1:54.121 +1.624 212
21 14 Sweden Marcus Ericsson Super Nova Racing 1:54.723 +2.226 19
22 19 Bulgaria Plamen Kralev Trident Racing 1:58.274 +5.777 20
23 25 United Kingdom Will Bratt Scuderia Coloni 2:02.517 +10.020 22
24 24 Brazil Alberto Valerio Scuderia Coloni No time 23
Notes
  • ^1Alexander Rossi was disqualified because her car was later found to be in compliance with the technical regulations.[1]
  • ^2Luca Filippi received a five grid position penalty for of causing a collision with Oliver Turvey during free practice.[2]

Feature race

[edit]
Pos No Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 16 United Kingdom Oliver Turvey iSport International 33 1:04:55.310 2 10
2 17 Italy Davide Valsecchi iSport International 33 +0.618 3 8+1
3 7 France Jules Bianchi ART Grand Prix 33 +2.589 4 6
4 12 Spain Javier Villa Arden International 33 +7.372 5 5
5 27 Italy Giacomo Ricci DPR 33 +10.559 8 4
6 21 United States Alexander Rossi MalaysiaQi-Meritus.com 33 +13.718 24 3
7 26 Romania Michael Herck DPR 33 +19.800 18 2
8 22 United Kingdom Max Chilton Ocean Racing Technology 33 +24.395 17 1
9 15 Czech Republic Josef Král Super Nova Racing 33 +27.457 14
10 11 France Charles Pic Arden International 33 +33.726 1 2
11 25 United Kingdom Will Bratt Scuderia Coloni 33 +34.300 22
12 6 Mexico Sergio Pérez Barwa Addax Team 33 +51.2853 10
13 3 Bulgaria Vladimir Arabadzhiev Rapax 33 +1:05.390 15
14 20 Italy Luca Filippi MalaysiaQi-Meritus.com 32 +1 lap 21
15 24 Brazil Alberto Valerio Scuderia Coloni 32 +1 lap 23
16 19 Bulgaria Plamen Kralev Trident Racing 32 +1 lap 20
17 14 Sweden Marcus Ericsson Super Nova Racing 30 +3 laps 19
Ret 23 Switzerland Fabio Leimer Ocean Racing Technology 27 DNF 13
Ret 5 Netherlands Giedo van der Garde Barwa Addax Team 25 DNF 12
Ret 4 Italy Daniel Zampieri Rapax 23 DNF 11
Ret 18 Spain Dani Clos Trident Racing 9 DNF 16
Ret 1 Germany Christian Vietoris DAMS 7 DNF 9
Ret 8 United Kingdom Sam Bird ART Grand Prix 4 DNF 6
Ret 2 Italy Edoardo Piscopo DAMS 0 DNF 7
Notes
  • ^3Sergio Pérez finished ninth but received a 25 second time penalty for of ignoring the waved yellow flags during the brief deployment of the Safety car.[3]

Sprint race

[edit]
Pos No Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 17 Italy Davide Valsecchi iSport International 21 41:00.566 7 6+1
2 26 Romania Michael Herck DPR 21 +1.969 2 5
3 27 Italy Giacomo Ricci DPR 21 +4.227 4 4
4 6 Mexico Sergio Pérez Barwa Addax Team 21 +11.618 12 3
5 16 United Kingdom Oliver Turvey iSport International 21 +12.235 8 2
6 22 United Kingdom Max Chilton Ocean Racing Technology 21 +19.619 1 1
7 7 France Jules Bianchi ART Grand Prix 21 +20.018 6
8 11 France Charles Pic Arden International 21 +20.686 10
9 21 United States Alexander Rossi MalaysiaQi-Meritus.com 21 +26.380 3
10 3 Bulgaria Vladimir Arabadzhiev Rapax 21 +27.038 13
11 12 Spain Javier Villa Arden International 21 +27.400 5
12 14 Sweden Marcus Ericsson Super Nova Racing 21 +28.307 17
13 18 Spain Dani Clos Trident Racing 21 +29.574 21
14 1 Germany Christian Vietoris DAMS 21 +30.993 22
15 4 Italy Daniel Zampieri Rapax 21 +31.691 20
16 2 Italy Edoardo Piscopo DAMS 21 +32.213 24
17 20 Italy Luca Filippi MalaysiaQi-Meritus.com 21 +34.854 14
18 24 Brazil Alberto Valerio Scuderia Coloni 21 +39.649 15
19 5 Netherlands Giedo van der Garde Barwa Addax Team 21 +1:03.697 19
20 19 Bulgaria Plamen Kralev Trident Racing 21 +1:07.219 16
21 25 United Kingdom Will Bratt Scuderia Coloni 18 +3 laps 11
Ret 23 Switzerland Fabio Leimer Ocean Racing Technology 16 DNF 18
Ret 15 Czech Republic Josef Král Super Nova Racing 0 DNF 9
Ret 8 United Kingdom Sam Bird ART Grand Prix 0 DNF 23

Standings after the race

[edit]
  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

Notes

[edit]
  1. ^ Vladimir Arabadzhiev set the fastest lap, but did not finish in the top 10, so was ineligible to be the point-scorer for the fastest lap. Davide Valsecchi was the point-scorer instead for setting the fastest lap of those finishing in the top 10.

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Rossi disqualified". Pitpass.com. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  2. ^ "Filippi penalised". Pitpass.com. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  3. ^ "Perez penalised". Pitpass.com. Retrieved 18 September 2024.


Previous round:
2009–10 Abu Dhabi 1st GP2 Asia round
GP2 Asia Series Championship
2009–10 season
Next round:
2009–10 Bahrain 1st GP2 Asia round
Previous round:
2009–10 Abu Dhabi 1st GP2 Asia round
Abu Dhabi GP2 Asia round Next round:
2011 Abu Dhabi GP2 Asia round