2010 Valencia GP2 Series round
Appearance
Round details | |||
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Round 4 of 10 rounds in the 2010 GP2 Series | |||
![]() Circuit de Valencia | |||
Location |
Valencia, Spain | ||
Course |
Street course 5.34 km (3.32 mi) | ||
Feature race | |||
Date | 26 June 2010 | ||
Laps | 31 | ||
Pole position | |||
Driver |
![]() | Barwa Addax Team | |
Time | 1:45.337 | ||
Podium | |||
First |
![]() | Rapax | |
Second |
![]() | ART Grand Prix | |
Third |
![]() | ART Grand Prix | |
Fastest lap | |||
Driver |
![]() | Rapax | |
Time | 1:47.528 (on lap 16) | ||
Sprint race | |||
Date | 27 June 2010 | ||
Laps | 21 | ||
Podium | |||
First |
![]() | Super Nova Racing | |
Second |
![]() | Barwa Addax Team | |
Third |
![]() | DPR | |
Fastest lap | |||
Driver |
![]() | Rapax | |
Time | 1:47.656 (on lap 17) |
The 2010 Valencia GP2 Series round was a
Valencia, Spain. It was the fourth round of the 2010 GP2 Series. The race was used to support the 2010 European Grand Prix
.
Report
Feature Race
Trident's Adrian Zaugg were also able to rejoin after pitting for repairs. But there was more drama to come before the race returned to green. Maldonado went wide at the final corner and Bianchi, taking advantage of the fact that the safety car line is before the start-finish line, was able to take the Venezuelan by surprise and pass him for second. Bianchi made a successful move on Pérez for the lead not long afterwards, but Davide Valsecchi's attempt to follow him through resulted in contact with Pérez that spun the Addax car and left the Mexican at the back of the field. Valsecchi was later handed a drive-through penalty for his part in the incident. Maldonado piled the pressure on Bianchi until the ART driver ran wide, and then gradually pulled away to secure the win by 8.2s. Bianchi followed him for second and Sam Bird made it an ART 2-3 by finishing third; the Brit having started from 10th on the grid. Giedo van der Garde (Addax) and Dani Clos (Racing Engineering) had an uneventful run to fourth and fifth, while Charles Pic (Arden), Marcus Ericsson (Super Nova) and Michael Herck (DPR) chased each other around to complete the points. It was a particularly welcome result for Ericsson, whose efforts finally helped Super Nova to get its first points of the year. There was one more bit of drama awaiting Pérez when he went to leave the pits and found Coloni's Alberto Valerio
pulling out ahead of him with the rear jack still attached. It flew off at turn 4, fortunately bouncing out of Pérez's path and instead wiping out a TV camera mounted on the catch fencing.
Sprint Race
Josef Kral was taken to hospital following a huge accident on lap three. The Czech driver ran into the back of Arden's Rodolfo González and was launched skyward before landing on his gearbox and slamming into the Turn 17 barriers at high speed. He was taken to Hospital complaining of pain in his back and right arm, but was found to be unharmed seriously. He would return to GP2 at the last round of the season in Abu Dhabi. The accident prompted several laps behind the safety car, which eventually led to the race being flagged several laps before schedule due to time limitations. Herck held on to third, although he needed to shove Pastor Maldonado aside on the run to the finish line in order to do it, while Charles Pic and Davide Valsecchi scored the final points. Sergio Pérez endured another disastrous race; the Mexican being one of several victims of opening lap damage when he was hit by Alberto Valerio
. He lost a lap but found himself out of sequence behind the safety car and spent the middle part of the race running fourth on the road ahead of title rival Maldonado. Pérez had just enough time to produce the fastest lap of the race - by a full second - before he was dealt a drive-through penalty for ignoring blue flags.
Classification
Qualifying
Notes
- 1.^ - Marcus Ericsson received a ten-place grid penalty because of a collision with Adrian Zaugg in Istanbul.[1]
Feature Race
Pos | No | Driver | Team | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 15 | ![]() |
Rapax | 30 | 0:56:55.681 | 2 | 10 + 1 |
2 | 1 | ![]() |
ART Grand Prix | 30 | +8.296 | 3 | 8 |
3 | 2 | ![]() |
ART Grand Prix | 30 | +16.094 | 10 | 6 |
4 | 3 | ![]() |
Barwa Addax Team | 30 | +16.788 | 5 | 5 |
5 | 7 | ![]() |
Racing Engineering | 30 | +38.974 | 11 | 4 |
6 | 16 | ![]() |
Arden International Motorsport | 30 | +42.415 | 7 | 3 |
7 | 6 | ![]() |
Super Nova Racing | 30 | +42.914 | 24 | 2 |
8 | 26 | ![]() |
DPR | 30 | +43.722 | 6 | 1 |
9 | 20 | ![]() |
Scuderia Coloni
|
30 | +48.508 | 13 | |
10 | 10 | ![]() |
iSport International | 30 | +50.411 | 4 | |
11 | 4 | ![]() |
Barwa Addax Team | 30 | +51.308 | 1 | 2 |
12 | 8 | ![]() |
Racing Engineering | 30 | +55.338 | 8 | |
13 | 21 | ![]() |
Scuderia Coloni
|
29 | +1 lap/DNF | 20 | |
14 | 25 | ![]() |
Trident Racing
|
29 | +1 lap | 15 | |
Ret | 19 | ![]() |
Ocean Racing Technology | 25 | Retired | 22 | |
Ret | 27 | ![]() |
DPR | 0 | Retired | 9 | |
Ret | 24 | ![]() |
Trident Racing
|
0 | Retired | 12 | |
Ret | 14 | ![]() |
Rapax | 0 | Retired | 14 | |
Ret | 9 | ![]() |
iSport International | 0 | Retired | 16 | |
Ret | 5 | ![]() |
Super Nova Racing | 0 | Retired | 17 | |
Ret | 11 | ![]() |
DAMS | 0 | Retired | 18 | |
Ret | 12 | ![]() |
DAMS | 0 | Retired | 19 | |
Ret | 17 | ![]() |
Arden International Motorsport | 0 | Retired | 21 | |
Ret | 18 | ![]() |
Ocean Racing Technology | 0 | Retired | 23 |
Sprint Race
Standings after the round
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- Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
See also
External links
- https://archive.today/20100629223701/http://gp2series.com/Ericsson-powers-to-sprint-race-win.html
- https://archive.today/20100629230949/http://gp2series.com/Maldonado-sails-to-victory-in.html
References
- GP2 series. 2010-05-30. Archivedfrom the original on 3 August 2010. Retrieved 2010-07-10.