REPORT MONACO gp - Mundo Motorizado

PiCs: CoAtes, stAley, FeRRARo/GP2, CoAtes/GP3
Race Rating
★★★★✩
monte carlo is one of sport’s
finest theatres, despite a
lack of on-track racing
strategy that was never going
to work. It also cost him
pole for the sprint race.
That went instead to
Trident’s Stephane Richelmi,
but he was eliminated at the
start when he pulled across
the bows of Calado, knocking
the Brit’s front wing and
sending himself down the
Ste Devote escape road.
Cecotto wondered
whether he might have run
over some of the resultant
debris, for he sensed a rear
puncture as soon as he
turned right. “I tried to keep
out of everyone’s way,” he
said. “But when I changed
up to fourth the car just got
away from me – I guess the
tyre let go completely.”
His spin triggered a
chaotic chain reaction that
wiped out most of the
second half of the field,
including DAMS man
Valsecchi (who had dropped
RESULTS
Race 1 GRiD
2 ChiLTon
1:21.320
4 vd gARdE
1:21.475
6 PALMER
1:21.530
8 kRAL
1:21.776
1 CECoTTo
1:21.195
3 ERiCSSon
1:21.249
5 RAziA
1:21.858
7 vALSECChi
1:21.912
9 LEiMER
10 gUTiERREz
1:22.053
1:21.796
12 CoLETTi
1:22.174
14 RiChELMi
1:22.326
16 bERThon
1:22.475
18 nASR
1:22.650
20 TRUMMER
1:22.997
22 CRESTAni
1:23.193
24 gUERin
1:23.792
26 TEixEiRA
1:25.661
11 diLLMAnn
1:22.288
13 CALAdo
1:22.598
15 LEAL
1:22.762
17 gonzALEz
1:22.873
19 MELkER
1:22.996
21 onidi
1:23.020
23 hARyAnTo
1:23.539
25 SEREnELLi
1:25.907
miLestone
First British one-two
in main series since
Hamilton and carroll
at silverstone in 2006
Calado held up
field in race two
back after a bad start).
The safety car was
deployed and Palmer led 16
survivors at the restart, when
he was able to sprint away as
the hobbled Calado slowed
the rest. He was more than
10s clear by the time Calado
– who had been shown the
black-and-orange flag –
pitted for a fresh wing on
lap 10. He rejoined, but
retired with a loosening
front pushrod.
“I’d heard about James’s
problem via the radio,”
Palmer said. “So I went as
quickly as I could to build
a gap. Late on I eased off –
I was still pressing pretty
hard, but used a bit less
track to minimise the
chance of any errors.”
Chilton and van der
Garde closed in towards
the end, but Palmer had
judged his maiden GP2
success to perfection.
Gp2 series, round 5 of 12, monte carlo (mc), may 25-26
gP3 SERiES
Race 1 – 42 laps, 87.166 miles
pOs Name Team Time GRiD
1 Johnny cecotto Jr (YV) Barwa addax Team 59m42.521s 1
2 marcus ericsson (s) isport international +0.564s 3
3 Giedo van der Garde (Nl) caterham Racing +5.040s 4
4 Davide Valsecchi (i) Dams +16.347s 7
5 max chilton (GB) carlin +17.378s 2
6 Jolyon palmer (GB) isport international +21.883s 6
7 James calado (GB) lotus Gp (aRT) +25.686s 13
8 stephane Richelmi (mc) Trident Racing +42.275s 14
9 Nathanael Berthon (F) Racing engineering +45.319s 16
10 stefano coletti (mc) scuderia coloni +47.099s 12
11 Tom Dillmann (F) Rapax +51.285s 11
12 simon Trummer (cH) arden international +1m04.054s 20
13 Rodolfo Gonzalez (YV) caterham Racing +1m21.396s 17
14 Rio Haryanto (Ri) carlin +1m23.537s 23
15 luiz Razia (BR) arden international +1m23.639s 5
16 Victor Guerin (BR) Ocean Racing Technology -1 lap 24
17 Felipe Nasr (BR) Dams -1 lap 18
18 Fabio leimer (cH) Racing engineering -1 lap 9
19 Fabrizio crestani (i) Venezuela Gp lazarus -1 lap 22
20 Ricardo Teixeira (aO) Rapax -1 lap 26
21 Julian leal (cO) Trident Racing -2 laps 15
22 Giancarlo serenelli (YV) Venezuela Gp lazarus -2 laps 25
23 esteban Gutierrez (meX) lotus Gp (aRT) 37 laps-accident damage 10
R Nigel melker (Nl) Ocean Racing Technology 32 laps-accident 19
R Fabio Onidi (i) scuderia coloni 26 laps-extinguisher 21
R Josef Kral (cZ) Barwa addax Team 0 laps-misfire 8
Race 2 – 30 laps, 62.261 miles
pOs DRiVeR Time/ReasON GRiD
1 palmer 45m41.227s 3
2 chilton +1.083s 4
3 van der Garde +4.426s 6
4 ericsson +8.133s 7
5 Gonzalez +19.968s 13
6 Razia +23.273s 15
7 Berthon +26.376s 9
8 Gutierrez +26.880s 23
9 Trummer +31.663s 12
10 Kral +35.338s 26
11 Haryanto +36.546s 14
12 melker +37.164s 24
R calado 20 laps-pushrod 2
R leal 12 laps-overheating 21
R leimer 8 laps-accident 18
R crestani 8 laps-accident 19
R Richelmi 0 laps-accident 1
R Valsecchi 0 laps-accident 5
R cecotto 0 laps-accident 8
R coletti 0 laps-accident 10
R Dillmann 0 laps-accident 11
R Guerin 0 laps-accident 16
R Nasr 0 laps-accident 17
R Teixeira 0 laps-accident 20
R serenelli 0 laps-accident 22
R Onidi 0 laps-accident 25
report
GP2 MONte carlO
SiMon ARRon
reports
Finn to the top, straight as an Aaro
↗aaro Vainio had never
driven a single-seater
on a street circuit
before, but you’d have been
hard pressed to tell. the
Finn took pole for Monaco’s
inaugural gP3 race and his
mastery masked inexperience.
Vainio was more than a
second clear of atech CRs
driver tamas Pal Kiss within
a lap and the result looked
a foregone conclusion
thereafter. “i pushed for the
first five laps or so, to extend
my lead to about 3s,” said the
Lotus man, “and then tried
to maintain it.” He did too.
Kevin Ceccon finished third
after starting second, while
david Fumanelli passed his
MW arden team-mate Mitch
evans on lap one – one of the
few significant shifts – to take
fourth. Will Buller, the quickest
UK qualifier, took a five-slot
grid penalty for causing a
collision last time out at
Barcelona, but rose from 15th
to 12th, finishing behind
Carlin team-mate alex Brundle
and alice Powell (status).
the UK trio tangled at the
start of race two, Buller landing
upside down against the ste
Vainio held off Kiss
for maiden gP3 win
devote barrier and triggering a
safety car as Marlon stockinger
led from antonio Felix da Costa,
daniel abt, evans, Fumanelli,
Ceccon and Vainio. stalemate
ensued once racing resumed.
Conor daly lined up 23rd for
Lotus after jumping the raceone
start and all but stalling
in the process. He was 14th
within a lap though, and soon
gained further ground.
Manor’s dimitry suranovich
proved a more stubborn
opponent and the two cars
touched at the hairpin on lap
10, slicing off the Russian’s
rear wing. suranovich fought
on, and next time around they
collided more fiercely in the
approach to the chicane. daly’s
car was launched and impacted
hard with the debris fencing
before crashing to the
circuit, shedding debris in all
directions. the american was
unhurt, but the race was called
with status man stockinger
declared the winner.
RESULTS
Race 1 1 aaro Vainio, 18 laps in
27m06.685s; 2 tamas Pal Kiss,
+1.994s; 3 Kevin Ceccon; 4 David
Fumanelli; 5 Mitch evans; 6 Daniel
Abt; 7 Antonio Felix da Costa; 8
Marlon stockinger; 9 tio ellinas; 10
Alex Brundle. Race 2 1 stockinger,
13 laps in 21m37.673s; 2 da Costa,
+0.687s; 3 Abt; 4 evans;
5 Fumanelli; 6 Ceccon; 7 Vainio; 8
ellinas. Points 1 Vainio, 54; 2 evans,
43; 3 stockinger, 39; 4 da Costa,
24; 5 Conor Daly, 23; 6 Ceccon, 23.
cHampiONsHip TaBles
pOs DRiVeR pTs
1 Valsecchi 141
2 Razia 110
3 van der Garde 85
4 chilton 79
5 calado 75
6 Gutierrez 60
7 leimer 41
8 ericsson 34
9 cecotto 31
10 coletti 29
pOs Team pTs
1 Dams 169
2 lotus 135
3 arden 111
4 carlin 95
5 caterham 91
6 Racing engineering 68
All in Dallara-Mecachrome GP2/11.
Race 1 Winner’s average speed:
87.591mph. Fastest lap: Coletti,
1m22.667s, 90.379mph.
Race 2 Winner’s average speed:
81.766mph. Fastest lap: Razia,
1m22.223s, 90.867mph.
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