GP2 series : Jerome and Ho-Pin almost in the points

May 30, 2010 - 3:57 pm

This weekend, DAMS raced in the third round of the 2010 GP2 Series in Turkey on the Istanbul Park circuit, a curtain-raiser to the F1 grand prix. Due to a difficult qualifying session, the team was unable to fight for victory in the two races on Saturday and Sunday.

Jérôme d’Ambrosio was sixteenth on the grid for the long race. He fought his way up through the mid-fielders and saw the flag in tenth place from which he started the short event. more …

Jérôme gains a position

May 29, 2010 - 8:25 pm

Sergio Perez has been disqualified from today’s feature race in Istanbul after his car was discovered to be underweight in post race scrutineering. The Mexican, who battled Davide Valsecchi throughout the race and was second after his pitstop before fading in closing laps to fourth place, will have his result nullified and will now line up at the rear of the grid for tomorrow morning’s sprint race.

The disqualification means that teammate Giedo van der Garde moves up to fourth place in the more …

GP2 series, Istanbul : Race 1 results

May 29, 2010 - 6:15 pm

Gravity Academy drivers Christian Vietoris, Jérôme d’Ambrosio and Ho-Pin Tung finished race 1 in 8th, 11th and 12th positions respectively, while Pastor  Maldonado  has  taken the win, leading home Davide Valsecchi and Sam Bird by almost 20 seconds. The  Venezuelan  didn’t  put  a  wheel  wrong  all  race,  pushing  across  on  slow  starting  poleman Valsecchi  when  the  lights  went  out  to  claim  the  inside  line  for  turn  one  and  then  pulling  out  astring of fastest laps as he disappeared from view. Behind the pair a charging Oliver Turvey washeld more …