This weekend, DAMS raced in the fifth round of the 2010 GP2 Series Championship on the Silverstone circuit in Great Britain. The layout of the famous British track has been slightly modified, and the final section of the lap that is longer and quicker, required a period of adaptation. It was also slippery and dusty all weekend giving a low grip level.
Unfortunately, despite promising free practice sessions, the team was unable to optimise its performance in qualifying. Jérôme d’Ambrosio set the twelfth-fastest time, while Ho-Pin Tung damaged his car on Friday morning, and was not able to take to the track again more …
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Pastor Maldonado’s run of good form continued with an emphatic win in today’s GP2 Series feature race at Silverstone.
The Rapax driver jumped polesitter Jules Bianchi (ART) at the start and never looked threatened from there on, gradually extending his advantage to win by 10.1 seconds. Bianchi was second ahead of Racing Engineering’s Dani Clos, who came home a further 9.4s down the road.
It was a largely processional affair through most the field, with Bianchi’s ART team-mate Sam Bird having an equally straightforward run to fourth, although Sergio Perez and Christian Vietoris did their best to inject some interest with their scrap for more …
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Gravity Academy drivers Christian Vietoris and Jérôme D’Ambrosio have clinched the 3rd and 12th best laptimes in today’s qualifying at Silverstone. Ho-Pin Tung has been unluncky ans could not take part to the sessions because of a technical problem.
Meanwhile, Jules Bianchi has come out on top of a fierce, session-long battle for pole position this afternoon, setting the pace throughout to push through for the top spot in the closing minutes to edge out championship leader Pastor Maldonado and Christian Vietoris.
Bianchi’s blistering lap of 1:39.189 handed pole position to the Frenchman by just one tenth from his rivals, but traffic played more …
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