Yestrerday, Jérôme d’Ambrosio set the second-quickest time in qualifying. Today, however, the Belgian driver will start the GP2 Series Feature race from pole on the Spa-Francorchamps circuit. His main rival was penalised for having set his best lap under the yellow flags. Thus, Jérôme will start his home race at the front of the pack.

Bad news, however, for Christian. Along with Herck, Clos, Parente, Chilton, Cecotto and Luca Filippi, he will lose 3 grid positions for today’s feature race after failing to sufficiently slow for yellow flags during qualifying. Il will start from 8th position.

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Jérôme d’Ambrosio will start tomorrow’s feature race from the front row tomorrow in Spa. He will start alongside Michael Herck, who claimed pole position after coming out on top in a chaotic qualifying session.

Qualifying was halted no less than four times, first due to a flooded track and then due to a variety of accidents. The 30-minute session thus took over an hour to complete.

DPR’s Herck took advantage of leading the pack out of the pitlane when the track was quickest following the penultimate restart, and his time was good enough to keep him on top throughout the final dash for times.

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After tackling the Pyrenees on maintain bikes earlier this week, the RF1 driver training camp swapped the mountains for the beach today as Jérôme D’Ambrosio and Jan Charouz enjoyed their first taste of surfing.

As guests of Quiksilver, we made the two hour trek east to Hossegor and met up with some young pro surfers from Quiksilver’s stable, who showed us the ropes before we dipped our toes in the water too.

Both Jérôme and Jan were surfing rookies, but as athletes they’re agile and very fast learners, so they soon got the hang of it. Jérôme even managed to stand up on the more …

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