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 results, with Luiz Razia in fifth, Michael Herck up to sixth, Christian Vietoris to seventh more …

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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 up by them, giving Sergio Perez and Bird an easy line through as they climbed more …

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Jerome D’Ambrosio took his first GP2 victory in the Monaco sprint race. The Gravity Academy driver led all the way from pole, but his early efforts to build a lead were dashed when Coloni’s Alberto Valerio and Arden’s Rodolfo Gonzalez crashed simultaneously at different parts of the circuit and prompted a safety car.

That brought Jérôme back within range of Giedo van der Garde, and he had the Addax car in his mirrors for virtually the rest of the race, finally crossing the line just 0.3 seconds clear. There was a lot of scrapping behind them for third place, which eventually went to ART’s more …

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