The 2008 GP2 Series kicked off in Barcelona this weekend, with Alvaro Parente taking his first GP2 victory in the feature race from Bruno Senna and Andi Zuber. Kamui Kobayashi took the sprint race win, after dominant leader Romain Grosjean threw away an almost-certain victory with an ill-considered defensive move on Kobayashi that led to […]

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Within 30 seconds of the commentary team for ITV4’s Gp2 coverage kicking in, I was nostalgic for Martin Haven and Gareth Rees at Eurosport. 19 laps in, I’m composing an email to ITV.
ITV4’s coverage doesn’t feel like much of an improvement over Eurosport. With the extra build-up time I was hoping for some features and/or […]

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Newly-crowned GP2 Asia champion Romain Grosjean took another victory in the series in Dubai yesterday, after early leader Bruno Senna suffered a disastrous pit stop. The Arden due of Sébastien Buemi and Yelmer Buurman finished second and third.
Qualifying for the first round of the 2008 F3 Euroseries at Hockenheim was rained off yesterday and will […]

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Robert Kubica will start tomorrow’s Bahrain Grand Prix from pole position after the BMW Sauber driver just edged out Ferrari’s Felipe Massa in qualifying today. McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton starts third, with Kimi Raikkonen fourth.
Honda had a good qualifying, with Jenson Button lining up ninth ahead of Fernando Alonso, and Rubens Barrichello in twelfth.
Romain Grosjean took […]

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Kimi Raikkonen bounced back from a lacklustre display at the Australian GP last weekend to take a resounding victory at Sepang today. BMW’s Robert Kubica was second, ahead of McLaren’s Heikki Kovalainen. Raikkonen’s Ferrari teammate Felipe Massa exited into the scenery after starting from pole position. Jarno Trulli took a superb fourth for Toyota, ahead […]

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Felipe Massa took pole position today for tomorrow’s Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang, while teammate Kimi Raikkonen made it an all-Ferrari front row. McLaren drivers Heikki Kovalainen and Lewis Hamilton were third and fourth but have been summoned to the stewards after Nick Heidfeld and Fernando Alonso complained of being blocked on their flying laps. […]

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iSport driver Karun Chandhok set the pace in the first day of GP2 testing at the Paul Ricard circuit today, edging out ART’s Romain Grosjean and FMS’s Andy Soucek in the morning session. Pastor Maldonado went fastest in the afternoon session for Piquet Sports, ahead of Racing Engineering’s Javi Villa, but he failed to beat […]

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Series veteran Giorgio Pantano got his 2008 GP2 season off to a good start by setting the fastest time of this week’s pre-season test at Barcelona. The Racing Engineering driver beat the time set earlier in the day by iSport’s Bruno Senna. The final pre-season test will be held at the Paul Ricard circuit next […]

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Testing for the 2008 GP2 season got underway at the Paul Ricard circuit this week, with Ben Hanley (Campos), Javi Villa (Racing Engineering) and Romain Grosjean (ART) setting the pace in the new-for-2008 car. Pastor Maldonado (Piquet Sports) had set a fast time on Thursday but his car was excluded for a technical infringement.
GP2 testing […]

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Fairuz Fauzy took his first win in the GP2 Asia series today, ahead of Bruno Senna and Vitaly Petrov. Sebastien Buemi, meanwhile, inherited yesterday’s feature race victory from Luca Filippi after the Italian was excluded for using his teammate’s tyres during a pitstop. It was an eventful weekend for the series, as wet weather and […]

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