Charles Pic victory with second position of Giedo van der Garde, completing the double of the Barwa Addax, in the first race of the GP2 in Spain. Behind the two cars of the Spanish team, complete the podium Sam Bird, who is defending his options to fight for the title.
The first news we had her yesterday, with the penalty of Jules Bianchi for not respecting the yellow during the qualifying session flags. That made him lose the pole position, for the benefit of Giedo van der Garde, Barwa Addax. Dani Clos, for its part, passed out from the sixth position.
The race itself has begun quite moved way, with a touch in the output that has termiado with Luca Filippi out of the race. The safety car made an appearance and has been a few laps, and when he retired, Dani Clos, who had made a very good start, was not too clever.
Upon the resumption of the race, the Group's leaders broke in two, with Dani Clos to four seconds of the fourth place. Catalan was seen do sign with his hand just before the resumption of the race, as if I would like to bring forward to Marcus Ericsson, with whom had contested the position with the safety car on track.
In the end, Clos have been brought forward to the next round. In the Group's head, things were clear; Giedo van der Garde strong tightening to try to escape, followed by Sam Bird, Charles Pic and Romain Grosjean. Dani Clos, for its part, after losing the fifth seat for Marcus Ericsson, yet lost more positions.
Arriving at stops in boxes, the order had been for quite a few laps, but with Van der Garde escaped, and the pursuer group in a handkerchief. After the visits relevant to the pits to change tyres, Charles Pic was who came out better stopped, leading the race ahead of his teammate, Giedo van der Garde, and Sam Bird.
With average career to the end, Dani Clos was in seventh position, away from the front group, but a touch between Esteban Gutierrez and Michael Herck caused the second exit of the safety car. This singificaba that distances were to be reduced, and one that had tires in a better State could gain.
Pic it had very clear, if you're leading, has to press, and that is what he has done during the final laps, especially knowing, by the two outputs of the safety car, is they would not be able to complete all the laps of the racethat it would end up reaching the watch 60 minutes, for the first time this season.
In the end, the race ends by time, with victory of a Charles Pic inspired and skilled in strategic management. Stop before their rivals has given the victory, ahead of Giedo van der Garde, complete a home of perfect weekend for the Barwa Addax team, especially at home. The podium has completed what Sam Bird.
As for Dani Clos, get the seventh place, so that tomorrow will come from the second position. A shame, because with his pace could have struggled to be later, if not for the "mistake" during the first start of the safety car. We are sure that tomorrow you can fight for a good result.
1 Charles Pic Addax 1h00m32.817s
2 Giedo van der Garde Addax + 1. 444s
3 Sam Bird iSport + 2. 773s
4. Davide Valsecchi AirAsia + 10. 011s
5 Marcus Ericsson iSport + 10. 518s
6. dani Clos racing engineering + 16. 534s
7 Jules Bianchi ART + 16. 979s
8 Fabio Leimer Rapax + 17. 419s
9 Josef Kral Arden + 21. 726s
10. Stefano Coletti Trident + 24. 492s
11. Alvaro Parente Racing Engineering + 24. 715s
12 Max Chilton Carlin + 25. 349s
13 Fairuz Fauzy Super Nova + 25. 841s
14 Johnny Cecotto Ocean + 28. 469s
15 Pal Varhaug DAMS + 35. 890s
16. Mikhail Aleshin Carlin + 37. 837s
17 Julian loyal Rapax + 38. 135s
18 Jolyon Palmer Arden + 38. 723s
19. Kevin Ceccon Coloni + 39. 033s
20 Rodolfo Gonzalez Trident + 41. 999s
21. Kevin Mirocha Ocean + 1 lap
Drop-outs:
Romain Grosjean DAMS excluded
Michael Herck Coloni 21 laps
Esteban Gutierrez ART 21 laps
Luiz Ghazw AirAsia 11 laps
Luca Filippi Super Nova 0 laps
