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Jean-Eric Vergne wins the second race of the Formula Renault 3.5 in Spa Francorchamps


Jean-Eric Vergne has won the second race of the Formula Renault 3.5 in Spa Francorchamps, thus completing a dream weekend for the Carlin team, since his teammate, Robert Wickens, was second. In contrast to the race of yesterday, today's has been widely disputed. Vergne and Wickens have struggled throughout the race victory.
The podium has completed what Chris van der Drift, Mofaz team, in a quite inspired career. New Zealand had a stop in ineffective boxes, although it could be sufficiently fast to put in distress to Robert Wickens, suffering from vibration in the front of his car, after a braking too aggressive, defending himself Vergne.
Also found in the pit stops, although in his case the error was to enter to change the tyres too late, Daniel Zampieri, who lost several positions after pit stops. That forced him to retrieve track what they lost in the pits, to advance in bars late in the race to Albert Costa, who finished in fifth position.
The Catalan was not now as bright as yesterday, and had a relatively quiet career, while watching the times, we realize that was not so far away from the pilot's head. In any event, the race has been highly ranked, and any small mistake sends pilots very behind. After this race, Albert Costa occupies the fourth position in the interim of the championship standings.
The leader is Robert Wickens, with 71 points, 14 more than teammate Vergne, with 57. In third place we find Alexander Rossi. The American, with 55 points, has three more to Albert Costa, with 52. After the pilot of the EPIC Racing there is a leap, because in the fifth position we Nelson Panciatici, with half of points than the Catalan.
The next race of the World Series will be at Monza in two weeks, in what will be the event to mark the first third of the season, or perhaps a little more, taking into account that the fourth quote, that it held in MonacoIt has only a race. In any case, is expected to four main pilots remain ahead, and in principle Daniel Ricciardo should also be more combative.
1 Jean-Eric Vergne Carlin 46m56.662s
2 Robert Wickens Carlin + 1. 468s
3 Chris van der Drift Mofaz + 2. 173s
4 Daniel Zampieri BVM Target + 7. 153s
5. Albert Costa epic + 8. 434s
6 Walter Grubmuller P1 + 8. 784s
7 Alexander Rossi Fortec + 9. 183s
8 Brendon Hartley Gravity - Charouz + 9. 419s
9 Daniel Ricciardo ISR + 11. 808s
10 Nelson Panciatici KMP + 12. 602s
11. Andre Negrao Draco + 17. 960s
12 Arthur Pic Tech 1 + 26. 870s
13 Daniil Move P1 + 30. 199s
14 Sten Pentus EPIC + 31. 0.072s
15 Jean-Karl Vernay Pons + 38. 251s
16 Nathanael Berthoin ISR + 42. 377s
17 Daniel McKenzie Comtec + 42. 730s
18 Oliver Webb Pons + 46. 859s
19 Anton Nebylitskiy KMP + 48. 245s
20 Jan Charouz Gravity - Charouz + 56. 088s
Drop-outs:
Stephane Richelmi Draco 17 laps
Sergio canamasas BVM Target 14 laps
Cesar Ramos Fortec 14 laps
Jake Rosenzweig Mofaz 10 laps
Jong Comtec Daniel 9 laps
Kevin Korjus Tech 1 0 laps
1 Robert Wickens - 71pts
2 Jean-Eric Vergne - 57pts
3 Alexander Rossi - 55pts
4 - Albert Costa - 52pts
5 - Nelson Panciatici - 26pts
16 - Sergio canamasas - 3pts

Jean-Karl Vernay will run with Pons Racing at Spa Francorchamps in the Formula Renault 3.5


The current champion of the Indy Lights, and pilot book of Peugeot Sport for Le Mans, Jean-Karl Vernay, will run with Pons Racing at Spa Francorchamps in the Formula Renault 3.5. The French will be replacing New Zealander Dominic Storey, who ran the first race with Pons, Motorland Aragon.
In fact, we can announce virtually exclusively to Dominic Storey will be one of the pilots of the Barwa Addax to the GP3, season which will begin the next week in Turkey. Precisely for this reason, Jordi Pons, Pons Racing team principal, commented that he does not believe that New Zealand again in the season.
The own Jordi Pons made clear his desire to keep Vernay until end of year, but it is aware of the contract for the French with Peugeot. In addition, Pons recognizes that you be seen his performance during this weekend, which implies that the speed of Vernay will be important to decide whether it stays or not.
Vernay hoped to run in the IndyCar in 2011, after winning the Firestone Indy Lights, but not got enough money and signed by Peugeot as a pilot reserve to the 24 hours of Le Mans. In any case, the Pons Racing team says that face Monaco, have several pilots interested in running with them, as well as options there will be many.