Peugeot doublet in the 6 hours of Imola

After the exception of the 24 hours of Le Mans, Peugeot has returned to the domination of the world of resistance getting a new victory Le Mans Intercontinental Cup after the accomplished in Spa-Francorchamps makes a few weeks. Imola circuit French brand has returned to show a better pace with Anthony Davidson and Sebastien Bourdais at the controls of the 908 Hdi.

After 220 laps, six hours which comprised test, Davidson and Bourdais won the race ahead of Franck Montagny and Stephane Sarrazin. Only Peugeot drivers have been something incordiados for German cars when the second car of the French suffered a flat tire that almost cost them the double.

Third Audi R18 of Bernhard and Fassler, has finished ahead of McNish and Kristensen that just have been fourth. Between the LMP2 victory was for Greaves Motorsport with Ojjeh and Lombard at the controls of the Zytek Z11SN. Second category has completed Lucas Ordonez Nissan.

Class GTE Pro and GTE Am victories have gone to Ferrari AF Corse and Porsche respectively. In particular, the AF Corse Ferrari have achieved a double headed by not favorite theorist, Toni Vilander and Jaime Melo.

GP2 Asia Series 2011 Imola: victory for Romain Grosjean and Dani Clos career

Romain Grosjean has won the first race of Imola, second and last quotes of the GP2 Asia Series 2011, and gives an important step towards the achievement of which would be his second title of the winter category. Dani Clos, for its part, has made a great comeback, following his departure from the 20th position.
Grosjean, who came from the pole, has dominated the long race with iron fist, holding the lead from the green light until the chequered flag. Although Van der Garde was difficult things during the start of race, in the end separated them more than fourteen seconds, which is a world.
Racing as well, the pilot of DAMS to make it very clear that the talent it has, and that if in 2009 things did you well in formula one, this was due to the circumstances at the time. After Van der Garde, Grosjean rival for the title, Jules Bianchi, closed the podium.
Behind them, Michael Herck, which could even keep pace with pilot in front, ended up twenty seconds ahead of Stefano Coletti. Since then, a whole world. The sixth place went to Davide Valsecchi, while points closed them Fabio Leimer and Dani Clos.
The Catalan pilot went from 20th position, and he has made a very solid career was worth one point and the pole position for tomorrow. The career of Clos was aided, in part, by the touch between Sam Bird and Marcus Ericsson, as well as Esteban Gutierrez track output or problems in boxes of Josef Kral and Joylon Palmer.
In the end, after the race and the relevant technical verifications, Davide Valsecchi, who had been sixth, has been excluded for failing to meet your car rental with the regulatory minimum weight. This pushed up a position to, inter alia, Dani Clos and Fairuz Fauzy, due out tomorrow from the pole position.
Tomorrow is decided, therefore, the title, which is already practically in the hands of Grosjean, five points ahead of Bianchi. Let us remember that the winner is six, and the fastest lap another point. Bianchi should therefore win the race and wait that Grosjean was sixth, or win, make the fastest lap and wait that Grosjean did not raise the fifth position.
Certainly they are possible outcomes, but that give a good advantage to Romain, who will serve as a career with relatively few risks, unlike Bianchi, who only serve to win the race. After Imola, there will be a standstill until the Grand Prize of Spain of formula one, which will see the beginning of the "main" GP2.
1 Romain Grosjean DAMS 52m59.103s
2 Giedo van der Garde Addax + 14. 349s
3 Jules Bianchi ART + 17. 527s
4 Michael Herck Coloni + 21. 502s
5. Stefano Coletti Trident + 41. 228s
6 Fabio Leimer Rapax + 51. 867s
7. dani Clos racing engineering + 52. 813s
8 Fairuz Fauzy Super Nova + 53. 964s
9 Rodolfo Gonzalez Trident + 54. 224s
10 Marcus Ericsson iSport + 54. 661s
11 Esteban Gutierrez ART + 55. 390s
12 Josef Kral Arden + 55. 840s
13 Pal Varhaug DAMS + 1m07.700s
14 Oliver Turvey Ocean + 1m19.721s
15 Johnny Cecotto Super Nova + 1m20.567s
16. Fair Julian Rapax + 1m22.066s
17 Andrea Caldarelli Ocean + 1m24.224s
18 Jolyon Palmer Arden + 1m24.503s
19. Mikhail Aleshin Carlin + 1m26.672s
20 Charles Pic Addax + 1m29.215s
21 Max Chilton Carlin + 1m31.023s
22 Luca Filippi Coloni + 1m31.058s
Drop-outs:
Davide Valsecchi AirAsia excluded
Nathanael Berthoin racing engineering 15 laps
Sam Bird iSport 7 laps
Luiz Ghazw AirAsia 0 laps

GP2 Asia Series 2011 Imola: Romain Grosjean takes pole

Romain Grosjean has taken the pole for the weekend of Imola in the GP2 Asia Series 2011. Before the weekend that will close the event, the French driver of DAMS has finished ahead of Sam Bird, which was already the fastest in free practice.
In the second row are to Michael Herck, who have mentioned more than once is a living example of a driver considered to be slow and no future that slowly makes its way in the category, without being in the team that his father built for him. After the pilot of Coloni, Jules Bianchi with ART.
Bad luck in general for components Spanish GP2, with Giedo van der Garde, Barwa Addax, as the best pilot of a Spanish team. The others are between the 20th and 25th position. Bad result for Racing Engineering, therefore, that came with many illusions.
But despite these illusions, which also had Dani Clos, Catalan has not been passed in the 20th position. A pity, since that complicates it the careers of tomorrow and last. What it will be interesting will be the fight for the title between Grosjean and Bianchi, which are separated by colons.
1 Romain Grosjean DAMS 1m27.067s
2 Sam Bird iSport 1m27.384s + 0. 317s
3 Michael Herck Coloni 1m27.558s + 0. 491s
4 Jules Bianchi ART 1m27.676s + 0. 609s
5 Giedo van der Garde Addax 1m27.735s + 0. 668s
6 Josef Kral Arden 1m27.834s + 0. 767s
7 Marcus Ericsson iSport 1m27.872s + 0. 805s
8 Jolyon Palmer Arden 1m27.898s + 0. 831s
9. Davide Valsecchi AirAsia 1m27.909s + 0. 842s
10. Mikhail Aleshin Carlin 1m27.988s + 0. 921s
11 Luiz Ghazw AirAsia 1m28.073s + 1. 006s
12 Andrea Caldarelli Ocean 1m28.093s + 1. 026s
13 Fabio Leimer Rapax 1m28.143s + 1. 076s
14 Oliver Turvey Ocean 1m28.151s + 1. 084s
15 Esteban Gutierrez ART 1m28.160s + 1. 093s
16. Stefano Coletti Trident 1m28.194s + 1. 127s
17 Rodolfo Gonzalez Trident 1m28.310s + 1. 243s
18 Max Chilton Carlin 1m28.332s + 1. 265s
19 Pal Varhaug DAMS 1m28.357s + 1. 290s
20. dani Clos racing engineering 1m28.373s + 1. 306s
21 Fairuz Fauzy Super Nova 1m28.382s + 1. 315s
22 Johnny Cecotto Super Nova 1m28.490s + 1. 423s
23 Charles Pic Addax 1m28.549s + 1. 482s
24 Julian loyal Rapax 1m28.644s + 1. 577s
25 Nathanael Berthoin racing engineering 1m28.646s + 1. 579s
26 Luca Filippi Coloni

GP2 Asia Series change Bahrain by the circuit of Imola

After the incidents in the formula not only Bahrain it has been affected by the cancellations. As I already said my fellow GV27, the last two races of the Championship of the GP2 Asia were also suspended. This a category with very few runs in its schedule obviously affected much more than in the great circus, with 20 test scheduled for this year.
Therefore the Championship organizers have decided to make an additional race. That if, against the policy of the Championship, such a test will take place on European soil, in particular in the circuit of Imola. The race will replace the two that were to be played in Bahrain and will drop the curtain of a rather movidito season.

We needed a week to put everything in order and have the certainty that everything was properly organised, and that we could do something good. That is why we chose Imola and are going to run it an event, which will be the last of the GP2 Asia Series and which will replace the two cancelled events of Bahrain.