GP2 round in Barcelona 2013

 GP2 round in Barcelona 2013

Racing data
3rd of 11 races in the 2013 GP2 series
Date:	10-12 May 2013
Place:	Montmeló
Course:	Circuit de Catalunya
Length:	Main race 172.235 km in 37 laps of 4.655 km Sprint race 121.03 km in 26 laps of 4.655 km
Main race
Pole position
Driver:	Marcus Ericsson	DAMS
Time:	1: 28.706 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Jon Lancaster	Hilmer Motorsport
Time:	1: 34.352 min (lap 9)
Podium
First:	Robin Frijns	Hilmer Motorsport
Second:	Felipe Nasr	Carlin
Third:	Jon Lancaster	Hilmer Motorsport
Sprint race
Pole position
Driver:	Johnny cecotto jr.	Arden International
Fastest lap
Driver:	Stefano Coletti	Rapax
Time:	1: 33.727 min (lap 3)
Podium
First:	Stefano Coletti	Rapax
Second:	Robin Frijns	Hilmer Motorsport
Third:	Felipe Nasr	Carlin

The GP2 round in Barcelona 2013 was the third round of the 2013 GP2 series and took place from May 10th to 12th at the Circuit de Catalunya in Montmeló .

Reports

background

After the run in as-Sachir , Stefano Coletti led the drivers' standings with ten points ahead of Fabio Leimer and 16 points ahead of Felipe Nasr . Rapax led the team standings with two points ahead of Carlin and eight points ahead of Racing Engineering .

Jon Lancaster took over the cockpit from Pål Varhaug at Hilmer Motorsport .

With Fabio Leimer (twice) a former winner of this race competed.

training

In free practice, Nasr set the fastest time ahead of James Calado and Johnny Cecotto Jr.

Qualifying

Shortly before qualifying started, dark clouds hung over the track. All drivers lined up at the pit exit long before the session began. When the traffic light turned green, all drivers set a time. Marcus Ericsson initially drove the fastest lap.

This seemed almost enough for the pole position, until shortly before the end team mate Stéphane Richelmi undercut the time. However, Ericsson was also on his fast lap and once again undercut his team-mates. Ericsson thus secured pole position in front of Richelmi and Nasr.

Main race

Ericsson started well while Richelmi lost one position to Coletti. In the first lap he lost another position to Nasr. Leimer had a collision with Calado and Sam Bird at the start and at the end of the first lap had to go into the pits to change his front wing. Calado also came to the pits and gave up the race there.

There was an accident on lap five. Sergio Canamasas and Tom Dillmann fought for a position, which Nathanaël Berthon caught up. When braking into Turn 10, Berthon braked later than the two in front and drove both drivers into the rear. Berthon's car was thrown forward by the rear tires of the other two. Berthon finished the race in the gravel and Canamasas in the pit lane with the rear wing torn off. Dillmann's vehicle suffered no damage, he continued the race. Berthon got a ten position back in the sprint race for causing this accident.

When the pit stop window opened, Robin Frijns , Jolyon Palmer and Alexander Rossi came in straight away. Your direct competitors, Ericsson and Bird, stayed outside for the time being. When they too had made their pit stop, they fell behind the trio. Kevin Ceccon , Cecotto and Dillmann stayed out longer and led the race.

Ceccon's lap times slowed steadily so that he came in first of the trio. There was a collision on lap eleven: In the last chicane, several vehicles drove side by side. Ericsson had positioned himself between Palmer and Bird. As the gap narrowed, Bird and Ericsson came into contact, causing the suspension of Ericsson's Dallara to be damaged and he had to end the race.

Meanwhile, Cecotto was leading Dillmann and Mitch Evans . Frijns in fourth position was the first driver to have already completed his pit stop and was 20 seconds behind Cecotto.

When Dillmann came to a stop, he switched to the hard tire compound again. He drove fast lap times and caught up with Richelmi. However, this forced Dillmann to turn, for which he was later punished. Dillmann then continued to drive fast laps and was able to make up several positions.

Nasr was also fast, first overtaking Coletti and then Palmer. Palmer was about to lose another position to Bird, which he was defending. There was a contact between the two, with Bird turning and having to end the race. Dillmann overtook Coletti and Lancaster on the following lap. When he started an overtaking maneuver against Palmer shortly afterwards, he got too far off the track and had to give up his positions.

Frijns won the race ahead of Nasr Palmer and Dillmann. Since Palmer was charged with a 20-second penalty after the race for pushing Bird away, Lancaster took third place, while Palmer was classified as tenth.

Sprint race

At the start, Dillmann stalled the engine and stopped - all the drivers behind him managed to avoid it. Coletti and Frijns both started well and were in second and third position after the first corner. Coletti immediately put Cecotto under pressure and overtook him at the exit of turn 3. Frijns and Nasr were fighting for third position. In turn 9, Cecotto slipped briefly and had to drive behind the barrier. Frijns and Nasr seize this opportunity and overtake him.

After the first lap, Coletti was leading ahead of Frijns, Nasr, Cecotto, Palmer and Rossi.

In the following laps there was no change of position at the sprayer of the field and the distances between the drivers increased. Dillmann changed tires halfway through the race because his were wearing off. As a result, he drove the fastest lap of the race, which was not rewarded with the two extra points for the fastest lap because he did not finish the race in the top ten.

On the penultimate lap there was a collision that changed the midfield: While Cecotto had previously been driving slow lap times and many drivers had backed up behind him, Canamasas had overtaken several drivers until he was finally behind Cecotto. Meanwhile, Rossi lost positions to Daniel Abt and Rio Haryanto . Canamasas attempted to overtake Cecotto by taking a narrower line at Turn 12 and driving next to Cecotto at the exit of the corner. On the short straight that followed, Cecotto pulled further to the right and caused a contact. Both drivers lost momentum, which enabled Abt and Haryanto to attempt overtaking on their part. Haryanto braked later than Canamasas in turn 14 and drove into the rear, with Canamasas losing the rear wing and Haryanto the front wing. In order to avoid a collision, Abt braked hard to get past the cars of Haryanto and Canamasas. The drivers behind it use the run-off area to avoid the scene of the accident, which means that Abt lost several positions.

Abt fell behind his teammate Calado. Shortly after overtaking his teammate back, Leal made contact and as a result collided with the barrier. Lancaster and Leimer also touched and both slipped off the racing line , allowing Abbot to overtake both of them at the same time and take the last point.

Coletti won the race ahead of Frijns and Nasr. The other points went to Palmer, Cecotto, Rossi, Ceccon and Abt. Coletti got the points for the fastest lap.

Following the race, Haryanto was fined for causing a collision by being displaced ten places in subsequent races in Monaco.

Registration list

All teams and drivers used the Dallara GP2 / 11 chassis , Renault - Mecachrome engines and Pirelli tires .

team	Automobile #	driver
DAMS	01	Marcus Ericsson
	02	Stéphane Richelmi
ART Grand Prix	03	James Calado
	04th	Daniel Dept.
Arden International	05	Johnny cecotto jr.
	06th	Mitch Evans
Racing engineering	07th	Julian Leal
	08th	Fabio Leimer
Carlin	09	Felipe Nasr
	10	Jolyon Palmer
Russian time	11	Sam Bird
	12	Tom Dillmann
Caterham Racing	14th	Sergio Canamasas
	15th	Alexander Rossi
Barwa Addax team	16	Jake Rosenzweig
	17th	Rio Haryanto
Rapax	18th	Stefano Coletti
	19th	Simon Trummer
Trident Racing	20th	Nathanaël Berthon
	21st	Kevin Ceccon
Hilmer Motorsport	22nd	Robin Frijns
	23	Jon Lancaster
Venezuela GP Lazarus	24	René Binder
	25th	Kevin Giovesi
MP Motorsport	26th	Adrian Quaife-Hobbs
	27	Daniël de Jong

Classifications

Qualifying

Item	driver	team	time	begin
01	Marcus Ericsson	DAMS	1: 28.706	01
02	Stéphane Richelmi	DAMS	1: 28.871	02
03	Felipe Nasr	Carlin	1: 29,152	03
04th	Sam Bird	Russian time	1: 29.188	04th
05	Stefano Coletti	Rapax	1: 29.213	05
06th	Fabio Leimer	Racing engineering	1: 29.293	06th
07th	James Calado	ART Grand Prix	1: 29.318	07th
08th	Robin Frijns	Hilmer Motorsport	1: 29.321	08th
09	Kevin Ceccon	Trident Racing	1: 29.424	09
10	Kevin Giovesi	Venezuela GP Lazarus	1: 29.425	10
11	Jolyon Palmer	Carlin	1: 29.609	11
12	Daniel Dept.	ART Grand Prix	1: 29.668	12
13	Sergio Canamasas	Caterham Racing	1: 29.685	13
14th	Tom Dillmann	Russian time	1: 29.739	14th
15th	Jon Lancaster	Hilmer Motorsport	1: 29.759	15th
16	Jake Rosenzweig	Barwa Addax team	1: 29.792	16
17th	Alexander Rossi	Caterham Racing	1: 29.804	17th
18th	Julian Leal	Racing engineering	1: 29.824	18th
19th	Mitch Evans	Arden International	1: 29.936	19th
20th	René Binder	Venezuela GP Lazarus	1: 29,956	20th
21st	Nathanaël Berthon	Trident Racing	1: 29.969	21st
22nd	Rio Haryanto	Barwa Addax team	1: 30.020	22nd
23	Johnny cecotto jr.	Arden International	1: 30.025	23
24	Simon Trummer	Rapax	1: 30.025	24
25th	Adrian Quaife-Hobbs	MP Motorsport	1: 30.763	25th
26th	Daniël de Jong	MP Motorsport	1: 30.773	26th

Main race

Item	driver	team	Round	time	begin	Fastest lap
01	Robin Frijns	Hilmer Motorsport	37	1: 00: 38.896	08th	1: 35.845 ( 08.)
02	Felipe Nasr	Carlin	37	+ 3.316	03	1: 36.224 ( 02.)
03	Jon Lancaster	Hilmer Motorsport	37	+ 12.609	15th	1: 34.352 ( 09.)
04th	Stefano Coletti	Rapax	37	+ 13,329	05	1: 35.615 (11.)
05	Tom Dillmann	Russian time	37	+ 14.325	14th	1: 35,534 (32nd)
06th	Alexander Rossi	Caterham Racing	37	+ 17,160	17th	1: 34.415 ( 08.)
07th	Kevin Ceccon	Trident Racing	37	+ 17.504	09	1: 35,560 (14.)
08th	Johnny cecotto jr.	Arden International	37	+ 24.013	23	1: 35.488 (29.)
09	Rio Haryanto	Barwa Addax team	37	+ 32.024	22nd	1: 36.566 (11.)
10	Jolyon Palmer	Carlin	37	+ 32.290	11	1: 35.029 ( 08.)
11	Daniel Dept.	ART Grand Prix	37	+ 32.823	12	1: 36.896 (11th)
12	Mitch Evans	Arden International	37	+ 35.748	19th	1: 35.812 (30.)
13	Julian Leal	Racing engineering	37	+ 39.922	18th	1: 36.623 (10.)
14th	Jake Rosenzweig	Barwa Addax team	37	+ 40.999	16	1: 35.894 (15.)
15th	Stéphane Richelmi	DAMS	37	+ 42.690	02	1: 36.052 (10.)
16	Daniël de Jong	MP Motorsport	37	+ 43.102	26th	1: 36.319 (30.)
17th	Adrian Quaife-Hobbs	MP Motorsport	37	+ 54.532	25th	1: 35.145 (31st)
18th	Fabio Leimer	Racing engineering	37	+ 56.946	06th	1: 35.263 (31st)
19th	Simon Trummer	Rapax	37	+ 57.935	24	1: 33,409 (33.)
20th	René Binder	Venezuela GP Lazarus	36	+ 1 lap	20th	1: 34.907 (14.)
-	Sam Bird	Russian time	33	DNF	04th	1: 36.313 (11.)
-	Kevin Giovesi	Venezuela GP Lazarus	11	DNF	10	1: 38,250 ( 03rd)
-	Marcus Ericsson	DAMS	10	DNF	01	1: 35.483 ( 02.)
-	Sergio Canamasas	Caterham Racing	05	DNF	13	1: 37.475 ( 02.)
-	Nathanaël Berthon	Trident Racing	04th	DNF	21st	1: 37.293 ( 03rd)
-	James Calado	ART Grand Prix	01	DNF	07th	2: 23.631 ( 01st)

Remarks

1. ↑ Palmer received a drive-through penalty for pushing Bird in the closing stages of the race. The penalty was converted into an addition of 20 seconds to the final result

Sprint race

Item	driver	team	Round	time	begin	Fastest lap
01	Stefano Coletti	Rapax	26th	41: 49.895	05	1: 33.727 ( 03rd)
02	Robin Frijns	Hilmer Motorsport	26th	+ 0.691	08th	1: 34.176 ( 02.)
03	Felipe Nasr	Carlin	26th	+ 7.212	07th	1: 34.734 ( 05.)
04th	Jolyon Palmer	Carlin	26th	+ 12,129	10	1: 35.266 ( 05.)
05	Johnny cecotto jr.	Arden International	26th	+ 35.593	01	1: 34.564 ( 03rd)
06th	Alexander Rossi	Caterham Racing	26th	+ 36.991	03	1: 34.764 ( 05.)
07th	Kevin Ceccon	Trident Racing	26th	+ 38.483	02	1: 34.942 ( 05.)
08th	Daniel Dept.	ART Grand Prix	26th	+ 39.645	11	1: 35.377 ( 05.)
09	Fabio Leimer	Racing engineering	26th	+ 40.664	18th	1: 35.375 ( 05.)
10	Jon Lancaster	Hilmer Motorsport	26th	+ 41.353	06th	1: 35.343 ( 05.)
11	James Calado	ART Grand Prix	26th	+ 41.464	24	1: 35,560 ( 05.)
12	Sam Bird	Russian time	26th	+ 41.876	25th	1: 34.647 ( 04th)
13	Mitch Evans	Arden International	26th	+ 42,520	12	1: 35.468 ( 04.)
14th	Sergio Canamasas	Caterham Racing	26th	+ 44.190	23	1: 35.381 ( 05.)
15th	Stéphane Richelmi	DAMS	26th	+ 44.277	15th	1: 35.458 ( 04th)
16	Simon Trummer	Rapax	26th	+ 44.487	19th	1: 35.408 ( 03.)
17th	Kevin Giovesi	Venezuela GP Lazarus	26th	+ 44.628	21st	1: 35.706 ( 06.)
18th	Daniël de Jong	MP Motorsport	26th	+ 45.041	16	1: 35.284 ( 05.)
19th	René Binder	Venezuela GP Lazarus	26th	+ 48.132	20th	1: 35.346 ( 04th)
20th	Marcus Ericsson	DAMS	26th	+ 53.650	22nd	1: 35.458 ( 04th)
21st	Adrian Quaife-Hobbs	MP Motorsport	26th	+ 53.938	17th	1: 35,570 ( 05.)
22nd	Jake Rosenzweig	Barwa Addax team	26th	+1: 02.518	14th	1: 35.306 ( 04.)
23	Nathanaël Berthon	Trident Racing	26th	+1: 06.632	26th	1: 34.071 (22.)
24	Rio Haryanto	Barwa Addax team	26th	+1: 25.590	09	1: 35.226 ( 05.)
25th	Julian Leal	Racing engineering	25th	DNF	13	1: 35.361 ( 03rd)
26th	Tom Dillmann	Russian time	25th	+ 1 lap	04th	1: 33.337 (14th)

Championship stands after the run

Driver ranking

Item driver team Points 01  Stefano Coletti Rapax 93 02  Felipe Nasr Carlin 76 03  Fabio Leimer Racing engineering 54 04th  Robin Frijns Hilmer Motorsport 37 05  Sam Bird Russian time 33 06th  Jolyon Palmer Carlin 31 07th  Alexander Rossi Caterham Racing 27 08th  James Calado ART Grand Prix 24 09  Tom Dillmann Russian time 22nd 10  Johnny cecotto jr. Arden International 19th 11  Jon Lancaster Hilmer Motorsport 17th 12  Stéphane Richelmi DAMS 12 13  Mitch Evans Arden International 11 14th  Julian Leal Racing engineering 10 15th  Simon Trummer Rapax 8th

Item driver team Points 16  Kevin Ceccon Trident 8th 17th  Adrian Quaife-Hobbs MP Motorsport 7th 18th  Marcus Ericsson DAMS 4th 19th  Daniel Dept. ART Grand Prix 3 20th  Conor Daly Hilmer Motorsport 2 21st  Rio Haryanto Barwa Addax 2 22nd  René Binder Venezuela GP Lazarus 1 23  Kevin Giovesi Venezuela GP Lazarus 0 24  Sergio Canamasas Caterham Racing 0 25th  Daniël de Jong MP Motorsport 0 26th  Jake Rosenzweig Barwa Addax 0 27  Pål Varhaug Hilmer Motorsport 0 28  Nathanaël Berthon Trident 0 29  Qing Hua Ma Caterham Racing 0

Team evaluation

Item team Points 01  Rapax 105 02  Carlin 105 03  Racing engineering 64 04th  Hilmer Motorsport 56 05  Russian time 55 06th  Arden International 30th 07th  ART Grand Prix 27

Item team Points 08th  Caterham Racing 27 09  DAMS 16 10  Trident Racing 8th 11  MP Motorsport 7th 12  Barwa Addax team 2 13  Venezuela GP Lazarus 1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hilmer: Lancaster replaces Varhaug
2. ↑ Results Barcelona
3. ↑ Ericsson leads DAMS one-two in Spanish qualifying (English) ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Penalties after the race
5. ↑ Ten places back in the principality