GP2 run in as-Sachir 2013

 GP2 run in as-Sachir 2013

Racing data
2nd of 11 races in the 2013 GP2 series
Date:	19. – 21. April 2013
Place:	as-Sachir
Course:	Bahrain International Circuit
Length:	Main race 173.184 km in 32 laps of 5.412 km Sprint races 124.476 km in 23 laps of 5.412 km
Main race
Pole position
Driver:	Fabio Leimer	Racing engineering
Time:	1: 39.427 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Johnny cecotto jr.	Arden International
Time:	1: 45.115 min (lap 28)
Podium
First:	Fabio Leimer	Racing engineering
Second:	Stefano Coletti	Rapax
Third:	Alexander Rossi	Caterham Racing
Sprint race
Pole position
Driver:	Tom Dillmann	Russian time
Fastest lap
Driver:	Sam Bird	Russian time
Time:	1: 45.465 min (lap 4)
Podium
First:	Sam Bird	Russian time
Second:	Felipe Nasr	Carlin
Third:	Stefano Coletti	Rapax

The GP2 run in as-Sachir 2013 was the second run of the GP2 series in 2013 and took place from April 19-21 on the Bahrain International Circuit in as-Sachir .

Reports

background

From this run Ma Qinghua was replaced by Alexander Rossi . At Hilmer Motorsport, Conor Daly was replaced by Robin Frijns . Rossi and Frijns previously competed in the Formula Renault 3.5 - Frijns was champion in this series, Rossi eleventh.

There was no former winner of this race.

training

In free practice, Fabio Leimer set the fastest time ahead of Sam Bird and Stefano Coletti .

Qualifying

Leimer also takes the lead in qualifying. Second fastest was Marcus Ericsson , just under a second behind Leimer, ahead of Felipe Nasr .

After qualifying, two penalties were issued: Kevin Giovesi was punished by Johnny Cecotto Jr. for handicapping . Shifted 3 positions back and Sergio Canamasas was excluded from the ranking because of an "intentional change of direction that disadvantaged another driver".

James Calado was relegated ten positions down due to a penalty from the sprint race at Sepang.

Main race

Ericsson stalled the engine at the start of the warm-up lap. He was then pushed into the pits, from where he started after the field.

The start of the race went well for Leimer and he kept the lead. Behind it there were several changes of position. Coletti overtook Nasr and took second place. Bird started from ninth place and improved to third. The loser from the start was Simon Trummer , who lost many positions.

On the first lap, Coletti put the leader under pressure. However, there was no overtaking maneuver. Jolyon Palmer , who started the race from twelfth place, improved to fifth. Meanwhile Daniël de Jong had to finish the race in the pit lane.

After the field had stretched a little, Leimer began to build a lead on Coletti. At the end of the fourth lap, Pål Varhaug parked his car with a technical problem. At the end of the sixth lap, Stéphane Richelmi was the first driver to come in for his stop. He switched from the soft to the hard tires. Canamasas had meanwhile received a drive-through penalty for pushing Calado off the track. Two laps after Richelmi, Nasr and Bird pitted at the same time. Both stops did not go optimally. They came out of the box in the same order but fell behind Richelmi.

Two laps later, the two leaders made their pit stop on the same lap. Their pit stops went smoothly and Leimer stayed in front of Coletti. The latter came back on track just before Rossi, who had also already completed his pit stop. In the meantime, Nasr posted fast lap times and improved two positions over Bird and Richelmi. Nathanaël Berthon had exceeded the speed limit in the pit lane during his pit stop and received a drive-through penalty .

There were still a few drivers who started with the hard tires and made their stops later. Leading was Adrian Quaife-Hobbs , who, however, continuously forfeited time against Leimer and thus did not go for the win. Behind Leimer were Coletti and Rossi, who both benefited from the upcoming overtaking maneuvers and were catching up.

With 16 laps to go, Tom Dillmann was the first of those who started with the hard tires to go into the pits. His lap times were immediately much faster. Quaife-Hobbs also came to the pit stop a little later and picked up the soft tires.

On lap 20 there was a collision between Frijns and Richelmi. For Richelmi it meant the end of the race, Frijns was able to continue and fell back to last place after an additional pit stop. In addition, he received a drive-through penalty for causing the collision.

A curiosity arose shortly before the end of the race: Giovesi had pushed Mitch Evans off the track. Instead of Giovesi, however, teammate René Binder was accidentally punished for the offense.

In the meantime, Dillmann and Quaife-Hobbs were faster than Simon Trummer , who was in seventh place, and overtook him. Then they made up time on Bird. Until the end of the race, however, they were no longer within striking distance.

Leimer won the race ahead of Coletti and debutant Rossi. Julian Leal drove the fastest lap of the race. However, since he was not placed in the top ten, the points for the fastest lap went to Cecotto.

Sprint race

Dillmann started well from pole position and kept the lead over his teammate Bird after the first two corners. Coletti also started well from seventh position and positioned himself outside when braking into the first corner in order to then have an advantage in the next corner. He succeeded and improved to third place.

There were two collisions in the first corner. Rio Haryanto drove Ericsson in the rear and lost the front wing. For Ericsson, the collision meant the end of the race as his rear wing was damaged. Furthermore, there was contact between Rossi and Leimer. While Leimer's car remained largely undamaged, Rossi had to go to the pits to pick up a new front wing.

During the first lap, Bird put Dillmann under pressure and overtook him in the last corner.

After the first lap, Bird was ahead of Dillmann, Coletti, Quaife-Hobbs, Nasr and Leimer.

When braking into the first corner, Dillmann tried to counter Bird's attack and attempted to overtake. Bird kept the lead, but Dillmann lost momentum during the maneuver and had to let Coletti overtake him. Shortly afterwards, Nasr overtook Quaife-Hobbs and then Dillmann.

Quaife-Hobbs set worse lap times than the drivers in front of and behind him, so that the pursuers soon caught up. Dillmann was also unable to keep up with the leaders and a large gap formed in front of him.

Four laps to go, Quaife-Hobbs had four drivers close behind them: Palmer in front of Calado, Leimer and Daniel Abt . Bird, Coletti and Nasr also drove close together at the front.

Meanwhile, Coletti had problems with his vehicle and had to let Nasr pass. In addition, Coletti could not keep up. Abt made up two positions against Leimer and Quaife-Hobbs and then finished seventh. On the start-finish straight, Calado sat down to the left of Palmer. Both drove parallel through the first corner. Calado had an advantage in the subsequent left turn and took fifth position.

On the last lap, Nasr had pulled up close to Bird. When braking into the last corner, he tried an overtaking maneuver and both drove side by side towards the corner. Bird accelerated better and won the race with eight hundredths of a second ahead of Nasr. They were followed by Coletti, Dillmann, Calado and Palmer. Berthon set the fastest lap of the race but was not in the top 10, so the fastest lap went to Bird.

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	Pål Varhaug
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	Fabio Leimer	Racing engineering	1: 39.427	01
02	Marcus Ericsson	DAMS	1: 40.420	02
03	Felipe Nasr	Carlin	1: 40.520	03
04th	Stefano Coletti	Rapax	1: 40.585	04th
05	Tom Dillmann	Russian time	1: 40.689	05
06th	Stéphane Richelmi	DAMS	1: 40.704	06th
07th	Alexander Rossi	Caterham Racing	1: 40.756	07th
08th	Adrian Quaife-Hobbs	MP Motorsport	1: 40.769	08th
09	Sam Bird	Russian time	1: 40.842	09
10	Robin Frijns	Hilmer Motorsport	1: 40.865	10
11	James Calado	ART Grand Prix	1: 40.878	21st
12	Simon Trummer	Rapax	1: 40.892	11
13	Jolyon Palmer	Carlin	1: 41.033	12
14th	Johnny cecotto jr.	Arden International	1: 41.043	13
15th	Daniel Dept.	ART Grand Prix	1: 41.070	14th
16	Sergio Canamasas	Caterham Racing	1: 41.229	EX
17th	Kevin Giovesi	Venezuela GP Lazarus	1: 41.236	18th
18th	Mitch Evans	Arden International	1: 41.237	15th
19th	Kevin Ceccon	Trident Racing	1: 41.243	16
20th	Julian Leal	Racing engineering	1: 41.504	17th
21st	René Binder	Venezuela GP Lazarus	1: 41.553	19th
22nd	Jake Rosenzweig	Barwa Addax team	1: 41.687	20th
23	Nathanaël Berthon	Trident Racing	1: 41.730	22nd
24	Pål Varhaug	Hilmer Motorsport	1: 41.980	23
25th	Rio Haryanto	Barwa Addax team	1: 41.981	24
26th	Daniël de Jong	MP Motorsport	1: 42.284	25th

Remarks

1. ↑ Calado was moved 10 positions back from the previous run because of causing a collision in the sprint race.
2. ↑ Canamasas was excluded from the ranking because of "a deliberate change of direction that put another driver at a disadvantage".
3. ↑ Giovesi was called because of handicap from Johnny Cecotto jr. shifted 3 positions backwards.

Main race

Item	driver	team	Round	time	begin	Fastest lap
01	Fabio Leimer	Racing engineering	32	57: 21.528	01	1: 45.158 ( 03rd)
02	Stefano Coletti	Rapax	32	+ 1.929	04th	1: 45.232 (12.)
03	Alexander Rossi	Caterham Racing	32	+ 9.030	07th	1: 45.441 (10.)
04th	Felipe Nasr	Carlin	32	+ 9.498	03	1: 45.537 ( 02.)
05	Jolyon Palmer	Carlin	32	+ 15.037	12	1: 45.353 ( 03rd)
06th	Sam Bird	Russian time	32	+ 28,518	09	1: 45,400 ( 03rd)
07th	Adrian Quaife-Hobbs	MP Motorsport	32	+ 33.067	08th	1: 45.319 (26.)
08th	Tom Dillmann	Russian time	32	+ 33,589	05	1: 45.145 (26.)
09	Simon Trummer	Rapax	32	+ 36.246	11	1: 45.299 (10.)
10	Johnny cecotto jr.	Arden International	32	+ 37.459	13	1: 45.115 (28.)
11	Kevin Ceccon	Trident Racing	32	+ 42.502	16	1: 45.827 (10.)
12	James Calado	ART Grand Prix	32	+ 48.084	21st	1: 45.205 (23.)
13	Marcus Ericsson	DAMS	32	+ 48,709	02	1: 44.953 ( 09.)
14th	Daniel Dept.	ART Grand Prix	32	+ 53,482	14th	1: 46.216 (19.)
15th	Rio Haryanto	Barwa Addax team	32	+ 59.146	24	1: 46.848 (17.)
16	Jake Rosenzweig	Barwa Addax team	32	+1: 05.997	20th	1: 45.257 (29.)
17th	Nathanaël Berthon	Trident Racing	32	+1: 10.696	22nd	1: 45.858 ( 09.)
18th	René Binder	Venezuela GP Lazarus	32	+1: 11.776	19th	1: 44.955 (32nd)
19th	Julian Leal	Racing engineering	32	+1: 19.886	17th	1: 43.889 (24.)
20th	Sergio Canamasas	Caterham Racing	32	+1: 20.456	26th	1: 46.359 (11.)
21st	Robin Frijns	Hilmer Motorsport	31	+ 1 lap	10	1: 44.864 (10.)
-	Kevin Giovesi	Venezuela GP Lazarus	27	DNF	18th	1: 45.705 (24.)
-	Mitch Evans	Arden International	25th	DNF	15th	1: 46.321 (24.)
-	Stéphane Richelmi	DAMS	20th	DNF	06th	1: 46.107 ( 08.)
-	Pål Varhaug	Hilmer Motorsport	04th	DNF	23	1: 48.092 ( 03rd)
-	Daniël de Jong	MP Motorsport	01	DNF	25th	2: 34.605 ( 01st)

Sprint race

Item	driver	team	Round	time	begin	Fastest lap
01	Sam Bird	Russian time	23	41: 08.133	03	1: 45.465 ( 04.)
02	Felipe Nasr	Carlin	23	+ 0.080	05	1: 45.557 ( 05.)
03	Stefano Coletti	Rapax	23	+ 4.206	07th	1: 45.668 ( 04th)
04th	Tom Dillmann	Russian time	23	+ 10.328	01	1: 46.696 ( 04th)
05	James Calado	ART Grand Prix	23	+ 19.713	12	1: 46.934 ( 02.)
06th	Jolyon Palmer	Carlin	23	+ 21.773	04th	1: 46.747 ( 06.)
07th	Daniel Dept.	ART Grand Prix	23	+ 24.108	14th	1: 46.722 ( 02.)
08th	Adrian Quaife-Hobbs	MP Motorsport	23	+ 27.722	02	1: 46.668 ( 04th)
09	Fabio Leimer	Racing engineering	23	+ 27.894	08th	1: 46.873 ( 06.)
10	Kevin Ceccon	Trident Racing	23	+ 27.997	11	1: 46.973 ( 03rd)
11	Sergio Canamasas	Caterham Racing	23	+ 28.601	20th	1: 46.844 ( 02nd)
12	Johnny cecotto jr.	Arden International	23	+ 35.477	10	1: 47.115 ( 04.)
13	Stéphane Richelmi	DAMS	23	+ 35.858	24	1: 47.244 ( 04th)
14th	Simon Trummer	Rapax	23	+ 36,346	09	1: 47.013 ( 04.)
15th	Mitch Evans	Arden International	23	+ 36.950	23	1: 47.046 ( 03rd)
16	Julian Leal	Racing engineering	23	+ 37.671	19th	1: 46.945 ( 04th)
17th	Kevin Giovesi	Venezuela GP Lazarus	23	+ 41.248	22nd	1: 47.057 ( 03rd)
18th	Daniël de Jong	MP Motorsport	23	+ 44.757	26th	1: 47.616 ( 05.)
19th	Jake Rosenzweig	Barwa Addax team	23	+ 47.006	16	1: 47.127 ( 03.)
20th	Alexander Rossi	Caterham Racing	23	+ 52.044	06th	1: 46.035 ( 08.)
21st	Pål Varhaug	Hilmer Motorsport	23	+ 54.740	25th	1: 47.269 ( 06.)
22nd	Nathanaël Berthon	Trident Racing	23	+ 55.332	17th	1: 45.301 (17.)
23	Robin Frijns	Hilmer Motorsport	23	+1: 02.964	21st	1: 46.421 ( 09.)
24	Rio Haryanto	Barwa Addax team	23	+1: 17.388	15th	1: 46.053 ( 06.)
25th	René Binder	Venezuela GP Lazarus	22nd	+ 1 lap	18th	1: 45.494 ( 07.)
-	Marcus Ericsson	DAMS	05	DNF	13	1: 47.491 ( 03rd)

Championship stands after the run

Driver ranking

Item driver team Points 01  Stefano Coletti Rapax 64 02  Fabio Leimer Racing engineering 54 03  Felipe Nasr Carlin 48 04th  Sam Bird Russian time 33 05  James Calado ART Grand Prix 24 06th  Jolyon Palmer Carlin 22nd 07th  Alexander Rossi Caterham Racing 15th 08th  Tom Dillmann Russian time 12 09  Stéphane Richelmi DAMS 12 10  Mitch Evans Arden International 11 11  Julian Leal Racing engineering 10 12  Johnny cecotto jr. Arden International 9 13  Simon Trummer Rapax 8th 14th  Adrian Quaife-Hobbs MP Motorsport 7th

Item driver team Points 15th  Conor Daly Hilmer Motorsport 2 16  Daniel Dept. ART Grand Prix 2 17th  René Binder Venezuela GP Lazarus 1 18th  Kevin Ceccon Trident 0 19th  Kevin Giovesi Venezuela GP Lazarus 0 20th  Sergio Canamasas Caterham Racing 0 21st  Marcus Ericsson DAMS 0 22nd  Daniël de Jong MP Motorsport 0 23  Rio Haryanto Barwa Addax 0 24  Pål Varhaug Hilmer Motorsport 0 25th  Jake Rosenzweig Barwa Addax 0 26th  Nathanaël Berthon Trident 0 27  Robin Frijns Hilmer Motorsport 0 28  Qing Hua Ma Caterham Racing 0

Team evaluation

Item team Points 01  Rapax 72 02  Carlin 70 03  Racing engineering 64 04th  Russian time 45 05  ART Grand Prix 26th 06th  Arden International 20th 07th  Caterham Racing 15th

Item team Points 08th  DAMS 12 09  MP Motorsport 7th 10  Hilmer Motorsport 2 11  Venezuela GP Lazarus 1 12  Trident Racing 0 13  Barwa Addax team 0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Markus Lüttgens: Caterham: Rossi takes over from Ma. Motorsport-Total.com, April 17, 2013, accessed February 15, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Philipp Schajer & Robert Seiwert: Frijns replaces Daly at Hilmer. Motorsport-Magazin.com, April 15, 2013, accessed February 15, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Mario Fritzsche: Bahrain qualifying: Leimer outclasses the competition. Motorsport-Total.com, April 19, 2013, accessed February 15, 2014 . 
4. ^ Charles Bradley: GP2 Bahrain: Sergio Canamasas penalized for qualifying swerves. autosport.com, April 19, 2013, accessed February 15, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Gerald Dirnbeck: "Calado punished for starting collision". Motorsport-Total.com, March 23, 2013, accessed February 6, 2014 .