Free Practice.

1 - Giorgio Pantano - Racing Engineering - 1'47"340
2 - Alvaro Parente - Super Nova - 1'47"867
3 - Karun Chandhok - iSport - 1'47"898
4 - Andreas Zuber - Piquet - 1'47"922
5 - Lucas Di Grassi - ART - 1'47"933
6 - Pastor Maldonado - Piquet - 1'47"944
7 - Jerome D'Ambrosio - Dams - 1'47"948
8 - Romain Grosjean - ART - 1'47"992
9 - Luca Filippi - Arden - 1'48"362
10 - Davide Valsecchi - Durango - 1'48"381
11 - Vitaly Petrov - Campos - 1'48"471
12 - Roldan Rodriguez - FMSI - 1'49"499
13 - Adrian Valles - BCN - 1'48"684
14 - Javier Villa - Racing Engineering - 1'48"722
15 - Andy Soucek - Super Nova - 1'48"753
16 - Sebastien Buemi - Arden - 1'48"893
17 - Mike Conway - Trident - 1'49"060
18 - Bruno Senna - iSport - 1'49"232
19 - Sakon Yamamoto - ART - 1'49"459
20 - Kamui Kobayashi - Dams - 1'49"504
21 - Alberto Valerio - Durango - 1'49"988
22 - Michael Herck - DPR - 1'50"190
23 - Ho Pin Tung - Trident - 1'50"297
24 - Diego Nunes - DPR - 1'50"326
25 - Carlos Iaconelli - BCN - 1'50"623
26 - Marko Asmer - FMSI - 1'50"908

Any links for qualifying?

www.gp2series.com has live comments during qualifying and the races.

Nice run by Karun Chandhok. Hopefully he can maintain it during the race and not be the target or cause of a boneheaded move, like all his other races.

Giorgio to pole, not surprisingly...hell of a lap.

I spoke too soon.

Good racing between Maldonado and Grosjean. A pity about Parente.

Pantano makes Massa at the Hungaroring look lucky.

WTF?
Senna and Pantano out!

crazy. and senna misses out on pole too.

might the same happen tomorrow?

Looked like they ran out of fuel.

Motormedia

Good driving from (and good luck for) Di Grassi to take fourth after qualifying. Luca Filippi on pole for tomorrow?

Pantano, Senna, Chandhok and Iaconelli ran out of fuel - it was always marginal, and they were filled to the brim, but didn't make it.

One more lap under safety car and they would have been fine.

Is there a fuel pickup issue at this circuit? Given it's a spec series, why didn't they make the race distance a lap or two shorter?

Well, if the new car is screwed for fuel here, they'll have to do something for Spa because it's even longer.

Dude, you of all people know that they run less laps on a longer circuit...

Turns out that it was a bit marginal because of the heat: the teams were told they could refuel after an installation lap if they wanted to, and some of the teams did just that while others didn't. The results show which teams did what.

The best part is that the anthem they played for Petrov was anything but NOT Russian anthem.

Yeah, I mean that the outlap to the grid is longer... sorry didn't make myself very clear.

Guys, where can i find first race? I want to see start only.

Race was so boring after the start that I went to ZzzZZzzZZzzz...

Too right. First and last laps the only highlight. If a GP2 race produces little or no overtaking then it doesn't look too promising for the Grand Prix tomorrow

Not necessarily. GP2 has been boring this year, the new car seems to have made it more difficult to pass.

Live stream for the sprint race

http://www.justin.tv/bluesking40

Thanks SchuOz.

It was not nice watching all those cars crawl to a stop. Race distance should have been reduced by a few laps, they should never run that marginal. Season seems to be lacking energy at the moment, though there were a few good moments of racing yesterday.

Grosjean punted out of race WTF

Given that it was Luca Filippi in the other car, it was always going to end in tears.


Bruno Senna said that he had a load of dust and dirt on his tyres after earlier avoiding Soucek and spun off - there was no contact between them.

Great race from Di Grassi . What could he have done if he had been with the team from the start of the season.
I think the insident between Filippi and Grosjean was a racing insident and shuld not render a penelty for Filippi. It was not a dive like the one Chandhok did on Villa and Petrov.

Both were silly moves. Filippi's was malicious, he couldn't stand Grosjean overtaking him and running away in the distance so he pushed him out. Chandok had sudden Sato inspiration.

And god these GP2 cars are fragile. Chandok spun Petrov around and he had to retire. F1 cars are far sturdier than the GP2 cars, they take more abuse.

But the F1 brigade will drive around the track keeping a hefty margin between themselves and the kerbs. There won't be an on-track overtaking move in sight not to mention the layer of dust and gunk off the racing line. GP2 has shown that you need to underneath the other cars rear wing to make the pass work - F1 cars can't get within a mile of one another.

Thing is though, Valencia doesn't have any medium or high speed corners. There's not really anywhere except maybe the last sector where you're going to hit aero-turbulence that's going to hold you from closing on the car in front. It's all braking and traction.

Filippi's driving was downright crass on at least two occasions. He'd already pushed Grosjean off the track when the two were side-by-side at turn 17. In my opinion his emotions got the better of him. There should be a stiff punishment.

That move was never going to work, he just managed to put his nose up to rear wheels level and he expected the car in front to give up the racing line? Totally his fault.

Bit of a racing incident, as Grosjean was driving as though Filippi wasn't there and the Italian was making an opportunist move, but Grosjean would have had the inside at the next corner so he didn't need to Pantano him.

What a crap way to have a race end. Don't these guys know how to put fuel in a car.

What anthem did they play to Petrov on the podium on Saturday? It was definetely not the Russian anthem.

What actually happened between Valles and Buemi on lap 3? I couldn't make out how the two collided coming up to the grid?

Valles did a late dive up the inside in the last corner and there was contact between them.

Georgian?!

It's very similar to Gerogian Funny how Petrov was holding his hand on his heart whilst the random national anthem played