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[Terry Walker]

I've just visited the official gp2 site, and boy does it suck! Endless elaborate graphics and damn-all content. What I wanted to know was what gp2 was, seeing how it's referred to so often in the various Atlas F1 fora

I gather from the website that it's Formula Renault Fat: Dallara chassis, 4 litre engines. Supposedly a support series for F1 GP races, but only the main race is broadcast here in Oz, so I've never seen one.

Is there somewhere that just "gives me the facts, ma'am", instead of trying to impress me with the cleverness of their website designers? (A pox on them all; hell no, two poxes!)

[Chubby_Deuce]

It's F3000 with a new name and cars. They're your typical open wheel design but utilize ground effects. Paddle shifting. They run 2 races per weekend. One on Saturday and then another on Sunday before the F1 race. Sunday's grid is determined by using the finishing order from the first race but reversing the top 8. Rosberg or Kovaleinen will win the championship this year. Piquet Jr and Lauda have dissapointed. Bruni had done well but faded away prior to quitting Coloni. Scott Speed has run consistently but is never really the quickest and has run into reliability problems..

That about covers it, if you ask me.

[Terry Walker]

Thanks, Chubby_deuce...

F3000 as was!

In a few sentences you've told me more than the gp2 website could with terabytes of pointless graphics.

[Jackman]

Did you click on anything on their site, or did you decide to not wait for the flash to load and posted here instead? Just curious.

[Terry Walker]

I clicked all right. And watched the little blue line grow millimetre by millimetre until I eventually got a picture of a car with a magnifying glass on it. I tried another part of the site, more thin blue "loading..." lines...I suppose it would be okay for broadband, but I still have a baked bean tin and damp string connection.

[carbonfibre]

And ofcourse the most important thing: It's great racing, a 110% improvement over those boring old F3000 races.

[Terry Walker]

If it's good racing, that's all that really counts. Sounds like a shame we don't get the TV coverage south of the equator.

[Jackman]

It's astonishingly good racing, and makes Formula One look boring - a quick click on the race reports would show you that, or you could look at the other GP2 thread here for the board's view on the series.

[Terry Walker]

I had a browse through the gp2 threads earlier, got interested, went off hunting the gp2 site and finally resorted to TNF, infinitely more helpful

[100cc]

The website is crap... it DOES have all the info i need, results etc, but everything takes ages to load even on a fast connection... and not all computers have flash!

[Racerfun]

GP2 races are eventful and pretty interesting. There are two races every race weekend, the main race on Saturday and Sprint Race on Sunday. Live TV coverage of all the races and quali are included in the F1 pay-TV package here in Finland (MTV3). The Sunday race is just about to start (10AM CET).

[jokuvaan]

Eurosport(1) has also shown both races lately

[Racerfun]

Originally posted by jokuvaan
Eurosport(1) has also shown both races lately

That is true. But for some reason they don't have GP2 on their time table for next Saturday, Spa. So I don't know if they always show both races.

[fifi]

Originally posted by Racerfun
That is true. But for some reason they don't have GP2 on their time table for next Saturday, Spa. So I don't know if they always show both races.

british eurosport didnt show it live yesterday.....although its live atm

[cska]

Originally posted by Racerfun
That is true. But for some reason they don't have GP2 on their time table for next Saturday, Spa. So I don't know if they always show both races.

Spa Saturday GP2 race is live on Eurosport 2 - > you can find it here

And the second race on Sunday is live on Eurosport (1) -> look here