2009 Donington Park Superleague Formula round

2009 Donington Park Superleague Formula round Superleague Formula round UK
Date	August 2, 2009
Location	Donington Park, Leicestershire, England
Course	Permanent racing facility 2.500 mi / 4.023 km
Laps	31 & 30
Pole position
Team	SC Corinthians	Antônio Pizzonia
Time	1:22.868
Podium (1st race)
First	FC Basel 1893	Max Wissel
Second	Rangers F.C.	John Martin
Third	SC Corinthians	Antônio Pizzonia
Fastest lap (1st race)
Team	FC Basel 1893	Max Wissel
Time	1:19.662 (on lap 16)
Podium (2nd race)
First	F.C. Porto	Tristan Gommendy
Second	Sporting CP	Pedro Petiz
Third	FC Basel 1893	Max Wissel
Fastest lap (2nd race)
Team	SC Corinthians	Antônio Pizzonia
Time	1:19.400 (on lap 19)

The 2009 Donington Park Superleague Formula round was the third round of the 2009 Superleague Formula season, with the races taking place on August 2, 2009. Support race events included the Historic Formula One Championship, British Superkart and Formula Jedi.

Report

Qualifying

Antônio Pizzonia took a fortunate second pole of the season, as qualifying was canned after the group stages due to heavy rain at Donington.^[1] As his lap time with much faster than the time of Davide Rigon, the quickest driver of Group B, he was given the benefit of pole position. Rigon will line up second, as all the Group B cars will fill that side of the grid.

Results

Qualifying

• Due to adverse weather conditions, the knockout stages were cancelled. As Group A achieved faster times than Group B, the Group A cars lined up in the odd-numbered positions on the grid, with the Group B cars on the even-numbered positions.

Group A Pos. Team Driver Time 1 SC Corinthians Antônio Pizzonia 1:22.868 2 FC Basel 1893 Max Wissel 1:22.907 3 Rangers F.C. John Martin 1:22.948 4 A.S. Roma Jonathan Kennard 1:22.953 5 Sevilla FC Esteban Guerrieri 1:23.036 6 Flamengo Enrique Bernoldi 1:23.067 7 Atlético Madrid Ho-Pin Tung 1:25.141 8 PSV Eindhoven Dominick Muermans 1:26.199 9 Galatasaray SK Scott Mansell 1:26.623

Group B Pos. Team Driver Time 1 Olympiacos CFP Davide Rigon 1:32.414 2 A.C. Milan Giorgio Pantano 1:33.110 3 Tottenham Hotspur Craig Dolby 1:33.660 4 RSC Anderlecht Yelmer Buurman 1:33.923 5 Liverpool F.C. Adrián Vallés 1:34.551 6 F.C. Porto Tristan Gommendy 1:34.687 7 Olympique Lyonnais Nelson Panciatici 1:34.727 8 FC Midtjylland Kasper Andersen 1:35.095 9 Sporting CP Pedro Petiz 1:36.933

Grid

Pos.	Team	Driver	Time
1	SC Corinthians	Antônio Pizzonia	1:22.868
2	Olympiacos CFP	Davide Rigon	1:32.414
3	FC Basel 1893	Max Wissel	1:22.907
4	A.C. Milan	Giorgio Pantano	1:33.110
5	Rangers F.C.	John Martin	1:22.948
6	Tottenham Hotspur	Craig Dolby	1:33.660
7	A.S. Roma	Jonathan Kennard	1:22.953
8	RSC Anderlecht	Yelmer Buurman	1:33.923
9	Sevilla FC	Esteban Guerrieri	1:23.036
10	Liverpool F.C.	Adrián Vallés	1:34.551
11	Flamengo	Enrique Bernoldi	1:23.067
12	F.C. Porto	Tristan Gommendy	1:34.687
13	Atlético Madrid	Ho-Pin Tung	1:25.141
14	Olympique Lyonnais	Nelson Panciatici	1:34.727
15	PSV Eindhoven	Dominick Muermans	1:26.199
16	FC Midtjylland	Kasper Andersen	1:35.095
17	Galatasaray SK	Scott Mansell	1:26.623
18	Sporting CP	Pedro Petiz	1:36.933

Race 1

Pos	No	Team	Driver	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Pts.
1	10	FC Basel 1893	Max Wissel	31	45:15.840	3	50
2	17	Rangers F.C.	John Martin	31	+ 2.180	5	45
3	14	SC Corinthians	Antônio Pizzonia	31	+ 3.121	1	40
4	3	A.C. Milan	Giorgio Pantano	31	+ 3.953	4	36
5	19	Tottenham Hotspur	Craig Dolby	31	+ 11.490	6	32
6	21	Liverpool F.C.	Adrián Vallés	31	+ 12.582	10	29
7	22	A.S. Roma	Jonathan Kennard	31	+ 16.415	7	26
8	16	F.C. Porto	Tristan Gommendy	31	+ 16.853	12	23
9	15	Atlético Madrid	Ho-Pin Tung	31	+ 23.533	13	20
10	24	FC Midtjylland	Kasper Andersen	31	+ 24.487	16	18
11	18	Sevilla FC	Esteban Guerrieri	31	+ 25.839	9	16
12	2	Sporting CP	Pedro Petiz	31	+ 1:05.223	18	14
13	4	Galatasaray S.K.	Scott Mansell	30	+ 1 Lap	17	12
14	69	Olympique Lyonnais	Nelson Panciatici	30	+ 1 Lap	14	10
15	5	PSV Eindhoven	Dominick Muermans	30	+ 1 Lap	15	8
16	8	R.S.C Anderlecht	Yelmer Buurman	7	Gearbox	8	7
17	9	Olympiacos CFP	Davide Rigon	3	Oil Pressure	2	6
18	7	Flamengo	Enrique Bernoldi	0	Spin	11	5
Fastest lap: Max Wissel (FC Basel 1893) 1:19.662 (112.967 mph)

Race 2

Pos	No	Team	Driver	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Pts.
1	16	F.C. Porto	Tristan Gommendy				50
2	2	Sporting CP	Pedro Petiz				45
3	10	FC Basel 1893	Max Wissel				40
4	19	Tottenham Hotspur	Craig Dolby				36
5	24	FC Midtjylland	Kasper Andersen				32
6	21	Liverpool F.C.	Adrián Vallés				29
7	15	Atlético Madrid	Ho-Pin Tung				26
8	14	SC Corinthians	Antônio Pizzonia				23
9	69	Olympique Lyonnais	Nelson Panciatici				20
10	22	A.S. Roma	Jonathan Kennard				18
11	5	PSV Eindhoven	Dominick Muermans				16
12	4	Galatasaray S.K.	Scott Mansell				14
13	18	Sevilla FC	Esteban Guerrieri				12
14	7	CR Flamengo	Enrique Bernoldi				10
15	9	Olympiacos CFP	Davide Rigon				8
16	17	Rangers F.C.	John Martin				7
17	3	A.C. Milan	Giorgio Pantano				6
DNS	8	R.S.C Anderlecht	Yelmer Buurman		Gearbox		0
Fastest lap: Antônio Pizzonia (SC Corinthians) ????

• Olympiacos CFP started from the pitlane.

Super Final

Pos	No	Team	Driver	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
1	17	Rangers F.C.	John Martin	5	6:43.077	3
2	19	Tottenham Hotspur	Craig Dolby	5	+ 3.750	6
3	10	FC Basel 1893	Max Wissel	5	+ 6.210	1
4	14	SC Corinthians	Antônio Pizzonia	5	+ 7.843	5
5	16	F.C. Porto	Tristan Gommendy	5	+ 10.009	2
6	2	Sporting CP	Pedro Petiz	5	+ 31.633	4
Fastest lap: Tristan Gommendy (F.C. Porto) 1:19.194 (113.635 mph)

Standings after the round

Pos	Team	Points
1	Liverpool F.C.	217
2	FC Basel 1893	207
3	Tottenham Hotspur	196
4	A.C. Milan	154
5	F.C. Porto	146

References

1. Bradley, Charles (2009-08-01). "Pizzonia takes pole in wash-out". autosport.com (Haymarket Publications). Archived from the original on 2009-08-05. Retrieved 2009-08-01.

External links

• Official results from the Superleague Formula website