2012 Silverstone GP2 and GP3 Series rounds
The 2012 Silverstone GP2 Series round and the 2012 Silverstone GP3 Series round was a group of motor races held at the Silverstone Circuit in Great Britain for the GP2 and GP3 Series championships.[1][2] The races, held on 7 and 8 July, were in support of the British Formula One Grand Prix. The GP2 races were the seventh round of the 2012 GP2 championship, while the GP3 races formed the fourth round of the 2012 GP3 season.
Trident Racing entered a third car for Giovanni Venturini in the GP3 category, making the Silverstone rounds the first time the GP3 Series had been run with a full twenty-seven car grid in 2012.[3]
Mexican Esteban Gutierrez won the feature race while Brazilian Luiz Razia won the sprint race. Series leader Valsecchi was penalized and sent to the back of the starting grid due to the infringement of a technical regulation related to the quantity of fuel available after the qualifying session. As a result, Razia ended up leading the GP2 Championship after Silverstone.[4]
GP2 Series classification
Qualifying
Notes
- ^1 — Stefano Coletti, Felipe Nasr and Marcus Ericsson were all excluded from qualifying for technical irregularities, and moved to the back of the grid.[6]
- ^2 — Giedo van der Garde was given a ten-place grid penalty for overtaking another car during a red-flag period.[6]
- ^3 — Davide Valsecchi was given a ten-place grid penalty for overtaking another car during a red-flag period, but was then found to be in violation of the same regulation as Coletti, Nasr and Ericsson, and was moved to the back of the grid.
Feature race
Sprint race
GP3 Series classification
Qualifying
Notes:
- ^1 — David Fumanelli and Alice Powell were both given two place grid penalties for taking the chequered flag twice at the end of the Qualifying session.[10]
- ^2 — Tamás Pál Kiss wash given a ten-place grid penalty for ignoring yellow flags during the first practice session.[11]
- ^3 — Ethan Ringel was given a ten-place gird penalty for ignoring yellow flags during the first practice session. He later received a two-place grid penalty for taking the chequered flag twice at the end of qualifying. As Ringel qualified twenty-sixth of the twenty-six drivers to set a lap time, and so started the feature race from the back of the grid.[11]
- ^4 — Carmen Jordá was given a two-place grid penalty for taking the chequered flag twice at the end of qualifying.[10] However, as she did not set a lap time within 107% of Mitch Evans' pole position time, she was not given permission to start the race.
Race 1
Race 2
Notes:
- ^1 — Robert Visoiu finished Race 1 in twelfth position, but received a three-place grid penalty for crossing the finish line twice at the end of the race, and so started Race 2 from fifteenth position.[14]
Footnotes
- ↑ The GP2 Series feature race was scheduled to take place over 29 laps. However, heavy rain prompted race stewards to shorten the race to the first full lap after one hour of racing.
Standings after the round
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- Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
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- Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
References
- ↑ Collantine, Keith (16 December 2011). "GP2 to support F1 in Singapore, Bahrain and Malaysia". F1 Fanatic (Keith Collantine). Retrieved 13 May 2012.
- ↑ "2012 GP3 Series Calendar". GP3 Series (GP2 Motorsport Limited). 16 December 2011. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
- ↑ "Trident Racing join forces with Venturini". GP3 Series (GP2 Motorsport Limited). 3 July 2012. Retrieved 3 July 2012.
- ↑ "2012 GP2 Series Championship Silverstone Update". GrandPrixRankings.com. Retrieved July 25, 2012.
- ↑ Bradley, Charles (6 July 2012). "Fabio Leimer fastest for Racing Engineering in wet GP2 qualifying at Silverstone". Autosport.com (Haymarket Publications). Retrieved 7 July 2012.
- 1 2 "Five drivers penalised after qualifying". GP2series.com (GP2 Series). 6 July 2012.
- ↑ Bradley, Charles (7 July 2012). "Esteban Gutierrez wins Silverstone GP2 feature race for Lotus". Autosport.com (Haymarket Publications). Retrieved 8 July 2012.
- ↑ Bradley, Charles (8 July 2012). "Luiz Razia beats GP2 title rival Davide Valsecchi to Silverstone victory". Autosport.com (Haymarket Publications). Retrieved 8 July 2012.
- ↑ Bradley, Charles (7 July 2012). "Evans beats title rival Vainio to pole in dry qualifying session at Silverstone". Autosport.com (Haymarket Publications). Retrieved 7 July 2012.
- 1 2 "Post Qualifying Grid Penalties". Gp3series.com. GP3 Series. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
- 1 2 "Grid penalties for Pal Kiss and Ringel". GP3series.com (GP3 Series). 6 July 2012. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
- ↑ van de Burgt, Andrew (7 July 2012). "Antonio Felix da Costa beats title rivals Mitch Evans and Aaro Vainio to Silverstone GP3 victory". Autosport.com (Haymarket Publications). Retrieved 8 July 2012.
- ↑ Bradley, Charles (8 July 2012). "Will Buller wins GP3 race two at Silverstone from last on grid". Autosport.com (Haymarket Publications). Retrieved 8 July 2012.
- ↑ "Visoiu penalised after Race 1 in Silverstone". GP3series.com (GP3 Series). 7 July 2012. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
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