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05/11/2008 - 07:18 AM
Istanbul, Turkey
Grojean comes back to the title fight with his Hockenheim race 1 win. (LAT Photo) ยป More Photos
Romain Grosjean claimed his first win of the season today after pressuring early leader Vitaly Petrov all through the first half of race two in Istanbul, taking the lead and walking away in the latter stages for a dominant victory ahead of Petrov and Sébastien Buemi.
While the French driver celebrated on the podium the sympathy of everyone in the pitlane was with Bruno Senna, who drove an incredible race to move up from fifteenth on the grid to have a certain points finish destroyed when he struck a stray dog which had somehow found its way onto the track, breaking his right front suspension and immediately retiring from sixth place.
At the start Petrov made a storming start from fourth to claim the top spot into the first turn, while Grosjean slightly pushed Karun Chandhok into polesitter Adam Carroll, allowing Buemi and Javier Villa to line up behind the Russian driver but ahead of the Frenchman as they tore up the hill. Behind them however was mayhem, and when the dust settled eight drivers were out on the spot, with the safety car immediately coming out.
At the restart Grosjean wasted no time in getting by Villa, who was also passed by teammate Giorgio Pantano a few corners later. The order was shaking out all through the field as the drivers made up for the lack of overtaking yesterday by attacking all over the circuit, although Chandhok and Villa took it a little too far and an inevitable contact put the pair into spins which would delete any chance they had of scoring in the race.
Senna, in particular, looked unstoppable as he set a string of fastest laps to move up into the points paying positions. The Brazilian was in sixth position and looking certain of more on lap 10 when he struck the dog coming into the final complex: he limped back to the pits before storming away, clearly fuming at the situation he found himself in. Just one lap later Grosjean's race long pressure finally paid dividends as he slide inside Petrov at the end of the back straight to claim a lead which he would never look like relinquishing.
When another dog ran on track the safety car had to be brought back out, compacting the field for the final run to the flag, but Grosjean was imperious at the restart and just disappeared, while Petrov's mirrors were full of Buemi's
Pantano's fourth place was enough to maintain his lead in the championship with 24, with Grosjean moving up to second with 19 points ahead of Buemi on 14 and Andreas Zuber with 13 points, setting up an intriguing battle to come in Monaco. Racing Engineering is leading the Teams’ Championship ahead of ART Grand Prix, Trust Team Arden and iSport International.
GP2 Series – Turkey race 2 results:
1) Romain Grosjean, ART Grand Prix, 41:53.377
2) Vitaly Petrov, Campos Team, + 8.019
3) Sebastien Buemi, Arden, + 8.447
4) Giorgio Pantano, Racing Engineering, + 9.897
5) Mike Conway, Trident Racing, + 11.508
6) Benjamin Hanley, Campos Team, + 12.847
7) Alberto Valerio, Durango, + 14.150
8) Alvaro Parente, Super Nova Racing, + 16.329
9) Kamui Kobayashi, DAMS, + 17.533
10) Diego Nunes, DPR, + 24.392
11) Giacomo Ricci, DPR, + 24.850
12) Karun Chandhok, iSport International, + 25.743
13) Roldan Rodriguez, FMS International, + 26.094
14) Luca Filippi, ART Grand Prix, + 26.450
15) Javier Villa, Racing Engineering, + 27.449
16) Milos Pavlovic, BCN Competicion, +1:24.665
Retirements:
Bruno Senna, iSport International, 11
Adam Carroll, FMS International, 0
Andreas Zuber, Piquet Sports, 0
Adrian Valles, BCN Competicion, 0
Ho-Pin Tung, Trident Racing, 0
Yelmer Buurman, Team Arden, 0
Andy Soucek, Super Nova Racing, 0
Jerome D'Ambrosio, DAMS, 0
Pastor Maldonado, Piquet Sports, 0
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