GP3 2010 R1 Catalunya

[F1 Prospects]

I personally am looking forward to seeing how this inaugural season turns out, especially with the the nice spread of drivers from around the world involved in the series. There is a fair amount of quality amongst those 30 drivers and I am particularly excited as a Canadian that both Wickens and Morad are racing in a series that has the potential to lead to better things.

[skells22]

who is on pole for today race and as my plans are up in the air can someone else post the race result with the word Spolier please just in case some people want to watch the GP3 race 1 on Euro Sport

[ivanalesi]

Very surprising session. Nigel Merker & Pal Varhaug on 1st row, drying track...
Can't post the times from GP3's site, because they're very weirdly edited & it takes lots of space.

[F1 Prospects]

Full qualifying results:
POS Car # DRIVER TEAM BEST LAPS
1 10 N. MELKER RSC Muecke Motorsport 1:52.602 14
2 23 P. VARHAUG Jenzer Motorsport 1:52.931 13
3 4 R. WICKENS Status Grand Prix 1:52.974 15
4 6 D. MORAD Status Grand Prix 1:53.311 15
5 7 J. JAKES Manor Racing 1:53.440 14
6 15 D. SMITH Carlin 1:53.600 15
7 2 E. GUTIERREZ Art Grand Prix 1:53.603 14
8 28 J. VERGNE Tech 1 Racing 1:53.765 13
9 11 R. VAN DER ZANDE RSC Muecke Motorsport 1:53.914 15
10 24 S. TRUMMER Jenzer Motorsport 1:53.983 14
11 17 F. GUIMARAES Addax Team 1:54.159 15
12 14 J. NEWGARDEN Carlin 1:54.329 15
13 8 R. HARYANTO Manor Racing 1:54.331 13
14 16 L. FORESTI Carlin 1:54.477 13
15 27 D. JUNCADELLA Tech 1 Racing 1:54.495 15
16 20 M. CHRISTENSEN MW Arden 1:54.658 13
17 21 M. MONRAS MW Arden 1:54.666 12
18 3 P. NUNES Art Grand Prix 1:54.686 14
19 18 P. SANCHEZ LOPEZ Addax Team 1:54.691 13
20 25 N. MULLER Jenzer Motorsport 1:54.726 13
21 22 L. CORDEIRO MW Arden 1:54.758 13
22 30 O. OAKES Atech CRS GP 1:54.817 13
23 26 D. SECHELARIU Tech 1 Racing 1:55.069 15
24 29 P. REITERER Atech CRS GP 1:55.394 13
25 12 T. HEGEWALD RSC Muecke Motorsport 1:55.643 14
26 5 I. LUKASHEVICH Status Grand Prix 1:55.927 15
27 9 A. QUAIFE-HOBBS Manor Racing 1:57.082 9
28 1 A. ROSSI Art Grand Prix 2:00.622 3
29 31 V. GHIRELLI Atech CRS GP 2:01.311 8

[ptclaus98]

Varhaug wins from Wickens and Gutierrez. Rossi makes up 20 places

[F1 Prospects]

All I can say is that Robert Wickens is the best genuine home grown Canadian to have a legitimate chance in F1 since Gilles Villeneuve. Yes I know Jacques was world champion but he essentially grew up in Europe. This kid has what it takes and he grew up in Canada.

Here are the official results. Newgarden and Lopez have been penalized for Race 2 for causing on track incidents (http://www.gp3series.com/news/2010-m...den-and-Lopez/)

POS NO DRIVER ENTRANT
1 23 Pal VARHAUG Jenzer Motorsport
2 4 Robert WICKENS Status Grand Prix
3 2 Esteban GUTIERREZ Art Grand Prix
4 15 Dean SMITH Carlin
5 28 Jean-Eric VERGNE Tech 1 Racing
6 24 Simon TRUMMER Jenzer Motorsport
7 16 Lucas FORESTI Carlin
8 1 Alexander ROSSI Art Grand Prix
9 7 James JAKES Manor Racing
10 21 Miki MONRAS MW Arden
11 27 Daniel JUNCADELLA Tech 1 Racing
12 3 Pedro NUNES Art Grand Prix
13 25 Nico MULLER Jenzer Motorsport
14 30 Oliver OAKES Atech CRS GP
15 11 Renger VAN DER ZANDE RSC Mucke Motorsport
16 19 Mirko BORTOLOTTI Addax Team
17 12 Tobias HEGEWALD RSC Mucke Motorsport
18 22 Leonardo CORDEIRO MW Arden
19 5 Ivan LUKASHEVICH Status Grand Prix
20 8 Rio HARYANTO Manor Racing
21 9 Adrian QUAIFE-HOBBS Manor Racing
22 26 Doru SECHELARIU Tech 1 Racing
Not Classified
29 Patrick REITERER Atech CRS GP
14 Josef NEWGARDEN Carlin
18 Pablo SANCHEZ LOPEZ Addax Team
20 Michael CHRISTENSEN MW Arden
10 Nigel MELKER RSC Mucke Motorsport
6 Daniel MORAD Status Grand Prix
17 Felipe GUIMARAES Addax Team
31 Vittorio GHIRELLI Atech CRS GP

[runshaw]

Good stuff by many drivers improving upon grid positions, I mentioned in the pre-season thread that Jenzer must be doing themselves a favour with Varhaug and Trummer staying on with them when they've already achieved success together. But what I don't get is the pace of Nigel Melker. IIRC, he was barely a midfield runner in Formula Renault, yet he claimed pole against a whole host of international drivers with several championships amongst them. How can you be like 20th in FR and then get pole in GP3?

[Bluewolf]

Does anyone one know if there's any kind of cable or dish feed for GP3 for us here in the U.S. -- As an American I want to see if Alex Rossi can actually compete with these excellent drivers from the rest of the world - weve had so many dissapointments. They do great in the states and then they end up being slightly better than average when they go to Europe -- and that's no way to get into F1 -- His move from the back was stellar -- but I've been dissapointed too many times for too many years -- But is it possible that finally America has actually produced a very talented open wheel road racer???

[Go_For_Pole]

any stream anyone?

[skells22]

i saw the 15 lap race this morning (due to be 16 but the old orange light came on as there was a car in the wrong place)

[gomick]

Originally Posted by Bluewolf

As an American I want to see if Alex Rossi can actually compete with these excellent drivers from the rest of the world - weve had so many dissapointments.

Seems he can - he won race 2

[F1 Prospects]

Originally Posted by gomick

Seems he can - he won race 2

Dominated actually! And Wickens is leading the championship so it was a good weekend for North Americans in Europe.

POS NO DRIVER ENTRANT
1 1 A. ROSSI Art Grand Prix
2 16 L. FORESTI Carlin
3 2 E. GUTIERREZ Art Grand Prix
4 4 R. WICKENS Status Grand Prix
5 15 D. SMITH Carlin
6 3 P. NUNES Art Grand Prix
7 7 J. JAKES Manor Racing
8 24 S. TRUMMER Jenzer Motorsport
9 25 N. MULLER Jenzer Motorsport
10 30 O. OAKES Atech CRS GP
11 27 D. JUNCADELLA Tech 1 Racing
12 22 L. CORDEIRO MW Arden
13 12 T. HEGEWALD RSC Mucke Motorsport
14 10 N. MELKER RSC Mucke Motorsport
15 18 P. SANCHEZ LOPEZ Addax Team
16 14 J. NEWGARDEN Carlin
17 29 P. REITERER Atech CRS GP
18 20 M. CHRISTENSEN MW Arden
19 5 I. LUKASHEVICH Status Grand Prix
20 17 F. GUIMARAES Addax Team
21 28 J. VERGNE Tech 1 Racing
22 6 D. MORAD Status Grand Prix
23 21 M. MONRAS MW Arden
24 11 R. VAN DER ZANDE RSC Mucke Motorsport
25 8 R. HARYANTO Manor Racing
26 9 A. QUAIFE- HOBBS Manor Racing
Not Classified
26 D. SECHELARIU Tech 1 Racing
23 P. VARHAUG Jenzer Motorsport
19 M. BORTOLOTTI Addax Team
Fastest lap 1 A. ROSSI Art Grand Prix

Unfortunately I have not seen any place where a GP3 race can be viewed in North America. During Speed's coverage of the GP2 race this morning they mentioned the two US drivers in GP3 by name but didn't even mention the fact that Rossi had won Race 2!

Maybe we can convince Speed to air a GP3 highlights package in between their non-stop NASCAR coverage (Sounds of Nascar, Nascar trivia, Nascar news, some stupid talent show judged by Nascar personell). We can only hope can't we....

[Bluewolf]

Originally Posted by gomick

Seems he can - he won race 2

Yes!!! and by over 10 seconds -- Congrads to Alex! -- also congrads are in order to Robert Wickens for leading the championship!

[Mach3]

Originally Posted by Bluewolf

Yes!!! and by over 10 seconds -- Congrads to Alex! -- also congrads are in order to Robert Wickens for leading the championship!

I was away this weekend, so have two questions really:

- Does anyone know where the races can be viewed (UK, so that might be a stupid question)...
- What is the general consensus on the racing? I was quite excited to see the start of this series so disappointed to have missed it, was the action good!?

Thanks, and good to see Wickens doing well, I have always been a fan and that only increased after seeing how he handled the Red Bull departure!

[chunterer]

Well it was scheduled to be shown on Eurosport2 yesterday evening about 7ish, but I missed it so have no idea if they did show it?

I suspect it will be repeated again this week, i'll check the guide.

Seems like there was some interesting racing out there though? Kudos to Rossi for earning the chance to dominate race 2 with that first race recovery.

Few people I thought might be closer to the front weren't and like runshaw i'm a bit concerned that a previously unfancied driver like Melker got on the pace.

Also Van Der Zande must be disappointed with his weekend as would people like Hegewald I'd guess?

Dean Smith seems to have put in too very solid drives though.

Maybe it's early days?

[ncng]

Any luck anyone with finding the GP3 live feed or race files to watch?

Want to be ready for Monaco!

Thanks-

Mark

[ncng]

For last weekends Catalunya race, the race re-broadcasts will be on the UK's
"Motor TV" http://freetubetv.net/index.php?view=7bW90b3JzdHY

The schedule is:
http://tvlistings.guardian.co.uk/search/?tvgSearchPhrase=gp3&tvgEpisodeID=23714247&tvgPageNumber=1

[Last2LiftOff]

Originally Posted by F1 Prospects

Maybe we can convince Speed to air a GP3 highlights package in between their non-stop NASCAR coverage (Sounds of Nascar, Nascar trivia, Nascar news, some stupid talent show judged by Nascar personell).

NASCAR river dancing.

[Last2LiftOff]

Originally Posted by ncng

For last weekends Catalunya race, the race re-broadcasts will be on the UK's
"Motor TV" http://freetubetv.net/index.php?view=7bW90b3JzdHY

The schedule is:
http://tvlistings.guardian.co.uk/search/?tvgSearchPhrase=gp3&tvgEpisodeID=23714247&tvgPageNumber=1

Can't seem to get that to work NC, darn!

[F1 Prospects]

Originally Posted by Last2LiftOff

Can't seem to get that to work NC, darn!

Not that it will help us out in the short term but Speed TV have announced Speed2 which will focus primarily on international racing series so hopefully GP3 will be part of the schedule. They have specified that they will be covering F2 and the F3 Euro Series amongst a whole slew of other series like BTCC and DTM so maybe there is hope for us in North America!

[Last2LiftOff]

Yeah, saw that Mark, thank you. Is NC's Motors TV feed working for you?

[Jamesy-18]

Originally Posted by ncng

Any luck anyone with finding the GP3 live feed or race files to watch?

Want to be ready for Monaco!

Thanks-

Mark

GP3 don't race at Monaco I believe.

[F1 Prospects]

Originally Posted by Jamesy-18

GP3 don't race at Monaco I believe.

No they do not. Only WSR 3.5 and GP2.