2009/10 GP2 Asia Off Season & 2010 GP2 Series off season discussions - Page 3

Rf1 Fan · 24 Sep 2009, 18:14 (Ref:2547470)

6-7-8 october - Jerez
10-11-12 november - Le Castellet

nicorossi · 24 Sep 2009, 21:21 (Ref:2547613)

Excellent thanks!

Spudy · 25 Sep 2009, 11:30 (Ref:2547931)

no, CVC owns GP2 and I'm sure Bernie will ensure the GP2 franchise is not affected by Briatore.

I think that Briatore will somehow worm his way back in anyway. I don't know why all these young drivers sign with him to be honest, he has such a bad rep for being difficult to work with.

ivanalesi · 25 Sep 2009, 13:27 (Ref:2547983)

There are just a few drivers rumoured to be in GP2 Asia and it's quite close to the season start, I think we may soon have some announcements from teams withdrawing from the championship.
It's doubtful they will have the will to operate on loss... may be ART will have Bianchi for a round or two and all the others...

ivanalesi · 25 Sep 2009, 13:29 (Ref:2547984)

I guess they are made to, if you want to be on the Renault radar - sign for me! RDD/Briatore doesn't even cover all the costs, as Red Bull or Toyota do.

sauber11 · 25 Sep 2009, 14:12 (Ref:2548007)

Chilton to race for Addax in Asia

Quote:

British Formula 3 race-winner Max Chilton will graduate to the GP2 Asia series this winter.

The younger brother of British Touring Car Championship star Tom will race for frontrunning squad Barwa Addax, which ran Russian racer Vitaly Petrov to second place in this season's main GP2 Series.

"I've got a two-day test at Jerez on October 5 and 6 and then we fly out two weeks later for the first race in Abu Dhabi," said 18-year-old Chilton, who scored his maiden outright British F3 win in his last race in the category at Brands Hatch last weekend.

"I feel a little bit nervous because I haven't driven the car yet, but we'll see how it goes and if the team think I'm quick enough then we'll do the main series next year."

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/78854

jab · 25 Sep 2009, 21:06 (Ref:2548289)

So this is what I've got so far for this season

DAMS (Fra)
TBA
TBA

Piquet GP (Brz)
TBA
TBA

Barwa Addax Team (Esp)
Max Chilton (GB)
TBA (Sergio Perez (Mex)?)

ART Grand Prix (Fra)
TBA (Jules Bianchi (Fra)?)
TBA

Durango (Ita) - participation in doubt
TBA (Stefano Coletti (Mon)?)
TBA

Arden International (GB)
TBA
TBA

Super Nova Racing (GB)
TBA
TBA

iSport International (GB)
TBA (Oliver Turvey (GB)?)
TBA

Trident Racing (Ita)
Plamen Kralev (Bul)
TBA

Qi-Meritus Mahara (Mal)
TBA
TBA

Ocean Racing Technology (Por)
TBA (Philipp Eng (Ger)?)
TBA

Scuderia Coloni (Ita)
TBA
TBA

David Price Racing (GB)
TBA (Michael Herck (Rom)?)
TBA (Johnny Cecotto Jr (Ven)?)

Possible drivers to look out for (other than drivers in '09 main series)
Marcus Ericsson (Swe)
Fabio Leimer (Swz)
Kevin Chen (Tai)
Hamad Al Fardan (Bah)
Charles Pic (Fra)
Alexander Rossi (USA)
Sakon Yamamoto (Jpn)

Also I see d'Ambrosio is to test for Racing Engineering. Eng is to test for Ocean, hence the link

Anyone else I've missed out

ptclaus98 · 25 Sep 2009, 21:30 (Ref:2548303)

I hope Rossi gets some money so he can have a go at this. It'd be good for him I think.

**chunterer** · 26 Sep 2009, 11:22 (Ref:2548536)

I'm not sure Rossi will be in the winter series but I suspect he will be testing both GP2 and FR3.5 cars with a view to 2010.

jab · 28 Sep 2009, 10:21 (Ref:2549608)

Looks likely that Loeb will test for DPR next week at Jerez, whilst there are rumours that some F1 drivers will participate in the GP2 Asia test in Abu Dhabi in order to learn the track

Spudy · 28 Sep 2009, 12:42 (Ref:2549694)

Loeb for DPR, I'll believe that when I see it!

I had wondered about the possibility of some teams testing F1 guys or running drivers like Di Grassi etc for just Abu Dhabi so they learn the circuit. Plus it gives the teams longer to decide on drivers as I suspect most drivers want to sign to teams for both Asia and Europe.

I wondered whether we might see Bruno Senna as it looks likely he will be in F1 in 2010 and a race there would help him. Could be iteresting!!

Wouldn't it be great to see Lewis, Nico, Senna, Glock back in GP2 cars again!

Spudy · 29 Sep 2009, 11:57 (Ref:2550450)

I can't believe it, Loeb is going to test for DPR. Could have picked a better team! I just thought it was some absurd rumour!

runshaw · 29 Sep 2009, 23:36 (Ref:2550899)

Fabio Onidi, Marco Bonanami and Will Bratt will all test for Coloni at Jerez. They are the title protagonists in Euroseries 3000 and whoever wins the title will race with Coloni in GP2 Asia.

ivanalesi · 30 Sep 2009, 08:11 (Ref:2551019)

This is probably the best prize for helping your career in Europe, they seem quite serious in developing Euroseries 3000.

WSR Fan · 30 Sep 2009, 10:37 (Ref:2551106)

As reported by Italiaracing.net, a few more drivers and the teams they will be with at the Jerez test:

Stefano Coletti - DAMS & Trident
Edoardo Piscopo - Trident
Alberto Valerio - Coloni
Filip Salaquarda - Trident

p-matt · 30 Sep 2009, 18:30 (Ref:2551440)

A sad state of affairs for GP2 Asia - they will only run at Abu Dhabi and Bahrain this year. Both circuits will host 2 rounds each.

I get that cost is the main factor behind it but you almost wonder why they have bothered doing GP2 Asia this year. They may as well have absorbed the F1 support events into the main series.

Lam Pak · 1 Oct 2009, 10:42 (Ref:2551796)

stop callin gp2 asia. call them gp2 arabic.

harman al-fardan is eagling one seat. i hop seeing jazeman jafar from malaysia too. he is going to 1malaysia f1 team soon.

Spudy · 1 Oct 2009, 11:29 (Ref:2551823)

I don't think we will see either if those two unless they have money to buy it. And Team Lotus have confirmed they will not be running malaysian drivers, they want to do it properly and will most likely go with a current F1 drivers.

Go_For_Pole · 2 Oct 2009, 13:57 (Ref:2552684)

Senna confirmed that he will test for iSport in Jerez

Rf1 Fan · 3 Oct 2009, 10:46 (Ref:2553144)

Fabio Leimer (IFM), Josef Kral (IFM), Rodolfo Gonzalez (GP2) and Charles Pic (FR 3.5) to ORT.

Mekola · 3 Oct 2009, 17:38 (Ref:2553363)

Argentinian Mariano Werner rumoured to test a GP2 car soon (but not specified when).

Mr Pink · 3 Oct 2009, 19:25 (Ref:2553421)

Jerome d'Ambrosio, Oliver Turvey and Marcus Ericsson are also to test with iSport according to gpupdate.net

jondownunder · 3 Oct 2009, 21:54 (Ref:2553475)

James Jakes back with Super Nova for GP2 Asia:
http://gp2.gpupdate.net/en/news/2009...at-super-nova/

ivanalesi · 5 Oct 2009, 09:44 (Ref:2554366)

Piscopo, Colletti, Ceccotto and Salaquarda will test for Trident at Jerez, Arabadzhiev will also be there, with Super Nova I think.

Albeckinho · 5 Oct 2009, 10:51 (Ref:2554426)

And some rich paydriver called Felipe Massa (?) will also be there, presumably with ART. Oh boy...

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