GP2 rounds 1 & 2 Bahrain 2014

[skells22]

time for the GP2 cars to hit the Bahrain track for its normal two races

start times (please bear this in mind as its a F1 weekend and the F1 cars are using the lights) 11.10am Saturday april 5 and Sunday April 6 12.15pm.

[Mekola]

Vandoorne excelled with his maiden win in the series today.

[pauln]

"Chapeau" to those of you who've been bigging up Vandoorne. That was quite something.

[fergus_r]

Marciello is just as quick as Vandoorne, if not quicker, but not sure what happened to him in today's race. Looking forward to seeing what he can do tomorrow.

Great drive by Vandoorne though. Refreshing to see proper talent coming through.

[Go_For_Pole]

The race flattered him to a big degree. Talented as they are Vandoorne and Marciello can't be ready to win regurally yet.

[chunterer]

Vandoorne qualified second, got off the line better and had it all under control.
Superb debut, but ought not to be surprising, this is what proper talent can do in a field mainly made up of journeymen.

Marciello will surely come to the party sooner or later but I'm not sure he's as good as the Belgian.

Back to the race, Palmer recovered well and both Leal and Coletti shone but some guys showed well early on only to run out of rubber later whilst some tailenders who stayed out longer gobbled them all up on softs due to a ridiculous tyre advantage towards the end.

Not a good advert for 'real' ability is it?

Nasr was poor, expected him to be really on it this year.

Cecotto was the same irresponsible pedaller we've been used to for the last few years. This guy shouldn't be allowed a licence for god's sake.

[Tucky]

just got round to watching the races. great first race for Vandoorne. Cecotto, well, he's proved he's never going to change. Also Rossi has had a poor start to the year, really didn't expect him to end up last in both races.

[bella]

Originally Posted by fergus_r

Great drive by Vandoorne though. Refreshing to see proper talent coming through.

the thing about vandoorne is that he just does it. looking forward to seeing lots more of that throughout the season.

haven't had a chance to see the coverage but did he just mess the start up in race 2 and get lost? easy to do from 8th on the grid i guess.

[p-matt]

He fell to about 11th at the start and made contact with de Jong I think

[fergus_r]

If I remember correctly he also had secondary contact with Markelov, which damaged his front wing.

I thought both races were very good. Trummer surprised me in race two with his pace relative to Palmer, I thought he would drop away eventually.

[cappra250]

Originally Posted by fergus_r

If I remember correctly he also had secondary contact with Markelov, which damaged his front wing.

I thought both races were very good. Trummer surprised me in race two with his pace relative to Palmer, I thought he would drop away eventually.

Indeed he is the surprise. Having qualified P21 - 1.2 scs off and then making both races in the points with 'true' pace is something not a lot of people could have imagined.

That's why GP2 is so difficult to understand sometimes.

Vandoorne will fight for the tittle once he gets a proper understanding about the width of the GP2 front wing compared to the WSR car. He is the most talented driver in the grid.

[bella]

i have a feeling that ultimately, marciello may be quicker but vandoorne has everything else, and seems pretty good at managing his races. a similar scenario to the vandoorne/kvyat eurocup battle.

vandoorne does have a little bit of a habit of getting into trouble when he's in the midfield for whatever reason, but perhaps with a bit more practice that'll become something he's better at managing.

[ivanalesi]

Yeah, Marciello always has off weekends and then has huge pace weekends. I'm expecting Vandoorne to be a better racer, Marciello has done mostly F3 where you're not exactly using your race craft every race and in Abarth he surely wasn't the best racer.

[chunterer]

I think Stoffel is a significantly more talented driver but I need to see more of what Marciello can do before writing him off.

Of course ART may have got back on top of things again which would obviously help a great deal. Coletti seemed strong ish so RE are at least going to provide the tools for their drivers.

DAMS are still very strong too, I just can't believe they didn't manage to sign a proper hot shot?

[wsrgo94]

Can't help having a general underwhelming feeling about the results. Leal twice on the podium? Trummer getting his first top-three result since 2009? What's going on?!?