GP2 Imola

[Gaz]

Kovalainen quickest Foxy

[chunterer]

Cheers man, i'll start hunting for those times too....

Oh yes, forgot there was qualy today too....

[flexible-flyer]

heikki was fastest. bcn in the top 4 and carroll was third.

i think.

[strider]

If you can look at the Autosport site, it's all here (some very weird times): http://www.autosport-atlas.com/news.aspx?id=43612&s=10

[flexible-flyer]

i wish i was subscribed to the full autosport site

[chunterer]

Me too,

someone please hurry up and stick em on ere'!!!

[flexible-flyer]

italiaracing.net-

1 – Heikki Kovalainen – Arden – 1’35“344 – 9 giri
2 – Hiroki Yoshimoto – BCN – 1’35”532 - 11
3 – Adam Carroll – Super Nova –1’35”605 - 14
4 – Ernesto Viso – BCN – 1’35”676 - 12
5 – Gianmaria Bruni – Coloni – 1’35”706 - 13
6 – Ferdinando Monfardini – Durango – 1’36”585 - 14
7 – Alexandre Premat – ART – 1’37”007 - 8
8 – Alexandre Negrao – Hitech/Piquet – 1’37”308 - 16
9 – Juan Cruz Alvarez – Campos – 1’37”631 - 10
10 – Can Artam – Isport – 1’37”876 - 11
11 – Neel Jani – Racing Engineering – 1’37”970 - 8
12 – Mathias Lauda – Coloni – 1’38”082 - 13
13 – Scott Speed – Isport – 1’38”739 - 5
14 – Sergio Hernandez – Campos – 1’39”319 - 9
15 – Nelson Piquet – Hitech/Piquet – 1’42 »001 - 5
16 – Nicolas Lapierre – Arden – 1’51 »199 - 3
17 – Clivio Piccione – Durango – 1’52”353 - 2
18 – Giorgio Pantano – Super Nova – 1’57”446 - 2

Senza tempo
Jose Maria Lopez, Fairuz Fauzy, Olivier Pla, Ryan Sharp, Borja Garcia, Nico Rosberg

[flexible-flyer]

so many drivers had problems and heikki didnt even doa full session. he waited til the track was up to speed and went way faster than anyone!

weird session.

[Sato san]

ah some times...nice one .

Viso up there , thats good to see .


is there any live timing around ?...you would think there would be for a series as big as this .

[strider]

Sorry I can't do a cut and paste, but the top ten were Kovalainen from Yoshimoto, Carroll, Viso, Bruni, Monfardini, Premat, Negrao, Alvarez and Artam.

There seemed to be a lot of problems, mostly electrical, and six drivers failed to set a time. Speed was 13th, Piquet 15th and Pantano 18th. Weird, as I said and, to be brutally honest, not very encouraging.

[Fan]

Good to see Artam doing well...

[flexible-flyer]

only 30 minutes isnt right imo. they should have about 3 quarters of an hour or more. surely.

i guess the teething troubles is all part of a brand new series....im sure they will be sorted soon.

[strider]

The teething problems should all have been sorted out in pre-season testing. I'd say there will be some red faces after this.

[chunterer]

Oh dear, not good.

Hey, lets not start knocking it just yet, they haven't even had a race yet!

But 1m35s hmmm..... i thought would be closer to F1 pace than that, F3000 was 15 secs off F1 and these cars are supposed to be much quicker?

Good to see AC having a good run though, but Kovalainnen very good to

[samurai]

the results prove it - a real stepstone to f1

3 sec. faster than last years f3000 and still more than 14 sec. behind f1; and even 8 sec. behind the minardis

6 out of 24 cars couldn't do one flying lap due to problems, 9 cars were able to do a total of 9 laps all together - so at least no engine with this amount of laps will blow up

what a great car for a great price ... drivers pay up to eur 1,2 mio for their "drive" - "drivers" just be careful not breaking your neck with this "stepstone"



those who made the money with the series so far have a good laugh now - but how about the future?

lets have a new question: how many cars will finish on sat and sun??? i bet for less than 9 cars

[Fiorentina 1]

Samurai, dude it's only the first practice of the first race.......

[Dontchange]

It's not a good result as I have excepted..these Japanese drivers did pretty good.
Hope Speed will do good in the real racing.

[sceptic]

The electrical problems were caused by a new part which the teams haven't used before, hence the problem couldn't have been ironed out in testing.

They are going back to the spec they used in the Barcelona test for this afternoon, so everyone will be able to run more reliably.

[Dontchange]

Here I couldn't watch the racing on TV..What a shame! I have to seeing about the news on internet...so agonoze~~~~

[DEADDUCK]

Where can we watch the race on TV and what times?

[newoutsider]

I think its live on eurosport

[BobN]

Can someone post the schedule for the weekend? I see one practice session so far. When is qual for race 1?

GP2 site (with no schedule) is NOT much help in following anything about the series.

Thanks.

[Mekola]

From another forum I found qualifying results:

Pole: Lapierre
2. Pantano
3. Lopez
4. Viso
5. Kovalainen
6. Speed
7. Carroll
8. Piquet
9. Bruni
10. Alvarez
11. Rosberg
12. Jani
13. Sharp
14. Monfardini
15. Pla
16. Negrao
17. Premat
18. Artam
19. Garcia
20. Lauda
21. Fauzy
22. Hernandez
23. Piccione
Yoshimoto no time.

[Sato san]

Carroll and Piquet together....just like old times ...ahhh ..

[BobN]

Mekola, thanks for the qual info. What site did you find it on? It doesn't seem many sites are interested in keeping the info up to date during the event weekend.