GP2 2007, Who goes Where? - Page 8

Mekola · 27 Nov 2006, 21:50 (Ref:1776169)

I wonder if Risatti still has chances at Campos. Don't know if Scalabroni could have two Argentinians in his team.

hotwheels · 28 Nov 2006, 11:04 (Ref:1776521)

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Originally Posted by Mekola

I wonder if Risatti still has chances at Campos. Don't know if Scalabroni could have two Argentinians in his team.

Lopez is there definitely?

spider · 28 Nov 2006, 13:17 (Ref:1776630)

Sadly Jarvis hasn't been able to find the money to do GP2 so will be in an F3 seat next season

Sev · 28 Nov 2006, 13:53 (Ref:1776661)

He still has a chance for a WSR seat next year surely?

strider · 28 Nov 2006, 15:33 (Ref:1776706)

Interesting news from autosport.com about Carlin/DPR. Ernesto Viso likely to drive and Roly Vincini to engineer.

hotwheels · 28 Nov 2006, 15:54 (Ref:1776731)

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Originally Posted by strider

Interesting news from autosport.com about Carlin/DPR. Ernesto Viso likely to drive and Roly Vincini to engineer.

Wasn't Roly suppoused to leave Comtec and get back to his F3 project in the UK?

spider · 28 Nov 2006, 16:04 (Ref:1776737)

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Originally Posted by Sev

He still has a chance for a WSR seat next year surely?

He's told us he's in F3 next year...

**chunterer** · 28 Nov 2006, 17:02 (Ref:1776797)

That's fair enough - he's obviously realised a more than evens chance of the F3 title is a better bet than getting bogged down in the wrong drive in a higher category?

Back to the Carlin set up. Viso would be a good choice of driver as he'll be hungry to win the thing at his 3rd attempt and Vincini is a cracking engineer! I think that outfit would be in the hunt from the off?

strider · 28 Nov 2006, 17:39 (Ref:1776836)

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Originally Posted by hotwheels

Wasn't Roly suppoused to leave Comtec and get back to his F3 project in the UK?

That's what I'd heard, too, but I guess Trevor Carlin made him an offer he couldn't refuse.

Bezzen · 28 Nov 2006, 21:23 (Ref:1776970)

If Viso gets one seat, is the other seat up for grabs or has someone got that already?

I was just thinking... Danielsson is looking for a GP2 seat and well, he and Roly seemed to work pretty well together in WSR.

**chunterer** · 29 Nov 2006, 09:03 (Ref:1777216)

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Originally Posted by Bezzen

I was just thinking... Danielsson is looking for a GP2 seat and well, he and Roly seemed to work pretty well together in WSR.

Good thinking, it would be logical to continue with who you know, especially now that the I-Sport option has gone?

Sev · 29 Nov 2006, 11:10 (Ref:1777643)

So as a continued update:

Italics is speculated, bold is confirmed.

Code:

Art: Ammermüller, ?????
Minardi Piquet: Negrao, Rodriguez
iSport: Zuber, Glock
Super Nova: DiGrassi, ?????
Arden: Zaugg, ?????
FMS: Pizzonia, Tahinci
Trident: Hirate, ?????
RE: Villa, ?????
Dams: Lapierre, Nakajima
Carlin-DPR: Viso, ?????
BCN: Lopez, ?????
Durango: Perera, Fauzy
Campos: Pantano, Porteiro

That means only 7 seats left to fill, with Conway, Senna, Danielsson, Petrov, Filipi, Soucek, Parente and Maldonado at least in the chase for seats. So some people are going to be disappointed.

Any errors in my chart, please do point them out and I will try to fix.

Alfonso de Orleans · 29 Nov 2006, 11:21 (Ref:1777654)

How about:

Art: Ammermüller, di Grassi
Minardi Piquet: Negrao, Rodriguez
iSport: Zuber, Glock
Super Nova: ?????, ?????
Arden: Zaugg, Senna
FMS: Pizzonia, Tahinci
Trident: Hirate, ?????
RE: Villa, ?????
Dams: Lapierre, Nakajima
Carlin-DPR: Viso, Parente
BCN: Lopez, ?????
Durango: Piccione, Fauzy
Campos: Pantano, Valles

**chunterer** · 29 Nov 2006, 11:25 (Ref:1777658)

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Originally Posted by Sev

Code:

Art: Ammermüller, ?????
Minardi Piquet: Negrao, Rodriguez
iSport: Zuber, Glock
Super Nova: DiGrassi, ?????
Arden: Zaugg, ?????
FMS: Pizzonia, Tahinci
Trident: Hirate, ?????
RE: Villa, ?????
Dams: Lapierre, Nakajima
Carlin-DPR: Viso, ?????
BCN: Lopez, ?????
Durango: Perera, Fauzy
Campos: Pantano, Porteiro

That means only 7 seats left to fill, with Conway, Senna, Danielsson, Petrov, Filipi, Soucek, Parente and Maldonado at least in the chase for seats. So some people are going to be disappointed.

Any errors in my chart, please do point them out and I will try to fix.

The names you mention chasing seats are pretty on the mark I reckon.

However, I would expect that A Valles is more likely to be re-confirmed at Campos than F Porteiro. Reason being that Adrian Campos is Valles' manager and if he can't place him or doesn't want him in another team (I think he would do well in another outfit) he will run him again.

I'm also not yet sure if either Zaug or Perera will definitely be racing GP2 next season, they may well be in FR 3.5?

Sev · 29 Nov 2006, 13:27 (Ref:1777768)

In the news: Soucek is going to test for DPR in the next round of testing

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/55819

That'd be a good seat placement I think.

Sephirot1 · 29 Nov 2006, 16:37 (Ref:1777888)

What about:

ART: Ammermuller, Conway
Arden: Zaugg, Senna
ISport: Glock, Zuber
Minardi-Piquet: Negrao, Rodr�*guez
Fissichella Motorsport: Pizzonia, Tahnci
Campos: Pantano, Vallés
BCN: López, Garc�*a
SuperNova: di Grassi, Danielsson
Carlin-DPR: Viso, Soucek
Trident: Hirate, Maldonado
DAMS: Lapierre, Nakajima
Racing Engineering: Villa, Parente
Durango: Piccione, Filippi

strider · 29 Nov 2006, 17:13 (Ref:1777908)

It will be interesting to see who gets the other seat at ART. Senna and Di Grassi were the front-runners, and Mike Conway has only entered the frame since his Macau success.

**chunterer** · 29 Nov 2006, 17:20 (Ref:1777920)

Indeed, I don't see Mike at ART, although I suspect it will be a newcomer to the category partnering Ammermuller?

Re Maldonado, he's done a lot of laps for Enrique Scalabroni's team, so isn't there a good chance he'll be forming an all South American line up with Lopez at BCN?

strider · 29 Nov 2006, 17:44 (Ref:1777931)

My guess is Senna at ART, although Trident were interested in running or at least testing him.

Christian Bakkerud is also going to have a day with Carlin DPR at the end of the week - http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/55823

Alex K · 29 Nov 2006, 23:52 (Ref:1778191)

How about Parente in the second Carlin seat. He is well known to Trevor, but, unf., don't have that little extra bit of smt. known as 1M $$$.

Sev · 30 Nov 2006, 02:25 (Ref:1778234)

Yeah, Parente has been running for Carlin for years now. Frankly, they could do worse as well.

Looking at the numbers of seats/drivers, most will get a drive. As for the big seats, I'm picking Senna for ART and Conway for Arden.

cos · 30 Nov 2006, 14:02 (Ref:1778640)

Autosport says Razia and Hanley are the two candidates for the second Racing Engineering seat.

Daisy · 30 Nov 2006, 17:48 (Ref:1778863)

Hulkenberg will test for Super Nova soon. Not suprising because Super Nova is running the A1GP team. But the kid is quick, I would be a great addition to the grid.

Sev · 30 Nov 2006, 18:29 (Ref:1778901)

I would favour Hulkenburg to go for the ASM seat in F3 Euroseries he's reported to be involved with.

This is Supernova probably just getting in an early claim on him for 2008

SALEEN S7R · 30 Nov 2006, 22:59 (Ref:1779105)

In this weeks Autosport magazine there is a news item with a nice photo of Piquet driving the series test car with the modifed areo package. Has anyone seen this pic floating around online anywhere? I cant find it myself...