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2010 Bahrain International Circuit GP2 Asia Series round (February)

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Bahrain    2010 Bahrain GP2 round
Round details
Round 3 of 4 rounds in the
2010 GP2 Series
Bahrain International Circuit
Bahrain International Circuit
Location Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir, Bahrain
Course Permanent racing facility
5.554 km (3.451 mi)
Feature race
Date 26 February 2010
Laps 34
Pole position
Driver France Jules Bianchi ART Grand Prix
Time 1:43.474
Podium
First Italy Davide Valsecchi iSport International
Second Italy Luca Filippi MalaysiaQi-Meritus.com
Third Spain Javier Villa Arden International
Fastest lap
Driver Spain Javier Villa Arden International
Time 1:47.035 (on lap 10)
Sprint race
Date 27 February 2010
Laps 23
Podium
First France Charles Pic Arden International
Second Italy Giacomo Ricci DPR
Third Spain Javier Villa Arden International
Fastest lap
Driver France Jules Bianchi[a] ART Grand Prix
Time 1:46.499 (on lap 9)

The 2009–10 Bahrain 1st GP2 Asia round was the third round of the 2009-10 GP2 Asia Series season. It was held on February 26 and 27, 2010 at Bahrain International Circuit at Sakhir, Bahrain, together with 2010 V8 Supercar Championship Series 2010 Desert 400. It was the first of two rounds to be held at the circuit, the other being the 2009-10 Bahrain 2nd GP2 Asia round. The layout used for this Race will not be used for the following event, as it acts as a F1 Support race.

Report

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Feature race

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Despite Jules Bianchi starting on Pole, Davide Valsecchi clinched the GP2 Asia title with three rounds to spare by winning in the Bahrain feature race. The iSport driver lurked in third for most of the distance, before mounting another late surge which has become his characteristic this year, to overcome Arden's Javier Villa and Meritus' Luca Filippi and claim his third victory in five rounds. With Valsecchi's nearest rival and team-mate Oliver Turvey delayed in the pits and unable to score, the win gave Valsecchi an insurmountable points lead. Filippi and Villa burst from the second row into the lead at the start, while polesitter Jules Bianchi (ART) immediately fell out of contention for victory for a very poor start. Villa looked faster than Filippi in the opening laps, but with no way past on track, he dived in for an early stop. The extra speed on fresh tyres paid dividends for Villa, and by the time the pitstops were complete he was in the lead ahead of Filippi and Valsecchi.

As has been the case throughout the championship, Valsecchi got quicker and quicker as the race progressed. An initial dive-bomb move on Filippi for second saw him skitter over the run-off at the Turn 10 hairpin, but he quickly regrouped and passed his countryman into Turn 1 with six laps to go. He then caught Villa in just one lap and took the lead with a straightforward outbraking move - only to then run wide at Turn 10 later in the lap and hand first place back again. It was only a brief respite for Villa though, as Valsecchi soon repassed him into the first corner and pulled away to secure victory. Villa lost more pace as his tyres faded, allowing Filippi to drive around the outside of him and take second. DPR's Giacomo Ricci came within 0.2 seconds of depriving Villa of third too as they diced on the final lap. Charles Pic took the second Arden car to fifth ahead of Coloni's returnee Alvaro Parente and Addax's Sergio Pérez. Adrian Zaugg got quicker throughout the race on his return with Trident, charging past Turvey and Bianchi in the closing stages to claim eighth and pole for race two. Turvey had lost several places in his pitstop with a wheelgun problem while Bianchi never got up to speed after dropping down the order at the start.

Sprint race

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In race 2 Charles Pic earned his first GP2 Asia/GP2 win by breaking away from the early chaos in the Bahrain Sprint race. The Frenchman overtook initial leader Adrian Zaugg and then escaped from his pursuers while they spent the next few laps tripping over each other. For much of the race it looked like Arden would score a one-two, with Pic's team-mate Javier Villa all over the back of second placed Giacomo Ricci. But the latter picked up his pace later on and charged away to secure DPR's third podium finish in the last two events. Having gained pole position on the partially reversed grid thanks to his eighth place yesterday, Zaugg (Trident) led into the first corners while Coloni's Alvaro Parente and Addax's Sergio Pérez fought for second. The pair ended up banging wheels approaching Turn 4, leaving Pérez with a broken wing and sending Parente spinning into the barriers as his apparently wounded car broke loose on the following downhill sweeps. There was more contact further down the pack, and newly crowned champion Davide Valsecchi (iSport) had to pit for a new wing, while race one podium finisher Luca Filippi (Meritus) spun down the order. Leader Zaugg did not have the pace to pull away and soon had Pic, Ricci, ART's fast-starting Jules Bianchi and Villa queuing up behind him.

Pic dived ahead at the end of the backstraight on lap four, with Ricci then following him in the next corner. As Zaugg tried to fight back, Bianchi got alongside him as well, with all three cars wheel to wheel through the last turn, down the pitstraight and into the first complex - where it ended in tears as contact damaged Zaugg and Bianchi's cars. That settled the top three positions, Pic having pulled clear and Ricci eventually dropping Villa and securing second. Rapax's Daniel Zampieri had emerged from the mayhem in fourth, but was hunted down as the race progressed - Sam Bird (ART) and Edoardo Piscopo (DAMS) demoting him in the closing stages. Zampieri then handed the final point to iSport's Oliver Turvey when he ran wide while trying to fend off the Briton with two laps to go, and also dropped behind his charging Rapax team-mate Vladimir Arabadzhiev. Turvey's sixth place ensured that iSport wrapped up the teams' title alongside Valsecchi's drivers' crown. Among the other incidents in the race, Meritus driver Alexander Rossi received a ten place grid penalty for the next round after forcing Ocean's Fabio Leimer off the track. The American eventually broke his front wing on the back of Leimer's car and then slid into Coloni's Will Bratt, ending both their races early.

Classification

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Qualifying

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Pos No Driver Team Time Gap Grid
1 7 France Jules Bianchi ART Grand Prix 1:43.474 1
2 17 Italy Davide Valsecchi iSport International 1:43.478 +0.004 2
3 12 Spain Javier Villa Arden International 1:43.519 +0.045 3
4 20 Italy Luca Filippi MalaysiaQi-Meritus.com 1:43.523 +0.049 4
5 24 Portugal Álvaro Parente Scuderia Coloni 1:43.714 +0.240 5
6 16 United Kingdom Oliver Turvey iSport International 1:43.818 +0.344 6
7 27 Italy Giacomo Ricci DPR 1:43.918 +0.444 7
8 1 Germany Christian Vietoris DAMS 1:44.086 +0.612 8
9 11 France Charles Pic Arden International 1:44.172 +0.698 9
10 6 Mexico Sergio Pérez Barwa Addax Team 1:44.246 +0.772 10
11 8 United Kingdom Sam Bird ART Grand Prix 1:44.253 +0.779 11
12 2 Italy Edoardo Piscopo DAMS 1:44.338 +0.864 12
13 5 United Kingdom Max Chilton Barwa Addax Team 1:44.617 +1.143 13
14 26 Romania Michael Herck DPR 1:44.671 +1.197 14
15 21 United States Alexander Rossi MalaysiaQi-Meritus.com 1:44.713 +1.239 15
16 22 Netherlands Yelmer Buurman Ocean Racing Technology 1:44.724 +1.250 16
17 3 Bulgaria Vladimir Arabadzhiev Rapax 1:44.759 +1.285 17
18 18 South Africa Adrian Zaugg Trident Racing 1:44.781 +1.307 18
19 4 Italy Daniel Zampieri Rapax 1:45.079 +1.605 19
20 25 United Kingdom Will Bratt Scuderia Coloni 1:45.320 +1.846 20
21 23 Switzerland Fabio Leimer Ocean Racing Technology 1:45.371 +1.897 21
22 15 Czech Republic Josef Král Super Nova Racing 1:45.424 +1.950 22
23 14 United States Jake Rosenzweig Super Nova Racing 1:45.980 +2.506 23
24 19 Bulgaria Plamen Kralev Trident Racing 1:47.243 +3.769 24

Feature race

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Pos No Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 17 Italy Davide Valsecchi iSport International 34 1:02.05.146 2 10
2 20 Italy Luca Filippi MalaysiaQi-Meritus.com 34 +2.792 4 8
3 12 Spain Javier Villa Arden International 34 +6.067 3 6+1
4 27 Italy Giacomo Ricci DPR 34 +6.238 7 5
5 11 France Charles Pic Arden International 34 +13.026 9 4
6 24 Portugal Álvaro Parente Scuderia Coloni 34 +17.777 5 3
7 6 Mexico Sergio Pérez Barwa Addax Team 34 +23.948 10 2
8 18 South Africa Adrian Zaugg Trident Racing 34 +25.479 18 1
9 16 United Kingdom Oliver Turvey iSport International 34 +29.253 6
10 7 France Jules Bianchi ART Grand Prix 34 +33.238 1 2
11 4 Italy Daniel Zampieri Rapax 34 +34.509 19
12 22 Netherlands Yelmer Buurman Ocean Racing Technology 34 +39.513 16
13 8 United Kingdom Sam Bird ART Grand Prix 34 +40.415 11
14 1 Germany Christian Vietoris DAMS 34 +41.750 8
15 2 Italy Edoardo Piscopo DAMS 34 +45.779 12
16 25 United Kingdom Will Bratt Scuderia Coloni 34 +46.803 20
17 3 Bulgaria Vladimir Arabadzhiev Rapax 34 +48.577 17
18 5 United Kingdom Max Chilton Barwa Addax Team 34 +1:05.086 13
19 14 United States Jake Rosenzweig Super Nova Racing 34 +1:06.211 23
20 23 Switzerland Fabio Leimer Ocean Racing Technology 34 +1:23.385 21
21 15 Czech Republic Josef Král Super Nova Racing 34 +1:53.049 22
22 19 Bulgaria Plamen Kralev Trident Racing 33 +1 lap 24
23 26 Romania Michael Herck DPR 32 +2 laps 14
Ret 21 United States Alexander Rossi MalaysiaQi-Meritus.com 26 DNF 15

Sprint race

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Pos No Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 11 France Charles Pic Arden International 23 41:11.960 4 6
2 27 Italy Giacomo Ricci DPR 23 +3.586 5 5+1
3 12 Spain Javier Villa Arden International 23 +9.371 6 4
4 8 United Kingdom Sam Bird ART Grand Prix 23 +22.388 13 3
5 2 Italy Edoardo Piscopo DAMS 23 +23.193 15 2
6 16 United Kingdom Oliver Turvey iSport International 23 +25.110 9 1
7 3 Bulgaria Vladimir Arabadzhiev Rapax 23 +25.866 17
8 4 Italy Daniel Zampieri Rapax 23 +28.950 11
9 1 Germany Christian Vietoris DAMS 23 +32.499 14
10 22 Netherlands Yelmer Buurman Ocean Racing Technology 23 +33.076 12
11 15 Czech Republic Josef Král Super Nova Racing 23 +33.489 21
12 5 United Kingdom Max Chilton Barwa Addax Team 23 +36.437 18
13 26 Romania Michael Herck DPR 23 +36.694 23
14 14 United States Jake Rosenzweig Super Nova Racing 23 +47.789 19
15 23 Switzerland Fabio Leimer Ocean Racing Technology 23 +49.289 20
16 19 Bulgaria Plamen Kralev Trident Racing 23 +1:27.838 22
17 6 Mexico Sergio Pérez Barwa Addax Team 23 +1:29.653 2
18 20 Italy Luca Filippi MalaysiaQi-Meritus.com 23 +1:36.832 7
19 18 South Africa Adrian Zaugg Trident Racing 22 +1 lap 1
20 17 Italy Davide Valsecchi iSport International 22 +1 lap 8
NC 7 France Jules Bianchi ART Grand Prix 19 +4 laps 10
Ret 25 United Kingdom Will Bratt Scuderia Coloni 2 DNF 16
Ret 21 United States Alexander Rossi MalaysiaQi-Meritus.com 2 DNF 24
Ret 24 Portugal Álvaro Parente Scuderia Coloni 0 DNF 3

Standings after the race

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  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Jules Bianchi set the fastest lap, but did not finish in the top 10, so was ineligible to be the point-scorer for the fastest lap. Giacomo Ricci was the point-scorer instead for setting the fastest lap of those finishing in the top 10.


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