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Barcelona GP2: Binder, Coletti, Daly and de Jong all penalised

Rene Binder has lost his front row start for Sunday's Barcelona GP2 race after being among the drivers given post-race penalties for Saturday's round

Binder had finished seventh, which meant he was set to start second behind rookie Tio Ellinas on the reversed-grid for Sunday morning's sprint race.

But Binder, 12th-placed Stefano Coletti and 17th-placed Conor Daly all had 20 seconds added to their race time for yellow flag infringements.

Binder and Daly were both penalised for failing to slow sufficiently, while Coletti's punishment was for going off the road while double waved yellows were out.

That dropped them to 15th, 16th and 18th respectively.

Daniel de Jong has also been given a penalty, in his case a 10-place grid drop for an unsafe pit release after losing a wheel from his MP car on-track following his pitstop.

As there were insufficient cars behind the Dutchman, who retired, in the results for him to take a full 10-place demotion, he will have to start race two from the pitlane.

The penalties mean Tom Dillmann, Binder's temporary Arden team-mate due to back issues for Andre Negrao, becomes Sunday's polesitter, as he moves up to eighth in the race one results. Ellinas will now start second.

Revised results - 36 laps:

Pos  Driver              Team                    Time/Gap  
 1.  Johnny Cecotto      Trident             1h00m28.853s
 2.  Jolyon Palmer       DAMS                     +3.409s
 3.  Felipe Nasr         Carlin                   +3.750s
 4.  Julian Leal         Carlin                   +6.128s
 5.  Rio Haryanto        Caterham                +15.895s
 6.  Arthur Pic          Campos                  +16.842s
 7.  Tio Ellinas         MP                      +18.407s
 8.  Tom Dillmann        Arden                   +20.565s
 9.  Adrian Quaife-Hobbs Rapax                   +21.265s
10.  Stephane Richelmi   DAMS                    +21.460s
11.  Artem Markelov      Russian Time            +22.233s
12.  Simon Trummer       Rapax                   +22.804s
13.  Stoffel Vandoorne   ART                     +23.397s
14.  Mitch Evans         Russian Time            +23.630s
15.  Rene Binder         Arden                   +37.682s*
16.  Stefano Coletti     Racing Engineering      +41.847s*
17.  Sergio Canamasas    Trident                 +42.769s
18.  Conor Daly          Lazarus                 +45.415s*
19.  Kimiya Sato         Campos                  +48.653s
20.  Takuya Izawa        ART                     +52.965s

* 20s penalty

Retirements:            

     Daniel de Jong      MP                       26 laps
     Alexander Rossi     Caterham                 18 laps
     Nathanael Berthon   Lazarus                   3 laps
     Daniel Abt          Hilmer                     1 lap
     Raffaele Marciello  Racing Engineering        0 laps
     Facu Regalia        Hilmer                    0 laps

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