Subscribe

Sign up for free

  • Get quick access to your favorite articles

  • Manage alerts on breaking news and favorite drivers

  • Make your voice heard with article commenting.

Autosport Plus

Discover premium content
Subscribe

Hungary GP2: Red Bull's Gasly wins again in another Prema one-two

Prema's Red Bull Formula 1 protege Pierre Gasly scored his second GP2 victory with a comfortable win at the Hungaroring

Gasly converted pole position into victory ahead of his team-mate Antonio Giovinazzi, who resisted race long pressure from ART's Sergey Sirotkin to seal Prema's third one-two of its maiden GP2 season.

Gasly and Giovinazzi pulled clear from the start while Sirotkin fell back from the front row and battled his team-mate Nobuharu Matsushita and Norman Nato for third, a place the Russian eventually claimed from the Racing Engineering driver with a brave move at Turn 2 just before half-distance.

After the leaders came in to make their mandatory pitstops for hard tyres, it looked for a while as if Russian Time's Raffaele Marciello would threaten Gasly and the other early frontrunners as he started on hards and left it much later to pit and take on softs.

But the Italian could not close the gap after his stop and came home fourth, as Gasly racked up a second win in as many feature races and Giovinazzi resisted Sirotkin for second.

Rapax's Arthur Pic beat Matsushita to fifth, with Nato finishing seventh just ahead of his team-mate Jordan King, which gives the Briton his third consecutive sprint race pole.

It had seemed Arden's Jimmy Eriksson would seal that spot after running an extended first stint on the hard tyres to rise from 20th on the grid to the key eighth spot by lap 34 of the 36-lap race, but the Swede stopped on the final lap with mechanical trouble.

Artem Markelov and Mitch Evans rounded out the top 10 for Russian Time and Campos Racing, ahead of former championship leader Oliver Rowland and DAMS' Alex Lynn.

Gasly's win means he now leads the championship by seven points over Giovinazzi, with Marciello up to third ahead of Rowland.

RESULTS - 36 LAPS:

Pos Driver Team Gap
1 Pierre Gasly Prema Racing 55m29.672s
2 Antonio Giovinazzi Prema Racing 1.365s
3 Sergey Sirotkin ART Grand Prix 2.835s
4 Raffaele Marciello RUSSIAN TIME 7.616s
5 Arthur Pic Rapax 9.908s
6 Nobuharu Matsushita ART Grand Prix 12.861s
7 Norman Nato Racing Engineering 17.713s
8 Jordan King Racing Engineering 21.906s
9 Artem Markelov RUSSIAN TIME 22.101s
10 Mitch Evans Pertamina Campos Racing 23.980s
11 Oliver Rowland MP Motorsport 29.377s
12 Alex Lynn DAMS 34.050s
13 Gustav Malja Rapax 34.197s
14 Marvin Kirchhofer Carlin 36.420s
15 Daniel de Jong MP Motorsport 38.526s
16 Nicholas Latifi DAMS 42.371s
17 Luca Ghiotto Trident 51.757s
18 Sergio Canamasas Carlin 1m03.546s
19 Philo Paz Armand Trident 1m25.151s
20 Nabil Jeffri Arden International 1m28.055s
21 Jimmy Eriksson Arden International 1 Lap
22 Sean Gelael Pertamina Campos Racing 1 Lap

RACE TWO GRID

Pos Driver Team
1 Jordan King Racing Engineering
2 Norman Nato Racing Engineering
3 Nobuharu Matsushita ART Grand Prix
4 Arthur Pic Rapax
5 Raffaele Marciello RUSSIAN TIME
6 Sergey Sirotkin ART Grand Prix
7 Antonio Giovinazzi Prema Racing
8 Pierre Gasly Prema Racing
9 Artem Markelov RUSSIAN TIME
10 Mitch Evans Pertamina Campos Racing
11 Oliver Rowland MP Motorsport
12 Alex Lynn DAMS
13 Gustav Malja Rapax
14 Marvin Kirchhofer Carlin
15 Daniel de Jong MP Motorsport
16 Nicholas Latifi DAMS
17 Luca Ghiotto Trident
18 Sergio Canamasas Carlin
19 Philo Paz Armand Trident
20 Nabil Jeffri Arden International
21 Jimmy Eriksson Arden International
22 Sean Gelael Pertamina Campos Racing

Be part of the Autosport community

Join the conversation
Previous article GP2 Hungaroring: Red Bull's Gasly converts practice pace into pole
Next article Hungary GP2: Sergey Sirotkin beats Jordan King for first 2016 win

Top Comments

There are no comments at the moment. Would you like to write one?

Sign up for free

  • Get quick access to your favorite articles

  • Manage alerts on breaking news and favorite drivers

  • Make your voice heard with article commenting.

Autosport Plus

Discover premium content
Subscribe