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 |
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