GP2 Hungary: McLaren F1 junior Stoffel Vandoorne takes second win
McLaren Formula 1 junior Stoffel Vandoorne scored his second GP2 victory of the season for ART Grand Prix at the Hungaroring on Sunday morning
From second on the grid, Vandoorne outdragged reversed-grid polesitter Nathanael Berthon into Turn 1, and was followed through by Felipe Nasr from P3.
From fifth on the grid, points leader Jolyon Palmer made a poor getaway but rescued fifth place by passing yesterday's winner Arthur Pic at Turn 2 on the opening lap.
He then passed Daniel Abt for fourth at Turn 1 on lap two, and then Berthon for third at Turn 2 on lap five.
Palmer chased down Nasr and the two title protagonists, who battled mightily on Saturday, duelled once again.
Palmer pulled a similarly-robust move on Nasr at Turn 1 on lap seven, with Nasr complaining over the radio.
Stewards investigated the move, but took no action, and the drivers also argued after the race on the weighing scales after the race.
Once up to second, Palmer got to within 1.3s of Vandoorne, but slipped back to 3.3s in arrears when his front-left tyre went off towards the end of the race.
"Finally another victory," said Vandoorne on his in-lap.
Nasr caught up with Palmer again, but finished just under a second behind.
Berthon clung to fourth from Abt, Pic and Conor Daly.
Adrian Quaife-Hobbs scored the final point, surviving a last-lap attack from Tom Dillmann at Turn 6, where the latter spun out after a brief trip through the air.
Results - 28 laps:
Pos Driver Team Time/Gap
1. Stoffel Vandoorne ART 43m54.536s
2. Jolyon Palmer DAMS +3.328s
3. Felipe Nasr Carlin +4.254s
4. Nathanael Berthon Lazarus +17.211s
5. Daniel Abt Hilmer +17.780s
6. Arthur Pic Campos +25.326s
7. Conor Daly Lazarus +26.815s
8. Adrian Quaife-Hobbs Rapax +31.740s
9. Raffaele Marciello Racing Engineering +34.706s
10. Mitch Evans Russian Time +38.981s
11. Marco Sorensen MP +40.368s
12. Stephane Richelmi DAMS +45.157s
13. Simon Trummer Rapax +52.509s
14. Rene Binder Arden +55.027s
15. Julian Leal Carlin +55.271s
16. Jon Lancaster Hilmer +57.709s
17. Daniel de Jong MP +57.896s
18. Rio Haryanto Caterham +1m10.141s
Retirements:
Tom Dillmann Caterham 27 laps
Artem Markelov Russian Time 27 laps
Takuya Izawa ART 27 laps
Kimiya Sato Campos 24 laps
Stefano Coletti Racing Engineering 24 laps
Andre Negrao Arden 16 laps
Johnny Cecotto Jr Trident 3 laps
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