Drivers hit by penalties in Istanbul
The starting grid for today's GP2 Series feature race has been altered substantially following a number of penalties that have been handed out
Five drivers were each handed a five-position penalty after failing to slow sufficiently under yellow flags in qualifying.
Diego Nunes, Alberto Valerio, Milos Pavlovic, Andy Soucek and Mike Conway were all penalized for driving too quickly after Kamui Kobayashi spun off track at Turn 1 and Alvaro Parente spun at Turn 3.
Valerio's penalty is in addition to the earlier five-grid position penalty he picked up for completing two laps at the end of free practice, a penalty which Kamui Kobayashi also collected.
Ben Hanley will start 10 places behind his qualifying position as a result of causing an avoidable crash in race two Barcelona. Fortunately for him, the other penalties have moved him up to 19th, from 22nd
Today's grid:
Pos Driver Team 1. Giorgio Pantano Racing Engineering 2. Andreas Zuber Piquet Sports 3. Adam Carroll FMS International 4. Romain Grosjean ART Grand Prix 5. Bruno Senna iSport International 6. Pastor Maldonado Piquet Sports 7. Karun Chandhok iSport International 8. Javier Villa Racing Engineering 9. Vitaly Petrov Campos Team 10. J.D'Ambrosio DAMS 11. Adrián Valles BCN Competicion 12. Sébastien Buemi Trust Team Arden 13. Yelmer Buurman Trust Team Arden 14. Luca Filippi ART Grand Prix 15. Ho-Pin Tung Trident Racing 16. Andy Soucek Super Nova Racing 17. Mike Conway Trident Racing 18. Álvaro Parente Super Nova Racing 19. Benjamin Hanley Campos Team 20. Roldán Rodriguez FMS International 21. Giacomo Ricci DPR 22. Kamui Kobayashi DAMS 23. Diego Nunes DPR 24. Alberto Valerio Durango 25. Milos Pavlovic BCN Competicion
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