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Stewards Penalise More Drivers

The Valencia steward of the World Series by Renault have continued to get tough on drivers not slowing down during yellow flag periods and have cancelled the fastest qualifying times of three competitors in the second session

Giorgio Mondini, Ryo Fukuda and Felix Porteiro all had their fastest laps cancelled after recording lap times which stewards believed were too fast considering on-track incidents.

Porteiro and Fukeda will start 11th and 21st respectively, which is two places further back than they had qualified. Mondini remains on 23rd on the grid because his second fastest time was only 0.069s slower.

At the last race at Monaco, organisers sanctioned four drivers for yellow flag violations. Pastor Maldonado was the worst affected, receiving a five-meeting ban following a crash which resulted in a marshal being injured. Matteo Meneghello was banned for two races and Andreas Zuber and Colin Flemming were both banned for one race.

Amended Times, Qualifying 2:

Odd Number Qualifiers:

Pos  Driver               Team               Time
 1.  Andreas Zuber        Carlin             1:21.252
 3.  Eric Salignon        Cram               1:21.272 + 0.020
 5.  Adrian Valles        Pons               1:21.421 + 0.169
 7.  Tristan Gommendy     KTR                1:21.668 + 0.416
 9.  Christian Montanari  Draco              1:22.053 + 0.801
11.  Felix Porteiro       Epsilon            1:22.057 + 0.805
13.  Karun Chandhok       RC                 1:22.158 + 0.906
15.  Patrick Pilet        Jenzer             1:22.190 + 0.938
17.  Daniel La Rosa       Interwetten        1:22.331 + 1.079
19.  Enrico Toccacelo     Victory            1:22.507 + 1.255
21.  Ryo Fukuda           Saulnier           1:22.981 + 1.729
23.  Giorgio Mondini      Eurointernational  1:23.090 + 1.838
25.  Raffaele Giammaria   Dams               1:24.472 + 3.220
27.  Frederik Vervisch    GD                 1:24.475 + 3.223


Even Number Qualifiers:

Pos  Driver               Team               Time
 2.  Markus Winkelhock    Draco              1:21.580
 4.  Robert Kubica        Epsilon            1:21.624 + 0.044
 6.  Colin Fleming        Jenzer             1:21.648 + 0.068
 8.  Will Power           Carlin             1:21.741 + 0.161
10.  Simon Pagenaud       Saulnier           1:21.894 + 0.314
12.  Damien Pasini        Cram               1:21.938 + 0.358
14.  Celso Miguez         Pons               1:21.956 + 0.376
16.  Tomas Kostka         Victory            1:22.025 + 0.445
18.  Milos Pavlovic       GD                 1:22.075 + 0.495
20.  Alx Danielsson       Dams               1:22.519 + 0.939
22.  Jaap Van Lagen       KTR                1:22.624 + 1.044
24.  Giovanni Tedeschi    RC                 1:22.984 + 1.404
26.  Ivan Bellarosa       Avelon             1:23.164 + 1.584
28.  Mehdi Bennani        Avelon             1:25.264 + 3.684

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