Glock wins Barcelona sprint race
Timo Glock scored a long overdue GP2 victory in the Barcelona sprint race on Sunday, racing through from seventh on the grid to a dominant victory and ending a streak of second place finishes this year
After failing to win at Bahrain and the opening race at Barcelona, Glock, whose iSport car has been the fastest all weekend, made short work of those who started ahead of him.
The German gained a position at the aborted first start, when Borja Garcia (Durango) stalled, and was up to fifth by the conclusion of the first lap.
Glock then passed Mikhail Aleshin (ART), feature race winner Bruno Senna (Arden) and Lucas di Grassi (ART) over the next three laps, and chased down pole-sitter Javier Villa (Racing Engineering), who had opened up a two-second lead.
Glock towed past him approaching Turn 1 on lap eight and pulled away to an easy victory. Villa took second, while di Grassi just clung to third despite some brazen attempts by Senna in the closing stages that almost paid off.
They were separated by just a tenth of a second at the finish line.
Sergio Jimenez finished fifth, while Giorgio Pantano turned in a truly outstanding race to finish sixth from 21st, pulling off some great passing moves along the way.
CLASSIFIED:
Pos Driver Team Time
1. Timo Glock iSport International 38:08.585
2. Javier Villa Racing Engineering + 8.579
3. Lucas Di Grassi ART Grand Prix + 9.139
4. Bruno Senna Arden International + 9.314
5. Sergio Jimenez Racing Engineering + 22.697
6. Giorgio Pantano Campos Grand Prix + 23.457
7. Kazuki Nakajima DAMS + 25.105
8. Antonio Pizzonia Petrol Ofisi FMS + 28.026
9. Andreas Zuber iSport International + 28.677
10. Kohei Hirate Trident Racing + 30.978
11. Luca Filippi Super Nova International + 36.954
12. Mike Conway Super Nova International + 40.398
13. Adrian Zaugg Arden International + 41.259
14. Borja Garcia Durango + 42.933
15. Karun Chandhok Durango + 43.857
16. Vitaly Petrov Campos Grand Prix + 1 Lap
17. Pastor Maldonado Trident Racing + 1 Lap
18. Sakon Yamamoto BCN Competicion + 3 Laps
NOT CLASSIFIED:
Driver Team Laps
Michael Aleshin ART Grand Prix 15
C.Bakkerud DPR 12
Ho-Pin Tung BCN Competicion 8
Andy Soucek DPR 1
Roldan Rodriguez Minardi Piquet Sports 0
Nicolas Lapierre DAMS 0
Jason Tahinci Petrol Ofisi FMS 0
Fastest lap: Glock, 1:30.269 on lap 16
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