Piquet narrows title gap with win
Nelson Piquet jr scored in Turkey today his third straight GP2 win, also setting the fastest lap of the feature race, to narrow his deficit to championship leader Lewis Hamilton to just six points
It was a comfortable win for Piquet, who led from start to finish. A charging performance from Hamilton took the Briton into second - and he was catching Piquet when his hopes of victory were blown by an overlong pitstop.
This allowed Piquet to cruise home a comfortable winner. Alex Premat made a lightning start to run second, but he could not match the leaders' pace and dropped back to third, crossing the line only narrowly ahead of Timo Glock, who drove a strong race after his pitstop to take fourth for iSport.
Lucas di Grassi ran as high as second during the pitstop phase, but fifth place was still an excellent return for the Durango driver in his most competitive showing of the year.
In the late stages, the best battle of significance was between Adam Carroll and Andy Zuber for sixth. Carroll just held on for Racing Engineering.
Eighth went to Piquet's teammate Xandi Negrao, and it is the Brazilian who will line up on pole for tomorrow's sprint race.
CLASSIFIED:
Pos Driver Team Time
1. Piquet Jr. Piquet Sports 55:59.398
2. Hamilton ART Grand Prix + 17.879
3. Premat ART Grand Prix + 23.964
4. Glock iSport International + 24.590
5. Di Grassi Durango + 36.882
6. Carroll Racing Engineering + 41.706
7. Zuber Trident Racing + 42.171
8. Negrao Piquet Sports + 49.170
9. Lopez Super Nova International + 56.946
10. Filippi BCN Competicion + 63.677
11. Hernandez Durango + 69.515
12. Perera DAMS + 70.378
13. Ammermueller Arden International Ltd + 72.278
14. Lapierre Arden International Ltd + 72.427
15. Villa Racing Engineering + 77.383
16. Petrov DPR + 83.863
17. Tahinci FMS International + 93.817
18. Monfardini DAMS + 2 Laps
19. Porteiro Campos Racing + 4 Laps
NOT CLASSIFIED
Driver Team Laps
Yoshimoto BCN Competicion 27
Pantano FMS International 13
Piccione DPR 11
Valles Campos Racing 9
Viso iSport International 9
Fauzy Super Nova International 8
Bruni Trident Racing 6
Fastest lap: Piquet Jr, 1:36.334 on lap 26
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