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Abu Dhabi 2011 (45 posts)

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Felipe Bomeny said 1 year, 7 months ago:

Antonio Felix da Costa has been confirmed for Ocean.

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Prisoner Monkeys said 1 year, 7 months ago:

Marinescu is an intersting choice for Rapax.

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Joel Holland said 1 year, 7 months ago:

@Jailed-Chimpanzees He’s there because he’s paid the money they asked. I doubt they’ve gone with him on the basis of a fifth place finish in F2. Every driver in the Abu Dhabi field is extremely well funded.

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Keith Collantine said 1 year, 7 months ago:

Addax to run Jolyon Palmer and Jake Rosenzweig for Abu Dhabi:

Drivers’ announcement: @addaxteam will line up Jolyon Palmer and Jake Rosenzweig gp2series.com/Teams-and-Driv… #GP2

— GP2 Series Official(@GP2_Official) November 7, 2011

@f1fanatic_co_uk Just Abu Dhabi

— GP2 Series Official(@GP2_Official) November 7, 2011

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Joel Holland said 1 year, 7 months ago:

Ugh. This does little to up the enthusiasm for Abu Dhabi. Prove me wrong boys, prove me wrong.

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Fixy said 1 year, 7 months ago:

Nicolas Marroc will partner Da Costa at ORT

Rapax
1 Dani Clos
2 Mihai Marinescu

Addax
2 Jake Rosenzweig
3 Jolyon Palmer

ART
5 James Calado
6 Esteban Gutierrez

Racing Engineering
7 Fabio Leimer
8 Nathanel Berthon

iSport
9 Tom Dillmann
10 Marcus Ericsson

DAMS
11 Rio Haryanto
12 Nigel Melker

Arden
14 TBA
15 TBA

Super Nova
16 TBA
17 TBA

Coloni
18 Kevin Ceccon
19 Stefano Coletti

Trident
20 Julian Leal
21 Stephane Richelmi

Ocean Racing Technology
22 Antonio Felix Da Costa
23 Nicolas Marroc

Carlin
24 Max Chilton
25 Jan Charouz

AirAsia
26 Alexander Rossi
27 Luiz Razia

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Felipe Bomeny said 1 year, 7 months ago:

Arden have confirmed their 2011 driver Josef Kral and their GP3 driver Simon Trummer for Abu Dhabi, leaving Super Nova as the last team to confirm their drivers.

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Joel Holland said 1 year, 7 months ago:

If Super Nova want to win and get a bit of sponsor attention heading in to the off-season they should put Luca Fillipi in the car. More likely we’ll see a pair of iffy youngsters with bags of cash (where’s Varhaug in all of this) but it’s a nice thought.

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Joel Holland said 1 year, 7 months ago:

Another thought: between this and the F1 test, Leimer and Clos must be forking out north of half a million Euros for a few days of driving.

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Joel Holland said 1 year, 7 months ago:

Apparently the Super Nova seats have gone to Giacomo Ricci and Fabio Onidi. Always liked Giacomo, kind of cool that he’s back after getting booted by DPR after winning his first race. It’s not like he’ll be on the grid in 2012 but hey, let the man race. Don’t know much about Onidi. Being as he’s Italian I assume he’s done Auto GP…

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Keith Collantine said 1 year, 7 months ago:

Full grid now confirmed:

Rapax
1 Dani Clos
2 Mihai Marinescu

Addax
2 Jake Rosenzweig
3 Jolyon Palmer

ART
5 James Calado
6 Esteban Gutierrez

Racing Engineering
7 Fabio Leimer
8 Nathanael Berthon

iSport
9 Tom Dillmann
10 Marcus Ericsson

DAMS
11 Rio Haryanto
12 Nigel Melker

Arden
14 Josef Kral
15 Simon Trummer

Super Nova
16 Giacomo Ricci
17 Fabio Onidi

Coloni
18 Kevin Ceccon
19 Stefano Coletti

Trident
20 Julian Leal
21 Stephane Richelmi

Ocean Racing Technology
22 Antonio Felix da Costa
23 Nicolas Marroc

Carlin
24 Max Chilton
25 Jan Charouz

AirAsia
26 Alexander Rossi
27 Luiz Razia

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Prisoner Monkeys said 1 year, 7 months ago:

I think these are the drivers I’ll be most interested to see:

- Mihai Marinescu
- Rio Haryanto
- Nathanael Berthon

They’ve all experienced some degree of success (but not a championship) in Formula Two, GP3 and Formula Renault 3.5 respectively.

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Joel Holland said 1 year, 7 months ago:

Well, good job from Leimer and Clos – who ironically have swapped cars for the weekend – but you’d expect it with their experience. Thought Ceccon did well to be P7, ahead of Gutierrez, and my hat goes off to Dillmann as top rookie. Sometimes jumping in a bigger car just works. Decent job from Calado too in P12.

Still, for Jan Charouz to be P24 is pretty appalling for a guy of his experience. Tragic that he’ll be testing the Renault F1 car on Monday.

Experience rules though. Glenn Freeman was saying that those GP2 tyres are very difficult to get working properly so guys just jumping in were always going to have a tough time.

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Prisoner Monkeys said 1 year, 7 months ago:

Fabio Leimer wins the feature race, with Luiz Razia second. Jolyon Palmer third. James Calado will start the sprint race from pole.

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Fixy said 1 year, 7 months ago:

James Calado won the Sprint race ahead of Marcus Ericsson and Tom Dillmann.
Leimer “won” the drivers’ championship, and iSport the teams’ championship.
Calado and Dillmann are the two best GP3 graduates, tied with 7 points each, although having Calado won a race, he should be ahead in the standings.

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