2014 GP2 silly season

[ivanalesi]

Originally Posted by on_to_it

Hey thanks, that worked quite well. A bit wacky in places, but clear enough.

I don't speak French either, he wrote it somewhere on Facebook in English too.
For me the most interesting part was the Bruno Michel - Mitch Evans link. Because Mitch has already used his 200k EU Pirelli prize money, but it seems like he is still struggling with the budget and Bruno Michel is pushing for him to continue. At the end of the day he's GP3 champion. It's surprising because he's not with Arden and they have clearly slower drivers for this season, I guess he's been a bit too disappointed with his season and wanted a change. But I don't think the current GP2 car is suited to his style though...

[on_to_it]

Originally Posted by TR Motorsport

So what is Tom's viewpoint on the whole situation?

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1s0kh3i

[Mekola]

Facu Regalia is confirmed with Hilmer for this year. At least he succeeded to get 45% of the budget needed. It's true family company Varlion funds him, but now YPF, Paolini and Argüelles (Sidus pharmaceutical - Tafirol) helped enough to secure the deal. Rumour has it a racing colleage promised to fund Regalia with the prize money he won winning a race in an important local touring car series.

For me is a pleasure to see YPF decals back in international motorsport.

[cds_uk]

Cecotto in at Trident, http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/112712, just hope he gets his head straight and can get back on the podium a few times.

[el_cat]

Cecotto will no doubt add some entertainment to this season!

[TR Motorsport]

Originally Posted by cds_uk

Cecotto in at Trident, http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/112712, just hope he gets his head straight and can get back on the podium a few times.

And this is his SIXTH season now? Just face it Johnny you are never going to be an F1 driver!

[cds_uk]

Originally Posted by TR Motorsport

And this is his SIXTH season now? Just face it Johnny you are never going to be an F1 driver!

You are probably right, but then again............

[p-matt]

Cecotto should be strong given his experience. But Trident have been very poor in their time in GP2 that he'll probably have even more of an anonymous season (in terms of results that is) that last year

[Formulahistory]

Russian Time: Mitch Evans – Artem Markelov
Carlin: Julián Leal – Felipe Nasr (?)
Racing Engineering: Raffaele Marciello – Giacomo Raimondo (?)
DAMS: Stéphane Richelmi – Jolyon Palmer
Hilmer: Daniel Abt – Facundo Regalia
Rapax: Simon Trummer – Sandy Stuvik (?)
ART: Stoffel Vandoorne – Takuya Izawa
Arden: René Binder – André Negrão
Caterham: Alexander Rossi – Rio Haryanto
Trident: Johnny Cecotto jr. – Giovanni Venturini (?)
MP: Daniël de Jong – Tio Ellinas (?)
Campos: Arthur Pic – Kimiya Sato
Lazarus: Dani Clos (?) – Dennis Nagulin (?)

[chunterer]

Doubt we'll see Clos back for a full season. Has Ellinas got the money for this? Might be seeing him in 3.5 though.

[kotkot]

We'll be smarter after we see the lineup for the first test.

Racing Engineering might want to go for the title next year, so they want a better and more experienced driver than Raimondo. Picking Quaife-Hobbs would be a wise decision, if not, I'm confident QH will get the Rapax seat at least.

[ivanalesi]

Stuvik just recently raced and won at Paul Ricard in Euro Open. Rapax will try to get someone experienced and fast alongside Trummer, Adrian would be a good choice.

[kotkot]

He raced in Euroformula Open Winter Series, which will end next week. He was just probably invited by his old team RP Motorsport as they had an extra car to drive.

[Alessio]

Not sure how much money Trummer brings to the table, but Stuvik brings huge support from Thailand, including Singha, so I reckon he'll find it quite easy to slot into any GP2 team if not Rapax.

[skells22]

speaking of Rapax we got another driver said about for said team and brit count is now 2 as Adrian Quaife-Hobbs has join the said team

[Go_For_Pole]

I would love to see Stefano Coletti at RE

[NaBUru38]

So the best GP2 rookies announced so far are Vandoorne, Izawa, RegalÃ*a and Kirchhöfer, right?

[el_cat]

Originally Posted by NaBUru38

So the best GP2 rookies announced so far are Vandoorne, Izawa, RegalÃ*a and Kirchhöfer, right?

Who's Kirchhofer signed with?

[Alessio]

Originally Posted by NaBUru38

So the best GP2 rookies announced so far are Vandoorne, Izawa, RegalÃ*a and Kirchhöfer, right?

And Marciello too.

[NaBUru38]

Sorry, I meant Markelov.

[Go_For_Pole]

Hopefully this list will be enhanced with Tio, he is due to be announced soon somewhere

[Hawkwood]

Nasr back at Carlin and Berthon at Lazurus confirmed

http://www.gp2series.com/Teams-and-Drivers/

[skells22]

S.Coletti is a Racing Engineering driver for this year. that was just said about

[p-matt]

I wasn't really expecting Coletti to stay in GP2. Should be interesting to see how he gets on. But I can't help but think Marciello will beat him over the course of the season.

[Go_For_Pole]

I think the opposite but either way it will be really difficult for any other team to beat RE in the teams championship