New GP2 Chassis Testing!

[sauber11]

new car testing http://italiaracing.net/notizia.asp?id=18157&cat=4
pics http://xpb.cc/event.asp?e=gp2-2008-tst01&s=event
1 - Adrian Valles - FMSI - 1'12"880 - 14 laps
2 - Vitaly Petrov - Campos - 1'13"202 - 24
3 - Javier Villa - Racing Engineering - 1'13"546 - 16
4 - Bruno Senna - iSport - 1'13"631 - 13
5 - Andreas Zuber - Piquet - 1'13"735 - 22
6 - Kamui Kobayashi - Dams - 1'14"086 - 23
7 - Ben Hanley - Campos - 1'14"127 - 29
8 - Sebastien Buemi - Arden - 1'14"152 - 23
9 - Jerome D'Ambrosio - Dams - 1'14"226 - 22
10 - Andy Soucek - FMSI - 1'14"258 - 15
11 - Alberto Valerio - Durango - 1'14"440 - 30
12 - Mike Conway - Trident - 1'14"449 - 14
13 - Milos Pavlovic - BCN - 1'14"467 - 53
14 - Paolo Nocera - BCN - 1'14"510 - 34
15 - Davide Valsecchi - Durango - 1'14"658 - 23
16 - Christian Bakkerud - Super Nova - 1'14"745 - 34
17 - Karun Chandhok - iSport - 1'14"771 - 6
18 - Pastor Maldonado - Piquet - 1'14"834 - 15
19 - Michael Herck - DPR - 1'15"194 - 27
20 - Romain Grosjean - ART - 1'15"282 - 18
21 - Ho Pin Tung - Trident - 1'15"336 - 16
22 - Yelmer Buurman - Arden - 1'15"444 - 19
23 - Luca Filippi - ART - 1'20"586 - 14
24 - Giorgio Pantano - Racing Engineering - 1'27"221 - 10
25 - Alvaro Parente - Super Nova - no time - 8
26 - Diego Nunes - DPR - no time - 0

[chunterer]

Sauber 11 started in the off season thread but I think this test deserves thread of its own.

Carry on!!

[OJB]

I'll be disappointed if DPR revert back to white from the colours they are running that the moment, which is what they have done from the pics. Maybe they just haven't put the finishing touches to it, like ART and FMS

[sauber11]

1 - Ben Hanley - Campos - 1'12"652 - 19 laps
2 - Andreas Zuber - Piquet - 1'12"729 - 18
3 - Mike Conway - Trident - 1'12"757 - 32
4 - Bruno Senna - iSport - 1'12"794 - 34
5 - Javier Villa - Racing Engineering - 1'12"859 - 22
6 - Davide Valsecchi - Durango - 1'12"914 - 32
7 - Kamui Kobayashi - Dams - 1'12"925 - 23
8 - Vitaly Petrov - Campos - 1'12"926 - 38
9 - Giorgio Pantano - Racing Engineering - 1'13"188 - 19
10 - Adrian Valles - FMSI - 1'13"223 - 17
11 - Andy Soucek - FMSI - 1'13"293 - 26
12 - Christian Bakkerud - Super Nova - 1'13"457 - 33
13 - Sebastien Buemi - Arden - 1'13"479 - 30
14 - Romain Grosjean - ART - 1'13"487 - 12
15 - Karun Chandhok - iSport - 1'13"549 - 19
16 - Alvaro Parente - Super Nova - 1'13"563 - 39
17 - Paolo Nocera - BCN - 1'13"733 - 28
18 - Milos Pavlovic - BCN - 1'13"782 - 38
19 - Michael Herck - DPR - 1'13"841 - 41
20 - Diego Nunes - DPR - 1'13"960 - 46
21 - Alberto Valerio - Durango - 1'13"964 - 22
22 - Yelmer Buurman - Arden - 1'14"147 - 26
23 - Luca Filippi - ART - 1'14"179 - 23
24 - Ho Pin Tung - Trident - 1'14"375 - 24
25 - Jerome D'Ambrosio - Dams - 1'14"519 - 15
26 - Pastor Maldonado - Piquet - no time - 25

[kerrmanningjarv]

Nunes was running with a yellow livery in the afternoon.

Anyway, I think the car is really sexy! I love the narrow, sculpted nose especially.

The Arden car could almost be a Red Bull F1 car, so much does it look like an F1 shape. Well done Dallara!

[OJB]

Have to say the new car does indeed look fab - I just hope it isn't too over-complicated so as to make this year more about reliability than speed. Seems to be going OK so far though.

[Kidzer]

Yeah, the new car gets the thumbs up from me - looks great!

[Sev]

How do these times compare to the old chassis? Does anyone know which track layout they were running?

[SALEEN S7R]

I was looking at December's test times earlier and the time Hanley set is about 1 tenth slower than the last generation GP2 car. Not really suprising though when you consider that the teams havent run the cars before, I would expect times to be signifcantly faster tommorow.

[Lam Pak]

ho pin tung is not doing well. he can do better than that

[kerrmanningjarv]

The first time the cars have ever been tested and they're only 1/10th off the record Gp2 time - with a car that had 3 year' development.

Great stuff

[Adri_tifosi]

Day 2

Morning

1 - Romain Grosjean - ART - 1'12"031 - 40
2 - Pastor Maldonado - Piquet - 1'12"129 - 25
3 - Adrian Valles - FMSI - 1'12"155 - 35
4 - Giorgio Pantano - Racing Engineering - 1'12"241 - 38
5 - Luca Filippi - ART - 1'12"357 - 22
6 - Bruno Senna - iSport - 1'12"411 - 28
7 - Karun Chandhok - iSport - 1'12"439 - 15
8 - Vitaly Petrov - Campos - 1'12"574 - 36
9 - Andreas Zuber - Piquet - 1'12"619 - 32
10 - Davide Valsecchi - Durango - 1'12"652 - 28
11 - Alvaro Parente - Super Nova - 1'12"673 - 32
12 - Sebastien Buemi - Arden - 1'12"766 - 38
13 - Mike Conway - Trident - 1'12"799 - 32
14 - Yelmer Buurman - Arden - 1'12"818 - 24
15 - Kamui Kobayashi - Dams - 1'12"894 - 22
16 - Christian Bakkerud - Super Nova - 1'12"901 - 34
17 - Andy Soucek - FMSI - 1'12"997 - 38
18 - Javier Villa - Racing Engineering - 1'13"057 - 17
19 - Jerome D'Ambrosio - Dams - 1'13"190 - 37
20 - Alberto Valerio - Durango - 1'13"211 - 42
21 - Ben Hanley - Campos - 1'13"334 - 14
22 - Diego Nunes - DPR - 1'13"448 - 22
23 - Ho Pin Tung - Trident - 1'13"577 - 40
24 - Paolo Nocera - BCN - 1'13"696 - 30
25 - Milos Pavlovic - BCN - 1'14"383 - 30
26 - Michael Herck - DPR - 1'14"556 - 24

[kerrmanningjarv]

http://www.racecar-engineering.com/a...ra-gp2-08.html

Very good article here - lots of info on the new car.

[strider]

Afternoon times:

Pos  Driver                 Team                      Time      Laps
 1.  Javier Villa           Racing Engineering        1:12.254   33
 2.  Vitaly Petrov          Campos Team               1:12.285   28
 3.  Romain Grosjean        ART Grand Prix            1:12.313   34
 4.  Mike Conway            Trident Racing            1:12.401   24
 5.  Andy Soucek            FMS International         1:12.408   25
 6.  Adrian Valles          FMS International         1:12.492   21
 7.  Karun Chandhok         iSport International      1:12.540   24
 8.  Andreas Zuber          Piquet Sports             1:12.580   12
 9.  Pastor Maldonado       Piquet Sports             1:12.627   17
10.  Yelmer Buurman         Arden international       1:12.734   41
11.  Sebastien Buemi        Arden international       1:12.751   28
12.  Bruno Senna            iSport International      1:12.767   35
13.  Alvaro Parente         Super Nova International  1:12.773   31
14.  Davide Valsecchi       Durango                   1:12.791   31
15.  Giorgio Pantano        Racing Engineering        1:12.822   30
16.  Luca Filippi           ART Grand Prix            1:12.877   21
17.  Kamui Kobayashi        DAMS                      1:12.899   28
18.  Ben Hanley             Campos Team               1:13.060   43
19.  Christian Bakkerud     Super Nova International  1:13.568   37
20.  Paolo Nocera           BCN Competicion           1:13.588   46
21.  Ho-Pin Tung            Trident Racing            1:13.698   40
22.  Milos Pavlovic         BCN Competicion           1:13.772   51
23.  Diego Nunes            DPR                       1:13.820   42
24.  Michael Herck          DPR                       1:13.837   38
25.  Alberto Valerio        Durango                   1:13.855   19
26.  Jerome d'Ambrosio      DAMS                      1:14.147   26

[Go_For_Pole]

Go Javi!! 3rd, 5th, problems and now 1st.

[Alex K]

I ain't gotRule Book, but have one off topic question to Jack or Bradrive or anyone of you guys/girls, do GP2 and FR3.5 one team entries liveries must be same for both cars? Are teams eligible to carry different liveries on both cars?

Looking at the time sheets, I just can't wait... who's gonna say now: Grosjean to conquer GP2? ;-)

[OJB]

Some carry different sponsors don't they? But it's probably like F1 where the liveries have to be the same I'd imagine

[Jackman]

Originally Posted by Alex K

I ain't gotRule Book, but have one off topic question to Jack or Bradrive or anyone of you guys/girls, do GP2 and FR3.5 one team entries liveries must be same for both cars? Are teams eligible to carry different liveries on both cars?

The basic liveries have to be the same, but sponsor decals can be different, and often are: look at iSport, for example.

[Adri_tifosi]

Originally Posted by Alex K

I ain't gotRule Book, but have one off topic question to Jack or Bradrive or anyone of you guys/girls, do GP2 and FR3.5 one team entries liveries must be same for both cars? Are teams eligible to carry different liveries on both cars?

Looking at the time sheets, I just can't wait... who's gonna say now: Grosjean to conquer GP2? ;-)

Remember the first season , iSport car for Scot Speed with Red Bull livery and Can Artham´s car black or dark blue

[OJB]

Chandhok's car will look a bit different this year compared to Senna too with RB sponsorship

[Mekola]

Great performance by Maldonado, mostly considering he is not doing GP2 Asia and despite the irregular tech on the first day. It's clear that good ol' Giancarlo Minardi has trust on him since the Venezuelan's Italian FR2000 days.

[Mekola]

Originally Posted by Jackman

The basic liveries have to be the same, but sponsor decals can be different, and often are: look at iSport, for example.

On F3000 days they could race with different liveries AFAIK. That happened with Fernando Alonso and Fabrice Walfisch cars at Team Astromega (early 2000), and when Bas Leinders did a brief stint with the Bastos-sponsored car at team KTR (late rounds of 2001).

[Jackman]

Originally Posted by Mekola

Great performance by Maldonado, mostly considering he is not doing GP2 Asia and despite the irregular tech on the first day. It's clear that good ol' Giancarlo Minardi has trust on him since the Venezuelan's Italian FR2000 days.

Giancarlo Minardi has nothing to do with Piquet Sports.

Originally Posted by Mekola

On F3000 days they could race with different liveries AFAIK. That happened with Fernando Alonso and Fabrice Walfisch cars at Team Astromega (early 2000), and when Bas Leinders did a brief stint with the Bastos-sponsored car at team KTR (late rounds of 2001).

It's not F3000 anymore: the basic liveries are the same, and have been since GP2 started, including Speed/Artam.

[Mekola]

Originally Posted by Jackman

Giancarlo Minardi has nothing to do with Piquet Sports.

But it wasn't that Piquet Sports, once Nelsinho jumped to F1, would sell his GP2 team to Minardi / GP Racing??? That's considering some Nelson Piquet Sr. comments to Brazilian media at the start of 2007.

[Adri_tifosi]

Originally Posted by Mekola

But it wasn't that Piquet Sports, once Nelsinho jumped to F1, would sell his GP2 team to Minardi / GP Racing??? That's considering some Nelson Piquet Sr. comments to Brazilian media at the start of 2007.

According to the last photos from Paul Ricard test , at Minardi/Piquet Sports box there are a lot of Piquet Sports logos and no Minardi logos.

According to the GP2 Asia website the team is named Piquet Sports.

http://www.gp2series.com/en/website/piquet/