World Series by Renault - Round 2 - Spa

[WSR Fan]

Two weeks after the first round in Barcelona, the World Series visits another F1 track this weekend in the form of the beautiful Spa-Francorchamps for Round 2 of the season.

On the driver front, Formula 2 driver Tobias Hegewald will take the place of Mihai Marinescu at Interwetten.com this weekend, and according to italiaracing.net, Alexandre Marsoin is due to take up his seat at Comtec Racing after missing the first round in Barcelona.

Here is the weekend schedule (all times are local times):

Saturday 2nd May
09:30 - 09:50 - Qualifying (Group A)
09:55 - 10:15 - Qualifying (Group B)
11:20 - 11:35 - Superpole
14:10 - 15:00 - Race 1

Sunday 3rd May
13:45 - 14:35 - Race 2

And due to live snooker and tennis, there is no live Race 1 this weekend on Eurosport, just highlights on the Sunday morning:

Sunday 3rd May

07:30 - 08:00 (UK Time) - Highlights
12:45 - 13:45 (UK Time) - Race 2 LIVE

Links:

Live Timing
Renault-Sport Official site
Weather Forecast

[sauber11]

Practice 1
1 - Bertrand Baguette - Draco - 2'05"185 - 17
2 - Marco Barba - Draco - 2'05"185 - 16
3 - Adrian Valles - Epsilon Euskadi - 2'06"138 - 17
4 - Charles Pic - Tech 1 - 2'06"253 - 14
5 - James Walker - P1 - 2'06"622 - 16
6 - Pasquale Di Sabatino - RC - 2'06"625 - 15
7 - Fairuz Fauzy - Fortec - 2'06"676 - 16
8 - Tobias Hegewald - Interwetten - 2'06"995 - 15
9 - Marcos Martinez - Pons - 2'07"014 - 13
10 - Brendon Hartley - Tech 1 - 2'07"025 - 16
11 - Adrian Zaugg - Interwetten - 2'07"125 - 10
12 - Oliver Turvey - Carlin - 2'07"221 - 15
13 - Sten Pentus - Fortec - 2'07"314 - 17
14 - Federico Leo - Pons - 2'07"526 - 18
15 - Anton Nebilitskiy - Comtec - 2'07"826 - 17
16 - Jaime Alguersuari - Carlin - 2'07"843 - 15
17 - Daniil Move - P1 - 2'08"293 - 14
18 - Greg Mansell - Ultimate - 2'08"369 - 15
19 - Chris Van der Drift - Epsilon Euskadi - 2'08"640 - 14
20 - Frankie Provenzano - Prema - 2'08"804 - 16
21 - Miguel Molina - Ultimate - 2'09"656 - 5
22 - Alexandre Marsoin - Comtec - 2'09"949 - 5
23 - Julian Leal - Prema - 2'11"610 - 5

[WSR Fan]

Second Practice Times:

1 - Bertrand Baguette - Draco - 2'03"993 - 15 giri
2 - Jaime Alguersuari - Carlin - 2'04"022 - 19
3 - Adrian Zaugg - Interwetten - 2'04"069 - 18
4 - James Walker - P1 - 2'04"145 - 18
5 - Marco Barba - Draco - 2'04"430 - 17
6 - Marcos Martinez - Pons - 2'04"708 - 14
7 - Miguel Molina - Ultimate - 2'04"709 - 18
8 - Tobias Hegewald - Interwetten - 2'04"761 - 17
9 - Adrian Valles - Epsilon Euskadi - 2'04"828 - 18
10 - Charles Pic - Tech 1 - 2'04"887 - 16
11 - Brendon Hartley - Tech 1 - 2'05"094 - 17
12 - Anton Nebilitskiy - Comtec - 2'05"199 - 17
13 - Daniil Move - P1 - 2'05"520 - 11
14 - Federico Leo - Pons - 2'05"857 - 20
15 - Sten Pentus - Fortec - 2'05"964 - 20
16 - Chris Van der Drift - Epsilon Euskadi - 2'06"023 - 16
17 - Greg Mansell - Ultimate - 2'06"030 - 16
18 - Frankie Provenzano - Prema - 2'06"237 - 19
19 - Alexandre Marsoin - Comtec - 2'06"336 - 21
20 - Fairuz Fauzy - Fortec - 2'06"883 - 10
21 - Oliver Turvey - Carlin - 2'06"888 - 10
22 - Pasquale Di Sabatino - RC - 2'06"980 - 18
23 - Julian Leal - Prema - 2'07"441 - 20

Baguette certainly seems to like his home track, doesn't he. Zaugg continues to impress me this season as well given that he did no pre-season testing and the car has evolved a lot since he drove for Carlin back in 2006. Hegewald has put in a decent debut performance so far also.

I do feel for Prema a little this season. Last year they had two proven race winners in Alvaro Barba and Miguel Molina, whereas this year they have two rookies who seem to be struggling to come to terms with the car. I was hoping that Edoardo Piscopo would get one of the seats, but money talks I suppose.

[runshaw]

Two years ago Prema ran Ben Hanley to second in the championship behind Alvaro Parente, yet he now has no budget. Money does indeed talk!

[Go_For_Pole]

Originally Posted by WSR Fan

I do feel for Prema a little this season. Last year they had two proven race winners in Alvaro Barba and Miguel Molina, whereas this year they have two rookies who seem to be struggling to come to terms with the car. I was hoping that Edoardo Piscopo would get one of the seats, but money talks I suppose.

They will probably have an equally bad time in F3 ES as well. But why should one feel for them, afterall they chose their drivers and in the case of Leal pretty early in the day. The thing is, I get the impression that some teams are doing their last year in the series, getting as much as they can and not caring about their track record.

[ivanalesi]

Baguette on pole as expected, but closely matched by Walker and even Move in the other P1 is very competitive! I expected Pic and Molina to be the favourites, but if Walker can be this fast at Spa, he should be able to do it on the other tracks too.

[Stefvh]

I was there today, great race from Bertrand.

[gomick]

Another win for Marcos Martinez - he is the man at the moment

[wannab-aracer]

James Walker takes the win from Baguette and Molina, in the Superpole race.

Baguette leading, left his pit stop late and came out behind Walker who pulled away for an excellent first victory in F3.5

Turvey had a great charge late on to pass Alguersuari, and then Martinez for 5th on the final corner.

[runshaw]

Originally Posted by wannab-aracer

Baguette leading, left his pit stop late and came out behind Walker who pulled away for an excellent first victory in F3.5

It isn't Walker's first victory in WSR. But good on him, he's had a fairly bad start to the season with 2 DNF's despite all his testing pace. He needs to do it more consistently from now on, and he has the speed and the team to do it.

[chunterer]

Sod it, forgot this was on, got all carried away with all things nice and noisy and shiny at Silverstone!!

How did Hegewald get on, as he was doing a one off and by looks of it did pretty well in practice?

Anyone able to post some results from the 2 races please?

[JOWT Blog]

Another solid run from Sten Pentus who went from 20th to 11th in Race 4. Bertrand Baguette also put in two impressive drives this weekend, especially in Race 3 when he went from 8th on the grid to finish 2nd.

[ivanalesi]

Race 1:
1 - Marcos Martinez - Pons - 22 giri 46'36"943
2 - Bertrand Baguette - Draco - 3"816
3 - Miguel Molina - Ultimate - 11"052
4 - Charles Pic - Tech 1 - 14"668
5 - Daniil Move - P1 - 14"887
6 - Oliver Turvey - Carlin - 15"262
7 - Marco Barba - Draco - 19"257
8 - Pasquale Di Sabatino - RC - 19"775
9 - Chris Van der Drift - Epsilon Euskadi - 20"051
10 - Jaime Alguersuari - Carlin - 30"837
11 - Brendon Hartley - Tech 1 - 36"491
12 - Adrian Zaugg - Interwetten - 37"383
13 - Greg Mansell - Ultimate - 38"213
14 - Tobias Hegewald - Interwetten - 38"466
15 - Fairuz Fauzy - Fortec - 52"416
16 - Frankie Provenzano - Prema - 1'04"325
17 - Federico Leo - Pons - 1'09"708
18 - Sten Pentus - Fortec - 1'17"802
19 - Julian Leal - Prema - 1'20"170
20 - Anton Nebilitskiy - Comtec - 1'43"028

Fastest Lap: Bertrand Baguette 2'06"518


Race 2:
1 - James Walker - P1 - 21 giri 47'45"056
2 - Bertrand Baguette - Draco - 6"421
3 - Miguel Molina - Ultimate - 11"983
4 - Daniil Move - P1 - 18"066
5 - Marcos Martinez - Pons - 18"982
6 - Jaime Alguersuari - Carlin - 19"008
7 - Adrian Zaugg - Interwetten - 22"645
8 - Pasquale Di Sabatino - RC - 23"839
9 - Greg Mansell - Ultimate - 24"362
10 - Brendon Hartley - Tech 1 - 26"984
11 - Fairuz Fauzy - Fortec - 28"144
12 - Sten Pentus - Fortec - 28"785
13 - Marco Barba - Draco - 42"898
14 - Frankie Provenzano - Prema - 43"563
15 - Oliver Turvey - Carlin - 43"745 *
16 - Tobias Hegewald - Interwetten - 48"874
17 - Federico Leo - Pons - 57"682
18 - Julian Leal - Prema - 1'07"675

Fastest Lap: James Walker 2'04"030

Martinez is continues to lead, ahead of Baguette. Molina and Pic are kind of sleeping...

[gomick]

Whats going on with Brendon Hartley? Are Tech 1 poo? No, they cant be, Charles Pic is going ok...

[Ssom]

Originally Posted by gomick

Whats going on with Brendon Hartley? Are Tech 1 poo? No, they cant be, Charles Pic is going ok...

A lot of Hartleys problems probably stem from the fact he was thrown in the car at the last minute without any WSR 3.5 experience. Still he's performing below the expectations that I had for him.