2012 Bahrain 1st GP2 Series round

Bahrain 1st Bahrain 2 12 Bahrain International Circuit--Grand Prix Layout.svg 2012 Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir, Bahrain Permanent racing facility 3.359 5.412 21 April 32 Italy Davide Valsecchi DAMS 1:41.200 Italy Davide Valsecchi DAMS Brazil Luiz Razia Arden International Mexico Esteban Gutiérrez Lotus GP Italy Davide Valsecchi DAMS 1:44.380 25 22 April 23 Italy Davide Valsecchi DAMS Mexico Esteban Gutiérrez Lotus GP GBR James Calado Lotus GP Netherlands Giedo van der Garde Caterham Racing 1:45.650 3 The 2012 Bahrain 1st GP2 Series round was the second round of the 2012 GP2 Series. It was held on 21 and 22 April 2012 at Bahrain International Circuit, Bahrain.GP2 to support F1 in Singapore, Bahrain and Malaysia http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2011/12/16/gp2-support-f1-singapore-bahrain-malaysia/ Keith Collantine F1 Fanatic Keith Collantine 16 December 2011 25 March 2012 The race supported the 2012 Bahrain Grand Prix. The second round was held one week later as an independent round of the championship, the only one of its kind on the 2012 calendar. The rounds were the first time the GP2 Series has visited the Bahrain International Circuit since 2007. The circuit was a regular fixture on the calendar of the now-defunct GP2 Asia Series from its inception in 2008 until 2011, when the race was cancelled due to anti-government protests.http://www.gp2series.com/News-Room/News/2011/02_Feb/Bahrain-withdraw-from-2011-GP2-Asia-Series-calendar/ Bahrain withdraw from 2011 GP2 Asia Series calendar 21 February 2011 25 March 2012 GP2 Series GP2 Motorsport Limited With the GP2 Asia series being discontinued at the end of the 2011 season and merged into its parent series,GP2 to drop Asia Series in 2012 http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2011/07/12/gp2-drop-asia-series-2012/ Keith Collantine F1 Fanatic Keith Collantine 12 July 2011 25 March 2012 the Bahrain International Circuit returned to the larger GP2 Series as part of the series' expansion to include fly-away rounds. In the week before the first race, Barwa Addax driver Josef Král was replaced by Dani Clos.https://www.thecheckeredflag.co.uk/2012/04/clos-replaces-kral-at-addax-for-bahrain/ Clos replaces Kral at Addax for Bahrain Allen Peter 18 April 2012 The Checkered Flag BlackEagleMedia Network 18 April 2012 Brendon Hartley also replaced Ocean Racing Technology's Jon Lancaster.http://www.autohebdo.fr/monoplaces/gp2-gp3/breve-28-9-23115/190412-gp2-brendon-hartley-rejoint-ocean French Brendon Hartley rejoint Ocean Brendon Hartley joins Ocean 19 April 2012 AUTOhebdo Groupe Hommell 19 April 2012 23 April 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120423124112/http://www.autohebdo.fr/monoplaces/gp2-gp3/breve-28-9-23115/190412-gp2-brendon-hartley-rejoint-ocean dead DAMS driver Davide Valsecchi qualified on pole for the first feature race, and won both the feature and sprint races. The first race was also the first time that the series introduced the points system used by Formula One since 2010 for the feature race, with points awarded to the top ten drivers and twenty-five points awarded to the race winner. The points for the sprint race were changed too, with the winner receiving fifteen points and the top eight drivers scoring points. The points for pole and fastest lap were doubled as well. Classification Qualifying Pos. Position No. Car number Driver Team Time Grid 1 3 Italy Davide Valsecchi DAMS 1:41.200 1 2 10 Mexico Esteban Gutiérrez Lotus GP 1:41.479 2 3 4 Brazil Felipe Nasr DAMS 1:41.785 3 4 5 Switzerland Fabio Leimer Racing Engineering 1:41.798 4 5 1 Venezuela Johnny Cecotto Jr. Barwa Addax Team 1:41.858 5 6 16 Monaco Stéphane Richelmi Trident Racing 1:41.862 6 7 7 Sweden Marcus Ericsson iSport International 1:41.933 171 1 8 9 United Kingdom James Calado Lotus GP 1:41.939 7 9 23 Brazil Luiz Razia Arden International 1:41.962 8 10 26 United Kingdom Max Chilton Carlin 1:41.980 9 11 27 Indonesia Rio Haryanto Carlin 1:42.097 10 12 12 Netherlands Giedo van der Garde Caterham Racing 1:42.139 11 13 8 United Kingdom Jolyon Palmer iSport International 1:42.156 12 14 2 Spain Dani Clos Barwa Addax Team 1:42.158 13 15 21 France Tom Dillmann Rapax 1:42.190 14 16 15 Italy Fabio Onidi Scuderia Coloni 1:42.374 15 17 11 Venezuela Rodolfo González Caterham Racing 1:42.409 16 18 6 France Nathanaël Berthon Racing Engineering 1:42.427 18 19 17 Colombia Julián Leal Trident Racing 1:42.456 19 20 18 Italy Fabrizio Crestani Venezuela GP Lazarus 1:42.706 20 21 24 New Zealand Brendon Hartley Ocean Racing Technology 1:42.782 262 2 22 14 Monaco Stefano Coletti Scuderia Coloni 1:42.853 21 23 25 Netherlands Nigel Melker Ocean Racing Technology 1:42.895 22 24 22 Switzerland Simon Trummer Arden International 1:43.014 23 25 19 Venezuela Giancarlo Serenelli Venezuela GP Lazarus 1:43.907 24 26 20 Portugal Ricardo Teixeira Rapax 1:44.078 25 Notes: 1 1 — Marcus Ericsson was given a ten-place grid penalty for causing an avoidable accident with Davide Valsecchi at Sepang.Ericsson handed a 10 place grid penalty http://www.gp2series.com/News-Room/News/2012/03_March/Ericsson-handed-a-10-place-grid-penalty/ GP2 Series.com GP2 Series Ltd. 25 March 2012 26 March 2012 2 2 — Brendon Hartley received a five-place grid penalty for causing a collision with Giedo van der Garde during the qualifying session.Hartley issued with five place grid penalty http://www.gp2series.com/News-Room/News/2012/April/Hartley-issued-with-five-place-grid-penalty/ GP2 Series.com GP2 Series Ltd. 20 April 2012 20 April 2012 Feature Race Pos. Position No. Car number Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 3 Italy Davide Valsecchi DAMS 32 59:31.115 1 31 (25+4+2 25 points for first place, 4 points for pole position, 2 points for fastest lap) 2 23 Brazil Luiz Razia Arden International 32 +7.770 8 18 3 10 Mexico Esteban Gutiérrez Lotus GP 32 +13.528 2 15 4 26 United Kingdom Max Chilton Carlin 32 +14.088 9 12 5 9 United Kingdom James Calado Lotus GP 32 +16.278 7 10 6 21 France Tom Dillmann Rapax 32 +16.559 14 8 7 5 Switzerland Fabio Leimer Racing Engineering 32 +17.243 4 6 8 15 Italy Fabio Onidi Scuderia Coloni 32 +28.109 15 4 9 27 Indonesia Rio Haryanto Carlin 32 +32.846 10 2 10 24 New Zealand Brendon Hartley Ocean Racing Technology 32 +36.093 26 1 11 16 Monaco Stéphane Richelmi Trident Racing 32 +37.377 6 12 17 Colombia Julián Leal Trident Racing 32 +38.677 19 13 7 Sweden Marcus Ericsson iSport International 32 +40.627 17 14 18 Italy Fabrizio Crestani Venezuela GP Lazarus 32 +41.009 20 15 11 Venezuela Rodolfo González Caterham Racing 32 +44.028 16 16 22 Switzerland Simon Trummer Arden International 32 +44.552 23 17 20 Portugal Ricardo Teixeira Rapax 32 +47.776 25 18 19 Venezuela Giancarlo Serenelli Venezuela GP Lazarus 32 +52.464 24 19 2 Spain Dani Clos Barwa Addax Team 30 Brakes3 3 13 20 25 Netherlands Nigel Melker Ocean Racing Technology 30 Accident damage3 3 22 21 6 France Nathanaël Berthon Racing Engineering 29 Accident damage3 3 18 Ret 1 Venezuela Johnny Cecotto Jr. Barwa Addax Team 16 Collision 5 Ret 4 Brazil Felipe Nasr DAMS 16 Collision 3 Ret 12 Netherlands Giedo van der Garde Caterham Racing 16 Accident damage 11 Ret 14 Monaco Stefano Coletti Scuderia Coloni 2 Collision 21 DNS 8 United Kingdom Jolyon Palmer iSport International Electrical 12 Fastest lap: Davide Valsecchi (DAMS) — 1:44.380 (lap 25) Notes: 3 3 — Dani Clos, Nigel Melker and Nathanaël Berthon were classified as having finished the race, as they had completed 90% of the winners race distance. Sprint race Pos. Position No. Car number Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 3 Italy Davide Valsecchi DAMS 22 39:22.363 8 15 2 10 Mexico Esteban Gutiérrez Lotus GP 22 +0.399 6 12 3 9 United Kingdom James Calado Lotus GP 22 +10.617 4 10 4 23 Brazil Luiz Razia Arden International 22 +12.463 7 8 5 26 United Kingdom Max Chilton Carlin 22 +13.573 5 6 6 4 Brazil Felipe Nasr DAMS 22 +15.414 264 4 4 7 8 United Kingdom Jolyon Palmer iSport International 22 +22.950 25 2 8 22 Switzerland Simon Trummer Arden International 22 +30.425 16 1 9 12 Netherlands Giedo van der Garde Caterham Racing 22 +31.976 23 2 2 points for fastest lap 10 21 France Tom Dillmann Rapax 22 +32.545 37 7 11 2 Spain Dani Clos Barwa Addax Team 22 +32.632 19 12 5 Switzerland Fabio Leimer Racing Engineering 22 +32.856 2 13 20 Portugal Ricardo Teixeira Rapax 22 +36.275 17 14 15 Italy Fabio Onidi Scuderia Coloni 22 +36.477 1 15 27 Indonesia Rio Haryanto Carlin 22 +39.988 9 16 7 Sweden Marcus Ericsson iSport International 22 +40.386 13 17 17 Colombia Julián Leal Trident Racing 22 +47.410 12 18 25 Netherlands Nigel Melker Ocean Racing Technology 22 +56.196 20 19 18 Italy Fabrizio Crestani Venezuela GP Lazarus 22 +59.488 14 20 19 Venezuela Giancarlo Serenelli Venezuela GP Lazarus 22 +1:53.295 18 21 11 Venezuela Rodolfo González Caterham Racing 22 +2:12.9685 5 15 22 1 Venezuela Johnny Cecotto Jr. Barwa Addax Team 21 Retired6 6 22 23 14 Monaco Stefano Coletti Scuderia Coloni 20 Retired6 6 24 Ret 6 France Nathanaël Berthon Racing Engineering 15 Retired 21 Ret 24 New Zealand Brendon Hartley Ocean Racing Technology 2 Retired 10 Ret 16 Monaco Stéphane Richelmi Trident Racing 0 Retired 11 Fastest lap: Giedo van der Garde (Caterham Racing) — 1:45.650 (lap 3) Notes: 4 4 — Felipe Nasr was given a five-place grid penalty for causing an avoidable collision with Johnny Cecotto Jr. in the feature race. He later started from the pit lane.Felipe Nasr given five-place grid penalty for GP2 sprint race http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/99064 Autosport.com Haymarket Publications 21 April 2012 22 April 2012 5 5 — Rodolfo González received a post-race 20-second penalty. 6 6 — Johnny Cecotto Jr. and Stefano Coletti were both classified as having finished the race, as they had completed 90% of the winners race distance. 7 7 — Tom Dillmann started from the pit lane. Standings after the round Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 10px 1 1 Italy Davide Valsecchi 70 10px 1 2 Brazil Luiz Razia 57 10px 1 3 Mexico Esteban Gutiérrez 45 10px 1 4 United Kingdom James Calado 35 10px 1 5 United Kingdom Max Chilton 22 Teams' Championship standings Pos Team Points 10px 1 France DAMS 92 10px 2 France Lotus GP 84 10px 3 United Kingdom Arden International 58 10px 4 United Kingdom Carlin 39 10px 5 Spain Racing Engineering 23 Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. References External links GP2 Series official website – Results Bahrain GP2 round 2012 2012 Sepang GP2 round 2012 2nd Bahrain GP2 round 2010 2nd Bahrain GP2 Asia Series round 2013 Bahrain GP2 round Bahrain GP2