2016 Silverstone GP2 Series round

2016 GP2 race held in the United Kingdom September 2017 United Kingdom Silverstone 5 11 Silverstone Circuit vector map.png Layout of the Silverstone Circuit 2016 Silverstone CircuitSilverstone, United Kingdom Permanent racing facility 3.660 5.891 9 July 29 FRA Norman Nato Racing Engineering 1:38.216 FRA Pierre Gasly Prema Racing ITA Antonio Giovinazzi Prema Racing GBR Oliver Rowland MP Motorsport NZL Mitch Evans Campos Racing 1:43.172 24 10 July 21 GBR Jordan King Racing Engineering ITA Luca Ghiotto Trident GBR Oliver Rowland MP Motorsport ITA Luca Ghiotto Trident 1:44.199 3 The 2016 Silverstone GP2 Series round was a GP2 Series motor race held on 9 and 10 July 2016 at the Silverstone Circuit in the United Kingdom. It was the fifth round of the 2016 GP2 Series. The race weekend they supported the 2016 British Grand Prix. Background ART Grand Prix's Nobuharu Matsushita returned to the series after serving his one-round ban in Austria. Report Qualifying In a somewhat controversial manner, Norman Nato achieved the fastest time of 1:38.216, thereby achieving his first pole position of the year. He was under investigation for setting his pole lap under red flag conditions. He was deemed by officials to set the lap time under green conditions and his pole time stood. Pierre Gasly achieved second place two-tenths behind Nato and Nicholas Latifi achieved a career-best of third. Pos. Position No. Car number Driver Team Time Grid Final grid position 1 3 FRA Norman Nato Racing Engineering 1:38.216 1 2 21 FRA Pierre Gasly Prema Racing 1:38.441 2 3 6 CAN Nicholas Latifi DAMS 1:38.797 3 4 9 ITA Raffaele Marciello Russian Time 1:38.842 4 5 2 RUS Sergey Sirotkin ART Grand Prix 1:38.904 PL 1 1 6 20 ITA Antonio Giovinazzi Prema Racing 1:38.912 5 7 7 NZL Mitch Evans Campos Racing 1:39.084 6 8 4 GBR Jordan King Racing Engineering 1:39.123 7 9 12 FRA Arthur Pic Rapax 1:39.160 8 10 22 GBR Oliver Rowland MP Motorsport 1:39.192 9 11 10 RUS Artem Markelov Russian Time 1:39.370 10 12 1 JPN Nobuharu Matsushita ART Grand Prix 1:39.572 11 13 19 DEU Marvin Kirchhöfer Carlin 1:39.668 12 14 18 ESP Sergio Canamasas Carlin 1:39.749 16 2 2 15 8 INA Sean Gelael Campos Racing 1:39.750 13 16 11 SWE Gustav Malja Rapax 1:39.798 14 17 5 GBR Alex Lynn DAMS 1:39.928 15 18 23 NED Daniël de Jong MP Motorsport 1:40.459 17 19 25 SWE Jimmy Eriksson Arden International 1:40.838 18 20 24 MYS Nabil Jeffri Arden International 1:41.160 19 21 14 INA Philo Paz Armand Trident 1:41.385 20 – 15 ITA Luca Ghiotto Trident no time 21 Source:GP2 Series 2016 Results - Britain http://www.gp2series.com/Results/?raceid=965&seasonid=173 https://web.archive.org/web/20160711063629/http://www.gp2series.com/Results/?seasonid=173&raceid=965 GP2 Series GP2 Motorsport Limited 11 July 2016 9 July 2016 live dmy-all Notes 1.1 – Sirotkin was penalised after he failed to stop at the weighbridge and the car was not brought back before the mechanics worked on it, thereby violating the parc ferme ruling. He started from the pitlane.Round 5 Post Qualifying Penalty http://www.gp2series.com/News-Room/News/2016/07_July/Round-5-post-Qualifying-penalty/ https://web.archive.org/web/20160709145259/http://www.gp2series.com/News-Room/News/2016/07_July/Round-5-post-Qualifying-penalty/ GP2 Series GP2 Motorsport Limited 8 July 2016 9 July 2016 9 July 2016 2.2 – Canamasas received a three-place grid penalty after having been deemed to demonstrate unsporting behaviour towards Oliver Rowland after the conclusion of practice.Round 5 Post Free Practice Penalty http://www.gp2series.com/News-Room/News/2016/07_July/Round-5-post-Free-Practice-penalty/ https://web.archive.org/web/20160709145237/http://www.gp2series.com/News-Room/News/2016/07_July/Round-5-post-Free-Practice-penalty/ GP2 Series GP2 Motorsport Limited 8 July 2016 9 July 2016 9 July 2016 Feature Race The preferred tire strategy for the feature race was often to start on the hard compound and then switch to soft later in the race. Prema Racing went against this using the opposite strategy to great effect, with Pierre Gasly taking his maiden GP2 win from teammate Antonio Giovinazzi. Oliver Rowland also went with this strategy, achieving third despite struggling for grip in the dying laps. This result elevates both Prema drivers to first and second in the standings, with Evans maintaining third. Pos. Position No. Car number Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 21 FRA Pierre Gasly Prema Racing 29 51:39.383 2 25 2 20 ITA Antonio Giovinazzi Prema Racing 29 +9.422 5 18 3 22 GBR Oliver Rowland MP Motorsport 29 +16.090 6 1 9 15 4 7 NZL Mitch Evans Campos Racing 29 +21.667 6 12 (2) 5 15 ITA Luca Ghiotto Trident 29 +24.591 21 10 6 1 JPN Nobuharu Matsushita ART Grand Prix 29 +25.165 11 8 7 3 FRA Norman Nato Racing Engineering 29 +25.474 1 6 (4) 8 4 GBR Jordan King Racing Engineering 29 +25.651 7 4 9 9 ITA Raffaele Marciello Russian Time 29 +31.757 4 2 10 10 RUS Artem Markelov Russian Time 29 +33.115 10 1 11 6 CAN Nicholas Latifi DAMS 29 +34.220 3 12 19 DEU Marvin Kirchhöfer Carlin 29 +34.409 12 13 18 ESP Sergio Canamasas Carlin 29 +37.898 16 14 12 FRA Arthur Pic Rapax 29 +42.610 8 15 25 SWE Jimmy Eriksson Arden International 29 +55.205 18 16 5 GBR Alex Lynn DAMS 29 +56.604 15 17 24 MYS Nabil Jeffri Arden International 29 +57.490 13 18 2 RUS Sergey Sirotkin ART Grand Prix 29 +1:02.096 PL 19 23 NED Daniël de Jong MP Motorsport 29 +1:23.661 17 20 14 INA Philo Paz Armand Trident 29 +1:39.764 20 21 8 INA Sean Gelael Campos Racing 28 +1 Lap 13 22 11 SWE Gustav Malja Rapax 28 +1 Lap 14 Fastest lap: NZL Mitch Evans (Campos Racing) – 1:43.172 (on lap 24) Source: Notes 1.6 – Rowland was given a five-second time penalty for excessive over-use of track limits.Round 5 Post Feature Race Penalty http://www.gp2series.com/News-Room/News/2016/07_July/Round-5-post-Feature-Race-penalty/ https://web.archive.org/web/20160710144548/http://www.gp2series.com/News-Room/News/2016/07_July/Round-5-post-Feature-Race-penalty/ GP2 Series GP2 Motorsport Limited 9 July 2016 10 July 2016 10 July 2016 Sprint Race The sprint race saw another dominant performance from Jordan King who led from start to finish despite a late charge from Luca Ghiotto. The race was rather calm for the most part until three-laps from the end when the rain started to descend upon the circuit. As the circuit became more and more slippery, the drivers soon found themselves struggling for grip. Norman Nato spun off and several others left the circuit. Rowland passed Matsushita in the final laps to achieve another podium, the only driver to do so throughout the weekend. Pos. Position No. Car number Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 4 GBR Jordan King Racing Engineering 21 37:35.325 1 15 2 15 ITA Luca Ghiotto Trident 21 +0.580 4 12 (2) 3 22 GBR Oliver Rowland MP Motorsport 21 +11.664 6 10 4 20 ITA Antonio Giovinazzi Prema Racing 21 +11.786 7 8 5 1 JPN Nobuharu Matsushita ART Grand Prix 21 +17.518 3 6 6 9 ITA Raffaele Marciello Russian Time 21 +20.467 9 4 7 21 FRA Pierre Gasly Prema Racing 21 +23.126 8 2 8 19 DEU Marvin Kirchhöfer Carlin 21 +25.873 12 1 9 18 ESP Sergio Canamasas Carlin 21 +26.721 13 10 6 CAN Nicholas Latifi DAMS 21 +27.370 11 11 12 FRA Arthur Pic Rapax 21 +28.061 14 12 10 RUS Artem Markelov Russian Time 21 +28.632 10 13 7 NZL Mitch Evans Campos Racing 21 +28.844 5 14 5 GBR Alex Lynn DAMS 21 +29.598 16 15 24 MYS Nabil Jeffri Arden International 21 +31.284 17 16 23 NED Daniël de Jong MP Motorsport 21 +32.249 19 17 25 SWE Jimmy Eriksson Arden International 21 +35.412 15 18 8 INA Sean Gelael Campos Racing 21 +40.058 21 19 11 SWE Gustav Malja Rapax 21 +46.964 22 20 14 INA Philo Paz Armand Trident 21 +1:30.028 20 21 2 RUS Sergey Sirotkin ART Grand Prix 21 +1:30.624 18 Ret 3 FRA Norman Nato Racing Engineering 19 Spun off 2 Fastest lap: ITA Luca Ghiotto (Trident) – 1:44.199 (on lap 3) Source: Standings after the round Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 10px 4 1 GBR Oliver Rowland 79 10px 4 2 ITA Antonio Giovinazzi 78 10px 5 3 FRA Pierre Gasly 74 10px 3 4 ITA Raffaele Marciello 72 10px 3 5 NZL Mitch Evans 70 Teams' Championship standings Pos Team Points 10px 2 1 ITA Prema Racing 152 10px 2 ESP Racing Engineering 129 10px 2 3 RUS Russian Time 127 10px 4 INA Campos Racing 94 10px 1 5 FRA ART Grand Prix 86 Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. See also 2016 British Grand Prix 2016 Silverstone GP3 Series round References External links Official website of GP2 Series Silverstone GP2 round 2016 2016 Red Bull Ring GP2 Series round 2016 Hungaroring GP2 Series round 2015 Silverstone GP2 Series round 2017 Silverstone Formula 2 round Silverstone Silverstone Silverstone