Karun Chandhok ended a run of miserable Sunday luck to win this morning’s GP2 Series sprint race at Hockenheim.

The Indian was beaten away from pole position, but he had to wait only until the third lap to assume the lead after passing Lucas di Grassi (Campos) as they exited the hairpin. From then on he controlled the pace and resisted an extended period of pressure from Andreas Zuber (Piquet Sports) to score the second win of his GP2 career.

By the end of the race the top two had to keep a wary eye on the second iSport Dallara of Bruno Senna, who put in a stirring recovery drive after a slow start left him down in eighth place at the end of the opening lap. He eventually finished third, just 1.274s behind his team-mate.

Karun Chandhok :“That’s the first time I have scored points on a Sunday this year – and there couldn’t have been a better way to do it. I didn’t get a great start. The team fitted a new clutch overnight and I just didn’t manage to find the sweet spot. I got far too much wheelspin off the line, but I wasn’t too worried because I saw yesterday that Lucas di Grassi wears his tyres harder than we do – he was already starting to get sideways on the second lap. I sold him a nice dummy at the hairpin next time around and that was that. It was a tough race, because I had a lot of pressure from Zuber, and in the later stages Bruno was catching both of us. I just focused on my own race, though, and it feels fantastic to win again. I’d also like to thank iSport – it’s a great team and I really enjoy working with everyone here.”

Così all'arrivo di Gara 2:

1. Karun Chandhok - iSport - 27 giri in 38'27.955
2. Andreas Zuber - Piquet - a 0.702
3. Bruno Senna - iSport - a 1.274
4. Romain Grosjean - ART - a 4.947
5. Javier Villa - Racing Engineering - a 10.893
6. Alvaro Parente - Super Nova - a 16.383
7. Ho-Pin Tung - Trident - a 17.423
8. Sébastien Buemi - Arden - a 18.364
9. Mike Conway - Trident -a 21.808
10. Kamui Kobayashi - DAMS - a 22.554
11. Jérôme d'Ambrosio - DAMS - a 27.503
12. Vitaly Petrov - Campos - a 28.832
13. Marko Asmer - FMSI - a 34.160
14. Davide Valsecchi - Durango - a 34.854
15. Alberto Valerio - Durango - a 35.468
16. Roldan Rodriguez - FMSI - a 36.769
17. Carlos Iaconelli - BCN - a 41.765
18. Pastor Maldonado - Piquet - a 46.526
19. Andy Soucek - Super Nova - a 1 giro
20. Diego Nunes - DPR - a 1 giro
Non classificati
Sakon Yamamoto - ART
Adrian Valles - BCN
Lucas di Grassi - Campos
Giorgio Pantano - Racing Engineering
Michael Herck - DPR
Luca Filippi - Arden

Following an enquiry by the Stewards of the Meeting at Hockenheim today Racing Engineering’s Giorgio Pantano was promoted to first place in the Feature Race as Romain Grosjean is penalised by the addition of a 25 seconds penalty to his race time following an infringement during the race.

This means that Giorgio has now won four races this season and has consolidated his lead at the top of the GP2 Driver’s Championship to 19 points and Racing Engineering now lead the Team Championship by 2 points. An additional effect to Giorgio’s race win is that he will now start tomorrow’s Sprint Race from 8th on the reversed grid.

Giorgio Pantano (driver car 12): “A great victory. Thanks to the entire team for giving me a perfect car for yet another weekend."

Così all'arrivo di Gara 1:

1. Giorgio Pantano - Racing Engineering
2. Romain Grosjean - ART - * penalizzato di 25''
3. Alvaro Parente - Super Nova - a 54.244
4. Bruno Senna - iSport - a 56.654
5. Lucas di Grassi - Campos - a 1'00.201
6. Pastor Maldonado - Piquet - a 1'00.406
7. Andy Soucek - Super Nova - a 1'01.764
8. Karun Chandhok - iSport - a 1'19.413
9. Alberto Valerio - Durango - a 1'47.474
10. Javier Villa - Racing Engineering - a 1 giro
11. Andreas Zuber - Piquet - a 1 giro
12. Sakon Yamamoto - ART - a 1 gito
13. Ho-Pin Tung - Trident - a 1 giro
14. Marko Asmer - FMSI - a 1 giro
15. Adrian Valles - BCN - a 1 giro
16. Carlos Iaconelli - BCN - a 1 giro
17. Michael Herck - DPR - a 1 giro
18. Roldan Rodriguez - FMSI - a 2 giri
Non classificati
Sébastien Buemi - Arden
Mike Conway - Trident
Vitaly Petrov - Campos
Jérôme d'Ambrosio - DAMS
Luca Filippi - ART
Diego Nunes - DPR
Davide Valsecchi - Durango
Kamui Kobayashi - DAMS

Today at Hockenheim Giorgio Pantano took his second pole position of the season for Racing Engineering.

Giorgio's pole has its origins in the free practice session, when the Italian driver and the Racing Engineering technical staff found the basis of an ideal setup for the car in qualifying. With free practice starting on a damp track that was drying as the minutes went by, the main focus was on running and setting up the car for the crucial half an hour where the grid was to be decided. Pantano was third at the end of the free practice and had a very clear picture of the way to go to get the perfect car for qualifying session.

The work done in the morning really paid off and the Repsol and Telefónica backed Dallara driven by Pantano was amongst the fastest from the start of qualifying, scoring a 1:23:343 at his first attempt that put him straight to the top. As the session continued the track was getting quicker and laptimes were improving but the Racing Engineering driver settled the battle for pole position when he returned to the track, improving his previous time by more than 1.5 seconds, setting a 1:21:650 that none of his rivals could reach in the remaining ten minutes still left to the end of the session. With this new pole, the second of the season, Pantano increases his advantage at the top of the GP2 series standings and gains for himself the best position to fight for victory in tomorrow’s Feature Race on the German track.

With Giorgio in pole and Javi well placed, the outlook for the Spanish team is good for the Feature Race, due tomorrow afternoon. Another win seems to be perfectly within reach for Giorgio while Javi will be looking for his best result of the season so far.

Alfonso de Orleans Borbón (team principal): "Once again Giorgio has done an amazing job, the prospects are good for tomorrow. I am very happy for Javi as well, luckily the engine problem we had on his car's engine was just a loose pipe, which we solved easily for qualifying. Well done to both drivers and a great job by the whole team, but let's keep our heads cool for tomorrow's race."

Giorgio Pantano (driver car 12): "Everything went very well. We understood from free practice what we needed to improve for qualifying. We did the job and I think we did a perfect lap, the car was perfect and I was almost perfect. I have to say thanks to the team as they worked hard to prepare the car for qualifying."

Così al via di Gara 1:

1. Giorgio Pantano - Racing Engineering - 1'21.650
2. Romain Grosjean - ART - 1'21.934
3. Andreas Zuber - Piquet - 1'22.004
4. Sébastien Buemi - Arden - 1'22.171
5. Lucas di Grassi - Campos - 1'22.172
6. Bruno Senna - iSport - 1'22.216
7. Alvaro Parente - Super Nova - 1'22.391
8. Kamui Kobayashi - DAMS - 1'22.459
9. Javier Villa - Racing Engineering - 1'22.560
10. Vitaly Petrov - Campos - 1'22.587
11. Karun Chandhok - iSport - 1'22.759
12. Sakon Yamamoto - ART - 1'22.788
13. Luca Filippi - Arden - 1'22.802
14. Jérôme d'Ambrosio - DAMS - 1'22.907
15. Pastor Maldonado - Piquet - 1'22.969
16. Andy Soucek - Super Nova - 1'22.992
17. Ho-Pin Tung - Trident - 1'23.264
18. Davide Valsecchi - Durango - 1'23.320
19. Alberto Valerio - Durango - 1'23.378
20. Mike Conway - Trident - 1'23.433
21. Diego Nunes - DPR - 1'23.434
22. Roldan Rodriguez - FMSI - 1'23.497
23. Carlos Iaconelli - BCN - 1'23.913
24. Marko Asmer - FMSI - 1'24.011
25. Adrian Valles - BCN - 1'24.273
26. Michael Herck - DPR - 1'24.641

Sport racer Bruno Senna scored a textbook victory in this morning’s rain-hit GP2 Series sprint at Silverstone. From third on the grid, the Brazilian worked his way into the lead on the opening lap as he adapted quickly to the treacherous conditions.

He didn’t put a foot wrong throughout the 24 laps, even when rain became torrential halfway through the race. He went on to take a comfortable win, his second of the campaign, and closed the gap to championship leader Giorgio Pantano, who finished third.

Bruno Senna: “Conditions were obviously quite difficult, but from where I was sitting everything felt reasonably straightforward. Once I’d got into the lead I took things fairly easy, although I started to push harder when Lucas di Grassi closed in a little. I was able to pull away from him without any problem and after that I just settled into a rhythm – I know Silverstone very well and there was no point pushing too hard when I didn’t have to.There were all sorts of incidents going on – blue flags, yellow flags and so on – but none of them caused me any real worries. The team had done such a good job setting up the car that I was able to put it almost anywhere I wanted on the circuit.”

Così all'arrivo di Gara 2:

1. Bruno Senna - iSport - 24 giri in 44'29.867
2. Lucas di Grassi - Campos - a 8.598
3. Giorgio Pantano - Racing Engineering - a 9.420
4. Mike Conway - Trident - a 17.784
5. Vitaly Petrov - Campos - a 23.390
6. Davide Valsecchi - Durango - a 1'02.921
7. Kamui Kobayashi - DAMS - a 1'05.887
8. Romain Grosjean - ART - a 1'16.083
9. Alberto Valerio - Durango - a 1'19.835
10. Yelmer Buurman - Arden - a 1 giro
11. Andreas Zuber - Piquet - a 1 giro
12. Jérôme d'Ambrosio - DAMS - a 1 giro
13. Marko Asmer - FMSI - a 1 giro
14. Adrian Valles - BCN - a 2 giri
15. Pastor Maldonado - Piquet - a 2 giri
Non classificati
Javier Villa - Racing Engineering - a 4 giri
Roldan Rodriguez - FMSI - a 4 igir
Carlos Iaconelli - BCN - a 7 giri
Andy Soucek - Super Nova - a 10 giri
Luca Filippi - ART - a 16 giri
Ho-Pin Tung - Trident - a 21 giri
Karun Chandhok - iSport
Alvaro Parente - Super Nova
Diego Nunes - DPR
Dns Sébastien Buemi - Arden
Dns Michael Herck - DPR

Giorgio Pantano put in a stunning performance in today’s Feature Race at Silverstone, the Italian driver showing a wonderful combination of speed and intelligence as he increased his lead in the Drivers Championship.

Fortunately for all the teams the threatened rain held off and the race started under blue skies as all the drivers made a clean start to the 36 lap Feature Race. Giorgio made a great getaway from 5th on the grid and immediately gained a place as a slow starting Grosjean caused Zuber to lift and the Racing Engineering driver took immediate advantage of the situation. On the third lap Giorgio gained another place as leader Senna made a mistake at Stowe and ran wide loosing several places.

Giorgio now began a very entertaining battle with his championship rival Grosjean as the two cars fought hard for second place and two soon became three as the recovering Senna joined in.

The leaders were all on a similar pitstop strategy and Giorgio stopped on lap 16, a lap after Grosjean, resuming once again hard on the gearbox of the French ART driver. Giorgio now began to attack Grosjean all round the circuit as the Repsol/Telefónica supported Dallara looked for a way to pass, the Italian giving every sign that he had the faster car. Unfortunately an abandoned car at Vale meant yellow flags and this was one of the areas where Giorgio was looking to pass. Suddenly as the two cars entered Abbey Grosjean left a small gap, it was barely a car wide but Giorgio dived down the inside and the two cars rubbed wheels but the Racing Engineering car was up to second.

Giorgio was now 3.7 seconds behind leader di Grassi but he quickly began to close the gap and on lap 30, as the cars exited Stowe, Giorgio was right behind di Grassi and as the cars entered Club Giorgio feinted to the left and as di Grassi covered the move Giorgio darted to the right and took the lead. The contest was finished and over the remaining handful of laps Giorgio pulled away to a confident four second victory.

For tomorrow’s Sprint Race Giorgio will start from 8th on the reversed grid and will be looking to further improve his 13 point lead over Senna. Once again Racing Engineering showed how competitive their cars are and once again the Spanish team saw both of their cars finished the race.

Alfonso de Orleans Borbón (team principal): "Giorgio was absolutely fantastic, I think this was his best race to date. The whole team was able to make everything work absolutely perfectly and I want to thank every single team member for the effort and work they have been putting into the team this season so far. This is a team effort of everyone."

Giorgio Pantano (driver car 12): "Everything was wonderful today and I have to especially say thank you to the team for the car I had in this race and the fast pit stop. This is exciting for me, the team and everyone. This was a wonderful race."

Così all'arrivo di Gara 1:

1 Giorgio Pantano - Racing Engineering - in 56'38.094
2 Lucas Di Grassi - Campos - a 4.060
3 Karun Chandhok - iSport - a 10.280
4 Sebastien Buemi - Arden - a 15.114
5 Romain Grosjean - ART - a 18.842
6 Bruno Senna - iSport - a 18.988
7 Andreas Zuber - Piquet - a 20.205
8 Luca Filippi - ART - a 23.311
9 Jerome D'Ambrosio - Dams - a 25.590
10 Vitaly Petrov - Campos - a 35.431
11 Roldan Rodriguez - FMSI - a 36.886
12 Andy Soucek - Super Nova - a 40.911
13 Javier Villa - Racing Engineering - a 50.712
14 Mike Conway - Trident - a 53.147
15 Yelmer Buurman - Arden - a 53.384
16 Alvaro Parente - Super Nova - a 56.497
17 Diego Nunes - DPR - a 59.654
18 Ho Pin Tung - Trident - a 1'01.002
19 Davide Valsecchi - Durango - a 1'01.263
20 Marko Asmer - FMSI - a 1'04.667
21 Alberto Valerio - Durango - a 1'07.767
22 Adrian Valles - BCN - a 1'16.876
23 Michael Herck - DPR - a 1 giro

For the second consecutive GP2 Series feature race, Bruno Senna has qualified his iSport Dallara on pole position. The Brazilian was the only driver to dip below the 1m 27s barrier in today’s 30-minute qualifying session and he beat closest rival Romain Grosjean (ART) by 0.122s.

Bruno Senna: “I crashed at the end of my pole position lap in Magny-Cours two weeks ago and promised I’d do the job properly here, by keeping all four wheels on. I kept my word! The car wasn’t handling perfectly during this morning’s free practice session, but iSport is a fantastic team and knew exactly what to do. All the small changes made a positive difference and the balance felt absolutely perfect in qualifying. I adore driving at this track and managed to put a really good lap together. It was a fantastic team effort.”

Così al via di Gara 1:

1. Bruno Senna - iSport - 1'26.912
2. Romain Grosjean - ART - 1'27.034
3. Andreas Zuber - Piquet - 1'27.147
4. Lucas di Grassi - Campos - 1'27.350
5. Giorgio Pantano - Racing Engineering - 1'27.487
6. Luca Filippi - ART - 1'27.554
7. Andy Soucek - Super Nova - 1'27.699
8. Mike Conway - Trident - 1'27.754
9. Kamui Kobayashi - DAMS - 1'27.774
10. Karun Chandhok - iSport - 1'27.785
11. Pastor Maldonado - Piquet - 1'27.845
12. Sébastien Buemi - Arden - 1'27.921
13. Javier Villa - Racing Engineering - 1'28.163
14. Jérôme d'Ambrosio - DAMS - 1'28.172
15. Adrian Valles - BCN - 1'28.174
16. Vitaly Petrov - Campos - 1'28.228
17. Alvaro Parente - Super Nova - 1'28.365
18. Diego Nunes - DPR - 1'28.442
19. Roldan Rodriguez - FMSI - 1'28.590
20. Ho-Pin Tung - Trident - 1'28.595
21. Davide Valsecchi - Durango - 1'28.751
22. Marko Asmer - FMSI - 1'28.857
23. Alberto Valerio - Durango - 1'29.027
24. Yelmer Buurman - Arden - 1'29.107
25. Carlos Iaconelli - BCN - 1'29.429
26. Michael Herck - DPR - 1'29.615

Sébastien Buemi headed team-mate Yelmer Buurman across the line as Trust Team Arden scored its first GP2 Series win of the campaign in Sunday morning’s sprint race at Magny-Cours. The race began in tricky conditions, with the track wet in the wake of early-morning showers, but Buemi and Buurman were among the minority in that they opted to start the race on slick Bridgestone tyres. It was the right move, though, and they swept through the field as wet-shod rivals pitted for dry rubber. By lap nine they were running first and second, with Buurman ahead, and the order remained unchanged until lap 22 of 28, when Buemi pulled alongside as they approached the Adelaide hairpin. The Swiss driver made the move stick and went on to finish 6.6s clear of his team-mate.

Sébastien Buemi: “It was a difficult race on slicks, but my engineer made the right decision. I wanted to start on wets, so I’m grateful to him for his advice. I made a good start and passed many cars, but then slowed a little because I was on slicks. I pushed and pushed to get the slicks working and gradually moved up to third, then second… I couldn’t have driven any faster if I’d stolen the car! Yelmer was very quick, but I started to catch him as the circuit dried. I really wanted to win and eventually managed to draw alongside him on the run to the hairpin. A win, some solid points and third place in the championship… It has been a great day.”

Così all'arrivo di Gara 2:

1. Sébastien Buemi - Arden - 28 giri in 43'08.504
2. Yelmer Buurman - Arden - a 6.639
3. Luca Filippi - ART -a 23.953
4. Lucas di Grassi - Campos - a 24.479
5. Bruno Senna - iSport - a 29.439
6. Mike Conway - Trident - a 35.924
7. Pastor Maldonado - Piquet - a 38.074
8. Andreas Zuber - Piquet - a 43.060
9. Kamui Kobayashi - DAMS - a 45.558
10. Javier Villa - Racing Engineering - a 46.756
11. Marko Asmer - FMSI - a 52.904
12. Adrian Valles - BCN - a 1 giro
13. Carlos Iaconelli - BCN - a 1 giro
14. Ho-Pin Tung - Trident - a 2 giri
15. Michael Herck - DPR - a 2 giri
16. Roldan Rodriguez - FMSI - a 2 giri
17. Alberto Valerio - Durango - a 2 giri
18. Vitaly Petrov - Campos - a 3 giri
Non classificati
Alvaro Parente - Super Nova
Ben Hanley - Durango
Diego Nunes - DPR
Giorgio Pantano - Racing Engineering
Karun Chandhok - iSport
Romain Grosjean - ART
Andy Soucek - Super Nova
Jérôme d'Ambrosio - DAMS

Giorgio Pantano did everything expected of him by winning today’s Feature Race and taking the fastest lap on the day when he became the most experienced driver in GP2. Giorgio’s confident race performance also puts him in a clear first place at the top of the Drivers Championship.

Giorgio made a great start passing Grosjean as the cars left the grid and slotting the Repsol/Telefónica backed Racing Engineering Dallara into second spot behind the pole-sitter Senna. At the end of the opening lap Giorgio was right on the tail of Senna as the two cars crossed the line just 0.6 seconds apart with Grosjean just behind in third. Over the next few laps the two leaders were very evenly matched with the gap constantly less than a second and by lap 8 they had dropped Grosjean who was now 2.8 seconds behind.

Lap 18 saw both Giorgio and Senna make their mandatory pit stops, Giorgio lost a place to Grosjean who had stopped a couple of laps earlier but he was quickly on the tail of the French driver. On the next lap Grosjean passed Senna and Giorgio closed in on both drivers as he looked for an opportunity to pass. Suddenly on lap 21 Senna slowed dramatically with clutch problems and Giorgio quickly moved into second place behind Grosjean. The gap between first and second was steady at around a second but as the cars were on their 33rd lap Grosjean suddenly slowed with mechanical problems and Giorgio took the lead.

With just 8 laps left to run, and a nine second lead over di Grassi, Giorgio took it easy over the remaing laps to score a great win for himself and Racing Engineering as once again the Spanish team showed what a competitive force they are this year.

Giorgio will start tomorrow’s Sprint Race from 8th place on the reversed grid and will be looking to make up as many places as possible to consolidate his Championship lead.

Alfonso de Orleans Borbón (team principal): "An absolutely fantastic job from Giorgio and the best way to conclude his 100th race, I think we might celebrate this tonight. A fantastic job also from all the boys, it is the reliability of our cars that helps us to lead Driver Championship and to second in the Team Championship. A big thank you to everyone in the team."

Giorgio Pantano (driver car 12): “Everything went perfect for me today. The car, the team everything was great. We have a fast car and unfortunately didn't start on pole. But we had some luck that Senna and Grosjean had problems with their cars and I decided then to be safe with the car and get to end. Sometimes I have bad luck and sometimes good."

Così all'arrivo di Gara 1:

1. Giorgio Pantano - Racing Engineering - 41 giri in 59'17.927
2. Lucas di Grassi - Campos - a 8.607
3. Pastor Maldonado - Piquet - a 12.436
4. Vitaly Petrov - Campos - a 17.081
5. Andreas Zuber - Piquet - a 17.485
6. Jérôme d'Ambrosio - DAMS - a 18.492
7. Karun Chandhok - iSport - a 20.330
8. Mike Conway - Trident - a 23.028
9. Alvaro Parente - Super Nova - a 28.848
10. Luca Filippi - ART - a 41.255
11. Diego Nunes - DPR - a 54.160
12. Yelmer Buurman - Arden - a 57.581
13. Andy Soucek - Super Nova - a 57.817
14. Javier Villa - Racing Engineering - a 58.529
15. Adrian Valles - BCN - a 1'01.455
16. Carlos Iaconelli - BCN - a 1'20.438
17. Marko Asmer - FMSI - a 1'20.042
18. Alberto Valerio - Durango - a 2 giri
Non classificati
Romain Grosjean - ART - a 7 giri
Roldan Rodriguez - FMSI - a 8 giri
Sébastien Buemi - Arden - a 13 giri
Ben Hanley - Durango - a 17 giri
Bruno Senna - iSport - a 19 giri
Michael Herck - DPR - a 25 giri
Ho-Pin Tung - Trident - a 27 giri
Kamui Kobayashi - DAMS

Senna takes pole, despite crashing as he crosses the line.

Bruno Senna recorded iSport’s first pole position of the campaign – and the first of his GP2 Series career – during today’s qualifying session at Magny-Cours, France.

It was not, however, a conventional pole lap. The Brazilian, who swept into the championship lead in Monaco last month, crashed as he completed a 1m 25.250s lap towards the end of the half-hour session. He was in mid-accident as he crossed the finishing line, but his time was still good enough to put him at the head of the 26-car field.

Bruno Senna: “I’m obviously delighted to take pole, but that wasn’t quite how I’d planned to do it. The car was really well balanced today – perfect, in fact – but every time I tried to put a lap together I was delayed by traffic. When it came to my final run I just gave it everything I had and, unfortunately, the car got away from me at the final chicane. It was my last chance to set a really good time and the incident was just one of those things. The car felt absolutely fantastic and I’m now in a perfect position to capitalise on that.”

Così al via:

1. Bruno Senna - iSport International - 1'22.250
2. Romain Grosjean - ART Grand Prix - 1'22.287
3. Giorgio Pantano - Racing Engineering - 1'22.301
4. Andreas Zuber - Piquet Sports - 1'22.380
5. Sébastien Buemi - Trust Team Arden - 1'22.619
6. Lucas di Grassi - Barwa Int. Campos Team - 1'22.708
7. Kamui Kobayashi - Dams - 1'22.726
8. Vitaly Petrov - Barwa Int. Campos Team - 1'22.774
9. Pastor Maldonado - Piquet Sports - 1'22.780
10. Karun Chandhok - iSport International - 1'22.821
11. Luca Filippi - ART Grand Prix - 1'22.956
12. Andy Soucek - Super Nova Racing - 1'23.035
13. Jérôme d’Ambrosio - Dams - 1'23.094
14. Mike Conway - Trident Racing - 1'23.154
15. Diego Nunes - DPR - 1'23.158
16. Ben Hanley - Durango - 1'23.191
17. Ho-Pin Tung - Trident Racing - 1'23.331
18. Adrian Valles - BCN Competicion - 1'23.372
19. Yelmer Buurman - Trust Team Arden - 1'23.441
20 Roldan Rodriguez - Fisichella Motor Sport Int. - 1'23.467
21. Alvaro Parente - Super Nova Racing - 1'23.787
22. Alberto Valerio - Durango - 1'23.853
23. Marko Asmer - Fisichella Motor Sport Int. - 1'23.870
24. Javier Villa - Racing Engineering - 1'23.998
25 Carlos Iaconelli - BCN Competicion - 1'24.784
26. Michael Herck - DPR - 1'25.668

Super Nova Racing would like to announce that as from this week, driver Andy Soucek will replace Christian Bakkerud & join the team for the balance of the GP2 Main 2008 season.

A persistent back injury beset Christian during last weeks test at the Paul Ricard circuit in France. Reluctantly after advice from his doctor, the Dane wisely decided to take time out to fully recover before deciding on his racing future. The whole team would like to wish Christian all the best & a speedy recovery.

Team Principal David Sears: “The Super Nova team are extremely sad that Christian Bakkerud has been forced to stop through his injury, and hope he gets better quickly. We would also like to welcome back Andy Soucek, who has already showed great form with the team in Istanbul. We believe Andy is a real charger, & will immediately be on the pace. We are all looking forward to him completing the rest of the season, & fighting at the front of the field for the championship.”

The team are already in Magny Cours, preparing for the fourth round of the 2008 GP2 Main Series. Practice and qualifying takes place Friday 20th, followed by a 1600hrs Saturday feature race and 1030hrs Sunday sprint race. (local times)