2016 Red Bull Ring GP2 and GP3 Series rounds

2016 Red Bull Ring GP2 round
Round details
Round 4 of 11 rounds in the 2016 GP2 Series season and Round 2 of 9 rounds in the 2016 GP3 Series season
Layout of the Red Bull Ring
Location	Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Styria, Austria
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.326 km (2.688 mi)
GP2 Series
Feature race
Date	2 July 2016
Laps	40
Pole position
Driver	Sergey Sirotkin	ART Grand Prix
Time	1:13.663
Podium
First	Mitch Evans	Pertamina Campos Racing
Second	Sean Gelael	Pertamina Campos Racing
Third	Raffaele Marciello	Russian Time
Fastest lap
Driver	Mitch Evans	Pertamina Campos Racing
Time	1:15.534 (on lap 38)
Sprint race
Date	3 July 2016
Laps	28
Podium
First	Jordan King	Racing Engineering
Second	Oliver Rowland	MP Motorsport
Third	Alex Lynn	DAMS
Fastest lap
Driver	Norman Nato	Racing Engineering
Time	1:22.155 (on lap 28)
GP3 Series
Race 1
Date	2 July 2016
Laps	24
Pole position
Driver	Charles Leclerc	ART Grand Prix
Time	1:19.041
Podium
First	Charles Leclerc	ART Grand Prix
Second	Alexander Albon	ART Grand Prix
Third	Nyck de Vries	ART Grand Prix
Fastest lap
Driver	Charles Leclerc	ART Grand Prix
Time	1:20.859 (on lap 11)
Race 2
Date	3 July 2016
Laps	17
Podium
First	Ralph Boschung	Koiranen GP
Second	Alexander Albon	ART Grand Prix
Third	Antonio Fuoco	Trident
Fastest lap
Driver	Ralph Boschung	Koiranen GP
Time	1:35.850 (on lap 10)

The 2016 Red Bull Ring GP2 and GP3 Series rounds were a pair of motor races that were held on 2 and 3 July 2016 at the Red Bull Ring in Austria as part of the GP2 Series and GP3 Series. It was the fourth round of the 2016 GP2 season and the second round of the 2016 GP3 season. The race weekend supported the 2016 Austrian Grand Prix.

Background

Following the Baku round, Nobuharu Matsushita was suspended from competing in the Austrian GP2 round due to erratic driving that caused several collisions during the restarts.^[1] On June 28, ART Grand Prix announced René Binder as Matsushita's replacement.^[2]

Before the weekend commenced, Mahaveer Raghunathan announced that he would call time on his GP3 campaign to focus on his efforts in Auto GP. ^[3] In the weekend's only practice session, Giuliano Alesi withdrew from the weekend after an accident which saw him unfit to complete the rest of the weekend.^[4]

Report

GP2 Series

Qualifying

Arden International GP2 driver, Jimmy Eriksson will carry through a three-place grid penalty from the previous round after GP2 stewards deemed him to be at fault in the collision between himself and Jordan King.

Sergey Sirotkin achieved the fastest time of 1:13.663, thereby achieving his second pole position of the year. Antonio Giovinazzi narrowly missed out by six-thousandths of a second and Pierre Gasly occupied third. The session however, ended under yellow flags after Jimmy Eriksson's car stopped at turn seven.

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Time	Grid
1	2	Sergey Sirotkin	ART Grand Prix	1:13.663	1
2	20	Antonio Giovinazzi	Prema Racing	1:13.669	2
3	21	Pierre Gasly	Prema Racing	1:13.803	3
4	15	Luca Ghiotto	Trident	1:14.091	4
5	10	Artem Markelov	Russian Time	1:14.099	5
6	9	Raffaele Marciello	Russian Time	1:14.184	6
7	22	Oliver Rowland	MP Motorsport	1:14.316	7
8	5	Alex Lynn	DAMS	1:14.387	8
9	3	Norman Nato	Racing Engineering	1:14.456	9
10	7	Mitch Evans	Pertamina Campos Racing	1:14.574	10
11	24	Nabil Jeffri	Arden International	1:14.626	14 ¹
12	19	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Carlin	1:14.647	11
13	12	Arthur Pic	Rapax	1:14.688	12
14	4	Jordan King	Racing Engineering	1:14.815	13
15	18	Sergio Canamasas	Carlin	1:14.832	17 ²
16	1	Rene Binder	ART Grand Prix	1:14.886	15
17	6	Nicholas Latifi	DAMS	1:14.958	20 ³
18	11	Gustav Malja	Rapax	1:15.020	16
19	8	Sean Gelael	Pertamina Campos Racing	1:15.112	18
20	23	Daniël de Jong	MP Motorsport	1:15.307	19
21	25	Jimmy Eriksson	Arden International	1:15.531	PL ⁴
22	14	Philo Paz Armand	Trident	1:15.675	21
Source:^[5]

Notes: 1.^ – Jeffri received a three-place grid penalty after having failed to slow down under yellow flag conditions.^[6]; 2.^ – Canamasas received a three-place grid penalty after having been deemed to impede a fellow driver.^[6]; 3.^ – Latifi received a three-place grid penalty after having been deemed to impede a fellow driver.^[6]; 4.^ – Eriksson received a three-place grid penalty adhered from the previous round in Baku. Arden subsequently elected to start him from the pitlane. ^[7]

Feature Race

The Feature Race for GP2 was delayed by 15 minutes due to incidents that occurred in the preceding Formula One qualifying session. The race saw changing conditions that effected the outcome of the race. While the bottom of the circuit would be dry, heavy rainfall would be at the top. Gasly spun from the lead which triggered a safety car and a flurry of pitstops. On lap 28, Marvin Kirchhöfer also spun, which triggered another safety car. Upon exiting the pitlane shortly thereafter, Artem Markelov hit the wall on pit exit, prompting a red flag due to damage to the track. After a lengthy delay, the race was restarted behind the safety car with the Campos pair of Mitch Evans and Sean Gelael leading and Philo Paz Armand, who incurred a penalty after overtaking the safety car. Raffaele Marciello began to charge through the field on fresh super soft tyres, but as the pace in the compound started to fade away, Evans took control and won his first race of the season.

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	7	Mitch Evans	Pertamina Campos Racing	40	1:18:32.399	10	25+2
2	8	Sean Gelael	Pertamina Campos Racing	40	+4.600	18	18
3	9	Raffaele Marciello	Russian Time	40	+10.789	6	15
4	15	Luca Ghiotto	Trident	40	+12.363	4	12
5	25	Jimmy Eriksson	Arden International	40	+12.691	PL	10
6	22	Oliver Rowland	MP Motorsport	40	+15.557	7	8
7	3	Norman Nato	Racing Engineering	40	+16.559	9	6
8	4	Jordan King	Racing Engineering	40	+22.762	13	4
9	12	Arthur Pic	Rapax	40	+24.738	12	2
10	6	Nicholas Latifi	DAMS	40	+25.629	20	1
11	5	Alex Lynn	DAMS	40	+27.000	8
12 ¹	2	Sergey Sirotkin	ART Grand Prix	40	+29.708	1	4
13 ²	11	Gustav Malja	Rapax	40	+30.258	16
14	23	Daniël de Jong	MP Motorsport	39	+1 Lap	19
15	14	Philo Paz Armand	Trident	39	+1 Lap	21
16	1	Rene Binder	ART Grand Prix	38	+2 Laps	15
Ret	20	Antonio Giovinazzi	Prema Racing	29	Ignition	2
Ret	10	Artem Markelov	Russian Time	28	Accident	5
Ret	19	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Carlin	26	Spun off	11
Ret	21	Pierre Gasly	Prema Racing	17	Spun off	3
Ret	24	Nabil Jeffri	Arden International	1	Collision damage	14
Ret	18	Sergio Canamasas	Carlin	0	Collision	17
Fastest lap: Mitch Evans (Pertamina Campos Racing) — 1:15.534 (on lap 38)
Source:

Notes: 1.^ – Sirotkin was given a ten-second time penalty for failing to re-establish his original starting position before the safety car line and of failing to re-enter the pitlane.^[8]; 2.^ – Malja was given a ten-second time penalty for passing several cars as well as the safety car between turns seven and eight during the safety car period without permission from the Race Director.^[8]

Sprint Race

The Sprint Race was held under atrocious conditions, with rain affecting the entire race. This would catch out drivers throughout the race and would lead to two safety cars. The first of which came as a result of Sean Gelael retiring after being hit by Arthur Pic on lap three. The second safety car came after Nicholas Latifi spun on the exit of turn one on lap ten. By this stage, the circuit was beginning to dry and some drivers elected to pit for dry tyres in an attempt to take advantage of the changing conditions. However, the track had not dried out sufficiently by this stage and so saw most of the competitors struggling for grip for the first few laps into the stint. As well as this, the restart was prompt and the group that had pitted for dry tyres were left far behind the leading pack by the time of the restart. In the end, Racing Engineering's Jordan King completed a dominant performance and earned his first GP2 win and Racing Engineering's second of the season.

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	4	Jordan King	Racing Engineering	28	44:34.966	1	15+2
2	22	Oliver Rowland	MP Motorsport	28	+6.019	3	12
3	5	Alex Lynn	DAMS	28	+7.702	11	10
4	9	Raffaele Marciello	Russian Time	28	+10.234	6	8
5	20	Antonio Giovinazzi	Prema Racing	28	+10.417	17	6
6	2	Sergey Sirotkin	ART Grand Prix	28	+11.821	12	4
7	21	Pierre Gasly	Prema Racing	28	+12.594	20	2
8	7	Mitch Evans	Pertamina Campos Racing	28	+12.881	8	1
9	15	Luca Ghiotto	Trident	28	+15.878	5
10	18	Sergio Canamasas	Carlin	28	+35.019	22
11	10	Artem Markelov	Russian Time	28	+57.740	18
12	3	Norman Nato	Racing Engineering	28	+1:00.076	2
13	25	Jimmy Eriksson	Arden International	28	+1:00.107	4
14	14	Philo Paz Armand	Trident	28	+1:16.880	15
15	1	Rene Binder	ART Grand Prix	28	+1:17.325	16
16	11	Gustav Malja	Rapax	27	+1 Lap	13
17	24	Nabil Jeffri	Arden International	27	+1 Lap	21
18	12	Arthur Pic	Rapax	27	+1 Lap	9
19	19	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Carlin	27	+1 Lap	19
20	23	Daniel de Jong	MP Motorsport	27	+1 Lap	14
Ret	6	Nicholas Latifi	Carlin	20	Spun off	10
Ret	8	Sean Gelael	Pertamina Campos Racing	3	Collision damage	7
Fastest lap: Norman Nato (Racing Engineering) — 1:22.155 (on lap 28)
Source:

GP3 Series

Qualifying

It was a dominant session for the ART Grand Prix outfit with the top-three being Charles Leclerc, Alexander Albon and Nyck de Vries. Leclerc achieved a time of 1:19.071, half a second faster than his nearest competitor, Albon.

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Grid
1	1	Charles Leclerc	ART Grand Prix	1:19.041		1
2	3	Alexander Albon	ART Grand Prix	1:19.567	+ 0.526 s	2
3	4	Nyck de Vries	ART Grand Prix	1:19.734	+ 0.693 s	3
4	17	Ralph Boschung	Koiranen GP	1:19.775	+ 0.734 s	4
5	2	Nirei Fukuzumi	ART Grand Prix	1:19.842	+ 0.801 s	5
6	14	Matt Parry	Koiranen GP	1:19.868	+ 0.827 s	6
7	20	Óscar Tunjo	Jenzer Motorsport	1:19.878	+ 0.837 s	7
8	9	Jake Dennis	Arden International	1:19.917	+ 0.876 s	8
9	27	Jake Hughes	DAMS	1:19.925	+ 0.884 s	9
10	26	Santino Ferrucci	DAMS	1:19.980	+ 0.939 s	10
11	5	Antonio Fuoco	Trident	1:20.080	+ 1.039 s	11
12	8	Sandy Stuvik	Trident	1:20.102	+ 1.061 s	12
13	10	Tatiana Calderón	Arden International	1:20.104	+ 1.063 s	13
14	6	Artur Janosz	Trident	1:20.126	+ 1.085 s	14
15	11	Jack Aitken	Arden International	1:20.227	+ 1.186 s	15
16	16	Matevos Isaakyan	Koiranen GP	1:20.294	+ 1.253 s	16
17	22	Álex Palou	Campos Racing	1:20.309	+ 1.268 s	17
18	23	Steijn Schothorst	Campos Racing	1:20.378	+ 1.337 s	18
19	28	Kevin Jörg	DAMS	1:20.429	+ 1.388 s	19
20	19	Richard Gonda	Jenzer Motorsport	1:20.579	+ 1.538 s	20
21	18	Akash Nandy	Jenzer Motorsport	1:20.593	+ 1.552 s	21
22	24	Konstantin Tereshchenko	Campos Racing	1:20.651	+ 1.610 s	22
Source:^[9]

Race 1

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Charles Leclerc	ART Grand Prix	24	35min 01.756sec	1	25 (5)
2	3	Alexander Albon	ART Grand Prix	24	+ 2.292 s	2	18
3	4	Nyck de Vries	ART Grand Prix	24	+ 8.949 s	3	15
4	17	Ralph Boschung	Koiranen GP	24	+ 11.840 s	4	12
5	5	Antonio Fuoco	Trident	24	+ 13.131 s	11	10
6	14	Matt Parry	Koiranen GP	24	+ 15.494 s	6	8
7	2	Nirei Fukuzumi	ART Grand Prix	24	+ 16.694 s	5	6
8	27	Jake Hughes	DAMS	24	+ 18.500 s	9	4
9	11	Jack Aitken	Arden International	24	+ 19.129 s	15	2
10	8	Sandy Stuvik	Trident	24	+ 20.726 s	12	1
11	6	Artur Janosz	Trident	24	+ 43.114 s	14
12	18	Akash Nandy	Jenzer Motorsport	24	+ 45.524 s	21
13	28	Kevin Jörg	DAMS	19	+ 45.621 s	8
14	20	Óscar Tunjo	Jenzer Motorsport	24	+ 46.119 s	7
15	26	Santino Ferrucci	DAMS	24	+ 46.534 s	10
16	22	Álex Palou	Campos Racing	24	+ 47.672 s	17
17	10	Tatiana Calderon	Arden International	24	+ 54.379 s	13
18	24	Konstantin Tereshchenko	Campos Racing	23	+ 1 Lap	22
19	19	Richard Gonda	Jenzer Motorsport	23	+ 1 Lap	20
20	23	Steijn Schothorst	Campos Racing	23	+ 1 Lap	18
Ret	16	Matevos Isaakyan	Koiranen GP	4	Retired	16
Ret	9	Jake Dennis	Arden International	3	Retired	8
Fastest lap: Charles Leclerc (ART Grand Prix) — 1:20.859 (on lap 27)
Source:

Race 2

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	17	Ralph Boschung	Koiranen GP	17	33min 57.642sec	5	15 (2)
2	3	Alexander Albon	ART Grand Prix	17	+ 0.841 s	7	12
3	5	Antonio Fuoco	Trident	17	+ 1.784 s	4	10
4	4	Nyck de Vries	ART Grand Prix	17	+ 2.276 s	6	8
5	11	Jack Aitken	Arden International	17	+ 2.440 s	9	6
6	27	Jake Hughes	DAMS	17	+ 3.103 s	1	4
7	14	Matt Parry	Koiranen GP	17	+ 3.486 s	3	2
8	8	Sandy Stuvik	Trident	17	+ 4.802 s	10	1
9	6	Artur Janosz	Trident	17	+ 5.038 s	11
10	26	Santino Ferrucci	DAMS	17	+ 6.017 s	15
11	22	Álex Palou	Campos Racing	17	+ 6.169 s	16
12	23	Steijn Schothorst	Campos Racing	17	+ 7.080 s	20
13	20	Óscar Tunjo	Jenzer Motorsport	17	+ 7.349 s	14
14	28	Kevin Jörg	DAMS	17	+ 9.539 s	13
Ret	9	Jake Dennis	Arden International	14	Retired	22
Ret	10	Tatiana Calderon	Arden International	13	Retired	17
Ret	1	Charles Leclerc	ART Grand Prix	13	Retired	8
Ret	18	Akash Nandy	Jenzer Motorsport	10	Retired	12
Ret	24	Konstantin Tereshchenko	Campos Racing	9	Retired	18
Ret	16	Matevos Isaakyan	Trident	8	Retired	21
Ret	19	Richard Gonda	Jenzer Motorsport	5	Retired	19
Ret	2	Nirei Fukuzumi	ART Grand Prix	1	Retired	7
Fastest lap: Ralph Boschung (Koiranen GP) — 1:35.850 (on lap 10)
Source:

Standings after the round

GP2 Series

Drivers' Championship standings

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Raffaele Marciello	66
2	Mitch Evans	56
3	Norman Nato	55
4	Artem Markelov	54
5	Oliver Rowland	54

Teams' Championship standings

Pos	Team	Points
1	Russian Time	120
2	Racing Engineering	100
3	Prema Racing	99
4	Pertamina Campos Racing	80
5	DAMS	72

Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

GP3 Series

Drivers' Championship standings

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Charles Leclerc	58
2	Alexander Albon	53
3	Antonio Fuoco	42
4	Jake Hughes	31
5	Nyck de Vries	31

Teams' Championship standings

Pos	Team	Points
1	ART Grand Prix	161
2	Koiranen GP	44
3	Trident	44
4	DAMS	43
5	Arden International	22

Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References

↑ "MATSUSHITA SUSPENDED FOR NEXT EVENT". GP2 Series. GP2 Motorsport Limited. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
↑ "Binder to substitute for banned Matsushita at Spielberg". Motorsport.com. Motorsport.com. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
↑ "Raghunathan calls time on GP3 campaign". Motorsport.com. Motorsport.com. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
↑ "Alesi ruled out of Red Bull Ring round after practice shunt". Motorsport.com. Motorsport.com. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
↑ "GP2 Series 2016 Results - Austria". GP2 Series. GP2 Motorsport Limited. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
1 2 3 "Round 4 Post Qualifying Penalties". GP2 Series. GP2 Motorsport Limited. 1 July 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
↑ "Round 3 Post Sprint Race Penalty". GP2 Series. GP2 Motorsport Limited. 19 June 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
1 2 "Round 4 Post Feature Race Penalties". GP2 Series. GP2 Motorsport Limited. 3 July 2016. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
↑ "GP3 Series 2016 Results - Austria". GP3 Series. GP3 Motorsport Limited. Retrieved 1 July 2016.

External links

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