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First win for Fauzy PDF Print E-mail
Sunday, 17 February 2008
Super Nova Racing driver Fairuz Fauzy won the sprint race today in the second round of the GP2 Asia Series in Sentul, Indonesia.
It was a bright and sunny Sunday today just for Malaysian Fairuz Fauzy who scored his first GP2 win on the wet track of Sentul in the sprint race. He started from pole position on the reversed grid and led until the chequered flag. As the 26 cars were waiting for the off, heavy rain started to pour on the track two minutes before the formation lap. The start was then given behind the safety car and the two first laps were fateful for Latvian Schleghelmilch and Brazilian Valerio, both in slick tyres. On Lap 7, the safety car stepped out and the real battle begun. RDD boys Hanley and Grosjean started to fight for 5th place.

Vitaly Petrov took this opportunity to pass the Brit. Just five laps after the restart, the safety car was once again deployed when Luca Filippi spun and got stranded in the middle of the track.

At the second restart, the battle for third position intensified between Pavlovic, Petrov, Grosjean and Hanley. After Petrov passed Milos without any harm, ART Frenchman attacked the BCN driver. Just behind them, Ben Hanley saw an opportunity and moved up the inside of Grosjean, but he went in too deep and hit Pavlovic. The safety car was deployed for the third time.

When it released the cars, there were less than 6 minutes left on the clock. In front, leader Fauzy managed to contain Senna’s attacks in order to cross the finish line in first position and take his maiden win. Senna finished 2nd ahead of Petrov, Grosjean, Valles and Tung who scored his first point today.

Fairuz Fauzy (Super Nova Racing): “I am so happy! The team did a wonderful job in setting up the car in these difficult conditions. I had a really good pace. This is my first win and it comes right before the next round in my homeland in Sepang. I hope I can do the same there!”

Bruno Senna (iSport International): “We had a set up for the dry and it rained a lot, so it made things extremely difficult for me. Fairuz and the guys behind me were faster. Therefore, I’m quite happy with this result. We’ve had a tough two first rounds, but I’m still second of the championship and I closed the gap with Grosjean a little bit.”

Vitaly Petrov (Barwa International Campos Team): “I was frustrated yesterday when I couldn’t turn my pole position into a win. Today, I wanted to do something good. We were quick all weekend and I know that we have the car to actually fight for the podium at every race.”

Sentul – Race 2
         Driver                      Team
1. Fairuz Fauzy            Super Nova Racing
2. Bruno Senna           iSport International
3. Vitaly Petrov           Barwa international Campos
4. Romain Grosjean    ART Grand Prix
5. Adrian Valles          FMS International
6. Ho-Pin Tung           Trident Racing
7. Sébastien Buemi    Trust Team Arden
8. Marco Bonanomi     Piquet Sports
9. Aarman Ebrahim      DPR
10 Diego Nunes           DPR
11 Adam Khan          Trust Team Arden
12 Michael Herck       FMS International
13 Karun Chandhok   iSport International
14 Christian Bakkerud Super Nova Racing
15 Kamui Kobayashi    Dams
16 Ben Hanley             Barwa International Campos
17 Jason Tahinci           BCN Competicion
18 Marcello Puglisi        Piquet Sports
19 Davide Valsecchi     Durango
20 Hiroki Yoshimoto      Qi- Meritus Mahara
21 Luca Filippi               Qi- Meritus Mahara
Not Classified
    Driver                            Team
Milos Pavlovic             BCN Competicion
Stephen Jelley            ART Grand Prix
Jérôme d’Ambrosio      Dams
Harald Schleghelmilch Trident Racing
Alberto Valerio           Durango
Fastest lap time: Fairuz Fauzy (Super Nova Racing) – 1:23.203 on lap 16
Drivers’ Championship
Driver                            Points
1. Romain Grosjean          27
2. Bruno Senna                17
3. Adrian Valles                15
4. Fairuz Fauzy                 14
5. Sébastien Buemi           10
6. Vitaly Petrov                10
7. Karun Chandhok            6
8. Andy Soucek                 6
9. Ben Hanley                    6
10. Hiroki Yoshimoto          6
11. Luca Filippi                  4
12. Milos Pavlovic              3
13. Alberto Valerio             2
14 Ho-Pin Tung                  1
15 Davide Valsecchi
 
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