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[GP2] Series Back Under Spanish Skies |
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Thursday, 11 May 2006 |
GP2 series back under Spanish skies
The GP2 series makes its return to Spain this weekend for Round Four of the 2006 season. With five winners from the first six races, and the top three in the championship separated by just two points, this year is already shaping up to be an epic contest for title glory. As the GP2 series makes its second appearance in Spain for 2006, the battle at the front couldn’t be closer, and as we return to a track on which every driver has had experience in testing, we should be set for yet another close weekend of action.
Come back around: They say that if you have a good car at Barcelona, you’ll have a good car everywhere. So tricky is it to find the optimum set-up here, with the circuit’s combination of high, medium and slow speed corners, long and short straights and heavy braking zones, that those who tend to go quickly here will have the best base set-up to take everywhere with them. It’s one of the reasons so many F1 teams test at this track, it’s why we test at this track, and after the proximity of last weekend’s qualifying session, every team knows how tough the battle is going to be here this weekend on a track that is so well known.
There is genuine pressure being felt the length of the field after the first three rounds. At the top Nelson Piquet Jr had a disappointing weekend in Germany, and is now followed closely in the championship race by Lewis Hamilton who won both races last time out, and Nicolas Lapierre who has still to get the monkey of not winning a GP2 series race off his back. All three will be gunning for glory in Barcelona. Gimmi Bruni, Ernesto Viso and Michael Ammerm
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