GP2, GP3, WSbR (F1 Feeder Series Thread) 2013

[kals]

Bird has rarely ever impressed me. In 2010 and 2011 he showed reasonable speed and consistency I'll give him that, but then again so did Scott Speed in 2005.

[phil1993]

I guess I'm a bit biased

Here's our season preview
http://www.f1zone.net/news/gp2-series-s ... 013/18207/

[kals]

I should be biased but I find it hard to be. I don't know why but I've followed Bird since he first stepped into cars and I've never been remotely interested in him nor have I ever been that impressed. However I rate him MUCH higher than Max Chilton.

[tderias]

Thanks for the preview article. Wasn't quite familiar with the GP2 system or the timetable for the weekend. Now I have something to watch between the F1 practice sessions

PS. Dunno why, but this thread doesn't appear in the active topics list.

[phil1993]

Coletti takes pole for the season opener, ahead of Calado and Nasr.

Cecotto drives Bird off the track in a stupid piece of driving.

[François]

When are the races taking place?

[SpliT]

Race 1: Sat 23 Mar 2013, 03:15 (UK time)
Race 2: Sun 24 Mar 2013, 04:15 (UK time)

[phil1993]

Johnny Cecotto thrown to the back of the grid for pulling an outrageous move on Sam Bird.

Personally, I'd put him on the first plane back to Caracas and tell him to stay at home until Barcelona.

[donald29]

Agreed. He got off lightly. And he's not even showing any proper remorse. Disgraceful.

[phil1993]

In an ideal world we have GP2 where the likes of Frijns, Felix da Costa, Vandoorne, Calado, Evans, Abt, Magnussen, Nasr all compete to show who's best.

Sadly so long as GP2's cost spiral and PDVSA keep handing out cash then the likes of Cecotto keep getting away with it.

[donald29]

Yep. It's a topic that comes up again and again and we'll keep having this conversation as long as s*** like that is going on and the likes of Frijns have no drive.

[Edi96]

Johnny Cecotto thrown to the back of the grid for pulling an outrageous move on Sam Bird.

Personally, I'd put him on the first plane back to Caracas and tell him to stay at home until Barcelona.

Has he ever lived in Venezuela? He was raised by his German mother after his parents divorced and holds the German nationality. I guess he is only races with a Venezuelan license because of money.

[Joey Zyla]

Johnny Cecotto thrown to the back of the grid for pulling an outrageous move on Sam Bird.

Personally, I'd put him on the first plane back to Caracas and tell him to stay at home until Barcelona.

Agreed. He got off lightly. And he's not even showing any proper remorse. Disgraceful.

[François]

Let's see the move.

edit: also thanks SpliT.

[Ether]

Can someone tell me about GP2 teams, do they have the same car? And what are the technical changes could be made? so the race is mainly about setting up the car and driver performances? (and of course strategy in tyre management)

So, the teams should be in the same boat? but why some teams seems like dominating the season, I don't know is it totally because of the set up and the drivers?


I start to watch GP2 races since my local hero is there.. Rio Haryanto. He is still very young, and have pretty much time to develop. He scored amazing pole in wet Spa which is out of many have expected. He is quite a good driver, I hope he can going up to F1, even I know that money would always be the biggest factors. He actually had pretty much money like Chilton (probably), and a back up of oil sponsorship of Indonesia (Pertamina). But I don't expect Pertamina had the same amount of money like PDVSA though...