Prove it. I got told the opposite a day or two ago.

Nope. And with the insanely crappy GP2 Asia calendar going from October to February between races, he's not gonna get much opportunity to show what he's capable of, either.

I think its more likely we'll see him going into a competitive F3 series rather than GP2. Or maybe even F2 or WSBR. GP2 isn't a cheap series to join.

DPR
26. Michael Herck
27.

Belgian Herck is certain too of the DPR seat: his father owns that team

If USF1 takes him as a protegé (which is a posibility, as Peter Windsor showed his intrest in him), the decision could partially rest on them...

Jerôme d'Ambrosio is expected to be snapped up by Racing Engineering

Possibly. I'm just not sure that USF1 has the kind of budget to have a driver development program that involves sticking kids into the $1 million+ series bracket that is GP2.

Parente is also rumoured to go there.

Rossi moves to GP3 with ART.




GP2 veteran Roldán Rodríguez takes sabbatical because of lack of funding.



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He'll finish his GP2 Asia campaign this year though won't he?

dunno but it sounds like he had the budget only to do Abu Dhabi opener with Coloni...

Not a bad move at all. A top-line GP3 drive has gotta be worth just as much as a mediocre seat in GP2.

Also gets him in the door with ART, which is never a bad place to be in if you desire to move up the categories.

Super Nova signs Ericsson, Kral

2010 GP2 Series grid:

ART Grand Prix
1. Jules Bianci
2. Sam Bird

Barwa Addax Team
3. Giedo van der Garde
4. Sergio Perez

Super Nova Racing
5. Marcus Ericsson
6. Josef Kral

Racing Engineering
7.
8.

iSport International
9. Oliver Turvey
10. Davide Valsecchi

DAMS
11.
12.

Rapax
14.
15.

Arden International
16.
17.

Ocean Racing Technology
18. Max Chilton
19. Fabio Leimer

Scuderia Coloni
20.
21.

Trident Racing
24.
25.

DPR
26.
27.

2010 GP2 Series grid:

ART Grand Prix
1. Jules Bianchi (France)
2. Sam Bird (UK)

Barwa Addax Team
3. Giedo van der Garde (Netherlands)
4. Sergio Perez (Mexico)

Super Nova Racing
5. Marcus Ericsson (Sweden)
6. Josef Kral (Czech Republic)

Racing Engineering
7.
8.

iSport International
9. Oliver Turvey (UK)
10. Davide Valsecchi (Italy)

DAMS
11.
12.

Rapax
14.
15.

Arden International
16. Charles Pic (France)
17.

Ocean Racing Technology
18. Max Chilton (UK)
19. Fabio Leimer (Switzerland)

Scuderia Coloni
20.
21.

Trident Racing
24.
25.

DPR
26. Michael Herck (Belgium)
27.


Update: added Charles Pic with Arden; he was confirmed today for the remainder of the GP2 Asia series and for the main serie at Arden.

Valerio moves to Coloni for 2010

2010 GP2 Series grid:

ART Grand Prix
1. Jules Bianci
2. Sam Bird

Barwa Addax Team
3. Giedo van der Garde
4. Sergio Perez

Super Nova Racing
5. Marcus Ericsson
6. Josef Kral

Racing Engineering
7.
8.

iSport International
9. Oliver Turvey
10. Davide Valsecchi

DAMS
11.
12.

Rapax
14.
15.

Arden International
16. Charles Pic
17.

Ocean Racing Technology
18. Max Chilton
19. Fabio Leimer

Scuderia Coloni
20. Alberto Valerio
21.

Trident Racing
24.
25.

DPR
26. Michael Herck
27.

To be fair to Wikipedia, the article cited includes a quotation from Alfonso de Orleans-Borbon that Clos was signed for a two-year deal, beginning in 2009. Not watertight by any means though, I imagine.

So whats up with this^ guy?

Never heard of him before, but he was quite quick in his debut in GP2 Asia.

Kral came from the F. Master series; he is still only 19 years old now and was 6th in 2008 and 9th in 2009 in F. Master. Seems like a driver to keep an eye on.

I really hope that Andreas Zuber gets another chance, he's a spectacular driver.

Yeah: 4 years really isn't enough to show what you can do in a series.

Renault's d'Ambrosio, Tung join DAMS

2010 GP2 Series grid:

ART Grand Prix
1. Jules Bianci
2. Sam Bird

Barwa Addax Team
3. Giedo van der Garde
4. Sergio Perez

Super Nova Racing
5. Marcus Ericsson
6. Josef Kral

Racing Engineering
7.
8.

iSport International
9. Oliver Turvey
10. Davide Valsecchi

DAMS
11. Jerome d'Ambrosio
12. Ho-Pin Tung

Rapax
14.
15.

Arden International
16. Charles Pic
17.

Ocean Racing Technology
18. Max Chilton
19. Fabio Leimer

Scuderia Coloni
20. Alberto Valerio
21.

Trident Racing
24.
25.

DPR
26. Michael Herck
27.

Dams will run Renault livery (as well as their numbers 11 and 12). Cool!

As reported by Autosport.

Wikipedia has racing engineering's drivers down as Dani Clos and Christian Vietoris, is this correct??

And apparently run as the Renault Junior Team...

any word on pastor maldonardo?

2010 GP2 Series grid:

ART Grand Prix
1. Jules BIANCHI (France)
2. Sam BIRD (UK)

Barwa Addax Team
3. Giedo VAN DER GARDE (Netherlands)
4. Sergio PEREZ (Mexico)

Super Nova Racing
5. Marcus ERICSSON (Sweden)
6. Josef KRAL (Czech Republic)

Racing Engineering
7. Dani CLOS (Spain)
8. Chrisitian VIETORIS (Germany)

iSport International
9. Oliver TURVEY (UK)
10. Davide VALSECCHI (Italy)

DAMS
11. Jerome d'AMBROSIO (Belgium)
12. Ho-Pin TUNG (China)

Rappax
14.
15.

Arden International
16. Charles PIC (France)
17.

Ocean Racing Technology
18. Max CHILTON (UK)
19. Fabio LEIMER (Switzerland)

Scuderia Coloni
20. Alberto VALERIO (Brazil)
21.

Trident Racing
24.
25.

DPR
26. Michael HERCK (Belgium)
27.


* Added: Clos & Vietoris will compete with Racing Engineering!
* Adrian Zaugg will probably compete for Trident
* Karun Chandhok probably at Coloni if he doesn't succeed in getting an F1 seat

South-African Adrian Zaugg will replace Dani Clos at Trident for the 2 remaining GP2 Asia series weekends. Zaugg is expected to stay with Trident for the main series but that is not yet officially confirmed.

Isn't Jules Bianchi supposed to be the big talent though?

Looking at the table, I think the championship will be contended by Bianchi, Van Der Garde, Valsecchi and D'Ambrosio, maybe Vietoris can take a couple of races

And Charles Pic,Turvey?

Yea, but he's not proven at this level. He could prosper, or he could be mediocre. His recent results in GP2 Asia tell me he's good, but he might not be anything 'extra special'. Way too early to conclude that, I know, but thats where I'm at with Bianchi at this point. I'm sure my opinion will waver as the main GP2 season goes on.

But Barwa Addax have definitely figured something out with these new generation GP2 cars, and I think Perez is somewhat of an overlooked talent at this point. He's never really had a chance to shine in a top car, so he could definitely be one of the surprises this year.

It's about mechanical grip with hot weather.Grosjean explained his set up on his website.It doesn't fit to his driving style but it was very fast.

I think that Ocean and Super Nova will go down because of Rookies line-up.

Dams and arden will be better because of technical team reshuffle and their grip problem in my opinion should be solved with GP3 .

The Grip issues won't benefit from running in GP3 - totally different tyres. Pirelli in GP3, Bridgestone in GP2.

But I agree, Arden without Mick Cook showed in their first race weekend how much he'd been holding them back. I think iSport will be back on it this year. Turvey and Valsecchi are working well together. Bird at ART will become the new Premat and get completely overshadowed by his team-mate. But Bianchi is still rough around the edges. I'd say it's a pretty open championship.

Bird will be worse than Premar imo.

About GP3 it's more the rubber put on track,just see the performance from Dams when Formula BMW came alongside in GP week-end and without.The same for Arden.

Apart for Hungaroring which is a very high downforce track they've been better than normal.

2010 GP2 Series grid:

ART Grand Prix
1. Jules Bianci
2. Sam Bird

Barwa Addax Team
3. Giedo van der Garde
4. Sergio Perez

Super Nova Racing
5. Marcus Ericsson
6. Josef Kral

Fat Burner Racing Engineering
7. Dani Clos
8. Christian Vietoris

iSport International
9. Oliver Turvey
10. Davide Valsecchi

Renault F1 Junior Team
11. Jerome d'Ambrosio
12. Ho-Pin Tung

Rapax Team
14.
15.

Arden International
16. Charles Pic
17.

Ocean Racing Technology
18. Max Chilton
19. Fabio Leimer

PPR.com Scuderia Coloni
20. Alberto Valerio
21. Vladimir Arabadzhiev

Trident Racing
24.
25.

DPR
26. Michael Herck
27.

Just 6 seats left to fill. I hope Giacomo Ricci is in one of them, he impressed me in the GP2 Asia series.

Luiz Razia and Pastor Maldonado with Rapax team.

Johnny Cecotto Jr with Trident, Adrian Zaugg maybe 2nd driver.

Rodolfo Gonzalez will test with Arden.

Interesting choice of Arabadzhiev for Coloni. He might have upstaged fellow Bulgarian Sid the Sloth (Plamen Kralev supposedly means "Flame King" in Bulgarian; Sid the Sloth was "Fire King" in a totally pointless but very clever sequence in ICE AGE 2), but he didn't exactly set the world aflame.

Still, he's got an awesome name.

2010 GP2 Series grid:

ART Grand Prix
1. Jules Bianci
2. Sam Bird

Barwa Addax Team
3. Giedo van der Garde
4. Sergio Perez

Super Nova Racing
5. Marcus Ericsson
6. Josef Kral

Fat Burner Racing Engineering
7. Dani Clos
8. Christian Vietoris

iSport International
9. Oliver Turvey
10. Davide Valsecchi

Renault F1 Junior Team
11. Jerome d'Ambrosio
12. Ho-Pin Tung

Rapax Team
14. Luiz Razia
15. Pastor Maldonado

Arden International
16. Charles Pic
17. Rodolfo Gonzalez

Ocean Racing Technology
18. Max Chilton
19. Fabio Leimer

PPR.com Scuderia Coloni
20. Alberto Valerio
21. Vladimir Arabadzhiev

Trident Racing
24. Johnny Cecotto Jr
25. Adrian Zaugg

DPR
26. Michael Herck
27. Giacomo Ricci

Drivers added

Edit: italics mean unconfirmed

Time at 12am: Test in France :

1º. Johnny Cecotto - Trident Racing - 1.14:674 - 16 laps
2ºAlberto Valerio - Scuderia Colonia - 1.17:088 - 14 laps
3ºMarcus Ericsson - Super Nova Racing - 1.20:726 - 16 laps
4º Vladimir Arabadzhiev - Scuderia Colonia - 1.21:179 - 12 laps
5º Christian Vietoris - Racing Engineering - 1.21:281 - 15 laps
6º Guido van der Garde - Addax Barwa Team - 1.21:281 - 18 laps
7º Adrian Zaugg - Trident Racing - 1.22:089 - 8 laps
8º Dani Clos - Racing Enginering - 1.23:368 - 14 laps
9º Charles Pic - Arden International - 1.23:619 - 13 laps
10º Sergio Perez - Addax Barwa Team - 1.23:627 - 15 laps
11º Josef Kral - Super Nova Racing - 1.23:673 - 12 laps
12º Sam Bird - ART Grand Prix - 1.24:025 - 6 laps
13º Jules Bianchi - ART Grand Prix - 1.24:829 - 6 laps
14º Jerome d'Ambrosio - DAMS - 1.25:138 - 25 laps
15º Ho-Pin Tung - Dams - 1.25:385 - 21 laps
16º Max Chilton - Ocean Racing Techonology - 1.26:356 - 6 laps
17º Rodolfo Gonzalez - Arden International - 1.27:139 - 8 laps
18º Fabio Leimer - Ocean Racing Technology - 1.33:878 - 6 laps
19º Davide Valsecchi - iSport International - No time - 1 lap
20º Pastor Maldonado - Rapax - No Time - 1 lap
21º Michael Herck - DPR - No Time - 1 lap
22º Luiz Razia - Rapax - No Time - 1 lap
23º Oliver Turvey - iSport International - No time - 1 lap
24º Giacomo Ricci - DPR - No Time - 1 lap .

We have maybe the full grid. Ricci is the front runner to be with DPR, Adrian Zaugg with Trident and Rodolfo Gonzalez with Arden.

If it's true, I think it's too bad for Alvaro Parente.

I think Parente's going to Superleague Formula full time.

Javier Villa will test for Arden. I think he is maybe better than Gonzalez.

poor parente got chance but taken away w/o any reason{f1}

was the weather changing or why is there so big differences in lap times?

Anyway, I'm happy Marcus Ericsson was third:)

Yes.

"It was a slow morning session in Le Castellet. An unstopping drizzle made the track conditions quite tricky for the drivers, and the teams had no other choice but to use wet tyres throughout the three-hour session, with the exception of Trident’s newest addition Johnny Cecotto who dared to try on slicks in the very last stages of the morning session as the track got a bit dryer. "

Okay, thanks

Afternoon times:

Pos Driver Team Time Laps
1. Pastor Maldonado Rapax 1:12.987 39
2. Jules Bianchi ART Grand Prix 1:13.074 38
3. Giedo Van der Garde Barwa Addax Team 1:13.078 28
4. Jerome D'Ambrosio Dams 1:13.124 32
5. Luiz Razia Rapax 1:13.151 32
6. Christian Vietoris Racing Engineering 1:13.203 28
7. Giacomo Ricci DPR 1:13.215 19
8. Josef Kral Super Nova Racing 1:13.244 37
9. Dani Clos Racing Engineering 1:13.301 23
10. Oliver Turvey iSport International 1:13.331 39
11. Adrian Zaugg Trident Racing 1:13.362 41
12. Marcus Ericsson Super Nova Racing 1:13.437 40
13. Michael Herck DPR 1:13.455 33
14. Sam Bird ART Grand Prix 1:13.472 29
15. Sergio Perez Barwa Addax Team 1:13.523 32
16. Fabio Leimer Ocean Racing Technology 1:13.560 18
17. Davide Valsecchi iSport International 1:13.654 40
18. Johnny Cecotto Trident Racing 1:13.678 29
19. Charles Pic Arden International 1:13.729 31
20. Alberto Valerio Scuderia Coloni 1:13.803 32
21. Rodolfo Gonzalez Arden International 1:13.964 32
22. Ho-Pin Tung Dams 1:14.067 41
23. Max Chilton Ocean Racing Technology 1:14.817 35
24. Vladimir Arabadzhiev Scuderia Coloni 1:15.242 25

1st through 21st within a second.

Really, have you watched all the races? His performance was poor.

For one, look at the date of that post. So to answer, yes, I had seen all the races up to that point.

Further, I've seen every race since, as well. And I'm still at the same point with him. Could be great, could be disappointing.

To say he was 'poor' only makes me think you haven't seen these races.

I've also seen his races in F3 Euro last year(and the year before). How bout you?

Ok, tell me , which race he was good during GP2 Asia series? If you can not remember, check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Bianchi.
And don't forget he was driving ART car. still not poor?

You're looking only at the results, pace-wise he definitely shown potential. Podium on the first race, fantastic drive through the field for the second race, pole position for the third race. Things went downhill afterwards as he crashed 3 times but it's okay for a driver that has just arrived at this level.