Robin Frijns seals title in clash with Bianchi
The only thing rookie Robin Frijns needed to do was to stay ahead of Ferrari protégé Jules Bianchi during this last race of the 2012 WSR 3.5 campaign at Barcelona today. With 4 laps to go Bianchi tries a 'do or die' move on Frijns at the end of the main straight and succeeds, but Frijns responds immediately and within 2 corners does his own 'do or die' move on Bianchi, also succeeding, but by doing so, he sends Bianchi into the gravel and out of the race.
As there was NO visible damage or tire marks on Frijns' car, the race-stewards decided not to penalize Frijns, which wouldn't have mattered, as his main title contender was out of the race anyway !
Sam Bird was also too far behind to collect enough points, so Robin Frijns cruised to a well deserved Championship.
Results
Pos | Driver | Team | Time/Gap |
1. | Antonio Felix da Costa | Arden Caterham | 46m06.997s |
2. | Mikhail Aleshin | RFR | +27.856s |
3. | Aaro Vainio | RFR | +28.689s |
4. | Kevin Magnussen | Carlin | +29.398s |
5. | Alexander Rossi | Arden Caterham | +29.919s |
6. | Arthur Pic | DAMS | +32.398s |
7. | Robin Frijns | Fortec | +33.293s |
8. | Sam Bird | ISR | +34.088s |
9. | Andre Negrao | Draco | +36.224s |
10. | Will Stevens | Carlin | +40.049s |
11. | Walter Grubmuller | P1 | +42.532s |
12. | Jake Rosenzweig | ISR | +43.998s |
13. | Tamas Pal Kiss | BVM Target | +44.714s |
14. | Nick Yelloly | Comtec | +54.282s |
15. | Nico Muller | Draco | +1m05.300s |
16. | Daniil Move | P1 | +1m31.146s |
17. | Kevin Korjus | Lotus | +1m31.336s |
18. | Carlos Huertas | Fortec | +1m33.132s |
19. | Vittorio Ghirelli | Comtec | +1m46.192s |
20. | Nikolay Martsenko | BVM Target | +1m46.429s |
21. | Yann Cunha | Pons | +1m58.682s |
22. | Zoel Amberg | Pons | +1 lap |
DNF | Lucas Foresti | DAMS | 25 laps |
DNF | Jules Bianchi | Tech 1 | 20 laps |
DNF | Daniel Abt | Tech 1 | 8 laps |
DNF | Marco Sorensen | Lotus | 2 laps |