Grosjean stripped of win in Germany

UPDATE Romain Grosjean was stripped of his GP2 feature race victory at Hockenheim on Saturday evening after passing Marko Asmer in the stadium section of the track when yellow flags were being waved. Series leader Giorgio Pantano inherits the victory, his fourth of the season, and extends his championship lead to 19 points over Bruno Senna.

07/19/08 Romain Grosjean claimed his first ever GP2 Series feature race win by staying out on slick tires when a downpour hit the track and then passed polesitter and series leader Giorgio Pantano at Hockenheim on Saturday.

Grosjean won by 10 seconds but only led the final four laps remaining. Pantano, who had a championship to think about, elected not to fight him too hard and risk crashing out.

Results

Pos

Driver Team Time
1. Romain Grosjean ART 58:52.430
2. Giorgio Pantano Racing Engineering +10.996
3. Alvaro Parente Super Nova +54.244
4. Bruno Senna iSport +56.654
5. Lucas di Grassi Campos +60.201
6. Pastor Maldonado Piquet Sports +60.406
7. Andy Soucek Super Nova +61.764
8. Karun Chandhok iSport +79.413
9. Alberto Valerio Durango +1:07.474
10. Javier Villa Racing Engineering +1 lap
11. Andi Zuber Piquet Sports +1 lap
12. Sakon Yamamoto ART +1 lap
13. Ho-Pin Tung Trident +1 lap
14. Marko Asmer FMS +1 lap
15. Adrian Valles BCN +1 lap
16. Carlos Iaconelli BCN +1 lap
17. Michael Herck DPR +1 lap
18. Roldan Rodriguez FMS +2 laps
Retirements
Sebastien Buemi Arden 35 laps
Mike Conway Trident 35 laps
Vitaly Petrov Campos 35 laps
Jerome d'Ambrosio DAMS 35 laps
Luca Filippi Arden 33 laps
Diego Nunes DPR 33 laps
Davide Valsecchi Durango 23 laps
Kamui Kobayashi DAMS 0 laps