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 |