Parente wins GP2 debut
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| Alvaro Parente |
Alvaro Parente won season opener GP2 race Saturday at Barcelona, winning the feature race for Super Nova on his GP2 debut.
The Renault World Series champion led from start to finish, taking control after poleman Pastor Maldonado stalled at the start.
Bruno Senna hounded Parente for most of the race but Parente just never made a mistake and clung on by half a second despite Senna trying everything he could to get by. Andy Zuber was third.
Results
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Pos |
Driver | Team | Gap | |
| 1. | Alvaro Parente | Super Nova | 1:01:09.902 | |
| 2. | Bruno Senna | iSport | Ã-0.579 | |
| 3. | Andi Zuber | Piquet Sports | Ã-1.511 | |
| 4. | Giorgio Pantano | Racing Engineering | Ã-3.768 | |
| 5. | Romain Grosjean | ART | Ã-8.155 | |
| 6. | Vitaly Petrov | Campos | Ã-19.729 | |
| 7. | Sebastien Buemi | Arden | Ã-27.326 | |
| 8. | Kamui Kobayashi | DAMS | Ã-27.945 | |
| 9. | Karun Chandhok | iSport | Ã-30.394 | |
| 10. | Davide Valsecchi | Durango | Ã-34.573 | |
| 11. | Luca Filippi | ART | Ã-34.816 | |
| 12. | Pastor Maldonado | Piquet Sports | Ã-38.600 | |
| 13. | Alberto Valerio | Durango | Ã-42.489 | |
| 14. | Javier Villa | Racing Engineering | Ã-43.200 | |
| 15. | Diego Nunes | DPR | Ã-1:09.867 | |
| 16. | Giacomo Ricci | DPR | Ã-1:10.152 | |
| 17. | Paolo Nocera | BCN | Ã-1:08.749 | |
| 18. | Adrian Valles | FMS | Ã-1:08.778 | |
| Not classified | ||||
| Driver | Team | Laps | ||
| Christian Bakkerud | Super Nova | 20 laps | ||
| Yelmer Buurman | Arden | 18 laps | ||
| Ben Hanley | Campos | 15 laps | ||
| Jerome D'Ambrosio | DAMS | 15 laps | ||
| Roldan Rodriguez | FMS | 4 laps | ||
| Ho-Pin Tung | Trident | 1 lap | ||
| Mike Conway | Trident | 0 laps | ||
| Milos Pavlovic | BCN | 0 laps |