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GP3 SERIES 2013, JULY 26-28 BUDAPEST ROUND 5

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Team leadersCarlin

have scored1 win and6 podiums.

lin 1M 193pax 3M 153SSIAN TIME 2M 1M 143cing Engineering 2M 132MS 1M 121mer Motorsport 1M 2M 112T Grand Prix 93den International 86dent Racing 1M 498 Caterham Racing 32Motorsport 24wa Addax Team 20nezuela GP Lazarus 11

CLASSIFICATIONS

EAMS STANDINGS

Seven rounds are done and dusted, as the summer break is now upon us, we thought it wouldbe a nice touch to look at the best statistics of the 2013 season so far.

Bird and Coletti have themost race wins: 3 each.

Ericsson has the most frontrow starts: 4. He has the

most pole positions: 2.

Coletti has the most podium nishes: 7 and

the most laps led: 91. He is the only driverwho recorded win, pole and fastest lap.

My LIFE IN NuMbErS bEST bITS

When the GP2 and GP3 teams encounter an

issue with their cars, they can call for Technical

Assistance, a team of seven people dedicated to

the well-being of fty-three cars (GP2 and GP3).

Actually, I prefer that you call us technical

support instead of assistance: we support the

teams and help them understand and analyse

any technical dilemma, explained head of

Technical Support Daniel Trema.

Were a team of expert technicians and

engineers. There are three stages in which we

work: rst, the development testing. We work

closely with Pirelli and Dallara at the beginning

of each car cycle. It helps us foresee any

potential problem. Then comes the pre-season

testing with the teams and then nally the race

weekends. Nothing can replace the reality of

a race weekend. Lastly, we are monitoring the

ageing of each engine. The fact that we are

working simultaneously on 26 cars in GP2 gives

us precious global vision on what could happenand how to react efciently. On top of that, we

have an invaluable experience of nine years in

the Series.

Our mission is to answer to the teams questions

and make sure that the cars can race: when

they come to us with an issue we give them our

analysis of the situation and help them make theright decision to x it. Our goal is to make sure

that where possible no car will stop during a race

due to a technical malfunction. We collect the

data from each car at the end of each session

and therefore we can intervene pre-emptively inbetween races if we suspect that something is

not right.

We also monitor the life of the key components

such as the engine, the ECU, the steeringwheel As you can see, our work perimeter is

rather large and we dont really count the hours

we stay at the track or at the ofce! But we are

passionate and we want to make sure that our

teams can only concentrate on their set up and

strategy and know that were always here incase something happens.

WhO yOu GONNA CALL?

CArLINandJOLyON PALMErThe champagne must havetasted so good! Carlin and

Jolyon enjoyed their rst well-earned race win of the seasonin Budapest. Felipe Nasr also

nished third. The British squadleads the teams standings

40 points over Rapax.

NAThANALbErThON

The Frenchman dominatedSundays race with a maturedrive and has taken a maidenGP2 win, the rst one of the

season for Trident.

FAbIO LEIMErThe Swiss pocketed anotherpodium in Budapest and hasscored an impressive total of

44 points in the last two rounds.He has jumped Sam Bird in the

drivers standings to lay thirdbefore the summer break.

TOM DILLMANNTom looked really strong inqualifying after he brilliantly

grabbed his rst pole position,but a bad start meant he nished

the race out of the points. Hesliced his way back through theeld on Sunday but still crossed

the nish line out of the top eight.

Stefano

ColettiA weekend to forget for theMonegasque driver: a poor

qualifying session, an incidentin Race 1 and twentieth place inRace 2 meant no points scoredin Budapest. However, Stefano

remains leader of the Seriesand his race pace gives himcondence for the rest of the

season.

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#ComeClose

Coletti 135pts, Nasr 129pts, Leimer

110pts, Bird 92pts, Calado 90pts. Fourrounds to go. Could the title race get anymore exciting?!

#SimplTebest

Marcus Ericsson did not win on Saturday,

but he still believes that it was the bestrace of his life ghting with Palmer forvictory.

#LastMinteCall

Once again, tyre strategy was crucial:Jolyon Palmer decided to switch to Mediumtyres on the starting grid. Good call!

#backOnTop

The last time we saw him on the podiumwas in Monaco. Twice. Mitch Evans nallyenjoyed another champagne shower on

Sunday nishing 3rd.

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fano Coletti 3M 135pe Nasr 129

bio Leimer 2M 110m Bird 2M 1M 92

mes Calado 90Lancaster 2M 65

rcus Ericsson 1M 64yon Palmer 1M 64phane Richelmi 57ch Evans Rookie 56

m Dillmann 51bin Frijns Rookie 1M 45xander Rossi Rookie 32nny Cecotto Jr. 30

vin Ceccon 28rian Quaife-Hobbs Rookie 23n Leal 22thanal Berthon 1M 21Haryanto 20

mon Trummer 18ne Binder 11niel Abt Rookie 3nor Daly Rookie 2niel De Jong 1e Rosenzweig 0vin Giovesi Rookie 0gio Canamasas 0

ni Clos 0Varhaug 0orio Ghirelli 0

brizio Crestani 0ardo Teixeira 0Qin Hua Rookie 0

rIVErS STANDINGS

Rapax, RUSSIANTIME and Hilmer

have the most racewins: 3 each.

Rapax have the mostraces led: 8 and

collected the mostbonus points forFastest Lap: 4.

DAMShave scored

3 pole positions,but have only

1 win.

Nasr is the best

average qualier:ve P3, one P5 andone P9. He nished12 races within the

top 5. Only 1 DNF.But he has neverled a race or a lap.

Coletti has the most racedled: 6 whilst Evans has thesecond highest count of mostraced led with 4 to his tally.

Evans is

the rookie with mostlaps led: 25 and most

podium nishes: 3.

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a Tiea del OlvidoCarlos Vives

JuLINLEAL

2012 saw Carlin target a step forward inperformance and the early season showed

signs of a marked improvement for the Britishteam, but the Budapest round was the venuefor the biggest jump ahead yet thanks to asterling performance by their lead driver, MaxChilton.

Qualifying was a complicated affair thanks to a

huge storm ahead of the session, which started

with running water at turn 11. Most drivers,including Chilton, put in a banker lap just to beon the board, but they were all keeping an eyeon the sky with a hope of some dry runninglater in the session.

Teammate Rio Haryanto was the rst man torisk dry tyres, and was duly rewarded with thebest time so far as the oodgates opened andeveryone spilled out on track on super softs.With a minute remaining Chilton was in P22

but crossed the line with 10 seconds remainingin the session: what followed was a simplyphenomenal lap to claim his, and the teams,rst ever GP2 pole position.

The tight, technical nature of the Hungaroringgenerally rewards those starting from pole,but you still need a good getaway when thelights go out. Chiltons was perfect, leading titlecontenders Davide Valsecchi and Luiz Razia

into turn one as the pair concentrated on eachother through the owing rst half of the circuit,

allowing the Briton the breathing space to runhis own lines and eke out a small, but crucial,margin over the squabbling pair.

As the leader of the race Chilton was not likely

to dictate pitstop strategies, and so it proved:the Briton came in on lap 13, with Valsecchion his tail, simply to cover off stops made byhis rivals on the previous two tours. The pairemerged in order, and were soon houndingdown the late stoppers, eventually reclaiming

the top spots on lap 22 when the last stopswere made.

From here it was a straight ght to the ag.Valsecchi threw everything he had at theBriton, with Razia setting up a watching brief

on the tail of the pair, and the Carlin pitwall hada few anxious moments as the gap droppedto effectively nothing between their man andValsecchi as the laps counted down, but whenthe chequered ag dropped it was Chilton who

won the day, ghting off the championshipleaders for victory by just 0.6 seconds.

ChILTON FIGhTS TOVICTOry IN buDAPEST

ADAy

INThELIFE

The stars aligned for LewisHamilton in Budapest, with

the Englishman picking up his rstwin for Mercedes after a typicallygutsy performance all weekend, witha stunning lap when it counted inqualifying for an expected pole position

and a strong run in the race, overtakinghis rivals on demand for an emotionalvictory. On the other side of the garageteammate Nico Rosberg could onlydream of what could have been: a stuckbrake bias adjuster meant P4 on the

grid, and an engine blow handed theGerman a bitter DNF.

But Hamilton didnt have it all his ownway, and with a fair wind behind himRomain Grosjean could have challenged

for the win. The Frenchman was fasterthan teammate Rikknen all weekend,did a great job for P3 in qualifying and

held the position in a frantic race start,was held up by Vettel on the rst stintbefore being given a somewhat harshdrive through penalty when overtakingMassa which saw a certain podium

evaporate, with an ultimate P6 nishthat should have been more.

Sergio Prez outperformed teammate

Button in qualifying to get to Q3 andP9, but a torrid start to the race sawthe Mexican bumped down the order:a long second stint on a two stoppersaved his blushes, with a P9 nish a

solid return afterwards. Against that,Nico Hulkenberg had a disappointingweekend by his standards in qualifying

P12 (albeit a tenth off a spot in Q3), waspenalised for speeding in the pitlane,

and nished just out of the points in 11th,while teammate Esteban Gutirrez losttime in practice with an engine problemand thus qualied in P17, before retiringon lap 28 in the race.

Pastor Maldonado struggled in

qualifying, running faster in Q1 thanQ2 for a P15 start, one spot aheadof teammate Valtteri Bottas, but an

aggressive drive on Sunday saw plentyof overtaking by the Venezuelan tobring home Williams rst point of theseason with a strong tenth place, whilethe disappointed Finn retired with a

hydraulics issue.

Giedo van der Garde came out on topin the Caterham/Marussia battle after

struggling with trafc in qualifying: theDutchman lined up in P20, one spotbehind teammate Charles Pic but aheadof Jules Bianchi and Max Chilton, and astrong start with better tyre degradation

on a three versus two stop strategy sawhim nish 14th, one ahead of Pic wholed the Marussias home.

hAMILTON DOMINATESIN buDAPEST

buDAPEST 2012

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Wake up. I hit the snooze button a coupleof times and I miss breakfastLeaving the hotel with the LAT boys.We arrive at the track. Its alreadyscorching. Its going to be a hard one!I go down to the GP2 paddock and meetwith Alexa and Leandra, the girls who willhave me chase after drivers all day!I shoot the GP3 drivers getting ready forqualifying. I try to find the best angle toavoid getting the portaloo in the shot.Thats glamorous!I head on to the circuit for the 30 minutesession.I run back to the paddock for the polemanshot. Im sweating heavily by now!GP3 press conference: I take a picture ofthe top 3. As usual, no smiles!I run back to the media centre, sendLeandra the pole shot and top 3 shot.The next hour and a half is busy editingthe pictures.I head back down to the paddock for themost important part of my day: lunch!As usual, queue is massive and I havea drivers appearance at 1pm. Cue: lightlunch!Hop on a shuttle with a selection ofdrivers and Alexa. Heading to the F1 Fanzone for an event.I head back to the media centre todownload the pictures.I start to head back down to the paddockto get photos of last minute preparationsfor the GP2 race.One last visit to the fridge to get asmany bottles of water as my bag cancarry. Trolling the paddock in search ofdrivers getting ready for their race.I head up to the pitlane and onto thegrid. I need to shoot as many cars aspossible and look for any GP2 graduateson the grid but miss them. Cue moaningfrom Alexa :-) Then run down to the firstcorner with full kit. It takes longer than Iremembered from last year!Race starts. I cover the first corner andTurn 2. Then Turn 12 and then head back10 minutes before the end for the podium.

Find a way to re-enter the pitlane.Missed the parc Ferm celebrations(Alexa will moan) but n ailed the podiumshots (Alexa will be happy)!Quick dash up to the media centre togive our wire technician my cards todownload and send to Alexa as quickly aspossible to avoid her third moan!Mad dash back down to the pitlane asGP3 cars enter. Rush on to the grid toshoot poleman and rush back off to firstcorner for start shot. The race is shortso theres a lot to pack in in half an hour.Rush back to the podium for GP3. Rushback to media centre to give Leandracelebration shots.Head back down for the 18th time tothe paddock to shoot GP3 top 3 pressconference. Again, no smiles even afterwinning! Then back up to the mediacentre to go through lots of pictures. Acouple of hours sat behind the computer.Oh joy!Finally leaving the circuit. Twenty minuteslater back to the hotel. Quick shower andthen out for dinner and a nice bottle ofwine to relax after a hard day.Back to bed and set the alarm for 7am.Ouch!

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For Budapest, round seven of the GP2

Series, Pirelli brought the P ZeroYellow soft and P Zero White medium toHungary: the same nomination as wasused in Formula One. Over the courseof the season, this happens quite a lotin GP2: a sign of how closely the feeder

series mirrors the pinnacle of worldmotorsport.

The choice of soft and medium tyres forthe Hungaroring was a relatively obvious

one as this was a perfect combination totackle the tight corners and high ambienttemperatures of the track. Although theHungaroring is a permanent circuit, it

has the characteristics of a street circuit:a narrow and twisty layout, medium tolow speeds, and low grip thanks to asmooth surface.

Traction and braking are two key areasthat work the tyres hard at a circuit like

Hungary. The large number of narrowcorners and big steering inputs meanthat the edges of the tyres are subjectedto peaks of temperature and wear. Thetyres can actually overheat more on a

slow and twisty track than on a fast andowing track, contrary to what manypeople think. So temperatures are a keyelement for the tyres to work perfectly,and with ambient temperatures of upto 37 degrees centigrade on race day,

this was one of the hottest GP2 raceweekends of the year.

Each tyre compound has its own

window of optimal temperature. Thisis called the working range, and theconditions found in Hungary put theGP2 tyres right at the top of theirworking ranges. Track temperatureswere in excess of 50 degrees

centigrade, which rarely happens,but the temperature of the surfacehas a profound effect on the waythat the tyres work which is whyPirelli engineers spend so much

time measuring track temperatures,using a thermometer with a pin whichensures a very high level of precisionand is the same which is used to

measure tyre temperatures. If a tyreis operating below its ideal workingrange this can cause graining. If itis operating above its ideal workingrange this can cause overheating.In both cases the result is a notableloss of grip but this did not happen

at the Hungaroring, underlining thestrength as well as the performanceof the P Zero GP2 tyre range.

Getting the tyres to function within

their optimal working range is animportant challenge for any driver.In fact, it is the single most importantfactor in tyre management, whichis why the lessons learned in GP2are so vital for every young drivers

future career.

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Reigning GP3 Champion Mitch Evans recordedhis best GP2 result with a ne second place inthe Sprint Race. The Arden International ace

took his fourth rostrum of his rookie campaign;surely his rst victory cant be too far away?

Former GP3 winner James Calado nished

outside of the points in the Feature but crossedthe line in sixth place on Sunday, the Brit lies

in P5 in the DriversStandings. SimonTrummer pocketedpoints in both races,

marking his bestround of the season.

However, it was a much tougher story for currentGP3 Vice-Champion Daniel Abt. The Germandriver fought up to P14 in Saturdays race but

suffered a puncture. The ART Grand Prix driverwas also given a grid penalty for the Sprintfollowing contact made in the Feature, thus nopoints scored. Abt will be hoping for a turn offortunes following the summer break.

It was a tricky weekend for both Valtteri Bottasand Esteban Gutirrez in F1 with neither driverreaching the chequered ag. It was the Finnsrst retirement of the year with a hydraulic

problem whilst the Mexican suffered gearboxissues.

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#Champagne-ShowersKevin Korjus podium on Sunday was hisfourth this season, more than any otherdriver this year!

#The-Edge-Of-GloryART Grand Prix pocketed 55 pointsand re-enforced their lead in the TeamStandings.

#Fan-PowerRobert Visoiu was spurred onto hissecond win of the year by his largearmy of local Romanian fans who werepresent in Budapest.

#Under-PressureOne point separates Ellinas and Regaliaat the top of the Standings, with Vainio,Harvey & Korjus just 15 points behindwith three rounds to go.

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Aaro VainioPole, victory and fastest lap inSaturdays Race 1 put the Finnback in close contention for theGP3 title hunt after pocketing

a massive 31 points. TheKoiranen GP driver was also

the rst repeat winner in a very

competitive season so far.

MW ArdenAll 3 of their drivers stood on therostrum in Budapest, includinga 1-2 nish on Sunday bagging

an impressive 58 points haul.This was enough to see the teamjump Koiranen GP and move intosecond in the Teams Standings.

Jack HarveyConsistency is key and the

rookie added a further 18 pointsto his tally which has moved

the Brit into joint third place inthe Driver Standings. All eyes

will be on the top prize with thechampionship closing up!

Tio EllinasA nightmare weekend for theCypriot saw him non-score forthe rst time this season and

his Series lead reduced from 19

points to just 1. The MarussiaManor Racing driver will surelybounce back with a vengeance

in Spa

Emanuele ZonziniThe young Trident driver wastaken out in both races, luckily

unhurt after being ipped

airborne in Race 1. An innocentvictim in both situations, the San

Marinese rookie will hope forbetter luck following the summer

break.

BADWEEK

IVERS STANDINGS

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Koiranen GPnext up on 7

and MW Ardenon 5.

Regalia has the bestaverage qualifyingposition of all drivers,pole being his bestand P6 the lowest.

ART Grand Prixhave led the most amount

of laps in 2013.

Visoiu hasled the mostlaps of anydriver thisseason.

Only Ellinas, Vainio& Regalia haveall scored a win,

pole andfastest lap.

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podium nishesin 2013.

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DAVIDFUMANELLI

Nico Mller was looking to the technical nature ofthe Hungaroring to compound his championshipght after victory in Valencia, and the weekendstarted ideally for the Swiss driver when he setthe pace in free practice, nishing nearly threetenths ahead of Pal Varhaug and EstebanGutirrez.

The points only start in qualifying, however, andon a track washed clean by the rain overnightMller set the early running with a lap of1:36.991, with Gutirrez setting an identical time

a few minutes later: the Swiss driver held poledue to setting the time rst, and when StefanoColetti and Robert Wickens set times within atenth of pole the ght for victory was alwaysgoing to be intense.

The Swiss driver made a great start when thelights went out, with Wickens making a bettergetaway to slot into second at turn one. Withthe three drivers behind him squabbling amongthemselves Mller had just enough space topull away slightly and avoid being pulled intothe ght, which saw Gutirrez ght his way pastWickens before heading after his Swiss rival.

The Mexican hounded Mller for the rest of therace, with the gap between the pair shrinking tobelow a second, but the Swiss driver had enough

left to hold on for the win by 1.4 seconds, withColetti eventually reclaiming third position andthe nal podium spot. Mller rounded out theweekend by ghting up to P6 in the sprint race,putting himself rmly into the championship ghtahead of an epic weekend in Spa.

Viva La VidaColdplay

Mller dominates

in Hungary

I have always had this colourscheme since my go-kartingdays. I always use yellow,

bright colours and glitter asI like to be unique. I may

change my design next year

as maybe its becoming old-fashioned.

I have the Irish ag on thereas Im half Irish/half Cypriot,so I have green, gold and

white as my colours. Thefront design is meant to looklike a space-ship, I think it

looks pretty cool as it has aretro image to it.

The main design is the Britishand the Italian ag, my twonationalities. Its a simple

design which derived from awhite helmet which had some

strips of colour added and

then the ags became bigger.It will develop more over the

years.

TIOELLINAS

RYANCULLEN

DINOZAMPARELLI

BUDAPEST 2010

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