Thread: Senna wins first race at Monaco

Bruno Senna has written his name into the history books by claiming victory in race one today in Monaco, holding on despite race long pressure from Pastor Maldonado to take the win, with iSport International team-mate Karun Chandhok joining the pair on the podium after some last lap drama as Villa pushed Mike Conway out of the race in the final lap while running in third.

Tomorrow is race 2 with 30 laps to go instead of 45 today.

Originally Posted by brendonhartleyfan

Did anyone watch the race. i must say i did and found it very poor organisation that no one new what to do when I think it was Pantano blocking the track. surely a safety car should of been deployed with half the field unable to move.

Nope, i'm missing all of the GP2 action since its not on cable tv anymore. Can it be watched on SPeed tv with TVU?

Originally Posted by FAlonso

Nope, i'm missing all of the GP2 action since its not on cable tv anymore. Can it be watched on SPeed tv with TVU?

SPEED has some GP2 coverage. I think the Feature race is on right before F1.

Senna finished 5th in the Monaco sprint and now leads the GP2 championship.

Originally Posted by Ryan

Senna finished 5th in the Monaco sprint and now leads the GP2 championship.

Yep, Mike Conway stormed to victory in today's race two in Monaco, leading from lights to flag to score a dominant first win in the series ahead of teammate Ho-Pin Tung and Alvaro Parente.


Here are the results of the first 10 placed in race 2.

Code:

Pos. Driver Team Tires Time 
1  M. Conway Trident Racing  45:31.105 
2  H. Tung Trident Racing  + 18.446 
3  A. Parente Super Nova International  + 18.915 
4  Roldan Rodriguez FMS International  + 20.898 
5  B. Senna iSport International  + 21.298 
6  A. Soucek DPR  + 22.256 
7  J. d`Ambrosio DAMS  + 23.188 
8  Y. Buurman Trust Team Arden  + 23.887 
9  D. Nunes DPR  + 33.072 
10  R. Grosjean ART Grand Prix  + 33.536

Driver standings

Code:

Pos. Name Team Points 
1.  G. Pantano Racing Engin. 24 
2.  B. Senna iSport 24 
3.  A. Parente Super Nova 19 
4.  R. Grosjean ART Grand Prix 19 
5.  S. Buemi Arden 14 
6.  A. Zuber Piquet Sports 13 
7.  P. Maldonado Piquet Sports 12 
8.  V. Petrov Campos 12 
9.  K. Chandhok iSport 11 
10.  M. Conway Trident 10 
11.  K. Kobayashi DAMS 8 
12.  H. Tung Trident 7 
13.  Roldan Rodriguez FMS 6 
14.  A. Valles BCN Competicion 5 
15.  J. Villa Racing Engin. 3 
16.  D. Valsecchi Durango 2 
17.  A. Carroll FMS 1 
18.  B. Hanley Campos 1 
19.  A. Soucek DPR 1 
20.  J. d`Ambrosio DAMS 0 
21.  A. Valerio Durango 0 
22.  Y. Buurman Arden 0 
23.  D. Nunes DPR 0 
24.  C. Bakkerud Super Nova 0 
25.  L. Filippi ART Grand Prix 0 
26.  G. Ricci DPR 0 
27.  M. Pavlovic BCN Competicion 0 
28.  P. Nocera BCN Competicion 0 
29.  M. Puglisi Durango 0

Senna on pole at Spa, but Chandhok suffers double penalty

iSport team-mates Karun Chandhok and Bruno Senna took a clean sweep of the first two positions during qualifying for tomorrow?s GP2 Series race at Spa, but only provisionally. Chandhok was faster by just 0.061s, but he knew beforehand that he faced a 10-position grid penalty for his part in an accident during the previous race in Valencia. To compound his pain, he was then put back another five places for failing to slow sufficiently at the scene of yellow warning flags. There were no such problems for Senna, who took pole position for the third time this season and gained two bonus points as he seeks to catch championship leader Giorgio Pantano.

Bruno Senna
?I?m really pleased with my performance today. It was a session in which patience paid off. The track was getting drier throughout the session, despite frequent showers, but it was important not to push so hard that you wrecked your tyres on some of the dry patches that were appearing ? consistency was imperative.
?The car was very good and I felt very confident in the rain. I don?t mind if conditions remain that way tomorrow, but equally I know we?ll be competitive in the dry. I don?t mind what happens because I absolutely adore this circuit and love racing here whatever the weather.?


Karun Chandhok
?Spa has always been good to me. I qualified on pole here for a wet F3 race and it was also the scene of my first GP2 victory. That was a good lap today and I really don?t think I could have done more. I don?t know why I was called up for speeding past yellow flags ? the track was getting drier and most drivers were going faster than before through certain sectors, but I have to take it on the chin. At least Bruno inherits my ?pole?, which helps him in the title chase.?