Asian Motor Sports

This weekend in Shanghai in China DAMS is beginning its 2008-09 campaign in the Asian GP2 Series Championship. It is a new challenge for the French team, which shone on several occasions in last winter’s title fight. It is taking it up with the same 2 drivers who defended its colours throughout the year in GP2 Asia as well as in GP2 Europe: Kamui Kobayashi and Jerome d’Ambrosio.

Fisichella Motor Sport International’s GP2 team will be back in action this weekend as the second GP2 Asia championship kicks off at the Shanghai International Circuit in China, as a support to the penultimate round of the Formula 1 World Championship.

David Price Racing (DPR) are back racing this weekend in the opening round of the second season of the GP2 Asia Series, which will take place at the state of the art Shanghai Circuit in China. Romanian born Michael Herck, will partner Japanese driver Yuhi Sekiguchi, who impressed the team during pre season testing at [...]

Kamui Kobayashi leads the way on day one of GP2 Asia testing at the Shanghai circuit in China.
Leading performances - AM session:
1. Kamui Kobayashi DAMS 1m 47.361s 11 laps
2. Davide Valsecchi Durango 1m 47.389s 20 laps
3. Roldan Rodriquez Piquet 1m 47.397s 21 laps
4. Giedo van der Garde iSport 1m 47.660s 14 laps
5. Luca Filippi BCN [...]

My Team Qi-Meritus.Mahara has confirmed it will compete in the second GP2 Asia season with two cars carrying numbers 18 and 19. The team will test a number of drivers on the 8th and 9th October during the GP2 Asia official tests on the Chinese GP track before announcing the 2009 driver lineup.
The first round [...]

After a successful opening season which started in Dubai last January and ended at the same circuit in mid-April, the GP2 Asia Series will see its second season open in Shanghai.

Piquet Sports driver Marco Bonanomi snatched his first win in the 2008 GP2 Asia series finale.
After a remarkably clean start in the last sprint race of the GP2 Asia 2008 season, Milos Pavlovic kept the lead from his pole position.
But on the opening lap the Serbian retired after a problem of oil pressure, leaving Jérôme [...]

The ART Grand Prix ace, Romain Grosjean, scored another victory after a pit-stop mix-up for Bruno Senna at Dubai Autodrome. Consequently, the battle for 2nd and 3rd place in the GP2 Asia Championship is now focused on Petrov and Buemi.
Bruno Senna had been dominant from the first lap, when the Brazilian, who started from the [...]

Pos Driver Team Time Gap To 1st
1. Romain Grosjean ART 1:40.887
2. Bruno Senna iSport 1:41.095 0.208 0.208
3. Kamui Kobayashi DAMS 1:41.224 0.129 0.337
4. Marco Bonanomi Piquet 1:41.629 0.405 0.742
5. Hiroki Yoshimoto Qi- Meritus 1:41.819 0.190 0.932
6. Yelmer Buurman Arden 1:41.819 0.000 0.932
7. Vitaly Petrov Campos 1:41.836 0.017 0.949
8. Sébastien Buemi [...]

David Price Racing (DPR) heads to the Dubai Autodrome this weekend for the final round of the inaugural 2008 GP2 Asia Series. Indian driver Armaan Ebrahim and Brazilian driver, Diego Nunes will make their final outing for DPR in the Asia series, as the team hopes to finish the season with another points finish.
The previous [...]

There’s no two ways about it. Romain Grosjean dominated the inaugural GP2 Asia series taking the title yesterday morning in Bahrain despite being unable to finish the race after brake issues saw his lead and ultimately his race come to an end. The ART Grand Prix driver talks of his experience so far in the [...]

Romain Grosjean moved a step closer to wrapping up the inaugural GP2 Asia championship with a comfortable win in the feature race at Bahrain.
Grosjean made a mess of his start from pole, but he fought back courtesy of an early safety car period and a strong move on Adrian Valles to win by almost 15 [...]

The qualifying held today at Bahrain International Circuit, valid for the second to last round of the 2008 GP2 Asia Series Championship, turned out to be quite difficult for BCN Competicion´s drivers.
Session: Qualify
Air temp.: 28 C
Track temp.: 42 C
BCN Competicion
Car #24
Driver: Milos Pavlovic
Result: 23 ( 1:44.659 )
BCN Competicion
Car #25
Driver: Jason Tahinci
Result: 24 ( 1:44.732 )
DIFFICULT [...]

To qualify is not to race! Qi_Meritus.Mahara had a tough first qualifying session in Bahrain
Qualifying in Bahrain turned out harder than expected despite the free practice morning’s good signs and results for the 4th round of the new GP2 Asia series. The Qi-Meritus.Mahara drivers qualified in the afternoon respectively in 12th and 18th position.
In the [...]

Romain Grosjean took his third GP2 Asia pole position of the season with a dominant display in qualifying in Bahrain today.
The Frenchman went quickest in practice earlier in the day and continued his fine form, setting a qualifying lap more than half a second faster than anyone else.
“This is my third pole position but this [...]