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Italian Luca Filippi quickest in qualifying takes last poll position of the 2009/2010 GP2 Asia Series season.

Welcome to Race 1 Press conference here in Abu Dhabi. Joining us tonight race winner Oliver Turvey for iSport International. Second and also from iSport International is Davide Valsecchi. In third and for the first time with us in a press conference is Jules Bianchi for ART Grand Prix. Starting with you Oliver, congratulations on a superb result. It seems the win was made at the very beginning with an awesome start.

Asian motorsport ambassadors MalaysiaQI-MeritusMaharaGP.com team’s new line-up of Luca Filippi and rookie Alexander Rossi was announced at a recent press conference hosted in the presence of Mohammed Ben Sulayem, FIA Vice President and President of the Automobile and Touring Club of the UAE Ben Sulayem, FIA Vice President, showing the team’s strong Arabic roots through its Saudi partner, Chaiman Raad S. Abduljawad.

Not a lucky start for Scuderia Coloni in Abu Dhabi. The two cars fielded by the Italian team will indeed start from the back of the grid in the tomorrow race, following an incredible Wednesday which saw the team cope with some really bad surprises.

The ART Grand Prix racer displayed a brilliant performance tonight in the first-ever GP2 Asia night feature race at the Losail International Circuit to claim a maiden GP2 victory.

The young German strengthens his GP2 rising star status after he signed the fastest laptime at the chequered flag in tonight’s eventful qualifying session in a 1:35.741. He was followed by Campos’ Sergio Perez and Vitaly Petrov.

Kamui Kobayashi and Jerome d’Ambrosio dominate the Bahrain GP2 Asia feature race. Kobayashi has extended his lead at the top of the GP2 Asia standings after leading a resounding 1-2 result for DAMS in Bahrain.

DAMS racer Kamui Kobayashi was unstoppable in the GP2 Asia feature race at the Dubai Autodrome today.

It seems like Davide Valsecchi is making Sunday wins his specialty. After he dominated the last race of the GP2 Series in Monza last month, he drove from pole to victory in this morning’s sprint race in the opening event of the GP2 Asia Series.

Dams’ Kobayashi may have been the quickest man on track today at the opening race of the GP2 Asia Series in China, but it was Roldan Rodriguez who claimed victory at the end of the 34 laps after the Japanese went too wide in the last stages of the event.

Japanese ace Kamui Kobayashi tops the morning Free Practice at Shanghai International Circuit that marks the opening of the second season of the GP2 Asia Series.

Speedcar Series announced today the appointment of Claudio Berro as Operations Director before the onset of Season 2 this December. With 25 years of experience in the world of motorsport, Berro brings with him invaluable experience having served as Sporting Director of Peugeot-Italy, Team Manager and Press Officer of Ferrari F1 and then General Manager [...]

My Qi-Meritus.Mahara has been in Shanghai since the October 9-10 tests as their drivers are to race in the GP2 Asia series race which supports the Chinese Grand Prix.

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.

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.
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