landogeorgelewis1
Champion Elect
Who's looking forward to this season coming up next year?
Should be fascinating with a bunch of new rules and hopefully few new drivers graduating from GP3 to GP2 this season.
Well we should certainly have a fair bit of British interested in this series too. With James Calado already comfirmed as a Lotus ART driver after his superb GP3 season finishing runner-up in that championship he's been given the reward of a GP2 drive. With the likes of Sam Bird and Jolyon Palmer surely likely to find drives in GP2 aswell, it could be a good year for the Brits to win this championship.
As 2011 GP2 winner Romain Grosjean under the rules can not returning to the racing series this year and claim his championship back.
Here are the new rules for the new GP2 series from 2012:
The series will adopt the points system used by Formula One for the feature race, with points awarded to the top ten drivers and twenty-five points on offer for victory. The points awarded in the sprint race will also be changed, with the winner receiving fifteen points and top eight drivers receiving points. The points awarded for pole position and the fastest lap of the race will also be doubled. Further changes mean that drivers must use two compounds of tyres over a race weekend, as is the case in Formula One.
The Series will also be expanded and will see the GP2 series follow F1 to a few more fly away races, after GP2 Asia was given the axe in 2011.
The GP2 Calendar for 2012 is yet to be confirmed. But when it is and when all the drivers have been confirmed i'll put a list on this thread.
Should be fascinating with a bunch of new rules and hopefully few new drivers graduating from GP3 to GP2 this season.
Well we should certainly have a fair bit of British interested in this series too. With James Calado already comfirmed as a Lotus ART driver after his superb GP3 season finishing runner-up in that championship he's been given the reward of a GP2 drive. With the likes of Sam Bird and Jolyon Palmer surely likely to find drives in GP2 aswell, it could be a good year for the Brits to win this championship.
As 2011 GP2 winner Romain Grosjean under the rules can not returning to the racing series this year and claim his championship back.
Here are the new rules for the new GP2 series from 2012:
The series will adopt the points system used by Formula One for the feature race, with points awarded to the top ten drivers and twenty-five points on offer for victory. The points awarded in the sprint race will also be changed, with the winner receiving fifteen points and top eight drivers receiving points. The points awarded for pole position and the fastest lap of the race will also be doubled. Further changes mean that drivers must use two compounds of tyres over a race weekend, as is the case in Formula One.
The Series will also be expanded and will see the GP2 series follow F1 to a few more fly away races, after GP2 Asia was given the axe in 2011.
The GP2 Calendar for 2012 is yet to be confirmed. But when it is and when all the drivers have been confirmed i'll put a list on this thread.
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