2016 Hockenheimring GP2 Series round

2016 Hockenheimring GP2 round
Round details
	Round 7 of 11 rounds in the ; 2016 GP2 Series
	; Layout of the Hockenheimring
Location	Hockenheimring, Hockenheim, Germany
Course	Permanent racing facility ; 4.574 km (2.842 mi)
GP2 Series
Feature race
Date	30 July 2016
Laps	38
Pole position
Driver	Sergey Sirotkin
Time	1:22.193
Podium
First	Sergey Sirotkin
Second	Luca Ghiotto
Third	Raffaele Marciello
Fastest lap
Driver	Sergey Sirotkin
Time	1:25.209 (on lap 31)
Sprint race
Date	31 July 2016
Laps	27
Podium
First	Alex Lynn
Second	Sergey Sirotkin
Third	Arthur Pic
Fastest lap
Driver	Pierre Gasly
Time	1:26.081 (on lap 19)

The 2016 Hockenheimring GP2 Series round was a GP2 Series motor race held on 30 and 31 July 2016 at the Hockenheimring in Germany. It was the seventh round of the 2016 GP2 Series. The race weekend supported the 2016 German Grand Prix.

Background

René Binder replaced Sergio Canamasas at Carlin GP2 team ahead of this round. This would be the second team Binder has driven for this year after having substituted for Nobuharu Matsushita in Austria for ART Grand Prix.

Report

Qualifying

Sergey Sirotkin secured his third pole position of the year, marginally beating Pierre Gasly by sixteen-thousandths of a second, with Raffaele Marciello achieving third.

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Grid
1	2	Sergey Sirotkin	ART Grand Prix	1:22.193	–	1
2	21	Pierre Gasly	Prema Racing	1:22.209	0.016	2
3	9	Raffaele Marciello	Russian Time	1:22.369	0.176	3
4	20	Antonio Giovinazzi	Prema Racing	1:22.384	0.191	PL¹
5	22	Oliver Rowland	MP Motorsport	1:22.413	0.220	4
6	5	Alex Lynn	DAMS	1:22.422	0.229	5
7	3	Norman Nato	Racing Engineering	1:22.489	0.296	6
8	6	Nicholas Latifi	DAMS	1:22.524	0.331	7
9	4	Jordan King	Racing Engineering	1:22.548	0.355	8
10	19	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Carlin	1:22.796	0.603	9
11	10	Artem Markelov	Russian Time	1:22.805	0.612	10
12	1	Nobuharu Matsushita	ART Grand Prix	1:22.812	0.619	11
13	11	Gustav Malja	Rapax	1:23.065	0.872	12
14	15	Luca Ghiotto	Trident	1:23.066	0.873	13
15	7	Mitch Evans	Campos Racing	1:23.398	1.205	14
16	23	Daniël de Jong	MP Motorsport	1:23.400	1.207	15
17	18	René Binder	Carlin	1:23.465	1.272	16
18	12	Arthur Pic	Rapax	1:23.469	1.276	17
19	24	Nabil Jeffri	Arden International	1:23.497	1.304	18
20	25	Jimmy Eriksson	Arden International	1:23.535	1.342	19
21	8	Sean Gelael	Campos Racing	1:23.784	1.591	20
22	14	Philo Paz Armand	Trident	1:28.415	2.206	21
Source:^[1]

^1 Antonio Giovinazzi was excluded from qualifying due to not complying with undertray requirements.^[2]

Feature Race

Sirotkin took his second victory in succession from Luca Ghiotto and Raffaele Marciello

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	2	Sergey Sirotkin	ART Grand Prix	38	1:00:28.437	1	25 (6)
2	15	Luca Ghiotto	Trident	38	13.146	13	18
3	9	Raffaele Marciello	Russian Time	38	17.783	3	15
4	12	Arthur Pic	Rapax	38	25.873	17	12
5	22	Oliver Rowland	MP Motorsport	38	27.742	4	10
6	11	Gustav Malja	Rapax	38	28.130	12	8
7	5	Alex Lynn	DAMS	38	32.730	5	6
8	20	Antonio Giovinazzi	Prema Racing	38	36.051	PL	4
9	1	Nobuharu Matsushita	ART Grand Prix	38	38.838	11	2
10	19	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Carlin	38	43.798	9	1
11	24	Nabil Jeffri	Arden International	38	46.523	18
12	25	Jimmy Eriksson	Arden International	38	48.067	19
13	18	René Binder	Carlin	38	50.706	16
14	6	Nicholas Latifi	DAMS	38	52.389	7
15	4	Jordan King	Racing Engineering	38	53.034	8
16	14	Philo Paz Armand	Trident	38	1:15.773	21
Ret	3	Norman Nato	Racing Engineering	28	Collision damage	6
Ret	7	Mitch Evans	Campos Racing	14	Brakes	14
Ret	8	Sean Gelael	Campos Racing	8	Collision	20
Ret	23	Daniël de Jong	MP Motorsport	8	Collision	15
Ret	10	Artem Markelov	Russian Time	6	Collision	10
DSQ	21	Pierre Gasly	Prema Racing	38	Disqualified	2
Fastest lap: Sergey Sirotkin (ART Grand Prix) – 1:31.703 (on lap 31)
Source:^[1]

Sprint Race

Alex Lynn took his first victory of the season after starting from the front row. It was also the first victory of the season for the DAMS outfit. Sirotkin finished second after a storming drive from eighth and Arthur Pic achieved third .

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	5	Alex Lynn	DAMS	27	43:20.504	2	15
2	2	Sergey Sirotkin	ART Grand Prix	27	2.922	8	12
3	12	Arthur Pic	Rapax	27	4.688	5	10
4	15	Luca Ghiotto	Trident	27	6.206	7	8
5	22	Oliver Rowland	MP Motorsport	27	8.187	4	6
6	21	Pierre Gasly	Prema Racing	27	8.486	17	4 (2)
7	9	Raffaele Marciello	Russian Time	27	9.259	2	2
8	11	Gustav Malja	Rapax	27	10.292	3	1
9	10	Artem Markelov	Russian Time	27	14.404	PL
10	7	Mitch Evans	Campos Racing	27	15.162	19
11	4	Jordan King	Racing Engineering	27	16.727	15
12	1	Nobuharu Matsushita	ART Grand Prix	27	21.319	9
13	25	Jimmy Eriksson	Arden International	27	25.154	12
14	19	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Carlin	27	25.292	10
15	18	René Binder	Carlin	27	25.768	13
16	23	Daniël de Jong	MP Motorsport	27	34.778	21
17	6	Nicholas Latifi	DAMS	27	41.617	14
18	3	Norman Nato	Racing Engineering	26	1 Lap	18
19	8	Sean Gelael	Campos Racing	24	3 Laps	20
Ret	14	Philo Paz Armand	Trident	22	Handling	16
Ret	20	Antonio Giovinazzi	Prema Racing	13	Collision	1
Ret	24	Nabil Jeffri	Arden International	6	Collision damage	11
Fastest lap: Pierre Gasly (Prema Racing) – 1:26.081 (on lap 19)
Source:^[1]

Standings after the round

Drivers' Championship standings

	Pos	Driver	Points
7	1	Sergey Sirotkin	113
1	2	Pierre Gasly	113
	3	Raffaele Marciello	102
2	4	Antonio Giovinazzi	100
1	5	Oliver Rowland	99

Teams' Championship standings

	Pos	Team	Points
	1	Prema Racing	213
2	2	ART Grand Prix	171
	3	Russian Time	167
2	4	Racing Engineering	161
1	5	MP Motorsport	105

Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "GP2 Series 2016 Results - Germany". GP2 Series. GP2 Motorsport Limited. Archived from the original on 3 August 2016. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
^ Chokhani, Darshan (29 July 2016). "Giovinazzi excluded from GP2 qualifying, loses fourth place". motorsport.com. Motorsport Network. Retrieved 13 October 2022.

External links

Official website of GP2 Series

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[GP2_German_Results-1] "GP2 Series 2016 Results - Germany". GP2 Series. GP2 Motorsport Limited. Archived from the original on 3 August 2016. Retrieved 30 July 2016.

[2] Chokhani, Darshan (29 July 2016). "Giovinazzi excluded from GP2 qualifying, loses fourth place". motorsport.com. Motorsport Network. Retrieved 13 October 2022.

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