Alex Lynn has opened his win account for 2016 with a dominant victory in this morning’s GP2 Series sprint race in Barcelona: the Briton made use
of a quick getaway and some early overtakes for a lead he was never to relinquish, controlling the pace for victory ahead of Pierre Gasly and Jordan King. The win was set up at the start when poleman Rafaelle Marciello made a good start to hold from fellow front row starter King into turn one, delaying the Englishman just enough to allow Lynn to sneak through at turn two: the Williams tester only needed two more laps to dispatch the Italian for the lead before building up a buffer over his rivals. Marciello looked unhappy in his car, dropping places to King and Gasly next time by, while the Red Bull tester was looking very pleased indeed with his set up as he sliced up from sixth on the grid to dispatch King for P2 on lap 6 and set off after his former teammate for the inevitable battle for the win.
Driver | Team | |
1. | Alex Lynn | DAMS |
2. | Pierre Gasly | PREMA Racing |
3. | Jordan King | Racing Engineering |
4. | Artem Markelov | RUSSIAN TIME |
5. | Raffaele Marciello | RUSSIAN TIME |
6. | Oliver Rowland | MP Motorsport |
7. | Nicholas Latifi | DAMS |
8. | Nobuharu Matsushita | ART Grand Prix |
9. | Sergio Canamasas | Carlin |
10. | Gustav Malja | Rapax |
11. | Sergey Sirotkin | ART Grand Prix |
12. | Luca Ghiotto | Trident |
13. | Sean Gelael | Pertamina Campos Racing |
14. | Mitch Evans | Pertamina Campos Racing |
15. | Marvin Kirchhöfer | Carlin |
16. | Norman Nato | Racing Engineering |
17. | Daniël de Jong | MP Motorsport |
18. | Nabil Jeffri | Arden International |
19. | Jimmy Eriksson | Arden International |