Di Grassi within one point of GP2 lead
Lucas di Grassi has moved to within a point of the GP2 Championship
lead after finishing fourth in the Sunday sprint race at the
Hungaroring.
The Renault Driver Development squad member also finished
fourth in Saturday's race, and thus started the sprint event
from fifth with the ART car. He lost a place in the run down
to the first corner, bur regained it soon afterwards with
a bold move on Borja Garcia into Turn One.
He then became part of a train of cars on the tail of leader
Adrian Zaugg, and when the South African was pushed wide,
Lucas moved up to fourth. He then resisted strong pressure
from title rival Timo Glock, before the German driver retired.
Lucas now has 54 points to the 55 of Glock.
‘Overall it was a positive weekend, although it could
have been better. I was leading quite comfortably in race
one, and then some strange things happened with crashes and
the safety car. Today we had a mechanical issue during the
race, which made me lose one second per lap after half of
the race, so it was very difficult. We are going to check
out what the problem is, but we think it was the gearbox.
‘I had to push in the beginning because I lost a place
in the first corner – it wasn't as good a start as yesterday!
I'm very pleased that even not having a perfect weekend we
closed the gap so much, and in the last four races, we're
going to go for the championship. And that's what matters,
to win the championship and not to be the guy showing off.'
Lucas is looking forward to next event is in Istanbul in
two weeks' time.
‘I like Turkey a lot, it's very different from here,
very flat and very fast. The team did a very good job with
Lewis Hamilton last year, so the car should be alright there.
We hope for a good result and we'll try to get the lead of
the championship.'
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