Di Grassi closes in on GP2 championship lead
Lucas di Grassi finished fourth in Sunday's GP2 sprint race
at Silverstone, and the Renault Driver Development squad member
has moved into a clear second place in the championship.
With leader Timo Glock failing to finish Lucas is now just
two points behind the German, and is two points clear of third
placed Luca Filippi, who also failed to score. Lucas has earned
points in seven of the right races held so far this season.
He has yet to win a race.
Lucas started the race from fifth on the grid, and got away
extremely well. He moved up to third, and very nearly managed
to secure second, only to lose out to Adam Carroll. He ran
third for much of the race before being passed by the charging
Kazuki Nakajima. For the last part of the race he skilfully
withstood strong pressure from a group of potentially faster
cars, and held on to fourth place.
‘At the start I nearly got second, but I didn't see
Carroll on the outside – I thought that he was behind.
And then when I saw him, he was already a bit in front. But
it was a great start, and I think I got the points because
of that, because we didn't have the speed to overtake. After
that, I pushed every single lap.
‘I'm looking good in the championship because I didn't
do any mistakes in all the races, and I scored a lot of points.
Of course, there is still a lot of work to do on the car in
order to gain pace, but I know that the team will soon be
able to improve even more the performance of our car.'
The championship battle resumes at the Nurburgring in a fortnight's
time.
‘The car should be quite competitive on that track
and I should be able to take control of the Championship there.'
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