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.

Driver Team Time Gap 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 PL 5 22 Oliver Rowland MP Motorsport 1:22.413 +0.220 4 65 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:

Antonio Giovinazzi was excluded from qualifying due to not complying with undertray requirements.

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

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:

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 .

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:

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.

See also 2016 German Grand Prix 2016 Hockenheimring GP3 Series round

References

External links Official website of GP2 Series