2016 Hockenheimring GP2 and GP3 Series rounds

2016 Hockenheimring GP2 round
Round details
Round 7 of 11 rounds in the 2016 GP2 Series and Round 5 of 9 rounds in the 2016 GP3 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	ART Grand Prix
Time	1:22.193
Podium
First	Sergey Sirotkin	ART Grand Prix
Second	Luca Ghiotto	Trident
Third	Raffaele Marciello	Russian Time
Fastest lap
Driver	Sergey Sirotkin	ART Grand Prix
Time	1:25.209 (on lap 31)
Sprint race
Date	31 July 2016
Laps	27
Podium
First	Alex Lynn	DAMS
Second	Sergey Sirotkin	ART Grand Prix
Third	Arthur Pic	Rapax
Fastest lap
Driver	Artem Markelov	Russian Time
GP3 Series
Race 1
Date	30 July 2016
Laps	24
Pole position
Driver	Alexander Albon	ART Grand Prix
Time	1:28.431
Podium
First	Antonio Fuoco	Trident
Second	Nyck de Vries	ART Grand Prix
Third	Matt Parry	Koiranen GP
Fastest lap
Driver	Charles Leclerc	ART Grand Prix
Time	1:31.703 (on lap 7)
Race 2
Date	31 July 2016
Laps	18
Podium
First	Jake Hughes	DAMS
Second	Jack Aitken	Arden International
Third	Charles Leclerc	ART Grand Prix
Fastest lap
Driver	Jake Hughes	DAMS
Time	1:31.464 (on lap 5)

The 2016 Hockenheimring GP2 and GP3 Series rounds were a pair of motor races that were held on 30 and 31 July 2016 at the Hockenheimring in the Germany as part of the GP2 Series and GP3 Series. It was the seventh round of the 2016 GP2 season and the fifth round of the 2016 GP3 season. 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

GP2 Series

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 s	2
3	9	Raffaele Marciello	Russian Time	1:22.369	+ 0.176 s	3
4	20	Antonio Giovinazzi	Prema Racing	1:22.384	+ 0.191 s	PL ¹
5	22	Oliver Rowland	MP Motorsport	1:22.413	+ 0.220 s	4
6	5	Alex Lynn	DAMS	1:22.422	+ 0.229 s	5
7	3	Norman Nato	Racing Engineering	1:22.489	+ 0.296 s	6
8	6	Nicholas Latifi	DAMS	1:22.524	+ 0.331 s	7
9	4	Jordan King	Racing Engineering	1:22.548	+ 0.355 s	8
10	19	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Carlin	1:22.796	+ 0.603 s	9
11	10	Artem Markelov	Russian Time	1:22.805	+ 0.612 s	10
12	1	Nobuharu Matsushita	ART Grand Prix	1:22.812	+ 0.619 s	11
13	11	Gustav Malja	Rapax	1:23.065	+ 0.872 s	12
14	15	Luca Ghiotto	Trident	1:23.066	+ 0.873 s	13
15	7	Mitch Evans	Campos Racing	1:23.398	+ 1.205 s	14
16	23	Daniël de Jong	MP Motorsport	1:23.400	+ 1.207 s	15
17	18	René Binder	Carlin	1:23.465	+ 1.272 s	16
18	12	Arthur Pic	Rapax	1:23.469	+ 1.276 s	17
19	24	Nabil Jeffri	Arden International	1:23.497	+ 1.304 s	18
20	25	Jimmy Eriksson	Arden International	1:23.535	+ 1.342 s	19
21	8	Sean Gelael	Campos Racing	1:23.784	+ 1.591 s	20
22	14	Philo Paz Armand	Trident	1:28.415	+ 2.206 s	21
Source:^[1]

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	1hr 00min 28.437sec	1	25 (5)
2	15	Luca Ghiotto	Trident	38	+ 13.146 s	13	18
3	9	Raffaele Marciello	Russian Time	38	+ 17.783 s	3	15
4	12	Arthur Pic	Rapax	38	+ 25.873 s	17	12
5	22	Oliver Rowland	MP Motorsport	38	+ 27.742 s	4	10
6	11	Gustav Malja	Rapax	38	+ 28.130 s	12	8
7	5	Alex Lynn	DAMS	38	+ 32.730 s	5	6
8	20	Antonio Giovinazzi	Prema Racing	38	+ 36.051 s	PL	4
9	1	Nobuharu Matsushita	ART Grand Prix	38	+ 38.838 s	11	2
10	19	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Carlin	38	+ 43.798 s	9	1
11	24	Nabil Jeffri	Arden International	38	+ 46.523 s	18
12	25	Jimmy Eriksson	Arden International	38	+ 48.067 s	19
13	18	René Binder	Carlin	38	+ 50.706 s	16
14	6	Nicholas Latifi	DAMS	38	+ 52.389 s	7
15	4	Jordan King	Racing Engineering	38	+ 53.034 s	8
16	14	Philo Paz Armand	Trident	38	+ 1:15.773 s	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
EXC	21	Pierre Gasly	Prema Racing	38	Excluded	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 .

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	5	Alex Lynn	DAMS	27	43min 20.504sec	2	15
2	2	Sergey Sirotkin	ART Grand Prix	27	+ 2.922 s	8	12
3	12	Arthur Pic	Rapax	27	+ 4.688 s	5	10
4	15	Luca Ghiotto	Trident	27	+ 6.206 s	7	8
5	22	Oliver Rowland	MP Motorsport	27	+ 8.187 s	4	6
6	21	Pierre Gasly	Prema Racing	27	+ 8.486 s	17	4 (2)
7	9	Raffaele Marciello	Russian Time	27	+ 9.259 s	2	2
8	11	Gustav Malja	Rapax	27	+ 10.292 s	3	1
9	10	Artem Markelov	Russian Time	27	+ 14.404 s	PL
10	7	Mitch Evans	Campos Racing	27	+ 15.162 s	19
11	4	Jordan King	Racing Engineering	27	+ 16.727 s	15
12	1	Nobuharu Matsushita	ART Grand Prix	27	+ 21.319 s	9
13	25	Jimmy Eriksson	Arden International	27	+ 25.154 s	12
14	19	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Carlin	27	+ 25.292 s	10
15	18	René Binder	Carlin	27	+ 25.768 s	13
16	23	Daniël de Jong	MP Motorsport	27	+ 34.778 s	21
17	6	Nicholas Latifi	DAMS	27	+ 41.617 s	14
18	3	Norman Nato	Racing Engineering	27	+ 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:

GP3 Series

Qualifying

Alexander Albon secured his second pole position of the season with a time of 1:28.431 - marginally faster than that of Charles Leclerc, Jake Dennis and Nyck de Vries.

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Grid
1	3	Alexander Albon	ART Grand Prix	1:28.431		1
2	1	Charles Leclerc	ART Grand Prix	1:28.509	+ 0.078 s	5 ¹
3	9	Jake Dennis	Arden International	1:28.518	+ 0.087 s	2
4	4	Nyck de Vries	ART Grand Prix	1:28.524	+ 0.093 s	3
5	5	Antonio Fuoco	Trident	1:28.618	+ 0.187 s	4
6	14	Matt Parry	Koiranen GP	1:28.638	+ 0.207 s	6
7	2	Nirei Fukuzumi	ART Grand Prix	1:28.662	+ 0.231 s	7
8	22	Álex Palou	Campos Racing	1:28.838	+ 0.407 s	8
9	23	Steijn Schothorst	Campos Racing	1:28.918	+ 0.487 s	9
10	11	Jack Aitken	Arden International	1:28.935	+ 0.504 s	10
11	8	Sandy Stuvik	Trident	1:28.944	+ 0.513 s	11
12	27	Jake Hughes	DAMS	1:29.052	+ 0.621 s	12
13	20	Arjun Maini	Jenzer Motorsport	1:29.076	+ 0.645 s	13
14	24	Konstantin Tereshchenko	Campos Racing	1:29.107	+ 0.676 s	14
15	17	Ralph Boschung	Koiranen GP	1:29.126	+ 0.695 s	15
16	7	Giuliano Alesi	Trident	1:29.301	+ 0.870 s	16
17	26	Santino Ferrucci	DAMS	1:29.311	+ 0.880 s	17
18	6	Artur Janosz	Trident	1:29.383	+ 0.952 s	18
19	28	Kevin Jörg	DAMS	1:29.542	+ 1.111 s	19
20	16	Matevos Isaakyan	Koiranen GP	1:29.665	+ 1.234 s	20
21	18	Akash Nandy	Jenzer Motorsport	1:29.847	+ 1.416 s	21
22	10	Tatiana Calderón	Arden International	1:29.895	+ 1.464 s	22
Source:^[2]

Race 1

Antonio Fuoco took his second win of the year. de Vries achieved second and Matt Parry in third.

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	5	Antonio Fuoco	Trident	23	38min 25.683sec	4	25
2	4	Nyck de Vries	ART Grand Prix	23	+ 5.988 s	3	18
3	14	Matt Parry	Koiranen GP	23	+ 6.836 s	6	15
4	3	Alexander Albon	ART Grand Prix	23	+ 7.973 s	1	12 (3)
5	1	Charles Leclerc	ART Grand Prix	23	+ 10.519 s	5	10 (2)
6	11	Jack Aitken	Arden International	23	+ 12.291 s	6	8
7	20	Arjun Maini	Jenzer Motorsport	23	+ 14.828 s	13	6
8	27	Jake Hughes	Arden International	23	+ 18.246 s	12	4
9	26	Santino Ferrucci	DAMS	23	+ 20.065 s	16	2
10	10	Tatiana Calderón	Arden International	23	+ 20.206 s	22	1
11	6	Artur Janosz	Trident	23	+ 23.964 s	18
12	9	Jake Dennis	Arden International	23	+ 25.332 s	2
13	18	Akash Nandy	Jenzer Motorsport	23	+ 25.467 s	21
14	28	Kevin Jörg	DAMS	23	+ 37.076 s	19
15	17	Ralph Boschung	Koiranen GP	23	+ 1:01.860 s	14
16	22	Álex Palou	Campos Racing	23	+ 1:13.841 s	8
Ret	8	Sandy Stuvik	Trident	14	Retired	11
Ret	23	Steijn Schothorst	Campos Racing	4	Retired	9
Ret	2	Nirei Fukuzumi	ART Grand Prix	3	Retired	7
Ret	16	Matevos Isaakyan	Koiranen GP	3	Retired	20
Ret	24	Konstantin Tereshchenko	Campos Racing	2	Retired	17
Ret	7	Giuliano Alesi	Trident	0	Retired	15
Fastest lap: Charles Leclerc (ART Grand Prix) — 1:31.703 (on lap 7)
Source:

Race 2

Jake Hughes took his first win of the season, with Jack Aitken in second and Charles Leclerc in third. Championship leader Alexander Albon retired after an accident with Ralph Boschung in the opening laps which subsequently promoted Leclerc into the lead of the championship.

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	27	Jake Hughes	DAMS	18	29min 51.410sec	1	15 (2)
2	11	Jack Aitken	Arden International	18	+ 2.602 s	3	12
3	1	Charles Leclerc	ART Grand Prix	18	+ 5.884 s	4	10
4	26	Santino Ferrucci	DAMS	18	+ 6.835 s	9	8
5	20	Arjun Maini	Jenzer Motorsport	18	+ 7.718 s	2	6
6	9	Jake Dennis	Arden International	18	+ 8.935 s	12	4
7	14	Matt Parry	Koiranen GP	18	+ 14.441 s	6	2
8	4	Nyck de Vries	ART Grand Prix	18	+ 16.694 s	12	1
9	10	Tatiana Calderón	Arden International	18	+ 16.940 s	10
10	28	Kevin Jörg	DAMS	18	+ 17.928 s	14
11	2	Nirei Fukuzumi	ART Grand Prix	18	+ 18.562 s	19
12	8	Sandy Stuvik	Trident	18	+ 27.796 s	17
13	16	Matevos Isaakyan	Koiranen GP	18	+ 28.852 s	20
14	7	Giuliano Alesi	Trident	18	+ 29.197 s	22
15	24	Konstantin Tereshchenko	Campos Racing	18	+ 29.641 s	21
16	18	Akash Nandy	Jenzer Motorsport	18	+ 29.928 s	13
17	23	Steijn Schothorst	Campos Racing	18	+ 30.344 s	18
18	5	Antonio Fuoco	Trident	17	+ 1 Lap	8
19	22	Álex Palou	Campos Racing	16	+ 2 Laps	16
Ret	17	Ralph Boschung	Koiranen GP	1	Collision	15
Ret	3	Alexander Albon	ART Grand Prix	1	Collision	5
Ret	6	Artur Janosz	Trident	0	Front Wing/ Off Course	11
Fastest lap: Jake Hughes (DAMS) — 1:31.464 (on lap 5)
Source:

Standings after the round

GP2 Series

Drivers' Championship standings

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

Teams' Championship standings

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

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

GP3 Series

Drivers' Championship standings

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Charles Leclerc	126
2	Alexander Albon	123
3	Antonio Fuoco	115
4	Matt Parry	70
5	Nyck de Vries	65

Teams' Championship standings

Pos	Team	Points
1	ART Grand Prix	349
2	Trident	125
3	Koiranen GP	123
4	DAMS	83
5	Arden International	78

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

References

↑ "GP2 Series 2016 Results - Germany". GP2 Series. GP2 Motorsport Limited. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
↑ "GP3 Series 2016 Results - German". GP3 Series. GP3 Motorsport Limited. Retrieved 30 July 2016.

External links

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