2011 GP2 Final

   2011 Abu Dhabi GP2 round

Round details
Round 10 (non-championship) of 10 rounds in the 2011 GP2 Series
Yas Marina Circuit
Location	Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.554 km (3.451 mi)
GP2 Series
Feature race
Date	12 November 2011
Laps	31
Pole position
Driver	Fabio Leimer	Racing Engineering
Time	1:49.363
Podium
First	Fabio Leimer	Racing Engineering
Second	Luiz Razia	Caterham Team AirAsia
Third	Jolyon Palmer	Barwa Addax Team
Fastest lap
Driver	Fabio Leimer	Racing Engineering
Time	1:51.493 (on lap 23)
Sprint race
Date	13 November 2011
Laps	22
Podium
First	James Calado	Lotus ART
Second	Marcus Ericsson	iSport International
Third	Tom Dillmann	iSport International
Fastest lap
Driver	Luiz Razia	Caterham Team AirAsia
Time	1:51.551 (on lap 15)

The 2011 GP2 Final was a special round of the 2011 GP2 Series, supporting the 2011 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on 12 and 13 November 2011. The race was originally scheduled to be the first round of the 2012 GP2 Asia championship, but with the GP2 Asia series being discontinued and absorbed into its parent series, ^[1] the race was added to the GP2 Series calendar as a non-championship round.

Entry list

As the race was a non-championship event, several teams elected to run guest drivers in the place of their regular drivers.

Team	No.	Driver
Rapax	1	Dani Clos [2]
	2	Mihai Marinescu [2]
Barwa Addax Team	3	Jake Rosenzweig [3]
	4	Jolyon Palmer [4]
Lotus ART	5	James Calado [5]
	6	Esteban Gutiérrez [5] 1
Racing Engineering	7	Fabio Leimer [6]
	8	Nathanaël Berthon [6]
iSport International	9	Tom Dillmann [7]
	10	Marcus Ericsson [8] 1
DAMS	11	Rio Haryanto [9]
	12	Nigel Melker [9]
Arden International	14	Josef Král [10] 1
	15	Simon Trummer [10]
Super Nova Racing	16	Giacomo Ricci [11]
	17	Fabio Onidi [12]
Scuderia Coloni	18	Kevin Ceccon [13] 2
	19	Stefano Coletti [14]
Trident Racing	20	Julián Leal [15]
	21	Stéphane Richelmi [15] 2
Ocean Racing Technology	22	Nicolas Marroc [16]
	23	António Félix da Costa [17]
Carlin	24	Max Chilton [18] 1
	25	Jan Charouz [18]
Caterham Team AirAsia	26	Alexander Rossi [19]
	27	Luiz Razia [20] 3

Notes:

• ^1 − Denotes the regular driver of that car.
• ^2 − Driver competed at selected events in the regular season.
• ^3 − Luiz Razia competed in the regular season for Caterham Team AirAsia, driving car #26.

Classification

Qualifying

Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Grid
1	7	Fabio Leimer	Racing Engineering	1:49.363		1
2	1	Dani Clos	Rapax	1:49.570	+0.207	2
3	14	Josef Král	Arden International	1:49.612	+0.249	3
4	27	Luiz Razia	Caterham Team AirAsia	1:49.649	+0.286	4
5	4	Jolyon Palmer	Barwa Addax Team	1:49.697	+0.334	5
6	24	Max Chilton	Carlin	1:49.737	+0.374	6
7	18	Kevin Ceccon	Scuderia Coloni	1:49.751	+0.388	7
8	6	Esteban Gutiérrez	Lotus ART	1:49.822	+0.459	8
9	9	Tom Dillmann	iSport International	1:50.070	+0.707	9
10	19	Stefano Coletti	Scuderia Coloni	1:50.070	+0.707	10
11	16	Giacomo Ricci	Super Nova Racing	1:50.074	+0.711	21 4
12	5	James Calado	Lotus ART	1:50.074	+0.711	11
13	12	Nigel Melker	DAMS	1:50.147	+0.784	12
14	10	Marcus Ericsson	iSport International	1:50.230	+0.867	13
15	26	Alexander Rossi	Caterham Team AirAsia	1:50.236	+0.873	14
16	23	António Félix da Costa	Ocean Racing Technology	1:50.276	+0.913	15
17	8	Nathanaël Berthon	Racing Engineering	1:50.296	+0.933	16
18	3	Jake Rosenzweig	Barwa Addax Team	1:50.374	+1.011	17
19	20	Julián Leal	Trident Racing	1:50.374	+1.011	18
20	11	Rio Haryanto	DAMS	1:50.515	+1.152	19
21	21	Stéphane Richelmi	Trident Racing	1:50.600	+1.237	20
22	15	Simon Trummer	Arden International	1:50.752	+1.389	22
23	17	Fabio Onidi	Super Nova Racing	1:51.052	+1.689	23
24	25	Jan Charouz	Carlin	1:51.407	+2.044	24
25	2	Mihai Marinescu	Rapax	1:51.893	+2.530	25
26	22	Nicolas Marroc	Ocean Racing Technology	1:52.550	+3.187	26 4

Notes

• ^4 – Giacomo Ricci and Nicolas Marroc both received a ten grid place penalty for ignoring yellow flags during the practice session. ^[21]

Feature Race

Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	7	Fabio Leimer	Racing Engineering	31	58:53.563	1	10+2+1
2	27	Luiz Razia	Caterham Team AirAsia	31	+6.911	4	8
3	4	Jolyon Palmer	Barwa Addax Team	31	+28.708	5	6
4	10	Marcus Ericsson	iSport International	31	+29.812	14	5
5	18	Kevin Ceccon	Scuderia Coloni	31	+36.619	7	4
6	9	Tom Dillmann	iSport International	31	+41.518	9	3
7	23	António Félix da Costa	Ocean Racing Technology	31	+42.496	16	2
8	5	James Calado	Lotus ART	31	+45.669	12	1
9	8	Nathanaël Berthon	Racing Engineering	31	+51.345	17
10	19	Stefano Coletti	Scuderia Coloni	31	+1:02.481	10
11	16	Giacomo Ricci	Super Nova Racing	31	+1:08.632	11
12	11	Rio Haryanto	DAMS	31	+1:13.503	20
13	26	Alexander Rossi	Caterham Team AirAsia	31	+1:16.572	15
14	22	Nicolas Marroc	Ocean Racing Technology	31	+1:28.973	26
15	12	Nigel Melker	DAMS	31	+1:30.328	13
16	20	Julián Leal	Trident Racing	31	+1:33.669	19
17	2	Mihai Marinescu	Rapax	31	+1:35.344	25
18	17	Fabio Onidi	Super Nova Racing	31	+1:43.541 5	23
19	21	Stéphane Richelmi	Trident Racing	30	+1 lap	21
20	14	Josef Král	Arden International	30	+1 lap	3
21	6	Esteban Gutiérrez	Lotus ART	30	+1 lap	8
Ret	3	Jake Rosenzweig	Barwa Addax Team	23	Retired	18
Ret	15	Simon Trummer	Arden International	23	Retired	22
Ret	25	Jan Charouz	Carlin	18	Retired	24
Ret	24	Max Chilton	Carlin	2	Retired	6
Ret	1	Dani Clos	Rapax	1	Retired	2
Fastest lap: Fabio Leimer (Racing Engineering) 1:51.493 (lap 23)

Notes

• ^5 – Fabio Onidi received a twenty second penalty for ignoring yellow flags during the feature race. ^[22]

Sprint Race

Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	5	James Calado	Lotus ART	22	41:26.194	1	6
2	10	Marcus Ericsson	iSport International	22	+1.770	5	5
3	9	Tom Dillmann	iSport International	22	+7.695	3	4
4	4	Jolyon Palmer	Barwa Addax Team	22	+13.040	6	3
5	6	Esteban Gutiérrez	Lotus ART	22	+27.012	21	2
6	18	Kevin Ceccon	Scuderia Coloni	22	+28.025	4	1
7	26	Alexander Rossi	Caterham Team AirAsia	22	+29.909	13
8	2	Luiz Razia	Caterham Team AirAsia	22	+30.022	7	1
9	1	Dani Clos	Rapax	22	+30.139	25
10	7	Fabio Leimer	Racing Engineering	22	+30.570	8
11	17	Fabio Onidi	Super Nova Racing	22	+33.066	18
12	14	Josef Král	Arden International	22	+40.517	20
13	23	António Félix da Costa	Ocean Racing Technology	22	+44.351	2
14	3	Jake Rosenzweig	Barwa Addax Team	22	+45.524	22
15	15	Simon Trummer	Arden International	22	+45.921	26 6
16	24	Max Chilton	Carlin	22	+46.846	24
17	25	Jan Charouz	Carlin	22	+48.347	23
18	21	Stéphane Richelmi	Trident Racing	22	+48.702	19
19	8	Nathanaël Berthon	Racing Engineering	22	+49.101	9
20	12	Nigel Melker	DAMS	22	+49.778	15
21	20	Julián Leal	Trident Racing	22	+50.399	16
22	22	Nicolas Marroc	Ocean Racing Technology	22	+53.398	14
23	16	Giacomo Ricci	Super Nova Racing	22	+59.543	11
24	11	Rio Haryanto	DAMS	22	+1:12.642	12
25	19	Stefano Coletti	Scuderia Coloni	21	Collision	10
Ret	2	Mihai Marinescu	Rapax	10	Accident	17
Fastest lap: Luiz Razia (Caterham Team AirAsia) 1:51.551 (lap 15)

Notes

• ^6 – Simon Trummer received a ten place grid penalty for causing a collision during the feature race. ^[22]

Standings

Drivers' Championship Pos Driver R1 R2 Points 1 Fabio Leimer 1 10 13 2 Marcus Ericsson 4 2 10 3 Luiz Razia 2 8 9 4 Jolyon Palmer 3 4 9 5 James Calado 8 1 7 6 Tom Dillmann 6 3 7 7 Kevin Ceccon 5 6 5 8 Esteban Gutiérrez 21 5 2 9 António Félix da Costa 7 13 2 10 Alexander Rossi 13 7 0 11 Nathanaël Berthon 9 19 0 12 Dani Clos Ret 9 0 13 Stefano Coletti 10 Ret 0 14 Fabio Onidi 18 11 0 15 Giacomo Ricci 11 23 0 16 Josef Král 20 12 0 17 Rio Haryanto 12 24 0 18 Nicolas Marroc 14 22 0 19 Jake Rosenzweig Ret 14 0 20 Nigel Melker 15 20 0 21 Simon Trummer Ret 15 0 22 Julián Leal 16 21 0 23 Max Chilton Ret 16 0 24 Mihai Marinescu 17 Ret 0 25 Jan Charouz Ret 17 0 26 Stéphane Richelmi 19 18 0 Pos Driver R1 R2 Points

Teams' Championship Pos Team No. R1 R2 Points 1 iSport International 9 6 3 17 10 4 2 2 Racing Engineering 7 1 10 13 8 9 19 3 Lotus ART 5 8 1 9 6 21 5 4 Caterham Team AirAsia 26 13 7 9 27 2 8 5 Barwa Addax Team 3 Ret 14 9 4 3 4 6 Scuderia Coloni 18 5 6 5 19 10 25† 7 Ocean Racing Technology 22 14 22 2 23 7 13 8 Rapax 1 Ret 9 0 2 17 Ret 9 Super Nova Racing 16 11 23 0 17 18 11 10 DAMS 11 12 24 0 12 15 20 11 Arden International 14 20 12 0 15 Ret 15 12 Carlin 24 Ret 16 0 25 Ret 17 13 Trident Racing 20 16 21 0 21 19 18 Pos Team No. R1 R2 Points Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points classification Blue Non-points classification Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired, not classified (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX)

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