Round details | |||
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Round 7 of 11 rounds in the 2015 GP2 Series | |||
![]() Layout of the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps | |||
Location | Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Francorchamps, Wallonia, Belgium | ||
Course | Permanent racing facility 7.004 km (4.352 mi) | ||
Feature race | |||
Date | 22 August 2015 | ||
Laps | 25 | ||
Pole position | |||
Driver | ![]() | ART Grand Prix | |
Time | 1:56.278 | ||
Podium | |||
First | ![]() | ART Grand Prix | |
Second | ![]() | Campos Racing | |
Third | ![]() | Russian Time | |
Fastest lap | |||
Driver | ![]() | Status Grand Prix | |
Time | 2:00.177 (on lap 20) | ||
Sprint race | |||
Date | 23 August 2015 | ||
Laps | 18 | ||
Podium | |||
First | ![]() | Racing Engineering | |
Second | ![]() | Racing Engineering | |
Third | ![]() | Russian Time | |
Fastest lap | |||
Driver | ![]() | ART Grand Prix | |
Time | 2:01.151 (on lap 3) |
The 2015 Spa-Francorchamps GP2 Series round was a GP2 Series motor race held on August 22 and 23, 2015 at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium. It was the seventh round of the 2015 GP2 Series. The race supported the 2015 Belgian Grand Prix.
The feature race at Spa was marred by a horrific crash involving Daniel de Jong, whose attempted pass Red Bull Junior driver Pierre Gasly at Blanchimont. The Frenchman cut de Jong's line causing them to make contact and de Jong losing his front wing. de Jong went to the tyre barrier at high speed which left him requiring four hours of surgery on his sixth vertebra, per Sky Sports' William Esler.