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Rio Haryanto storms to victory in Silverstone
Joyous moment: Indonesian driver Rio Haryanto lifts up the trophy after winning the 2015 GP2 sprint-race in Silverstone, England on Sunday, while runner-up Raffaele Marciello of Italy (left) and third place winner Pierre Gasly of France (right) look on
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Joyous moment: Indonesian driver Rio Haryanto lifts up the trophy after winning the 2015 GP2 sprint-race in Silverstone, England on Sunday, while runner-up Raffaele Marciello of Italy (left) and third place winner Pierre Gasly of France (right) look on.(Courtesy of gp2series.com) (left) and third place winner Pierre Gasly of France (right) look on.(Courtesy of gp2series.com)
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span class="inline inline-center">Joyous moment: Indonesian driver Rio Haryanto lifts up the trophy after winning the 2015 GP2 sprint-race in Silverstone, England on Sunday, while runner-up Raffaele Marciello of Italy (left) and third place winner Pierre Gasly of France (right) look on.(Courtesy of gp2series.com)
Indonesian race driver Rio Haryanto stormed to his third sprint-race victory of the 2015 GP2 Series in Silverstone, England on Sunday.
Rio didn't squander the opportunity of starting from the pole position to leave his competitors behind to finish the 21-lap race in one minute and 42.636 seconds. He was trailed by Raffaele Marciello of the Trident racing team and Pierre Gasly of DAMS who clocked in with gaps of 1.925 and 4.993 seconds to take the second and third position respectively.
With the Campos Racing driver Rio setting a string of fastest laps out front, all eyes were on the action behind, where Marciello got away well to slot in front of a slow starting Nick Yelloly of Britain who started second. Yelloly was determined to make up for a poor start and trailed Alex Lynn, while Sergey Sirotkin of the Rapax team lurked behind the two drivers waiting to take advantage of any mistakes.
Alexander Rossi from Racing Engineering finished fourth despite a five-second penalty he received for putting all four wheels off the track as he passed Alex Lynn in the early lap.
Yelloly outraced Saturday's race winner Sirotkin and Lynn in the closing stages to take the fifth position, while Lynn hung onto sixth ahead of Rowland who sent off Sirotkin late to secure his first GP2 points on his debut weekend.
Championship leader Stoffel Vandoorne was only ninth in Sunday's race, which means that the competition has closed a little with the Belgian leads Rossi by 170 points to 105, ahead of Haryanto on 91 and Sirotkin on 78.
'It was everything in the first lap. I knew I had to make a good gap and I did a really good start and was able to pull away quite a lot in the first two laps. I was able to maintain the gap from the beginning and also to look after my tires. It was not that easy because I had some front graining, but in the end it feels really nice when you cross the line. Third win of the season!' said Rio as quoted by gp2series.com.
Gasly said he was quite satisfied with the Sunday race result, considering it was his debut in Silverstone.
'It was a pretty solid weekend ' P [pole position] 4 yesterday, P3 today ' and I think it's pretty good for everyone in the team to get the confidence back after all the problems we had at the beginning of the year, with crashes, bad luck and mistakes from ourselves,' he said.
'I think we are back where we should be at the moment, around top 3 or 5. We're missing a bit of pace to fight for the win, but we're working hard and I'm happy to see that we are back where we should be,' Gasly added.
