The 2008 GP2 Series Championship is decided this weekend at the Italian track of Monza, the venue for the last event of the season, with the Racing Engineering driver Giorgio Pantano as the hot favourite to clinch the crown of the Formula 1 feeder series.
Giorgio goes to his favourite track leading the championship, with an 11 point advantage on his closest rival, the Brazilian Bruno Senna, and 18 over the other two drivers who still have a chance, although minimal, of fighting for the championship, another Brazilian Lucas Di Grassi and the French-Swiss Romain Grosjean.
With a maximum of 20 points available for the driver who can take the pole, win both races and also set the two fastest laps of the weekend, the advantage for the driver from the Spanish team looks to be good enough to give him the best chance of taking the title, especially bearing in mind that at Monza Pantano has a spectacular record of victories, with wins in all the single-seater categories in which he has taken part during racing career.
The aim, therefore, is clear for Racing Engineering, to put once again at the disposal of their driver a competitive and reliable car, as they have being doing for the whole season, so that Giorgio can assure himself of a championship that he had deserved more than anybody from the beginning of year. With five victories to his name, the driver of the Dallara number 12, in the Telefónica and Repsol colours, has been regularly the fastest of the GP2 Series 2008 and in Monza he expects to close a great season in the best possible way, winning the Championship as his own words reflect:
"We are arriving to the last round of this year’s championship and it is taking place at my home track. I love Monza and will try to do my best there, and hopefully win. It would be really great to win in front of my fans."
For the other driver of the Spanish team, Javier Villa, Monza is the last opportunity to obtain, in this 2008 season, a result worthy of his driving skills and up to the expectations with which he started the season. Following his good results from 2007 Javi has suffered too many up and downs along the year that have prevented him from regularly fighting for the top places, as was his aim.
In Monza, both Giorgio and Javi will face one of the tracks with the most history in the motor sport world, where the high speeds continue being the principal characteristic, although the different chicanes that have been inserted between its long straights, as the average speeds were raising, have made it lose part of the challenge that it had in its original shape.
Despite this, for tradition and difficulty, Monza is the ideal stage for the finale of the GP2 Series 2008 and Racing Engineering comes to the historic Italian track with the greatest hopes and with the objective of returning to its home base, at Sanlucar de Barrameda (Spain) with the championship for their driver Giorgio Pantano.
Racing Engineering - GP2 Belgium Feature Race –
Today’s Feature Race at Spa Francorchamps saw both Giorgio Pantano and Javier Villa finish well down the field as both drivers made errors in difficult conditions that cost them any chance of a good result.
Shortly before the start of the race it began to rain resulting in all the cars switching to wet tyres a weiter >>
Racing Engineering - GP2 Belgium Qualifying –
Giorgio Pantano continued his fight for the 2008 GP2 Championship with a very competitive 5th fastest lap in today’s Qualifying session held on a very wet and slippery Spa Francorchamps circuit.
Once again Giorgio and the Spanish Racing Engineering team were competitive from the first moment the cars took to th weiter >>
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The GP2 series begins this weekend its frantic final sprint which, in only seven days, will, with the two events in Belgium and Italy that close the 2008 season taking place on consecutive weiter >>
Racing Engineering - GP2 Valencia Race 2.
It was a great result today for Racing Engineering in the GP2 Series Sprint Race at Valencia as both Giorgio Pantano and Javier Villa were able to score points in spite o weiter >>
Racing Engineering - GP2 Valencia Feature Race –
It was almost the perfect day for Giorgio Pantano and Racing Engineering in today’s Feature Race on the exciting new Valencia street circuit as the Italian took th weiter >>
Racing Engineering - GP2 Valencia – Qualification
The long awaited GP2 weekend at the new street circuit of Valencia has begun in the best possible way for Racing Engineering, with its driver Giorgio Pantano taking pole position in Qualifying, after having been fastest also in Free Practice. The good showing of the Repsol and Telefónica backed Dallaras has been sup weiter >>
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The short summer holiday for the GP2 Series comes to its end this Friday with the beginning of the weekend’s activity for Racing Engineering and all its rivals in one of the most awaited dates of weiter >>
Racing Engineering - GP2 Hungary Feature Race –
It was an excellent team result for Racing Engineering in the GP2 Series Sprint Race held today at the Hungaroring. Giorgio Pantano and Javier Villa recovered from weiter >>
Racing Engineering - GP2 Hungary Feature Race –
It was a very difficult day for both of the Racing Engineering drivers in today’s Feature Race at the Hungaroring as Giorgio Pantano was involved in an early race inci weiter >>
Racing Engineering - GP2 Hungary Qualifying –
Neither of the Racing Engineering drivers had the Qualifying results they were hoping for today at the Hungaroring following a very promising Free Practice session this morning.
Free Practice was held under clear skies and fortunately, for all concerned, the high temperatures expected at the Hun weiter >>
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The twisty Hungaroring, located in the outskirts of Budapest, will be the scene this weekend for the seventh race meeting of the 2008 GP2 Series. Racing Engineering arrives at the H weiter >>
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It was mixed fortunes for the Racing Engineering drivers in the GP2 Series Sprint Race run on Sunday morning at Hockenheim: whilst Javier Villa scored his best result of the season so far, fi weiter >>
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Following an enquiry by the Stewards of the Meeting at Hockenheim today Racing Engineering’s Giorgio Pantano was promoted to first place in the Feature Race as Romain Grosjean is penalised by weiter >>
Racing Engineering - GP2 Hockenheim Race 1 –
In a race whose outcome was greatly influenced by heavy rain in the closing laps Giorgio Pantano continued his fight for the 2008 GP2 Drivers Championship with a hard f weiter >>
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Today at Hockenheim Giorgio Pantano took his second pole position of the season for Racing Engineering whilst Javier Villa completed a really good qualifying session for the Spanish team by f weiter >>
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This weekend, at the German track of Hockenheim, the GP2 Series starts the second and decisive half of the season, and it does so with the Racing Engineering driver, Giorgio Pantano, leading t weiter >>
Racing Engineering - GP2 Great Britain Race 1 – Silverstone
Giorgio Pantano put in a stunning performance in today’s Feature Race at Silverstone, the Italian driver showing a wonderful combination of spee weiter >>
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Once again Giorgio Pantano has shown why he is one of the favourites to take the 2008 GP2 Drivers Championship as the Racing Engineering driver took the fifth fastest time in qualifying, less than six tenths of a second away from Pole Position. For the Spanish team weiter >>
The GP2 series arrives at the midway point this weekend with the races due at the historic British track of Silverstone, the venue for the fifth race weekend of the season. Racing Engineering goes to the UK circuit with two clear aims, to keep the leadership in th weiter >>
Racing Engineering - GP2 France Sprint Race –
It was a disappointing day for Racing Engineering in today’s Sprint Race with Giorgio Pantano retiring and Javier Villa finishing 10th as all the teams struggled in ve weiter >>
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There were mixed fortunes today for the two Racing Engineering drivers with Giorgio Pantano qualifying an impressive 3rd but Javier Villa could only manage the 24th fastest time.
Both drivers made an excellent start to the day in this morning’s Free Practice when Javier was on fantastic form to set the third fastest time of 1m 22.874s, l weiter >>
After last week’s testing at Paul Ricard, Racing Engineering and all the teams competing in the 2008 GP2 series are back in France this weekend at the Magny Cours circuit for the fourth event of the season.
The venue of the French Formul weiter >>
Der ATS Formel-3-Cup fuhr am Samstag in zwei Qualifyings die Startaufstellungen für die Läufe sieben und acht auf dem Hockenheimring aus. Für das luxemburgische Team Racing Experience eine Berg- und Talfahrt der Gefühle. Im ersten weiter >>
A day for a lot productive work for all the Racing Engineering staff in the second day of testing for the GP2 Series teams at the French track of Paul Ricard. With today’s practice scheduled on the 2A layout featuring the long Mistral straight and the quick Signes corner, the target for all the teams was to test, for the first time, the new 2008 GP2 Dallara in low drag aerodynami weiter >>
The Racing Engineering drivers, Javier Villa and Giorgio Pantano, set the two quickest times in the first of the test sessions scheduled this week for the GP2 Series at Paul Ricard.
All the GP2 teams are testing at Le Castellet and the Racing Engineering Dallaras have shown their potential again during the two sessions held on the first day of test. On the 3D layout of th weiter >>
With both their driver’s starting towards the back of the grid, with Giorgio Pantano in 20th and Javier Villa in 24th, following their problematic Feature Race on Friday, Racing Engineering were not optimistic about their chances in the Sprint Race. Indeed this was the case; although Javier drove a steady, intelligent race avoiding the many incidents around him to finish 13th Gio weiter >>
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- Giorgio will start from the third row while Javi will have to drive through the field.
Luck, always such a part of racing at Monaco, both on and off the track, again played a decisive role in the qualifying session that de weiter >>
Racing Engineering - GP2 Turkey Race 2 –
There were mixed fortunes for the Racing Engineering drivers in today’s Sprint Race as Giorgio Pantano finished a competitive fourth and continues to lead the Drivers Championship while Javier Villa was the victim of an over weiter >>
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It was a dominant performance today in Turkey for Giorgio Pantano in the Racing Engineering Dallara as the experienced Italian lead the Feature Race from start to finish.
As the lights went off and the 25 GP2 weiter >>
Racing Engineering’s new driver, Italian Giorgio Pantano, showed in qualifying today just how quickly he and the Racing Engineering team have adapted to each other with a superb display to take pole position for tomorrow’s Feature Race.
To further emphasise just how compe weiter >>
The spectacular Istanbul Park track, close to the Turkish capital, will this weekend be the scene of the second date for Racing Engineering with the 2008 GP2 series.
After the positive beginning to the championship less than two weeks ago at Montmeló, with a podium, a fourth and a sixth place it was a really positive result for the two drivers of the Spanish team, Giorgi weiter >>
Racing Engineering is pleased to announce the recent signing of a collaboration agreement with KC Grupp, which means the Estonia based company becomes one of the Spanish team sponsors for the 2008 GP2 Series.
Based in Tallin (Estonia), KC Grupp / www.kcgrup weiter >>
It was a good start for Racing Engineering in today’s opening round of the 2008 GP2 Series with their new driver Giorgio Pantano taking an excellent fourth place less than four seconds behind the winner. For Javier Villa it was less successful although the young Spaniard drove hard to take a fighting 14th place.
Tension was high at the start as a second formation lap was weiter >>
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The 2008 GP2 series season starts this weekend at Barcelona where the GP2 cars will be sharing the circuit of Montmeló with the Spanish F1 Grand Prix. For Racing Engineering it is a much anticipated moment after the great results achieved in preseason testing with Javier Vi weiter >>
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The French track of Paul Ricard was the venue for Racing Engineering and all the 2008 GP2 Series teams to carry out the last testing before the start of the season in April at Barcelona,on the Spanish Grand Prix weekend. For the Repsol and Telefónica backed team the outcome, not only weiter >>
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There were some very satisfying results for Racing Engineering on the two first test days of the 2008 GP2 series. The maiden outing of the new Dallara GP2 car that will be run by the teams competing in the F1 feeder series finished with the two drivers from the Spanish team, Giorgio Pantano and Javier Villa, setting the fourth and fifth fastest times overal weiter >>
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The 2008 Racing Engineering GP2 Series drivers, Javi Villa and Giorgio Pantano, this week had their first contact with the new Dallara GP2 weiter >>
Racing Engineering will be participating in the 2008 GP2 Series with two GP2 race winners, Javier Villa and Giorgio Pantano. This driver line-up underlines Racing Engineering’s ambitious goals for 2008 and the Spanish team is happy to count on another year with the continuing stable relationship with its partners Repsol and Telefónica.
Aiming for the championship title a weiter >>
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From the 30th of October to the 2nd of November Racing Engineering, as well as all the other GP2 series teams, will participate in four days of testing at the French track of Paul Ricard.
This will be the last outing for 2007 before the start weiter >>
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Racing Engineering is pleased to announce that they will be entering the Formula BMW Europe Championship for 2008.
Formula BMW Europe is a new championship that will be seen on the tracks of Europe for the first time in 2008, it is a result of merging the Formula BMW Championships of UK and Germany. Boasting a 100,000 Euros prize fund weiter >>
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Despite the 2007 GP2 Series finishing last Sunday, at Valencia, work doesn’t stop for Racing Engineering and the other teams competing in the F1 feeder series. This Thursday they all will be together again at Jerez for two days of testing that are i weiter >>
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For the Racing Engineering team today’s Sprint Race at Valencia gave them the great end to the season they were looking for when Javier Villa took a superb second place behind the new GP2 Champion, Timo Glock.
Following yesterday’s wet/dry weiter >>
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Neither of the Racing Engineering drivers started as high up the grid as they, and the Team, had hoped for following a 30 minute Qualifying session that was interrupted by red and yellow flags. Javier Villa eventually lined up 15th whilst Marcos Martinez weiter >>
The 2007 GP2 Series season reaches its climax this weekend at the Ricardo Tormo track in Valencia. For Racing Engineering the race has special significance as it is taking place in Spain, the team’s home ground, in front of their sponsors and fans, further adding to the importance that is always attach weiter >>
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Racing Engineering's driver Javier Villa was the star of a spectacular exhibition held in Oviedo's city centre as part of the festivities of the capital of Asturias Principality, birthplace of the driver.
A nearly 1 kilometer long track was laid out t weiter >>
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Today’s Sprint Race at Spa did not have the outcome that Racing Engineering and their drivers Javier Villa and Marcos Martinez were hoping for. Following yesterday’s inspired drive though the field that ended in 4th place for Javier and a very compet weiter >>
Javier Villa drove a stunning Feature Race today in the Racing Engineering Dallara in his maiden race at Spa; starting from 14th spot on the grid he finished the race in 4th just over half a second away from a place on the podium. Marcos Martinez continued his rapid progression in the formula; he was running very competitively when a pitstop ended in retirement.
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The GP2 Series doesn’t stop during the final part of the season and after competing last weekend in Italy, the Racing Engineering team is already on the way to Belgium to face, from Friday, the penultimate event of the 2007 championship. weiter >>
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