2011 Supercup Turkish Grand Prix

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Flag of Turkey.png   2011 Supercup Turkish Grand Prix
Race details
2011 Supercup season
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Date July 13th, 2011
Official name 2011 Supercup Turkish Grand Prix
Location Istanbul Park
Istanbul, Turkey
Course Permanent racing facility
3.317 mi / 5.338 km
Distance 32 laps, 106.144 mi / 170.816 km
Weather Sunny
Pole position
Driver England Lewis Redshaw Malta Force GP
Time 1:32.328
Fastest Lap
Driver Belgium Bart De Vos Malta Force GP
Time 1:33.180
Podium
First England Lewis Redshaw Malta Force GP
Second Estonia Pavel Loknovski Triple-Double Racing
Third Switzerland David Jundt Nijo Racing


The 2011 Supercup Turkish Grand Prix - the twelfth race of the season - took place at the Istanbul Park circuit in Turkey on the 13th of July and was won by Lewis Redshaw.

Report

With another Malta Force 1-2 in the bag after the previous race in San Marino, all signs pointed towards another titanic battle in Turkey between Lewis Redshaw and Bart De Vos. At the famous Imola circuit, it was the English driver of the Malta Force team that took the win, ahead of championship leader De Vos who took 2nd place.

Qualifying

Malta Force didn't disappoint in qualifying at Round 12 in Istanbul, with Redshaw taking pole position, but with the 'other' championship contender Pavel Loknovski in 2nd place, the front row positions being seperated by just 0.022 seconds. Bart De Vos took 3rd place, with Tom Parker 4th, and David Jundt 5th. Round 12 saw four new faces appearing on the grid in the 2011 Supercup. Ben Warren made his Supercup debut for Nordsjoen Racing, Ric Scott for Draig Racing, Roy Schroten for Triple-Double Racing and his brother Mike Schroten driving for Synergetic Motorsport. It was Warren who qualified highest of the new faces, taking 8th on the grid. Ric Scott was a solid 12th, while the Schroten brothers had less success, with Roy and Mike qualifying 20th and 23rd respectively.

Race

At the start of the race, the top 3 held position, until De Vos found his way past Loknovski on Lap 1 after the Triple-Double Racing driver ran slightly wide at Turn 7. Further down the grid, there were a few incidents, firstly with Tom Parker being tagged into a spin by Kenney Lybeer at Turn 4, with the same type of incident being replicated by Roy Schroten, plowing into the back of Teemu Toikka. Both Parker and Toikka rejoined almost at the back of the field. Woods driver Gregg Lawson only managed to get to the high speed Turn 8 before his engine cried enough, and he was the first of seven eventual retirements in the race. When the field had stabilised after a few laps, it was clear De Vos was the slightly faster of the two Malta Force drivers.

On lap 6, after a small error for Redshaw on the exit of Turn 7, De Vos pounced, and took over the lead. Meanwhile, Loknovski kept a watching eye on the squabbling pair in front of him, albeit a few seconds back. Now with some clear track, and with Redshaw and Loknovski now fighting over 2nd place, the young Belgian driver began to stretch out his lead, and looked comfortable and looked to have the pace over his two championship rivals. Meanwhile, further down the order, after his first lap incident, Parker was working his way through the field, and after the scheduled pitstops found himself up to 9th place.

Parker's 9th place would become 8th on Lap 27, as absolute heartbreak would strike for the leader De Vos, as he suffered a disconnection from the race, and ultimately retirement, moving his teammate and main championship rival Redshaw into the lead, with Loknovski still chasing him, but now up to 2nd place. Redshaw would eventually take the race win, 6.4 seconds ahead of Loknovski. Nijo Racing driver David Jundt had a relatively lonely race, but took 3rd place, while Kenney Lybeer and Ryan Walker rounded out the top 5. Phil Perkins took 6th for Draig Racing, whilst debutants Ben Warren and Ric Scott finished 7th and 8th respectively. Ihab Abbas recovered to 9th place after an earlier spin, and Tom Parker took the final point in 10th place, losing 8th after blowing his engine, but was able to just cross the finish line to stay classified, albeit a lap down.

With De Vos retiring and Redshaw winning, the Englishman more than halved the points gap between himself and the Belgian driver, with just 9 points between them. Loknovski's 2nd place means he was now just 15 points behind championship leader De Vos. Quietly, David Jundt had put himself back into championship contention after his Istanbul podium, and was just 18 points behind De Vos. Gregg Lawson rounded out the top 5 of the Driver's championship, albeit 37 points behind the championship leader. Despite De Vos not finishing, Malta Force were able to extend their already mighty Constructors championship lead over their nearest rivals Nijo Racing, with 58 points separating the two teams. With Nordsjoen Racing now fielding a full team again, they set their sights on catching Nijo for 2nd place, and stood 12 points behind them. Triple-Double Racing, and Woods Racing rounded out the top 5.

Classification

Qualifying

Pos No Driver Team Lap Gap
1 15 England Lewis Redshaw Malta Force GP 1:32.328
2 19 Estonia Pavel Loknovski Triple-Double Racing 1:32.350 +0.022s
3 14 Belgium Bart De Vos Malta Force GP 1:32.581 +0.253s
4 28 England Tom Parker Kernow Sport 1:33.177 +0.849s
5 4 Switzerland David Jundt Nijo Racing 1:33.341 +1.013s
6 10 Scotland Ryan Walker Nordsjoen Racing 1:33.365 +1.037s
7 27 Egypt Ihab Abbas Water Blue Racing 1:33.408 +1.079s
8 9 England Ben Warren Nordsjoen Racing 1:33.588 +1.260s
9 2 England Phil Perkins Draig Racing 1:33.749 +1.421s
10 11 Belgium Kenney Lybeer Mineral GP 1:33.867 +1.538s
11 16 England Gregg Lawson Woods Racing 1:33.889 +1.561s
12 0 England Ric Scott Draig Racing 1:34.321 +1.993s
13 8 Wales Gavin Thomas Red 5 Racing 1:34.339 +2.011s
14 24 Finland Teemu Toikka PB Racing 1:34.558 +2.230s
15 26 Australia Josh Barton Water Blue Racing 1:34.814 +2.486s
16 20 England Paul Mckenna CP Lotus 1:34.898 +2.570s
17 29 Netherlands Wopke Hoekstra Kernow Sport 1:34.944 +2.616s
18 3 England Chris Williamson Nijo Racing 1:34.954 +2.625s
19 21 Germany Christoph Lichtenstein CP Lotus 1:35.113 +2.784s
20 18 Netherlands Roy Schroten Triple-Double Racing 1:35.923 +3.595s
21 12 Greece Nikos Evangelidakis Mineral GP 1:36.125 +3.797s
22 17 Romania Dan Rusu Woods Racing 1:37.774 +5.445s
23 22 Netherlands Mike Schroten Synergetic Motorsports 2:14.040 +41.712s

Race

Pos No Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Pitstops Fastlap Controller Points
1 15 England Lewis Redshaw Malta Force GP 32 50:40.543 1 1 01:33.265 Wheel generic-unknown.png 15
2 19 Estonia Pavel Loknovski Triple-Double Racing 32 +6.409s 2 1 01:33.505 Joypad.png 12
3 4 Switzerland David Jundt Nijo Racing 32 +33.276s 5 2 01:33.876 Wheel ffb.png 10
4 11 Belgium Kenney Lybeer Mineral GP 32 +43.817s 10 1 01:34.411 Wheel generic-unknown.png 8
5 10 Scotland Ryan Walker Nordsjoen Racing 32 +44.413s 6 1 01:34.459 Wheel generic-unknown.png 6
6 2 England Phil Perkins Draig Racing 32 +50.586s 9 1 01:33.830 Wheel ffb.png 5
7 9 England Ben Warren Nordsjoen Racing 32 +58.325s 8 1 01:34.691 Wheel ffb.png 4
8 0 England Ric Scott Draig Racing 32 +1:22.845 12 1 01:34.784 Wheel generic-unknown.png 3
9 27 Egypt Ihab Abbas Water Blue Racing 32 +1:31.052 7 2 01:34.274 Wheel ffb.png 2
10 28 England Tom Parker Kernow Sport 31 DNF 4 2 01:34.582 Wheel ffb.png 1
11 20 England Paul Mckenna CP Lotus 31 +1 Lap 16 2 01:34.881 Wheel generic-unknown.png 0
12 26 Australia Josh Barton Water Blue Racing 31 +1 Lap 15 2 01:35.909 Wheel generic-unknown.png 0
13 21 Germany Christoph Lichtenstein CP Lotus 31 +1 Lap 19 1 01:36.630 Wheel generic-unknown.png 0
14 18 Netherlands Roy Schroten Triple-Double Racing 31 +1 Lap 20 1 01:36.577 Wheel generic-unknown.png 0
15 8 Wales Gavin Thomas Red 5 Racing 31 +1 Lap 13 2 01:35.075 Wheel ffb.png 0
16 12 Greece Nikos Evangelidakis Mineral GP 30 +2 Laps 21 1 01:36.560 Wheel nonffb.png 0
17 17 Romania Dan Rusu Woods Racing 30 +2 Laps 22 3 01:37.774 Wheel ffb.png 0
Ret 14 Belgium Bart De Vos Malta Force GP 27 DNF 3 1 01:33.180 Wheel ffb.png 0
Ret 29 Netherlands Wopke Hoekstra Kernow Sport 16 DNF 17 2 01:36.352 Wheel generic-unknown.png 0
Ret 3 England Chris Williamson Nijo Racing 14 DNF 18 0 01:36.039 Wheel ffb.png 0
Ret 22 Netherlands Mike Schroten Synergetic Motorsports 14 DNF 23 1 01:41.997 Wheel generic-unknown.png 0
Ret 7 Wales Ben Morgan Red 5 Racing 10 DNF 24 2 01:38.266 Wheel generic-unknown.png 0
Ret 24 Finland Teemu Toikka PB Racing 5 DNF 14 2 01:36.862 Wheel generic-unknown.png 0
Ret 16 England Gregg Lawson Woods Racing 0 DNF 11 0 - Wheel generic-unknown.png 0

Tom Parker blew his engine on the final lap, but was far enough ahead to hold on to 10th place in the classification.

Standings after the Race

Drivers' Championship standings
Pos Driver Points
1 Belgium Bart De Vos 96
2 England Lewis Redshaw 87
3 Estonia Pavel Loknovski 81
4 Switzerland David Jundt 78
5 England Gregg Lawson 59
6 Malta Jason Muscat 57
7 Greece Georgios Davakos 41
8 England Liam Hatchell 38
9 England Tom Parker 27
10 England Chris Williamson 26
11 Germany Christoph Lichtenstein 25
= Egypt Ihab Abbas 25
13 Scotland Sam Millar 21
14 Finland Samuli Leinonen 20
15 England Simon Cattell 18
16 Belgium Kenney Lybeer 16
17 Wales Gavin Thomas 13
18 Scotland Ryan Walker 11
19 Northern Ireland Mal McKee 10
= Greece Nikos Evangelidakis 10
21 England Phil Perkins 7
22 England Paul McKenna 5
23 Wales Ben Morgan 4
= England Ben Warren 4
25 England Alex Cooper 3
= England Ric Scott 3
= Romania Dan Rusu 3
28 United States Robert Rose 2
= Northern Ireland Luke McKee 2

Constructors' Championship standings
Pos Constructor Points
1 Malta Malta Force GP 162
2 England Nijo Racing 104
3 Italy Nordsjoen Racing 92
4 England Triple-Double Racing 81
5 England Woods Racing 62
6 England PB Racing 54
7 Greece Water Blue Racing 51
8 Northern Ireland Synergetic Motorsports 48
9 Germany CP Lotus 32
10 Wales Red 5 Racing 28
11 England Kernow Sport 27
12 England Williamson Dynamics 21
13 United States Mineral GP 20
14 Wales Draig Racing 10

Preceded by:
2011 Supercup San Marino Grand Prix
2011 Supercup Turkish Grand Prix
2011
Succeeded by:
2011 Supercup Mexican Grand Prix