2015 Belgian Grand Prix

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Flag of Belgium (civil).png   2015 Belgian Grand Prix
Race details
Race 11 of the 2015 Superleague season
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Date 30th July, 2015
Official name 2015 Belgian Grand Prix
Location Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Spa
Course Permanent racing facility
4.352 mi / 7.004 km
Distance 44 laps, 191.488 mi / 308.169 km
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Pole position
Driver Spain Fran Lopez Red Archer-Valiant
Time 1:42.519
Fastest Lap
Driver Germany Philipp Puschke Vod:Bul-Valiant
Time 1:43.660 on lap 44
Podium
First Germany Philipp Puschke Vod:Bul-Valiant
Second England David Fidock Hawkeye-Potentia
Third Slovenia Jernej Simoncic Vod:Bul-Valiant


The 2015 Belgian Grand Prix was the eleventh round of the 2015 Superleague season and took place around the iconic Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps on the 30th July 2015, after a three-week break in the league.

It was the first Superleague event after the passing of Jules Bianchi, and several teams and drivers ran tributes in his memory.

Race win and fastest lap went to Vod:Bul's Philipp Puschke for the second race in a row, but pole went to Fran Lopez in the Red Archer, though the top three, consisting of Lopez, Lewis Redshaw and Puschke, in that order, were covered than less than a tenth. Lopez sadly slipped to seventh by the chequered flag.

Puschke had a comfortable lead as he took the flag, but Redshaw and David Fidock finished next, barely a second apart. However, Redshaw was penalised after the race for causing avoidable contact with another competitor and he was demoted to fourth. This elevated Fidock to a crucial second place and also saw Puschke's teammate Jernej Simoncic promoted to third. This was the second time in three races that Vod:Bul could claim to have both drivers finish in the top 3, though of course Simoncic did not appear on the podium on the day.

Fifth was Agustin Canapino in the Nordsjoen while sixth was Alex Cooper, who had skipped over from Midnight Motorsports to their sister team CSG Racing, replacing Tom Parker.

Cooper's vacant seat was taken over by Sandeep Chodha, who had raced for Midnight two races before in place of Tom van der Voort. In other driver changes, Matthew Allington once more filled in for Bart De Vos at Kernow, having previously done so in Portugal. Hungarian Formula Challenge race winner Bence Zsupanek made a one-off race for Edonis Engineering, having replaced James Johnson; Edonis were embarking on what would turn out to be a string of five Grands Prix with five different drivers, like a merry-go-round where each time the #69 horse came by it had a brand new rider. Woods also happened to be embarking on a similar journey, with a different driver being in the #8 car at every Grand Prix from Hungary to Abu Dhabi; however, the total number of drivers was less. In Belgium, Sven de Vries made his return to Superleague, having last competed at Monaco for the now-defunct Target Racing; he replaced Jarl Teien for one race then missed the next, but would return later.

Belgium was the first race of the year that witnessed individual cars missing from the grid, with the obvious exception of the aforementioned Targets. Former champion Mikko Jakonen made his one and only absence of the year at Belgium, meaning there was only one Phoenix F1 car on the grid. Meanwhile, Jordan Weekes' Torrent was also missing, meaning only 24 cars took part in the event.

Classification

Qualifying

Pos. No. Driver Constructor Time Gap Grid
1 21 Spain Fran Lopez Red Archer - Valiant 1:42.519
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2 24 England Lewis Redshaw CSG - Potentia 1:42.552 +0.033 2
3 14 Germany Philipp Puschke Vod:Bul - Valiant 1:42.580 +0.061 3
4 13 England Alex Cooper CSG - Potentia 1:42.980 +0.461 4
5 19 Argentina Agustin Canapino Nordsjoen - Martex 1:42.992 +0.473 5
6 1 England David Fidock Hawkeye - Potentia 1:43.017 +0.499 6
7 15 Slovenia Jernej Simoncic Vod:Bul - Valiant 1:43.177 +0.658 7
8 27 Germany Florian Geier Nordsjoen - Martex 1:43.233 +0.714 8
9 6 Malta Jason Muscat Red Archer - Valiant 1:43.451 +0.932 9
10 99 Lithuania Mindaugas Klumbis Torrent - Potentia 1:43.854 +1.336 10
11 25 Netherlands Tom van der Voort Midnight - Potentia 1:43.921 +1.402 11
12 7 India Sandeep Chodha Midnight - Potentia 1:44.065 +1.546 12
13 8 United States Sven de Vries Woods - Trinity 1:44.269 +1.751 13
14 4 Brazil Marcos Riffel Edonis - Valiant 1:44.365 +1.846 14
15 11 Wales Ben Horrill Green Stripes - Valiant 1:44.435 +1.916 15
16 69 Hungary Bence Zsupanek Edonis - Valiant 1:44.629 +2.111 16
17 5 Netherlands Wopke Hoekstra Nijo - Trinity 1:45.093 +2.574 17
18 10 Finland Mikael Tuomaala Nijo - Trinity 1:45.121 +2.603 18
19 2 England Nick Rowland Hawkeye - Potentia 1:45.411 +2.893 19
20 9 Netherlands Roy Schroten Woods - Trinity 1:45.435 +2.916 20
21 20 South Africa Dewald Nel Green Stripes - Valiant 1:45.577 +3.059 21
22 12 England Mark Wicks Kernow - Trinity 1:46.361 +3.843 22
23 45 Ireland Kieran Ryan Phoenix - Trinity 1:46.714 +4.195 23
24 83 England Matthew Allington Kernow - Trinity 1:55.343 +12.825 24

Race

Pos. No. Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Pts.
1 14 Germany Philipp Puschke Vod:Bul - Valiant 44 17:34.463 3 25
2 1 England David Fidock Hawkeye - Potentia 44 +17.271 6 20
3 15 Slovenia Jernej Simoncic Vod:Bul - Valiant 44 +24.928 7 16
41 24 England Lewis Redshaw CSG - Potentia 44 +26.139 2 13
5 19 Argentina Agustin Canapino Nordsjoen - Martex 44 +35.281 5 11
6 13 England Alex Cooper CSG - Potentia 44 +35.483 4 10
7 21 Spain Fran Lopez Red Archer - Valiant 44 +46.661 1 9
8 27 Germany Florian Geier Nordsjoen - Martex 44 +52.283 8 8
9 6 Malta Jason Muscat Red Archer - Valiant 44 +1:07.736 9 7
10 25 Netherlands Tom van der Voort Midnight - Potentia 44 +1:31.278 11 6
111 8 United States Sven de Vries Woods - Trinity 44 +1:38.610 13 5
12 4 Brazil Marcos Riffel Edonis - Valiant 44 +1:44.259 14 4
13 20 South Africa Dewald Nel Green Stripes - Valiant 43 +1 Lap 21 3
142 69 Hungary Bence Zsupanek Edonis - Valiant 43 +1 Lap 16 2
153 11 Wales Ben Horrill Green Stripes - Valiant 43 +1 Lap 15 1
16 7 India Sandeep Chodha Midnight - Potentia 43 +1 Lap 12
17 5 Netherlands Wopke Hoekstra Nijo - Trinity 43 +1 Lap 17
18 9 Netherlands Roy Schroten Woods - Trinity 43 +1 Lap 20
19 12 England Mark Wicks Kernow - Trinity 43 +1 Lap 22
20 45 Ireland Kieran Ryan Phoenix - Trinity 42 +2 Laps 23
Ret 10 Finland Mikael Tuomaala Nijo - Trinity 17 Did not Finish 18
Ret 83 England Matthew Allington Kernow - Trinity 7 Accident 24
Ret 2 England Nick Rowland Hawkeye - Potentia 0 Suspension 19
Ret 99 Lithuania Mindaugas Klumbis Torrent - Potentia 0 Accident 10

Notes:

  • 1Lewis Redshaw and Sven de Vries both had 10 seconds added to race time for causing avoidable contact.
  • 2Bence Zsupanek also had a race time penalty for causing avoidable contact.
  • 3Ben Horrill had 20 seconds added to race time for causing avoidable contact.

Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings
Pos Driver Points
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1 Germany Philipp Puschke 202
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2 England Lewis Redshaw 176
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3 England David Fidock 164
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4 Argentina Agustin Canapino 131
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5 England Alex Cooper 106

Constructors' Championship standings
Pos Constructor Points
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1 England Vod:Bul-Valiant 280
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2 England CSG Racing-Potentia 250
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3 Norway Nordsjoen-Martex 221
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4 England Hawkeye-Potentia 195
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5 England Midnight-Potentia 157

  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

External links

Preceded by:
2015 Hungarian Grand Prix
GPVWC Superleague
2015 season
Succeeded by:
2015 Italian Grand Prix
Preceded by:
2014 Belgian Grand Prix
Belgian Grand Prix
Succeeded by:
2016 Belgian Grand Prix