2015 Canadian Grand Prix

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  2015 Canadian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 7 of the 2015 Superleague season
Date	21 May, 2015
Official name	2015 Canadian Grand Prix
Location	Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal
Course	Temporary Street Circuit 2.71 mi / 4.361 km
Distance	70 laps, 189.700 mi / 305.292 km
Weather	Light Showers
Pole position
Driver	Lewis Redshaw	CSG-Potentia
Time	1:14.670
Fastest Lap
Driver	Philipp Puschke	Vod:Bul-Valiant
Time	1:15.084 on lap 67
Podium
First	Lewis Redshaw	CSG-Potentia
Second	David Fidock	Hawkeye-Potentia
Third	Agustin Canapino	Nordsjoen-Martex

The 2015 Canadian Grand Prix was the seventh round of the 2015 Superleague season and took place around Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on 21st May 2015.

The race was mostly dry with the exception of light rain showers.

The race was won by Lewis Redshaw of CSG Racing from pole position, following up on his success at the previous round at Monaco with an emphatic 20-second victory over Hawkeye's David Fidock, followed home by Agustin Canapino, returning to action in the Nordsjoen. Alex Cooper had been third for Midnight, set for his second consecutive podium finish, but he was deemed to have made an unsafe pit stop and was penalised 20 seconds, dropping him to 5th.

The race was somewhat marred by the early-race antics of Olli Pelkonen, in what would be his only race for Target Racing. Pelkonen clashed with numerous other drivers displaying what commentator Simon Smith described as "disgusting behaviour". One final clash with an Edonis coming out of the final chicane on lap 11 saw Pelkonen spin into the pit wall, prompting Smith to announce "serves you ******* right!". Pelkonen's unpopular behaviour on the track, coupled sadly with his unpopular behaviour off the track, saw him expelled from the results and the league in general. Post-race discussion erred towards the view that it was not just Pelkonen at fault, merely that he embodied what was generally a poor showing from many drivers.

It proved an unfortunately painful swansong for Target. Pelkonen and Englishman Jack Mayor were driving in place of Jordan Weekes and Sven de Vries respectively. Weekes had jumped ship to Torrent, replacing Petter Kaasa. While Pelkonen was unceremoniously thrown out, Mayor lasted only to lap 20, retiring with suspension damage, having been running last for some time. Target would not appear on the grid again. It was also, therefore, the last race of the 2015 season to have a full line up of 28 cars, and numbers would continue to dwindle on-and-off.

Philipp Puschke, returning to Vod:Bul after missing Monaco, secured the fastest lap of the race but otherwise had a torrid evening. Caught up in his own scrappy dramas, Puschke finished 10th, one lap down, in what would be his worst result of the season. As he had of course scored no points at Monaco, his poor race at Montreal saw him drop to third in the Driver's championship, behind Reshaw and Fidock. The two former teammates were now tied on points, though Redshaw was technically leading the championship due to his three victories.

Ruud Heesterbeek raced for a second and last time at Vod:Bul; he would subsequently return to the Supercup full-time. With Puschke back, Heesterbeek drove in place of Douwe Tapper in Canada, and was classified in 4th place, just like he had achieved at Monaco. Despite this being the first time since Australia that both Vod:Buls had finished in the points, it was not enough to prevent Nordsjoen jumping them in the tables, with Canapino 3rd and Florian Geier finishing 7th.

CSG Racing were now 10 points clear at the top of the table. This could have been even more if Tom Parker had not been penalised for colliding with others, with a total of 40 seconds added to his race time; this demoted him from 4th to 8th. Next came Nordsjoen, with Vod:Bul 5 points behind but only 1 point ahead of Hawkeye. Almost 30 points behind Hawkeye were Midnight, though they were enjoying a mid-season renaissance; despite being denied their true potential, Midnight had scored 40 points in the last two races; only CSG had scored more in that time.

With the exceptions of the driver changes at Vod:Bul, Target and Torrent, Nick Rowland made a surprise return, although now he was to be Fidock's teammate at Hawkeye. Marcos Riffel made his début for Edonis Engineering, driving the #4 car for most of the rest of the season. At Woods, Jarl Teien reclaimed his seat from Menno Klont, quite literally; Menno was registered in the qualifying session, but naturally gave up the drive for Teien. Ironically Teien would miss the following race at Silverstone and Menno would drive in his place again anyway.

Classification

Qualifying

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Time	Gap	Grid
1	24	Lewis Redshaw	CSG - Potentia	1:14.670	—	1
2	14	Philipp Puschke	Vod:Bul - Valiant	1:14.764	+0.094	2
3	1	David Fidock	Hawkeye - Potentia	1:14.896	+0.226	3
4	88	Jordan Weekes	Torrent - Potentia	1:14.938	+0.268	4
5	6	Deividas Misiulis	Red Archer - Valiant	1:14.971	+0.301	5
6	15	Ruud Heesterbeek	Vod:Bul - Valiant	1:15.015	+0.345	6
7	25	Tom van der Voort	Midnight - Potentia	1:15.093	+0.422	7
8	7	Alex Cooper	Midnight - Potentia	1:15.100	+0.430	8
9	13	Tom Parker	CSG - Potentia	1:15.130	+0.459	9
10	19	Agustin Canapino	Nordsjoen - Martex	1:15.210	+0.540	10
11	27	Florian Geier	Nordsjoen - Martex	1:15.347	+0.677	11
12	99	Mindaugas Klumbis	Torrent - Potentia	1:15.462	+0.791	12
13	8	Jarl Teien	Woods - Trinity	1:15.528	+0.857	13
14	83	Bart De Vos	Kernow - Trinity	1:15.575	+0.905	14
15	10	Mikael Tuomaala	Nijo - Trinity	1:15.620	+0.950	15
16	5	Kenney Lybeer	Nijo - Trinity	1:15.654	+0.983	16
17	11	Sandeep Chodha	Green Stripes - Valiant	1:16.097	+1.427	17
18	69	James Johnson	Edonis - Valiant	1:16.166	+1.496	18
19	45	Kieran Ryan	Phoenix - Trinity	1:16.264	+1.594	19
20	9	Roy Schroten	Woods - Trinity	1:16.662	+1.992	20
21	20	Dewald Nel	Green Stripes - Valiant	1:16.808	+2.138	21
22	66	Olli Pelkonen	Target - Trinity	1:16.850	+2.180	22
23	46	Mikko Jakonen	Phoenix - Trinity	1:16.907	+2.237	23
24	12	Mark Wicks	Kernow - Trinity	1:17.837	+3.167	24
25	77	Jack Mayor	Target - Trinity	1:18.576	+3.906	25
26	2	Nick Rowland	Hawkeye - Potentia	no time	—	28
27	21	Fran Lopez	Red Archer - Valiant	no time	—	27
28	4	Marcos Riffel	Edonis - Valiant	no time	—	26
29	8	Menno Klont	Woods - Trinity	no time	—	DNS1

Notes:

• ¹ — Menno Klont gave up his seat to Jarl Teien and took no further part in the meeting.

Race

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Pts.
1	24	Lewis Redshaw	CSG - Potentia	70	29:48.690	1	25
2	1	David Fidock	Hawkeye - Potentia	70	+22.642	3	20
3	19	Agustin Canapino	Nordsjoen - Martex	70	+45.502	10	16
4	15	Ruud Heesterbeek	Vod:Bul - Valiant	70	+55.150	6	13
51	7	Alex Cooper	Midnight - Potentia	70	+1:03.785	8	11
6	25	Tom van der Voort	Midnight - Potentia	70	+1:07.830	7	10
7	27	Florian Geier	Nordsjoen - Martex	70	+1:06.222	11	9
82	13	Tom Parker	CSG - Potentia	70	+1:33.402	9	8
9	21	Fran Lopez	Red Archer - Valiant	69	+1 Lap	27	7
10	14	Philipp Puschke	Vod:Bul - Valiant	69	+1 Lap	2	6
11	99	Mindaugas Klumbis	Torrent - Potentia	69	+1 Lap	12	5
123	4	Marcos Riffel	Edonis - Valiant	69	+1 Lap	26	4
134	10	Mikael Tuomaala	Nijo - Trinity	68	Accident	15	3
14	45	Kieran Ryan	Phoenix - Trinity	68	+2 Laps	19	2
15	5	Kenney Lybeer	Nijo - Trinity	68	+2 Laps	16	1
16	69	James Johnson	Edonis - Valiant	68	+2 Laps	18
17	46	Mikko Jakonen	Phoenix - Trinity	67	+3 Laps	23
18	12	Mark Wicks	Kernow - Trinity	66	+4 Laps	24
194	83	Bart De Vos	Kernow - Trinity	60	Accident	14
Ret	6	Deividas Misiulis	Red Archer - Valiant	52	Accident	5
Ret	11	Sandeep Chodha	Green Stripes - Valiant	45	Did not Finish	17
Ret	9	Roy Schroten	Woods - Trinity	34	Brakes	20
Ret	77	Jack Mayor	Target - Trinity	27	Suspension	25
Ret	20	Dewald Nel	Green Stripes - Valiant	20	Suspension	21
Ret	2	Nick Rowland	Hawkeye - Potentia	16	Did not Finish	28
Ret	8	Jarl Teien	Woods - Trinity	13	Did not Finish	13
Ret	88	Jordan Weekes	Torrent - Potentia	3	Suspension	4
DSQ	66	Olli Pelkonen	Target - Trinity	11	Disqualified	22
DNS	8	Menno Klont	Woods - Trinity	0	Car taken over by Jarl Teien	—

Notes:

• ¹ — Alex Cooper had 20 seconds added to race time for making an unsafe pitstop.
• ² — Tom Parker had a total of 40 seconds added to race time for two separate incidents causing avoidable contact.
• ³ — Marcos Riffel had 20 seconds added to race time for avoidable contact.
• ⁴ — Mikael Tuomaala and Bart De Vos were both classified as finishing having completed over 75% race distance.

Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings

	Pos	Driver	Points
2	1	Lewis Redshaw	114
	2	David Fidock	114
2	3	Philipp Puschke	107
	4	Agustin Canapino	84
1	5	Alex Cooper	75

Constructors' Championship standings

	Pos	Constructor	Points
	1	CSG-Potentia	151
1	2	Nordsjoen-Martex	141
1	3	Vod:Bul-Valiant	136
	4	Hawkeye-Potentia	135
1	5	Midnight-Potentia	108

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

External links

• Official results
• Broadcast replay

Preceded by: 2015 Monaco Grand Prix	GPVWC Superleague 2015 season	Succeeded by: 2015 British Grand Prix
Preceded by: 2014 Canadian Grand Prix	Canadian Grand Prix	Succeeded by: 2016 Canadian Grand Prix