2015 Portuguese Grand Prix

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Flag of Portugal.png   2015 Portuguese Grand Prix
Race details
Race 4 of the 2015 Superleague season
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Date 9th April, 2015
Official name 2015 Portuguese Grand Prix
Location Algarve International Circuit, Portimão
Course Permanent racing facility
2.915 mi / 4.691 km
Distance 65 laps, 189.475 mi / 304.930 km
Weather -
Pole position
Driver Germany Philipp Puschke Vod:Bul-Valiant
Time 1:16.894
Fastest Lap
Driver England David Fidock Hawkeye-Potentia
Time 1:17.472
Podium
First Germany Philipp Puschke Vod:Bul-Valiant
Second England David Fidock Hawkeye-Potentia
Third Argentina Agustin Canapino Nordsjoen-Martex

The 2015 Portuguese Grand Prix was the fourth round of the 2015 Superleague season and took place on the Algarve International Circuit, at Portimão, on 9th April 2015.

It was the first running of the Portuguese Grand Prix since 2010 and the first to be held at Portimão. However, the return was short-lived, with the Grand Prix being dropped from the 2016 calendar.

Philipp Puschke scored his first Superleague victory, having also taken pole. It was his Vod:Bul team's first victory since 2007 and the first victory for the Valiant engine. Puschke was chased hard by reigning champion David Fidock, who crossed the line in his Hawkeye less than one and a half seconds behind. Both were comfortably ahead of third-placed man Agustin Canapino driving for Nordsjoen, who crossed the line around a half a minute later.

While Fidock and Puschke's teammates both finished outside the top 10, the race was a great result for Nordsjoen, with Canapino's teammate Florian Geier finishing 5th. Despite Puschke's victory, Nordsjoen extended their lead in the Constructors' table to 4 points over Vod:Bul.

Also finishing strongly was Target Racing with their drivers Jordan Weekes and Sven de Vries finishing an excellent 4th and 6th respectively. de Vries only just held off Torrent's Petter Kaasa by two-hundredths of a second. Close behind was Tom Parker of CSG Racing, but he and his teammate Lewis Redshaw, who finished 10th, were still way off the pace of the leaders; Redshaw finished almost a minute behind Puschke. The result saw CSG slip to fourth in the table behind Hawkeye, while Canapino jumped ahead of Redshaw to third in the Drivers' table.

Portugal saw a host of driver changes. At Midnight Motorsport, the departing Nick Rowland was replaced by Tom van der Voort who would retain the seat, with the except of two races, for the rest of the season. Gergo Baldi had departed Hawkeye and Jason Muscat took over the seat again. Dovydas Petravicius left Red Archer VRT and Lars Brugman took over for Portugal only, though succeeded in out-qualifying teammate Deividas Misiulis and brought the car home in the points. Sandeep Chodha made the first of many guest appearances during the season at Portugal, filling in at Green Stripes Racing for David Nel in what would be the South African's only absence of the year. At Kernow, Matthew Allington filled in for one race for Bart De Vos. Lastly, Edonis Engineering reserve driver Lewis McGlade made the first of two consecutive drives for the team, driving James Johnson's #69 car in Portugal.

Classification

Qualifying

Pos. No. Driver Constructor Time Gap Grid
1 14 Germany Philipp Puschke Vod:Bul - Valiant 1:16.894
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2 7 England Alex Cooper Midnight - Potentia 1:16.949 +0.056 2
3 1 England David Fidock Hawkeye - Potentia 1:17.099 +0.205 3
4 77 United States Sven de Vries Target - Trinity 1:17.152 +0.258 4
5 13 England Tom Parker CSG - Potentia 1:17.260 +0.366 151
6 27 Germany Florian Geier Nordsjoen - Martex 1:17.324 +0.430 5
7 19 Argentina Agustin Canapino Nordsjoen - Martex 1:17.344 +0.451 6
8 4 Spain Fran Lopez Edonis - Valiant 1:17.392 +0.499 7
9 99 Lithuania Mindaugas Klumbis Torrent - Potentia 1:17.458 +0.565 8
10 25 Netherlands Tom van der Voort Midnight - Potentia 1:17.481 +0.588 9
11 24 England Lewis Redshaw CSG - Potentia 1:17.519 +0.625 10
12 66 England Jordan Weekes Target - Trinity 1:17.527 +0.634 11
13 88 Norway Petter Kaasa Torrent - Potentia 1:17.591 +0.698 12
14 21 Netherlands Lars Brugman Red Archer - Valiant 1:17.730 +0.837 13
15 6 Lithuania Deividas Misiulis Red Archer - Valiant 1:17.831 +0.938 14
16 15 Finland Oskari Kantonen Vod:Bul - Valiant 1:17.931 +1.037 16
17 2 Malta Jason Muscat Hawkeye - Potentia 1:18.042 +1.148 17
18 8 Norway Jarl Teien Woods - Trinity 1:18.081 +1.187 18
19 5 Belgium Kenney Lybeer Nijo - Trinity 1:18.234 +1.340 19
20 10 Finland Mikael Tuomaala Nijo - Trinity 1:18.274 +1.381 20
21 45 Ireland Kieran Ryan Phoenix - Trinity 1:18.422 +1.528 271
22 83 England Matthew Allington Kernow - Trinity 1:18.596 +1.703 21
23 69 England Lewis McGlade Edonis - Valiant 1:18.739 +1.845 22
24 20 India Sandeep Chodha Green Stripes - Valiant 1:18.742 +1.849 23
25 46 Finland Mikko Jakonen Phoenix - Trinity 1:19.211 +2.318 24
26 12 England Mark Wicks Kernow - Trinity 1:19.240 +2.346 25
27 9 Netherlands Roy Schroten Woods - Trinity 1:19.409 +2.515 26
28 11 Wales Ben Horrill Green Stripes - Valiant no time
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Notes:

  • 1Tom Parker and Kieran Ryan were both given 10-place grid penalties for avoidable contact at the previous round.
  • 2Ben Horrill had been given a 40-place grid penalty for dangerous driving at the previous round and set no time.

Race

Pos. No. Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 14 Germany Philipp Puschke Vod:Bul - Valiant 65 26:34.208 1 25
2 1 England David Fidock Hawkeye - Potentia 65 +1.456 3 20
3 19 Argentina Agustin Canapino Nordsjoen - Martex 65 +30.078 6 16
4 66 England Jordan Weekes Target - Trinity 65 +34.735 11 13
5 27 Germany Florian Geier Nordsjoen - Martex 65 +45.900 5 11
6 77 United States Sven de Vries Target - Trinity 65 +50.053 4 10
7 88 Norway Petter Kaasa Torrent - Potentia 65 +50.222 12 9
8 13 England Tom Parker CSG - Potentia 65 +50.617 15 8
9 7 England Alex Cooper Midnight - Potentia 65 +57.445 2 7
10 24 England Lewis Redshaw CSG - Potentia 65 +59.350 10 6
11 25 Netherlands Tom van der Voort Midnight - Potentia 65 +1:06.120 9 5
12 2 Malta Jason Muscat Hawkeye - Potentia 65 +1:06.682 17 4
13 21 Netherlands Lars Brugman Red Archer - Valiant 64 +1 Lap 13 3
14 8 Norway Jarl Teien Woods - Trinity 64 +1 Lap 18 2
15 4 Spain Fran Lopez Edonis - Valiant 64 +1 Lap 7 1
16 5 Belgium Kenney Lybeer Nijo - Trinity 64 +1 Lap 19
17 99 Lithuania Mindaugas Klumbis Torrent - Potentia 64 +1 Lap 8
18 9 Netherlands Roy Schroten Woods - Trinity 64 +1 Lap 26
19 15 Finland Oskari Kantonen Vod:Bul - Valiant 64 +1 Lap 16
20 45 Ireland Kieran Ryan Phoenix - Trinity 64 +1 Lap 27
21 83 England Matthew Allington Kernow - Trinity 63 +2 Laps 21
22 20 India Sandeep Chodha Green Stripes - Valiant 63 +2 Laps 23
23 69 England Lewis McGlade Edonis - Valiant 63 +2 Laps 22
24 11 Wales Ben Horrill Green Stripes - Valiant 63 +2 Laps 28
251 10 Finland Mikael Tuomaala Nijo - Trinity 50 Did not Finish 20
Ret 12 England Mark Wicks Kernow - Trinity 28 Did not Finish 25
Ret 6 Lithuania Deividas Misiulis Red Archer - Valiant 22 Accident 14
Ret 46 Finland Mikko Jakonen Phoenix - Trinity 2 Did not Finish 24

Notes:

  • 1Mikael Tuomaala was classified as he completed over 75% of the race distance.

Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings
Pos Driver Points
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1 Germany Philipp Puschke 81
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2 England David Fidock 71
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3 Argentina Agustin Canapino 57
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4 England Lewis Redshaw 48
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5 England Alex Cooper 43

Constructors' Championship standings
Pos Constructor Points
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1 Norway Nordsjoen-Martex 88
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2 England Vod:Bul-Valiant 84
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3 England Hawkeye-Potentia 75
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4 England CSG-Potentia 71
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5 England Midnight-Potentia 60

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

External links

Preceded by:
2015 Spanish Grand Prix
GPVWC Superleague
2015 season
Succeeded by:
2015 Turkish Grand Prix
Preceded by:
2010 Portuguese Grand Prix
Portuguese Grand Prix
Succeeded by:
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