2015 Belgian Grand Prix

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  2015 Belgian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 11 of the 2015 Superleague season
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
Weather	Sunny
Pole position
Driver	Fran Lopez	Red Archer-Valiant
Time	1:42.519
Fastest Lap
Driver	Philipp Puschke	Vod:Bul-Valiant
Time	1:43.660 on lap 44
Podium
First	Philipp Puschke	Vod:Bul-Valiant
Second	David Fidock	Hawkeye-Potentia
Third	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	Fran Lopez	Red Archer - Valiant	1:42.519	—	1
2	24	Lewis Redshaw	CSG - Potentia	1:42.552	+0.033	2
3	14	Philipp Puschke	Vod:Bul - Valiant	1:42.580	+0.061	3
4	13	Alex Cooper	CSG - Potentia	1:42.980	+0.461	4
5	19	Agustin Canapino	Nordsjoen - Martex	1:42.992	+0.473	5
6	1	David Fidock	Hawkeye - Potentia	1:43.017	+0.499	6
7	15	Jernej Simoncic	Vod:Bul - Valiant	1:43.177	+0.658	7
8	27	Florian Geier	Nordsjoen - Martex	1:43.233	+0.714	8
9	6	Jason Muscat	Red Archer - Valiant	1:43.451	+0.932	9
10	99	Mindaugas Klumbis	Torrent - Potentia	1:43.854	+1.336	10
11	25	Tom van der Voort	Midnight - Potentia	1:43.921	+1.402	11
12	7	Sandeep Chodha	Midnight - Potentia	1:44.065	+1.546	12
13	8	Sven de Vries	Woods - Trinity	1:44.269	+1.751	13
14	4	Marcos Riffel	Edonis - Valiant	1:44.365	+1.846	14
15	11	Ben Horrill	Green Stripes - Valiant	1:44.435	+1.916	15
16	69	Bence Zsupanek	Edonis - Valiant	1:44.629	+2.111	16
17	5	Wopke Hoekstra	Nijo - Trinity	1:45.093	+2.574	17
18	10	Mikael Tuomaala	Nijo - Trinity	1:45.121	+2.603	18
19	2	Nick Rowland	Hawkeye - Potentia	1:45.411	+2.893	19
20	9	Roy Schroten	Woods - Trinity	1:45.435	+2.916	20
21	20	Dewald Nel	Green Stripes - Valiant	1:45.577	+3.059	21
22	12	Mark Wicks	Kernow - Trinity	1:46.361	+3.843	22
23	45	Kieran Ryan	Phoenix - Trinity	1:46.714	+4.195	23
24	83	Matthew Allington	Kernow - Trinity	1:55.343	+12.825	24

Race

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

Notes:

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

Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings

	Pos	Driver	Points
	1	Philipp Puschke	202
	2	Lewis Redshaw	176
	3	David Fidock	164
	4	Agustin Canapino	131
	5	Alex Cooper	106

Constructors' Championship standings

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

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

External links

• Official results
• Broadcast replay

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