2015 British Grand Prix

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  2015 British Grand Prix

Race details
Race 8 of the 2015 Superleague season
Date	4th June, 2015
Official name	2015 British Grand Prix
Location	Silverstone Circuit, Northamptonshire
Course	Permanent racing facility 3.667 mi / 5.901 km
Distance	52 laps, 190.684 mi / 306.875 km
Weather	Showers
Pole position
Driver	David Fidock	Hawkeye-Potentia
Time	1:27.070
Fastest Lap
Driver	Philipp Puschke	Vod:Bul-Valiant
Time	1:28.079 on lap 36
Podium
First	Philipp Puschke	Vod:Bul-Valiant
Second	Agustin Canapino	Nordsjoen-Martex
Third	Tom Parker	CSG-Potentia

The 2015 British Grand Prix was the eight round of the 2015 Superleague season and took place, as always, at Silverstone, on 4th June 2015. It was the fifteenth running of the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, a staple constant of the Superleague calendar since the first season in 2000. missing only from the curtailed 2001 season.

To mark the momentous occasion, it rained.

The start was dry at least, but not devoid of drama. On the very first lap, Kenney Lybeer, driving for Nijo Racing, went off the track at Aintree Corner after bumping with Marcos Riffel's Edonis and swung back on the track down the Wellington Straight, directly into the path of Riffel and the Phoenix of Kieran Ryan. Ryan was sent hurtling into the Wellington bridge itself and pirouetted down most of the straight. Landing at one point on his team mate Mikko Jakonen did not have any desirable effect; both Phoenixes were out on lap 1. A contrite Lybeer was handed a 20-place grid penalty for the following round.

The race saw a decisive bounce-back by Philipp Puschke, who had had, by his standards, an awful race at Canada and had slipped from the lead of the Drivers' Championship down to third. Puschke set the scene by setting the fastest lap in qualifying, but the Canadian race still haunted him; spectral fingers plucked his Vod:Bul off pole and placed him down in 11th; as was fit punishment for his clashes with fellow racers back in Montreal. Nevertheless, Puschke stormed through the field, kept his head in difficult and changeable conditions, and won by other 13 seconds.

Critically, championship rival David Fidock, who had inherited pole from Puschke, came into the pits just a few laps from the end and re-emerged with slicks. The rain, heaviest in the second half of the race, had begun to lessen and a semi-dry line had formed. Fidock was only 6 seconds behind Puschke at one point, and had the track conditions been correct, the pitstop surely would have rewarded him with victory. However,it was not the right time for slicks, and Fidock floundered, ultimately finishing 10th and one lap down. He was not alone, Fran Lopez also made the same mistake; even worse for Lopez, it dropped him out of the points completely.

The podium was completed by regular attendee Agustin Canapino in the Nordsjoen together with CSG Racing's Tom Parker, who was able to celebrate his first podium in Superleague. Parker finished ahead of his championship-leading teammate Lewis Redshaw, who came home 5th behind Deividas Misiulis.

With Redshaw relatively down in the points and Fidock even more so, Puschke was clear to regain the lead of the championship with a margin of 7 points. With 9th going to Douwe Tapper, back again in the second Vod:Bul, the team scored more points than any other, which was remarkable given that all the teams in the top 5 of the constructor's championship had all their cars finish in the points, which was a rarity in the first half of the season. Despite Vod:Bul's success, or perhaps because of the others' reliability, the order of the Constructor's table changed not at all; however, Vod:Bul were now only 10 points behind leaders CSG Racing, and just two points behind Nordsjoen. Having been only one point above Hawkeye in Canada, Vod:Bul now stretched that to 22 points. Hawkeye were now only 20 points ahead of Midnight Motorsports.

With the exception of Tapper back in the Vod:Bul, Ben Horrill was back in the Green Stripes; both would miss the following round however. Menno Klont was making his last appearance for Woods, in place of Jarl Teien. Mike Bell was making his first Superleague appearance in over a year, driving in place of James Johnson at Klont's Edonis team, while Ari Nieminen was making his début for Nijo, standing in for countryman Mikael Tuomaala for one race.

Classification

Qualifying

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Time	Gap	Grid
1	14	Philipp Puschke	Vod:Bul - Valiant	1:26.767	—	111
2	1	David Fidock	Hawkeye - Potentia	1:27.070	+0.302	1
3	19	Agustin Canapino	Nordsjoen - Martex	1:27.170	+0.403	2
4	21	Fran Lopez	Red Archer - Valiant	1:27.336	+0.569	3
5	6	Deividas Misiulis	Red Archer - Valiant	1:27.343	+0.576	4
6	24	Lewis Redshaw	CSG - Potentia	1:27.346	+0.579	5
7	7	Alex Cooper	Midnight - Potentia	1:27.362	+0.595	6
8	99	Mindaugas Klumbis	Torrent - Potentia	1:27.518	+0.750	7
9	88	Jordan Weekes	Torrent - Potentia	1:27.565	+0.798	8
10	27	Florian Geier	Nordsjoen - Martex	1:27.633	+0.866	9
11	25	Tom van der Voort	Midnight - Potentia	1:27.680	+0.913	10
12	13	Tom Parker	CSG - Potentia	1:27.846	+1.079	12
13	15	Douwe Tapper	Vod:Bul - Valiant	1:27.857	+1.090	13
14	4	Marcos Riffel	Edonis - Valiant	1:28.651	+1.884	14
15	2	Nick Rowland	Hawkeye - Potentia	1:28.696	+1.929	251
16	8	Menno Klont	Woods - Trinity	1:28.869	+2.102	15
17	83	Bart De Vos	Kernow - Trinity	1:28.951	+2.184	16
18	10	Ari Nieminen	Nijo - Trinity	1:29.393	+2.626	17
19	5	Kenney Lybeer	Nijo - Trinity	1:29.430	+2.662	18
20	45	Kieran Ryan	Phoenix - Trinity	1:29.641	+2.874	19
21	11	Ben Horrill	Green Stripes - Valiant	1:29.833	+3.066	20
22	9	Roy Schroten	Woods - Trinity	1:30.043	+3.276	261
23	20	Dewald Nel	Green Stripes - Valiant	1:30.107	+3.340	21
24	46	Mikko Jakonen	Phoenix - Trinity	1:30.136	+3.369	22
25	12	Mark Wicks	Kernow - Trinity	1:30.660	+3.893	23
26	69	Mike Bell	Edonis - Valiant	no time	—	24

Notes:

• ¹ — Philipp Puschke, Nick Rowland and Roy Schroten were each given 10-place grid penalties for causing separate collisions at the previous round.

Race

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Pts.
1	14	Philipp Puschke	Vod:Bul - Valiant	52	21:46.277	11	25
2	19	Agustin Canapino	Nordsjoen - Martex	52	+13.557	2	20
3	13	Tom Parker	CSG - Potentia	52	+1:03.113	12	16
4	6	Deividas Misiulis	Red Archer - Valiant	52	+1:04.451	4	13
5	24	Lewis Redshaw	CSG - Potentia	52	+1:05.689	5	11
6	25	Tom van der Voort	Midnight - Potentia	52	+1:06.059	10	10
7	27	Florian Geier	Nordsjoen - Martex	52	+1:06.386	9	9
8	7	Alex Cooper	Midnight - Potentia	52	+1:21.045	6	8
9	15	Douwe Tapper	Vod:Bul - Valiant	51	+1 Lap	13	7
10	1	David Fidock	Hawkeye - Potentia	51	+1 Lap	1	6
11	2	Nick Rowland	Hawkeye - Potentia	51	+1 Lap	25	5
12	8	Menno Klont	Woods - Trinity	51	+1 Lap	15	4
13	4	Marcos Riffel	Edonis - Valiant	51	+1 Lap	14	3
14	9	Roy Schroten	Woods - Trinity	51	+1 Lap	26	2
15	10	Ari Nieminen	Nijo - Trinity	51	+1 Lap	17	1
16	21	Fran Lopez	Red Archer - Valiant	51	+1 Lap	3
17	11	Ben Horrill	Green Stripes - Valiant	50	+2 Laps	20
18	5	Kenney Lybeer	Nijo - Trinity	49	+3 Laps	18
19	69	Mike Bell	Edonis - Valiant	49	+3 Laps	24
201	83	Bart De Vos	Kernow - Trinity	45	Suspension	16
211	12	Mark Wicks	Kernow - Trinity	39	Suspension	23
Ret	99	Mindaugas Klumbis	Torrent - Potentia	38	Did not Finish	7
Ret	20	Dewald Nel	Green Stripes - Valiant	24	Suspension	21
Ret	88	Jordan Weekes	Torrent - Potentia	23	Did not Finish	8
Ret	46	Mikko Jakonen	Phoenix - Trinity	0	Suspension	22
Ret	45	Kieran Ryan	Phoenix - Trinity	0	Accident	19

Notes:

• ¹ — Kernow drivers Bart De Vos and Mark Wicks were both classified as finishing having completed over 75% race distance.

Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings

	Pos	Driver	Points
2	1	Philipp Puschke	132
1	2	Lewis Redshaw	125
1	3	David Fidock	120
	4	Agustin Canapino	104
	5	Alex Cooper	83

Constructors' Championship standings

	Pos	Constructor	Points
	1	CSG-Potentia	178
	2	Nordsjoen-Martex	170
	3	Vod:Bul-Valiant	168
	4	Hawkeye-Potentia	146
	5	Midnight-Potentia	126

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

External links

• Official results
• Broadcast replay

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