2015 F2RWRS Tasman Grand Prix

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Flag of South Australia svg.png 2015 Tasman Grand Prix
Race 1 of 15 in the 2015 F2RWRS season
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Date 1 March, 2015
Official Name VI Tasman Grand Prix
Location Adelaide Street Circuit, Adelaide, South Australia
Course Temporary street circuit
3.780 km (2.362 mi)
Distance 38 Laps, 143.640 km
Weather Dry
Pole Position
Driver Flag of Belgium svg.png Wouter Lamberigts RonDen Racing Engineering
Time 1:19.921
Fastest Lap
Driver Flag of Slovakia svg.png Andrej Kremnicky Scuderia Lancia Alitalia
Time 1:20.528
Podium
First Flag of the Netherlands svg.png Bastiaan van Nieuwenhuijzen Scuderia Lancia Alitalia
Second Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Michael Cameron Gulf M/Power Racing
Third Flag of Tropico svg.png Alberto Cara Licor Beirão Portugal Racing


The 2015 F2RWRS Tasman Grand Prix was a F2RWRS race held in Adealide, Australia. The weekend also were the first round of the F3RWRS series.

Pre Qualfying

The first Pre Qualfying for the 2015 Season proved to be an intense once as Wouter Lamberigts lost his first hot lap when he came across Wojciech Cieslar, who was also on a hot lap, costing the Belgian a bucketload of time. Cieslar was then handed a repirmand a few minutes later when he held up Terry Hawkin whilst the Brit was on a hot lap with the Pole on a out-lap. Just before the time was up, a last-gasp effort from Hawkin to haul Jones into pre-qualifying ahead of Gillet by the slim margin of 2 hundreths of a second right after the checkered flag fell.

Qualfying

The first ever free-for-all qualifying session in the F2RWRS proved to be a great success for new commissioner Tom Douglas as the times continually tumbled and the order changed faster than a fruit machine. In the end it was Wouter Lamberigts and Alberto Cara who locked out the front row with the Belgian being the first driver to break the 1:20 barrier all weekend. Gigi Pazzini did a fantastic job in the second RonDen to be on the second row as the Lancias locked out four of the top six spots.

Miko Glotch and Enrico Molinaro were both given probations for holding up Terry Hawkin and Hansuke Shioya respectively, although it didn't make much of a difference to Shioya's day as he was down in a relatively lowly 16th place. But at least he wasn't doing as badly as Carter Simpson in the Young Lions car who blew both his hot laps at turn 9 to be last on the grid and with a lot of work to do on race day.

Race

Standings

  • Bold text indicates who still has a theoretical chance of becoming World Champion.

Drivers

Pos Driver Pts
1 Flag of the Netherlands svg.png Bastiaan van Nieuwenhuijzen 10
2 Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Michael Cameron 8
3 Flag of Tropico svg.png Alberto Cara 6
4 Flag of the United States svg.png Dave Anderson 4
5 Flag of Japan svg.png Tomo Kazama 3

Constructors

Pos Team Pts
1 Flag of Australia svg.png Gulf M/Power Racing 13
2 Flag of Italy svg.png Scuderia Lancia Alitalia 12
3 Flag of Portugal svg.png Licor Beirão Portugal Racing 6
4 Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Aston Martin Motor Racing 4
5 Flag of Nigeria svg.png Falik Arrows 3
  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
Previous race:
2014 F2RWRS Indianapolis 100
Formula 2 Rejects World Race Series Championship
2015 Season
Next race:
2011 South African Grand Prix
Previous race:
None
Tasman Grand Prix Next race:
2016 Tasman Grand Prix