2015 GP2 Series
The 2015 GP2 Series season will be the eleventh GP2 Series season, a championship for open-wheel racing cars run as a support series to the 2015 Formula One World Championship.
Teams and drivers
Driver changes
- 2014 season champion Jolyon Palmer will not return to defend his title as, under the series regulations, a driver is not allowed to continue in the series once they have won the championship.
- Felipe Nasr will leave Carlin and the series to join the Sauber Formula One team.[4]
Team changes
- GP3 Series team Status Grand Prix will expand its operations to enter the GP2 Series, replacing Caterham Racing after team principal Teddy Yip reached an agreement with Caterham's Tony Fernandes to purchase the team at the end of the 2014 season.[3]
Regulation changes
- The series will continue to use the Dallara GP2/11 chassis first introduced in 2011,[5] but will introduce the Drag Reduction System (DRS) used in Formula One.[6] The series will use the same detection and activation points at each circuit as Formula One, and will follow the same rules for activation, requiring drivers to be within one second of the car in front at the detection point for DRS to become available.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "GP2 Series announce teams for 2014-16". gp2series.com. GP2 Motorsport Limited. 15 October 2013. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
- ^ "Arthur Pic stays with Campos GP2 team for 2015". Autosport. Haymarket Publications. 14 November 2014. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) - ^ a b "Status Grand Prix takeover Caterham Racing and joins GP2 Series". gp2series.com. GP2 Motorsport Limited. 17 October 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
- ^ Beer, Matt (5 November 2014). "Felipe Nasr to race for Sauber in Formula 1 in 2015". Autosport. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
- ^ "Current chassis to be used in next three-year cycle". gp2series.com. GP2 Motorsport Limited. 3 July 2013. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
- ^ "DRS to be introduced on GP2 cars in 2015". gp2series.com. GP2 Motorsport Limited. 17 September 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
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