2016 Monza GP2 and GP3 Series rounds

2016 Monza GP2 round
Round details
Round 9 of 11 rounds in the 2016 GP2 Series season and Round 7 of 9 rounds in the 2016 GP3 Series season
Layout of the Autodromo Nazionale Monza
Location	Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza, Italy
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.793 km (3.6 mi)
GP2 Series
Feature race
Date	3 September 2016
Laps	30
Pole position
Driver	Pierre Gasly	Prema Racing
Time	1:31.199
Podium
First	Antonio Giovinazzi	Prema Racing
Second	Raffaele Marciello	Russian Time
Third	Gustav Malja	Rapax
Fastest lap
Driver	Luca Ghiotto	Trident
Time	1:33.980 (on lap 27)
Sprint race
Date	4 September 2016
Laps	21
Podium
First	Norman Nato	Racing Engineering
Second	Pierre Gasly	Prema Racing
Third	Antonio Giovinazzi	Prema Racing
Fastest lap
Driver	Artem Markelov	Russian Time
Time	1:33.727 (on lap 5)
GP3 Series
Race 1
Date	3 September 2016
Laps	22
Pole position
Driver	Charles Leclerc	ART Grand Prix
Time	1:38.546
Podium
First	Jake Dennis	Arden International
Second	Jack Aitken	Arden International
Third	Jake Hughes	DAMS
Fastest lap
Driver	Jake Hughes	DAMS
Time	1:40.706 (on lap 18)
Race 2
Date	4 September 2016
Laps	17
Podium
First	Nyck de Vries	ART Grand Prix
Second	Alexander Albon	ART Grand Prix
Third	Antonio Fuoco	Trident
Fastest lap
Driver	Nyck de Vries	ART Grand Prix
Time	1:40.766 (on lap 8)

The 2016 Monza GP2 and GP3 Series rounds were a pair of motor races that was held on 3 and 4 September 2016 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza in the Italy as part of the GP2 Series and GP3 Series. It was the ninth round of the 2016 GP2 season and the seventh round of the 2016 GP3 season. The race weekend supported the 2016 Italian Grand Prix.

Background

In GP3, Ralph Boschung would return to the category after sitting out the previous round in Belgium due to financial difficulties. As well as this, Óscar Tunjo would not return to the category for this round after making his return in Belgium.

Report

GP2

Qualifying

Pierre Gasly took another pole with team-mate Antonio Giovinazzi in a close second to continue the dominant form of the Prema team. However, due to irregularities in the tyre pressures, Giovinazzi was demoted toward the end of the grid, elevating third place Artem Markelov to the front row. The second row will consist of Arthur Pic and Mitch Evans.

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Grid
1	21	Pierre Gasly	Prema Racing	1:31.199		1
2	20	Antonio Giovinazzi	Prema Racing	1:31.253	+ 0.054 s	21 ¹
3	10	Artem Markelov	Russian Time	1:31.548	+ 0.349 s	2
4	12	Arthur Pic	Rapax	1:31.617	+ 0.418 s	3
5	7	Mitch Evans	Campos Racing	1:31.666	+ 0.467 s	4
6	4	Jordan King	Racing Engineering	1:31.710	+ 0.511 s	5
7	5	Alex Lynn	DAMS	1:31.775	+ 0.576 s	6
8	24	Nabil Jeffri	Arden International	1:31.795	+ 0.596 s	22 ²
9	2	Sergey Sirotkin	ART Grand Prix	1:31.816	+ 0.617 s	7
10	3	Norman Nato	Racing Engineering	1:31.846	+ 0.646 s	8
11	15	Luca Ghiotto	Trident	1:31.855	+ 0.656 s	9
12	22	Oliver Rowland	MP Motorsport	1:31.864	+ 0.665 s	10
13	9	Raffaele Marciello	Russian Time	1:31.986	+ 0.787 s	11
14	1	Nobuharu Matsushita	ART Grand Prix	1:32.037	+ 0.838 s	12
15	19	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Carlin	1:32.172	+ 0.973 s	13
16	6	Nicholas Latifi	DAMS	1:32.192	+ 0.993 s	14
17	18	Sergio Canamasas	Carlin	1:32.196	+ 0.997 s	15
18	11	Gustav Malja	Rapax	1:32.215	+ 1.016 s	16
19	8	Sean Gelael	Campos Racing	1:32.481	+ 1.282 s	17
20	23	Daniel de Jong	MP Motorsport	1:33.071	+ 1.872 s	18
21	14	Philo Paz Armand	Trident	1:33.269	+ 2.070 s	19
22	25	Jimmy Eriksson	Arden International	1:33.929	+ 2.730 s	20
Source:^[1]

Notes

1.^ – Giovinazzi and Jeffri were excluded from qualifying after being deemed to run illegal tyre pressures during the session.^[2]

Feature Race

Antonio Giovinazzi won what was a chaotic race after a mid-race accident shuffled the pack and elevated himself, Raffaele Marciello and Gustav Malja up the pack. On lap 15, a Arthur Pic collided with Sergio Canamasas through the second Lesmo. The pair were racing side-by-side and after barely leaving enough space through the corner, Pic lost control through the corner and counter-steered straight into Canamasas' rear wheel, sending him into a roll. Pic expressed frustration with the incident, although stewards later deemed him to be at fault for the incident - handing him a three-place grid penalty as a consequence. The safety car put Gasly from a comfortable first to fourth and now behind drivers on brand-new tyres. With four laps to go, it was Marciello leading from Giovinazzi and Malja. On the final lap, Giovinazzi benefited from the use of DRS and passed Marciello to take a home victory from Marciello (thereby making it an Italian one-two) and Malja. As well as this, Luca Ghiotto achieved the fastest lap, completing a successful race for the Italians on home soil.

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	21	Antonio Giovinazzi	Prema Racing	30	52min 28.474sec	21	25
2	9	Raffaele Marciello	Russian Time	30	+ 1.457 s	11	18
3	11	Gustav Malja	Rapax	30	+ 1.988 s	16	15
4	21	Pierre Gasly	Prema Racing	30	+ 2.294 s	1	12 (3)
5	3	Norman Nato	Racing Engineering	30	+ 2.809 s	8	10
6	15	Luca Ghiotto	Trident	30	+ 2.823 s	9	8 (2)
7	4	Jordan King	Racing Engineering	30	+ 3.896 s	5	6
8	7	Mitch Evans	Campos Racing	30	+ 6.311 s	4	4
9	22	Oliver Rowland	MP Motorsport	30	+ 7.898 s	10	2
10	10	Artem Markelov	Russian Time	30	+ 9.416 s	2	1
11	1	Nobuharu Matsushita	ART Grand Prix	30	+ 10.277 s	12
12	5	Alex Lynn	DAMS	30	+ 11.013 s	6
13	24	Nabil Jeffri	Arden International	30	+ 17.807 s	22
14	2	Sergey Sirotkin	ART Grand Prix	30	+ 18.524 s	7
15	25	Jimmy Eriksson	Arden International	30	+ 18.109 s ¹	20
16	6	Nicholas Latifi	Carlin	30	+ 22.201 s	14
17	23	Daniel de Jong	MP Motorsport	30	+ 22.555 s	18
18	19	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Carlin	30	+ 22.833 s	13
19	14	Philo Paz Armand	Trident	30	+ 23.482 s	19
Ret	18	Sergio Canamasas	Carlin	15	Accident	15
Ret	12	Arthur Pic	Rapax	15	Accident	3
DSQ	8	Sean Gelael	Campos Racing	29	Disqualified ²	17
Fastest lap: Luca Ghiotto (Trident) — 1:33.980 (on lap 27)
Source:

Notes

1.^ – Eriksson was given a five-second penalty after having been deemed to have forced another driver off the circuit.^[3]

2.^ – Gelael was initially given a ten-second stop-go penalty for failing to slow under double-yellow flags, after setting his fastest sector times under the Safety Car period. After crossing the start/finish line more than twice without serving the penalty, he was disqualified from the race.^[3]

Sprint Race

Norman Nato took his first win since the opening race of the championship, beating the Prema Racing pair of Gasly and Giovinazzi with a comfortable margin.

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	3	Norman Nato	Racing Engineering	21	33min 51.821sec	4	15
2	21	Pierre Gasly	Prema Racing	21	+ 4.312 s	5	12
3	20	Antonio Giovinazzi	Prema Racing	21	+ 8.495 s	8	10
4	4	Jordan King	Racing Engineering	21	+ 12.775 s	2	8
5	5	Alex Lynn	DAMS	21	+ 13.576 s	12	6
6	1	Nobuharu Matsushita	ART Grand Prix	21	+ 13.586 s	11	4
7	11	Gustav Malja	Rapax	21	+ 21.526 s	6	2
8	19	Marvin Kirchhöfer	Carlin	21	+ 22.566 s	17	1
9	22	Oliver Rowland	MP Motorsport	21	+ 29.225 s	9
10	10	Artem Markelov	Russian Time	21	+ 12.813 s ¹	10
11	12	Arthur Pic	Rapax	21	+ 34.192 s	21
12	24	Nabil Jeffri	Arden International	21	+ 34.194 s	13
13	18	Sergio Canamasas	Carlin	21	+ 36.845 s	20
14	9	Raffaele Marciello	Russian Time	21	+ 40.665 s	7
15	6	Nicholas Latifi	DAMS	21	+ 21.503 s ¹	16
16	8	Sean Gelael	Campos Racing	21	+ 44.059 s	22
17	14	Philo Paz Armand	Trident	21	+ 48.628 s	19
18	25	Jimmy Eriksson	Arden International	20	+ 1 Lap	15
19	23	Daniel de Jong	MP Motorsport	20	+ 1 Lap	17
Ret	2	Sergey Sirotkin	ART Grand Prix	6	Retired	14
Ret	7	Mitch Evans	Campos Racing	0	Collision	1
Ret	15	Luca Ghiotto	Trident	0	Collision	3
Fastest lap: Pierre Gasly (Prema Racing) — 1:33.803 (on lap 4)
Source:

1.^ – Markelov and Latifi were penalised after it was deemed that neither driver slowed sufficiently for the Virtual Safety Car. They were each given the equivalent of a drive-through-penalty (20 seconds) applied to their race times.^[4]

GP3

Qualifying

Charles Leclerc took his third pole of the year and ART Grand Prix's sixth straight of the year, followed by the Arden International duo of Jake Dennis and Jack Aitken.

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Grid
1	1	Charles Leclerc	ART Grand Prix	1:38.546		1
2	9	Jake Dennis	Arden International	1:38.712	+ 0.166 s	2
3	11	Jack Aitken	Arden International	1:38.729	+ 0.183 s	3
4	3	Alexander Albon	ART Grand Prix	1:38.847	+ 0.301 s	4
5	27	Jake Hughes	DAMS	1:38.850	+ 0.304 s	5
6	28	Kevin Jörg	DAMS	1:38.872	+ 0.326 s	6
7	2	Nirei Fukuzumi	ART Grand Prix	1:38.878	+ 0.332 s	7
8	5	Antonio Fuoco	Trident	1:38.879	+ 0.333 s	8
9	4	Nyck de Vries	ART Grand Prix	1:38.885	+ 0.339 s	9
10	17	Ralph Boschung	Koiranen GP	1:38.945	+ 0.399 s	10
11	22	Álex Palou	Campos Racing	1:39.045	+ 0.499 s	11
12	8	Sandy Stuvik	Trident	1:39.084	+ 0.538 s	12
13	16	Matevos Isaakyan	Koiranen GP	1:39.255	+ 0.709 s	13
14	26	Santino Ferrucci	DAMS	1:39.268	+ 0.722 s	14
15	10	Tatiana Calderón	Arden International	1:39.286	+ 0.740 s	15
16	7	Giuliano Alesi	Trident	1:39.377	+ 0.831 s	16
17	14	Matt Parry	Koiranen GP	1:39.430	+ 0.884 s	17
18	23	Steijn Schothorst	Campos Racing	1:39.439	+ 0.893 s	18
19	20	Arjun Maini	Jenzer Motorsport	1:39.535	+ 0.989 s	19
20	18	Akash Nandy	Jenzer Motorsport	1:39.558	+ 1.012 s	20
21	6	Artur Janosz	Trident	1:39.869	+ 1.323 s	PL ¹
22	24	Konstantin Tereshchenko	Campos Racing	1:40.216	+ 1.670 s	21
Source:^[5]

Notes

1.^ – Janosz was issued a three-place grid penalty after causing a collision with Arjun Maini. Seeing as how he could not serve his penalty in full, he started the feature race from the pitlane.^[6]

Race 1

It was a British lockout with Jake Dennis taking the victory, Jack Aitken achieving second and Jake Hughes third, as well as the fastest lap of the race.

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	9	Jake Dennis	Arden International	22	38min 06.844sec	2	25
2	11	Jack Aitken	Arden International	22	+ 1.987 s	3	18
3	27	Jake Hughes	DAMS	22	+ 2.532 s	8	15 (2)
4	1	Charles Leclerc	ART Grand Prix	22	+ 7.139 s	1	12 (3)
5	2	Nirei Fukuzumi	ART Grand Prix	22	+ 7.561 s	6	10
6	3	Alexander Albon	ART Grand Prix	22	+ 8.171 s	4	8
7	4	Nyck de Vries	ART Grand Prix	22	+ 8.343 s	9	6
8	5	Antonio Fuoco	Trident	22	+ 16.207 s	7	4
9	14	Matt Parry	Koiranen GP	22	+ 16.607 s	17	2
10	10	Tatiana Calderon	Arden International	22	+ 17.003 s	15	1
11	22	Alex Palou	Campos Racing	22	+ 19.202 s	10
12	8	Sandy Stuvik	Trident	22	+ 20.444 s	11
13	23	Steijn Schothorst	Campos Racing	22	+ 22.179 s	18
14	20	Arjun Maini	Jenzer Motorsport	22	+ 25.076 s	19
15	18	Akash Nandy	Jenzer Motorsport	22	+ 27.804 s	20
16	6	Artur Janosz	Trident	22	+ 30.365 s	22
17	24	Konstantin Tereshchenko	Campos Racing	22	+ 32.963 s	21
18	17	Ralph Boschung	Koiranen GP	22	+ 34.813 s	13
19	26	Santino Ferrucci	DAMS	21	+ 1 Lap	14
NC	28	Kevin Jorg	DAMS	18	+ 4 Laps	5
Ret	16	Matevos Isaakyan	Koiranen GP	4	Retired	12
DNS	7	Giuliano Alesi	Trident	0	Did Not Start	16
Fastest lap: Jake Hughes (DAMS) — 1:40.706 (on lap 18)
Source:

Race 2

Nyck de Vries took his first GP3 victory to put ART Grand Prix beyond reach in the GP3 Teams Championship. Team-mate Albon took second place whilst Antonio Fuoco achieved third in his home race.

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	4	Nyck de Vries	ART Grand Prix	17	30min 24.854sec	2	15
2	3	Alexander Albon	ART Grand Prix	17	+ 1.741 s	3	12
3	5	Antonio Fuoco	Trident	17	+ 6.382 s	1	10
4	9	Jake Dennis	Arden International	17	+ 7.139 s	8	8
5	11	Jack Aitken	Arden International	17	+ 8.331 s	2	6
6	20	Arjun Maini	Jenzer Motorsport	17	+ 11.991 s	14	4
7	22	Alex Palou	Campos Racing	17	+ 12.264 s	11	2
8	6	Artur Janosz	Trident	17	+ 12.504 s	16	1
9	17	Ralph Boschung	Koiranen GP	17	+ 12.504 s	18
10	27	Jake Hughes	DAMS	17	+ 13.910 s	3
11	26	Santino Ferrucci	DAMS	17	+ 14.716 s	19
12	28	Kevin Jorg	DAMS	17	+ 16.886 s	20
13	23	Steijn Schothorst	Campos Racing	17	+ 17.561 s	13
14	24	Konstantin Tereshchenko	Campos Racing	17	+ 20.609 s	17
15	8	Sandy Stuvik	Trident	17	+ 20.958 s	20
16	10	Tatiana Calderon	Arden International	17	+ 21.273 s	10
17	14	Matt Parry	Koiranen GP	17	+ 22.022 s	9
18	18	Akash Nandy	Jenzer Motorsport	17	+ 1:03.571 s	15
19	7	Giuliano Alesi	Trident	16	+ 1 Lap	22
Ret	16	Matevos Isaakyan	Koiranen GP	18	Retired	5
Ret	2	Nirei Fukuzumi	ART Grand Prix	4	Collision	4
Ret	1	Charles Leclerc	ART Grand Prix	2	Collision	5
Fastest lap: Nyck de Vries (ART Grand Prix) — 1:40.766 (on lap 8)
Source:

Standings after the round

GP2 Series

Drivers' Championship standings

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Pierre Gasly	174
2	Antonio Giovinazzi	164
3	Raffaele Marciello	138
4	Sergey Sirotkin	115
5	Jordan King	112

Teams' Championship standings

Pos	Team	Points
1	Prema Racing	338
2	Racing Engineering	219
2	Russian Time	219
4	ART Grand Prix	177
5	DAMS	114

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

GP3 Series

Drivers' Championship standings

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Charles Leclerc	177
2	Antonio Fuoco	153
3	Alexander Albon	137
4	Nyck de Vries	104
5	Jake Dennis	96

Teams' Championship standings

Pos	Team	Points
1	ART Grand Prix	464
2	Arden International	187
3	Trident	165
4	Koiranen GP	137
5	DAMS	116

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

References

↑ "GP2 Series 2016 Results - Italy". GP2 Series. GP2 Motorsport Limited. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
↑ "Giovinazzi, Jeffri Excluded From Qualifying". GP2 Series. GP2 Motorsport Limited. 2 September 2016. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
1 2 "Round 9 Post Feature Race Penalties". GP2 Series. GP2 Motorsport Limited. 3 September 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
↑ "Round 9 Post Sprint Race Penalties". GP2 Series. GP2 Motorsport Limited. 4 September 2016. Retrieved 11 September 2016.
↑ "GP3 Series 2016 Results - Italy". GP3 Series. GP3 Motorsport Limited. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
↑ "Monza Post-Qualifying Penalty". GP3 Series. GP3 Motorsport Limited. 2 September 2016. Retrieved 3 September 2016.

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