2011 Supercup French Grand Prix

  2011 Supercup French Grand Prix

Race details
2011 Supercup season
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Date	May 18th, 2011
Official name	2011 Supercup French Grand Prix
Location	Circuit de Nevers Magny Cours, France
Course	Permanent Racing Facility 2.641 mi / 4.411 km
Distance	39 laps, 102.999 mi / 172.029 km
Weather	Sunny
Pole position
Driver	David Jundt	Nijo Racing
Time	1:16.448
Fastest Lap
Driver	Simon Cattell	PB Racing
Time	1:16.931
Podium
First	Simon Cattell	PB Racing
Second	Jason Muscat	PB Racing
Third	Georgios Davakos	Water Blue Racing

The 2011 Supercup French Grand Prix was the 7th race of the 2011 Supercup season and was won by Simon Cattell.

Report

Simon Cattell led a PB Racing 1-2 as he triumphed in an unusually high-attrition French Grand Prix at Magny-Cours. The English driver led home Jason Muscat and an excellent Georgios Davakos to claim the first victory in his Supercup career and close the important gap with the top of the rankings.

Qualifying was surprisingly led by David Jundt, who caused an upset as he out-staged Bart De Vos to snatch pole. The joy for the Swiss driver, however, was short lived as a freak accident on the grid left him in need of repairs and led to a pit lane start. A clean get off the line led to Lewis Redshaw, Simon Cattell, Bart De Vos and Pavel Loknovski leading the pack - but a massive contact between the Belgian Championship leader and Loknovski forced the former to retire and the latter to make a lengthy pit stop. A few laps later, a spin put Redshaw in the wall, compromising the Nordsjoen Racing driver's hopes to join De Vos on top of the Championship.

This released Simon Cattell at the front of the field and the English driver never looked back, setting an impressive gap over team mate Jason Muscat and maintained his lead throughout the race - not even losing P1 for his one and only pit-stop.

Behind him, a relatively uneventful race - a rare sight in the Supercup - still saw many retirements as the tricky circuit claimed Leontin Nemet, Sam Millar and Gregg Lawson among others. Georgios Davakos drove a clean race to finish third, bringing much needed points to Water Blue Racing, while Synergetic Motorsports and Nijo Racing both had double point-finishes.

Classification

Qualifying

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Lap	Gap
1	4	David Jundt	Nijo Racing	1:16.448	—
2	14	Bart De Vos	Malta Force GP	1:16.460	+0.012s
3	24	Simon Cattell	PB Racing	1:16.683	+0.235s
4	10	Lewis Redshaw	Nordsjoen Racing	1:16.751	+0.303s
5	25	Jason Muscat	PB Racing	1:17.151	+0.703s
6	19	Pavel Loknovski	Triple-Double Racing	1:17.311	+0.863s
7	16	Gregg Lawson	Woods Racing	1:17.357	+0.909s
8	26	Georgios Davakos	Water Blue Racing	1:17.395	+0.946s
9	5	Sam Millar	Williamson Dynamics	1:17.698	+1.249s
10	20	Christoph Lichtenstein	CP Lotus	1:17.712	+1.264s
11	27	Ihab Abbas	Water Blue Racing	1:18.158	+1.710s
12	23	Liam Hatchell	Synergetic Motorsports	1:18.660	+2.212s
13	3	Chris Williamson	Nijo Racing	1:19.423	+2.975s
14	15	Leontin Nemet	Malta Force GP	1:19.766	+3.318s
15	21	Luke McKee	CP Lotus	1:19.837	+3.389s
16	17	Dan Rusu	Woods Racing	1:20.451	+4.003s
17	12	Nikos Evangelidakis	Mineral GP	1:20.547	+4.098s
18	22	Mal McKee	Synergetic Motorsports	1:21.379	+4.931s

Race

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Pitstops	Fastlap	Controller	Points
1	24	Simon Cattell	PB Racing	39	50:49.851	3	1	01:16.931		15
2	25	Jason Muscat	PB Racing	39	+1:12.488s	5	1	01:18.037		12
3	26	Georgios Davakos	Water Blue Racing	38	+1 Lap	8	1	01:18.334		10
4	23	Liam Hatchell	Synergetic Motorsports	38	+1 Lap	12	1	01:18.788		8
5	4	David Jundt	Nijo Racing	38	+1 Lap	1	2	01:18.562		6
6	20	Christoph Lichtenstein	CP Lotus	38	+1 Lap	10	2	01:19.170		5
7	19	Pavel Loknovski	Triple-Double Racing	37	+2 Laps	6	2	01:18.275		4
8	3	Chris Williamson	Nijo Racing	37	+2 Laps	13	1	01:19.765		3
9	22	Mal McKee	Synergetic Motorsports	37	+2 Laps	18	1	01:20.034		2
10	12	Nikos Evangelidakis	Mineral GP	37	+2 Laps	17	1	01:20.488		1
Ret	16	Gregg Lawson	Woods Racing	28	DNF	7	1	01:18.792		0
Ret	21	Luke McKee	CP Lotus	26	DNF	15	2	01:21.056		0
Ret	10	Lewis Redshaw	Nordsjoen Racing	17	DNF	4	1	01:17.192		0
Ret	5	Sam Millar	Williamson Dynamics	17	DNF	9	1	01:18.747		0
Ret	17	Dan Rusu	Woods Racing	14	DNF	16	1	01:20.495		0
Ret	27	Ihab Abbas	Water Blue Racing	9	DNF	11	1	01:19.635		0
Ret	15	Leontin Nemet	Malta Force GP	7	DNF	14	0	01:21.090		0
Ret	14	Bart De Vos	Malta Force GP	6	DNF	2	1	01:17.837		0

Standings after the Race

Drivers' Championship standings

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Bart De Vos	57
2	Pavel Loknovski	44
3	Lewis Redshaw	42
4	Liam Hatchell	38
5	David Jundt	37
6	Georgios Davakos	35
7	Jason Muscat	33
=	Gregg Lawson	33
9	Sam Millar	21
10	Samuli Leinonen	20
=	Chris Williamson	20
12	Simon Cattell	18
13	Christoph Lichtenstein	14
14	Nikos Evangelidakis	10
15	Gavin Thomas	9
=	Mal McKee	9
17	Ihab Abbas	8
18	Paul McKenna	5
19	Ben Morgan	4
20	Dan Rusu	3
21	Robert Rose	2

Constructors' Championship standings

Pos	Constructor	Points
1	Malta Force GP	78
2	Nordsjoen Racing	77
3	Nijo Racing	57
4	Synergetic Motorsports	47
5	Triple-Double Racing	44
6	Woods Racing	36
7	PB Racing	30
8	Water Blue Racing	28
9	Williamson Dynamics	21
10	CP Lotus	19
11	Red 5 Racing	13
12	Mineral GP	12

Preceded by: 2011 Supercup Austrian Grand Prix

2011 Supercup French Grand Prix 2011

Succeeded by: 2011 Supercup Monaco Grand Prix