2015 Austrian Grand Prix

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  2015 Austrian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 9 of the 2015 Superleague season
Date	18th June, 2015
Official name	2015 Austrian Grand Prix
Location	Red Bull Ring, Spielberg
Course	Permanent racing facility 2.688 mi / 4.326 km
Distance	71 laps, 190.848 mi / 307.139 km
Weather	Wet to Dry
Pole position
Driver	Philipp Puschke	Vod:Bul-Valiant
Time	1:04.402
Fastest Lap
Driver	Philipp Puschke	Vod:Bul-Valiant
Time	1:06.192 on lap 71
Podium
First	Lewis Redshaw	CSG-Potentia
Second	Philipp Puschke	Vod:Bul-Valiant
Third	Jernej Simoncic	Vod:Bul-Valiant

The 2015 Austrian Grand Prix was the ninth round of the 2015 Superleague season and took place at the Red Bull Ring at Spielberg on the 18th June 2015.

For the second round in a row, rain played a large role in how the race unfolded. It was however a reversal of that seen at Silverstone; the Austrian race started extremely wet but dried by the end of the race.

The treacherous conditions caught out numerous drivers; Jordan Weekes was out on the first lap and his Torrent teammate Mindaugas Klumbis was out three laps later. Crucially, championship contender Agustin Canapino also crashed out while the track was still wet. Fellow contender David Fidock, who rued being on the wrong tyres at the wrong time in Britain, had an even worse race in Austria; having to pit numerous times, twice for repairs, saw the reigning champion finish 12th, two laps down.

Fran Lopez, after his tyre foul-up at Silverstone, somewhat redeemed himself, bringing his Red Archer home in a fine 4th position.

The race went to Lewis Redshaw, who seized the lead off pole-man Philipp Puschke on the first lap and, apart from around the time of the first pit stops, never let go. Redshaw beat Puschke by over 14 seconds. Puschke was joined on the podium by his brand new teammate Jernej Simoncic. It was the first time that Vod:Bul had ever had two drivers on the podium in Superleague and saw them rise comfortably above Nordsjoen in the table; the Italian-Norwegian-team having a bad evening. CSG Racing still matched Vod:Bul's points tally however, with Redshaw's teammate Tom Parker coming home 5th. This meant that CSG was still 10 points ahead in the table, at what had now past the half-way point in the season.

Redshaw's return to winning ways meant that he was only 2 points behind Puschke in the Driver's Championship and now had a whole race win in hand above Fidock in third.

Besides Simoncic's heroics in his first race for Vod:Bul, Daniel Brewer, making a one-off appearance for Green Stripes Racing as a stand in for Ben Horrill, actually scored the team's best result of the season, finishing an excellent 8th. Other driver changes saw Sandeep Chodha returning as a reserve driver, this time for Midnight Motorsports, driving in place of Tom van der Voort and scoring his first Superleague point; James Johnson was back in the Edonis which saw his temporary replacement Mike Bell drive instead for Hawkeye for one race in place of Nick Rowland; Jarl Teien was back driving for Woods, at least for now, while Mikael Tuomaala was back in the Nijo

Classification

Qualifying

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Time	Gap	Grid
1	14	Philipp Puschke	Vod:Bul - Valiant	1:04.402	—	1
2	24	Lewis Redshaw	CSG - Potentia	1:04.494	+0.092	2
3	1	David Fidock	Hawkeye - Potentia	1:04.518	+0.116	3
4	15	Jernej Simoncic	Vod:Bul - Valiant	1:04.524	+0.122	4
5	7	Alex Cooper	Midnight - Potentia	1:04.540	+0.137	5
6	13	Tom Parker	CSG - Potentia	1:04.627	+0.225	6
7	6	Deividas Misiulis	Red Archer - Valiant	1:04.678	+0.276	7
8	21	Fran Lopez	Red Archer - Valiant	1:04.733	+0.330	8
9	19	Agustin Canapino	Nordsjoen - Martex	1:04.735	+0.333	9
10	27	Florian Geier	Nordsjoen - Martex	1:04.766	+0.364	10
11	99	Mindaugas Klumbis	Torrent - Potentia	1:04.856	+0.453	11
12	11	Daniel Brewer	Green Stripes - Valiant	1:05.137	+0.734	12
13	10	Mikael Tuomaala	Nijo - Trinity	1:05.174	+0.771	231
14	4	Marcos Riffel	Edonis - Valiant	1:05.257	+0.854	13
15	88	Jordan Weekes	Torrent - Potentia	1:05.294	+0.892	14
16	25	Sandeep Chodha	Midnight - Potentia	1:05.434	+1.031	242
17	20	Dewald Nel	Green Stripes - Valiant	1:05.510	+1.107	15
18	83	Bart De Vos	Kernow - Trinity	1:05.719	+1.316	16
19	9	Roy Schroten	Woods - Trinity	1:06.166	+1.764	17
20	69	James Johnson	Edonis - Valiant	1:06.252	+1.849	18
21	12	Mark Wicks	Kernow - Trinity	1:06.407	+2.005	19
22	45	Kieran Ryan	Phoenix - Trinity	1:06.670	+2.268	20
23	2	Mike Bell	Hawkeye - Potentia	1:06.830	+2.427	21
24	8	Jarl Teien	Woods - Trinity	1:06.831	+2.429	22
25	46	Mikko Jakonen	Phoenix - Trinity	1:07.035	+2.632	25
26	5	Kenney Lybeer	Nijo - Trinity	no time	—	263

Notes:

• ¹ — Mikael Tuomaala, served a 10-place grid penalty for an unsafe pit stop, carried over from his last race, at Canada.
• ² — Sandeep Chodha, served a 10-place grid penalty for causing avoidable contact, again carried over from his last race, at Canada.
• ³ — Kenney Lybeer was given a 20-place grid penalty for his role in the opening-lap crash at the previous round and set no time.

Race

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Pts.
1	24	Lewis Redshaw	CSG - Potentia	71	26:10.100	2	25
2	14	Philipp Puschke	Vod:Bul - Valiant	71	+14.983	1	20
3	15	Jernej Simoncic	Vod:Bul - Valiant	71	+49:55.200	4	16
4	21	Fran Lopez	Red Archer - Valiant	71	+50:52.800	8	13
5	13	Tom Parker	CSG - Potentia	71	+1:03.743	6	11
6	5	Kenney Lybeer	Nijo - Trinity	70	+1 Laps	26	10
7	83	Bart De Vos	Kernow - Trinity	70	+1 Laps	16	9
8	11	Daniel Brewer	Green Stripes - Valiant	70	+1 Laps	12	8
9	27	Florian Geier	Nordsjoen - Martex	70	+1 Laps	10	7
10	7	Alex Cooper	Midnight - Potentia	69	+2 Laps	5	6
11	6	Deividas Misiulis	Red Archer - Valiant	69	+2 Laps	7	5
12	1	David Fidock	Hawkeye - Potentia	69	+2 Laps	3	4
13	69	James Johnson	Edonis - Valiant	69	+2 Laps	18	3
14	10	Mikael Tuomaala	Nijo - Trinity	69	+2 Laps	23	2
15	25	Sandeep Chodha	Midnight - Potentia	68	+3 Laps	24	1
16	9	Roy Schroten	Woods - Trinity	67	+4 Laps	17
17	12	Mark Wicks	Kernow - Trinity	66	+5 Laps	19
18	2	Mike Bell	Hawkeye - Potentia	65	+6 Laps	21
Ret	45	Kieran Ryan	Phoenix - Trinity	50	Suspension	20
Ret	4	Marcos Riffel	Edonis - Valiant	43	Accident	13
Ret	19	Agustin Canapino	Nordsjoen - Martex	28	Accident	9
Ret	8	Jarl Teien	Woods - Trinity	24	Did not Finish	22
Ret	20	Dewald Nel	Green Stripes - Valiant	22	Accident	15
Ret	46	Mikko Jakonen	Phoenix - Trinity	6	Suspension	25
Ret	99	Mindaugas Klumbis	Torrent - Potentia	3	Did not Finish	11
Ret	88	Jordan Weekes	Torrent - Potentia	0	Suspension	14

Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings

	Pos	Driver	Points
	1	Philipp Puschke	152
	2	Lewis Redshaw	150
	3	David Fidock	124
	4	Agustin Canapino	104
	5	Alex Cooper	89

Constructors' Championship standings

	Pos	Constructor	Points
	1	CSG-Potentia	214
1	2	Vod:Bul-Valiant	204
1	3	Nordsjoen-Martex	177
	4	Hawkeye-Potentia	150
	5	Midnight-Potentia	133

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

External links

• Official results
• Broadcast replay

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