2015 Hungarian Grand Prix

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  2015 Hungarian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 10 of the 2015 Superleague season
Date	2nd July, 2015
Official name	2015 Hungarian Grand Prix
Location	Hungaroring, Budapest
Course	Permanent racing facility 2.722 mi / 4.381 km
Distance	70 laps, 190.540 mi / 306.644 km
Weather	Clear
Pole position
Driver	Philipp Puschke	Vod:Bul-Valiant
Time	1:15.629
Fastest Lap
Driver	Philipp Puschke	Vod:Bul-Valiant
Time	1:16.416 on lap 70
Podium
First	Philipp Puschke	Vod:Bul-Valiant
Second	David Fidock	Hawkeye-Potentia
Third	Agustin Canapino	Nordsjoen-Martex

The 2015 Hungarian Grand Prix was the tenth round of the 2015 Superleague season and took place at the Hungaroring on the 2nd July 2015.

It was the most dominant race of Philipp Puschke, who achieved his one and only Grand Slam of the season, securing pole, fastest lap and leading every lap of the race.

Puschke finished a comfortable 22 seconds ahead of David Fidock's Hawkeye, but crucially the defending champion was back on form after a string of uncharacteristically poor results. Another 8 seconds behind Fidock was the Nordsjoen of Agustin Canapino, back on the podium after crashing out at 2015 Austrian Grand Prix. Lewis Redshaw was forth, keeping him firmly in the hunt.

Fifth was Tom van der Voort, returning to action in the Midnight and having his best result of the season; justice for his hard work but only small compensation for the 4th robbed from him at Monaco. Sixth was Puschke's Vod:Bul teammate Jernej Simoncic who had a more challenging second race for the team. Simoncic fought hard to come back from a bad start, battling with Florian Geier in what mirrored an almost identical battle a year earlier in Supercup.

Puschke's victory saw his championship lead extend from 2 to 14 points over Redshaw, who was now 19 points above Fidock. Puschke's victory, coupled with Simoncic's 6th, was contrasted by CSG Racing only having one finisher in Redshaw as Tom Parker retired early; this meant that Vod:Bul moved ahead of CSG again in the Constructor's championship and established themselves a lead of 12 points. Otherwise the order remained the same, with roughly 20 points lying between each of the other teams in the top 5.

Tom van der Voort back in the Midnight was not the only driver change in Hungary. Nick Rowland returned for Hawkeye Racing, as did Ben Horrill for Green Stripes Racing. Jason Muscat, who had previously done four race for Hawkeye, started what was to be four races for Red Archer, driving in place of Deividas Misiulis. Wopke Hoekstra began two races for Nijo Racing in place of Kenney Lybeer.

It would later transpire that, following this race, Torrent Motorsports, among others, would struggle to field both cars for the rest of the season, meaning that the Hungarian round was the last to see 26 cars take to the grid; the grid was already depleted from the original 28 after the departure of Target Racing following the Canadian round.

Classification

Qualifying

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Time	Gap	Grid
1	14	Philipp Puschke	Vod:Bul - Valiant	1:15.629	—	1
2	1	David Fidock	Hawkeye - Potentia	1:15.863	+0.234	2
3	25	Tom van der Voort	Midnight - Potentia	1:15.894	+0.265	3
4	7	Alex Cooper	Midnight - Potentia	1:15.937	+0.308	4
5	19	Agustin Canapino	Nordsjoen - Martex	1:16.012	+0.383	5
6	15	Jernej Simoncic	Vod:Bul - Valiant	1:16.044	+0.415	6
7	27	Florian Geier	Nordsjoen - Martex	1:16.134	+0.505	7
8	24	Lewis Redshaw	CSG - Potentia	1:16.138	+0.509	8
9	88	Jordan Weekes	Torrent - Potentia	1:16.235	+0.606	9
10	13	Tom Parker	CSG - Potentia	1:16.320	+0.691	10
11	21	Fran Lopez	Red Archer - Valiant	1:16.508	+0.879	11
12	99	Mindaugas Klumbis	Torrent - Potentia	1:16.684	+1.055	12
13	6	Jason Muscat	Red Archer - Valiant	1:16.963	+1.334	13
14	8	Jarl Teien	Woods - Trinity	1:17.036	+1.407	14
15	2	Nick Rowland	Hawkeye - Potentia	1:17.045	+1.416	15
16	10	Mikael Tuomaala	Nijo - Trinity	1:17.084	+1.455	16
17	83	Bart De Vos	Kernow - Trinity	1:17.375	+1.746	17
18	5	Wopke Hoekstra	Nijo - Trinity	1:17.502	+1.873	18
19	4	Marcos Riffel	Edonis - Valiant	1:17.659	+2.030	19
20	69	James Johnson	Edonis - Valiant	1:17.713	+2.084	20
21	20	Dewald Nel	Green Stripes - Valiant	1:17.811	+2.183	21
22	9	Roy Schroten	Woods - Trinity	1:18.039	+2.410	22
23	12	Mark Wicks	Kernow - Trinity	1:18.598	+2.969	23
24	46	Mikko Jakonen	Phoenix - Trinity	1:18.893	+3.264	251
25	11	Ben Horrill	Green Stripes - Valiant	1:18.918	+3.288	24
26	45	Kieran Ryan	Phoenix - Trinity	no time	—	26

Notes:

• ¹ — Mikko Jakonen was given a 5-place grid penalty for causing avoidable contact at the previous round.

Race

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Pts.
1	14	Philipp Puschke	Vod:Bul - Valiant	70	32:02.329	1	25
2	1	David Fidock	Hawkeye - Potentia	70	+22.840	2	20
3	19	Agustin Canapino	Nordsjoen - Martex	70	+30.531	5	16
4	24	Lewis Redshaw	CSG - Potentia	70	+47.666	8	13
5	25	Tom van der Voort	Midnight - Potentia	70	+50.703	3	11
6	15	Jernej Simoncic	Vod:Bul - Valiant	70	+56.529	6	10
7	27	Florian Geier	Nordsjoen - Martex	70	+1:02.956	7	9
8	21	Fran Lopez	Red Archer - Valiant	69	+1 Lap	11	8
9	7	Alex Cooper	Midnight - Potentia	69	+1 Lap	4	7
10	99	Mindaugas Klumbis	Torrent - Potentia	69	+1 Lap	12	6
11	2	Nick Rowland	Hawkeye - Potentia	69	+1 Lap	15	5
12	6	Jason Muscat	Red Archer - Valiant	69	+1 Lap	13	4
13	4	Marcos Riffel	Edonis - Valiant	69	+1 Lap	19	3
14	10	Mikael Tuomaala	Nijo - Trinity	69	+1 Lap	16	2
15	83	Bart De Vos	Kernow - Trinity	69	+1 Lap	17	1
16	9	Roy Schroten	Woods - Trinity	68	+2 Laps	22
17	20	Dewald Nel	Green Stripes - Valiant	68	+2 Laps	21
Ret	5	Wopke Hoekstra	Nijo - Trinity	51	Did not Finish	18
Ret	45	Kieran Ryan	Phoenix - Trinity	49	Engine	26
Ret	88	Jordan Weekes	Torrent - Potentia	36	Suspension	9
Ret	46	Mikko Jakonen	Phoenix - Trinity	34	Suspension	25
Ret	69	James Johnson	Edonis - Valiant	33	Suspension	20
Ret	8	Jarl Teien	Woods - Trinity	29	Suspension	14
Ret	11	Ben Horrill	Green Stripes - Valiant	20	Accident	24
Ret	13	Tom Parker	CSG - Potentia	19	Suspension	10
Ret	12	Mark Wicks	Kernow - Trinity	7	Did not Finish	23

Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings

	Pos	Driver	Points
	1	Philipp Puschke	177
	2	Lewis Redshaw	163
	3	David Fidock	144
	4	Agustin Canapino	120
	5	Alex Cooper	96

Constructors' Championship standings

	Pos	Constructor	Points
1	1	Vod:Bul-Valiant	239
1	2	CSG-Potentia	227
	3	Nordsjoen-Martex	202
	4	Hawkeye-Potentia	175
	5	Midnight-Potentia	151

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

External links

• Official results
• Broadcast replay

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