2015 Singapore Grand Prix

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  2015 Singapore Grand Prix

Race details
Race 13 of the 2015 Superleague season
Date	27th August, 2015
Official name	2015 Singapore Grand Prix
Location	Marina Bay Street Circuit, Singapore
Course	Temporary Street Circuit 3.15 mi / 5.069 km
Distance	61 laps, 192.150 mi / 309.235 km
Weather	Clear
Pole position
Driver	Alex Cooper	CSG Racing-Potentia
Time	1:38.213
Fastest Lap
Driver	Tom Parker	CSG Racing-Potentia
Time	1:37.303 on lap 60
Podium
First	Alex Cooper	CSG Racing-Potentia
Second	David Fidock	Hawkeye-Potentia
Third	Florian Geier	Nordsjoen-Martex

The 2015 Singapore Grand Prix was the thirteenth round of the 2015 Superleague season and took place around the artificially-lit streets of Singapore's Marina Bay on the 27th August 2015. It was the first time that the Singapore Grand Prix had been ran since 2012, however the race was dropped the following year.

Singapore saw by far the greatest race of attrition for the entire season, with less cars finishing than there were points to go around. Though 14 runners were classified in the end, only 13 actually crossed the finishing line. This was easily the lowest number of finishers and was a sharp contrast to the previous race at Monza when only two cars were not classified. As a result, points were only rewarded down to 14th place, one less than usual.

The race was also memorable for the way that CSG Racing bounced back from the shock departure of Lewis Redshaw; CSG driver Alex Cooper took pole and race win, while fastest lap went to his teammate Tom Parker. Parker had initially made way for Cooper a few races before but was reinstated in the team as a replacement for Redshaw.

Second in the race went to David Fidock in the Hawkeye. Crucially, Fidock, who needed to start outscoring championship leader Philipp Puschke if he was to make a serious bid to defend his championship, did just that. Puschke languished down in 8th, one lap down, after a torrid race after messing up his setup and having to nurse his engine all the way to the flag. It was a bad race for Vod:Bul in general, with Jernej Simoncic crashing out early on.

Third place went to Florian Geier in the Nordsjoen, at last scoring his first podium of the season, a reward for all of his hard work. Sadly for his teammate, Agustin Canapino was the first to retire, all but finishing off his own championship hopes.

Fourth went to the Red Archer of Fran Lopez, for the second race in succession, although his 4th at Italy was the result of a penalty. Also for the second race in succession, Lopez led the race for a period. Nonetheless, he dropped to sixth in the Driver's Championship behind race winner Cooper. The result also saw him become the highest-placed driver with no remaining mathematical chance to win the championship.

Fifth in the race was Parker; he was classified one and a half minutes behind teammate Cooper, though that half-a-minute was due to a technical penalty; the penalty did not cost him his position however and he was happy given the short notice he had been given to prepare with. Behind Cooper came Jason Muscat, the second of the Red Archers. They were now comfortably planted fifth in the table, ahead of Midnight Motorsport. It was by now a clear field of six top teams. Midnight were over a hundred points clear of seventh-placed Torrent.

Torrent were one of the unlucky teams in Singapore. Jordan Weekes made his return after missing two races and was running as high as 4th early in the race. Unfortunately, Weekes retired after being tapped into a spin by Eric Stranne while in 8th, midway through the race. Teammate Mindaugas Klumbis was out by lap 5.

As is often the case with high-attrition races, the smaller teams put in plucky performances and snatched some very valuable points. This was very important for the bottom-five teams, so called because they held the unfortunate distinction of being unable to outscore Target Racing, who had been missing for over six races. The only team not to benefit was Green Stripes Racing, as they lost both their cars during the race. As it happened, none of the bottom-five teams got both of their cars to the end of the race, but nowhere was this more painfully felt than at Woods Racing, when Sven de Vries retired from a tantalising 6th place with engine problems, less than 20 laps from the flag. The tragically unfortunate de Vries fell just short of making 75% race distance, which would have seen him classified and get a point for 15th place.

Woods still had Roy Schroten finish twelfth, though victory among the bottom-five went to Kernow as their man Mark Wicks finished a lap ahead in eleventh.

Kieran Ryan scored a personal victory simply by dragging his broken Phoenix to the finishing line, which is more than Kenney Lybeer managed, although the Nijo was classified ahead of Ryan. 2 points were the Irishman's reward; sadly they were to be both his and his team's final points in Superleague.

As was usual, the race saw a plethora of driver changes. Menno Klont, who had previously raced for Woods, was now racing for two Grands Prix at Hawkeye in place of Wopke Hoekstra. At Klont's Edonis team, the brightly-lit merry-go-round of ever-changing drivers shone particularly strongly in the Asian night, as the #69 horse appeared being ridden by none-other than Eric Stranne, who was presently galloping away with the Formula Challenge Championship. Stranne, who had attempted to make amends for his tap with Weekes, otherwise drove a storming race to 7th, Edonis' best result since Spain. Unfortunately, the #4 horse, usually ridden by Marcos Riffel, had broken off the ride and was missing in Singapore, making Stranne the only Edonis out there. This was in contrast to Torrent; Singapore would prove to be the last time both their cars took part in the same race; Klumbis would not return for the rest of the season.

Sven de Vries would have wished for more from his return for Woods, though it would not be until Abu Dhabi before he had another chance to improve on this. Mark Wicks would have been delighted with the outcome upon his return to Kernow; meanwhile his teammate for the race was Niels of the talented Brugman brothers, who followed on from Lars, who had finished 13th back at Portugal. Unfortunately Niels retired from the race. Tom van der Voort was now back in the Midnight for the remainder of the season, though he retired too. Lastly, but by no means least, Mikael Tuomaala had, like Redshaw, announced his retirement after the Italian Grand Prix. His successor in the Nijo was fellow Scandinavian Tobias Olsson. He also retired.

Classification

Qualifying

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Time	Gap	Grid
1	13	Alex Cooper	CSG Racing - Potentia	1:38.213	—	1
2	14	Philipp Puschke	Vod:Bul - Valiant	1:39.268	+1.054	2
3	1	David Fidock	Hawkeye - Potentia	1:39.515	+1.302	3
4	24	Tom Parker	CSG Racing - Potentia	1:39.733	+1.519	4
5	21	Fran Lopez	Red Archer - Valiant	1:39.774	+1.560	5
6	19	Agustin Canapino	Nordsjoen - Martex	1:39.784	+1.571	6
7	88	Jordan Weekes	Torrent - Potentia	1:39.825	+1.611	7
8	27	Florian Geier	Nordsjoen - Martex	1:40.028	+1.815	8
9	8	Sven de Vries	Woods - Trinity	1:40.109	+1.896	9
10	6	Jason Muscat	Red Archer - Valiant	1:40.476	+2.263	10
11	7	Sandeep Chodha	Midnight - Potentia	1:40.665	+2.452	11
12	25	Tom van der Voort	Midnight - Potentia	1:40.679	+2.465	12
13	15	Jernej Simoncic	Vod:Bul - Valiant	1:40.751	+2.538	13
14	99	Mindaugas Klumbis	Torrent - Potentia	1:40.787	+2.573	14
15	69	Eric Stranne	Edonis - Valiant	1:41.511	+3.298	15
16	11	Ben Horrill	Green Stripes - Valiant	1:41.616	+3.403	251
17	5	Kenney Lybeer	Nijo - Trinity	1:42.255	+4.041	16
18	83	Niels Brugman	Kernow - Trinity	1:43.049	+4.836	17
19	20	Dewald Nel	Green Stripes - Valiant	1:43.457	+5.243	18
20	12	Mark Wicks	Kernow - Trinity	1:44.322	+6.109	19
21	9	Roy Schroten	Woods - Trinity	1:44.460	+6.246	20
22	45	Kieran Ryan	Phoenix - Trinity	1:44.706	+6.492	21
23	10	Tobias Olsson	Nijo - Trinity	1:45.524	+7.311	22
24	46	Mikko Jakonen	Phoenix - Trinity	1:47.426	+9.213	23
25	2	Menno Klont	Hawkeye - Potentia	no time	—	24

Notes:

• ¹ — Ben Horrill had a combined 10-place grid penalty for previous transgressions, including a 5-place grid penalty for exiting and rejoining the qualifying session.

Race

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Pts.
1	13	Alex Cooper	CSG Racing - Potentia	61	42:39.788	1	25
2	1	David Fidock	Hawkeye - Potentia	61	+24.629	3	20
3	27	Florian Geier	Nordsjoen - Martex	61	+38.288	8	16
4	21	Fran Lopez	Red Archer - Valiant	61	+48.017	5	13
51	24	Tom Parker	CSG Racing - Potentia	61	+1:32.526	4	11
6	6	Jason Muscat	Red Archer - Valiant	61	+1:53.126	10	10
7	69	Eric Stranne	Edonis - Valiant	60	+1 Lap	15	9
8	14	Philipp Puschke	Vod:Bul - Valiant	60	+1 Lap	2	8
9	7	Sandeep Chodha	Midnight - Potentia	60	+1 Lap	11	7
10	2	Menno Klont	Hawkeye - Potentia	59	+2 Laps	24	6
11	12	Mark Wicks	Kernow - Trinity	59	+2 Laps	19	5
12	9	Roy Schroten	Woods - Trinity	58	+3 Laps	20	4
132	5	Kenney Lybeer	Nijo - Trinity	57	Accident	16	3
14	45	Kieran Ryan	Phoenix - Trinity	55	+6 Laps	21	2
Ret	8	Sven de Vries	Woods - Trinity	44	Engine	9
Ret	11	Ben Horrill	Green Stripes - Valiant	35	Accident	25
Ret	88	Jordan Weekes	Torrent - Potentia	29	Did not Finish	7
Ret	15	Jernej Simoncic	Vod:Bul - Valiant	17	Suspension	13
Ret	83	Niels Brugman	Kernow - Trinity	15	Accident	17
Ret	10	Tobias Olsson	Nijo - Trinity	12	Suspension	22
Ret	25	Tom van der Voort	Midnight - Potentia	11	Accident	12
Ret	20	Dewald Nel	Green Stripes - Valiant	6	Suspension	18
Ret	99	Mindaugas Klumbis	Torrent - Potentia	5	Did not Finish	14
Ret	46	Mikko Jakonen	Phoenix - Trinity	4	Suspension	23
Ret	19	Agustin Canapino	Nordsjoen - Martex	1	Did not Finish	6

Notes:

• ¹ — Tom Parker had 30 seconds added to race time.
• ² — Kenney Lybeer was classified as finishing having completed 75% of race distance.

Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings

	Pos	Driver	Points
	1	Philipp Puschke	235
	2	David Fidock	200
	3	Lewis Redshaw	176
	4	Agustin Canapino	151
1	5	Alex Cooper	138

Constructors' Championship standings

	Pos	Constructor	Points
	1	Vod:Bul-Valiant	322
	2	CSG Racing-Martex	293
	3	Nordsjoen-Potentia	267
	4	Hawkeye-Valiant	237
	5	Red Archer-Potentia	203

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

External links

• Official results
• Broadcast replay

Preceded by: 2015 Italian Grand Prix	GPVWC Superleague 2015 season	Succeeded by: 2015 Japanese Grand Prix
Preceded by: 2012 Singapore Grand Prix	Singapore Grand Prix	Succeeded by: none