2015 Australian Grand Prix

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  2015 Australian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 1 of the 2015 Superleague season
Date	26th February, 2015
Official name	2015 Australian Grand Prix
Location	Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit, Melbourne
Course	Temporary Street Circuit 3.295 mi / 5.303 km
Distance	38 laps, 125.210 mi / 201.505 km
Weather	Dry
Pole position
Driver	Lewis Redshaw	CSG-Potentia
Time	1:24.727
Fastest Lap
Driver	Lewis Redshaw	CSG-Potentia
Time	1:25.806
Podium
First	Lewis Redshaw	CSG-Potentia
Second	Philipp Puschke	Vod:Bul-Valiant
Third	Agustin Canapino	Nordsjoen-Martex

The 2015 Australian Grand Prix was the opening round of the 2015 Superleague season and took place on the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit on 26th Feburary 2015.

Server issues curtailed the race, causing it to be abandoned after 38 of the 58 laps were completed. Full points were award however.

For the second year running, the race was dominated by Lewis Redshaw in the Potentia-powered CSG Racing car. However, the strongly competitive pace of the Vod:Bul, powered for the first time by its own engine, the Valiant, together with a resurgent Nordsjoen, was highly apparent and would set the scene for most of the coming season. Vod:Bul driver Philipp Puschke, the reigning Supercup champion, set almost identical times to Redshaw during qualifying. His second place was the first podium for Vod:Bul since returning to the top-flight of the GPVWC. Agustin Canapino's podium for Nordsjoen was the team's first podium in well over a year. He was followed home by reigning champion David Fidock, now driving for Hawkeye.

Conversely, expected front-runners Midnight were relatively down on pace, with their top-finisher Alex Cooper being classified almost 40 seconds behind Redshaw. Equally surprising was the pace of former champion Lukas Euler, now Redshaw's teammate, who was classified 45 seconds down.

The race also marked the début of Edonis Engineering in Superleague, having risen meteorically through the Career Ladder. Unfortunately, both Edonis drivers finished outside the points.

Classification

Qualifying

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Time	Gap	Grid
1	24	Lewis Redshaw	CSG - Potentia	1:24.727	—	1
2	14	Philipp Puschke	Vod:Bul - Valiant	1:24.727	+0.001	2
3	19	Agustin Canapino	Nordsjoen - Martex	1:24.984	+0.257	3
4	1	David Fidock	Hawkeye - Potentia	1:25.047	+0.320	4
5	4	Fran Lopez	Edonis - Valiant	1:25.089	+0.362	5
6	8	Jarl Teien	Woods - Trinity	1:25.105	+0.378	6
7	66	Jordan Weekes	Target - Trinity	1:25.145	+0.418	91
8	99	Mindaugas Klumbis	Torrent - Potentia	1:25.150	+0.423	7
9	13	Lukas Euler	CSG - Potentia	1:25.210	+0.483	8
10	2	Gergo Baldi	Hawkeye - Potentia	1:25.249	+0.522	10
11	21	Dovydas Petravicius	Red Archer - Valiant	1:25.274	+0.547	11
12	7	Alex Cooper	Midnight - Potentia	1:25.282	+0.555	12
13	88	Petter Kaasa	Torrent - Potentia	1:25.310	+0.583	13
14	6	Deividas Misiulis	Red Archer - Valiant	1:25.322	+0.595	14
15	15	Oskari Kantonen	Vod:Bul - Valiant	1:25.323	+0.596	15
16	27	Florian Geier	Nordsjoen - Martex	1:25.391	+0.664	16
17	10	Mikael Tuomaala	Nijo - Trinity	1:25.492	+0.765	17
18	5	Kenney Lybeer	Nijo - Trinity	1:25.670	+0.944	18
19	25	Nick Rowland	Midnight - Potentia	1:25.928	+1.201	19
20	45	Kieran Ryan	Phoenix - Trinity	1:25.993	+1.266	20
21	11	Ben Horrill	Green Stripes - Valiant	1:26.115	+1.388	21
22	69	James Johnson	Edonis - Valiant	1:26.315	+1.588	22
23	83	Bart De Vos	Kernow - Trinity	1:26.326	+1.600	23
24	20	Dewald Nel	Green Stripes - Valiant	1:26.536	+1.810	24
25	12	Mark Wicks	Kernow - Trinity	1:26.542	+1.815	25
26	9	Roy Schroten	Woods - Trinity	1:26.819	+2.092	26
27	46	Mikko Jakonen	Phoenix - Trinity	1:26.939	+2.212	27
28	77	Sven Hesse	Target - Trinity	1:31.583	+6.856	28

Notes:

• ¹ — Jordan Weekes was demoted to 9th

Race

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	24	Lewis Redshaw	CSG - Potentia	38	55:54.344	1	25
2	14	Philipp Puschke	Vod:Bul - Valiant	38	+17.779	2	20
3	19	Agustin Canapino	Nordsjoen - Martex	38	+20.579	3	16
4	1	David Fidock	Hawkeye - Potentia	38	+25.196	4	13
5	6	Deividas Misiulis	Red Archer - Valiant	38	+38.468	14	11
6	7	Alex Cooper	Midnight - Potentia	38	+39.925	12	10
7	13	Lukas Euler	CSG - Potentia	38	+45.541	8	9
8	88	Petter Kaasa	Torrent - Potentia	38	+49.783	13	8
9	27	Florian Geier	Nordsjoen - Martex	38	+50.301	16	7
10	99	Mindaugas Klumbis	Torrent - Potentia	38	+53.276	7	6
11	8	Jarl Teien	Woods - Trinity	38	+56.954	6	5
12	21	Dovydas Petravicius	Red Archer - Valiant	38	+59.968	11	4
13	15	Oskari Kantonen	Vod:Bul - Valiant	38	+1:04.556	15	3
14	25	Nick Rowland	Midnight - Potentia	38	+1:09.785	19	2
15	5	Kenney Lybeer	Nijo - Trinity	38	+1:23.709	18	1
16	66	Jordan Weekes	Target - Trinity	38	+1:26.596	9
17	45	Kieran Ryan	Phoenix - Trinity	38	+1:27.692	20
18	11	Ben Horrill	Green Stripes - Valiant	38	+1:28.625	21
19	20	Dewald Nel	Green Stripes - Valiant	37	+1 Lap	24
20	10	Mikael Tuomaala	Nijo - Trinity	37	+1 Lap	17
21	69	James Johnson	Edonis - Valiant	37	+1 Lap	22
22	83	Bart De Vos	Kernow - Trinity	37	+1 Lap	23
23	4	Fran Lopez	Edonis - Valiant	37	+1 Lap	5
24	9	Roy Schroten	Woods - Trinity	37	+1 Lap	26
25	12	Mark Wicks	Kernow - Trinity	37	+1 Lap	25
26	46	Mikko Jakonen	Phoenix - Trinity	36	+2 laps	27
Ret	2	Gergo Baldi	Hawkeye - Potentia	30	Did not Finish	10
Ret	77	Sven Hesse	Target - Trinity	28	Did not Finish	28

Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings

	Pos	Driver	Points
	1	Lewis Redshaw	25
	2	Philipp Puschke	20
	3	Agustin Canapino	16
	4	David Fidock	13
	5	Deividas Misiulis	11

Constructors' Championship standings

	Pos	Constructor	Points
	1	CSG-Potentia	34
	2	Vod:Bul-Valiant	23
	3	Nordsjoen-Martex	23
	4	Red Archer-Valiant	15
	5	Torrent-Potentia	14

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

External links

• Official results
• Broadcast replay

Preceded by: 2014 Brazilian Grand Prix	GPVWC Superleague 2015 season	Succeeded by: 2015 Bahrain Grand Prix
Preceded by: 2014 Australian Grand Prix	Australian Grand Prix	Succeeded by: 2016 Australian Grand Prix