GP2 Starts Its Long European Season Pairs With F1 Schedule in Bahrain
May 09, 2007
For Racing Engineering the second meeting of the 2007 GP2 series, to be held this weekend at Montmeló, is a special one as the races at the Catalonian track will be the first of the two events scheduled this season in Spain so motivation will be at a high for the team to perform at its best on home soil and in front of their fans and their main sponsors, Spanish companies Repsol and Telefónica.
At Montmeló the 2007 GP2 start its long European season paired with the F1 schedule after starting three weeks ago in Bahrain. There mechanical problems, with externally supplied components, caused problems in the practice sessions with the result that both the Racing Engineering drivers, Javier Villa and Sergio Jiménez, couldn’t achieve the results that their race pace showed were within their reach. The target at the Catalonian track will therefore be to look from the start for a good qualifying result in order to allow Javi and Sergio to fight for good positions in the races.
The two young Racing Engineering drivers arrive at Montmeló in a positive frame of mind based on some solid reasons. For Villa it will be a race in front of his fans, with the extra motivation that means as a large number of them are expected to arrive from his homeland of Asturias to cheer him from the always packed Montmeló grandstands.
