Canamasas joins Carlin for home GP2 round in Barcelona

Spanish racer Sergio Canamasas will make his GP2 return in the 2016 season opener at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.

Podium: second place Alexaner Rossi, Racing Engineering and winner Stoffel Vandoorne, ART Grand Prix and third place Sergio Canamasas, MP Motorsport

Canamasas, 28, has been a regular fixture on the GP2 grid in the past three-and-a-half years, his best finish in the standings being a 14th place with Trident in 2014.

The Catalan's two podiums in the category both came in Monaco, which also played host to his two other top-five finishes. Meanwhile, his best finish at his home venue is 13th.

At Carlin, Canamasas will partner rookie Marvin Kirchhofer, bringing the number of entries for the Barcelona round to 22.

His participation in the event will bring the number of teams he has raced for in GP2 to six.

Provisional Barcelona entry list:

Team	Driver
Arden International	Nabil Jeffri Jimmy Eriksson
ART Grand Prix	Sergey Sirotkin Nobuharu Matsushita
DAMS	Alex Lynn Nicholas Latifi
Carlin	Marvin Kirchhofer Sergio Canamasas
Campos Racing	Mitch Evans Sean Gelael
MP Motorsport	Oliver Rowland Daniel de Jong
Prema Racing	Pierre Gasly Antonio Giovinazzi
Racing Engineering	Jordan King Norman Nato
Russian Time	Artem Markelov Raffaele Marciello
Rapax	Arthur Pic Gustav Malja
Trident	Luca Ghiotto Philo Paz Armand