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Trident Racing Abu Dhabi qualifying report

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Edited: Jun 1, 2018, 1:30 PM

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Julian Leal

The Yas Marina racetrack in Abu Dhabi is hosting the closing event of the 2011 GP2 Series. The non-points exhibition round started today with the running of practice and qualifying, which set the starting grid for race 1.

Julian Leal

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Julian Leal will start in 19th place while Stéphane Richelmi ended up not too far away from him in 21st. Leal paid an high price for an off-track at the start of practice and was prevented to complete the work that was scheduled for him. As a consequence, he had to make up the lost ground in qualifying…

In addition to that, qualifying was red-flagged with four minutes to go because an off-track exit that forced race control to stop the action. As a consequence, huge traffic made any attempt to improve laptimes worthless.

The first race of the weekend, set on a 31-lap distance, will take-off tomorrow at 11:00 local time (9 AM European time), while race 2 is scheduled, on a 22-lap distance, for Sunday at 13:30 local time (10:30 AM European Time).

Julian Leal, 19. (1:50.374)

“My day has been largely jeopardized by an off-track exit that virtually ended my practice run after just a few minutes. I started qualifying without many references and in the end, all considered, I wasn't really dissatisfied with how it went"

Stéphane Richelmi 21. (1:50.600)

“This qualifying session hasn't been easy at all. With the first set of tires I faced a slowing down car and I lost the chance to clock a good laptime in the last few corners. Then with the second set there was an awful lot of traffic on-track, and I just couldn't complete a whole clean lap. I hope for better luck on race day because this is a track that offers many passing opportunities."

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