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Carroll holds out for win
04 August 2007 / ResultsAdam Carroll held off Kazuki Nakajima and Andreas Zuber to win the Hungarian Grand Prix - his second GP2 victory this season in five races. The 24-year-old saw off the challenge from Nakajima for more than 20 laps to take the chequered flag in this afternoon's eventful GP2 race in Budapest.
Timo Glock's title lead took a knock with Lucas di Grassi finishing in fourth and the German squandering pole position to end up tenth. Borja Garcia was a strong fifth from 11th with Roldan Rodriguez in sixth. Adrian Zaugg and Javier Villa will make up tomorrow's sprint race front row after finishing in seventh and eighth, with the Spaniard starting from pole for the second time in as many sprint races.
At the start, Sebastian Buemi had to start from the pitlane after stalling on the grid - shortening the race by a lap as the cars had to go around again. The iSports managed to avoid a repeat of Magny-Cours at the start but in their caution failed to see di Grassi charging through, the Brazilian taking the outside line at turn one and sweeping into the lead. Further back Mike Conway spun dropping to the bottom of the order, retiring soon after. Soon to join the young Brit on the retirement list was Nicolas Lapierre.
As the field settled, di Grassi struggled to pull away from Glock, who was anxiously trying to find a way past. Zuber had dropped down to fifth and was similarly being held up - the Austrian waving furiously at Pastor Maldonado, who was brake-testing Zuber to stop him from using his slipstream. The Ecuadorian got his comeuppance however, crashing out on lap 7.
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Then came the pile-up on lap 12 when Luca Filippi suffered a mechanical failure on the exit of the final corner, crashing violently into the outside wall. The wrecked Super Nova spun across the track causing Alex Negrao, Vitaly Petrov and Markus Niemela to crash as well. Luckily Filippi emerged unscathed and the safety car came out to herd the field whilst the debris was cleared away. Carroll was the main beneficiary, sneaking into the pits to rejoin in the lead behind the safety car.
Carroll kept the lead at the re-start as the slower Karun Chandhok, who was yet to pit in second, stunted Nakajima's assault from third. Midway through the race Glock was suffering down the order and spun whilst hounding Adrian Zaugg for 11th, dropping to 16th. Meanwhile the battle for the lead was three-way, with Carroll having to defend against Nakajima and Zuber. Giorgio Pantano soon made it a four-carriage train before having to retire with a gear-shift problem.
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