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Pantano settles for second
19 July 2008In a race whose outcome was greatly influenced by heavy rain in the closing laps Giorgio Pantano continued his fight for the 2008 GP2 Drivers Championship with a hard fought second place in today's Feature Race at Hockenheim.
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"We did a perfect start and a perfect race with a perfect pit stop," said Pantano. "During the last laps it started to rain. I tried to manage with the situation, but Grosjean was faster and I finished second. Tomorrow I will try to score the maximum again."
Pantano's Racing Engineering team mate Javier Villa added, "It was a complicated race, I did a good start moving up to 6th. Then I was behind Senna, who entered for the pit stop the same lap, I did. I lost some time at the pit stop and Chandhok overtook me on my out-lap. Then I was behind him, but I was able to overtake him and I had a very good rhythm. I passed Di Grassi and am sure without the rain, I could have passed Senna as well. However, mayhem started with 5 laps to go when heavy rain set in. I was in 3rd, when with 2 corners to go, I spun off as it started raining again in this part of the track."
Team boss Alfonso de Orleans Borbón concluded, "A fantastic race from both our drivers, especially from Javi, who under these circumstances and extreme conditions, did a great job. Giorgio did a smart race and was intelligent to accept second when maybe first would have been too risky to attempt. Once again, congratulations to the entire team. Everyone did a great job."
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Paul Ricard
