http://www.gpupdate.net/ Fri, 10 May 2013 15:46:58 +0100 http://www.gpupdate.net/en/gp2-news/294367/ericsson-takes-pole-for-feature-race/ Marcus Ericsson has claimed pole position for Saturday afternoon’s Feature Race at the Circuit de Catalunya, overcoming a late charge from fellow DAMS driver Stéphane Richelmi in qualifying. The Swede posted a time of 1:28.706 to lead his team-mate by 0.165 seconds, while practice pace-setter Felipe Nasr completed the top three. http://www.gpupdate.net/en/gp2-news/294367/ericsson-takes-pole-for-feature-race/ Fri, 10 May 2013 15:43:55 +0100 http://www.gpupdate.net/en/gp2-news/288615/ericsson-and-richelmi-sign-for-dams/ Defending GP2 champions DAMS have confirmed their line-up for the 2013 season, with Marcus Ericsson and Stéphane Richelmi leading the team’s hunt for a third consecutive drivers’ title. http://www.gpupdate.net/en/gp2-news/288615/ericsson-and-richelmi-sign-for-dams/ Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:36:23 +0000 http://www.gpupdate.net/en/gp2-news/283218/ericsson-wins-much-delayed-feature-race/ Marcus Ericsson has won a dramatic opening GP2 race at Spa, which started at twenty to four and did not finish until two hours later. As Felipe Nasr stole Sunday’s reverse grid pole on the line, Nigel Melker was in hospital after a heavy accident at Eau Rouge. http://www.gpupdate.net/en/gp2-news/283218/ericsson-wins-much-delayed-feature-race/ Sat, 01 Sep 2012 16:43:32 +0100 http://www.gpupdate.net/en/gp2-news/270800/ericsson-remains-with-isport-for-2012/ Sweden’s Marcus Ericsson will stay with iSport for the 2012 GP2 campaign, it has been confirmed on Tuesday morning. The Kumla driver, now 21, joined GP2 with Super Nova last year, winning one race. This season, he finished tenth overall. http://www.gpupdate.net/en/gp2-news/270800/ericsson-remains-with-isport-for-2012/ Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:33:00 +0000 http://www.gpupdate.net/en/gp2-news/270153/ericsson-fastest-in-barcelona/ The final 2011 GP2 post-season testing opened today at Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona. For this two-day session the twenty-six drivers are running on 2012 Pirelli P Zero hard compounds and were greeted this morning by sunny skies as the pit lane opened. http://www.gpupdate.net/en/gp2-news/270153/ericsson-fastest-in-barcelona/ Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:46:00 +0100 http://www.gpupdate.net/en/gp2-news/269728/airasia-and-isport-confirm-testing-line-ups/ The AirAsia and iSport GP2 teams have verified their driver line-ups for next weekend’s test session at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya. http://www.gpupdate.net/en/gp2-news/269728/airasia-and-isport-confirm-testing-line-ups/ Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:43:00 +0100 http://www.gpupdate.net/en/gp2-news/260780/van-der-garde-stripped-of-pole/ Giedo van der Garde has been demoted to sixth place on the grid for Saturday’s Feature Race, with the Barwa Addax driver being penalised for a collision with Carlin's Oliver Turvey. The Dutchman had originally snatched pole with a time of 1:21.781, but the decision means iSport International’s Sam Bird inherits the top spot. Romain Grosjean and Marcus Ericsson were also handed grid drops, with both men running into the back of their team-mate’s cars. The 2011 GP2 Asia Champion will start from the back, while Ericsson has been pushed down to 20th from 15th place. http://www.gpupdate.net/en/gp2-news/260780/van-der-garde-stripped-of-pole/ Thu, 26 May 2011 21:24:00 +0100 http://www.gpupdate.net/en/gp2-news/256587/ericsson-fastest-as-silverstone-test-concludes/ Marcus Ericsson finished the second and final day of GP2 testing at Silverstone as the fastest man, leading the way from Christian Vietoris who had topped the timesheets during the morning session. Frenchman Jules Bianchi rounded out the top three runners for Lotus ART, completing 72 laps of the 5.901-km (3.667-mi) circuit. http://www.gpupdate.net/en/gp2-news/256587/ericsson-fastest-as-silverstone-test-concludes/ Wed, 06 Apr 2011 19:12:00 +0100 http://www.gpupdate.net/en/gp2-news/250407/bird-and-ericsson-join-isport-for-2011/ The iSport GP2 team has announced that Britain’s Sam Bird and Sweden’s Marcus Ericsson will contribute to an all-new line-up for the upcoming season, with the outfit having run Oliver Turvey and Davide Valsecchi in 2010. The new duo move in from ART and Super Nova, respectively. http://www.gpupdate.net/en/gp2-news/250407/bird-and-ericsson-join-isport-for-2011/ Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:44:00 +0000 http://www.gpupdate.net/en/gp2-news/237808/first-gp2-victory-for-ericsson-in-valencia/ Marcus Ericsson made light work of his maiden GP2 victory in this morning’s sprint race, dominating from lights to flag to lead home Giedo van der Garde and Michael Herck. The win was set up at the start, when poleman Herck made a good start but the Swede’s was even better, outsprinting his rival to turn one and a lead that he never relinquished.  http://www.gpupdate.net/en/gp2-news/237808/first-gp2-victory-for-ericsson-in-valencia/ Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:12:00 +0100 http://www.gpupdate.net/en/gp2-news/232104/ericsson-still-positive-despite-thursday-crash/ Marcus Ericsson was left with no choice but to sit out for much of Thursday afternoon after suffering from a crash at Barcelona's Europcar chicane. However, the Super Nova driver - the only Swede in the GP2 field - feels confident for what is a much brighter Friday. http://www.gpupdate.net/en/gp2-news/232104/ericsson-still-positive-despite-thursday-crash/ Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:26:00 +0100 http://www.gpupdate.net/en/gp2-news/226083/ericsson-and-kral-join-super-nova/ The Super Nova team has signed up Marcus Ericsson and Josef Kral for the 2010 GP2 Main Series season. In 2009, Ericsson claimed the Japanese F3 title while Kral finsihed third in the Formula Master series. http://www.gpupdate.net/en/gp2-news/226083/ericsson-and-kral-join-super-nova/ Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:03:00 +0000 http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/224563/ericsson-hails-great-experience-with-brawn-gp/ British F3 driver Marcus Ericsson enjoyed a three-day test at Jerez this week with the Brawn GP team. In the South of Spain the Swedish driver, who scored pole position in last month's Macau F3 Grand Prix weekend, has been making good throughout the week. http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/224563/ericsson-hails-great-experience-with-brawn-gp/ Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:30:00 +0000 http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/224163/conway-and-ericsson-to-test-for-mercedes/ Britain's Mike Conway, former Honda test driver, and British Formula 3 driver Marcus Ericsson will join Mercedes Grand Prix at Jerez next week for a 3-day test with the team. Both drivers will be in the car for three full days of action. http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/224163/conway-and-ericsson-to-test-for-mercedes/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:35:00 +0000 http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f3-news/223908/ericsson-grabs-macau-pole/ After setting the fastest lap time of the day and clinching provisional pole position at a chilly Macau on Thursday, Sweden's Marcus Ericsson did enough to retain the top spot on Friday and will start the legendary race from the best position. The TOM's driver will be joined on the front row by Frenchman Jean-Karl Vernay's Signature entry. http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f3-news/223908/ericsson-grabs-macau-pole/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:41:00 +0000 http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f3-news/223862/ericsson-fastest-in-first-macau-qualifying/ Marcus Ericsson has clinched provisional pole position ahead of the annual Macau Grand Prix by setting the fastest lap time at the legendary circuit on Thursday. The Swede leads the way ahead of Friday's first qualifying session with the British F3 and F3 Euroseries Champions second and fifteenth respectively. http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f3-news/223862/ericsson-fastest-in-first-macau-qualifying/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:32:00 +0000 http://www.gpupdate.net/en/gp2-news/223425/arden-confirms-five-drivers-for-paul-ricard/ The Arden team has announced that it will be running a total of five drivers in the upcoming test at the Paul Ricard circuit. The session in question will be taking place at the southern French circuit between Tuesday and Thursday of this week.              http://www.gpupdate.net/en/gp2-news/223425/arden-confirms-five-drivers-for-paul-ricard/ Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:15:00 +0000 http://www.gpupdate.net/en/gp2-news/221367/jerez-day-3-ericsson-fastest/ Marcus Ericsson became the third man in as many days to be the quickest driver as Jerez's testing concluded. The Swede, driving for ART Grand Prix, led the way from local favourite Dani Clos on Thursday with Switzerland's Fabio Leimer a strong third. Multiple Champion Sébastien Loeb also enjoyed his first taste of GP2. http://www.gpupdate.net/en/gp2-news/221367/jerez-day-3-ericsson-fastest/ Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:49:00 +0100 http://www.gpupdate.net/en/gp2-news/220847/isport-lists-drivers-for-jerez-test/ The iSport team has listed the four drivers set to test for the outfit at Jerez. Next week's official GP2 test session, the first since the close of this year's season, will see the drivers take to the southern Spanish track between Tuesday and Thursday. http://www.gpupdate.net/en/gp2-news/220847/isport-lists-drivers-for-jerez-test/ Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:07:00 +0100 http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f3-news/213793/ericsson-wins-first-hockenheim-race/ Marcus Ericsson scored his second successive victory in the Cooper Tires British Formula 3 International Series this afternoon (Sat), leading virtually all the way from the start of the championship's seventh round at Hockenheim. The Swede in his Raikkonen Robertson Racing Dallara made a superb start from third on the grid, blasting past bogged-down pole man Renger van der Zande and championship leader Daniel Ricciardo to assume command in to the first corner. Then, but for a brief mid-race blip, Marcus led van der Zande all the way to the chequered flag, with Walter Grubmuller third to make it a Mercedes power 1-2-3 on home ground. "By mid point I pulled a gap on Renger," said Ericsson, "but then I made a silly, silly mistake into the hairpin and he overtook me, so I had to fight back at the next corner. I did it thank goodness because otherwise I would have been very disappointed." Van der Zande was left to rue his startline error, which cost him his second British F3 win, and also Ericsson's aggressive repass for the lead. "I am not very happy," said Renger. "I stalled it at the start and that made for quite a tricky race. I was able to follow Marcus and I think I was quicker. But I wore my tyres too much. One time he was late on brakes at the hairpin and I got past, but then he put me on the grass so I couldn't stay in front. But second place is good and there is always tomorrow..." Van der Zande had blown away the opposition in qualifying on Friday, his Hitech Racing Dallara posting the best Hockenheim F3 lap time of the season, more than half a second inside the Euro Series F3 pole time from earlier in the year. The first lap of the race brought high drama and the elimination of three cars - those of Daisuke Nakajima, Riki Christodoulou and visiting F2 points leader Robert Wickens - in a collision. Ericsson wasn't the only slow starter: the other Rockingham victor, Nick Tandy, bogged down also and got away last. Tandy and Grubmuller were the men on a mission from the outset, Nick bundling his away through the pack to eighth by the end and Walter picking off three cars on the opening lap to move up to fifth. The Austrian then disposed of the Carlin cars of Max Chilton and Ricciardo to claim third. "Max got a bad exit out of turn two," said Walter, "and that enabled me to get a good tow on him and pass him on the straight. It was pretty much the same story with Ricciardo." Ricciardo and Chilton hung on for fourth and fifth respectively, with Adriano Buzaid sixth ahead of Carlos Huertas, Tandy, Wayne Boyd and Victor Garcia. An extraordinary end to the National Class contest brought a maiden class win for Brazilian youngster Victor Correa and the Litespeed F3 team. As in every race so far this season it was Daniel McKenzie and Gabriel Dias who made all the running, the duo swapping the class lead several times in a very close contest. Alas it became too close on the 15th of the 19 laps, the duo coming together and spinning into retirement. With the fourth class regular, Max Snegirev, not in attendance this weekend, that left Correa victorious. "I just did my job and drove the car safely to the end," said the bemused Brazilian. "I am very happy, it's good to be first." http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f3-news/213793/ericsson-wins-first-hockenheim-race/ Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:50:00 +0100