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GP2: Nico Hulkenberg and Luca Filippi win at Portimao

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Khatir Soltani
From GP2 Press Release

Recently-crowned Nico Hulkenberg and Italian driver Luca Filippi took victory in both rounds of GP2 championship this week-end in Portimao, Portugal.

Nico Hülkenberg has continued his winning ways with a strong victory in Saturday's feature race in Portimao, shadowing race leader Vitaly Petrov before jumping to the front after his stop and leading home Luca Filippi and Lucas di Grassi.

Luca Filippi has reinforced his strong showing in Portimao this weekend after taking the final race of the season on Sunday, claiming a few scalps through overtaking and a few more via penalties to comfortably lead home the field ahead of Sergio Perez and Javier Villa.

Race 1 classification:
1 - Nico Hulkenberg - ART - 37 laps
2 - Luca Filippi - Super Nova + 9"730
3 - Lucas Di Grassi - Racing Engineering + 9"936
4 - Vitaly Petrov - Barwa Addax + 10"360
5 - Roldan Rodriguez - Piquet GP + 15"095
6 - Kamui Kobayashi - Dams + 24"097
7 - Davide Valsecchi - Barwa Addax + 29"337
8 - Andreas Zuber - PartyPoker Coloni + 32"301
etc.

Race 2 classification:
1 - Luca Filippi - Super Nova - 24 laps
2 - Javier Villa - Super Nova + 8"3
3 - Dani Clos - Racing Engineering + 9"0
4 - Alvaro Parente - Ocean + 9"4
5 - Diego Nunes - iSport + 13"6
6 - Giedo Van der Garde - iSport + 13"9
7 - Alberto Valerio - Piquet GP + 19"3
8 - Edoardo Mortara - Arden + 21"6
etc.

Final championship classification:
1.Hulkenberg 100 (champion); 2.Petrov 75; 3.Di Grassi 63; 4.Grosjean 45; 5.Filippi 40; 6.Maldonado 36; 7.Van der Garde 34; 8.Parente 30; 9.D'Ambrosio 29; 10.Villa 27.


Khatir Soltani
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