2015 Bahrain Grand Prix

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  2015 Bahrain Grand Prix

Race details
Race 2 of the 2015 Superleague season
Date	12 March, 2015
Official name	2015 Bahrain Grand Prix
Location	Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir
Course	Permanent racing facility 3.36 mi / 5.407 km
Distance	57 laps, 191.520 mi / 308.221 km
Weather	Dry
Pole position
Driver	Philipp Puschke	Vod:Bul-Valiant
Time	1:29.612
Fastest Lap
Driver	Jordan Weekes	Target-Trinity
Time	1:30.334 on lap 48
Podium
First	David Fidock	Hawkeye-Potentia
Second	Philipp Puschke	Vod:Bul-Valiant
Third	Alex Cooper	Midnight-Potentia

The 2015 Bahrain Grand Prix was the second round of the 2015 Superleague season and took place on the Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir, on 12th March 2015.

Philipp Puschke confirmed Vod:Bul's great pace by scoring his first Superleague pole position and the team's first pole since re-entering the Career Ladder. However, it was reigning champion David Fidock who pipped Puschke to the win, by just 1.5 seconds. It was Fidock's first win in four races and, significantly, Hawkeye Racing celebrated its first official win ever, after previous victories by Harley Hamnett in 2014 were revoked following his exposure for cheating.

Alex Cooper did well to restore Midnight's prestige by finishing third, following a difficult opening round for the team in Australia. It was a bad day for CSG Racing however. Australia winner Lewis Redshaw was penalised for punting another competitor, being demoted down the order after the race to 8th, while team-mate and double-champion Lukas Euler missed qualifying completely, having to start the race from the back of the grid. Euler did well to recover to what was sixth at the chequered flag, but was heavily penalised for failing to submit his rF_Scan report, seeing him demoted to 11th. It would be the great champion's final race.

Redshaw's misfortune saw Puschke and Fidock jump ahead of him, with Puschke taking the championship lead in only the second race of his first full season in Superleague.

Further down the field, Jason Muscat filled in for Gergo Baldi at Hawkeye; Menno Klont covered for compatriot Roy Schroten at Woods, in what would be Schroten's only absence during the season; and league veteran Adam Rouse drove his one and only race of the season at Kernow, in place of Bart De Vos.

Classification

Qualifying

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Time	Gap	Grid
1	14	Philipp Puschke	Vod:Bul - Valiant	1:29.612	—	1
2	1	David Fidock	Hawkeye - Potentia	1:29.740	+0.128	2
3	19	Agustin Canapino	Nordsjoen - Martex	1:29.865	+0.253	3
4	88	Petter Kaasa	Torrent - Potentia	1:29.906	+0.294	4
5	7	Alex Cooper	Midnight - Potentia	1:29.972	+0.360	5
6	24	Lewis Redshaw	CSG - Potentia	1:29.999	+0.386	6
7	66	Jordan Weekes	Target - Trinity	1:30.053	+0.441	7
8	99	Mindaugas Klumbis	Torrent - Potentia	1:30.206	+0.594	8
9	6	Deividas Misiulis	Red Archer - Valiant	1:30.217	+0.605	9
10	27	Florian Geier	Nordsjoen - Martex	1:30.279	+0.667	10
11	13	Tom Parker	CSG - Potentia	1:30.310	+0.698	DNS1
12	21	Dovydas Petravicius	Red Archer - Valiant	1:30.444	+0.832	11
13	8	Jarl Teien	Woods - Trinity	1:30.590	+0.978	12
14	25	Nick Rowland	Midnight - Potentia	1:30.711	+1.099	13
15	4	Fran Lopez	Edonis - Valiant	1:30.853	+1.240	14
16	15	Oskari Kantonen	Vod:Bul - Valiant	1:30.979	+1.366	15
17	2	Jason Muscat	Hawkeye - Potentia	1:31.202	+1.589	16
18	10	Mikael Tuomaala	Nijo - Trinity	1:31.357	+1.745	17
19	45	Kieran Ryan	Phoenix - Trinity	1:31.461	+1.849	18
20	5	Kenney Lybeer	Nijo - Trinity	1:31.508	+1.896	19
21	83	Adam Rouse	Kernow - Trinity	1:31.942	+2.330	20
22	69	James Johnson	Edonis - Valiant	1:32.123	+2.511	21
23	9	Menno Klont	Woods - Trinity	1:32.127	+2.515	22
24	11	Ben Horrill	Green Stripes - Valiant	1:32.337	+2.724	23
25	46	Mikko Jakonen	Phoenix - Trinity	1:32.346	+2.734	24
26	12	Mark Wicks	Kernow - Trinity	1:32.649	+3.037	25
27	77	Sven Hesse	Target - Trinity	1:32.778	+3.166	26
28	20	Dewald Nel	Green Stripes - Valiant	1:32.834	+3.222	27
29	13	Lukas Euler	CSG - Potentia	no time	—	281

Notes:

• ¹ — Tom Parker qualified in place of Lukas Euler. However, Euler reclaimed his car for the race, resulting in Parker taking no further part and Euler starting from the back of the grid.

Race

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	David Fidock	Hawkeye - Potentia	57	28:13.816	2	25
2	14	Philipp Puschke	Vod:Bul - Valiant	57	+1.519	1	20
3	7	Alex Cooper	Midnight - Potentia	57	+8.894	5	16
4	27	Florian Geier	Nordsjoen - Martex	57	+31.934	10	13
5	66	Jordan Weekes	Target - Trinity	57	+1:04.502	7	11
6	88	Petter Kaasa	Torrent - Potentia	57	+1:07.443	4	10
7	6	Deividas Misiulis	Red Archer - Valiant	57	+1:16.549	9	9
81	24	Lewis Redshaw	CSG - Potentia	57	+1:18.318	6	8
9	4	Fran Lopez	Edonis - Valiant	57	+1:21.139	14	7
10	25	Nick Rowland	Midnight - Potentia	57	+1:29.704	13	6
112	13	Lukas Euler	CSG - Potentia	57	+1:33.814	28	5
12	8	Jarl Teien	Woods - Trinity	56	+1 Lap	12	4
13	10	Mikael Tuomaala	Nijo - Trinity	56	+1 Lap	17	3
14	21	Dovydas Petravicius	Red Archer - Valiant	56	+1 Lap	11	2
15	45	Kieran Ryan	Phoenix - Trinity	56	+1 Lap	18	1
16	2	Jason Muscat	Hawkeye - Potentia	56	+1 Lap	16
17	5	Kenney Lybeer	Nijo - Trinity	56	+1 Lap	19
18	15	Oskari Kantonen	Vod:Bul - Valiant	56	+1 Lap	15
19	77	Sven Hesse	Target - Trinity	56	+1 Lap	26
20	83	Adam Rouse	Kernow - Trinity	56	+1 Lap	20
21	11	Ben Horrill	Green Stripes - Valiant	55	+2 Laps	23
22	69	James Johnson	Edonis - Valiant	55	+2 Laps	21
23	20	Dewald Nel	Green Stripes - Valiant	55	+2 Laps	27
24	12	Mark Wicks	Kernow - Trinity	55	+2 Laps	25
25	46	Mikko Jakonen	Phoenix - Trinity	55	+2 Laps	24
263	99	Mindaugas Klumbis	Torrent - Potentia	54	Did not Finish	8
273	9	Menno Klont	Woods - Trinity	46	Did not Finish	22
Ret	19	Agustin Canapino	Nordsjoen - Martex	8	Did not Finish	3
DNS	13	Tom Parker	CSG - Potentia	0	Did not Start	DNS

Notes:

• ¹ — Lewis Redshaw had 20 seconds added to race time for punting a competitor.
• ² — Lukas Euler had 30 seconds added to race time for failure to submit a rF_Scan report.
• ³ — Mindaugas Klumbis and Menno Klont were both classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.

Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings

	Pos	Driver	Points
1	1	Philipp Puschke	40
2	2	David Fidock	38
2	3	Lewis Redshaw	33
2	4	Alex Cooper	26
2	5	Florian Geier	20

Constructors' Championship standings

	Pos	Constructor	Points
	1	CSG-Potentia	47
	2	Vod:Bul-Valiant	43
3	3	Hawkeye-Potentia	38
1	4	Nordsjoen-Martex	36
2	5	Midnight-Potentia	34

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

External links

• Official results
• Broadcast replay

Preceded by: 2015 Australian Grand Prix	GPVWC Superleague 2015 season	Succeeded by: 2015 Spanish Grand Prix
Preceded by: 2014 Bahrain Grand Prix	Bahrain Grand Prix	Succeeded by: 2016 Bahrain Grand Prix