JT Sanal Haber Merkezi

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	*A new challenge for Turkish motor sports fans...*
	Jason is ready for the coming year!

	Jason Tahinci, who is racing for Petrol Ofisi FMS team in GP2 that is considered as the most challenging racing series after Formula 1, undersigns a ‘first’ in this area and opens a new era for the Turkish automotive fans. Before the last leg of the series in Italy, Jason promised that he is ‘going to be better’ in the next season...

	In 2006 season the closest candidate to the Grand Prix 2 Championship is Lewis Hamilton. He has the leadership with 101 points. Together with his team-mate Alexandre Premat, Hamilton has 163 team points, which will lead the ART Grand Prix team to the Team Championship.

Distributed on
07/09/2006
Petrol Ofisi is the first Turkish brand in the international motorsports arena that formed a racing team and has been increasing its support every other day. With the last race of the season in GP2 Championship the team has already started its preparations for the next season. PO has established its place in the wide range from pilot candidates to racing teams in the wide area from carting to Formula1 and its pilot Jason Tahinci has already started his preparations for next year to get points. Jason Tahinci stated his learnings and experiences during the season helped him a lot in the preparations and underlined that “he is eager to succeed” next year. GP2 Championship consists of eleven legs and it is going to be completed in Monza circuit, Italy between 8-10 September 2006 in line with the racing calender. The race is going to be aired on CNN Turk Channel, as usual since the beginning of the season.
GP2 Drivers Championship before the final leg...
Lewis Hamilton from UK is going to declare his championship in Italy unless there will be “surprise”...
Rank	Driver	Team		Points
1	Levis Hamilton	ART		101
2	Nelson Piquet Jr	Piquet Sports		91
3	Alexandre Premat	ART		62
4	Timo Glock	iSport		58
5	Ernesto Viso	iSport		42
6	Gianmaria Bruni	Trident		33
-	Adam Carroll	Racing Engineering		33
8	Jose Maria Lopez	Super Nova		30
9	Giorgio Pantano	PO FMS		28
10	Nicolas Lapierre	Arden		26
11	Michael Ammermüller	Arden		25
12	Alexandre Negrão	Piquet Sports		13
13	Clivio Piccione	DPR		12
-	Andreas Zuber	Trident		12
15	Hiroki Yoshimoto	BCN		9
16	Franck Perera	DAMS		8
-	Lucas Di Grassi	Durango		8
18	Adrian Valles	Campos		7
19	Ferdinando Monfardini	DAMS		6
-	Tristan Gommendy	iSport		6
21	Felix Porteiro	Campos		5
22	Luca Filippi	BCN		2
23	Sergio Hernandez	Durango		1
24	Fairuz Fauzy	Super Nova		0
-	Olivier Pla	DPR		0
-	Javier Villa	Racing Engineering		0
-	Jason Tahinci	PO FMS		0
-	Mike Conway	DPR		0
-	Vitaly Petrov	DPR		0
GP2 Teams Chanpionship before the final leg...
Lewis Hamilton and his team-mate Alexandre Premat had have enough points to make ART Grand Prix team champion...
Rank	Team	Vehicle #		Points
1	ART Grand Prix	01, 02		163
2	iSport International	07, 08		106
3	Piquet Sports	11, 12		103
4	Arden International	03, 04		51
5	Trident Racing	26, 27		45
6	Racing Engineering	09, 10		33
7	Super Nova	05, 06		30
8	Petrol Ofisi FMS International	16, 17		28
9	DAMS	14, 15		14
10	David Price Racing	20, 21		12
-	Campos Racing	24, 25		12
12	BCN Competicion	18, 19		11
13	Durango	22, 23		9

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