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British driver Jordan King last weekend returned to Bahrain for the penultimate round of the Formula 1 World Championship-supporting GP2 Series and came away from the Gulf kingdom happy with his pace and with points to show for it.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old GP2 rookie, who recently won the FIA Institute\u2019s Young Driver of the Year Award, took his Racing Engineering Dallara-Renault to a pair of top-10 finishes at the Sakhir circuit.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was great to be back in Bahrain,\u201d King says. “I had less to learn as we\u2019ve raced there before, but I guess that leads to higher expectation.\u201d<\/p>\n
An electrical issue in practice reduced the number of familiarisation laps the team could do, but King was confident ahead of the qualifying session that sets the grid for the 32-lap Saturday Feature race.<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew we were pretty much there,\u201d the Warwickshire racer says. \u201cThe team and I felt we\u2019d done a good job to be fifth \u2013 just 0.3s from pole position.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy pace was good in the race,\u201d King admits. \u201cThe only thing that was disappointing was that my engineer and I thought the [softer and faster] option tyre wouldn\u2019t last the distance once we\u2019d made our [compulsory] pitstop, so we stayed out on the [harder] prime rubber. That cost us quite a few places, as the option tyre did last quite well in the end.”<\/p>\n
Ultimately, King finished ninth after a spirited late-race battle with fellow Brit Alex Lynn, who was awarded pole for the reversed-grid Sunday Sprint race by virtue of finishing eighth.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe second race on the Sunday was good fun,\u201d King reflects. \u201cI was hoping for no safety-car periods so I could get stuck in for the 23 laps on the prime tyre. It was a bit harder from ninth on the grid than if I\u2019d been in the mix up front, but I made a cracking start, only to have to run wide to avoid some Turn 1 contact. Sadly, that dropped me down to 19th<\/sup>, but I got my head down and worked my way back up.\u201d<\/p>\n During the last third of the race, King set a blistering pace, overtaking plenty of his rivals as he chased down a strong finish.<\/p>\n \u201cMy engineer was telling me over the radio that I was quicker than anyone, which is great to hear \u2013 and spurs you on!\u201d<\/p>\n King took a decent haul of points for finishing sixth, although he reckons a few more laps and his pace meant he could have stood on the podium.<\/p>\n \u201cI was only half a second behind the fifth-placed car and third was only four seconds further ahead, so we weren\u2019t far off at all.<\/p>\n \u201cI was pleased with my pace and racecraft, too,\u201d King admits. “It was just a bit frustrating with the tyres in race one and getting shuffled back at the start in race two. That\u2019s racing and I\u2019m looking forward to the finale in Abu Dhabi this weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n The final round of the GP2 Series takes place at the Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi on November 28-29.<\/p>\n Laura Simpson<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Influence Associates was built to be the best automotive PR, motorsport PR and classic car PR agency in the world. With the most senior leadership team in the auto PR sector, we\u2019re perfectly placed to deliver a world-beating service to our portfolio of blue-chip clients.<\/p>\n We are brand builders, content creators, reputation managers and strategists. With a team of ex-managing directors, global PR directors and national magazine editors, we go beyond PR to help shape the overall business strategy of all our clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Relations publiques du sport automobile : Le week-end dernier, le pilote britannique Jordan King \u00e9tait de retour \u00e0 Bahre\u00efn pour l'avant-derni\u00e8re manche des GP2 Series, qui soutiennent le championnat du monde de Formule 1. Il est revenu du royaume du Golfe satisfait de son rythme et...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n