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GP2 launches new car
29th June 2007
The organisers of the GP2 series, the official feeder category to the FIA Formula One World Championship, launched the new car that will be raced in the series in 2008 at the Paul Ricard circuit in southern France earlier this week.
The GP2/08, like its 2005 predecessor, is designed and manufactured by the Italian commercial racecar constructor Dallara Automobili. It is powered by a 4-litre V8 Renault engine and features structural and aerodynamic revisions in line with current Formula One designs.
GP2 series organiser Bruno Michel said, "It is an aggressive and beautiful looking car, and is the perfect vehicle with which to take this series forward.
"Of course, today is just the start of the testing and development process for the next generation of the GP2 Series, but at this moment I must pay tribute to our partners Renault and Bridgestone, to the work and ideas of both Didier (Perrin) and Bernard (Dudot) in the conception of this new car, and to everyone at Dallara and Mecachrome for all of their input and hard work on this project.
"This car has been designed to keep the GP2 philosophy of racing intact, to maintain the show, training, cost efficiency and safety of the Series, whilst at the same time making a large step forward in technology. As we look to the future, it is amazing to think of what the GP2 Series has achieved in such a short space of time.”
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